Posts Tagged: Gentiles

The Resurrection Changes Everything!

Where in the Bible is Resurrection

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The Key to Understanding the Bible “And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb” Luke 24:2 The stone rolled away from the tomb opened up an entirely new world. A brave new world! The evangelist Luke captures this new reality by telling us that Jesus, whose resurrection from death had opened the tomb, afterward opened the eyes of the Emmaus disciples to understand the… Read more »

“Joseph…said to them, ‘You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land!’…So he put them (Jacob’s sons) all together in prison three days. Now Joseph said to them the third day, ‘Do this and live, for I fear God’” (Gen 42:9, 17-19)Genesis 42:1-22 The drama of Joseph’s confrontation with his brothers, who had come to Egypt seeking bread in a time… Read more »

The Eschatological Third Day in Christ’s Gospel

Where in the Bible is Resurrection

The prominence of the “third day” in the Lord’s eschatological expectation is widely attested in the gospels. Jesus almost always associates his resurrection with the third day, and he begins by announcing the third day as the day of his triumph when he addresses the scribes and Pharisees about the prophetic significance of Jonah’s three days and nights in the belly of the great fish… Read more »