Sunday, April 2, 2023

The Resurrection in Prophecy

 



The Resurrection in Prophecy - General Smith Urges Trump - Radical Muslim Hanged at GITMO - America In Freefall - New Benjamin Fulford April Intel - New SGAnon & Nino & and more.

Researched & Comments by Pastor Gary Boyd

April 1-2nd 2023

 

 New SGAnon & Nino: "America In Freefall - The Bait & Switch Narrative Collapsing" - Sunday, April 2, 2023 15:35 - https://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2023/04/new-sganon-nino-america-in-freefall-the-bait-switch-narrative-collapsing-2540056.html

New Benjamin Fulford: April Intel Update Geopolitical Weekly News for 2023 - Sunday, April 2, 2023 15:59 - https://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2023/04/new-benjamin-fulford-april-intel-update-geopolitical-weekly-news-for-2023-2540059.html

REAL RAW NEWS: General Smith Urges Trump: “Don’t Surrender!” - By Michael Baxter -March 31, 2023 - An astutely cautious General Eric M. Smith on Thursday urged President Donald J. Trump to not surrender to the Deep State amid concerns that Soros-funded District Attorney Alvin Bragg plans to charge him with 30 fabricated counts of business fraud, a source in the General’s office told Real Raw News. Earlier Thursday, a corrupt NYC Grand Jury indicted the President, and Bragg’s office said it had spoken with Trump’s attorneys to facilitate his surrender early next week. https://realrawnews.com/2023/03/general-smith-urges-trump-dont-surrender/

REAL RAW NEWS: Radical Muslim Operation Warp Speed Architect Hanged at GITMO - By Michael Baxter -March 29, 2023 - “Allahu Akbar,” convicted felon Moncef Slaoui shouted Monday morning as he stood atop the gallows at Guantanamo Bay and leered menacingly at the man he held responsible for ordering his imminent death…. https://realrawnews.com/2023/03/radical-muslim-operation-warp-speed-architect-hanged-at-gitmo/

REAL RAW NEWS: CIA Agent Who Abducted Gen. Berger Killed at GITMO - By Michael Baxter -March 26, 2023 - A Central Intelligence Agency operative who took part in the kidnapping of General David H. Berger in January was shot and killed Thursday morning after he subdued a GITMO security guard and momentarily escaped his cell, a source in General Eric M. Smith’s office told Real Raw News. https://realrawnews.com/2023/03/cia-agent-who-abuducted-gen-berger-killed-at-gitmo/

ZERO HEDGE: "This Is Political Persecution": Trump Rages, DeSantis 'Won't Extradite', McCarthy Cries 'Injustice' Over Indictment - BY TYLER DURDEN - FRIDAY, MAR 31, 2023 - 05:35 AM - Update (2040ET): According to Trump's attorneys he is expected to be arraigned as early as Tuesday, the NY Times gleefully reports. Trump has responded to the lawsuit, saying in a statement: "This is Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history." - Full statement: ‘This is Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history. From the time I came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower, and even before I was sworn in as your President of the United States, the Radical Left Democrats - the enemy of the hardworking men and women of this Country - have been engaged in a Witch-Hunt to destroy the Make America Great Again movement. You remember it just like I do: Russia, Russia, Russia; the Mueller Hoax; Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine; Impeachment Hoax 1; Impeachment Hoax 2; the illegal and unconstitutional Mar-a-Lago raid; and now this. - https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-indicted-manhattan-grand-jury-over-porn-star-hush-payment

CANADA FREE PRESS: Bragg’s Trump Indictment PreEmpts Holy Week, Easter Sunday - For Your Personal Safety Stay Away From NYC: By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--March 31, 2023 - All activists waiting to impose a Twilight Zone ‘reality’ on all those who dare to disagree with them have converged upon and lie in wait for average citizens they call “domestic terrorists” in Democrat unhinged New York City. If you plan being in NYC over the coming week, understand that Antifa—never at loose ends—even after the cancellation of the media-hyped 'TRANS DAY OF VENGEANCE' deeming it a 'credible threat to life; transgendered activists, patently ignoring the slaughter of six innocents in Monday’s bloodbath at Covenant Christian School, and ALL NYC police officers will be there, body and soul. https://canadafreepress.com/article/braggs-trump-indictment-preempts-holy-week-easter-sunday

WORLD NET DAILY: Trump's indictment unites most GOP leaders behind former president - Ted Cruz: 'This is what dictatorships do' - By Peter LaBarbera - Published March 31, 2023 at 6:06pm - With his politically-driven grand jury indictment of Donald Trump, Manhattan's George Soros-backed District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, has done what only a hard-left, Trump-hating Democrat could do: quickly unite most major Republican leaders behind the former president. https://www.wnd.com/2023/03/bragg-indictment-trump-unites-gop-leaders-behind-former-president/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking&ats_es=%5B-MD5-%5D

US MILITARY NEWS: Judy Byington: US President Trump Indicted Without Committing a Crime -Restored Republic via a GCR: Update as of Sat. 1 April 2023 (Video) - Saturday, April 1, 2023 8:58 - IT’S SHOW TIME!!! - HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY - US PRESIDENT TRUMP INDICTED WITHOUT COMMITTING A CRIME - “This is not an indictment of a crime—there was no crime. Instead, this news is the indictment of a failed nation. President Trump is promising to peacefully end the war in Ukraine, dismantle the Deep State, and save our country by putting America first. For that, the political elites and powerbrokers have weaponized government to try and stop him. They will fail. He will be re-elected in the greatest landslide in American history, and together we will all Make America Great Again.” …Trump Team - https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2023/04/judy-byington-us-president-trump-indicted-without-committing-a-crime-restored-republic-via-a-gcr-update-as-of-sat-1-april-2023-video-3790885.html

XXREPORT: The Economy Is Changing & The Federal Reserve Cannot Stop It! The People Will Decide! - Must Video - Saturday, April 1, 2023 14:48 -The [CB]/[WEF] agenda failed before it even got started. Trump and the patriots knew the playbook and countered and the [WEF] had no choice but to continue their agenda. Trump has already signaled that the economy will be easy to turn around. This can only be possible if the [CB] is removed. https://beforeitsnews.com/economy/2023/04/x22-report-the-economy-is-changing-the-federal-reserve-cannot-stop-it-the-people-will-decide-must-video-3082046.html

MAIL ONLINE: Tornado victims reveal harrowing stories of survival as death toll hits 26 after dozens of twisters tore through America's South and Midwest: Towns are 'unrecognizable' and 420,000 remain without power - Dozens of tornadoes ripping through the Midwest and southern states have killed at least 26 people - as hundreds-of-thousands remain without power - Homes were destroyed, trees splintered and business turned to ruin in the wake of the deadly and powerful winds that reached up to 165mph - Deaths included: Nine in Tennessee, four in Wynne, Arkansas, three in Sullivan, Indiana, and four in Illinois. Others were reported in Alabama and Mississippi - By ANEETA BHOLE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS - PUBLISHED: 01:54 EDT, 2 April 2023 | UPDATED: 04:05 EDT, 2 April 2023 - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11929453/Death-toll-hits-26-Americas-South-Midwest-hit-tornadoes.html

BLP: MMA Superstar Conor McGregor Says Every School Should Have “Armed Protection” - By Jose Nino - Apr 1, 2023 - After a 28-year-old female killed 6 people — three children and three adults — at the Nashville Christian school on March 27, 2023, Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Conor McGregor said that every school should provide “armed protection.” According to a Fox News report, McGregor responded to the attack by posting a tweet where he said that he “would like to see armed protection at each school” across the country. https://bigleaguepolitics.com/mma-superstar-conor-mcgregor-says-every-school-should-have-armed-protection/

ATLAS SHRUGS: SHOT TWICE, Manhattan Garage Worker Is Charged with Attempted Murder After Grabbing Gun In Self Defense - Sunday, April 2, 2023 10:09 - In Democrat-run cities, there is no justice. There are two choices, let them kill you, or spend the rest of your life in jail. This is Alvin Braggs idea of ‘justice’ — prosecuting the good guys. “The ironic thing is if he would have just robbed the garage and got caught, Bragg would have let him go, but now he wants to charge both of them,” one police officer said. (Comment: The OBiden communist regime is working at warp speed to try and take your guns away while their lawless society continues to run wild. Stores have shuttered in Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit; all Democrat run cities that have the same narrative. What we the people need to do is look at the schools in Israel who have teachers that carry weapons in their classrooms to guard against attack by terrorists. The Jewish state, which has long faced threats of terrorist strikes in crowded locations including schools, takes an all-of-the-above approach to safety in the classroom. Fences, metal detectors and armed private guards are part of a strategy overseen by the country’s national police. And the idea of armed teachers in the classroom, which stirred much controversy in the wake of the U.S. attack, has long been in practice in Israel.) https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2023/04/shot-twice-manhattan-garage-worker-is-charged-with-attempted-murder-after-grabbing-gun-in-self-defense-3659137.html

Gene Decode: Important Intel & Situation Update - April (Video) - Sunday, April 2, 2023 8:37 - Gene is back with very important Intel and a situation update everyone needs to hear! What will happen to Trump next? We are witnessing history and the next move by the enemy could change it all! - https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2023/04/gene-decode-important-intel-situation-update-video-3790924.html

WATCHERS: Massive snowfall results in California’s largest snowpack on record - Friday, March 31, 2023 - 17 atmospheric rivers and several non-atmospheric-river storms since December 2022 pushed California’s snowpack to its largest level in recorded history, surpassing the previous record set in 1982-1983. In addition, the state’s drought conditions have improved significantly since the start of the water year, with severe to exceptional drought conditions now covering only 6.99% of the area, down from 93% just one year ago. California now boasts its largest snowpack in recorded history, with a statewide snowpack of 236% of the peak normal and nearly 300% in the Southern Sierra. As of March 30, 2023, the California Department of Water Resources reports that the statewide average snow water content stands at 154.4 cm (60.8 inches), breaking the previous record of 153.2 cm (60.3 inches) set in May 1983. https://watchers.news/2023/03/31/massive-snowfall-results-in-californias-largest-snowpack-on-record/

 

 

 


The Resurrection in Prophecy – An analysis

by Dr. David R. Reagan

Published on: April 7, 2014

Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd

April 2nd 2023

The resurrection of the Messiah was well established in the Hebrew prophetic scriptures long before the death and resurrection of Jesus.

 

The Prophecies of David and Isaiah

The most straight forward and best known of the resurrection prophecies is the one penned by David in Psalm 16:10, written a thousand years before the birth of Jesus: “For Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Sheol; neither wilt Thou allow Thy Holy One to undergo decay.”

 

On the Day of Pentecost, when Peter preached the first Gospel sermon, he boldly asserted that God had raised Jesus from the dead (Acts 2:24). He then explained that God had performed this miraculous deed in fulfillment of David’s prophecy in Psalm 16. In fact, he quoted the words of David in detail as contained in Psalm 16:8-11. Years later, Paul did the same thing when he spoke to the Jews of Antioch in Pisidia. Like Peter, he declared that God had raised Jesus from the dead in fulfillment of Psalm 16:10 (Acts 13: 33-35).

 

The resurrection of the Messiah is strongly inferred in another of David’s psalms — namely Psalm 22. The first eighteen verses of this incredible psalm describe the suffering of the Messiah in vivid detail, even mentioning the nature of His death: “They pierced my hands and my feet” (Psalm 22:16). Then, in verses 19-21, the suffering Savior prays for deliverance “from the lion’s mouth” (a metaphor for Satan). This desperate prayer is then followed immediately in verses 22-24 by a hymn of praise in which the Messiah thanks God for hearing His prayer and delivering Him. The resurrection of the Messiah is clearly inferred between the ending of the prayer in verse 21 and the beginning of the praise song in verse 22.

 

The resurrection is spoken of more pointedly in Isaiah’s famous “Suffering Savior” passage in Isaiah 53. After prophesying that the Savior would suffer for our sins and then be “cut off out of the land of the living,” Isaiah states that He “will see His offspring” and that God the Father will “prolong His days” (Isaiah 53:5, 8 & 10). Isaiah proceeds to reaffirm the promise of the resurrection in different words: “As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see light and be satisfied . . .” (Isaiah 53:11).

 

The Prophecies of Jesus

But prophecies of the resurrection are not confined to the Old Testament. The New Testament contains many of them in the teachings of Jesus. Perhaps the earliest one is recorded in John 2 which tells the story of Jesus’ first visit to Jerusalem after the inauguration of His ministry. The Jews asked Him for a sign to prove that He was the Messiah. Jesus responded with a startling statement: “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” (John 2:19). The Jews thought He was talking about Herod’s Temple, but John says, “He was speaking of the temple of His body” (John 2:21). And John adds an interesting observation: “When therefore He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken” (John 2:22).

 

Later, in His Good Shepherd discourse recorded in John 10, Jesus stated that the day would come when He would lay down His life on His own initiative. But, He immediately asserted that just as He would lay down His life on His own authority, He had the authority to “take it up again” (John 10:17-18).

 

At the tomb of Lazarus, right before Jesus demonstrated His power over death by raising Lazarus from the dead, Jesus said to Martha: “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me shall live even if he dies” (John 11:25).

 

Many times throughout His ministry, Jesus spoke privately to His disciples about His death and resurrection. For example, right after Peter’s famous confession of Jesus as the Son of God, we are told that “from that time, Jesus Christ began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day” (Matthew 16:21 and Mark 8:31).

 

In Matthew’s gospel it is revealed that immediately after His Transfiguration, Jesus told His disciples that they should not share the experience with anyone until after He was raised from the dead (Matthew 17:9). Mark relates the same story in his gospel, but he adds that the disciples “seized upon that statement [that He would be raised from the dead], discussing with one another what rising from the dead might mean” (Mark 9:9-10). It appears that the disciples never fully comprehended the meaning of Jesus’ prophecies about His resurrection until after the resurrection had actually occurred.

 

Even though the disciples always seemed to be bewildered by statements about His resurrection, Jesus continued to make the claim to them that He would be killed and then resurrected on the third day (Matthew 17:22-23; 20:18-19; 26:31-32; Mark 10:32-34; and Luke 18:31-33).

 

Symbolic Prophecies

In speaking of His resurrection, Jesus often resorted to the use of a powerful symbolic prophecy. He called it the “sign of Jonah.” When the Jews would ask Him for a sign (that is, a miracle) to prove that He was the Messiah, he would respond by saying, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and a sign will not be given it, except the sign of Jonah” (Matthew 16:4). On at least one occasion, He defined exactly what he meant by this rather enigmatic expression: “Just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40).

 

The resurrection is also symbolically portrayed in the life of Joseph. His brothers betrayed him just as Jesus was betrayed by His Jewish brethren. Joseph’s brothers then threw him in a pit and told his father that he was dead. Jesus actually died at the hands of His brethren. But Joseph was rescued from the pit in a symbolic resurrection that pointed to the actual resurrection of the Messiah. Later, Joseph presented himself to his brothers, and they received him as their savior, just as Jesus will one day reappear when the Jewish people are willing to look upon Him who they have pierced and cry out, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” (Zechariah 12:10 and Matthew 22:39).

 

One of the most beautiful and moving portrayals of the resurrection in symbolic prophecy can be found in the life of Abraham when he was told by God to sacrifice his precious son, Isaac. As Abraham was ready to plunge the knife into his son, an angel restrained him, and his son’s life was given back to him as a symbol of the Messiah’s resurrection. The writer of Hebrews recognized the symbolism of this story when he wrote: “He [Abraham] considered that God is able to raise men even from the dead; from which he also received him [Isaac] back as a type” (Hebrews 11:19).

 

The Fact of the Resurrection

These prophecies were fulfilled when Jesus of Nazareth was raised from the dead. His triumph over the grave certifies that He was who He said He was — namely, the Son of God (Acts 13:33).

 

Jesus has overcome death, the great enemy that is feared by all mankind (Hebrews 2:15). He has therefore been given authority over both death (the body) and Hades (the spirit). Jesus Himself proclaimed this great truth to John on the island of Patmos: “Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades” (Revelation 1:17-18).

 

One day soon Jesus will appear in the heavens. He will bring with Him the spirits of those who have died with their faith placed in Him. He will resurrect their bodies in a great miracle of restoration, and then He will reunite their spirits with their bodies, giving them glorified bodies that will be perfect and immortal (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and 1 Corinthians 15:42-44, 51-54).


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