The Battle for the Keys by Justin W. Bass
The subtitle reads Revelation 1:18 and Christ’s Descent into the Underworld.
Chapter One – Many of the early Christian writers affirm Christ’s descent into Hades and spoke about it frequently in their writing.
Chapter Two – It is virtually unanimous that in the O.T., Greco-Roman world, and during the Intertestamental period that all mankind descended to Sheol/Hades.
Chapter Three – To possess keys in the ancient world was symbolic for possessing authority and power.
Chapter Four – Explores the different compartments of the underworld. Death, Hades, Paradise, the Lake of Fire, Hell, Tartarus and the Abyss.
Chapter Five – Is an exegetical discussion the fundamental passages in the New Testament concerning the Descent of Jesus into Hades.
Chapter Six – Death and Hades are seen as personified in Rev. 1:18. Christ has stripped Satan of his power and authority over Death and Hades, Christ alone possesses that power.
