Well, first of all, Hades means the grave. People in the grave are dead. There is no preaching or anything else. The Bible says that the dead "know not anything". So it would do no good to preach to someone who knows not anything. Second, if Jesus was in Hades for three days and nights, there is no way it could have been from Friday sunset to Sunday sunrise. If you truly believe that, then you do not believe in Jesus for he himself said that was the only sign of who he was.
1 Peter 3: 18-19; For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, 19 in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison,
1 Peter 4: 6 GNB; That is why the Good News was also preached to the dead; to those who had been judged in their physical existence as everyone is judged, it was preached to them so that in their spiritual existence they might live as God lives.
The Book of Ecclesiastes is one of four books written by Solomon, it is his satirical work aimed at those who do not believe in life after death or the resurrection.
Ecclesiastes 9: 5; “For the living know that they are going to die, but the dead know nothing.”
In the book of Sirach, R, H, Charles translation chapter 47 verse 17, it is written concerning Solomon, (1)“By thy songs, (2) parables, (3) dark speeches, and (4)
SATIRES, thou didst cause astonishment to the peoples etc.” Four books written by Solomon.
From the book of Ecclesiastes: GNB Catholic Study Edition.
“Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die. I envy those who are dead and gone; they are better off than those who are still alive. But better off than either, are those who have never been born etc. A man may have a hundred children and live a long time, but no matter how long he lives, if he does not get his share of happiness and does not receive a descent burial, then I say that a baby born dead is better off. Man and animal receive the same ultimate reward, total oblivion, from the dust they came and to the dust they shall return. A wise man is no better off than a fool, the reward for doing good is the same as that for doing evil, so don’t be too good or too wise, Why kill yourself?
We are all going to our final resting place, and although life is useless, the conclusion of the matter is, if you live a religious life you may at least experience some in the short span of consciousness that has been allocated to you in this useless life. So go ahead and eat, drink and be merry, drink your wine and be cheerful. It’s all right with God. your life with the woman you love, as long as you live the useless life that God has given you in this world. Enjoy every useless day of it, because that is all that you’ll get for all your troubles. Never again will you take part in anything that happens in the world, because there will be no action, no thought, no knowledge, no wisdom in the world of the dead to where the righteous, the wicked, the wise and the fools, animal and man, are all going.
For the living know that they are going to die, but the dead know nothing.”
Solomon’s songs are found in his book, ‘Song of Songs,’ his parables are found in his book of ‘proverbs,’ his dark speeches are in the ‘Wisdom of Solomon,’ and who can read the negative and even depressing words from the book of ‘Ecclesiastes’ without realizing that here is the
SATIRICAL work of Solomon, aimed at those who believed in neither life after death, or the resurrection from the dead.