Posted on 06/13/2016 7:01:00 AM PDT by Salvation
I've never heard anyone advocate that. It still doesn't solve the main difficulty the Wednesday advocates feel the need to solve (3 days and 3 nights), and I'm not sure how the sabbaths would line up with the biblical narrative. Is this just something you came up with or is there scholarly work behind it that you can point me to? (PM would probably be best to discontinue the thread hijack.)
You’ll get FReepmail.
It’s most likely there just happened to be two other crucifixions on the schedule that day.
John 2:19 Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
Yeshua makes two similar statements in Matthew 12 & 16
Matthew 12:8 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”
39 But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 13:1 On the same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea. 2 And great multitudes were gathered together to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
Matthew 16:1 Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing Him asked that He would show them a sign from heaven. 2 He answered and said to them, “When it is evening you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red’; 3 and in the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times. 4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” And He left them and departed.
Notice in Matthew 16 there’s no mention of ‘three days and nights’, that’s because there are three days and three nights between these two statements!
So will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
The ‘heart’ of the earth is the region of Galilee not the grave.
So what’s the ‘sign of the prophet Yonah? Glad you asked...
2 Kings 14:25 25 He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Dead Sea, in accordance with the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.
The restored borders of Israel, 1967
So who are the wicked and adulterous? Aren't they the same group? Never mind...
Now onto Why Was Christ Crucified Between Two Thieves?
Check out the Kabbalah Tree of Life
Yeshua in the center is represented as Tiferet, Beauty, also Rachamim, Compassion
The thief on the right received Chesed, Loving Kindness, Mercy, also Gedulah, Greatness
The left, ouch Gevurah, Strength, also Din, Judgment, and Pachad, Fear
http://www.digital-brilliance.com/themes/tol.php
This is very good!
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