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• Matt 12:40 . . For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's
belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of
the earth.
Seeing as how Jesus actually lived in the land of Israel those many years
ago, then it is my opinion that he is better qualified to define the hours of
day and night back then in his era than anyone in ours.
Accord to him: days were when the Sun is up, and nights were when the
Sun is down.
• John 11:9-10 . . Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in
the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if
anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.
This world's light is of course the Sun.
FYI: In the very beginning, God made a distinct difference between night
and day on Earth; so that His day on Earth is not a 24-hour amalgam of light
and dark; rather, His day on Earth is when the Sun is up, and His night on
Earth is when the Sun is down.
• Gen 1:4-5 . . God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the
light day, and the darkness he called night.
• Gen 1:14 . . And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heaven to divide the day from the night
• Gen 1:16 . .And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the
day, and the lesser light to rule the night.
• Gen 1:17-18 . . And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to
divide the light from the darkness.
If only people kept those God-given physical characteristics in mind when
working with the days and nights related to Matt 12:40, their calculations
would be greatly simplified.
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