The Too Hard File

 Here's a question from my too hard file. These are questions that can seem easy to understand until you sit down and think about them. Here are the two texts that raised this question in my mind.

"For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." Mat.12:40

"...So the evening and the morning were the first day." Gen.1:5

We are told that Christ was crucified on Friday and was raised from the dead early on Sunday morning. This idea kind of fulfills the three days part, but definitely not the three nights. To fulfill both requirements, Christ would have been raised on Monday morning. Genesis says that morning begins the new day, not midnight.

It takes more intellect than I have to make this formula work. But, the important thing is that Christ was raised from the dead and He is alive today and that He is making intercession for us every day.