Building on the Foundation

  In Exodus 12:15, as it reads in most Bible versions, we find a puzzling statement. God commanded His people, “Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel” (NKJV). “On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses.” This wording makes it sound as if we should deleaven our houses on the First Day of Unleavened Bread, a Holy Day! And yet, a few verses later, we discover, “For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, since whoever eats what is leavened, that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land” (Ex. 12:19). If no leaven is to be found in our houses for seven days, then obviously it cannot be found in our houses on the First Day, either! It must already be gone by then. So what’s the meaning of v. 15? It becomes a little...

There is a controversy in Christianity regarding the length of time Jesus was in the tomb. One side opts for a literal 3 days and 3 nights, the other opts for parts of 3 days and 2 nights to get His death and resurrection to line up with Good Friday and Easter . Today, we are going to take a look at some things we are told in the Bible that give us the exact day of the week when He died and also the almost exact timing of His resurrection. As a side note, this post represents a crash course (mostly for myself) in the Greek language, so bear with me since it will contain more of it than my other posts, but it's all relevant. I promise. I'm no expert in Greek, and the Greek in this post mostly represents quite a few hours of research, not an expertise in the Greek language, just so we're clear.  Jonah 1:17 NASB95 — And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights . Hebrew consistently uses "day an...