If my articles sent to these hundreds of pastors do nothing else, I have no doubt that it is getting at least some of them to THINK. When I categorically state that Jesus Christ was NOT resurrected on Sunday, I’m sure some of them think, “Whaaat?” and dust off their Bibles and start flipping through the four gospels cocksure they will find the several times the scriptures say He rose from the dead the first day of the week, which of course is Sunday. They go to Matthew’s account, chapter 28, and read how Mary Magdalene and the other Mary arrived at the tomb “as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week” and find that Jesus is ALREADY GONE! They are then confronted by an angel who tells them ‘”HE IS NOT HERE FOR HE IS RISEN AS HE SAID!” And HOW did He SAY He would be resurrected? He SAID He would remain in the tomb for three days and three nights. Therefore, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that if He was placed in the tomb at sunset, then three days and three nights later would conclude at sunset – not sunrise!
Those pastors who THINK can then go to Mark, Luke and John’s accounts, read them slowly and carefully and might say, “Well, I’ll be….Nowhere does it say He arose from the dead on Sunday!” One or two of them – hopefully more – might ask themselves, “Then WHY are we worshiping on Sunday and calling Sunday a holy day or God’s new sabbath?” One or two of the more astute might notice that the angel told the women that Jesus after rising had left Judea and gone to Galilee, probably to console his beloved mother and reveal to her that He was indeed resurrected from the dead. (See verse 7, Mark 16). It then dawns on them that is where He had been for the several hours that had elapsed between His being resurrected at sunset the previous evening and His first appearing to Mary Magdalene and later to the other disciples later Sunday morning IN JUDEA!
Folks, the Holy Spirit will guide any redeemed believer out of their deceptions and into the marvelous truth of scripture IF he, or she, turns from any and all their sins, swallows their pride, and then searches the scriptures in a minute fashion in order to find and obey the truth. Most will not do that as they believe they can’t stop sinning. Therefore they don’t stop. I mean if you firmly believe you cannot stop sinning it naturally follows you are not going to stop. And again the thought will pop into their heads, “All these great men of God, these mighty theologians of the past and present can’t be wrong!” They’re right. Not all of them are wrong. Many see clearly that Jesus could not have been resurrected on Sunday, but they are, of course, in the minority.
John Piper sermon (a supposed theologian and seminary professor) just a day or so ago assured his congregation that every one of them was sinning continuously and probably all of them had sinned in just the past hour. He is absolutely certain that is the very best God provided for us in Christ Jesus, that we will all still continue sinning HOURLY! If that is not a satanic teaching, I don’t know what is.
Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Don Wiley