Our Savior spoke in Parables... yet for one time, the sign of Jonah, He is a literalist?
I actually believe Our Savior was the Word (Torah) that became flesh...I hope others do to..
I think Leviticus 23 tells us exactly what happened and no way to get three days and three nights with Leviticus 23..
And the book of Jonah tells us a sign...
What happened to Ninevah and what happened to Jerusalem is a sign..one city listenws to the prophet and repented and was saved.. one city did not...
And then, we have the added fact that for the first time, ever, the Savior was ‘swallowed’ up into the betraying hands of sinners, from that first night of gethsamane to the tomb...
He had three days and three nights of being punished for sins, who knew no sin- out of Our Heavenly Father’s loving, protecting hands for the first time. Ever..
I think Jonah’s prayer is a powerful description of being cast out from God..
Then there is some that see that Jonah preached for three days in Ninevah.. and some count three days of preaching repentance in Jerusalem for Messiah..
So I see at least three ways to look at the sign of Jonah that has nothing to do with a literal three days and three nights in a tomb..
He couldn’t be the passover lamb and first fruits with three days/nights I tomb.
Not with God’s calendar and feasts set in Leviticus.
14th- lamb slain, passover
15th- sabbath ( a high one for it was the feast of unleveaned bread
16th- first day of the week- feast of first fruits..
Our savior really was the Word ( includes Leviticus) that became flesh.
Kind of silly for any of us to proclaim the messiah of Israel as the Word that became flesh and say He fulfilled the feasts- but then ignore what the Word says..
I think the Gregorian calendar is a major part of the delusion...
Makes me want to apologize to the Jewish folks who try to reconcile God’s feasts with December 25th and Easter..
It’s almost like Christianity has a substitute Messiah..
Yeshua was not in the tomb for any part of First Fruits.
He arose as the sun was setting on the regular Sabbath.
There was a regular day between Passover, and the regular weekly sabbath, the 6th day of the week separated them.