Why do you think Jesus rose on the third day and not like on the fourth or fifth?
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I think it was simply a practical matter.  3 days so nobody could deny he was really dead.  But soon enough to not let the disciples disappear.\nIt's true many things seem to happen in 3's, and in 7's, and in 40's and in 10's.   They are considered to be numbers of completion or perfection.
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It's true that scripture says that we know not the day nor the hour, but God has given us signs and wonders of the time of His coming. He said that He was coming as a theif in the night...but do you really think He would leave His church, His bride unaware, unarmed, unknowing, unprepared about His coming? No! Here are a few of Christ's words to His diciples when he communed with them on Mount of Olives.  They were asking the same question we are pondering now...when will be His second coming???\n\n"And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you, for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.  And yea shall hear of wars and rumors of wars:  see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.  For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places.  All these are the beginning of sorrows.  Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.  And then shall many be offended and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.  And many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many.  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.  But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.  And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.  When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)Then let them which be in Judea flea into the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.  And woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!  But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day:    For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.  Matt: 24:4-21 \n\nThese scriptures talk about wars and rumors of wars...earthquakes in divers places, nations rising up against each other; but fear not, the end has not yet come.  Then the last part of the scripture talks about the abomination of the desolation as read in the book of Daniel.  The war that is  happening in the middle East right now is a holy war.  It is a holy war because it is being fought in the name of religion. It began over land that the Jewish people gave up and the same war is still happening over the same land. This about the weather, the Tsunami's, hurricaines; freak of nature?  I think not.  Bible prophecy.  Things are unfolding.  It's time to get serious about God.  Another person before me mentioned a good website.  The Bible is real.  Prophecy is real.  The Book of Revelations is real.  Another person posted that people were making things up in the book of revelations and that scripture is being twisted to make objects look like helicopters and such.  When John wrote the Book of Revelations and had the visions given to him by God, he had NO IDEA what he was seeing.  Keep in mind that he had NEVER seen a helicopter before.  So, if you are seeing all these fleets of helicopters coming....what would you describe them as???  \nwww.endtime.com  This is an awesome website.
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Did Jesus give up Saturday for us?\nJesus? Christianity? .\n\nYour opinions only, no parroting or C&P from a Bible.\n\n\nIf Jesus died, he could NOT have been God.\nGods do not die? Do they?\n\nIf Jesus 'died' on Friday and 'undied' on Sunday, what else besides Saturday was sacrificed? \n\nIf Jesus died for our sins, he should be dead,dead, dead!
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#2 first.  There are contradictions in the two genealogies.  Thus it would be a mistake to take them as an accurate historical record.  Think of them instead in terms of what the Gospel writer is trying to accomplish.  Both are trying to show Jesus' place in the history of salvation, moreso than in chronological history.\n#1 this one requires faith.  It is well known that the Resurrection accounts are not consistent in the usual sense of time and space.  Depending on how we read them there may have been 40 days between the Resurrection and the Ascension, or both may have happened on the same day.  Well, which one is it?  The answer is BOTH!  Jesus is risen in a glorified, physical body.  In some ways he is subject to the normal laws of the physical world.  He can be touched.  He eats.  He walks.  In other ways he is not subject to normal laws.  He passes through locked doors.  He disappears before the eyes of the two men at Emmaeus.  Most striking, he seems to be present in the upper room with the apostles at the same time (or at least very close to it) as he is with the disciples in Emmaeus, 8 miles away.  The Risen Christ is not subjec to time and space.  He can be in two places at once.  Think about it in modern terms.  We say that Christ is with us.  Wherever two or three are gathered in his name.  That means that he is all over the world, simultaneously.  There are twos and threes all over the world gathered in his name and he is with all of them.  At the same time we say that he is seated at the right hand of the Father.  He is in heaven and on earth at the same time and all over the earth at the same time.
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Percy,\n\nI think the story goes, he rose three days later.\n\nAm I right?\n\n\nAdded 1/28/06 @ 12:32 EST:\n\nMr. Percy:\n\nI see what you're wanting, but I'm not sure what a matter of mere HOURS makes any difference in terms of biblical facts as interpreted by scholars and what can be proved by modern science...\n\nI'm sure this matter has been discussed and hashed out in the past two-thousand or so years...I'm not aware of the study, nor am I able to direct you to a verifiable source.\n\nGood luck!
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Jesus is not walking around today, He has not returned for his people.  If he were we would not be here on earth today.  As for the Anti-christ, who knows, they could be.  I agree that Jesus is disappointed with our world today, but as the end times come closer than things will get worse.
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didn't the bible, bcuz jesus rose on the 7th day?
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Three Days and Three Nights\nWas Jesus in the grave for exactly three days and three nights?\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nThe ONLY sign Jesus ever gave the Jews to prove His Messiahship was that He would be dead three days and three nights. \nDoes that mean Jesus died on a Friday and was resurrected on a Sunday? How does the Bible define "three days" and "three nights?"\n \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nWas Jesus in the grave for exactly three days and three nights? \n\n"Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. 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: For as Jonas was three days and three night in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" Matthew 12:38-40.\nSince Jesus claimed to be the Messiah, the Jews demanded a sign of Him to prove His claim. Jesus could give them no better proof that He was the Christ than the literal fulfillment of the well-known sign of Jonah, Luke 11:30. If this sign were not literally fulfilled, it would prove unto them that He was not the Messiah. This was the only sign Jesus ever gave them to prove His Messiahship. Hence the great need for Him to do exactly what He promised them to do.\n\nMark 8:31 tells us: \n\n"And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again." \nDid Christ mean what He said? Did He really expect to be buried in the earth for three days and three nights? Jesus did not say, "After two nights and one day I will rise again." He said, "After three days I will rise again." He meant three days and three nights--a full 72 hours!\n\nThe Jews remembered this sign when He was crucified. \n\n"Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first" Matthew 27:62-64. \nThey did all they could to prevent His resurrection. They got the watch, made the sepulchre sure, and sealed the stone. "After three days I will rise again" was necessary to fulfill the Jonah sign.\n\nModern interpreters of the Bible make Jesus Christ a liar. They say Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, buried about sundown the same day, and arose on the next Sunday about daybreak in contradiction to the Scriptures! Any schoolboy knows that this is only two nights and one day. If He were crucified on Good Friday and arose on Sunday morning as they say, then He did not literally fulfill the sign of Jonah. If He did not fulfill this sign as He promised the Jews, then He was an impostor and not the Messiah! In other words, Jesus Christ lied to the Jews about His burial and resurrection.\n\nIf the Good Friday theory is correct as some teach, then the Bible contains "highly figurative language" which requires a human interpreter to tell people what the verses really mean. By this same liberal method of interpreting the Scriptures you can destroy every basic doctrine in the Bible. \n\nI do not care very much for what scholars say! But I am greatly concerned about not accusing my Lord of lying! Jesus Christ plainly said He would be in the grave "three days and three nights". He emphatically declared He would rise again "after three days".
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LC is correct. The Bible does NOT say which day of the week is the day of rest, just that G-d rested on the seventh day.\n\nTraditionally, Jewish people have their 7th day on Saturday, Christians on Sunday. \n\nSince nowhere in the Bible does it clearly state what day of the week it was, as long as you celebrate and set aside one of the seven days of the week as a day of rest, I don't think G-d really has much of an opinion on which day you pick.\n\nI can't believe some people get so hot under the collar about stuff like this. Is their faith in G-d so shaky that it cannot stand the challenge that others are more comfortable relating with G-d in a different way?
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I don't celebrate either one. I choose as Paul said not to " esteem one day above the next." I treat each day as a day to love and praise my Father for sending Jesus to show me the Way! The days you mention are man's teachings not the teachings of The Spirit of God.
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Jesus died on a Wednesday.  3-days is equal to 72 hours, so if Jesus died Wednesday at 3pm, the third day is Saturday.  He arose on Sunday, that is, 3-days after he died which means that the teaching that Jesus died Friday is wrong!
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I thought that Muslims accepted the fact that Jesus was the Messiah. I don't know how that makes sense since they don't believe He was crucified and rose again on the third day, but then, I really don't know that much about Islam.
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Jesus certainly existed - no serious historian doubts this (the handful of pop religion books on the topic notwithstanding.) There is plenty of evidence, written and otherwise - from the still extant ruins of Peter's house in Capernaum (Jesus' home base), to his mention (the second mention is not interpolation) in Josephus' "Antiquities", and Tacitus' reference to him.\n\nAs to the second coming of Jesus, none knows the hour, or the way. None of us should be confident we'll see it whether  we live five years or five hundred. It happens when it happens, in the way that it happens. "Stay awake", we are told, live an exemplary life. Every day is to be lived as though it were the dawn of the day of the Lord.\n\nAs Mother Theresa said, "Yesterday is past, and tomorrow is not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
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Jesus makes the statement that he, like Jonah, will be buried for both three days and three nights. One could state, as some here have, that Friday Saturday and Sunday constitute three days, but where were the 3 (three!) nights?\n\nMatthew 12:39-40 39 But he answered and \nsaid unto them, An evil and adulterous \ngeneration seeketh after a sign; and \nthere shall no sign be given to it, but \nthe sign of the prophet Jonas: 40 For as \nJonas was three days AND THREE NIGHTS in \nthe whale's belly; so shall the Son of \nman be three days AND THREE NIGHTS in the \nheart of the earth. \n\nfriday day - one day\nfriday night - one night\nsaturday day - second day\nsaturday night - second night\nsunday day - third day\n......no third night\n\nAnd the Gospels dont agree as to how long Jesus was buried:::\n\nMt 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week,  came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.  2 And very early in the morning the first day of  the week,  they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of  the sun.  \n<3 days and two nights!>\n\nLk  24:1 Now upon the first day of the week,  very early  in  the morning,  they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.  \n<3 days and two nights!>\n\nJn  20:1  The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene  early, when  it was yet dark,  unto the sepulchre,  and seeth the  stone taken away from the sepulchre.  \n<Jesus was not in the tomb into the light of Sunday, so it was two days and two nights!>\n\nEither version of the story you choose, Jesus was not buried for three days AND three nights, like he said he would be.........
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Mark16:9  Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of\nthe week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene,\nMark16:12  After that he appeared in another form unto two\nof them,\nMark16:14  Afterward he appeared unto the eleven,\nMary  was certainly the first woman to see him after the\nresurrection, and the first to speak the good news of the\nresurrection.  As for the man it is hard to tell from \nscripture.  Perhaps a study of early church writing  would\nshed light on this wonderful question.  I'm 60 years old\nand have been a Christian since childhood and have never\nheard or thought about this issue before.  Thank-you
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Only the Father knows the day and the hour. \nBut Jesus left us some clues for the last days. There are many, many more like us that are preparing for Christ's return. Many are called, few are chosen.
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Note: ECCLES.7:1 = "A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth."\n\nCHRISTMAS\nChristmas isn't Jesus's birthdate; it was the birthday of the sun god. Scripture doesn't mention Jesus's birthdate or any christians celebrating His Birthday. The only birthday mentioned besides Pharoah is the heathen king Herod. "Christmas" means "mass of Christ"; the celebration coexisted in Rome before there was any in Jerusalem. The early Roman Church however did establish a pagan festival that (Jer.10) coexisted with Jesus's Birth and that was the birthday of the sun god. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., article: "Christmas"). The Catholic sources admit that Christmas didn't co-exist with the earliest festivals. Jesus wasn't born Christmas; even scripture makes this evident. "On the night of Jesus's birth, the shepherd's were still keeping watch over their flocks." (Luke 2:8). The rainy season in Ancient Israel began after the Feast of Tabernacles which generally is early October. In November, it would be cool and wet; the flocks from the pasture had already been brought and kept in winter quarters by the shepherds. This tells us the shepherds were no longer in the fields at night. Another peice of evidence is overlooked is in Luke 1:35-36; it tells us John the Baptist was born to Mary's cousin Elizabeth six months before Jesus. And as we look further in verse 5-17, we see Zacharias an elderly priest burning incense on the altar and then an angel appearing to him and telling him that he and his wife would have a son to prepare Christ's Way. We know however when this announcement was made by the angel because of Zacharias was "of the course of Abijah" Please look at 1Chron.24:1-19; it tells us that King David divided these priests into 24 "courses" that served in the temple by rotation. The Course of Abijah would be the 8th of the 24 courses which usually would occur around the end of May. Pentecost came the week after the 8th course served and he had to serve all 24 courses during the three festival seasons. So Zacharias came home approximately after the first week of June; in which John the Baptist was conceived around mid-June and 9 months later would be his birth. John Baptist's birth came around mid-March while Jesus's was around mid-September. Also notice every year people claim 3 wise men seen Jesus in a stable; is this really true? The Bible nowhere states "3 wise men" or "that the wise men visited Jesus in a stable". Read for yourself: (Matt.2:11); these Magi came from the east beyond the Euphrates River which in the 1st century was called the Parthian Empire (the eastern border of the Roman Empire). Several weeks after Jesus's birth, the Magi arrived in Jerusalem, the king's palace searching for Jesus. The "star" in the east led them to take their trip to Judea. After hearing about the timing of the "star's appearance" from the Magi; King Herod ordered the slaughter of all children two years and younger(Matt.2:16). When Jesus was 40 days old: His parents presented him in the temple (Luke 2:22)(Lev.12:2-4). After the Magi came, the family fled to Egypt. {Jesus six weeks old.}\nWHEN WAS JESUS'S BIRTH?\nhttp://www.lcg.org/cgi-bin/tw/magazine/tw-mag.cgi?category=Magazine33&item=1104261794\nhttp://family.webshots.com/photo/1342393463049373547FazWzQ\n****************************************************************\nHow Christmas came about. Is it related to Valentine's?\nVALENTINE'S (CUPID)\nCENTURIES BEFORE CHRIST, THE PAGAN ROMANS CELEBRATED FEBRUARY 15 & THE EVENING OF FEBRUARY 14 AS AN IDOLATROUS & SENSUOUS FESTIVAL IN HONOR OF LUPERCUS, THE "HUNTER OF WOLVES". THE ROMANS CALLED THE FESTIVAL "LUPERCALIA"; CUSTOM OF EXCHANGING VALENTINES & OTHER TRADITIONS TO HONOR LUPERCUS, TH