Good Friday?

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No; that was the beginning of the third night.

You know, it's tragic that supposed adults can't tell the difference between evening and morning when underage kids not yet in kindergarten can do it with ease.

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According to John 1:1-3 and John 1:14, classical Christianity's Jesus Christ is God.

Therefore, when classical Christianity's Jesus Christ spoke; he not only spoke for God, but also spoke as God.

That being the case, then I think it is sensible for Baptists to pay attention to classical Christianity's Jesus Christ; especially since he comes so highly recommended.

"He is sent by God. He speaks God's words, for God's spirit is upon him without measure or limit." (John 3:34)

"This is My beloved son, with whom I am well-pleased: listen to him." (Matt 17:5)

Now, according to God speaking; there were not twenty-four hours in a day when His son was here; no, there was a maximum of twelve, and those twelve took place in daytime when the sun was up rather than nighttime when the sun was down. (John 11:9)

I am provoked and disgusted when I see what appear to be Baptists turning a deaf ear to God speaking by insisting that the three days His son spoke of at Matt 12:40 began at sundown. It implies that both God and His son are so uneducated and so intellectually challenged that neither of them know night from day, nor light from dark, nor morning from evening.

"God called the light day, and the darkness He called night." (Gen 1:5)

So, by listening to God speaking in the book of Genesis, and by listening to God speaking in the gospel of John; I am instantly informed that the days His son spoke of at Matt 12:40 consisted of a maximum twelve hours when the sun was up; and the nights that he spoke of consisted of a maximum twelve hours when the sun was down.

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While discussing Good Friday with one of its defenders, my opponent suggested that the darkness that took place while Jesus was nailed to the cross was one of the three nights that he predicted at Matt 12:40.

Well; of course that doesn't work because Jesus was alive during those hours of darkness on the cross. The three nights he predicted at Matt 12:40 were to take place while he was deceased and tucked away in the heart of the earth.

Now when you think about it; Jesus' corpse was never in the heart of the earth. It wasn't even in the earth's soil. His corpse was laid to rest on the surface of the earth in a rock-hewn tomb.

Jesus compared his experience with Jonah's nautical adventure. A careful examination of the finer points of the second chapter of his prophecy reveals that although Jonah was alive while in the fish, he wasn't alive the whole time. No, at some point in his ordeal, Jonah went to a place called sheol, which he described as the bottoms of the mountains.

Well; even a school kid with an elementary knowledge of science knows that the bottoms of the mountains aren't in the tummy of a fish; nor are the bottoms of the mountains in the sea. No; the bottoms of the mountains are many, many, miles below both the fish and the sea.

If what I'm saying here is true, then at some point in his adventure; Jonah was quite dead.

"To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. But you brought my life up from the pit, O Yhvh my God. (Jonah 2:6)

The Hebrew word translated "pit" sometimes refers to putrefaction. In other words "brought up my life" speaks of Jonah's resurrection.

According to Ps 16:8-10 and Acts 2:25-31 Jesus too was spared putrefaction by means of his resurrection.

According to Matt 10:28, the body and the soul are perishable. However; though the body is perishable by any means, the soul is perishable only by divine means; i.e. the deaths of body and soul aren't simultaneous, which readily indicates that once the body and the soul are separated, it becomes possible to relocate the soul. In the cases of Jonah and Jesus; their souls were transferred to the bottoms of the mountains.

This it all came to pass just as predicted: "as Jonah . . . so the Son of Man."

Both their bodies underwent death, both their souls spent some time in the netherworld, and both their bodies were raised from the dead within the space of three days and three nights.

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Jesus Christ-- whom John 1:1-3 and John 1:14 testify is God --was a citizen in the land of Israel 2,000 years ago; so I think that he, as both God and citizen, would know better than anybody alive today how to count and/or define days and nights back then.

According to Jesus Christ's understanding-- as both God and citizen --days were when the sun is up and nights were when the sun is down. (John 11:9)

I trust God's intelligence; and I believe in His son Jesus Christ. I don't think either one of them are ever wrong about anything, especially something as elementary as the properties of day and night.

I've participated on several Good Friday forums in the last 21 years and it never fails that somebody muddies the waters by interpreting Matt 12:40 with Jewish 24-hour civil time keeping; thus making it virtually impossible for curious visitors to make any sense out of the chronology of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection.

It's not too difficult to appreciate just how serious this is relative to the outside world. If they can be persuaded to mock Easter week's sequence of events, then they can be just as easily persuaded that Jesus' resurrection never happened. As a result they will miss the opportunity to be exonerated per Rom 4:25. A record of their sins will remain on the books, hanging over their heads like a sword of Damocles. Out ahead, at the great white throne event depicted at Rev 20:11-15, those books will be opened for review. How tragic it is when Christians are Christ's own worst enemies of the cross.

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