Building on the Foundation

A question I have wrestled with for a while, as many have in the Church of God, is the definition of “between the evenings.” Most of the arguments regarding “between the evenings” are based on historical records, which are then used to work backward into the Bible to arrive at a definition.  Some of the other writers on this blog have undertaken to write about this, and until now, I have largely remained silent on the topic simply because I have not studied it for myself.  I was one of those who took others' papers on the topic and relied on historical sources to define what “between the evenings” actually meant, so this is no judgment of those who do the same. The main question I wanted to examine is whether or not, by strictly using Scripture, it’s possible to define the term “between the evenings.” My conclusion is that it is indeed possible to define the terms solely based on Scripture, and it’s not even that complicated. I realize this post may be quite controversial...

  About 2,000 years ago, God sent His Son to earth to die in our place to atone for our sins. As we’ll see shortly in God’s Word, God planned it before the foundation of the world, before time began. It’s the most momentous event in all of human history. Everything in the Bible points to it, in both Old and New Testaments. In fact, the Apostle Paul “determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2). Our salvation — our eternal life — God’s entire plan — hinges on Christ’s sacrifice. Without Christ’s death and resurrection, we are nothing. We are dead men walking, awaiting the doom of eternal death. But through His death and resurrection, we can live forever with Him! All four gospels carefully establish that Jesus died on Nisan 14th, the preparation day for the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the same day God’s people sacrificed the Passover lambs in the Old Testament (Ex. 12:6). Is this just a coincidence, or is it crucially important? 1 C...