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If Wednesday is the crucifixion day, Jesus was "in the heart of the earth" for 5 days and night"? Sorry, I can't even begin to see any reason is that.

Going backwards:
Saturday night
Saturday day
Friday night
Friday day
Thursday night
Thursday day

That's three days and three nights. But we know Jesus wasn't in the tomb starting in the morning, as he was only put there at sunset. We don't know he was in the tomb Saturday night. So, strike Saturday night and add in Wednesday night, and we get to three days and three nights.

To answer the OP, Saturday was the third day. But, Sunday morning is when the tomb was discovered empty.

I think Thursday is also a fair answer. You'd have to count time on the cross as a day in the heart of the earth, but he didn't die until evening. This would make Sunday the third day. I'm also doubtful that the Jews would plan two sabbaths in a row (Friday high sabbath plus Saturday).

 

That was when he led the captivity captive not when he went there to preach to them the gospel in Hell David wrote;
Psa 16:8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Psa 16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
Psa 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Psa 16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
MB

 

IMHO

for, as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. Matt 12:40 YLT

And Jehovah appointeth a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah is in the bowels of the fish three days and three nights. And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish. And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol (NT Hades) I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice. Jonah 1:17, 2:1,2 YLT

The heart of the earth is the same as the belly of Sheol/Hades

and having cried with a loud voice, Jesus said, 'Father, to Thy hands I commit my spirit;' and these things having said, he breathed forth the spirit. Luke 23:46 YLT
That is when the soul Jesus entered Hades for three days and three nights, as in the following; >

Jesus answered, 'Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see; and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.' John 11:9,10 YLT

having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. Acts 2:31 YLT

As I said, MHO.

 

There is the understanding Christ's soul died on the cross prior to His physical death. Isaiah 53:10-12, death of His soul. Finished on the cross before His physical death, John 19:28-30. And placed in the tomb after His deaths, Isaiah 53:9, ". . . And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; . . ." The plural translated as a singular. Is soul being again alive prior to His physcial death.

 

To the Jewish mind a day and a night is a single unit. Any part of that day or part of that night constitutes the whole. Therefore the point is not that He had to be in there three whole days and three whole nights; but to the Jew that is a unit and any part of one of those units constitutes the unit. So it is that Jesus then must be buried in the earth before the Sabbath begins to constitute a part of that day so that there will be three days, the Friday, the Saturday, and then the Sunday as it is a part of that day and He rises from the grave, This is as close as we can get to the understanding of why Joseph did what he did. He was in a hurry. Why? Because he had to get Jesus in that grave while it was still Friday because the Sabbath began in the evening when the sun went down. So he’s in a hurry. Joseph becomes God’s instrument fulfilling.the prophecy of Christ’s burial not only with the rich but making sure that Jesus gets buried so that He can be three days in the grave and still rise on the day that God has designed for Him to rise. So Jesus while He’s dead does for Joseph what He couldn’t do when He was alive, He brings an open confession from Joseph. So Joseph is in a big hurry. He wants to get Jesus buried before nightfall because it’s the Sabbath. God wants Him buried before nightfall because God wants Him there three days.

John F. MacArthur Jr., John MacArthur Sermon Archive (Panorama City, CA: Grace to You, 2014).

 

That's ridiculous. A small part of a day doesn't count as a whole day. Most of a day might count as a whole day.

Don't try to reach conclusions when your starting point is ridiculous. And, even with the ridiculous starting point, Friday through Saturday night still doesn't work. It's it's only two days and two nights.

John MacArthur has a bad habit of taking ridiculous falsehoods and passing them off as fact.

 

Notice he is talking about 1st Century Jewish culture. Not how we understand it today...

 

1) Still just two days and two nights

2) The word day occurs over 2000 times in the Bible. And, never once is a small part of a day necessarily being treated as a whole day.

3) The word day occurs over 2000 times in the Bible. And, in many cases if a small part of a day is treated as a day, it renders worthless the meaning of a day.

4) The part of a day falsehood comes from a conversation recorded in the Talmud, from a minority opinion rabbi talking about ritual cleanliness.

 

A tomb cut out of a rock is still the earth because the rock is part of the earth. Even if He had been buried it would still be the same. He would have been in the earth. Are you thinking that a tomb made out of a rock is not made out of earth? How is it that rock isn't earth?
MB

 

Where do you look for more information on something that is only mentioned once? To me it means deep in the earth as the heart of man is deep inside of him. I believe the Spirit of Christ went to where David was and preached the path of life to Him and others being held captive. Per Psalm 16 I believe men who died before the first advent were placed in a special place for them to wait for the preaching of Jesus so they could be saved. The blood of bulls and goats could never save. They had to wait for Jesus. This place could not have been hell it self unless the Lord separated them from torture..

Other than Psalms 16 this may not be absolute. I have studied this for years now and still have not come to a satisfied conclusion.
MB

 

Question for all?

"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."
(1 Thessalonians 5:23 KJV)

Relative to Jesus on whatever day he died:

Using our concept of time;

A.
1. Where was the spirit of Jesus, who had given up his spirit, at 315 PM?
2. Where was the soul of Jesus, who had died for our sins, at 315 PM?
3. Where was the corruptible body of Jesus, who had died for our sins, at 315 PM?

At 615 PM our time that day, literally 15 minutes into the next day God set time the 15th day of the first month;

B.
1. Where was the spirit of Jesus, who had given up his spirit?
2. Where was the soul of Jesus, who had died for our sins?
3. Where was the corruptible body of Jesus, who had died for our sins?

C.
1. a. b.For how much time was the spirit, in the hands, of the Father? Was the Son Jesus renewed with the Spirit?
2. For how much time was the soul in Hades?
3. For how much time was the body corruptible, yet did not see corruption?

My answers;
A 1 In the hands of the Father
A 2 In Hades
A 3 On the cross

B 1 In the hands of the Father
B 2 In Hades
B 3 In the tomb of another

C 1a Three days and three nights 1b Yes *
C 2 Three days and three nights
C 3 Three days and three nights

* Rom 8: 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Acts 2:32,33 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.

 

Posted primarily to show, IMHO, the spirit of Jesus the Son of God, see Matt. 16:13-17 returned to God, the Father therefore the Son of Man , dead, was three days and three nights in the hears of the earth, the lowest parts of the earth, that is, Hades, the realm of all dead.

Please do not speak of compartments for I can not find them in the word of God relative to the dead.

I believe the Son of Man departed to Hades about 3 PM on the 14th day of the first month, a Wednesday of our week, a regular day. The 15th day of the first month began at sunset and was a day of holy convocation, no work to be done, Jesus was entombed just prior to this sunset and was seen where entombed by the women who were there. The 15th being a holy convocation day of rest is what the women did on that day. I believe in the daylight hours of the 16th day which had began the sunset before, the women went into Jerusalem and bought spices, carried to some place and prepared the them but by then the weekly sabbath was approaching, the 17th day of the first month, therefore they rested that day according to the commandment.

On the 18th while still dark they went to the tomb but found it empty,I believe it had been empty since the afternoon of the previous day. I believe Jesus was raised from Hades in body incorruptible, no more to return to corruption Acts 13:34 on the Sabbath day.

The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:22-24
Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Acts 4:10,11