The Sign of Jonah

Rules for Reactionaries ^ | April 3, 2023 | Fabius Minarchus

[GarthVader]

To fulfill the Sign of Jonah, Jesus had to be in the grave for three days and three nights. This contradicts traditions which say that Jesus died on a Friday afternoon. There is a resolution to this problem.

[GarthVader]

Nearly 2000 years ago an "evil and adulterous generation" was given the Sign of Jonah, a sign which has been partially forgotten.

Maybe that sign was put in cold storage for use with a new evil and adulterous generation: ours.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Can you post the article, or at least an extract?

[EliRoom8]

Many claim that the soon-afterward raising of Lazarus was one of those Jonah-type signs. Actually, it wasn’t since there was a four day interlude. Christ, after hearing of his death, remained away for two days. Lazarus’ four days in the tomb foreshadows the 4000 years before the Jewish remnant is raised at the loud shout of Jesus at the Rapture.

[high info voter]

He also said “destroy this temple, and I will rebuild it in 3 days”.

[GarthVader]

Just follow the link. It’s a free access substack page. You just need to click through the “let me read it first” button/link.

[sasportas]

The ECF writings of early Christianity, have Jesus’ resurrection on the first day of the week... not Saturday.

It is groups like the Seventh Day Adventists, who have an axe to grind on this issue, who believe having church on Sunday was not observed in church history until Constantine, while having Jesus resurrected on Saturday.

Again, the ECF long before Constantine, believed otherwise.

[Big Red Badger]

Yuppers...
What’s A Vulcan?

[SaveFerris]

Yes

[SaveFerris]

Yes

[metmom]

The answer apparently lies in the fact that Pope Gregory messed with the calendar.

The Good Friday-Easter Sunday Question
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2226464/posts

For your consideration.

WHAT DAY WAS CHRIST CRUCIFIED?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1614881/posts

Was Jesus Crucified on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday?
https://reasonsforhopejesus.com/crucified/

[DouglasKC]

Ha good luck with this. I’m totally on board. But there are those who labor under a strong delusion. Christ did not establish “Easter”. Christ created and kept Passover...the Christian Passover is a memorial to the death of our savior.

[metmom]

Then “tradition” is wrong.

[DouglasKC]

The ECF writings of early Christianity, have Jesus’ resurrection on the first day of the week... not Saturday.

The bible has the resurrection on what we would call Saturday. ...either Saturday night or Saturday morning. This might help:

[fidelis]

Christ did not establish “Easter”. Christ created and kept Passover...the Christian Passover is a memorial to the death of our savior.

Curiously, only English speakers call the observance of Jesus' resurrection from the dead "Easter"-- or anything like it. In almost every other language and nation (including in Latin), it is called some variation of Pasch (Passover):

Albanian - Pashke
Basque - Pazko
Catalan - Pasqua
Corsican - Pasqua
Danish - påske
Dutch - Pasen
Finnish - pääsiäinen
French - Pâques
Frisian - Peaske
Galician - Pascua
Greek - Πάσχα [Páscha]
Icelandic - Páska
Italian - Pasqua
Norwegian - påske
Portuguese - Páscoa
Romanian - Paști
Russian - Пасха [Paskha] Spanish - Pascua de Resurrección
Swedish - påsk
Tatar - Пасха
Welsh - Pasg

[DouglasKC]

Curiously, only English speakers call the observance of Jesus' resurrection from the dead "Easter"-- or anything like it. In almost every other language and nation (including in Latin), it is called some variation of Pasch (Passover):

May be true but doesn't negate the fact that Passover is at a very specific time of year according to Christ:

Leviticus 23:4-5 ‘These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times. On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord’s Passover.

So according to Jesus, the Lord, his Passover is on the 14th day of the first month...known as Abib or Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. That date began last Tuesday at sunset.

[fidelis]

May be true but doesn't negate the fact that Passover is at a very specific time of year according to Christ

LOL. I didn't say it did.

[Kandy Atz]

I have found Bullinger's sequence of Holy Week events very helpful and logical. This is found in the appendix of his Companion Bible. You must consider all the events of the last week - especially those with fixed dates, Jewish reckoning of the day - sunset to sunset, and Jewish festivals/Holy Days. With that, you can map out the sequence.

https://levendwater.org/companion/append156.html

He is risen!

[GarthVader]

Jesus was already resurrected by Sunday morning. Actually, sometime before, as John 20:1 says that it was still dark when Mary Magdalene came to the tomb.

The Jewish day begins at sunset, so “very early on the first day of the week” could be any time after sunset.

[GarthVader]

The article is part of a series about getting Silicon Valley types into church. This country is fracturing in part because the highly educated are increasingly unchurched or worse.

The first article in the series asked the reader to imagine trying to get Mr. Spock from the original Star Trek series to be a Christian. Mr. Spock would have a hard time handling a modern praise and worship style service; he could appreciate something more High Church. Likewise, Mr. Spock nitpicks over any kind of logical contradiction, such as Good Friday vs. the Sign of Jonah.

[Big Red Badger]

Very Interesting——
and Logical.
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The Smartest people I know are Christians.
‘Let Us Reason Together.’
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Fascinating