Posted on 03/28/2018 3:00:58 PM PDT by The Ignorant Fisherman
Dear friend, maybe you were raised to believe - as I was and as many evangelical Christian denominations teach - that Jesus (our Lamb and Savior) was crucified on Good Friday. If one does the math... Friday can never work (see charts below). The "Sign of the prophet Jonah" states it all; The ONLY sign that the Lord would give to the Messiah rejecting leadership of Israel and nation was the sign of the most rejected event and individual of the Bible, Jonah and the whale (Jonah 1:17).
"Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth Matt. 12:38-40)." (Matt. 16:4, 12:39, 11:29, Luke 11:30).
One MUST think like a Jew and not a gentile to understand the biblical settings that take place in the Bible. Too many gentile "Christians" see Jesus, the apostles, Israel, her promises and the Bible with a "western" perspective and when one seeks to do that, they err greatly on the many things even to the damnation of their soul (Rom. 11:24, 2 Peter 3:16). Almighty God used His chosen nation, people, Jewish believers, the lunar calendar, their culture, customs and heritage to bring forth the Holy Scriptures and the flavor of them. Jesus (a Jew - Matt. 1, Luke 3:23-38, John 1:10-14, Acts 2:22-33, Acts 7, Rom. 1:1-3, Rev. 22:16) presented the Gospel to the Jews first and when He taught them, He talked and taught them as "Jew to Jew" and used their customs, heritage and society to teach them the wondrous ETERNAL TRUTHS of Almighty God (Matt. 5-7, 13, 15:24, Mark 10:6, John 6, 10, Romans 1:16).
Many to this day who profess to know the Lord Jesus and call themselves Christians, know Him not as set forth by the Holy Scriptures (Matt. 7:21-23, Rom. 10:2-4)? This Passover and Resurrection Sunday may you be sure that you TRULY know the very One who died for our sins and gave His life for us all that we may find forgiveness, pardon and live with Him FOREVERMORE in RIGHTEOUSNESS (Isa. 52:13-15, 53:1-12, John 3:16-17, Acts 4:12, Romans 4:25, Gal. 3:13, 1 Cor. 1:30, 15:1-4, 2 Cor. 5:21, 1 John 3:5, Rev. 1:5-7)!
The Lord Jesus ROSE VICTORIOUSLY from the grave for ALL, but truly how many of the "ALL" will truly trust Him as their Lord and Savior as set forth by the Holy Scriptures?? Tragically, not many (Matt. 7:13-14, Rom. 10:2-4)!
May you be sure that you know the very One who died for your transgressions and rose for your justification! If you are unsure,see for yourself and take, The Gospel of John Challenge!
The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
He done made his home in dat fishes abdomen...
The day before the High Sabbath ! Doesn’t mean Friday - it was. Holy Day Sabboth. Thanks for posting - my soapbox every year - as Jonah was in the belly of the fish
“Friday can never work”
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Especially considering there was no “Friday” then.
Mark 15:42 is strong evidence for Friday but at the end of the day if this is what you are focused on is way off the mark.
Amen and second it.
The Good Friday-Easter Sunday Question
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Gregory was wrong when he set up the calendar we use.
Scripture is never wrong.
To compare Scripture to a man created calendar and declare the the calendar is correct and Scripture is wrong, is a sure path to error.
One MUST think like a Jew and not a gentile to understand the biblical settings that take place in the Bible.
I'll see what I see from every perspective.
Take the Gregorian calendar, for example. Named after a pope name Gregory.
The masculine first name Gregory derives from the Latin name "Gregorius," which came from the late Greek name "Γρηγόριος" (Grēgorios) meaning "watchful, alert" (derived from Greek "γρηγoρεῖν" "grēgorein" meaning "to watch").
Mark 13
35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Now about those 3 days, it is also written/prophesied that Jesus would raise on the 3rd day, which means He rose late in the afternoon on the weekly Sabbath, just as prophesy revealed He would. Sunday, the morrow after the Sabbath, He ascended to the Father as the First Fruit of the resurrection to come. Maybe this is something you can work on for next year.
From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. [Mt 16:21]
and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day.” And they were greatly distressed.[Mt 17:23]
and deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day. [Mt 20:19]
that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,[1Cor 15:4]
[QuoteTo compare Scripture to a man created calendar and declare the the calendar is correct and Scripture is wrong, is a sure path to error.]
It’s also an error to take a parable (mark 4:34-and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples)
And try to explain away what His Law says- especially Passover and Unleavened Bread and First Fruits, which Paul specifically references in the same letter to the Corinthians,where he gave the 1st importance of the gospel.
But that happens when one starts with a false premise and tries to argue from that.
Whatever they come up will be false and in error.
Paul was correct when he said The Lamb was slain on Passover and raised the third day from Passover, in accordance with the scriptures.
That’s 1st importance of the gospel 101..
Apples and Oranges
John 2:19 Yeshua answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
Yeshua makes two similar statements in Matthew 12 & 16
Matthew 12:8 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”
39 But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Notice!
Matthew 13:1 On the same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea. 2 And great multitudes were gathered together to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
Notice: three days
Matthew 15:32 Now Jesus called His disciples to Himself and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat. And I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.”
15:39 And He sent away the multitude, got into the boat, and came to the region of Magdala.
Matthew 16:1 Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing Him asked that He would show them a sign from heaven. 2 He answered and said to them, “When it is evening you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red’; 3 and in the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times. 4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” And He left them and departed.
Notice in Matthew 16 there’s no mention of ‘three days and nights’, that’s because there are three days and three nights between these two statements!
The ‘heart’ of the earth is the region of Galilee not the grave.
Matthew 6:21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
So, is your treasure (in) the grave?
So what’s the ‘sign of the prophet Yonah? Glad you asked...
2 Kings 14:25 He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Dead Sea, in accordance with the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.
The restored borders of Israel, 1967
Yeshua and Yonah
Luke 8:22 Now it happened, on a certain day, that He got into a boat with His disciples. And He said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side of the lake.” And they launched out. 23 But as they sailed He fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water, and were in jeopardy. 24 And they came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!”
Then He arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water. And they ceased, and there was a calm. 25 But He said to them, “Where is your faith?”
And they were afraid, and marveled, saying to one another, “Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and water, and they obey Him!”
Yonah and Yeshua, on the sea in a storm, both asleep, but two very different endings...
So who are the wicked and adulterous? Aren't they in the same group? Ah Jezebel, See: Revelation 2:20-23
One has to go by the Jewish lunar calendar. The Jewish day starts at sunset or 6:00 pm our time. So technically Jesus could have risen any time after 6 pm on Saturday.
There are rest days or sabbaths during the Passover week etc. It just happens to be Wednesday when HE was crucified and Sunday when he rose. on the 3rd day
that’s right, it is the lunar calendar we are to go by as Bible students, G’s calendar is the devil’s calendar.
The G Calendar is the wrong calendar for Jesus’s day, He went by the Lunar
Don’t know what you are trying to say about Mark 13?
[Quote- that’s right, it is the lunar calendar we are to go by as Bible students, G’s calendar is the devil’s calendar.]
With your premise,,
That makes Friday Satan’s 6th day
That makes Saturday Satan’s 7th day sabbath
That makes Sunday Satan’s 1st Day
Thankfully the Father doesn’t need Satan or Rome to tell time- He uses His Son.
And according to His son’s death,burial and resurrection:
The Father’s 6th day is Passover (14th Day)
The Father’s 7th Day Sabbath is Unleavened Bread (15th day)
The Father’s 1st Day is First Fruits (16thDay)
Which does Judaism and Rome and bible students and well,the whole world follow?
You are right. Thank-you and God Bless.
One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
Colossians 2:16-23 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
WHY the ticky-tacky over days?
I see Christ’s passion/death started the moment of the entrance into the agony in the garden.
3 days right there.
Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Lunar, lunar-solar, solar, sidereal (in Hebrew lit. 'year of the stars')... they all serve together as signs.
Mark 13 was linked to the instruction to watch, because that is the word from which the Gregorian calendar is derived, the one some don't think is important to watch because it is "wrong".
The Gregorian calendar is internationally the most widely used civil calendar.[1][2][Note 1] It is named after Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced it in October 1582.
It was a refinement to the Julian calendar[3] involving an approximately 0.002% correction in the length of the calendar year. The motivation for the reform was to stop the drift of the calendar with respect to the equinoxes and solstices—particularly the northern vernal equinox, which helps set the date for Easter. Transition to the Gregorian calendar would restore the holiday to the time of the year in which it was celebrated when introduced by the early Church. The reform was adopted initially by the Catholic countries of Europe.
Gregorian Calendar
Could be an effort by the evil one to distract our focus today from our Lord's sacrifice for OUR SINS!
Watch and Pray
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