Holy Saturday
You know about Good Friday. Have you heard of "Holy Saturday"? Today we, with the universal church remember the day that Jesus fulfilled Isaiah's prophecy, that the Christ would die and be laid in the tomb of a rich man. His body, sacrificed for us, was laid in the grave in the fashion of a king. His burial proved that he was really dead, but awaiting the resurrection. This reality brings us the hope and confidence that we, who are in Him will too, rise again.
Isaiah 53:9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked, but he was with a rich man at his death, because he had done no violence and had not spoken deceitfully.
John 19: 37 Also, another Scripture says: They will look at the one they pierced. 38 After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus—but secretly because of his fear of the Jews—asked Pilate that he might remove Jesus’s body. Pilate gave him permission; so he came and took his body away. 39 Nicodemus (who had previously come to him at night) also came, bringing a mixture of about seventy-five pounds of myrrh and aloes. 40 They took Jesus’s body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the fragrant spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews. 41 There was a garden in the place where he was crucified. A new tomb was in the garden; no one had yet been placed in it. 42 They placed Jesus there because of the Jewish day of preparation and since the tomb was nearby.
He was in the grave, really dead... but Sunday's Coming!
For more on this topic, listen to John Fonville preach "He Was Buried: at https://www.paramountchurch.com/sermons/sermon/2013-04-07/he-was-buried
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