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Saturday, March
27, 2010
Good Friday?
Matthew 12:38-40 Then certain of the
scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign
from thee. (39) But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous
generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it,
but the sign of the prophet Jonas: (40) For as Jonas was three days and
three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days
and three nights in the heart of the earth. (KJV)
A number of events are going to take
place this week, events based on man’s calendar and not on facts. First of
all, come the first day of April which falls on Thursday, many will call it
a day of fools. For many professing Christians, this day will continue into
Friday as well because many are fooled into thinking something prominent
took place that day concerning their salvation. Our Lord was very specific
in pointing out that after His crucifixion, He would spend three days and
three nights in the heart of the earth before resurrecting.
Jonah 1:17 Now the LORD had prepared a
great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish
three days and three nights. (KJV)
Just to back it up with a second witness,
we see that Jonah the prophet did spend what I am sure was a miserable
three days and three nights in the belly of that fish. Christ our Savior
spent three days and three nights in a very unpleasant place as well so
that He could pay the Spiritual price for our sin, and then rise
victoriously with the keys of hell and death.
Acts 2:30-32 Therefore being a prophet,
and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of
his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his
throne; (31) He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that
his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. (32) This
Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. (KJV)
Now folks, our Lord got Himself in a hell
of a predicament so to speak for our sake, so that we would not have to. So
when mankind tries to tell you that our Lord was crucified on a Friday, and
then rose on a Sunday morning, the question I want to ask is, “are you
smarter than a preschooler”? Do the math folks, it just doesn’t add up does
it? So why bring this point up, or even bother with what must seem trivial
and petty to many? Well simple folks, because if you are letting something
so simple and obvious as this slip underneath your spiritual radar, how
many other sneak attacks has the enemy gotten by your so called shield of
faith? How well exercised are your Spiritual senses really?
Williams New Testament translation
for Galatians 4:9-11
9. but now, since you have come to know
God, or rather have come to be known by Him, how can you turn back to your
own crude notions, so weak and worthless, and wish to become slaves to them
again? 10. You are observing days, months, seasons, years. 11. I am
beginning to fear that I have bestowed my labors on you for nothing.
You know Church, it is one thing to have
gotten duped in our past before our conversion in Christ, it is quite
another to let the enemy pull the wool over your eyes again in the form of
a veil, the truth that gets veiled and disguised by manmade worldly
religions and doctrines. If you
truly plan on moving forward in your walk with the Lord and growing and
maturing in Christ, then you will need to study the truth for yourself, and
then go on a Spiritual exercise program so that you don’t get bent out of
shape with a bunch of other carnal Christians. So while many will be fooled
having had pranks pulled on them on the first of April, many in the so
called church are being fooled again on Friday as well.
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