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Dear friend, maybe you were raised to believe - as I was and as many evangelical Christian denominations teach - that Jesus (our Lamb and Savior) was crucified on Good Friday. If one does the math... Friday can never work (see charts below). The "Sign of the prophet Jonah" states it all; The ONLY sign that the Lord would give to the Messiah rejecting leadership of Israel and nation was the sign of the most rejected event and individual of the Bible, Jonah and the whale (Jonah 1:17). "Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master,...

Dear friend, maybe you were raised to believe - as I was - that Jesus (our Lamb and Savior) was crucified on Good Friday. If one does the math... Friday can never work (see charts below). The "Sign of the prophet Jonah" states it all; The ONLY sign that the Lord would give to the Messiah rejecting leadership of Israel and nation was the sign of the most rejected event and individual of the Bible, Jonah and the whale (Jonah 1:17). "Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee....

The tradition of man teaches that Jesus was crucified on "Good Friday" and arose from the grave Sunday morning. The "Good Friday" principle does not allow for Jesus to be in the grave for "Three days and three nights" as he himself said he would be. Jesus said, "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whales belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" (Matt.12:40). Our Lord was precise, “Three days and three nights", 72 hours. If Jesus died on the cross on a Friday...