Re: Who Was Running The Universe When Jesus Was Dead Those 3 days If Jesus Was Supposedly God?

While Jesus was in the belly of hell delivering people, the Father was still in charge, controlling the Universe. 

I THIRST (John); IT IS FINISHISED (John): and FATHER INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SP1RIT (Luke). 

 

The last cry from the Cross indicates that at the moment of death, Christ was not forsaken by God, but was in holy communion with Him. 

 

The misconceived expression in the so-called Apostles’ Creed, “He descended into hell” has no reference to the infernal regions, but to the burial scene of Psalm 16:10 - “Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell (that is, the grave) neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption”. In fact his Spirit went straight to Paradise where He had already promised to meet the Penitent Thief that same day (Luke 23:43). If it were necessary for the purpose, of the Atonement that Christ should ever be literally abandoned by the Father, it was surely at the point of death itself - the proper termination of the act of sacrifice. Yet it is at that very moment we find Him in closest communion with the Father as He addresses Him by name and commends His Spirit into His hands. His Spirit reposed upon the Father’s bosom as voluntarily, and with the authority of the Father He ‘laid down His life for the sheep (John 10:18). The Sufferer on the Cross was not alone. The darkness was not for Him but for an evil world of unbelief. The hiding of the sun was not the averting of the face of God from Christ but a solemn warning to an abandoned generation from whom God was about to withdraw the Privileges of a dispensation, which they had not kept and against which they had rebelled.