A Prophecy of Esau and Jacob

“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword” Matthew 10:34

“And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day” Amos 8:10

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Matthew 27:62 Now the next day, that following the Day of the Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,

The Next day, a High Sabbath — 15th Nisan, Thursday (9:00 AM) — 3rd hour

⁶³ saying, “Sir, we remember that that deceiver said while he was yet alive, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

⁶⁴ Command therefore that the sepulcher be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night and steal him away, and say unto the people, ‘He is risen from the dead,’ so that the last error shall be worse than the first.”

⁶⁵ Pilate said unto them, “Ye have a watch. Go your way, make it as secure as ye can.”

⁶⁶ So they went and made the sepulcher secure, sealing the stone and setting up a watch.

Another Day Passed — 16th Nisan, Friday (6:00 AM)

Mark 16:1 And when the [annual] Sabbath [First Day of Unleavened Bread] was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint Him.

Luke 23:56 And they returned and prepared spices and ointments, and rested the [weekly] Sabbath day according to the commandment.

Weekly Sabbath Passed — 17th Nisan, Saturday (6:00 PM)

Matthew 28:21 At the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher. — in Hebrew reckoning, dawn of a new day begins at sunset, around 6 PM.

Sunday Morning — 17th Nisan, Sunday (5:00 AM)

² And behold, there was a great earthquake, for the angel of the Lord descended from Heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. — Mary and the other ladies could have slept near the sepulcher over the night.

³ His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.

⁴ And for fear of him the guards shook and became as dead men.

John 20

¹ On the first day of the week came Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher and saw the stone taken away from the sepulcher.

Sunday Morning — 17th Nisan, Sunday (5:00 AM)

Mark 16:3 And they said among themselves, “Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulcher?”

⁴ And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away, for it was very large.

⁵ And entering into the sepulcher, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were frightened.

— this “young man” is most likely the risen Jesus, appearing as the Son of Man, but they couldn’t recognize Him.

⁶ And he said unto them, “Be not afraid. Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen! He is not here. Behold the place where they laid Him.

⁷ But go your way. Tell His disciples and Peter that He goeth before you into Galilee. There shall ye see Him, as He said unto you.”

Luke 24:8 And they remembered His words, ⁹ and returned from the sepulcher and told all these things unto the eleven and to all the rest. ¹⁰ It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James, and other women who were with them

⁸ And they went out quickly and fled from the sepulcher, for they trembled and were amazed; neither said they any thing to any man, for they were afraid.

² Then she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said unto them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulcher, and we know not where they have laid Him!”

³ Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulcher.

⁴ And they both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came first to the sepulcher.

⁵ And stooping down and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he went not in.

⁶ Then came Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulcher and saw the linen cloths as they lay

⁷ and the napkin that had been about His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but wrapped together in a place by itself.

⁸ Then the other disciple, who came first to the sepulcher, went in also; and he saw, and believed.

⁹ For as yet they knew not the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.

¹⁰ Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.

¹¹ But Mary stood outside at the sepulcher weeping, and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the sepulcher,

¹² and saw two angels in white, sitting one at the head and the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had lain.

¹³ And they said unto her, “Woman, why weepest thou?” She said unto them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid Him.”

¹⁴ And when she had thus said, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. — appearing as man, as the Son of Man;

¹⁵ Jesus said unto her, “Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?” She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said unto Him, “Sir, if thou have borne Him hence, tell me where thou hast laid Him, and I will take Him away.”

¹⁶ Jesus said unto her, “Mary!” She turned herself and said unto Him, “Rabboni!” (which is to say, “Master”).

“Touch Me not.”

¹⁷ Jesus said unto her, “Touch Me not, for I am not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say unto them, ‘I ascend unto My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’”

— “touch” represents a Greek word which means to “cling to,” to “fasten on,” to “grasp” an object. The tense is present, and the prohibition is, therefore, not of an individual act, but of a continuance of the act, of the habit, “Do not continue clinging to Me.”

¹⁸ Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things unto her.

Matthew 28:11 Now when they were going, behold, some of the guards came into the city and reported unto the chief priests all the things that were done.

¹² And when they were assembled with the elders and had taken counsel, they gave a large sum of money unto the soldiers,

¹³ saying, “Say ye, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept.’

¹⁴ And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him and secure you.”

¹⁵ So they took the money, and did as they were taught; and this account is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.

Luke 24:13 And behold, two of them were going that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about seven miles.

¹⁴ And they talked together of all these things which had happened.

¹⁵ And it came to pass that while they communed and reasoned together, Jesus Himself drew near and went with them.

¹⁶ But their eyes were held, that they should not know Him.

¹⁷ And He said unto them, “What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another as ye walk and are sad?”

¹⁸ And one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto Him, “Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which have come to pass there in these days?”

¹⁹ And He said unto them, “What things?” And they said unto Him, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

²⁰ and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death and have crucified Him.

²¹ But we trusted that it had been He who should have redeemed Israel. And besides all this, today is the third day since these things were done.

²² Yea, and certain women also of our company, who were early at the sepulcher, made us astonished.

²³ And when they found not His body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that He was alive.

²⁴ And certain of those who were with us went to the sepulcher and found it even so as the women had said, but Him they saw not.”

²⁵ Then He said unto them, “O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

²⁶ Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?”

²⁷ And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

²⁸ And they drew nigh unto the village whither they were going, and He made as though He would have gone further.

²⁹ But they constrained Him, saying, “Abide with us, for it is toward evening and the day is far spent.” And He went in to tarry with them.

³⁰ And it came to pass, as He sat at meat with them, He took bread and blessed it, and broke and gave it to them.

³¹ And their eyes were opened and they knew Him. And He vanished out of their sight.

³² And they said to one another, “Did not our hearts burn within us while He talked with us on the way and while He opened to us the Scriptures?”

³³ And they rose up that same hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together and those who were with them,

³⁴ saying, “The Lord is risen indeed and hath appeared to Simon!”

³⁵ And they told what things were done on the way, and how He was known to them in the breaking of bread.

Mark 16:12 After that, He appeared in another form unto two of them as they walked and went into the country.

¹³ And they went and told it unto the rest, but neither did they believe them.

John 20

¹⁹ Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in their midst and said unto them, “Peace be unto you.”

²⁰ And when He had so said, He showed unto them His hands and His side. Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord.

²¹ Then said Jesus to them again, “Peace be unto you. As My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you.”

²² And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said unto them, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost.

²³ Whosoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosoever sins ye retain, they are retained.”

²⁴ But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.

²⁵ The other disciples therefore said unto him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said unto them, “Unless I shall see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His side, I will not believe.”

Luke 24:44 And He said unto them, “These are the words which I spoke unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalms concerning Me.”

⁴⁵ Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures,

⁴⁶ and said unto them, “Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

⁴⁷ and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

⁴⁸ And ye are witnesses of these things.

John 20

²⁶ And after eight days the disciples were again within, and Thomas was with them. Then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be unto you.”

²⁷ Then said He to Thomas, “Reach hither thy finger and behold My hands, and reach hither thy hand and thrust it into My side: and be not faithless, but believing.”

²⁸ And Thomas answered and said unto Him, “My Lord and my God!”

²⁹ Jesus said unto him, “Thomas, because thou hast seen Me, thou hast believed. Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed.”

³⁰ And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book.

³¹ But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing, ye might have life through His name.

~ by Joel on October 11, 2023.

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