Creating the Israel of God
Before the foundation of the world, before light and darkness were divided, before the man and woman walked in the garden, God conceived a body of humanity, holy and blameless, chosen in Christ. [Eph. 1:4] This body would be called the Israel of God, which He predetermined would be adopted into His household through a spiritual birth, in His Son. [Eph. 1:5; Jn. 1:13, 3:5]
As part of bringing this plan into reality, God promised land and seed to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He fulfilled these promises in their children. It took both the Sinai Covenant and the New Covenant to fulfill these promises. The Sinai Covenant was a shadow of the “good things to come” in the New Covenant through the Messiah. The Sinai Covenant was to continue until the Promised Messiah should come. [Gal. 3:19]
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The Only Sign Given
When someone points out that Friday afternoon to Sunday morning, is not three days and three nights, many will be quick to make their parrot-like remark, “Don’t you know that the Jews counted any part of a day, as a whole day?”
After reading the evidence inside, that tired and worn-out answer will no longer be usable.
What's Inside
- Most are unware that during the week of Passover, there are always two days counted as a sabbath.
- Smoking Gun Evidence from Ante-Nicean documents, that the tradition was a Tuesday night Passover was held.
- The women who followed Jesus play a key role in the chronology of the three days and nights.
- The Sign of the Prophet Jonah explained as Jesus intended it to be understood.
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The Determined Time
Would it interest you to know, that God gave Israel a prophecy that told them exactly when the Messiah would come. When the Messiah came, He told them as clear as day, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand.” The time fulfilled was the Sixty-nine weeks of years from the commandment to return and rebuild Jerusalem unto the Messiah.
God told Daniel in the prophecy of the Seventy Weeks, that He had set a determined time to deal with “thy people and thy city.” This determined time was a period marked off out of Israel’s history, with a beginning and an end, lasting 490 years, without interruption, or gaps.
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Did Jesus Descend Into Hell?
Well, Yes and No
Where Jesus went and What He did during the three days and nights that transpired between His death on the cross and His resurrection, is not a matter of simple curiosity, but of Biblical integrity.
What's Inside
- A look at the 4 different words translated as “Hell”, and which ones are associated with Jesus’ descent into the lower parts of the earth
- A fresh look at Isaiah 52:14, which sheds light upon Paul’s teachings of Christ’s “emptying Himself” and His “becoming poor, for our sakes.”
- An alternative view to 1 Peter 3:18-20, which makes much more sense that the two conventional views held.
- Exposing the Word of Faith doctrine that Jesus went into the fiery torments of hell to accomplish man’s salvation.
- Before Jesus ascended into heaven, He descended into the lower parts of the earth, and led captivity captive. Who or what were these captives?
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