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Post by selah on Apr 4, 2010 13:16:15 GMT -5
It actually began just after midnight last night....I was frustrated! I had spent almost 4 hours working on a painting and I finally ruined it. I wiped all the paint off, cleaned up and went to bed. I prayed, "Lord, I need your inspiration. I have all these assignments for school, and I need your help. Please inspire me." This morning I awoke with a song running through my heart...."Oh Happy Day!" I even posted it on my profile on facebook, and included a Youtube video of the song. I seldom go to church, even though I am a believer, but this song kept ringing in me to the point that I just HAD to go! When I arrived, the song playing in the foyer was, "Oh Happy Day!" When I entered the sanctuary, there was Weiming Zhao, a local artist, lavishing paint over a canvas! (Please don't object to my many exclamation marks. I can't help it. This was an amazing morning!) The first chorus we sang was one that included the words Oh Happy Day, even though it was not the same song. It was incredibly inspiring to watch Weiming paint throughout the service. He has given me instruction in the past, and I appreciate his passionate use of color and even the way he approaches the canvas...so deliberate, and with joy! Wow! Thank you for answering my prayer Father. And I discovered at the end of the service that my friend had prayed just this morning that you would bring me to church! Thanks for answered prayer! I will spend today at the studio and trust your guidance as I complete the required pieces for school. Most of all, thank you Lord for the amazing gift of your Son! Hallelujah!! Thank you for Resurrection Sunday! I am truly blessed today!
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Post by nitro on Apr 4, 2010 14:22:24 GMT -5
Good Friday and "Easter Sunday" are two widely observed and false traditions of Christianity. Every year, it is widely sold to Christians worldwide that the Messiah was crucified on Friday and rose from the grave, sunrise Sunday. If that is true then we all should join those Israelites / Jews who are still awaiting on the Messiah's "First Coming". How can you get three days and three nights between "Friday" and "Sunday" morning??
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Post by shushy on Apr 4, 2010 14:32:31 GMT -5
Selah I love your painting Xx
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Post by StAnne on Apr 4, 2010 14:54:44 GMT -5
Good Friday and "Easter Sunday" are two widely observed and false traditions of Christianity. Every year, it is widely sold to Christians worldwide that the Messiah was crucified on Friday and rose from the grave, sunrise Sunday. If that is true then we all should join those Israelites / Jews who are still awaiting on the Messiah's "First Coming". How can you get three days and three nights between "Friday" and "Sunday" morning?? Does it say "three days and three nights"?
Friday before sundown = day 1 Saturday before sundown = day 2 Sunday (after Saturday sundown) = day 3Luke 24 5 They were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living one among the dead? 6 He is not here, but he has been raised. Remember what he said to you while he was still in Galilee, 7 that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners and be crucified, and rise on the third day." 8 And they remembered his words
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Post by nitro on Apr 4, 2010 16:15:05 GMT -5
Matthew 12:40 (NASB) 40 for just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. A day was sunup to sundown. Oh yes! One fact that you left out was the three nights. Means darkness to all except those who read the bible or does it?. Lets break it down.....First night Fri....second night sat...... wait I'm missing a night! nitro
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Post by sharonw on Apr 4, 2010 16:23:29 GMT -5
Matthew 12:40 (NASB) 40 for just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. A day was sunup to sundown. Oh yes! One fact that you left out was the three nights. Means darkness to all except those who read the bible or does it?. Lets break it down.....First night Fri....second night sat...... wait I'm missing a night! nitro I agree there is no counting to what all is considered...but I strongly suspect Jesus was crucified on Thurs....and the calendar 24 hrs starts at sundown, not sunup......or did in the biblical days.
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Post by nitro on Apr 4, 2010 16:42:45 GMT -5
GEN 1:14 14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
God explains real clear here what night was.
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Post by sharonw on Apr 4, 2010 16:48:03 GMT -5
GEN 1:14 14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day. God explains real clear here what night was. Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
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Post by Scott Ross on Apr 4, 2010 18:44:21 GMT -5
Good Friday and "Easter Sunday" are two widely observed and false traditions of Christianity. Every year, it is widely sold to Christians worldwide that the Messiah was crucified on Friday and rose from the grave, sunrise Sunday. If that is true then we all should join those Israelites / Jews who are still awaiting on the Messiah's "First Coming". How can you get three days and three nights between "Friday" and "Sunday" morning?? Here is an explanation: Apologetics Press :: Alleged Discrepancies “Three Days and Three Nights” by Eric Lyons, M.Min. [Español] Printer version | Email this article
The most frequent reference to Jesus’ resurrection reveals that He arose from the grave on the third day of His entombment. Matthew, Mark, and Luke all record Jesus as prophesying that He would rise from the grave on this day (Matthew 17:23; Mark 9:31; Luke 9:22; et al.). The apostle Paul wrote in his first epistle to the Corinthians that Jesus arose from the grave “the third day according to the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:4). And while preaching to Cornelius and his household, Peter taught that God raised Jesus up “on the third day” (Acts 10:40, emp. added). Skeptics are quick to assert, however, that these statements blatantly contradict both Matthew 12:40, wherein it is recorded that Jesus told the Pharisees He would be in the heart of the Earth “three days and three nights,” as well as Mark 8:31, which states that Jesus would rise “after three days” (emp. added).
While through the eyes of the twenty-first century reader these statements may appear at first glance to contradict one another, in reality they harmonize perfectly if one understands the liberal methods ancients used when reckoning time. In the first century, any part of a day could be computed for the whole day and the night following it (cf. Lightfoot, 1979, pp. 210-211). The Jerusalem Talmud quotes rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah, who lived around A.D. 100, as saying: “A day and night are an Onah [‘a portion of time’] and the portion of an Onah is as the whole of it” (from Jerusalem Talmud: Shabbath ix. 3, as quoted in Hoehner, 1974, pp. 248-249, bracketed comment in orig.). Azariah indicated that a portion of a twenty-four hour period could be considered the same “as the whole of it.” Thus, in Jesus’ time He would have been correct in teaching that His burial would last “ three days and three nights,” even though it was not three complete 24-hour days.
The Scriptures are filled with references which show that a part of a day is sometimes equivalent to the whole day. Notice the following examples:
* According to Genesis 7:12, the rain of the Noahic Flood was upon the Earth “forty days and forty nights.” Verse 17 of that same chapter says it was on the Earth for just “forty days.” * In Genesis 42:17 Joseph incarcerated his brothers for three days. Then, in verse 18, he spoke to them on the third day, and from the context it seems that he released them on that same day—i.e., the third day. * When Israel asked King Rehoboam to lighten their burdens, he wanted time to contemplate their request, so he instructed Jeroboam and the people of Israel to return “after three days” (2 Chronicles 10:5, emp. added). Verse 12 says that Jeroboam and the people of Israel came to Rehoboam “on the third day, as the king had directed, saying, ‘ Come back to me the third day’ ” (emp. added). Fascinating, is it not, that even though Rehoboam instructed his people to return “after three days,” they understood this to mean “on the third day.” * In 1 Samuel 30:12,13, the phrases “three days and three nights” and “three days” are used interchangeably. * When Queen Esther was about to risk her life by going before the king uninvited, she instructed her fellow Jews to follow her example by not eating “for three days, night or day” (Esther 4:16). The text goes on to tell us that Esther went in unto the king “on the third day” (5:1, emp. added).
By studying these and other passages, one clearly can see that the Bible uses expressions like “three days,” “the third day,” “on the third day,” “after three days,” and “three days and three nights” to signify the same period of time.From: www.apologeticspress.org/articles/570Scott
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Post by nitro on Apr 4, 2010 19:42:05 GMT -5
He loves us!
IF YOU KNEW HIM
I WALKED BY THE TOMB OF BUDDHA LOOKED INSIDE AND SAW HIS BONES, TRAVELED ON TO SEE MOHAMMAD STILL WRAPPED UP IN HIS GRAVE CLOTHES, THEN I JOURNEYED TO THE GARDEN , WHERE OLD JOSEPH LEFT HIM LAY, BUT THE PRECIOUS LAMB GOD'S ONLY BEGOTTEN HE WAS NO LONGER IN THAT GRAVE
IF YOU KNEW HIM LIKE I KNOW HIM, YOU WOULD KNOW THAT HE'S ALIVE, IF YOU FELT HIM LIKE I FEEL HIM, RESURRECTION DEEP INSIDE, YOU'D KNOW HE'S LIVING AND DEATH HAS DIED
IF YOUR WONDERING IN THE DARKNESS COME AND STEP INTO THE LIGHT, NAILSCARRED HANDS REACH OUT TO HELP YOU, TO PULL YOU SAFE FROM DEATH TO LIGHT, FRIEND I TOO HAVE HAVE STOOD WHERE YOU STAND, COULD I TRUST IN THINGS UNSEEN, BUT JUST ONE STEP IN HIS DIRECTION THEN IN LOVE HE RAN TO ME
IF YOU KNEW HIM LIKE I KNOW HIM, YOU WOULD KNOW THAT HE'S ALIVE, IF YOU FELT HIM LIKE I FEEL HIM RESURRECTION DEEP INSIDE, YOU'D KNOW HE'S LIVING AND DEATH HAS DIED
YOU ASK ME HOW I KNOW HE'S LIVING HE LIVES WITHIN MY HEART IF YOU FELT HIM LIKE I FEEL HIM RESURRECTION DEEP INSIDE, YOU' KNOW HE LIVING AND DEATH HAS DIED.
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Post by StAnne on Apr 4, 2010 20:14:18 GMT -5
Matthew 12:40 (NASB) 40 for just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. A day was sunup to sundown. Oh yes! One fact that you left out was the three nights. Means darkness to all except those who read the bible or does it?. Lets break it down.....First night Fri....second night sat...... wait I'm missing a night! nitro I agree there is no counting to what all is considered...but I strongly suspect Jesus was crucified on Thurs....and the calendar 24 hrs starts at sundown, not sunup......or did in the biblical days. "In the Bible, parts of time units were frequently counted as wholes. Thus a king might be said to have reigned for two years, even if he reigned for only fourteen months. In the same way, a day and a night does not mean a period of twenty-four hours. It can refer to any portion of a day coupled with any portion of a night. The expression "three days and three nights" could be used as simply a slightly hyperbolic way of referring to "three days." As Protestant Bible scholar R. T. France notes: "Three days and three nights was a Jewish idiom to a period covering only two nights" (Matthew, 213). Similarly, D. A. Carson, regarded as one of the deans of conservative Protestant Bible exegesis, explains: "In rabbinical thought a day and a night make an onah, and a part of an onah is as the whole. . . . Thus according to Jewish tradition, ‘three days and three nights’ need mean no more than ‘three days’ or the combination of any part of three separate days" (Expositor’s Bible Commentary, 8:296). If Jesus was crucified and died Friday afternoon, that would be the first day; at sundown on Friday the second day would begin; then at sundown on Saturday the third day would begin. So Jesus was indeed "raised on the third day" (Matt. 20:19). Scripture repeatedly tells us that Jesus was crucified on "the day of preparation," which was the first-century Jewish way of referring to Friday, the day of preparation for the Sabbath. This is why the women were not able to anoint his body before he was buried—because Jesus was hurriedly buried late in the afternoon, just as the Sabbath was beginning. The women thus had to rest until the Sabbath was over (Luke 23:56). We are also told that the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to order the legs of the crucifixion victims broken so they would die faster (from.asphyxiation due to an inability to push themselves up on their crosses and take a breath), "in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the Sabbath" (John 19:31). Some advocates of a Wednesday crucifixion concede that Jesus was crucified on the day before a Sabbath, but deny that this was the regular, weekly Sabbath. In later times, the phrase "day of preparation" came to be used to refer to the day before Passover and, this argument goes, Passover counted as a Sabbath in the sense that it was a day of rest, even though it usually did not fall on the weekly Sabbath. Thus Jesus was crucified on the day before Passover and had to be buried hurriedly on that account. But this explanation will not do. In the first century, "the day of preparation" referred to Friday, not the day before Passover. Further, we know from Scripture that the Sabbath following Jesus’ crucifixion was the regular, weekly Sabbath, the seventh day of the week: "Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the sepulcher" (Matt. 28:1). We can thus reconstruct the chronology of the crucifixion, death, and Resurrection of Christ as follows: Friday, the Day of Preparation: Jesus is crucified with two thieves. From noon to three in the afternoon, a darkness covers the land (Matt. 27:45). Then, " ince it was the Day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the Sabbath . . . the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away" (John 19:31). Then Joseph of Arimathea obtains Jesus’ body and buries it: "It was Preparation Day [that is, the day before the Sabbath]. So as evening approached, Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body" (Mark 15:42-43, NIV).
Saturday, the Sabbath: "On the Sabbath they [the women] rested according to the commandment" (Luke 23:56b). Also on this day, "that is, after the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate" and asked for a guard to be placed on the tomb (Matt. 27:62).
Sunday, the first day of the week: "Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the sepulcher" and found that Jesus had risen from the dead (Matt. 28:1)." www.catholic.com/thisrock/1999/9903chap.asp
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Post by BobWilliston on Apr 4, 2010 20:29:14 GMT -5
Huh? There was day and night before there was a sun. Check it out. (According to the Bible) GEN 1:14 14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day. God explains real clear here what night was.
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Post by BobWilliston on Apr 4, 2010 20:31:16 GMT -5
Check StAnne's post -- she got it right! Matthew 12:40 (NASB) 40 for just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. A day was sunup to sundown. Oh yes! One fact that you left out was the three nights. Means darkness to all except those who read the bible or does it?. Lets break it down.....First night Fri....second night sat...... wait I'm missing a night! nitro
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Post by selah on Apr 4, 2010 20:36:16 GMT -5
The important point is that He is ALIVE! We have the testimony residing within us! Hallelujah, what a Saviour!
Blessings, Linda
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Post by selah on Apr 4, 2010 20:44:10 GMT -5
Selah I love your painting Xx Shushy...it isn't my painting...it is Weiming's. However, I was inspired to create three drawings of the seven I have left to complete. The image of his painting doesn't do it justice, but it's still beautiful! Blessings, Linda
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Post by rational on Apr 6, 2010 10:21:43 GMT -5
I WALKED BY THE TOMB OF BUDDHA LOOKED INSIDE AND SAW HIS BONES,... A little fact checking would show that the opening sentence is incorrect. It makes one wonder about the accuracy of the remaining text.
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Post by rational on Apr 6, 2010 10:23:57 GMT -5
The important point is that He is ALIVE! We have the testimony residing within us! Hallelujah, what a Saviour! Blessings, Linda For some another important point is that this is supported only by faith and not by any logical or material proof.
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Post by shushy on Apr 6, 2010 13:02:11 GMT -5
Faith is powerful and incredible when it is backed up by power from heaven. Faith moves heaven, IMO
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