Do you believe Jesus went directly to Heaven once he gave up the Ghost on the cross?

Question

Explain your answer and share scriptures to support it.

Additional info:
Where do you think Jesus visited while in the tomb? He told the one on the cross that he would be with him (Jesus) in Paradise that day. He also told Mary not to touch him because he had not ascended to his father yet........

Answer 1

No, he went to prepare a place. he also told Marry not to touch him be cause he had not yet ascended to the Father.
John,20:17
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
is the question, where was Jesus after he gave up the Ghost and before he was raised on the third day.
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while wating on this darn computer to unfreeze you added details ha now I'll have to find that scripture but that's ok:-)

Answer 2

Ephesians 8-10
Wherefore he saith, When He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that He ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same
also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)

Before the death of Christ, both the lost and the saved went to Hades and it was divided into the place of torments and Abraham's bosom Luke 16:19-31. Jesus led the Old Testament saints to heaven. When a Christian dies today he goes immediately into the presence of God. (Phil.1:23)

1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.
By which also He went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
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.

Those spirits in Hades (prison) were the Old Testament people formerly disobedient toward God who rejected Noah's preaching to come aboard and save their souls.

Answer 3

When Jesus ascended to Heaven, He took the occupants of Paradise (believers) with Him (Ephesians 4:8-10). The lost side of Sheol / Hades has remained unchanged. All unbelieving dead go there awaiting their final judgment in the future. Did Jesus go to Sheol / Hades? Yes, according to Ephesians 4:8-10 and 1 Peter 3:18-20.

Answer 4

No. It is a mystery as to what He did during those three days, it is said He went to Hades (not Hell) to preach to those there, not for salvation, but proclaiming the kingdom. But this verse seems to indicate He had not yet gone to the Father:

Joh 20:17 Jesus said to her, Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father. But go to My brothers and say to them, I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and My God, and your God.

I tend to think it was after this that He went to Paradise (Abraham's bosom:
Luk 16:22 And it happened, the poor one died and was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich one also died and was buried.)
He then took with Him all the saints who had died before His resurrection, which opened up Heaven, to the Father, where He presented His sacrifice and it was accepted by the Father.
Apparently, He did this before appearing to Thomas, since He invited him to touch Him:

Joh 20:27 Then He said to Thomas, Bring your finger here and see My hands, and bring your hand and thrust into My side, and be not unbelieving, but believing.

Answer 5

No He didn't....He layed in the tomb for 3 days before He arose from the dead. (John 20:17)...Jesus was getting ready to leave the earth..(2Timothy 6-8) ....When He recieved the Holy Spirit....(Luke 3:21-22)......King James Version.
The book of John tells of the events leading up to the death of Jesus.

Answer 6

No as when he saw Mary he told her:

Jhn 20:17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and [to] my God, and your God

Answer 7

What do you mean when you say he agve up the ghost???

First, Jesus didn't die on the cross as many churches teach. If you look into the word used for "cross" you'll see it means a pole basically. So Jesus died hanging on a torture stake or pole, not a cross.

Back to your question...he was dead in the burial hole for parts of 3 days before he was brought back to life, this time in the spirit world in heaven.

Answer 8

He decended to Hell to save the Holy like Abraham, Mosses, Aaron, His foster father Joseph ... on the third day he rose again ... in fulfilment of the scriputure.

Answer 9

Nope, HE went to the "spirits" in prison or accross the gulf. That is, HE went to all those that had died in the past all the way back to Noah's time, and offered them salvation.

1Pe 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;


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Answer 10

No He decended to hell and was there until he was raised from the dead. In this way He paid the full price of sin and defeated the power of Satan.