All true
Rach and I take your "
just saying!!" to heart yet...truth can be both literal and/or spiritual events.
When God, or that part of Him, the flesh of the Son, died on a cross (
I appreciate your writing of God on the cross...many don't understand that) then, I believe, we need to see the spiritual.
Concerning these things:
Matthew 27:50-52 Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice,
yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the
veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the
earth did quake, and
the rocks rent; And
the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Luke 23:44-46 And it was about
the sixth hour, and there was
A DARKNESS over all the earth until the ninth hour. And the
sun was darkened, and the
veil of the temple was rent in the midst. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, He said, Father,
into Thy hands I commend My spirit: and having said thus, He gave up the ghost.
1. The number six is always connected to Satan. This event began at
the sixth hour and Satan is...
Darkness. So what is
"A" darkness that was over all the earth as the Lord was on the cross? As Jesus is the Light of the world...who is the darkness?
1 Thessalonians 5:5 Ye are all the
children of light, and the children of the day: we are
not of the night, nor of darkness.
2. As Jesus is the Light of the world He is symbolized in the Sun.
The Sun was darkened...The Sun/Light was crucified by darkness....until the ninth hour. (Nine means finality and judgment).
3.
Veil of the temple was rent. The vail is to "
divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy." [Ex.26:33] Jesus IS the Temple and His death and resurrection removed the veil between God's children and God, the most Holy.
To "rent" #4977, as in
the vail was rent, the rocks were rent means..."severed, opened, divide, split." The vail covering our Saviour was opened.
Revelation 21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for
the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
2 Corinthians 3:14-16 But their minds were blinded: for
until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which
vail is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read,
the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord
, the vail shall be taken away.
4.
Earth did quake, rocks were rent, into Thy hands I commend My spirit...all have spiritual meaning but this post is already longer than it should be.
I do ask you to consider this.....regarding a shaking and opening of graves.
Ezekiel 37:4 Again He said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them,
O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied,
there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people
, I will open your graves, and cause you to
come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the Lord,
when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.
When we hear and see the Words of the Lord...we live spiritually. We rise from our graves...we are brought into the land of the living.