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The only sign of Yahshua's legitimate Messiahship was confirmed by the fact that Yahshua indeed did remain in the tomb for 3 days and 3 nights, in other words, 72 hours. Chr-stianity claims that the Messiah died on Friday afternoon and was raised on Sunday morning and yet this cannot at all fit in the 72 hours that clearly Yahshua refers to and is completely unbiblical. Chr-stianity have come up with ideas which are not scriptural. Yahshua said that just as Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights, so he would be in the heart of the earth in Matthew 12:40. The 'heart of the earth' is an idiomatic expression meaning in the tomb.
Why did Yahshua point to Jonah the prophet to confirm His Messiahship? Isn't one of the reasons because He knew that in our generation, and even in His generation, they are those who doubt the Jonah account probably the most. Yet here Yahshua is confirming that yes, Jonah was indeed in the belly of a great fish for three days and three nights. The Biblical accounts are true, and Yahshua being raised from the dead is tied to the legitimacy of the Biblical accounts. Jonah was in the belly of a great fish, and Yahshua did die, was put in a tomb and raised on the third day. Jonah tells us "out of the belly of Sheol cried I, and you heard my voice" in verse 2 of chapter 2. Sheol refers to the common grave. A parallel is made in verse 6 with the word pit (Hebrew -shachath), meaning the pit or grave.
When Yahshua died, at the end of the day called Wednesday, at sundown, His body was placed in the tomb, and the stone rolled before the door. Very soon thereafter, the first holy day of Unleavened Bread occurred when no work could be done. At the end of that high day, the priests went to Pilate and requested a guard to be posted at Yahshua's sepulcher and the stone sealed. The guard would have been withdrawn after the three days and three nights, during which Yahshua had specified He would be in the tomb. During the day of labor between the annual high day and the weekly Sabbath, the women prepared their spices and ointments to anoint Yahshua. Unable to enter the tomb because of the Roman guard and seal, they had to wait until the guard would be withdrawn. Therefore, they came at early dawn, but found the tomb empty. At that time, they saw a vision of angels telling them that Yahshua was alive , resurrected from the dead, and no longer there. None saw Yahshua until later.
I laugh. I do. There is no way that anyone can harmonize a 72 hour - 3 day and 3 nights in the tomb - with the faulty doctrine Chr-stianity teaches - that Yahshua was only in the tomb for 36 hours. That allows only half the time that He himself demanded. Nonetheless it is evidence that Chr-stianity has rejected the Messiah.