Post by davewatchman on Apr 15, 2023 5:35:04 GMT -6
BTW, while off topic, if the count started on Thursday night, then it would include that night, Thursday day, Friday night, Friday day, Saturday night, Saturday day, Sunday night and possibly early Sunday day.
I was also looking at a couple really good articles on this where the authors had various ideas on that "heart of the earth" phase Jesus coined.
That above sea level tomb they sealed Jesus in would hardly qualify as the "heart of the earth".
The image came from this page: www.talkgenesis.org/heart-of-the-earth/
Even the angels in Luke 24 include Jesus' delivery into the hands of sinners in the three days timing.
The women were met, instead, by Angels who reminded them Jesus rose, just as he said, on the third day.
Luke 24:5 …“Why do you look for the living among the dead? 6 He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 7 ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ”
Luke 24:5 …“Why do you look for the living among the dead? 6 He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 7 ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ”
Luke adds more details through Cleopas who spoke to Jesus (unaware) on Sunday (the first day of the week) on his journey to Emmaus. The passage below confirms that Sunday was the third day.
Luke 24:20 The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; 21 but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.
Luke 24:20 The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; 21 but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.
A Heartfelt Conclusion
At issue is whether Matthew’s comparison drawn between Jonah and the Son of Man is a basically incoherent statement requiring extraordinary deference and excuse, or a straightforward, sensible remark however culturally distant it may be from modern readers. I argue for the latter.
Matthew’s reference to “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” as an ordeal for the Son of Man is therefore not a stressed synecdoche, nor a cryptic chronology, nor a mismatched metaphor. It is a summation of events involving Jesus in Jerusalem from Thursday evening to Sunday morning. Although draped in biblical prose, it recalls a historical memory about the suffering of Jesus. As Jonah spent three days and three nights of suffering inside the great fish, so Jesus spent a final three days and three nights of suffering in Jerusalem, that place known in biblical and extrabiblical tradition as the “middle,” “center,” “navel,” or “heart” of the earth.
I still feel like we're in the timing for this, these 40 days, are happening up to Ascension Day when this same Jesus will return in like manner as the men of Galilee had seen Him go.
Peaceful Sabbath.
