Counting Pentecost ~ Day Fifteen ~ The Fortunate 500

update April 22nd 2018 ~ by leilani

Today is the 1st day of the 3rd week of seven weeks. Today is the 15th day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath.

At the end of the original post I asked if anyone could add any more Old Testament Scriptures that spoke of a resurrection. At the time I had heard there were hundreds. I’ve read the lists and they seem a little contrived. I do believe the whole of Scripture points to Jehovah saving us from eternal death. In the last update I shared four prophecies. I have since found Micah 5:2; Zechariah 12:10 and in the book of Job we read these beautiful words of faith~

“As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth. “Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God; Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me! Job 19:25-27

“Some believe, however, that, in Luke 24, Jesus was not necessarily referring to any single Old Testament verse, or verses, but was simply referring to the entire body of Old Testament prophecies and writings concerning His suffering, death, burial, and resurrection. There is no doubt that the phrase, “the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms,” which Jesus uses (Luke 24:44), is a reference to the entire Old Testament.” UK Apologetics

I think that looking at the whole of Scripture is a better way of looking for Jesus as the Messiah. Like He told Nicodemus, “You must be born again”, or you just can’t see it. There is of course no other name whereby man can be saved ~ Jehoshua/Jesus ~ meaning Jehovah-Saves! HalleluYah!

Update April 19th 2015

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures. 1 Corinthians 15:3-4

The Bible is God’s personal message to Mankind.

Paul tells us the most important thing to remember is that Christ died for OUR sins, He was buried, and He was raised, according to the Scriptures. I believe God gave us the Scriptures, they are His personal message to mankind, written over a vast number years, by many people, inspired by His Holy Spirit. All of it points to Jesus and how we can be reconciled to Him. God had His prophets write down, in detail, events that were going to happen in the future. Jesus said, “search the scriptures…for they testify of Me”

Fair warning

God tells us He will do nothing significant affecting Israel or the world without first providing a warning, or warnings in advance through His prophets.

Surely the Lord Jehovah does nothing Unless He reveals His secret counsel To His servants the prophets. Amos 3:7

If this is true and I believe that it is, because God cannot lie, then God would have prepared Israel for the Messiah and He would have included enough detail to insure that there could be no question as to His identity. I’ve included just a few of the prophecies about the death, burial and resurrection. There are many, many more, proving that Jesus was and is our Messiah!

Prophecies of the death, burial and Resurrection

But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth. By oppression and judgment He was taken away; And as for His generation, who considered That He was cut off out of the land of the living For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due? His grave was assigned with wicked men, Yet He was with a rich man in His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth. But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied; By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, As He will bear their iniquities. Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, And He will divide the booty with the strong; Because He poured out Himself to death, And was numbered with the transgressors; Yet He Himself bore the sin of many, And interceded for the transgressors. Isaiah 53:5-12

They open wide their mouth at me, As a ravening and a roaring lion. I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It is melted within me. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, And my tongue cleaves to my jaws; And You lay me in the dust of death. For dogs have surrounded me; A band of evildoers has encompassed me; They pierced my hands and my feet. I can count all my bones. They look, they stare at me; They divide my garments among them, And for my clothing they cast lots. Psalm 22:13-18)

For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol; Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay. Psalm 16:10

“He will revive us after two days; He will raise us up on the third day, That we may live before Him. Hosea 6:2

Original Post April 22nd 2012

29 Abib/Nissan 31 AD

Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep; then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles; and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also. 1 Cor 15: 1-8

I found this interesting commentary from Chuck Smith –

So Paul, first of all, declares that this is the heart of the gospel. The gospel that Paul preached, he preached the gospel that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures. The scriptures that he would have to be referring to would be the Old Testament scriptures, because the New Testament was not yet written. So where in the Old Testament does it speak of the death of Jesus Christ? Many places. Psalm 22 , a description of death by crucifixion. Isaiah 52-53. That He was buried and rose again according to the scriptures on the third day…now this presents a little more difficult problem. Where in the scriptures does it speak about Jesus rising again the third day?
When they asked Jesus for a sign, He said, “a wicked and an adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale so shall the Son on Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth Matt 12:39-40. And so the third day and rising again, Jonah, perhaps, as sort of an example and yet it’s really hard to tie that in a very definite way.
But if we go back to the book of Genesis, we hear God saying to Abraham, “Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac and offer him as a sacrifice on the mount that I will show you.” Gen 22:2. Now, when God said to Abraham take now thy son thine only son, we have an equivalent to that in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son.” And you remember that Abraham gathered his servants and Isaac, and they began to journey from the area of Hebron towards Jerusalem. And they had journeyed for three days when they came into view of the mount that the Lord showed unto Abraham. Mount Moriah, which is in Jerusalem. During that three-day journey . . . and Isaac is an interesting type of Christ in the Old Testament. During that three-day journey in the mind of Abraham, Isaac was as dead.
We read in Hebrews 11 that by faith Abraham offered Isaac believing or knowing that God, if necessary, would raise him from the dead. For God had said, “Through Isaac shall thy seed be called,” and Isaac at this point did not have any children. And so Abraham had such confidence in the promise of God that through Isaac shall thy seed be called that he was willing to obey the Lord, if necessary, to offer him as a sacrifice, knowing that God would raise him from the dead. So it was Abraham’s faith in the resurrection that caused him to be willing to obey this command of God.
As they left the servants and journeyed together, father and son, toward Mount Moriah, Isaac said, “Dad, we’re missing something. We’ve got the fire and the wood for the sacrifice, but we don’t have any sacrifice. Where’s the sacrifice, Dad?” And Abraham said, “Son, the Lord will provide Himself a sacrifice.” What an interesting phraseology. He didn’t say, The Lord will provide a sacrifice for Himself, but, The Lord will provide Himself a sacrifice. In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. And so they journeyed together, and Abraham built the altar and he placed Isaac thereon. And as he raised the knife, the Lord said, “Okay, Abraham, far enough. Now I know that you will not withhold from Me. Behold there is a ram caught in the thicket. Go ahead and offer the ram as a sacrifice.”
Now the interesting thing is Abraham left the servants. He said to the servants, “You wait here, and I and the lad will go and will sacrifice and will come again.” Abraham told the servants, “We’re coming back. I and the lad are going we’re going to sacrifice and we’re going to come again.” Faith in the promise of God, “through Isaac shall thy seed be called.” He knew that somehow, someway, if necessary, God would even raise him from the dead. And thus, the belief in the resurrection after three days, dead in his mind, in that he had to sacrifice him according to the commandment of the Lord.
And Abraham offered the ram as the sacrifice and he declared, “Jehovah-Jireh.” He called the name of the place Jehovah-Jireh, for the Lord will provide. And then again he prophesied, “For in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.” Interesting! Not, “It was seen, I saw it, I’ve seen it,” but future, “It shall be seen.” Very interesting that 2,000 years later on the top of Mount Moriah, the very same mount where Abraham offered Isaac, God provided Himself a sacrifice. And God’s only begotten Son was crucified on Mount Moriah in the spot where Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice. And so Abraham was only in a play act drama, play acting what God would do in the future and prophesied of that day in the future when God would provide Himself the sacrifice. “In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen,” and it was.–Chuck Smith

I believe there are other Old Testament scriptures that speak about the Messiah rising on the third day….anyone know off the top of their head which ones they are?