Msg#1613 After Three Days and Three Nights
What The Bible Says
Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice
Easter was converted to Christianity. It used to be connected to the Roman worship of solar equinox (December 25 to the Roman worship of the solar solstice). Easter is now connected with the Hebrew calendar, always being the first Sunday after the Jewish Passover. It was on the Passover, 1,987 years ago, that Romans crucified our Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible student knows that Christ’s crucifixion was on the preparation day and that the day following was a High Sabbath Day, beginning the Feast of Unleavened Bread (John 19:31). It is unfortunate that unstudied Romans called that Friday “good”, and unwitting Protestants called that Thursday “Maundy.” The Romans still mislead millions about the events of the week and the three days and three nights Christ spent in the heart of the earth (Matt 12:40). Two Sabbath Days, back to back, is not uncommon in a Hebrew calendar. On this fateful occasion they kept the women from attending to the body of Jesus for the three day and three night promise of God. In God’s providence they came to the tomb after the third day, on the first day of the week, and there they found that Christ was resurrected, just as he said. We celebrate the miraculous fulfillment of the Messiah’s promise, that after three days and three nights in the tomb Christ would raise victorious over death. The Jews started the rumor that disciples stole the body away; Romans rumored that Jesus only spent a day and a half in the tomb. The truth can set you free; free from religion, free from false teachings, and free to believe every word of God’s Holy Bible. If ever the Bible student should defy the traditions of man and rely completely on God’s Word, it should be for His resurrection.
An Essay for week #13 Mar 27, 16
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