It is vital we understand that Christ rose “on the third day”, and not that he rose “after 3 full days”.
A day is 24 hours long. To rise on the third day could mean as little as 25 hours, not necessarily 36 hours.
So assume as conventionally taught that Christ died on Friday at 3 pm and rose on the third day.
So at 3 PM, Christ dies at the close of the first day, Friday. At sundown on Friday, be that 4 PM or whenever, that begins the second day, which ends at Sundown on Saturday. The third day begins Saturday at sundown, and ends Sunday at sundown. So Christ could have arisen anytime from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon, and he would have arisen “on the third day.
Friday is not day zero, it is day one. Christ did not rise “three days later”, he arose “on the third day, “which is as little as 2 days and one second later.”
What am I missing here?
To say Christ died on a Wednesday is to say that he had to have let three full days pass before he arose. And that is not what the bible says. It says “on the third day” not “after three days.
Dying on day 1 Friday at 3 PM, being in a dead state all day 2 from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown, and then rising “on the third day”, any time between Saturday sundown and Sunday sundown.
What am I missing here? I’m not seeing it.
Balderdash! - That is exactly what the word demands.
That is precisely what Yeshua meant when he referenced “The Sign of the Prophet Jonah.”
Yeshua was indeed crucified on Rome's “wednesday” afternoon, and definitely arose as the sun set on Rome's “saturday.”
All things happen on Yehova’s time, and his days are from sunset to sunset.
What you have been taught is lies from start to finish.
Yeshua was in the tomb for 3 24 hour Biblical days.
Where the bible says that the disciples “came together on the First Day of the week,” it means that they gathered at sunset on “Saturday” for Havdalah, a tradition that had been followed for centuries,and it had absolutely nothing to do with “Sunday.”
This is what you, and everyone else that has scratched their head on this have missed.
This confusion is what Jeremiah spoke of to The House of Judah:
Jeremiah 16:19
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
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