Cheryl Schatz

Margaret,
Welcome to my blog! I know that this post is a very old one, but I am glad that you took the time to comment.

The issue of three nights of Jesus’ death was an important one to me since I could understand parts of three days as any part can be spoken of as a whole, but I couldn’t make three nights work. But if there were not three nights then this part of the Bible was either it was truth and I just didn’t have all the facts so that my understanding was partial and faulty or else the bible was in error and if it was in error in one area, then how could I a mere human determine which was true and which wasn’t? The big leap for me was believing that every word of the passage in question was truth and admitting to God that I believed Him over my own understanding. Then God took me outside my box to help me understand and that was the basis of my strong belief that God’s Word is trustworthy and the answer is there is I work hard to uncover God’s unfailing truth.

My research brought me to the conclusion that Jesus died on Thursday between the two evenings (when the lamb was to be slain) and that He rose from the dead very early Sunday before the light of day dawned. The issues of the Jewish counting of the start of the days, a special Sabbath that caused a double Sabbath, the Jewish counting of two evenings when the lamb must be slain and the fact that Jesus did not stay in the grave once the dawn of the day of Sunday were all a part of my education. The Jewish counting of their day is the day starts at sundown.

Anyway thanks again for popping in and I hope that my work can be a help to you along your journey.