keys taken.
God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world but to save it (Jh3:17), was the purpose of his plan. God never intended to harm his most precious creation at any time, but man became reckless. His intention always became to rescue us from what life, our enemy and we ourselves, that is destructive bring to life. We all need once in a while some saving grace. The prophet Isaiah tells us that even until we are old God will rescue us (Is46:6). You may ask, save me from what? Well, it all started with creation when Adam and Eve gave in to Satan’s evil plan to still our free will (Ro5:12). Every evil; war, death, theft, etc.., was caused by the evil one from Adam to Christ. Satan became the ruler of this world and there was nothing anyone could do. That moment when Adam and Eve heeded to eating the forbidden fruit, was the day submission to the evil one’s (AKA god of this world) will came into existence (2Cor4:4). Satan had a grip on humanity that needed to be released, and because he is spirit someone from the spiritual world needed to take it away from him.
Matthew 27:51-53
50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split 52 and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53 They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection ande] went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
When Christ rose from the dead, the saints that had died throughout history rose as well. What happened at the cross and in the resurrection released humanity from the grip of death and its master. He took the keys of death from Satan (Re1:18), so that no one needs to go to hell like previously before. The symbolism of the key is access and Adam and Eve had given that key to Satan, but Christ took it from him. From the death at the cross, the gospel made it to the inner most part of hell Christ went to hell to preach unto the dead (1P4:6) so that they would not have excuse. The resurrection of Christ deals with not only a ticket to paradise, as the thief at the cross experienced and everyone who accepts him, but freedom from Satan’s grip. Luke tells us in the letter to the Hebrew that Christ’s death was to free all those who their lives in slavery by the fear of death (He2:14-15). Accepting the package that comes with resurrection is a matter of choice; free will, we can choose to be free from Satan’s grip or stay in bondage.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Isaiah 46:6
Some pour out gold from their bags and weigh out silver on the scales; they hire a goldsmith to make it into a god, and they bow down and worship it.
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned
2 Corinthians 4:4
4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Revelations 1:18
18 I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
1 Peter 4:6
6 For this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged according to human standards in regard to the body, but live according to God in regard to the spirit.
Hebrews 2:14-15
14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.