ACCURATE
BIBLE KNOWLEDGE!
QUESTION: “
ANSWER:
Wednesday
EXPLANATION:
Christ
knew the story of Jonah to be 100%
historical and fact.
These were
three
full days and three full nights!
“But he (Jesus) 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.” (Matthew 12:39-40)
The THREE
FULL DAYS are Thursday,
Friday, Saturday
The THREE
FULL NIGHTS are Wednesday
night, Thursday night, Friday night.
Darkness
reigned for 3 hours from midday to 3pm
on the Wednesday (6th – 9th hour)
Christ
rose just after 6pm on Saturday night
when the Jewish Sabbath finished.
Christ
rose on the Sunday – the 8th
day of the week, that is, just after 6pm on Saturday.
The fulfillment
of the law was
accomplished on the completion of the 7th day, the Sabbath,
with
Christ saying “…It is finished…” (Jn 19:30) . “I have
fulfilled the law
and it is finished. My life on earth as the Son of man is finished. I
have
fulfilled the task my Father gave me!”
1. The
following day after Wednesday, was a special
Sabbath.
2. Certain
days of the Jewish week were
called special Sabbaths.
3.
Furthermore, the Wednesday was the day
of the Jewish Passover when all over Jerusalem, lambs were being
sacrificed
in the afternoon at their Passover.
God
saw that it was absolutely fitting, for
the Jew, and the Christian, that “…Christ our passover …” (1Cor 5:7)
was
also being sacrificed around 3pm on that day. Lambs all over Israel
were also
being sacrificed at that time on Wednesday afternoon.
No! Chalk
and cheese! God’s wrath, although passing
over Israel (Ex 12:13), they only had their sins covered
(Rom
4:7). God’s wrath not only passes over the Christian (Rom 5:9; 1Thess
5:9), but
God has washed away his sins with the blood of the Lamb (Rev
1:5; Rom
8:2). For the Jew it was temporary salvation. For the Christian it is
eternal
security.
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Harley Hitchcock
www.
AustralianBibleMinistries
.com