Reading for the day: Descended to the Dead

"For if we believe that Jesus died and rose,
so too will God, through Jesus,
bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
Indeed, we tell you this, on the word of the Lord,
that we who are alive,
who are left until the coming of the Lord,
will surely not precede those who have fallen asleep.
For the Lord himself, with a word of command,
with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God,
will come down from heaven,
and the dead in Christ will rise first".1 Thessalonians 4:14-16


I remember when I was in elementary, our religion teacher, Sr. Gabriel kept asking us two Filipinos in her class what phrase the Filipino version of the Apostles' Creed had that the version we used in school did not. My classmate and I did not know the answer but she kept asking us. Turns out, the phrase was that "He descended to the dead". 


I also remember a story (don't remember who told the story) that during those times, it was believed that the dead were waiting for the Messiah and were stuck somewhere until the Messiah came. So when Jesus descended from the death, he "fetched" them and ascended with them to heaven.