Holy Hormones Bible Study: Teaching — not Entertainment
Was the darkness twixt the 6th and 9th hour a Solar Eclipse?
FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD #10
Prologue: For anyone who thinks you are experiencing an episode of déjà vu, you are. I had rush of blood to the head and deleted the original post. (The words delete and edit look so similar)
It is the detail that makes me a boring person that brings the Bible alive for me. This is a short post to allow everyone to catch their breath.
Disclosure: I’m not a Messianic. I’m an NT Saint who has been exposed to my OT Heritage.
This post continues the rag-tag series on the closer examination of some of the aspects of the Passover/Last Supper. If you have come in part-way through the series, there is some explanation in the earlier episodes to be found in FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD
The easiest “miracle” for the Naysayers to explain away
It is written in Matthew 27:45–50 || Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” … And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.
Can’t you even see that it’s obviously a Solar Eclipse?
Well, Naysayer, if you believe it is an eclipse, you believe in miracles. This figure shows the sun and moon are not in the right place. The Crucifixion was on 14th Nisan, the middle of the month. (For explanation of the Lunar Cycle and Jewish month, go here.)
Who knows? Perhaps Intelligent Design, which the (sic)Intelligent Believers in Science reject, is on an even grander scale than first imagined. When Elohim made the stars also (Genesis 1:16), perhaps He had the Naysayers in mind. I’m open to correction but I look at this Figure and conclude, “The science is in — and it’s been in for a long time.”
The late English student of Thinking Processes, Tony Buzan, quipped, “When you finish your line of reasoning with, ‘It must be,’ rather than, ‘It is deduced from the evidence,’ it means that you have reached the end of your imagination or interest.” Plausible does not mean true.
Has this ever happened to you?
There is something that has never once crossed your mind but, when you see it, it is so undeniable that you say, “Iknewthat!”
It would be interesting to hear the Eclipsians explain this phenomenon away. My experience is that this, undoubtedly repeatable scientific measurement, will be ignored and another crippling zinger introduced to prove the Bible wrong by logical, scientific thinking.
The forgoing evidence has not been presented to convince any reader but to allow a personal decision to be made. There is much more to know about this subject. Perhaps you’ll pay another visit, sometime.
All Glory to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
(We all have a plank in our eye. It’s bigger than we think.)
