"My God my God, why have you forsaken Me......
a reproach of men, and despised of the people. All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake their head, saying: He trusted on the Lord that He would deliver him, seeing as he delighted in Him.....They opened their mouths against me, as a ravening and roaring lion.....For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.....they parted my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.....I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint....I may tell all my bones: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels...." From parts of Psalm 22.
A Psalm of David yes, but indeed prophecies of the Messiah's first coming and being led as a lamb to the slaughter.
Some parts like "I may tell all my bones....all my bones are out of joint" are "general statements" (the Bible uses general statements as often we today do - there is a full study on my website called "Key of the Bible - General Statements" which you need to study and learn the truth of). There are 26 bones in the foot alone, was everyone of them out of joint? Well of course not. If every single bone of Jesus was out of joint how then did to walk to where they crucified Him? But certainly through the beating and scourging He was given before His crucifixion MANY of His bones were out of joint and broken through His torn skin.
God the Father had to step back just before Jesus died, for Jesus had to take the sins of the world upon Himself in His death and shed blood. The Father had to step aside from all those sins - all of our sins - all of yours and my sins, and all the sins of everyone in human history that will accept Jesus Christ as PERSONAL Savior.
Jesus did DIE!! Yes FULLY AND COMPLETELY dead. He literally did not exist - for 3 days and 3 night, for 72 hours Christ did not exist. In all eternity past and future there is a period of 72 hours when Jesus the anointed Messiah DID NOT EXIST!! He had to put His entire FAITH in the Father to RAISE HIM FROM THE DEAD!
I have explained it in detail in "The New Testament Bible Story" (the last chapters of the Gospels) but I will go over it briefly again here.
The events of Jesus' death were so powerful, so mighty.....there was darkness from about noon till his death. At His death the Temple curtain separating the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place was ripped in two. There would have been an immediate STOP to any sacrificing being done in the Temple, if not before because of the darkness over and around Jerusalem. The priests in the Temple would have been in absolute chaos, and they certainly could have not cared one iota about this Jesus hanging outside Jerusalem on a Roman cross. Jesus' disciples were in utter SHOCK and DISMAY, in unbelief for they simply did not understand what was going on and why Jesus was dead on a cross. There were a few of Jesus' loyal women followers staying by Him, also wondering but caring enough to stand by Him through it all, and for a while after His death.
We find in the Gospels EVENING had come, and in a full in-depth study on my website I prove that the New Testament INTERPRETS itself to show that "evening" as used in the NT can not be before 6 pm.
It is then that the Gospels tell you about Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus coming before Pilate and asking for the body of Christ. The Romans could have care less how long those bodies of the three crucified that day, stayed on the stakes. The Romans had "washed their hands" of the matter, and allowed the demented (probably demon influenced) Jews to have their way, and to crucify Jesus.
Jesus disciples were not rushing to take down the body of Jesus, they were all scattered and in bewilderment as to everything that had happened that day.
Are you getting the picture? Do you see the situation of just about every person in and around Jerusalem. It was EVENING (see Mark 15:42 - Greek "aorist tense" for "was come" - action done in the past) before these two men came to Pilate and asked for the body of Christ. Now the rest of the story is as found in Luke 23:54. Most have completely missed it. Notice..."....and sabbath drew on." What most have missed is that the words "drew on" in the Greek are in the IMPERFECT tense, and the "imperfect" tense in NT Greek is action already under way but continuing!!
The Sabbath of the 15th day of the first month, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread HAD ALREADY COME AND WAS CONTINUING!! This is when Joseph and Nicodemus came to Pilate!!
It took some time then to take Jesus' body down from the cross and put Him in the tomb of Joseph.
So it was AFTER SUNSET when Jesus was placed in the tomb!!
And it was 72 hours later - 3 days and 3 night - that Jesus was RESURRECTED - which put His resurrection on a SATURDAY EVENING - after the weekly Sabbath - Jesus RESTED, was still resting for the entire weekly Sabbath of that Passover week (being killed on a cross on Wednesday). And it was AFTER the rest of the Sabbath that Jesus was resurrected!
This all fits in with the typology of the cutting of the wave sheaf as practiced by the Sadducees of the Temple (not the Pharisees, they had it all messed up and their practice was theologically wrong). The Sadducees cut the wave sheaf AFTER the weekly Sabbath had ended, and then prepared it to be offered in the Temple on the 1st day of the week - Sunday morning.
Jesus was the first of the first-fruits (1 Cor.15) - the wave sheaf. Remember Jesus told Mary that Sunday morning "Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father...."(John 20:17). Not long after He appeared to some disciples and they were able to touch Him. Jesus had to ascend to the Father that morning to be officially accepted as the first of the firstfruits.
The typology is FULLY IN SINK - just hand in glove- perfect fit!
Jesus was raised on the FIRST DAY of the week, but at the BEGINNING of that first day (as God starts days) - what we call today Saturday evening.
Now we begin to see WHY by the end of the first century and into the second century A.D. the apostate church coming from within the true church of God, was able, with a few more twists to start to teach and claim God had moved the holy weekly Sabbath day from the 7th day to the 1st day of the week, and claim they were observing the first day of the week as it was on the first day that Jesus was RESURRECTED!!
Oh the cleverness of the slight of hand and DECEPTIONS of Satan the Devil!
As I've mentioned all this and more is expounded upon in my "New Testament Bible Story" - the last chapters of the Gospels.
Jesus was raised from the dead, raised to IMMORTAL GLORIFIED ETERNAL LIFE, and before He ascended back to heaven to be on the Father's right hand, He gave instructions to His followers for all time, until He returned once more to receive the Kingdom promised Him.
"GO you therefore, and TEACH ALL NATIONS, baptizing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. TEACHING them to OBSERVE ALL THINGS whatsoever I have COMMANDED you: and lo, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, even to the end of the age" (Matthew 28:19-20).
Jesus' true disciples are still doing TODAY the work He told us to do, right up to the end of this age.
So it is written and so it shall be done!
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