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Here is the significance of this fact. Jesus told his disciples in Matthew 12:40 that “as Jonah was three
days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights
in the heart of the earth.” When Jesus died, it was just before Passover. In fact, they rushed Him into
the tomb before Passover began at around 6:00 PM. He died at 3:00 PM. He was buried as they
Passover Day began -- in the evening of the first day. If we used our thinking about days, we could say
he died on Thursday, was in the tomb that day, on Friday, then on Saturday and rose on Sunday. That
would make three days and nights in our thinking. But not in the Jewish mind!

Remember, a day is the evening (night) and morning (daylight) covering our two days. So, Jesus was
placed in the tomb as the Passover began, the first evening. Through the next day would make the first
night and day. The next evening and morning would be the second night and day. The next evening and
morning would be the third night and day. The resurrection then, would occur after the third day was
concluded at the dusk of Saturday. We know Jesus rose on the first day of the week or Sunday (which
began after 6:00 PM), but it was not discovered until the next morning by the ladies who came to the
tomb. Now, figure out what day of the week did they crucify Jesus, based on the Jewish day.

Israel today continues to set its feasts days on the same day of the lunar calendar each year. However,
on our calendar the feast days change because the Gregorian calendar is not the same days as the lunar
calendar. Thus, when checking when a Jewish feast day is held, you have to look it up each year to
determine the dates it may fall on our calendar, because the dates differ from year to year.

Chapters 1-11 focus on the creation, fall, flood and the tower of Babel.

Genesis 1-11 encompass approximately 2000 years. We don’t know the
date of creation, so this is a best guess from the genealogies presented
in the text.

Genesis chapter 1 and 2 answers the question of where everything
came from. In chapter 1, the narrative focuses on the creation of all
things. Chapter 2 is a detailed report on the creation of man created in the image of God. Chapter 1 and
2 validate that God is the Creator of everything.

Chapter 3 is very significant because it explains how man was separated from God because of sin. Eve
was tempted by Satan; she succumbed to the temptation and ate the fruit which God commanded them
not to eat. She ate the fruit and gave to her husband, Adam, who was standing there and who also ate
and disobeyed God’s direct command. Eve was deceived; Adam chose freely. Judgment was place on
the three involved in the sin: the serpent, Eve and Adam. The ultimate judgment was DEATH.

Before sin entered the world, there was no death on earth. The Bible makes it very clear that the
consequence of Adam’s sin was death. This flies in the face of evolutionary theory, which says that over
millions of years of natural selection, the strongest of creatures survived, and the weakest died, passing
on their strong traits to their progeny. Evolution, to occur, took millions of years of death to finally
produce a creature called man. Because of this difference in the origin of death, both creation and
evolution cannot be true. You cannot be a Christian evolutionists and hold to the Genesis account of
creation and the origin of sin.

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With sin, God created a new Law, the Law of Death. In science we call this the 2 Law of
Thermodynamics. It simply means that as time passes, all things begin to age. If you were a scientist,
you would say it this way. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states “energy systems have a tendency
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