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"Where is Paradise? What happens after ‘this’ day?"

With His resurrection (Matthew 27:52) the Lord set free those in captivity in Abraham's bosom, (Ephesians 4:8,9) also called paradise,(Luke 23:43) which OT saints went to, and was on the other side of Hades, with a great gulf between the two (Luke 16:19-31) since the way into the holiest of all was not yet enabled under the Old Covenant, (Hebrews 9:8; 10:4) but which Christ enabled by His Death (Matthew 27:51). But which paradise was and is not purgatory but a place of comfort, (Luke 16:25) not fiery punishments, and Christ having opened the way into the holy of holies by His sinless shed blood, (Hebrews 10:19) then paradise which is now Heaven. (2 Corinthians 12:4)

Thus, "behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many." (Matthew 27:51-53)