[§84] Bridging the “Great Gulf” Between Prison and Paradise

This podcast focuses on the postmortal ministry of Jesus Christ in the spirit world between his death and resurrection. The disembodied spirit of Christ entered celestial paradise and declared liberty to the captives in anticipation of their forthcoming resurrection. He also bridged the great gulf between paradise and prison as he called ministers to serve as a great missionary force in spirit prison. The gospel was thus taken for the first time into prison that the captive spirits could receive the gospel to be judged according to men in the flesh (i.e., according to the same standards), but live according to God in the spirit. That is, by their conversion to the gospel and the receipt of vicarious ordinances, the disembodied spirits in prison can cross the great gulf bridged by the ministry of Christ and overcome spiritual death.