What Happened to the Spirits Who Are in "Prison"? CQ Podcast Highlight
Where are evil spirits kept today? What are they doing and should we be worried? Listen to the full podcast to hear the whole conversation: https://christianquestions.com/doctrine/1305-demons/
So the question is, what happened to those followers of Satan? 1 Peter 3:18-20: for Christ also died for sins once for all the, just for the unjust, so that he might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which he also went and made proclamation to the spirits now and prison who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah during the construction of the ark, in which a few that is eight persons were brought safely through the water, they were put in prison. The Greek word for prison means they are now under guard. They are limited. These imprisoned spirits are followers of Satan and relegated to the shadows of earth as Satan is. But within this limitation, they have great power.
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And there's the paradox when you look at it from the outside in, okay, so they're in prison, that's good, right? That means they're cut off. No, it means that they are pushed aside, but it doesn't mean they don't have power. So we want to make sure we understand and see this very, very clearly. How do we expand this? Because the scriptures tell us much more detail on this. In the book of Jude, it's that one chapter book before Revelation in the New Testament in the book of Jude, he reminds us what those spirit beings did can be easily repeated on a human level. Let's look at Jude again. There's only one chapter verses three and four.
Beloved, while I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith, which was once for all handed down to the saints for certain persons have crept in unnoticed. Those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of God into
