Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

25:8; 35:29; 49:33; Deut. 32:50). This indicated that their spirits were all gathering in one place, which in the Old Testament time was a chamber called Sheol, the world of departed spirits, somewhere under the earth (Luke 16:19–26). This same concept of giving up the ghost is recorded by three Gospel writers the moment Christ breathed His last breath and cried, “It is finished.” At that moment He “gave up the ghost” (Mark 15:37, KJV ; Luke 23:46, KJV ; John 19:30, KJV ). Some suggest that this phrase simply means the people simply ceased to be or quit breathing. However, let’s examine what occurred with Christ after He died. First, one of the two dying thieves beside Christ prayed that Christ would remember him when Christ entered His kingdom. Christ replied, “Today you will be with Me in Paradise” (Luke 23:43). Both Christ and the thief died before the sun set that day. Christ had previously informed His disciples that, “As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matt. 12:40). Some who do not believe the soul and spirit leave the body at death say this phrase, “heart of the earth,” means Christ would be in the grave for three days and nights. However, other scriptures tell you what Christ actually did when His “ghost” (soul and spirit) departed from His body. He actually descended to the paradise chamber (Abraham’s bosom) to preach to those spirits imprisoned under the earth! Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but