The Omega Conspiracy: Satan's Last Assault on God's Kingdom by I. D. E. Thomas

Author:I. D. E. Thomas
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Body, Eschatology, UFOs & Extraterrestrials, Unidentified Flying Objects, Miscellanea, Religious Aspects, Fiction, Religion, Demonology & Satanism, Human-Alien Encounters, Mind & Spirit, General, Demonology
ISBN: 9780962451744
Publisher: Hearthstone Pub.
Published: 1986-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Descent into Hell

Calvary must have had an immediate and tremendous effect upon that spirit-world, the full extent and nature of which we may not yet know.

—W. Graham Scroggie

One would hardly expect the Apostles’ Creed, composed in the early Christian era, to refer to the Nephilim. Such a document seems far removed from the events of Genesis 6. But let’s take a look.

The Apostles’ Creed is a distillation of doctrine, abbreviated down to an “irreducible minimum.” Because a creed demands such condensation many a truth has to be omitted, and only major, cardinal truths are included. In the Apostles’ Creed, truths about our Lord’s teaching, preaching, miracles...Have been omitted, and so has all reference to the events of Pentecost. Not that these were unimportant; it was that the creed formulators had to be fastidiously selective. A truth had to be absolutely paramount to gain admittance into this Creed.

Where does this lead us? To the all important question of our study: Does the Apostles’ Creed contain any reference to Genesis 6, and to the Nephilim? It certainly does. On the surface, it may not be all that apparent, but it is there.

Embedded in the Creed is an article which received but scant attention from modern preachers and professors. It could well be

called “the forgotten article.” It reads: “He descended into hell." In the three-day interval between His death and resurrection, Christ went to Hell to fulfill a specific mission.

Admittedly, this particular article does not appear in the earlier forms of the Apostles’ Creed. However, it was an integral art of the Apostles’ beliefs, and was later included in the Creed itself. The point we are making is, that the inclusion of this particular article, “He descended into Hell,” had to be of special significance indeed. As special as that of the Virgin Birth, the Cross, the Resurrection, the Second Advent...

It is thus all the more surprising that this truth is rarely discussed anymore; rarer still is it preached; and still rarer does anyone sing about it. It was not always so. In the 1641 Prayer Book there is included the Sternhold and Hopkins version of the Psalms, and in it we read:

His soul did after this descend

Into the lower parts;

A dread unto the wicked spirits,

But joy to faithful hearts.

The biblical passage that sheds most light on this article is 1 Peter 3:18-20. “For Christ also hath 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 long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.” Interestingly, this is the passage designated in the Prayer Book to be read on Easter Eve, coinciding perfectly with biblical chronology. And for the morning of the same day the designated reading was Zechariah 9, which speaks of the “pit wherein is no water” and of the “prisoners of hope.

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