IMHO
It appears Noah was in prison. It appears Jonah was in prison. Those in Abraham’s Bosom were in prison. Those in captivity were in prison. Yet it is those not locked away that perished.
The righteous men on the day of Pentecost were children of those who sighed over the sins of Israel. 400 years in captivity (or in a sanctuary). In Christ.
Those saints with the white robes await their release at the Resurrection.
Death is defeated at the end.
Mississippi redneck
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I disagree. Never is it said or implied that Noah, Jonah or those in Abraham's Bosom are or were in prison.
AND physical death is not annihilation, the people who died in the flood went to hades.
The hybrid human angel "spirits" went to a segregated part of hades, "prison."
The Nephilim (Fallen Ones, Satan's angels) died physically in the flood also, they went to the Abyss (Rev. 9:1ff).
After the Fall, in the "war against the woman's seed" (Gen. 3:15), Satan cast down his angels to the earth to corrupt mankind:
3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads.
4 His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born.
(Rev. 12:3-4 NKJ)
This is during the flood, not in the End Time when Michael casts them out of heaven.
These fallen ones "Nephilim" corrupted the earth, but when the flood came God permitted some of them to return to heaven (Rev. 12:7-9; Eph. 6:12), if they hadn't taken human wives and sired children. All who did that were denied reentry into heaven when the flood hit. They drowned in the flood like everything else that lived. Scripture emphasizes that fact:
21 And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died.
23 So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.
(Gen. 7:21-23 NKJ)
Some wrongly believe the exaggeration of the cowards with Joshua, claiming the Nephilim still lived (Num. 13:32-33), claiming they didn't all die in the flood. That is absurd. These "giants" were dispatched by Joshua and Caleb quite easily (Josh. 11:21-23; 15:13-4;), they weren't Nephilim. The Nephilim died in the flood and became "spirits of demons" (πνεύματα δαιμονίων Rev. 16:14) in the Abyss (Rev. 9:1ff).
The "sons of God" who were seduced to leave their proper habitation because of the Satanic-human conspiracy parading their illicit unions (pornography) before the eyes of the "Watchers" 24/7 (Gen. 6:2), were kept separate from everyone else, bound in eternal chains and darkness in Tartarus.
God blames men for seducing His angelic sons (Gen. 6:3).
Humans conspired with Satan against God's edict denying them access to the "tree of life" (Gen. 3:22-24) and living forever.
Humans concocted the scheme, although no doubt Satan played a role---to have women and Nephilim practiced porn before the eyes of the Watchers until some of them "left their proper habitation" and took wives of their own, bearing children.
The theory behind this was simple: Unlike with the Nephlim Fallen Ones, children sired by unfallen angels would be immortal.
Perhaps they would have been if they didn't die physically in the flood. We do know these human souls, because they are hybrid Elohim-human, are called "spirits". Unregenerate human souls are never called "spirits" in scripture.
The angelic "sons of God" were segregated both from Satan's angels, and their human offspring, and imprisoned in Tartarus, bound in everlasting chains.
As for the disembodied unclean spirits of demons and "hybrid humans", if their sins didn't merit casting them into the Abyss, they were permitted to roam the earth in graveyards and desolate places seeking to regain a semblance of corporeality, by possessing insects, animals and men.
I agree with your ending, Death is definitely defeated in Christ:
54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
55 "O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?"
56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Cor. 15:54-57 NKJ)
If this is your argument here, Alfred, then I think you are reaching, and badly. Most scholarship wouldn't take a response like that as being a legitimate one. The word means Death. No offense, but If you need an additional word specifically used for resurrection than one that already means Death, that kinda comes off like... theological obstinance.