"Who shall render account to him, who is ready to judge the living and the dead. For, for this cause was the gospel preached also to the dead: that they might be judged indeed according to men, in the flesh; but may live according to God, in the Spirit." 1 Peter 4:5-6
"Chap. 3, Ver. 19. Spirits that were in prison. See here a proof of a third place, or middle state of souls: for these spirits in prison, to whom Christ went to preach after His death, were not in heaven; nor yet in the hell of the damned: because heaven is no prison: and Christ did not go to preach to the damned." St. Jerome's commentary.
Seems so many of you miss this...For those that don't know this, it's called Abraham's Bosom...And it WAS in Hell...
This place is a chamber in Hell...And the OT Saints were locked in...They were held captive...They were locked in with GATES...
Jesus came and took captivity captive...Jesus unlocked the GATES OF HELL...The Gates of Hell would no longer prevail over the church (Matt.16:18)...
The GATES OF HELL have nothing to do with the church in this age because the gates are open...It has NOTHING to do with the church being infallible, or without error...
What is has to do with is: that place some called limbo, or purgatory is GONE...There is no purgatory...
And secondly, the way to Heaven is Repentance and belief in Jesus Christ...And THAT, is the Key bit of information one has to know...And those are the Keys that were given to Peter and the Apostles...
Praise God...No one is under the threat of purgatory...No bondage to purgatory...The Gates are wide open...
As the Apostle Paul said, 'To absent from the body is to be present with the Lord'...No purgatory...