The Wedding Feast (~19.49) - Moriel Ministries

The third day always alludes to a resurrection
experience in some way in biblical
typology.
“But also some women among us
amazed us. When they were at the
tomb early in the morning, and did
not find His body, they came, saying
that they had also seen a vision of angels
who said that He was alive. Some
of those who were with us went to the
tomb and found it just exactly as the
women also had said; but Him they
did not see.” And He said to them,
“O foolish men and slow of heart to
believe in all that the prophets have
spoken! Was it not necessary for the
Christ to suffer these things and to enter
into His glory?” Then beginning
with Moses and with all the prophets,
He explained to them the things concerning
Himself in all the Scriptures.
And they approached the village
where they were going, and He acted
as though He were going farther. But
they urged Him, saying, “Stay with
us, for it is getting toward evening,
and the day is now nearly over.” So
He went in to stay with them.
Notice they invited Him in.
Then their eyes were opened and they
recognized Him; and He vanished
from their sight. They said to one another,
“Were not our hearts burning
within us while He was speaking to us
on the road, while He was explaining
the Scriptures to us?” And they got up
that very hour and returned to Jerusalem,
and found gathered together the
eleven and those who were with them,
saying, “The Lord has really risen
and has appeared to Simon.” They
began to relate their experiences on
the road and how He was recognized
by them in the breaking of the bread.
(Luke 24:13-35)
To this day Orthodox Jews the week
after Passover have miniature Seders, miniature
Seder meals. But the apostles could
not have been at this one because Jesus had
told them He would not eat the Passover
again until it was the Marriage Supper of
the Lamb (Lk. 22:14-18). The apostles
could not have been there. But He reveals
Himself in the breaking of bread, and it
is always after the third day just as it was
spoken by Hosea (Hos. 6:2).
The Third Day
The question is often asked, “Where
do you get the three days and the three
nights? Did He die on a Wednesday? Did
He die on a Thursday?” Well, before moving
on, let us put that out of the way, hopefully
once and for all.
It was now about the sixth hour, and
darkness fell over the whole land until
the ninth hour, (Luke 23:44)
In other words, from 12 noon to 3.
A Jew counts time sundown to sundown,
always based on the creation narrative
in Genesis – “owr” to “choshek,”
“light” to “dark.” It does not matter how
many hours are left in the day because
once the sun goes down that is a day. This
could not have been an eclipse for two
reasons: the first reason is it is the 14 th of
Nissan. The Jews followed a lunar calendar.
It is the opposite phase of the lunar
cycle for an eclipse to take place. It could
not have been an eclipse; something had
to happen with the sun. Hosea says on
the third day He will revive us. (Hos. 6:2)
The Hebrew prophet says that this has
a future, eschatological meaning.
“It will come about in that day,” declares
the Lord GOD, “That I will
make the sun go down at noon And
make the earth dark in broad daylight.
(Amos 8:9)
When Jesus died on the cross, the
sun went down. Amos prophesied the sun
would go down. There are certain times in
the Bible when God interferes with time.
Biblically there are three heavens according
to Paul: (2 Co. 12:2)
the first heaven – the atmosphere of the
earth; the second heaven – outer space;
and the third heaven – eternity..
But time is always calculated and calibrated
on the basis of the second heaven,
planetary motion. Strictly speaking, there
are atomic clocks which work not by planetary
motion, but by particle emission, but
even those clocks have to express their calculations
in nanoseconds. Time depends
on the second heaven.
In Isaiah and Revelation when it says
the “shamayim” – the “heavens” – are
rolled up like a scroll (Is. 34:4; Rev. 6:14),
it means outer space disappears and eternity
meets earth. That is what happens;
there is no time. Actually we have two
Greek words for time, “kronos” and “kairos.”
“Kronos” is a chronology of events
indicating we have chronology in eternity
but we do not have a clock. Eternity is not
a clock that keeps going because there is
no clock at all.
God interferes with time. He does it in
the book of Joshua where He blocks the
sun (Josh. 10:12-13). In Revelation 8:12
He will do it again. The day will go from
24 hours a day to 16. When King Hezekiah
was healed, God made the sun go back (2
Ki. 20:9-11).
If we read how old Hezekiah would
Special Interest – Continued
have been during his reign, we had a man
at the same age Jesus would have been – in
his 30’s with the clock going back, so the
clock had to go forward. In other words,
when the sun went down with Jesus, the
sun went forward with Jesus and it counterbalanced
what happened with Hezekiah.
Here was a man in his 30’s whose life was
prolonged because the clock went back
– the sun went back, and so with Jesus, a
man’s life of the same age was cut short
because it went forward.
It occurs with Hezekiah, it occurs in
Revelation, and it occurs in Joshua. There
are various times God interferes with time.
Well, He does it here. When Jesus dies, the
sun goes down twice; there are two sundowns.
No problem. Crucified on a Friday?
No, it is not Good Friday. Matthew,
Mark, Luke, and John say it happened at
Passover by the lunar calendar, not Easter
by the solar calendar. Easter was of Pagan
origin. However, in the 4 th Century, the Roman
Catholic Church changed it. Jesus did
not die on Good Friday, but we can say He
died on a Friday.
The sun goes down Friday, He is off
the cross, the sun goes back up at 3 o’clock,
the sun goes down again Friday night, the
sun comes up Saturday and goes down
Saturday night, and we can still count 3
days and 3 nights; literally 3 days and 3
nights. If Jesus was crucified on a Thursday
there would be a problem because we
would have 4 instead of 3. But it had to be
3 days and 3 nights, the same as Lazarus
(Jn. 11:14), the same as the two witnesses
(Rev. 11:9), the same as Jonah. (Jon. 1:17)
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Cleopas & the Disciple
In any event, it is the third day and
He is walking on the road to Emmaus.
And while walking on this road He meets
Cleopas and some other disciple. But their
eyes are prevented from seeing Him. He is
walking with them, but they do not really
recognize Him. “What are these words you
are talking about?” They tell Him all that
had happened, as if He did not know, but
He responds by saying…
… “O foolish men and slow of heart
to believe in all that the prophets have
spoken! Was it not necessary…
…for these things to happen? Notice He
complains that they did not understand the
Scripture.
…beginning with Moses and with all
the prophets, He explained to them
the things concerning Himself in all
the Scriptures. (Luke 24:25-27)
The Scripture, the Scripture, the Scripture.
“O foolish…and slow of heart to believe”
ALL that is in the Scripture.
December 2009 • Moriel Quarterly 15