Good Site and Good Info

With Easter and Good Friday right around the corner - you should

question how one gets 3 days and 3 nights out of 1 1/2 days!!! With

all the Easter Eggs and Bunnies - one should also question how all

that happened! Could it be Pagan????

http://www.rapturechrist.com/did_christ_die_on_friday.htm

THIS SEEMS TO BE A VERY GOOD SITE. I have no idea what religion this is.

Did Christ Die on Friday?

Some Christians believe that Christ died on a Friday because the next

day after His crucifixion was a Sabbath. But this Sabbath was not a

weekly Sabbath, it was an annual Sabbath. See Jewish Holy Days.

The problem with the "Friday burial hypothesis" is that the length of

time from Friday evening to Sunday morning is not 72 hours (3 days

and 3 nights); it is only 1 1/2 days.

Jesus on the road to Calvary

There are not 3 full nights, but only one night -- Saturday--, and

part of another night -- "Friday". There are not 3 full days, but

only one day --Saturday; and we cannot count any daylight hours of

Sunday because Yeshua/Jesus was already resurrected before daybreak

of Sunday.

John 20:1 "To the first of Sabbaths Mary Magdalene came to the

memorial tomb early, while there was STILL DARKNESS, and she beheld

the stone already taken away from the memorial tomb."

So we can not count any daylight hours of Sunday, and we cannot count

any daylight hours of "Friday" either because Christ's burial

FINISHED in the predawn hours of Nisan 15 -- the day after His

crucifixion.

If you are wondering why the text says "First of Sabbaths" instead of

"First day of the week," read both: Two Sabbaths and The

Resurrection.

We need to have exactly 3 days and 3 nights between Yeshua's BURIAL

and His RESURRECTION, because Jesus said that He would be buried "in

the heart of the Earth" for 3 days and 3 nights.

Matthew 12:40 "..the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth

three days and three nights."

This is the sign of Jonah, the only sign Yeshua/Jesus gave to identify

Him as the true messiah.