"Ancient Prophecies Fulfilled" Rescue Radio with Marjorie Cole

0:00 Yes, Father God, we thank you for your mercy. What is your location? That your will be done, O God, on earth. That it is for us this day, Lord. Help us to recognize this is a battle, this is a battle, and bring you all the way up in the formation. And my words, not your own, you mean, not your own, but your own, but your own, and your own, and your own. Music. Just look at the way things look, and as look to you, and as we see you in the room, so this is even in this time as we meditate on the crucifixion and the resurrection, that we will recognize that this is a plan that was going since the garden, and that we are in the middle of being the witnesses to what you've done. And thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross, for exchanging your life for ours, your blood for ours, your salvation.

0:43 You became the sacrificed lamb, the final lamb, the one that was able to pay the penalty in full for the debt that we owed, Father God, the debt that sin demanded of us. And I thank you, Lord, for giving us power over all the power of the enemy. I thank you for each one who's listening. I pray that you'd gather their hearts together to understand your will for their lives, that you give them eyes to see, ears to hear, a heart to receive that revelation and be encouraged today. Lord God, we know how the enemy works about us to try to discourage and empty out and just drain out the joy of the Lord. So let us be filled up again with your faithfulness, your presence, your goodness. There's nothing like you, Lord God, to refresh and replenish your people.

1:25 And I thank you. We bind the powers of darkness that would come against us, against this radio show, against our work today, against anything that we would be commissioned by you to do, that your will be done and us be counted as faithful servants. I bind the strong men, the familiar spirits, all those that would hold assignment. No weapon formed against us will prosper. We declare your victory in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Well, the cross of Jesus Christ is the greatest victory ever. It's really the centerpiece of human history. Yeah, well. Because, you know, you mentioned about since the garden, God is planned. But we read about Jesus that he was the lamb slain since the foundation of the world.

2:07 From the foundation of the world. So actually before the foundation of the world, this is mind-blowing. Before Genesis, way before, we could say, way back in eternity, which is the only way we can describe it, because we don't understand eternity. It's past, present, it's future all at once. It never ends. But here Jesus came and. In the fullness of time, it says. In the fullness of time in Galatians. Yeah, it's just the right time. So God's timing is just so perfect. It's a plan in eternity that's unfolded in time. Yeah.

2:48 And so from the Genesis, you know, confrontation of the serpent, and God said, I will put enmity between your seed and the seed of the woman. Obviously, Satan then has seed. He has offspring. He has, you know, protege. He has, you know, children. As Jesus said in John 8, you're of your father, the devil. But the Lord God said that he would put war between the woman and the seed of the woman and between the serpent, and that the serpent would crush, I mean, would hinder or bruise the heel of the woman's seed, that would be Jesus. But Jesus would crush his head. And now this, 4,000 years later, is the crushing, is the crushing of the serpent's head.

3:33 And yet many, many people, I'm sure, did not catch that. They did not get what was really going on. And that's obvious as we see their reactions to the crucifixion and to the events that led up to it and after it. It's interesting, verse 45 of Genesis, or not Genesis, Matthew 27. 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, ila ila lama sabachthani, that is, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? That's Genesis, not Genesis, why I got Genesis on the brain here today. Because I just said Genesis. Yeah, you said Genesis, and I picked it up. Well, yeah, it's the connection.

4:14 There's a connection. There's the connection, right. Matthew 27, and from the sixth hour, which was about noon, to the ninth hour is about 3 p.m. So Jesus is on the cross for about six hours. And it's amazing that he even survived the beating and carrying his cross. Just amazing. God was sustaining him. He couldn't die from the whipping. He had to die on the cross. And it's a fulfillment of the prophecy. One of the things that we see, it's brilliant, we could say. All the way through here, we see prophecies being fulfilled.

4:57 Prophecies that in detail being fulfilled. And he says, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? This is from Psalm 22, verse 1, and I encourage listeners here to check that out because so much of what Jesus endured on the cross, it was prophesied, you know, way, way back, hundreds and hundreds of years before. Many prophecies, actually, about what was going to happen. And interesting enough that the Pharisees and scribes, their job was to know the Scripture. Their job was to study the prophecies. And so they had read. I didn't see it. They had read Psalm 22 and Isaiah 51 or whatever. 53. 53.

5:41 They had read those things, you know, about the betrayal and the price of his betrayal, 30 pieces of silver. They had read those things. They knew, but it did not seem to connect. Did not connect them. So they were completely stupefied or blinded by this whole thing. And so therefore they went headlong into the plan that God has set up. And it was kind of interesting too, because you find out, you wonder, well, how did Jesus die? Who was behind all this? Who instigated this? And then you say, you hear verses where Jesus says, well, I laid down my own life. And so there's this kind of a willingness to lay down. How did all this happen?

6:25 He says, you don't take my life from me. I lay it down. And so the thing is that there was a fulfillment of many prophecies, many prophecies. Yeah, many prophecies all the way through from even Jesus when he's coming in on the triumphal entry, you know, what we call Palm Sunday. You know, this is a prophecy from Zechariah that he was going to come in riding on a donkey, not just a donkey, but the foal of a donkey. And someone coming in, riding on a donkey, it spoke of someone coming in at peace. Now, when Jesus, he was coming, well, yeah, coming, bringing peace.

7:06 But then the victory comes. Jesus is coming, riding on a white horse when he returns. Right, the second time. So he came to bring, well, he came to bring peace within our hearts, but then he came to bring division. He said, too, I didn't come to bring peace. I came to bring a sword. So there's going to be division because of him. People are divided. They were divided then, they're divided now over who is Jesus and what is the significance of the cross. Well, that's the stumbling block. Did it really happen? Did it really happen? Some people are speculating, oh, I don't know if it really ever happened, you know, and it's so many different views. Well, that's all what Satan tries to do. He tries to always bring double-heartedness, division, undermine, confuse, rewrite the narrative according to his fables and foolishness.

7:51 And so it's very difficult, you know, and nowadays, too, with people all enamored with the Easter bunny and all these other things. It's like, it's so degrading. It's so blasphemous. It is. To think about Jesus having those nine-inch nails pounded in his hands. I mean, we're jumping ahead of ourselves. And people are eating chocolate bunnies and celebrating Easter, which is a holiday named after Roman gods and pagan gods. Pagan gods. But going back to this, I want to make a mention that of the timing of this crucifixion is kind of confusing, you know, because their time, this all began in the morning, early in the morning, according to Roman time, early in the morning would have been 6 to 8 o'clock.

8:34 So in the morning, after they got Jesus, they grabbed him that night in the Garden of Gethsemane, and they gathered him up and took him to Caiaphas, and they had that conversation, and Caiaphas tore his robe, and he was indignant, and Jesus blasphemed because he agreed that he was the Son of God. And so then they were looking for all these witnesses, and one of the interesting things about the charges pressed against Jesus, Finally, they found two witnesses. They had to have two, that said that he said, I will destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days. Yeah, I will destroy the temple. That's not what he said. But that's not what he said. He said- They twisted what he said. Yeah, he did, they did. He said to them.

9:20 Destroy this temple and I will rise in three days. But they took it all out of context and they made it sound like he was going to hurt their precious temple and that he was a blasphemer because he said he was the son of God. So that's when they said, okay, that's it. We've got the evidence we need. And so this was happening in the middle of the night because they got Caiaphas up and he was ready to go. But then they had to wait in the morning and they had to get him to pilot. So the question is, who was behind this? Well, the scribes and the Pharisees, the religious leaders, they were really instigating this because of envy and jealousy and because they held him in great—they were threatened by him. They were afraid he was doing all the things they were supposed to be doing, and they weren't doing them, so they could only find fault with him to keep their crowd, to keep their people held hostage with the lies and the religious demands of their legalism.

10:14 But anyway, so this Caiaphas event happened, yeah, I would say probably four or five o'clock in the morning. And then they took him to Pilate. So Pilate is talking to him, what's the truth? Jesus said, you wouldn't have any power except I give it to you. And Jesus is pretty quiet there. He didn't say much. And so the interesting thing is that if he would have testified on behalf of himself, would have defended himself, they couldn't have crucified him. So that's why he didn't say anything, because he knew he needed to be crucified. I'm not sure he wanted to be, but he desired to fulfill the will of the Father. So he said nothing. And Pilate made note of that. What? You're not saying anything?

10:55 Even what he didn't say was spoken about in Isaiah 53, verse 7. He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, as a sheep before its shearers is silent. So he opened not his mouth. Right, so going back to the, yes, all of these prophecies were deliberate details that identified, confirmed the actual truth about what's happening at that moment. The Sadducees, they were the elite. They were the wealthy religious elite, and they only accepted Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. They did not accept the prophets, you know.

11:42 And Jesus is really spoken of in every book of the Bible. But they did not accept. Take any stock in the words of the prophets. And also, they didn't believe in demons, even though they were possessed with them, most of them. And they didn't believe in the resurrection. And so, part of their blindness was their theology. Right. And that's today, the same problem today. We have a blindness in our theology. Blinded by theology. Because we don't believe Christians can have demons. That's a big problem that blinds us. But anyway, back to the story. So he's in front of Pilate, and the Bible says Mark and Matthew both refer to that as being the third hour of the day.

12:29 Now, the third hour of the day in Jewish time, the third hour would be nine o'clock in the morning. And so by the time he's done with Pilate, 8 o'clock, he's in between 8 and 9. He's getting scourged. He's getting whipped. He's getting mocked. He's getting spit upon. I mean, this is the most vile, outrageous, blasphemous. He is the most innocent, beautiful, perfect human that ever lived. And all we could do was kill him. All we could do is hate him, crucify him. And so then he's scourged. They're mocking him. They're putting that robe on him. They're reading his hand to represent a scepter. They're spitting at him and they're saying, prophesy who struck you, putting that crown of that helmet of thorns on his head, more like a helmet.

13:17 And then at that point, so then there's the declaration, crucify, crucify. So the mob had been incited. Pilate was freaked out. He didn't want to be any part of this. He knew it was a setup. And so he washed his hands. And at that point where he washed his hands, it says, they said, okay, that's fine. His blood be on us and on our children. That's what they were agreeing to. That's what Pilate says. The blood be upon you and your children. And they said, that's good. We'll take it. So even to this day, there's that spiritual curse upon that nation. And the people are of that descendant because the descendants of the Jewish nation because of this agreement. Now, you can take that off you by simply canceling it out in the blood of Jesus.

13:58 But if you don't, it still stands. So, okay. So now back to the story. So he's at the ninth hour. He is crucified so that means he carries that cross up well the sixth hour it would be the sixth no no no the ninth hour the third hour is nine o'clock so at nine o'clock he is carrying his cross through the streets and he is crucified at the ninth hour so. The ninth hour is still three o'clock, or three, the third hour, according to the Jews, is nine o'clock our time. Okay, let's put it that way. And so he's there, he's going up to the hill, he's fallen down, and they picked up Simon of Cyrene because if Jesus wouldn't have made it to the cross, he wouldn't have made it to the hill, to Golgotha, then his death would have been, he just died in the streets, you know, of blood loss or something.

14:48 Yeah, and he didn't accept any drugs to relieve the pain. But they had to have Simon help him because he had to get up to the cross. And so several times, even in the garden when he was weakened with the blood and the sweat and all that coming out of his pores, an angel had to come to strengthen him because Satan was still trying to kill him. Satan was trying to kill him before he got to the cross because Satan knew that the cross was the pinnacle, the place of the sacrifice. And so that would be the atonement for our sins. So if he would just die a common death, you know, in the street, you know, under the weight of the cross, that wouldn't have counted. It had to be the death on the cross. So that's why Simon came along to pick up the cross. So now we're walking through the streets. We get up to the top of the hill, Golgotha, which is called the Place of the Skull.

15:32 And it says, and they crucified him there. And then they crucified him. Four words, four or five words. they use only four or five words to describe the whole excruciating experience of Jesus being thrown to the ground, nailed to the cross, and stuck up. And then, you know, that cross is on the ground when they're laying him there. And then they throw it up into the air, into that hole and the sod. And all of this pain is said in five words, and they crucified him. But this was about the sixth hour. So they got this, he was nine o'clock in the morning. And then at the sixth hour, what? At the sixth hour until the ninth hour, so from noon until 3 p.m., there was darkness over all the land.

16:14 And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Now, the ninth hour is 3 o'clock. So 3 o'clock is 9 o'clock and 9 o'clock is 3 o'clock. It's kind of weird in our way of looking. I hope I'm not confusing you. They count. So at noon, but noon is noon. So at noon, 12 o'clock, he's on the cross and he's speaking the last words, and he died. And when he died, well, actually at noon, the whole earth mourned at the darkness, the sky, the sun, the earthquakes, all these things began to, the creation began to recognize what was going on here. It's interesting.

16:55 It said, and Jesus cried out with a loud voice in verse 50 of Matthew 27, cried out again with a loud voice. Now, he's crying out with a loud voice. This is amazing that he had any voice left at all because he's basically like a torn up carcass on the cross. Don't accept the photos or the paintings of him. He's got a little blood here and a little blood there. Isaiah said he was marred. More than any man. His visage was so marred that he didn't even look human anymore. I mean, think of that. Think of that.

17:37 You say, well, I don't want to think of that. Well, you need to think of that because that's the way it was. And so not these ridiculous depictions of him on the cross. He was just torn. He was bruised. He was crushed. He was basically, his body was shredded. None of his bones were broken because he's the fulfillment of the Passover lamb, and the Passover lamb was consumed, but they couldn't break any of the bones. So he's a pattern. Do you see the pattern of all this going through? No bones were broken. And so this is another prophecy that's fulfilled. And what happened? Here's when he cried out, when he yielded up his spirit.

18:17 Can I read 33 first? Now when the sixth hour had come, as you were saying, there's darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. So six hours is noon, and the ninth hour would be then three o'clock. So for those three hours, there was darkness, blackness, like the blackness of night. And at the ninth hour, which is three o'clock, Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabbatani, which is translated, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? So he is at that place of great—he's abandoned by God. I mean, he's not really abandoned by God, but that's his emotional position. He's not feeling the anointing, the presence, the power, the encouragements of his father right there. He's feeling alone.

19:03 He's feeling— All the sins, all the sins of the human race, past, present, and future, are laid on him. the judgment for all sin for all time. Was laid upon him. And we can't comprehend that. We think, oh, the pain, if you study about the crucifixion, how agonizing it was physically, just the most brutal, inhumane possible way to torture somebody and to kill somebody. And it was long. People would be on there for hours and hours. But then you think of all the sin, all sin of the human race for all time concentrated on him.

19:50 He became, literally became a sin for us. Yeah, that's right. Paul tells the Corinthians. Yeah. So he was on that cross from basically nine o'clock in the morning when they crucified him until three o'clock. For six hours, he was on the cross. And usually it would take people a couple of days to die, but because he was so bruised and bloody and beaten up and because he released his spirit to the Lord. He released his spirit. He had done it, he finished it. He had in that weakness, in that horrible condition, he yielded up his spirit. So he was not murdered.

20:31 You know, Acts talks about you were the murderers. Well, it was basically human beings under the inspiration of Satan and actually murdered him, yet he offered himself. Willingly. Willingly as a final sacrifice. And what happened? So he yielded up his spirit. They didn't really take it from him. Right. That's what he said. No man takes it from me. And it's interesting here in Matthew 27, 51, then, Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. And the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

21:12 And coming out of the graves after his resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. So the veil of the temple, we're told it was about, it was separating the holy place. From the holy of holies. Two different rooms. And we're told that that was about, the veil was about, it was woven about four inches thick You imagine something. A curtain that's four inches thick. Like a curtain four inches thick. And it just didn't fall down. It didn't split from the bottom up. It split from the top down. What God was doing is saying, okay, the way now, if in Hebrews we read about that, The way into the very presence of God has been made through the death of Jesus Christ.

22:04 And it's interesting, too, you had an earthquake. So you got darkness. Villa, temple splitting. You got darkness. You've got an earthquake. Rock splitting. You got rocks splitting. And you get graves open. And this would be, I think, after the resurrection is what it says here. They appeared to many. They came out of their grave. Like that, you'd think that would be pretty freaky. I mean, all of a sudden somebody comes to your door and it's like, who's this? What more could God have shown them, Don, testify to the fact that he is watching. He is aware of what's going on. And the temple veil being rent, now the Pharisees and the scribes and the Sadducees and all those people had no more right to hold the people back.

22:51 Because back in the law, you know, you had to go through the priest to get, you know, the offering so you could get to God. Now God is saying, nope, done with that. You can come to me directly. And so this is why the gospel of grace and good news is such a good thing because you and I don't have to wait for a priest or a mediator or a moderator or something to get permission to go to Jesus. You can do that right now. You can do that any time of the day. He's always there, available. The court is always open to hear our cry and receive our petitions. So, These things, they didn't get this stuff. I don't think they got this, though. They were pretty much taken up with the moment. And we are often the same. We're taken up with what things look like, what's happening in real time.

23:34 And we're not realizing what's really going on, the scriptural, spiritual significance of what we're even going through in our fiery trials. That's interesting. We have to realize there's another dimension than just what meets the eye. Yeah, and in Matthew 27, 54, so when the centurion, the Roman soldier, and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and the things that happened, they feared greatly. They, sometimes we think of just the ones, the one centurion, and it says they feared greatly, saying, truly, this was the Son of God. So they came to believe that he was the son. Well, he is the son of God. Not just was, he is.

24:18 He is the son of God. Because he is alive. That's why he is. And so the pagan Roman soldiers... And this group of men believed that he was the son of God. They could have been the ones who were watching. And the Jewish religious leaders totally rejected him. Spit and scoffed. Spit and scoffed at him. Talk about a contrast. Talk about a conversion. These people who nailed him to the cross doing their job because they had to do that. That was their job. They're the ones who pulled back and said, wait a minute, we've made a mistake here. And then it says, continuing on, that there were among those who were at the foot of the cross, and women who followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him, were there looking on from afar.

25:02 So we know earlier in the crucifixion that John, they got the apostle John and Mary, the mother of Jesus, were nearby. And so Jesus called them over, and he gave John the job of taking care of his mother from then on, because, of course, her husband Joseph was already gone. And so he gave, now John, it would appear, was Jesus' cousin. And so according to Josephus, according to Edersheim, who's done a lot of work on the cross and the history of what's going on in those days, there were several, as we see in Matthew chapter, again, 27, 56. Among whom, he says, there were many women who followed Jesus, ministering to him.

25:45 There were, looking from afar, among whom were Mary Magdalene. Of course, we'd expect her to be there. Mary, the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of Zebedee's sons. So who are these Marys? And another place it says, the other Mary. There's lots of Marys. Yeah, there's lots of Marys. Let's go there. And in John, he says, now they're stood by the cross. This is John, let's see, what? 18 or 19. 19, 25. Now, there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother and his mother's sister, Mary, the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. So there's three Marys there. Mary, the mother of Jesus, Mary, the wife of Cleophas. Cleophas was Joseph's brother, so that would be Mary's brother-in-law, or Mary, this Mary would be Mary's sister-in-law, and then also Mary's, sister, and her name was Salome, and she was the mother of James and John.

26:42 She was the wife of Zebedee. So we have relatives here at the cross. We have Mary. We have her sister-in-law. We have also her sister, who was named Salome. And so again, we have, I'll read that, I'll say that again. Salome was Mary's, the mother of Jesus, was that Mary's sister, and she was married to Zebedee. And Zebedee, of course, was the father of James and John. James and John, of course, were part of the apostles. And then we have the other Mary, Mary Cleophas. Cleophas' wife, Cleophas, was the brother of Joseph. And also Cleophas' name also is Alphaeus, so we have a little confusion here. So these hurt children were also disciples. They were James, Joseph, and Simon the Zealot.

27:29 And so we have at least one, two, three, four, five relatives of Jesus, maybe cousins, first cousins, second cousins, that were chosen as his apostles, which kind of makes sense if you ask me. And so we have this group of women at the cross. And I believe Mary wasn't at the cross immediately at the cross when all this final stuff was going on because John took her away, and maybe she took to the back because this was too much for her. So we see that they're surrounded by some faithful people, but we don't hear of any of the other disciples being there except John. Peter, of course, had fled.

28:11 Judas had hung himself or went out and killed himself. And the rest of them, who knows where they were. The only one was there was John, and he was taking care of Mary. So Mary was there. She, of course, and Mary Magdalene, of course, she was there. So we don't have a whole lot of people that hung with Jesus Christ to the bitter end, but we see some. Yeah, we see the faithfulness of these women and the, you know, John being probably one of the youngest apostles. He was there, and he was really so close to Jesus. He was the one who Jesus loved. He refers to himself, not by name, but he says the one who Jesus loved.

28:56 And so it's interesting, on the cross, Jesus made provision for his mother. Yeah. Yeah. It's great. He's so sweet and sensitive. He's taking care of so many, there's so many things, just things that he said on the cross. He said, you know, it is finished. Father, I forgive them for they know not what they do. That's a big one. Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. Then he said to the thief, you'll be with me today in paradise. Paradise, yeah. So all these things. He's still, you know, saving people, helping people. He's saving people when he's dying on the cross. And, you know, even the blood money, even the blood money that was paid for him, the 30 pieces of silver, with that he purchased a place for strangers to be buried.

29:37 Then we have, he became the substitute for Barabbas, so he released that murderous man through Jesus' death. And even now he's making provision for his mother. He's still working. But anyway, going back to the evening, when the evening had come, of course, they had to quickly get these bodies down off the cross because, he says, Joseph of Arimathea came because this was the preparation day. The next day was the Sabbath. So they at, you know, Friday, Saturday. They won't need dead bodies on the cross on the Sabbath day. And, you know, I've always had a problem understanding how this was three days and three nights because if you go, you know, English time or Roman time, it doesn't look like, it looks like we're missing one day or one night.

30:24 Yeah. But we're going to show you how this was, three days and three nights, like Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of oil. It doesn't say three full days. It doesn't say three full nights. Remember? It says three days and three nights. So, okay. We have to keep in mind that the Jewish people counted days differently than what we do. Okay? So the day would begin at sunset, not sunrise. So, basically, if you look at it this way, Friday starts at sundown on Thursday, in the way of Jewish people counting the days, the weeks. And then Friday ends at sundown.

31:07 And then Saturday starts at sundown on Friday, ends at sundown on Saturday. Sunday starts at sundown on Saturday, and Sunday it ends at sundown. So basically... So you start on Thursday. You have to start your count on Thursday. Jesus died on Good Friday, which would, during the day, right. That day, day one includes the day and the previous night, even though Jesus died in the day. So although only part of Friday was left, that was the first day and night to be counted.

31:48 Saturday was day two. Jesus rose in the morning of the Sunday. That was day three. So by the Jewish method of counting, we have three days and nights. Yet Jesus rose on the third day. So again, going back, you have to start your count on the right time. You have to start at Thursday night. So Jesus at sundown. Yeah, Thursday at sundown, which... That begins the count instead of, you know. So you understand the way they counted the days and nights. There's no problem there. Three days and three nights, it's not a scriptural. I mean, there's not a contradiction in the scripture.

32:29 You just have to know where to start the count. You just have to know where they started the count for the days and nights. He says, after three days I will rise. He had given that information, and that had been the scribes and Pharisees had picked that up. So after they took Jesus down from the cross, Pilate gave permission. They had to hurry. This was Friday coming on into the night. They had to get him off the cross before Saturday started. It was called the preparation day. Saturday started at about, maybe, I don't know, sundown on Friday night. So after he died on the cross at 3 o'clock, they had from 3 to 4 to 5, maybe to 6, three hours to get him off that cross. Before sundown.

33:09 First of all, get the permission, then get him off that cross and get him somewhere. By sundown. Yeah, in three hours. They had to do that. So Joseph and Nicodemus worked on that, went to Pilate. Pilate says, is he dead already? And they said, yep. And so they didn't break his bones. They just jabbed him with the spear. That proved that he was dead. Proved that he was already dead. And so— Otherwise, they would break the bones. They broke the bones of the thieves, the legs, leg bones of the thieves. So they couldn't sustain their—they couldn't inhale and exhale anymore. And so he's taken down, he's put in this tomb. Joseph brings 100 pounds of myrrh and alice and all this to embalm or put this around the body until they could get back to it on Sunday, our Sunday.

33:55 And so they couldn't do anything on Saturday, so the women were waiting as soon as the sun came up on our Sunday morning, which would be Easter Sunday, Resurrection Sunday, whatever. And so they were back to go back to work to finish the embalming. And that's when they found out he was gone. But in the meantime, it says that the preparation, the people went to Pilate and said, you know, he said he's going to rise again. Therefore, they were concerned. And Pilate gave them the command to make the tomb as secure as they could. He said to them, you have a guard. Go your way. make it as secure as you know how.

34:37 And so they did that. They went and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone and setting the guards. So they made it secure. They got some guards and they sealed it with the Roman seal so that if- It was officially locked. Nobody messes with this. With the seal of Rome. And so, you know, what they do is they put a wax seal on something in it. And so therefore, if it's broken into the seal, it's gotta be broken. So it's a sign of the authority. So Rome could not hold him. Of the most powerful nation on earth at the time. And he destroyed it and he defeated it and he broke the seal through his death and resurrection. One man, not an army, not a legion of angels. One man, and God raised his son back to life.

35:21 And by the way, when Jesus was gone for three days, where do you suppose he was? Well, he had actually made a trip down into the belly of hell, or Sheol, and led captivity captive. and all the people who had died before the cross got a chance to accept the cross. And we see that in Peter chapter... Let's see. Chapter... Hold on. 1 Peter, I think it is. Or is it 2 Peter? Oh, hold on. It says 1 Peter, yeah. He led captivity captive and gave gifts to men. He preached to those that were in prison. And it says, for Christ has also suffered once for sin, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh and being alive in the Spirit, by whom he also went and preached to the spirits in prison.

36:06 Who formerly were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is eight souls, were saved through waters. Then he goes on in verse chapter 4 of 1 Peter, chapter 4, verse 6, he goes on and continues, for this reason the gospel was preached to those also, to those also who were dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. So they were given the gospel, given an opportunity to accept the gospel, and that's That's why Jesus was able to take them out of this holding dock and take them, led captive to captive, gave gifts to men, and brought them into the place of eternal salvation. Because they did not know the cross, but once he preached the cross to them down there in the belly of wherever, they said yes, and so they flew up with him to heaven.

36:53 And so he went there to preach, not only to preach to these captives, give them the gospel, but he took the keys of hell and death. He got them back, yeah. He got the keys of hell and death back from the serpent. Snatched them from Adam and Eve. He says, I have the keys of hell and death. So praise God. He has authority over hell and death and the grave. And this is amazing. He is risen. He is alive. And this is a real thing. Death could not hold him. Yep, it really happened. We have times. We have dates. We have prophecies. We have four accounts of this whole thing going on, and we have historical accounts as well.

37:35 And so, Father God, we just praise you and thank you for this finished work. It is finished. The gospel, the law has been satisfied. The gospel has been released into the world that whosoever will believe, receive that atonement for their sins as purchased through the blood of Jesus Christ can be and will be saved. So it's simply, we accept your salvation, your free gift. We pray that that revelation, that good news will just fly throughout the earth, Father God, and everywhere and every place and everyone will have a chance to hear the good news and not be deluded and deceived and snatched away by the devil's narratives.

38:15 And that this Resurrection Sunday, this time, this week, which is Passover week, by the way, we declare that your will be done, O God, and that the clutter and the foolishness and the fables will be snatched away, pushed up, brushed off the table, and that we will see in truth what has happened here, and we will give you praise and glory, Father, in Jesus' name. Yeah, and the proof that you have risen from the dead is in the transformation of lives who put their faith in you, Lord. Amen. People who put their faith in you that become new creations that are born again to a new life in the Spirit of God. Lord, that's one of the proofs that you're risen from the dead is because when people believe in you, we are risen.

39:02 We are raised from the death of sin and shame and brought into life and life more abundantly. Thank you so much, Lord, for your love and your faithfulness to us, Lord. Yes, Father God, amen. And we encourage you again to go to liferecovery.com. This week would be a perfect week to check out God on Trial. It's an audio drama about the story of the crucifixion, the war between God and Satan for the souls of men, ending with Jesus descending into the belly of hell and raising from the dead. So again, chapters, episodes 26, 7, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Anyway, they're all just really amazing. You're going to get some drama, some dialogue, some court action.

39:44 I would encourage you to just pick up those MP3s off the Life Recovery website and enjoy a real powerful experience in your life. And sometimes people think of listening to something audio like that, oh, this is kind of boring. This is not boring. No, this is not boring. This is fun. It's great. It'll keep you on the edge. God bless you and have a wonderful resurrection in Jesus' name. Amen. Music.