Eric did not eject from the plane. His remains were identified earlier this week. He was 30 years old. Please pray for his parents and his 2 sisters. His wife Nikki is with the family now. Please also pray for her.
Thank the Lord that Eric was a strong Christian and is in Heaven with his Lord and Savior.
Even though we know that war can be fatal we are in shock...but he was doing what he loved to do and was with his wife.
FYI ... his wife was also in Iraq during this war.
Thank you all for your prayers.
Cindy, don't feel obligated to read or comment on this post, I just wanted to refresh in my mind some of the things I had learned years ago, and I used your post to practice on.
Your right, another thing, they had two different ways of keeping time back then.
One was called a solar day, and the other was civil time.
The Jews observed their holy days and Sabbaths by the setting of the sun, but it was not accurate enough for keeping civil and legal time daily, since every day the sun sets and rises earlier or later.
They had all apparently agreed on a standard time to call evening, say 6PM.
Every day of the week they called 6PM evening when it came to working or hiring labor, but on holy days, the went by the actual sunset.
The evening Jesus was placed in the tomb was a Jewish high holy day sabbath, so they used the sunset to tell them when they had to be finished with the body.
The problem is, when scripture says Lk 23:54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on. They were being rushed to finish up and get home before the Sabbath, but we don't know which time they were following, the civil time, or the solar setting of the sun.
It could have vaeried from minutes to a half an hour or more between them, or both evenings could have been almost identical that day.
The reason I mention this, is because no one can know the exact minute Jesus was placed in the heart of the earth.
If the scripture is rekonong time, by the civil clock, then it was by that time we are told when He was first put on the cross, and what time he died, and in that case He was buried under civil time.
If he was buried at 6PM civil time, the Jewish Sabbath may not have began for up to a half an hour afterwards.
All this is to show you there is no way for us to know the exact time, only that it was still the Sabbath either way, when he was placed into the Sepulchre, so it would have had to be the Sabbath when He rose.
JH :-)