TWO
JEWISH SABBATHS
The
majority of Christendom is taught and believes that Christ Jesus was crucified and entombed on Good
Friday. In actuality it should have been called, Good Wednesday and you will understand why as you continue to
read. The Good Friday teaching in Christendom has caught on like wildfire.
Because of that many people believe that Christ was raised to life
again on Resurrection Sunday
morning. The truth of this teaching is, Christ Jesus being crucified on Good Friday and raised to life on Resurrection Sunday would have Him
entombed a day and a half, not three days as Christ said. When comparing the Good Friday theory taught by the
church of man, to what Christ actually said about how long He would be entombed
is what creates this evident contradiction.1
Christ
Jesus revealed the circumstance surrounding the length of time He would be in
the grave because this was vital information that would be needed to establish
exactly when He would be resurrected. The scenario that causes Christ Jesus to
make the statement that explained the length of time He would be in the grave
was done while Christ was in the presence of the Scribes and Pharisees. The
Scribes and Pharisees were demanding a miraculous sign from Him proving that He
was their awaited Messiah.
The
sign Christ gave was, “For even 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”. What makes the evident contradiction
in this teaching is found in the timing. When we compare the
timing from Good Friday to Resurrection Sunday according to our 24 hour
timing method to what Christ actually said about how long He would be
entombed doesn’t add up to three days and
three nights. Using the traditional twenty-four hour timing is not
sufficient, and does not work with Truth. When Christ died His
body was swiftly placed in the tomb just before sundown because a Sabbath Day was approaching.4 According to the church of man, Good Friday is the Friday that falls before Resurrection Sunday. The church of man has come up with many
titles for Good Friday. Good Friday is also known as:
Ø
Great Friday
Ø
Holy Friday, and
Ø
Black Friday
Good Friday is a man-made religious holiday that
is observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Christ
Jesus and His death at Calvary. The church of man planned this holiday
observance during the Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum. The
Paschal Triduum is the three day
period as defined by the church of man beginning on what they call Holy
Thursday. According to them, it begins
on Thursday with the Lord's Supper and ends with evening prayer on Sunday
coinciding with the Jewish observance of Passover. We will see that from counting according to the tradition
of the church of man, that:
Ø
From
Friday sundown, to Saturday sundown, is one night and one day.
Ø
Saturday
night to Sunday daybreak is the second night, which gives us two nights and one
day
It
does not matter how the timing is calculated using traditional timing, we will
never get three days and three nights out of what is being
taught. Mans calculation is not
mathematically possible, it is impossible to fit three days and three nights
between a late Friday burial
and an early Sunday morning
resurrection. This teaching was
conceived because most theologians and religious scholars teach that:
Ø
Any
part of a day or night counts as a whole day or night, which is not the case
nor is it the truth in regards to God’s
timing
Ø
They
teach that the final few minutes of that Friday
afternoon were the first day,
Ø
All
day Saturday was the second
day, and
Ø
The
first few minutes of Sunday
morning were the third day
These four explanations are fiction
that has pacifies lazy believers for generations. Believers have been content
with this theory although it:
Ø
Does
not fit mathematically, and
Ø
Does
not make sense, leaving unanswered questions in the hearts of believers
This Good Friday
explanation has been circulating throughout Christendom for years. Want or whose timing these intellectuals were
counting by when they began to teach the concept of any part of a day or night constitutes a whole day or night is beyond
me. If this was the case, and any part of a day or night could count as
a whole day or night, time would not be fairly accounted for. If any
part of a day or night constitutes a whole day taxpayers would not be spending
so much money on the incarcerated. They
would simply have the option of counting any part of a day as a whole day and
inmates would be released with serving just a fraction of the sentence they received. Inmates and the world count a day as
twenty-four hours and because man had to give an answer to inquisitive
believers this theory were developed.
Three days according to man’s time
equals seventy-two hours. One
cannot fit three days and three nights into a seventy-two- hour time slot to manufacture an
early Sunday morning
resurrection. Man’s timing can never equal God's Truth when counting down the resurrection of Christ Jesus.
Everything surrounding Christ’s resurrection was conceived in the mind and
heart of God, and to understand just how determined its truth it must clearly
be measured using God’s time. Josephus was the great Jewish historian who
confirms the time of daily sacrifices during a Passover feast, he said; the
high priests upon the coming of their feast (Passover) slay their sacrifices
from the ninth to the eleventh hour which is from three to five P.M. (Wars of
the Jews, Ch. IX).
The
time that Christ Jesus died on the Cross was at the 9th hour or about 3 P.M.
When using the church of man’s theory of a late Friday burial and an early Sunday morning resurrection does not add up to three days and
three nights it adds up to three days
and two
nights, not three days and three nights as Christ said it would be. Reading from John’s account, he said
when Mary of Magdalene arrived at the tomb:
Ø It
was still dark on Sunday morning
Ø
The
stone had been removed, and
Ø
The
tomb was empty5
From
this Scripture, we see that Christ Jesus was already
resurrected before daylight.
This means Christ could not have been in the tomb any part of
the daylight portions of Sunday; which means Sunday cannot be counted as a day.
Because Christ Jesus wasn’t in the tomb on
any of the daylight portions of Sunday, leaves us counting:
Ø
Part
of a day on Friday
Ø
All
of Friday night
Ø
The
whole daylight portion of Saturday, and
Ø
Most
of Saturday night
Totaling:
Ø
One
full day
Ø
Part
of another day
Ø
One full night,
and
Ø
Most of
another night
With
this estimate the timing still lacks:
Ø A full day,
and
Ø
A full night to be equivalent to the time Christ said He would be in
the tomb
What
will make the timing of Christ’s resurrection figure out correctly is the truth
concerning God’s time system. The key to understanding the timing
of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection rests in:
Ø
Understanding
God’s formula for counting when days begin
Ø
When
they end, as well as
Ø
The
timing of His Biblical
Festivals that occurred during
the spring of the year
We have to look at how God
established time in Genesis to become conscious of the truth that He did not
begin and end days at midnight as we do in the 21st Century.6 God counts a day:
Ø
Beginning
with the evening, which is the night portion, and
Ø
Ending
the next evening
So
then evening (night-time) and morning (the day-light) are the first day. This formula is recorded
repetitively in Genesis for the entire six days of Creation setting the timing
for man. In Jewish custom there is a phrase, between the evenings, this phrase clarifies time. Jesus said three days and three nights was a sign. The mystery of the sign is that He broke the
days down into six separate portions. On the first day of the week the
disciples boldly proclaimed that Christ Jesus had risen from the dead (Acts 10:
40). There was not one Jew disputing this Truth of three days and three
nights because Jews understood God’s time system. They considered:
Ø
The
first part of their day as the
night, and
Ø
The
second part of their day as the
day
This
is why the three days and three nights theory could not have
meant a seventy-two-hour period, but was actually six portions of day and night
that would add up to 3 days. In Jesus’
day, the daylight part of the Jewish day was divided into two sections:
Ø The first part was from sunrise to
noon and was considered morning
Ø
The
second part of the day, from noon to sunset, was called evening
Ø
The
night part of the day, which started at sunset was also called evening and
lasted for the next twelve hours
Jews
kept time in a unique way from the rest of the world. The problem they had with lunar
calendars was that there are approximately 12.4 lunar months in every solar
year, which made a 12-month lunar calendar 11 days shorter than a solar year,
and made a 13-month lunar calendar 19 days longer than a solar year causing monthly drift around the
seasons. To compensate for this drift,
the Jews use a 12-month lunar calendar with an extra month occasionally added.
The month of Nissan occurs 11 days earlier each year for two or three years,
and then jumps forward 30 days to balance out the drift. A year with 13 months
is referred to in Hebrew as Shanah Me’uberet, and literally means a pregnant
year. In English, we simply call it a leap year.
In ancient times, this month was
added when the Sanhedrin observed the conditions of:
Ø
The
weather
Ø
The
crops, and
Ø
The
livestock
If these three were not sufficiently advanced, it would not be
considered spring, so the Sanhedrin would insert an additional month into the
calendar to make sure the Pesach (Passover) would occur in the spring. Jews:
Ø Calendar began with Creation
Ø
Their
month began with the new moon, and
Ø
Their
day began with sunset
What’s going on is different parts of the Jewish day is being called both morning and evening, and the night
is also being called evening.
The Jewish day does not begin and end at midnight. Before the clock was invented, a specific hour
of the night could not be precisely known, and an hour of the day was easily
determined by the location of the sun. This means that day was either from the beginning
of night, or the beginning of
day. According to the Torah night
and morning began with sunset and sunrise and the Sabbath
Day begins on Friday
night at sunset and ends on Saturday night. See explanation of Jewish day in
the chart:
|
Jewish Day
|
Sunset - Dawn -Sunset
|
Transliteration
|
|
|
Approximate time
(depending on the season)
|
6 PM - 6 AM - 6 PM
|
First Day (Sunday)
|
Yom
Rishon
|
|
Watches
during the night
|
9:30 pm - 12:00 am - 2:30 am - 5:00 am
|
Second
Day (Monday)
|
Yom
Sheini
|
|
Hours during the
day
|
1st hr - 3rd hr - 6th hr - 9th hr
|
Third Day
(Tuesday)
|
Yom
Shlishi
|
|
Evening
part of the day
|
6 PM Evening
|
Fourth Day
(Wednesday)
|
Yom
R'vi'i
|
|
Day
part of the day
|
6 AM -Dawn - Noon
|
Fifth Day
(Thursday)
|
Yom
Chamishi
|
|
Evening
part of the day
|
Evening
6:00 PM
|
Sixth Day
(Friday)
|
Yom
Shishi
|
|
Time between the
evenings
|
6 PM Evening -
Morning - Afternoon -
3:00 PM -6 PM Evening
|
Sabbath
Day (Saturday)
|
Yom
Shabbat
|
The
evening part of the day proceeds the morning part of the same day because a day on the Jewish calendar starts at
sunset the day before. God lists His Holy
Sabbaths and Festivals
in the Torah making it crystal clear that they are to be observed from evening to evening.7 These observances were effective during
the time when Christ Jesus was crucified. The Bible clearly states that when
Christ Jesus was crucified, a Sabbath
Day was approaching at sundown. Because this Sabbath Day was approaching
Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus hurried to have Christ Jesus’ body taken down
and placed in the tomb before sundown, which brought in the approaching Sabbath
Day. The Sabbath Day was a day
of rest and spiritual enlightening for the Jews and all work ceased.8
Luke
23: 53-56 says, Then he took it down, speaking of the dead body of Christ
Jesus, wrapped it in linen cloth and placed it in a tomb cut in the rock, one
in which no one had yet been laid. This was done on Preparation Day, the day which is the day preceding a Sabbath. The women who had come with
Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid
in it. After which they went home and prepared spices and perfumes and rested
on the Sabbath Day in obedience
to the commandment. Here is where the knowledge of the two Sabbaths is vital.
Not having an understanding the seventh day
Sabbath concept and knowledge of the Old Testament Annual Day Sabbath’s, the church of man
will continue to teach error as Truth.9
In
the Jewish culture of that time, all chores were done on the day before a Sabbath to avoid working on God’s
designated day of rest. The day
before the Sabbath was Preparation Day. On this preparation day Christ Jesus was
crucified and His body was placed in the tomb.10
Because the Jews honored two Sabbath days in this week, we need
to know which Sabbath Day John is speaking of. John said, “Since it was the day of Preparation, in order to
prevent the bodies from hanging on the Cross
on the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a very solemn and important one and the Jews made a
request to Pilate to have the legs broken and the body taken away”.11
The church of man teaches that John was speaking of the regular weekly Sabbath Day that is observed from Friday sunset
to Saturday sunset which is not the case.
From
John’s statement, most people would assume Christ died and was buried on
Friday, to confirm their traditional belief that Jesus was crucified and died
on Good Friday. Most people are not aware of the annual Sabbath days spoken of
in the Old Testament and that in the case of Christ Jesus’ resurrection the
Bible is speaking of two different Jewish Sabbath Days occurring. The two
Jewish Sabbath Days in
question are:
Ø
The
normal weekly Sabbath Day that
falls on the seventh day of the
week, Saturday, and
Ø
The
seven Annual Sabbath
days that are listed in
Leviticus 23, and mentioned in passages throughout the Bible. These annual Sabbath could fall on any day of the week and were celebrated as two totally different Sabbaths.
Sometime in the past, man decided that there was no need to teach Biblical Annual Sabbath Days. This decision left the church ignorant
of these observations. Satan, no doubt initiated this man-made decision and
because of it, this false teaching has circulated throughout Christendom. God’s
people became content and satisfied with this decision accepting it with
confusion and questions in their heart and mind. This is evidence confirming
that the Word of God was not and is not being rightly divided. Simply because
there was no clear understanding as to what the Bible was saying about the
timing as it relates to the resurrection of Christ Jesus whatever explanation
was given was accepted without question. John tells us that the Sabbath Day that was to begin at sundown was an Annual Sabbath
Day and because of that,
Christ was immediately taken down from the Cross and entombed.12
A
High day was a term used to
differentiate between the Seven Annual
Sabbath Days and the regular weekly Sabbath Day. The accounts in the Gospels makes us aware that on the evening before Christ Jesus
was betrayed, condemned, and crucified; He kept the Passover with His Disciples.13
This means that Jesus was crucified on Passover
Day, and what made that approaching Sabbath a High Day,
was the truth that the day after the Passover
was a separate Festival called,
the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
The first day of this Feast was a Holy
convocation on which days no work was performed.14 This Sabbath Day is the high
day John is referring to as an Annual
Sabbath Day. He was not referring
to the regular weekly Sabbath Day that was to come on Saturday. Passover began at sundown and ended
the following day at sundown. This is when the Annual Sabbath Day began. Christ Jesus:
Ø
Kept
Passover with His Disciples and
was arrested later that night (Mark 14:
14; Matthew 26: 19-21, 45-47, 55, 57)
Ø
After
daybreak, the next day Christ was questioned before Pontius Pilate and others,
and was crucified
Ø
He
was promptly entombed just before the next sunset came in, which was a High Day, the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Leviticus 23)
The Book of Leviticus tells us the
order and timing of these Holy days, and the Gospel writers confirm
the order of events as they unfold. In Biblical times it was customary for
friends to place the body of their loved one in a tomb, and family members
would come by and place aromatic spices in the tomb or anoint the body to
reduce the smell of decomposition. Because Christ body was placed in the tomb
just before that High-Day Sabbath began, no purchases could be
made, leaving no time for the servants to purchase oils and spices. The ladies
bought the spices they used on Christ Jesus after
the High Day Sabbath had past.15 Luke tells us that the women
prepared the spices and fragrant oils, after which “they rested on the Sabbath according to the
commandment” speaking of the seventh
Day Sabbath.16
Ø
The
spices were bought the day after the High Day Sabbath, which fell on Thursday, and
Ø
They
prepared the spices on Friday before resting on the normal weekly
Sabbath Day, which was Saturday.
The
two different Sabbath Days
spoken of surrounding Christ’
Resurrection, eliminates the confusion and seeming contradictions that
exist when defining and comparing the time the church of man says Christ was
entombed, and the time Christ said that He would be entombed. Mark’s Gospel
tells us:
Ø
That
after the High Day Sabbath, which began that Wednesday evening at sundown and ended Thursday evening at sundown, was
Ø
A
regular day that was followed
by the High Day, which was Friday – the free day that the women
used to buy and prepare the spices they intended to anoint Christ Jesus’ body
with, and
Ø Afterwards they rested
on the normal
weekly Sabbath Day Saturday, which was Friday
at sunset to Saturday sunset
It was between Friday
sunset, and Saturday sunset, when Christ was resurrected according to God’s timing
system. Because the spilling of Christ
Blood was involved in man’s
redemption He had to present
it to His Father at some point
between His resurrection and presenting Himself alive to Mary at the sepulcher. As she stooped
looking into the sepulcher she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the
head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had laid. When she was
asked why she wept, she saith unto them, because they have taken away my LORD,
and I know not where they have laid him. After making that statement she turned
herself back, and saw Jesus standing there.
She
did not recognize Him in His resurrected
body. When He spoke to her she assumed he was the gardener. They
exchanged dialogue and when Mary realized it was Christ Jesus before her arisen
from the dead, she wanted to touch Him.
Christ Jesus told her “Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my
Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and
your Father; and to my God, and your God (John 20: 14, 16-18 KJV).”
There
was a reason why her sinful hands could not be placed on Him. He was in His Glorified body and touching Him would have contaminated Him with the same sin
His Blood cleansed us from and He had to appear before the Father untouched by
sin; once He went to the Father and returned; He could be touched (John 20:
24-29). Christ Jesus’ Blood
accounts for all those who are redeemed.
Christ came down from Heaven,
not to do His will, but the will of His Father (John 6: 38). He
made it clear that He came to do God’s will and it is by the Father’s will that believers have been
sanctified through the offering
and presentation of Christ’ body and Blood once for all (Hebrews
10: 5-10). From His Incarnation, Christ Jesus held on to
the Father's plan of Divine Salvation for us by completing
His redemptive assignment (John
4: 34). The sacrifice of Christ Jesus was
for the sins of the whole world, and by it He communicated His love and
communion with the Father (I John 2: 2;
John 10: 17; 14: 31).
The
original Greek, in which the Gospels
were written, tells us that two
Sabbath Days were involved. By comparing details in both Luke and John’s accounts we learned:
Ø
Two different Sabbaths are mentioned
Ø
Along
with a workday in between the
two
The
Annual Sabbath was the High Day, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which fell
on a Thursday.17 The second Sabbath was the weekly seventh-day Sabbath that fell on Saturday. After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week
began to dawn (Sunday), Mary of Magdalene, and the other Mary, came to see the
sepulcher.18 From this passage we
learn that the women went to the tomb, after both Sabbaths had past. The word for Sabbath in this instance is in the plural form; there were two Sabbaths falling in the same week. Christ Jesus
was crucified and entombed on a Wednesday, just before an Annual Sabbath began on Thursday, not the weekly
Sabbath that fell on Saturday.
On
the first day of the week after the Annual
Sabbath Day when Mary arrived at the tomb, it was so early that the sun
had not yet risen. It was still dark
outside and she saw
that the stone had been taken away from the tombs entrance, finding it empty.19 Christ was not resurrected at sunrise
on Sunday morning as we have all been taught; He was already resurrected when
Mary got there! Christ Jesus’ words were, for even 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.20 Christ
knew exactly how long He would be in the heart of the earth; He also knew that
the events would fall into place in accord with God’s timing that was
established back in Genesis, not according to the 24-hour time pattern that we
are accustomed to today. Here is
how the Bible says Christ’s resurrection happened:
Ø
Tuesday
is the day that Christ ate the Passover
meal with His Disciples and was crucified
on Passover Day (Matthew 26: 19-20; Luke 22: 13-15).
Ø
Wednesday
afternoon, Christ was hanging on the Cross and taken down and entombed.
Wednesday at sundown marks the beginning of the High Day Sabbath, which was the first day of the Feast
of Unleavened Bread, [the Annual
Sabbath which could fall on any day of the week]; in this case, it fell
on Thursday not Friday.
Wednesday evening (night-time) and Thursday morning (day-light) are the first day Christ was in the tomb.
Ø Thursday was the Annual Sabbath, the High Day and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This was the day the Jews made the
request asking Pilate to have the legs of Christ broken and the body taken away
so He would not be hanging on the Cross when the Sabbath came in (John 19: 31,
39-42).
Ø Thursday evening (night-time) and
Friday morning (day-light) is the second
day Christ was in the tomb.
Ø
Friday
was the free day following the Annual Sabbath the High Day that fell on Thursday,
celebrating the Feast of Unleavened
Bread
Ø
The
following day is when Mary of Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome
went to buy the spices they used to anoint the body of Christ
Friday was the free day in between
the two Sabbaths, which were:
Ø
The
Annual Sabbath, and
Ø
The
seventh day Sabbath (Mark 16: 1)
Ø Friday evening (night-time) and
Saturday morning (day-light) is the third day and night that Christ was in the tomb!
Ø
Saturday
is when Christ was resurrected sometime
after sunset
allowing Him to be three days and
three nights in the tomb as He
said He would be.
This
is why He was not there when Mary Magdalene arrived early Sunday morning.
Judging when Christ rose from the grave is to be done according to God’s time,
beginning with evening, and morning as the first day, as was originated at
Creation. Christ said He would be resurrected
exactly three days and three nights after He was entombed.
Christ had already risen and the tomb was empty on Sunday morning. An
earthquake marked the death of Christ Jesus and an earthquake unveiled the
evidence of His Resurrection. He was in a sealed tomb with Roman soldiers
outside guarding it until a sudden great earthquake terrified them. Mary saw
the guards lying on the ground as dead men, as well as the empty tomb.21 Scripture has proven that the Good
Friday, Easter Sunday traditional teaching is error from the details recorded
in the Gospels, and from Christ’s own words.
Together these Scriptural truths reveal what happened
perfectly. These truths come from the Holy Spirit attempting to restore Truth to the teachings that are going
forth attempting to lead new converts and others away from old religious
traditions and ideologies that aren’t supported by Scripture. Christian beliefs
and practices must be firmly rooted and grounded in the Bible. Our daily
commitment must be rooted in worshipping God according to Biblical Truth rather than accepting
what is handed down by the traditions of men.23
Christ’ aspiration was to do the Father’s will by fulfilling the Father's plan
of redemption (Luke 12: 50, 22: 15; Matthew 16: 21-23). His Incarnation was for the purpose of
the redemptive work (John 12: 27, 18: 11).
Christ Jesus expressed who He was
and what had to be done in the offering
at the Passover meal that He
shared with His Disciples the night he was betrayed (Luke 22: 19; Matthew 26: 28; I Corinthians 5: 7). The Last Supper was the memorial
of His voluntary offering to
the Father for the Salvation of men.
The Last
Supper is where Christ introduced the entry of the New Testament in His Blood.
His Blood was poured out for all men for the forgiveness of sins (I Corinthians 11: 24-26). Before it was finished, from the Cross Christ Jesus knew that all
things were almost accomplished, and Scripture would soon be fulfilled and He
thirst
(John 19: 28). These words were
spoken moments before he died. Christ’ thirst was for much more than a sip of
cold water, although He had to be experiencing symptoms of dehydration from
hanging in the hot sun. We all thirst in this life but we are thirsting for the
wrong things. There is great significance seen in Jesus' physical
thirst on the Cross He felt abandoned by His Father and all alone as He carried
the weight of the sins of the world, and He thirsted spiritually. The verb
thirst, or to be thirsty, is found in the Gospel of John and refers to
spiritual thirst. (John 4: 13–15). Christ Jesus offers Himself to the world
just as He offered Himself to the woman at the well. He let her know that He
was the one who could give her living water to drink.
He
said that "whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed
the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal
life" (John 4: 14). Christ said, "I am the bread of life. He who
comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be
thirsty (John 6: 35)." Christ Jesus also declared that "If anyone is
thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture
has said, streams of living water will flow from him (John 7: 37–38)."
With all these verses about Christ satisfying the believer’s spiritual hunger
and thirst makes you wonder why so many Christians are malnourished, what’s
wrong in the church of man? The answer is everything! The church of man is
functioning without the aid of the Holy Spirit, whom those who believed in
Christ Jesus were to receive later. The church of man has a spiritual craving
for Truth but they lack the discipline to go find it for them self. So in
essences believers are accepting lies as truth.
Christ gave us all the answers; all
we have to do is seek, and we will find; but the church of man is filled with
spiritually lazy people who wants someone else to do the work and they want to
be handed the benefits. I apologize for being the one to tell you that’s not
going to happen. Every man and woman has to work out their own soul Salvation
by satisfying that inner longing that operates deep within the heart of every
human being created in the image of God. Only then will that spiritual famine
be satisfied. According to the Gospel of John, this universal spiritual famine
of the Word and the spiritual thirst can be quenched and satisfied only by the
Holy Spirit. There is one water source capable of quenching our thirsty
souls. It is the same water
that satisfied the thirst Christ Jesus experienced on the Cross. In His moment
of thirst, Christ Jesus could see that if he did not drink the cup, which the Father placed before him; we, as His
beloved would always thirst spiritually, never receiving Eternal Life.
So He
drank from the cup that was set before Him, dying that we might live the new
resurrected life! Serious believers
drink from the cup that satisfies:
Ø No longer
hungering for the things of this world
Ø Content
and satisfied with the Water of
Life
Ø Never
satisfied with the words of men; only the Word of God
Ø
Anxious and content to allow the Holy Spirit to comfort and guide our life, and we are content to allow Him to be to us that spring of
Eternal Life (Revelation 7:
16-17)
1(Matthew 12: 40)
4(John 19: 30-42)
5(Matthew 27: 45-50; John 20: 1)
6(Genesis 1: 5)
10(John 19: 31)
11(John 19: 31)
12(John 19: 31, 39-42; Mark 15: 42-43)
13(Matthew 26: 19-20; Mark 14: 16-17;
Luke 22: 13-15)
14(Leviticus 23: 5-6)
15(Mark 16: 1)
17(John 19: 31, 20: 14, 16-18, 24-29)
18(NKJV - Matthew 28: 1; Strong's
#4521)
19(Matthew 28: 2)
20(Matthew 12: 40)
21(Matthew 28: 2-6)
23(Colossians 2: 8)
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