New Lutheran Quote of the Day

We confess in the creed that He "descended into hell." He didn't go as others, as a helpless prisoner through a gate that would never open again. He descended into hell as the overlord of the dead. He broke through the gates. A revolution occurred on this day that changed the balance of power forever. The earthquakes that shook Jerusalem were a sign of this. The curtain in the temple that blocked the way into the Holy of Holies, to God Himself, where no one dared to go except for the high priest on the day of atonement, was torn from top to bottom. Now it was opened so we sinners could go straight to God's fatherly arms. Even the gates of death are open! --Bishop Bo Giertz, *To Live with Christ* p. 274