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Easter Sunday was a fun
day when I was a child.
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Who doesn't like
a treasure hunt?
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We decorated eggs, wrote
names on them, and hid
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them from one another.
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Then we set out to find those with our names on them.
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Sometimes we would go
to larger treasure hunts
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where dozens of children
ran about looking for
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any egg to add to
their basket.
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It all seemed
like harmless fun.
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Who could possibly
be against it?
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But, we never
stopped to ask,
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Why are we doing this?
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What does it have to do with
the resurrection of Christ?
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How do eggs and rabbits
fit into the picture?
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Where does the name
Easter come from?
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And are any of these
questions even relevant?
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What difference does
any of this make?
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Sadly, too many adults
never ask these questions.
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It almost seems
sacrilegious to question
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such longstanding traditions.
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But is it?
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On today's Tomorrow's
World program,
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I'll answer these questions.
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I'll also show you from
the Bible what was the
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only sign Jesus said He
would give, that He was
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the One He claimed to be--
the Son of God--
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and how Easter traditions
contradict that sign.
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I'll also be offering you
an informative resource
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that answers the questions:
On what day was Jesus
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crucified and on what
day was He resurrected?
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If you think the crucifixion
was on Friday and the
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resurrection on Sunday morning, you could not be more wrong,
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and I'll prove it to you from the pages of the Bible.
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As we so often say,
"Don't believe us just
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because we say it.
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Believe it because you can
prove it for yourself from
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the pages of your
own Bible."
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So, dust off your Bible
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♪
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A warm welcome to all of
you from all of us here
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at Tomorrow's World.
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On today's program, I'm
asking and answering
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questions about the
holiday known as Easter.
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I'll also show you from the pages of your own Bible
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that Jesus was not
crucified on Friday,
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nor was He resurrected
on Sunday morning.
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Now I know that is a shock
to many, but you can prove
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it for yourself, and you
need to, because that
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tradition contradicts
Jesus' own words about
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the one sign He said
He would give, that
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would show that He
is the Messiah.
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But before we get to that,
let's notice some other
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traditions that ought to
make any thinking person
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sit up and ask some
serious questions.
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Why, for example, is the
holiday that supposedly
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celebrates the resurrection
of Christ, named after
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a pagan goddess?
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Think about that.
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Why?
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Here's some documented
history that you can read
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in our free resource,
Easter: The Untold Story:
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The New World Encyclopedia
suggests a connection
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between Eostre and Easter
with the very popular and
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ancient goddess Ishtar:
"Scholars likewise
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speculate that Eostre,
the Anglo-Saxon goddess of
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Spring whose name later
gave rise to the modern
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English 'Easter,' may be
etymologically connected
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to Ishtar."
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Interestingly, the Melkite
Greek Catholic Church
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admits this about the
origin of the name Easter,
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but gives a slightly
different spelling from
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that of Ishtar: "The word
'Easter' comes from Old
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English and refers to
the Norse Goddess of
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Fertility, 'Istra'--who was
symbolized by a rabbit."
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Thus the connection between
Easter and rabbits,
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but why was Istra
symbolized by a rabbit?
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Historians confirm that
this goddess, spelled
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variously as Ishtar and
Istra, was known as the
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goddess of fertility, and
the rabbit is a well-known
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fertility symbol.
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The rabbit is not the only
fertility symbol passed
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down from antiquity.
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The Oxford Companion to
World Mythology explains
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this about Easter:
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"The holiday comes in the early Spring and is clearly
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related to ancient fertility myths of reborn heroes.
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For many, Easter is synonymous with fertility symbols such as
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the Easter Rabbit, Easter
eggs, and the Easter lily...."
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Now that's from our resource,
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which can be yours
free for the asking.
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In addition to blending
pagan customs and
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traditions into the
worship of the true God,
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contrary to God's command,
we find that even the part
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of Easter that supposedly
comes from the Bible
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is terribly flawed.
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Most people believe that
Jesus was crucified on a
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Friday, put in the tomb in
the late afternoon of that
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day, and then He rose
early Sunday morning.
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But is this what
the Bible tells us?
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After all, it is the
Bible that is the only
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source that can properly
answer this question;
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so what does it
actually say?
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Let's begin in
Matthew 12:38...
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"Then some of the scribes
and Pharisees answered,
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saying, "Teacher, we want
to see a sign from You."
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But He answered and said
to them, "An evil and
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adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign
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will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
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For as Jonah was three
days and three nights in
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the belly of the great fish,
so will the Son of Man be
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three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."
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Consider.
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Jesus said that no sign
will be given to that
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generation except for the
sign of Jonah: Jesus would
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be in the grave the exact
same length of time as
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Jonah was in the
belly of a great fish.
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And what was that time?
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Three days and
three nights.
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Now try as you might,
you cannot come up with
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three days and three nights
between Friday afternoon
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and Sunday morning.
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Even if you count parts
of days you still come up
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short, but let's try.
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Scripture tells us Jesus
was put in the tomb right
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at sunset, but some count
a few minutes on Friday
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before sunset as day one.
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Friday night would be
one night; the daylight
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portion of Saturday would
be the second day and
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Saturday night would
make the second night.
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Now if Jesus rose Sunday
morning after sunrise we
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might count that as day
three, but where is the
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third night?
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It just isn't there.
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So, we must conclude one
of three possibilities
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regarding the Good Friday/
Easter Sunday tradition:
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1. Jesus was wrong and
He is not our Savior
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2. The Good Friday/Easter
Sunday tradition is wrong
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Or, 3. We have not properly understood the sign Jesus gave
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It has to be one of these
three, so which is it?
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I'll answer that question in
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religious leaders of His
day who placed tradition
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over the Word of God.
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Is it any different today?
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Why is it dear friends,
that modern Christianity
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rejects clear statements of
Scripture, to perpetuate
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pagan traditions?
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Easter: The Untold Story
documents the sources for
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many of these traditions,
but more importantly
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proves from the Bible that
Jesus did fulfill the one
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sign that He said He would
give, proving that He truly
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to explain why the
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Good Friday/Easter Sunday
tradition does not square
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with the Bible, but how
the sign that Jesus said
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He would give does
square with the Bible.
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Welcome back.
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Prior to the break I
pointed out that the Good
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Friday crucifixion and
Easter Sunday resurrection
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does not fit the
scriptural record.
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Jesus said He would be
in the tomb three days
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and three nights.
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And try as you might,
you cannot come up
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with three days and
three nights between
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Friday afternoon and
Sunday morning.
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So, we must conclude one
of three possibilities
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regarding the Good Friday/
Easter Sunday tradition:
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1. Jesus was wrong and
He is not our Savior
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2. The Good Friday/Easter
Sunday tradition is wrong
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Or, 3. We have not properly
understood the sign Jesus gave
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So, which of these
three is correct?
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If Jesus was wrong, we
have a serious problem.
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But that is exactly
what one source claims.
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Have we properly
understood the sign?
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So let's read from Matthew
the twelfth chapter, and
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see what it says once again.
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"An evil and adulterous generation seeks after
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a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign
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of the prophet Jonah.
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For as Jonah was three
days and three nights in
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the belly of the great
fish, so will the Son of
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Man be three days and
three nights in the heart
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of the earth."
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Did Jesus literally mean three
days and three nights?
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As shocking as this may
be, The Abingdon Bible
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Commentary bluntly tells
us Jesus was mistaken:
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The statement made is inaccurate, for Jesus was
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in the grave only from Friday
evening to Sunday dawn.
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However, most commentators
do not accept the
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statement to be literal.
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Why?
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It's primarily because they
do not want to give up
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tradition and they need
to find a way to make
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the scriptures fit
their tradition.
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Instead they allege that
a day and night combined
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simply means a single 24
hour day and any part of
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a day is sufficient.
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However, we must remember
that Jesus' words were
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recorded in the Greek
language, and it may be
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true that the Greek expression
used in this verse means
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parts of three days, although
as I've just read,
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The Abingdon Bible Commentary rejects that idea.
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But, there is a
greater problem here.
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Matthew 12:40 is not dependent
on one language alone.
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More importantly, we must
remember what Jesus said
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in Matthew 12:40...
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"For as Jonah was three
days and three nights in
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the belly of the great
fish, so will the Son of
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Man be three days and
three nights in the
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heart of the earth."
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So how long was Jonah in
the belly of the fish?
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We learn from Jonah 1:17
the following:
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"And Jonah was in the belly
of the fish three days
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and three nights."
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The book of Jonah was written
in the Hebrew language,
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and we must look to that language and its common
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usage to understand
this expression.
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Appendix 144 in The
Companion Bible explores
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the meaning of three days and three nights in Hebrew usage.
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After giving a technical
explanation, it sums
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it up this way:
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Hence, when it says that
"Jonah was in the belly of
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the fish three days and
three nights" (Jonah 1:17)
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it means exactly what it says,
and that this can be the
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only meaning of the expression
in Matt. 12:40....
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Now this is the first reason
that we know that Jesus'
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claim means a full three
days and three nights.
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So Proof #1 is: The meaning
of Matthew 12:40 is not
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dependent on one
language alone.
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But there's a
second proof.
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Proof #2: 72 hours is the
only time that can satisfy
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all the statements that
Jesus made on how long He
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would be in the grave.
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Jesus spoke of His body
figuratively as "this temple."
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Notice it beginning
in John 2:19:
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"Destroy this temple, and in
three days I will raise it up.
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Then the Jews said, "It
has taken forty-six years
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to build this temple, and
will You raise it up
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in three days?"
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But He was speaking of
the temple of His body."
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In three days means that
it has to be within
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three days, but on other
occasions it is recorded
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that He would be resurrected
to life "after three days."
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Notice it in Mark 8:31...
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"And He began to teach them
that the Son of Man must
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suffer many things, and be
rejected by the elders and
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chief priests and scribes,
and be killed, and after
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three days rise again."
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Now following His resurrection,
He explained to His disciples
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what had happened and why.
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We read this in Luke 24:46...
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Then He said to them,
"Thus it is written, and
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thus it was necessary for
the Christ to suffer and
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to rise from the dead
the third day...."
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So here we have three
different expressions that
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help us understand how
long He was in the tomb:
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"In three days"
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"After three days"
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"The third day"
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When we put these
expressions together
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with The Companion Bible's
explanation about the meaning
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of three days and three
nights, there can be only
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one time that fits all four expressions--exactly 72 hours;
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not a minute before
or a minute after.
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The time is exact.
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But there's a third proof
that He would be in the
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tomb a full three days and
three nights, and that is:
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#3: The biblical
chronology of events.
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And this dear friends is
what I consider the most
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exciting and definitive
statement on the subject.
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You can't get around it;
yet, it's something few
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people understand.
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And one reason for that is because most professing
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Christians have rejected the Festivals and Holy Days
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that are found in the Bible
and have substituted
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pagan traditions.
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I'll explain exactly what
I mean after a short
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15 second break to let
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Why is it that most assume
that Jesus was crucified
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on Friday?
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The truth is that many
have no idea, other than
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that is what they have
been taught, but for those
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who know a little more
about the Bible, they're
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familiar with the fact
that He was crucified
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on the day leading
up to a Sabbath.
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For example, we have
Luke's statement in
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chapter 23, beginning
verse 52 where it
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describes how Joseph of
Arimathea buried Jesus:
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"This man went to Pilate and
asked for the body of Jesus.
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Then he took it down,
wrapped it in linen, and
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laid it in a tomb that
was hewn out of the rock,
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where no one had
ever lain before.
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That day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew near."
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As all students of the
Bible know, the biblical
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Sabbath begins at sunset
on Friday and ends at
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sunset on Saturday.
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And so it would appear
therefore that Jesus was
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crucified on Friday morning and
put in the grave very late
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Friday afternoon, but are
we missing something?
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Many errors that we make
are the result of a
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carelessly assumed false
assumption and this is the
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case on this subject.
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There's no doubt that
Jesus was crucified on
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the Preparation day for
a Sabbath, but the
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carelessly assumed
assumption is that it
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was the weekly Sabbath.
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But was it?
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What many call the Lord's
supper, or the last supper,
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was in fact the Passover.
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There can be no doubt
about this, although
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some scholars try
to say otherwise.
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But Matthew, Mark, and
Luke all call Jesus'
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final supper with His
disciples, the Passover.
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Let's just take a look at one
of them, take a look at Luke's
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account, beginning in
chapter 22 and verse 7:
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"Then came the Day
of Unleavened Bread,
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when the Passover
must be killed.
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And He sent Peter
and John, saying,
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"Go and prepare the Passover
for us, that we may eat."
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So they said to Him, "Where
do You want us to prepare?"
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And He said to them,
"Behold, when you have
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entered the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitcher
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of water; follow him into
the house which he enters.
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Then you shall say to the
master of the house,
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'The Teacher says to you,
"Where is the guest room
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where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?"'
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So they went and found
it just as He had said
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to them, and they
prepared the Passover.
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When the hour had come,
He sat down, and the
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twelve apostles with Him.
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Then He said to them,
"With fervent desire I have
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desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer."
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Can there be any doubt
that the last supper was
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indeed the Passover?
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The Passover was a very
special day, but it was
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not a Sabbath day.
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However, the day that follows the Passover is a Sabbath day.
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Notice this from
Leviticus 23:
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"On the fourteenth day
of the first month at
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twilight is the
LORD's Passover.
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And on the fifteenth day
of the same month is the
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Feast of Unleavened
Bread to the LORD.
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On the first day you shall
have a holy convocation;
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you shall do no customary
work on it."
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We know from this that the
day following the Passover
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was a high day, an annual
Sabbath day where
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customary work was
not to be done.
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Remember that God counts
time from sunset to sunset.
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Jesus kept the Passover
with His disciples at the
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beginning of the Passover
day [shortly after sunset],
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He was then put in the grave
at the end of Passover day,
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just before sunset.
21:11.703 --> 21:15.240
When the sun set that
evening, it was the first
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day of Unleavened Bread,
an annual High Day Sabbath;
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and this is exactly what
the Apostle John reveals
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in John 19:31:
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"Therefore, because it
was the Preparation Day,
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that the bodies should not
remain on the cross on the
21:32.724 --> 21:37.663
Sabbath [and note this] (for that Sabbath was a high day),
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the Jews asked Pilate that
their legs might be broken,
21:41.133 --> 21:43.635
and that they might
be taken away."
21:43.702 --> 21:45.904
Why is this not
generally known?
21:45.971 --> 21:49.675
Why is it that you have likely never heard this in today's
21:49.741 --> 21:51.843
professing Christianity?
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Some try to equate the
"high day" as meaning that
21:55.480 --> 21:58.116
the weekly Sabbath was
a double Sabbath--
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both the weekly Sabbath
and the annual Sabbath
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beginning the Feast
of Unleavened Bread.
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However, there's a huge
problem with this, and
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I'll explain what that
is in the last portion
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of today's program.
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22:56.208 --> 22:57.576
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Before the break I said
that I would show you from
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the Bible itself that the
crucifixion/resurrection
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account includes two
Sabbaths that week.
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But let me review John 19:31 once again as it is
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critical to understanding:
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"Therefore, because it
was the Preparation Day,
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that the bodies should not
remain on the cross on the
24:20.926 --> 24:25.463
Sabbath (for that Sabbath
was a high day), the Jews
24:25.530 --> 24:28.400
asked Pilate that their
legs might be broken,
24:28.466 --> 24:30.869
and that they might
be taken away."
24:30.936 --> 24:34.172
And as explained, the high
day was an annual Sabbath,
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not the weekly Sabbath.
24:36.074 --> 24:41.146
Now let's notice
Mark 16:1.
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"Now when the Sabbath was
past, [notice that it was
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after the Sabbath] Mary
Magdalene, Mary the mother
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of James, and Salome
bought spices, that they
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might come and anoint Him."
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But Luke 23:54-56 tells us
they prepared the spices
25:00.131 --> 25:03.535
and then rested
on the Sabbath.
25:03.602 --> 25:06.071
"That day was the
Preparation, and the
25:06.137 --> 25:07.672
Sabbath drew near.
25:07.739 --> 25:10.675
And the women who had
come with Him from Galilee
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followed after, and they
observed the tomb and how
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His body was laid.
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Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils.
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And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment."
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Now think about it,
dear friends.
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You cannot prepare the spices before you possess them.
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Mark tells us that the
Sabbath (in this case
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the annual Sabbath)
was almost there.
25:36.401 --> 25:38.904
Therefore, they had to
wait until after that
25:38.970 --> 25:41.273
Sabbath to buy the spices.
25:41.339 --> 25:45.243
But then Luke tells us they
prepared them and rested on
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the Sabbath [in this case,
it was the weekly Sabbath].
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These two passages give
infallible proof that
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there were two Sabbaths
that week with an ordinary
25:55.387 --> 25:57.022
day in between.
25:57.088 --> 25:59.958
This is the only way to
understand these verses.
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Either there were two
Sabbaths, with an ordinary
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day in between, or the
Bible contradicts itself.
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Now let me diagram
this for you.
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Jesus kept the Passover
with His disciples after
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sunset on Tuesday evening.
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He was taken into custody
later that night and
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crucified on Wednesday.
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He was put in the tomb
right before sunset,
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late Wednesday afternoon.
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Now let's count three
days and three nights.
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Wednesday at sunset began
the annual high day
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Sabbath and Wednesday night
was the first night.
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The daylight portion of
Thursday was still the
26:41.232 --> 26:45.270
annual High Day Sabbath
and was the first day.
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The Sabbath ended at sunset.
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And it was on this day
between the two Sabbaths
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that the women bought and
prepared the spices.
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Thursday night is our second night and the daylight
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portion of Friday is our
second day, an ordinary day.
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When the sun set Friday afternoon the weekly
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Sabbath began.
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Friday night is our third night and Saturday is our third day.
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And Jesus was raised from
the grave late Saturday
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afternoon (right before
sunset), but the women
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did not come until early
the next morning (what is
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commonly called Sunday)
and when they arrived,
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He was already gone.
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