Raise me from my death: Meditations on Saturday of Holy Pascha

Raise me from my death: Meditations on Saturday of Holy Pascha The Church celebrates her incarnate Lord who died in the flesh who at this moment is down in Hades granting victory to the Kingdom of God. Imagine, if you will, that everyone prior to this moment, the righteous and the wicked, all went to the same destination: the righteous Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the prophets of old, Isaiah, Elijah, Elisha, Moses the archprophet and all of the great women of the past, Ester, Ruth, Deborah. Regardless of how righteous they were and how holy their lives were, because there was no incarnation, because there was no victory over death, all of them went to Hades. Now the Lord enters into this darkest of places.