What do you suggest was being "preached"? Always squirming to avoid answering the questions you keep posing, aren't ya? You've simply dug yourself a hole and hope I'll get you out of it.
Christ's victory over the devil, and Satan, that He indeed was the Son of God, the LORD of Hosts, and that their time is short, their judgment is sure. This is what is preached by his death by the cross and his quickening by the Spirit, that because He was risen, that he had the victory. He who ruled over the nations with a continual stroke shall be laid before kings, to be made weak, to be destroyed and to be no more. Satan lost, Jesus won. Satan zero, Jesus ... uncounted billions.
Luke 4:6-8 KJV
(6) And the devil said unto
him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
(7) If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
(8) And
Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship
the Lord thy God, and
him only shalt thou serve.
Matthew 8:29 KJV
(29) And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee,
Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
Hebrews 2:14 KJV
(14) Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same;
that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
Revelation 12:12 KJV
(12) Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath
, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Ezekiel 28:16-18 KJV
(16) By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God:
and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
(17) Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness:
I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
(18) Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick;
therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
But wait, I'm not done preaching yet. Remember the subject of angels that sinned? This wouldn't have been the first time Peter made reference:
2 Peter 2:4 KJV
(4)
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
1 Peter 3:18-20 KJV
(18) For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
(19)
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
(20) Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
THAT is what was preached by Christ being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit. The judgment
of those angels that sinned (that seems to be on Peter's mind) is coming, God was not defeated, rather he was the victor, this is proved by his resurrection (quickening by the Spirit). This is
not salvation unto those disobedient spirits,
this is their doom.