Deacon Be Readin'

1 Peter 3:19-20

19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffereing of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

Throughout the Deacons days, I have always heard preached and in song about during the three days after the resurrection, that Jesus descended into Hell, and ministered to the lost souls therein, and forceably took the keys to death and Hell away from Satan...However, upon recent searches, I have found nothing in the Bible to correlate this...However, my fathers sent me an e-mail a couple of weeks back telling me to look up 1 Peter 3:19...from my studies since this e-mail, this appears to be only one of two or three references to Christ descension into a lower region...Dake's Annotated Bible refers to Christ descending into Tartarus...Tartarus in apparently referred to primarily in Greek mythology is at the lowest region of earth....Also, according to Dake, these souls that Christ ministered to while there, are angels, rather than human souls...Will update this post more as other sources can be gathered and researched.