Die heilige Lehre von der Wiederbringung aller Dinge aus dem Worte Gottes

condemned. Mark 16 verse 16. And again Christ says: He who does not believe is judged already; because he does not believe in the name of the only begotten Son of God. As long as he remains in such unbelief, the wrath of God remains upon him, and he cannot be saved, unless he believes. John 3 verses 18 and 36.

29. But tell me, can it be possible that one could die in unbelief and be condemned, and yet believe again and be saved?

Yes. Thus God condemned the first world die erste Welt; the world before the Great Flood which did not believe; and yet Christ went and preached to the spirits in prison Geister im Gefängniß who formerly did not believe, when God’s long-suffering once waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared, in which few, that is, eight souls, were kept through the water. 1 Peter 3 verses 19 and 20; Hebrews 11 verse 7; 2 Peter 2 verse 5; Chapter 3 verse 6.

30. Should this preaching have been an evangelical sermon?

When Christ preaches to the prisoners, as He does here, He proclaims the gospel, for which He was sent. Isaiah 61 verses 1 and 2. Peter also actually calls this an evangelical sermon when he adds in Chapter 4 verse 6: For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead,