Per Arlene:

Resurrection Day Was NOT on Sunday....Proof!

Matthew 12:40 (KJV)..."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."

The "three days and three nights" are literal 24-hour time periods and they begin on Tuesday night, the first betrayal by Judas (2 days before the Passover) and end on Friday night.
Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday night = 3 nights.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday = 3 days.

Jesus was NOT dead during that time (heart of the earth), just as Jonah was not dead during his 3 days and 3 nights in the whale's belly. Jesus was in the "heart of the earth" (surrounded by the inhabitants of the earth, unable to escape), because His doom was set!

4) He died at 3:00 P.M. Friday afternoon, was placed in the tomb BEFORE sundown, but was resurrected immediately AFTER sundown at the very beginning of the 7th day Sabbath (Friday evening to Saturday am).

(By the way, God didn't need the angels to roll away the stone for His resurrection, but humans needed that to happen so they could look in and see that Jesus was gone.)



Was Jesus REALLY Resurrected on Sunday?
Lorraine Day, M.D.

Introduction:

Most of Christendom believes that Jesus was crucified on Friday and resurrected on Sunday, the first day of the week. But if that is true, as most of us have been taught, there are some serious problems with the words of Jesus, Himself, in His prophecies regarding His betrayal, death and resurrection.

If you examine the original Greek in the Greek/English Interlinear translation of the Bible, available from any Christian book store, you will find that the morning the women came to Jesus' tomb and found it empty was "Sabbaton," in the Greek, or Saturday the Seventh-Day Sabbath, in English --- NOT Sunday, the first day of the week, even though that is the incorrect way it has been translated.

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Jesus did NOT use this word in describing where He would be for the three days and three nights. He said He would be in the "HEART OF THE EARTH." The Greek word "heart" (#2588 in Strong's Concordance) is kardia, similar to the English word for heart: cardia or cardiac. It means heart, center or middle. In the phrase "heart of the earth," "earth" #1093 in Strong's Concordance is the Greek word "ge" which means "soil" OR can also "include the occupants of the earth."

If Jesus wanted to tell us that He would be in the grave for three days and three nights, why didn't he use the word "grave?" It certainly was in His vocabulary because He used it at two other times, when that's what He wanted to say. But HERE, concerning His betrayal, death and resurrection, He chooses NOT to use the word "grave" (the Greek word "mnemeion"), and instead uses the phrase "heart of the earth."

We must assume he had a reason for using the different wording. Could this be the key to unlock the meaning of this prophecy?

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PROBLEM 5: The counting of days in the Bible regarding Jesus' resurrection always starts with Jesus' betrayal!

Christians ALWAYS begin counting the "three days and three nights" at the time of the crucifixion. But Jesus STARTS HIS COUNTING of the "three days AND three nights" with HIS BETRAYAL!

See Matt. 17:22,23

Jesus said unto them, "The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: And they shall kill Him, and the third day He shall be raised again."

See Matt. 20:18,19

"Behold we go up to Jerusalem: and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn Him to death. And shall deliver Him to the Nations to mock and scourge and to crucify Him; and the third day He shall rise again."

Here it is: betrayed, delivered, mocked, scourged ---- then crucified. This whole sequence of events STARTED with His BETRAYAL!

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So, let's look at when Jesus was FIRST betrayed! Most people look to the evening of the Last Supper (The Passover) presumably, Thursday night, as the time when Judas first betrayed Jesus. But it actually happened earlier ---

In Matt. 26:1-16 there is the account of Jesus attending a meal at the house of Simon the leper in Bethany (vs. 6). A woman poured a costly fragrant oil on His head as an anointing "for His burial." His disciples were indignant about the "waste" and said the oil should have been sold and the proceeds "given to the poor." But Jesus commended what the woman had done and kindly rebuked the disciples for their lack of understanding about His coming death.

Verse 14 says "THEN, one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot went unto the chief priests and said unto them, "What will you give me, and I will deliver Him unto you? And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver." --- Here is the initial betrayal!

Now let's consider just WHEN that dinner was. In verse 2 of the same chapter (Matt. 26) it gives us the answer. Jesus said, "Ye know that after two days is the feast of the Passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified."

So it was TWO DAYS until the Passover. When was the Passover? Well, Jesus ate the Passover meal on the night BEFORE His crucifixion. See Matt. 26:17-21
Judas completed the betrayal of Jesus after the Thursday night Passover meal. (John 13:21-30)

As you read on, you will see that Jesus was crucified the following day.

So if the Last Supper (Passover) was on Thursday night, then the dinner at Simon the Leper's house was on Tuesday night -- two full 24-hour days before!

They have decided that the resurrection of Jesus was on the first day of the week because TRADITION supports it. So they have used drastic linguistic gymnastics to translate it that way. But the Bible clearly states that the resurrection was on Sabbath, NOT the first day of the week.

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NOW LET'S PUT IT ALL TOGETHER!
1) The "three days and three nights" are literal 24-hour time periods and they begin on Tuesday night, the first betrayal by Judas (2 days before the Passover) and end on Friday night.
Tuesday night [First betrayal by Judas at Simon's home], Wednesday night [captured and arrested], Thursday night [unable to escape, beaten and tortured] = 3 nights.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday [Crucified and died before sundown] = 3 days.
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The Bible tells us in detail the events (and times) of the events surrounding the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. All one has to do is to read and study the Bible as we were told to do in 2 Timothy 2:15....or you WILL be ashamed when you face our Lord and Saviour:

"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."

Is the TRUTH of Christ's Resurrection Day going to be one that you will be asked when facing Yahweh? What will YOU tell Him about what you have studied?? [Your Pastor is not responsible for you knowing truth, but he/she will pay for wrong information given to the "Flock".]