(I Pet 3:18-19) Disprove: Christ preached to the spirits in prison while His body lay in the tomb.

1. This scripture does not say Christ preached to the spirits in prison during the time He was in the grave.
    
2. These wicked angels followed Satan in his rebellion against God (Isa. 14:12-14), and were put in prison (chains of darkness) for their folly (II Pet. 2:4;Jude 6).
    
3. But when did Christ preach to them? “When once the longsuffering of God waited IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, while the ark was being prepared” (I Pet. 3:20). That’s when Christ preached to the spirits - in the days of Noah,not during the time He was in the grave.
    
4. Jesus died (I Cor. 15:3; Rev. 1:18). When He was dead, He was dead! The dead know nothing (Ecc. 9:5, 10). Their thoughts perish (Ps. 146:4).
   
   Jesus could not possibly have preached to those wicked spirits while in His grave. Rather, He did this during the days of Noah.