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In the tomb – Day 2
Preparation for the Sabbath (Saturday).
Disciples still dispersed and hiding in fear, their messiah is dead. 

Review some of the Old Testament Scripture fulfilled:      

MT 21:7   2 Kings 9:13 …every man his garment, and put it under him … (treatment of a King)
Mt 21:5, MK 11:7    Zech 9:9  … thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.  
Lk 19:40    Hab 2:11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall,
MT 21:9    Ps 118:28 Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.
MT 21:12    Isa 1:1-15, ISA 8:14-15 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. …
Mt 21:12   Mal 3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Mt 21:13, Mk 11:17   Isa 56:7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. 
Mk 11:10, Lk 20:17   Ps 118:22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
Mt 22:32, Lk 20:37    Ex 3:6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 
Mt 21:16, 27:1    Ps 8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.  
Mt 21:24   Job 5:13   He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Mt 21:38,26:3   Ps 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying
Mt 21:42    Isa 19:19 In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord. 
Mk 13:31    Isa 40:8  … but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Mk 17:7       Deut 15:11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: …
Lk 20:28    Deut 25:5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her.
 Mt 22:37    Deut 6:5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Mt 22:39     Lev 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.
Mt 22:44, Mk 11:36, Lk 20:42-43   Ps 110:1 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. 
Mt 24:34     Ps 102:25,26  Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: 
Mk 14:18, Lk 22:21,48, Jn 13:18   Ps 41:9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Jn 18:6     Ps 27:2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Mt 26:15    Zech 11:13 … And I took the thirty pieces of silver…
Mt 26:31, Mk 14:27    Zech 13:7 …  smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered:…   
Mt 26:53    Ps 91:11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
Mt 26:54, Mk 15:1, Jn 199    Isa 53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Mt 26:60, Mk 14:57    Ps 27:12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Mt 27:14,Jn 19:9    Ps 38:13-14 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 
Mt 27:29     Ps 69:9  For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
Mt 27:29, Mk 15:31    Ps 69:19  Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
Mt 27:29, Mk 14:61, Lk 22:65    Isa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Mt 27:30, Mk 15:15,Jn 19;1     Isa 50:6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. 
Mk 15:19   Isa 52:14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
Mk 15:19   Mic 5:1 …they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
Mt 27:34, Mk 15:36    Ps 69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Mt 27:36   Ps 22:17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.  
Mk 15:24,Lk 23:34   Ps 22:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
Mk 15:28   Isa 53;12 … he was numbered with the transgressors; …
Mk 15:30, Lk 23:35   Ps 22:8 He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Mt 27:45, Mk 15:33    Amos 8:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
Mt 27:66    Dan 6:17  And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel
Mt 27:46, Mk 15:34    Ps 2:1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
Lk 23:46    Ps 31:5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
Mt 27:60, Mk 15:27     Isa 53:9  And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Mk 16:6, Lk 24:26    Hos 6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

In the tomb – Night 3

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In the tomb – Day 3

Regular Sabbath ends at 6 pm.
Completion of 3 Days and 3 nights. (Mt 12:40, Lk 11:30)

Before Dawn (in the middle of the night) Angel rolls stone away, opening the Grave.  (Mt 28:2-3, Mk 16:4, Lk 24:2, Jn 20:1)

Guards shrink and faint in fear.   (Mt 28:4)
Jesus rises from the dead and takes all the Old Testament saints and paradise to Heaven. (Eph 4:8-10, Rev 2:7)
Graves were opened and the bodies of the saints which slept arose, after his resurrection, and went into the holy city. (Mt 27:53-54) 

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He is not here, He has risen! (Mt 28:6, Mk 16:6)
They found the stone rolled away. (Mk 16:4, Lk 24:2-3, Jn 20:1) 
That day Jesus went to heaven to present His blood. (Jn 20:11-17; Heb 9:11-14)
Jesus returned to the earth. (Jn 20:18-31) 
Guards accept money and agree to Lie. (Mt 28:11-15) 

What the death, burial and resurrection accomplished: Col 2:14-15 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Salvation for all who believe! 

For a detailed list of events on resurrection day, see TOPIC: Fun Facts & Information-Forty Days after the Resurrection.

Sunday DAY 15
Again appears to all eleven (including Thomas). Jn 20:26-31 

During the following days.
Jesus appears to the disciples (Jn 21:1-25)

AFTER THE RESURRECTION UP TO THE ASCENSION
Stays on the earth for 40 days. (Acts 1:1-3)
Gives the Great Commission (Mt 28:16-20, Mk 16:15- 18)
Ascends into heaven in a body.  (Mk 16:19-20, Lk 24:50-53)
Ten days later the Holy Ghost is Given. Acts 2:1-4

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DRING is responsible for more lost souls, more broken homes, murders, suicides, shame, misery … than any other product (drugs are coming on strong) on earth.
IT IS NOT A SICKNESS, IT IS SIN …… SIN SOLD IN A BOTTLE!
Galatians 6:7-8 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Romans 13:12-13 Drunkenness is called the work of darkness and is to be cast off.
1 Corinthians 5:11 Warns the believer to separate himself from professing brothers who …
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Drunkards will not inherit the kingdom.
What am I suggesting …. TOTAL Abstinence! Don’t drink alcohol!
“But I won’t be part of the crowd”. Wouldn’t that be Great! You’d travel in a much nicer crowd.
Leviticus 10:9 Priests were NOT to drink
Numbers 6:3 Nazarites were not to drink
Proverbs 23:31 Wise men warned not to drink
Proverbs 31:4 Kings and princes warned not to drink
Jeremiah 35:6 Children of Rechab told not to drink
Daniel 1:8 Daniel chose not to defile himself with drink
Luke 1:15 John the Baptist didn’t defile himself with drink
Romans 14:21 Warns not to use meat or drink to be a stumbling block
WHAT Does drinking get you?
TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY … Let it be from the Heart, not from the bottle.
Final thought:
Habakkuk 2:15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

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What comes to mind when you think of Thanksgiving Day?
Turkey? Family? Friends? Big Meal? Fun-Happiness?
Thanks to God? What the Lord Jesus has done? Pilgrims?

Pilgrims … they had many reasons for coming to the new world: escape government oppression,
escape old debts, dislike of old life of persecution, challenge, adventure, a new beginning, etc. etc.
Thanksgiving should remind us of a new beginning.

When you got saved, you got a new beginning. Your name was written into the Lambs Book of Life, ALL old events of your life are blotted out by the blood of the Lord Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

THANK GOD FOR EVERYTHING – ESPECIALLY FOR YOUR SALVATION – And the opportunity to spend eternity with HIM forever in a place we can’t even describe.

1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

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Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

What do we know about Joseph? 
    He was a just Man Matthew 1:19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.
    He was obedient to God Matthew 1:24-25Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name Jesus.              See also Matthew 2:13-14, 19-23
    He was a Jew, in the linage of the house of David Luke 1:27 states “To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.” 
Matthew 1:1-16 “……And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ”.
Luke 3:23-38 records the geology of Joseph. Vs 31 states ”Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David,”.
    He was a Carpenter by trade Matthew 13:55 Is not this the carpenter‘s son? is not his mother called Mary? …
Joseph disappears from the scripture but some things are surmised:
He was probably in his mid-twenties, a carpenter, not wealthy but able to support a family.
     He was obedient to the Temple and to the Law, (both God’s and Man’s).
   He probably died before Jesus was Crucified as he is not mentioned there.

What do we know about Mary? 
   She was espoused to Joseph Matthew 1:18
She was a Virgin Luke 1:27
   She was in favor with God Luke 1:30
She was obedient to God Luke 1:38
   She was a Jew and acknowledged God as her Savior Luke 1:46-47
   She was related to Elisabeth, (Luke 1:40-41) Mother of John the Baptist Luke 1:57-63
   She was probably in her teenage years.

Joseph & Mary had at least 6 other children after the birth of Jesus. 
Matthew 13:55-56 Is not this the carpenter‘s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? …

     Note: James was the leader of the Assembly in Jerusalem, and wrote the epistle of JAMES. Judas (Jude) wrote the epistle of JUDE.

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Luke 2:1-3 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

The Census of Quirinius was a census of Judea taken by the Roman governor upon the imposition of direct Roman rule in 6 CE.

This taxation order forced Joseph, who obeyed the Law of the Kings, to leave Nazareth, the city where He and Mary lived awaiting the birth of their first child and return to Bethlehem, his birth place.

Luke 2:4. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)

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Luke 2:4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)

     It would appear it took Joseph, and a heavily pregnant Mary riding on a donkey, about a five-day journey (possibly longer) to travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem. Bethlehem is situated in the Judaean Hills 5 miles (8 km) south of Jerusalem. Bethlehem was a small farming and sheep town with many shepherds living there.

     The City of Bethlehem is mentioned in 12 Books of the Old Testament most notability:

MICAH 5:2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

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Luke 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

     The word “manger” comes from the Old French mangier (meaning “to eat”), from Latin mandere (meaning “to chew”). A manger or crib is a wooden or stone feeding trough or food box that holds hay for larger farm animals like cattle, horses, and donkeys. Mangers are generally found in stables and farmhouses. The manger is not a room or place.

     When Joseph and Mary arrived at the Inn, all the travelers had overcrowded the guest rooms. Inns at the time were not like today. There was not a room for everyone that checked in. There was one, possibly two large rooms where all slept together. Perhaps the Inn keeper seeing Mary’s condition offered a place where the animals lived so she could have privacy while she delivered her child. Then she placed her child in a manger (filled with Hay) for comfort.

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LUKE 2:8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

WHY Shepherds?   
     It may also be worth noting that many biblical figures were shepherds, among them the patriarchs Abraham and Jacob, the twelve tribes, the prophet Moses, King David, and the Old Testament prophet Amos, who was a shepherd in the rugged area around Tekoa.

Who were the Shepherds? 
     Shepherds had a difficult job that earned no rank in society. Some believe they were priests, actually fulfilling Temple duties, and the only ones who could perform Temple duties were priests.

How Many?
    There had to be at least 2, possibly 4 or 5, but the scripture does not say. But how many could have crowded into the place where the manger was to see the new born child?

What were they doing?
  A shepherd’s primary responsibility is the safety and welfare of the flock. The shepherd will graze the animals, herding them to areas of good forage, and keeping a watchful eye out for dangerous animals.

They were Jews and probably knew of the promises of a coming Messiah (Christ the Lord).
They were given a sign (Jews looked for a sign). Luke 2:12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
They Obeyed God (Thru the Angel’s Message) and headed for the city Luke 2:15.

It would appear that they arrived in a short order as Joseph & Mary were still in the Manager. Luke 2:16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.

They made this knowledge known abroad. Luke 2:17 And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.

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