Have you heard about the rapture of the Church? Those that believe that the church will be raptured before the Great Tribulation rely on a story in the Old Testament about Moses, who struck a rock that was supposed to be a 'type of Christ'. Moses screwed up, and struck the rock twice and it made God angry. Moses was punished for that, and was told the he wouldn't get to enter the Promised Land, what was to be Israel.
The church is actually the people that believe in Jesus Christ, not the building. So when Jesus is said to lie in the tomb three days and three nights, he might have. Tradition may have it wrong. But what if he rose before that? and since the church is also called the 'body of christ' in the Bible, why couldn't Jesus have risen at any given time after he was put into the tomb? And the church carries the rest of the three days in terms of ( a day to the Lord is as a thousand years) waiting to be resurrected to the completion of what he said would happen?
2007-04-07 19:58:12 · 3 answers · asked by Christian Sinner 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So Jesus didn't lay around for three days, but perhaps for a day. And 2 thousand more years would make up the other part of the days?
I'm just throwing that out to you. It's a hypothesis.
2007-04-07 19:58:24 · update #1
U98,
Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in your sight
are like a day that has just gone by,
or like a watch in the night.
We are speaking big people talk. please just watch when you don't know something. Ask questions instead of inserting your foot into your mouth, okay?
2007-04-07 20:08:43 · update #2
You said a mouthful. First of all, I am a Christian and I do NOT believe that the church will be raptured. That theory is less than 500 years old. The Bible is specific in Matthew 24 when it states that 'immediately AFTER the tribulation shall you see the sign of the Son of Man...." It does not say before. And Jesus was talking to His disciples at that time, not people who did not believe.
My understanding of the three days in the tomb is that Jesus spent those 3 days in hell, taking the keys of hell away from Satan. The Bible is specific in saying that Jesus was not left in hell. After He retrieved the keys of hell He returned to Jerusalem where He was seen outside the tomb after the third day. People who call Good Friday the day of His death and Easter the day of His resurrection, are, in fact, not correct, for the simple fact that from Friday afternoon to sun up on Sunday morning is not 3 full days and nights. It was human error to state otherwise.
2007-04-07 20:05:19 · answer #1 · answered by The Nana of Nana's 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just love watching believers clutching at straws. You are obviously getting more desperate and confused as each day passes.
If you keep up this "one day equals a thousand years" stuff soon you will not be able to tell what time it is, at all.
2007-04-08 03:04:53 · answer #2 · answered by U-98 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No he did not lay around , it says he descended into the lower regions, he went into hell and preach the same salvation to the souls that died in the flood of Noah and before his salvation show up before his own resurrection, and then it says he lead captives in his train, the captives were the ones he just preached to in hades!
http://www.freedomcame.com/glory/
2007-04-08 03:05:16 · answer #3 · answered by bungyow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋