[h=3]The Resurrection of Christ NOT on Sunday[/h]It has been taught for centuries that Christ was crucified on "Good Friday", laid in the tomb just before sunset, and that he arose very early on "Easter Sunday Morning". Tradition has so firmly planted that belief into the minds of most Christians that it is generally taken for a fact without serious investigation. This THEORY, although believed by many honest-hearted people, makes Jesus' only prophetic sign untrue.
[h=3]Christ's Only Sign[/h]When asked by certain Scribes and Pharisees for a sign as proof of his being the Christ, He said, "there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas (Jonah): For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth (or tomb) - Matthew 12:39-40". Other scriptural references are made up of this same sign. The Scribes and Pharisees, themselves, remembered it after his resurrection, and they understood it to refer to the tomb. (Matthew 27:62-64) Paul speaks of the tomb as the lower parts of the earth. (Ephesians 4:9) How can anyone get three days and three nights from Friday just before sunset to Sunday at sunrise? Two nights and one day is the best that can be done with that tradition.
Matthew 12:39-40
39. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
40. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
[h=3]Christ's Only Sign[/h]When asked by certain Scribes and Pharisees for a sign as proof of his being the Christ, He said, "there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas (Jonah): For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth (or tomb) - Matthew 12:39-40". Other scriptural references are made up of this same sign. The Scribes and Pharisees, themselves, remembered it after his resurrection, and they understood it to refer to the tomb. (Matthew 27:62-64) Paul speaks of the tomb as the lower parts of the earth. (Ephesians 4:9) How can anyone get three days and three nights from Friday just before sunset to Sunday at sunrise? Two nights and one day is the best that can be done with that tradition.
Matthew 12:39-40
39. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
40. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.