“which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.”
1 Peter 3:20 KJV
His audience included all who died in unbelief, in the days of Noah when he built the Ark! Jesus is the extension of the patience of God, Who waited for mankind at a time when only 8 survived the flood! There is now a new baptism! Immersed in Jesus’s death and co-quickened in His resurrection, mankind once dead and drowned are now made alive and crowned! This points prophetically to our new life in Christ where the law of love is inscribed in our inner consciousness, through the True Bread from heaven. Thus we find favour in the eyes of the Lord just as Noah did. Noah means rest and the Hebrew letters when reversed mean grace/favour. Jesus has already emptied hell when He led captivity captive and took the keys of hell and death and ascended to the highest place in heaven. That’s the Gospel! Let’s not preach that Christ has yet to do that! Let’s proclaim the true Gospel of grace. Thank You, Jesus!
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