The Harrowing of Hell
Adam’s Return to Paradise
by Noel Joshua Hadley
12/16/2021
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[UPDATE 7/26/26: THE former title of this paper has become the subtitle in favor of a theological concept that nearly everyone is familiar with. If not then you’re about to be. However skeptical you may be, I am downright convinced the Harrowing of Hell was a historical event in which YASHA’UA Messiah was taken down to Sheol like a Trojan horse, thereby setting the captives free. As a former die-hard soul sleeper, believing that the dead departed soul goes night-night in the grave until the final trumpet blast should wake him, by 2020, I wanted to better understand the resurrection from a shifting eschatological perspective, and with 20/20 vision. Did the Millennial Kingdom of Messiah already happen?
Now, if you are a serial reader of my work, then first of all, thank you, but then secondly, you are well aware that I have written dozens of investigative papers on the MK subject. This one in particular is an earlier entry in the catalogue even if the title doesn’t reflect it. Oh, I’m still an avid soul sleeper. The righteous and the sinner alike were taken down to a place where the bill is never paid to the electric company. All evidence however points to the likely fact that the righteous have been released from the cradle. The intent of this paper is to highlight the event itself.
I should probably save the implications for the end but this is my paper and I will include the Conclusion when and where I see fit. Iconography: Mysteries of the Millennial Kingdom investigates the Christian Orthodox position that Iconography is a tool intended for prayer to and intercession of the saints on our behalf. Such a feat would not be possible if they were still locked up in the underbelly of the earth. Immediately afterwards, I published its “science-fiction” follow-up, Anachronism: Mysteries of the Millennial Kingdom. It was during last year’s sabbatical in Europe that I began collecting evidence suggesting and at other times outright claiming that Biblical saints were contemporaries. These same Medievalists were likewise having visionary experiences of pivotal Biblical events. More often than not the Madonna and Child though the Passion topped that list. That is to say, they were time travelers. None of this could be possible if not for an understanding that the saints minister alongside Messiah.
There are other papers that I think you should be aware of. Leviathan is a direct-spin off to this one because it ties Sheol in with the Abyss, Leviathan, and Jonah’s death and resurrection within the belly of a sea serpent. It also includes Hellmouth, and no, I’m not referring to a heavy metal album from the 80’s. 500 Years of the Phoenix: Mysteries of the Millennial Kingdom pinpoints precise resurrection mile-markers in His-Story, including the Harrowing of Hell in the whereabouts of 30 AD. Or 33 AD if you prefer.
Closely connected with the Phoenix event is The Resurrection and Rome: Mysteries of the Millennial Kingdom, in which a series of metamorphosis theories are tested out through ancients texts and my own personal field research. Are the dead tethered to the location of their physical bodies and do they leave their bones behind during the resurrection? Be careful with the preconceived notions. I’ve had plenty of those, we all do, and they often prove me wrong. I guess I’ll speak for myself. I get excited when ancient knowledge blows a hole wide open in the box, allowing me to think outside of it. The cardboard fort that I inhabit resembles Swiss cheese by this point. Did you know that France produces over 1,500 distinct varieties of cheese? Mmm. If only my research papers tasted that good.]