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which were also not three days and three nights but one day
(Saturday, daytime only) and two nights (Friday night and
Saturday night). The important criteria of the sign are:
AS
JONAH WAS
!
Jonah was alive in the belly of the whale,
and in the same way Jesus was ALIVE in the belly of the
earth
.
M
. Do you agree that Jonas was still alive when he was vomited
out of the belly of the whale?
C
. Yes! It says so in the Bible.
M
. So the sign was fulfilled of him being
alive
as he prophesied.
Jesus himself stated that he did not die on the cross
. Early
Sunday morning Mary Magdalene went to the sepulchre, which
was empty. She saw somebody standing who looked like a
gardener. She recognized him after a conversation to be Jesus
and wanted to touch him. Jesus said (
John 20:17):
“Touch me not;
for I am not yet ascended to my Father... “Touch me not,”
perhaps because the fresh wounds would hurt him. “
I am not
yet ascended to my Father,” means that he was not dead but
still alive.
If anybody dies, then he only ascends to GOD. This
was the strongest proof admitted by Jesus himself. After the
alleged crucifixion the disciples thought that he was not the
same Jesus in body but spiritualized, because resurrected bodies
are spiritualized.
C.
Interruption. How could you be sure that resurrected bodies
are spiritualized?
M.
That is what Jesus himself said in the Bible: that they
are
equal to angels.
C.
Where about in the Bible?