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| CRUCIFIXION II� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES {Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted} |
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| [1]������ THE BIBLE, AMOS 8:9-10 [Predicted about 750 Years Before Jesus] - I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.� I will turn your religious feasts [Passover] into mourning....mourning for an only son. | |||||||||||||
| [2]������ THE BIBLE, AMOS 8: 9-10 - [PREDICTED ABOUT 750 YEARS BEFORE JESUS]; MARK 15:33; - "In that day," declares the Sovereign Lord, "I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.� I will turn your religious feasts into mourning and all your singing into weeping....I will make that time like mourning for an only son...."At noon the sky became extremely dark.� The darkness lasted three hours. | |||||||||||||
| [3]������ THE MERCK MANUAL OF DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY, "Tetanus," - Painful convulsions with profuse sweating are characteristic.� During such convulsions, the patient is unable to speak or cry out because of the rigidity of the chest wall.� The patient's senses are usually clear, but coma can follow repeated convulsions. | |||||||||||||
| [4]������ Hell is hot with flames of lust, cold with lack of love, dark with sin, bottomless and foundationless in lies, stinking with brimstone of discord.� See "Hard Questions You Have Asked" in Studies/Lessons section of this website. | |||||||||||||
| [5]������ THE BIBLE, Revelation 6:12b-14; 2 Peter 3:10-11a - ...Sun turned black as ink, moon all bloody, stars falling out of the sky....The sky will collapse with a thunderous bang, everything disintegrating in a huge conflagration, earth and all its works exposed to the scrutiny of Judgment.� Since everything here today might well be gone tomorrow.... | |||||||||||||
| [6]������ THE BIBLE, EXODUS 12:3b, 9a, 11b, [NIV] JOHN 1:29b, 1 PETER 1:18 - ...take a lamb...roast it over the fire...it is the Lord's Passover...."Here he is, God's Passover Lamb!"....It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in.� He paid with Christ's sacred blood, you know.� He died like an unblemished sacrificial lamb.���� | |||||||||||||
| [7]������ THE BIBLE, EPHESIANS 6:12 [NIV] - For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. | |||||||||||||
| [8]������ In the Old Testament, the first half of the Bible written in Hebrew, "devil" comes from the Hebrew word "shed" meaning destroyer.� In the New Testament, the second half of the Bible, "devil" comes from the Greek word "diabolos" meaning accuser. | |||||||||||||
| [9]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 26:41b; 2 CORINTHIANS 12:10 - The spirit is willing [able], but the body is weak.� That is why...I delight in weaknesses...For when I am weak, then I am strong. | |||||||||||||
| [10]����� THE BIBLE, ISAIAH 53:4; 2 THESSALONIANS 1:8-9 - Yet it was our grief he bore, our sorrows that weighed him down.� And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, for his own sins!....Those who refuse to know God and refuse to obey the Message [what Jesus did for them] will pay for what they've done.� Eternal exile from the presence of [God] and his splendid power is their sentence. | |||||||||||||
| [11]����� NOTE:� Any communication between Jesus and Satan is strictly the author's interpretation of the general concept of the relationship between Jesus and Satan, and the nature of Jesus taking on the sins of the world at the cross, and therefore the world's punishment in hell.� Hence, he was our substitute.� This chapter is written in all reverence, with the thought of zeroing in on mankind's sinfulness, Satan's hidden feelings about mankind, and Jesus' unimaginable ove in taking our place. | |||||||||||||
| [12]����� THE BIBLE, ISAIAH 14:12-15; EZEKIEL 28:13a, 15-19 - How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!...For you said to yourself, "I will ascend to heaven and rule the angels.� I will take the highest throne...I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High."� But instead, you will be brought down to the pit of hell, down to its lowest depths....You were in Eden, the garden of God...You were perfect in all you did from the day you were created until that time when wrong was found in you....you sinned.� Therefore, I cast you out...I destroyed you, O Guardian Angel...I brought forth fire from your own actions and let it burn you to ashes...you are an example of horror; you are destroyed [Satan means "destroyer"] forever. | |||||||||||||
| [13]����� THE BIBLE, REVELATION 9:1, 11 - I saw a Star plummet from Heaven to earth.� The Star was handed a key to the Well of the Abyss....the Angel of the Abyss.� His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon", in Greek, "Apollyon" ~ "Destroyer." | |||||||||||||
| [14]����� THE BIBLE, 2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 - God put on him the wrong who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God. | |||||||||||||
| [15]����� THE BIBLE, PROVERBS 6:27; JAMES 3:6 [NIV] - Can a man hold fire against his chest and not be burned?� Can he walk on hot coals and not blister his feet?....The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body.� It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. | |||||||||||||
| [16]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 25:30 [NIV]; JUDE 13 - And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness....the angels...now chained and jailed in a black hole until the great Judgment Day. | |||||||||||||
| [17]����� THE BIBLE, ISAIAH 29:15-16; MATTHEW 6:23 - Woe to those who try to hide their plans from God, who try to keep him in the dark concerning what they do!� "God can't see us," they say to themselves.� "He doesn't know what is going on!"� How stupid can they be!� Isn't he, the Potter, greater than you, the jars he makes?� Will you say to him, "He didn't make us?"� Does a machine call its inventory dumb?....If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar.� If you pull the blinds on your windows, what a dark life you will have! | |||||||||||||
| [18]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 24:12 - Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold. | |||||||||||||
| [19]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 8:12 [NIV] - But the subject of the kingdom will be thrown outside into the darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. | |||||||||||||
| [20]����� THE BIBLE, 1 TIMOTHY 3:6b,7 - He may become conceited and fall under the same judgement as the devil.� He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil's trap. | |||||||||||||
| [21]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 10:18; Revelation 9:1 - "I saw a Satan fall, a bolt of lightning out of the sky...." "I saw a Star plummet from Heaven to earth.� The Star was handed a key to the Well of the Abyss [bottomless pit]." | |||||||||||||
| [22]����� THE BIBLE, GENESIS 24:27a, 30a; JOHN 11:39a - Then all of Jacob's sons were over and plundered..."You have made me stink among all the people...." "The smell will be terrible, for he has been dead four days." | |||||||||||||
| [23]����� THE BIBLE, REVELATION 21:7b,8 - Conquerors inherit all this.� I'll be God to them, they'll be sons and daughters to me.� But for the rest - the feckless and faithless, degenerates and murderers, sex peddlers and sorcerers, idolaters and all liars ~ for them it's Lake Fire and Brimstone.� Second death!� [NOTE:� Brimstone is a form of sulfur which, when burning, puts forth a putrefying smell.] | |||||||||||||
| [24]����� THE BIBLE, EZEKIEL 18:18a - You defiled your holiness with lust for gain; therefore I brought forth fire from your own actions and let it burn you. | |||||||||||||
| [25]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 16:22-25 - Then he died, this poor man, and was taken up by the angels to the lap of Abraham.� The rich man also died and was buried.� In hell and in torment, he looked...in the distance and..."Send Lazarus to dip his finger in water to cool my tongue.� I'm in agony in this fire."� But Abraham said..."there is a huge chasm set between us so that no one can go from us to you even if he wanted to, nor can anyone cross over from you to us." | |||||||||||||
| [26]����� THE BIBLE, GENESIS 2:8-14 - The Lord God planted a garden in Eden....At the center of the garden he placed the Tree of Life and also the Tree of Conscience, giving knowledge of Good and Bad.� | |||||||||||||
| [The location of the Garden of Eden is in today's Iraq.]� A river from the land of Eden flowed through the garden to water it; afterwards the river divided into four branches....The Pishon....The second branch is the Gihon...The third branch is the Tigris...and the fourth is the Euphrates.� | |||||||||||||
| [27]����� THE BIBLE, 1 CORINTHIANS 15:42-44 - When we're raised, we're raised for good, alive forever!� The corpse that's planted is no beauty, but when it's raised, it's glorious.� Put in the ground weak, it comes up powerful.� The seed sown is natural; the seed grown is supernatural - same seed, same body, but what a difference from when it goes down in physical mortality to when it is raised up in spiritual immortality! | |||||||||||||
| [28]����� Jesus' death and resurrection was retroactive, covering those who died before the church began.� THE BIBLE, HEBREWS 9:15b; 10:4; 9:28 [NIV] - Now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant....because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats [form of sacrifice before Jesus came] to take away sins....So Christ was sacrificed once [on the alter of God with the fires of hell] to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him. | |||||||||||||
| [29]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 23:33-34 - When they got to the place called Skull Hill, they crucified him, along with the criminals, one on his right, the other on his left.� Jesus prayed, "Father, forgive them; they don't know what they're doing." | |||||||||||||
| [30]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 26:41b; 2 CORINTHIANS 12:10; 13:4 [NIV] -The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.� That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses...For when I am weak, then I am strong....He was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power. | |||||||||||||
| [31]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 12:46 - I am Light that has come into the world so that all who believe in me won't have to stay any longer in the dark. | |||||||||||||
| [32]����� THE BIBLE, HEBREWS 5:8 - Though he was God's Son, he learned trusting obedience by what he suffered, just as we do. | |||||||||||||
| [33]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 10:30 - I and the Father are one heart and mind. | |||||||||||||
| [34]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 4:1-11 (Jesus' temptation after his baptism at the beginning of his three years of preaching.) | |||||||||||||
| [35]����� THE BIBLE, REVELATION 1:18 - Don't fear:� I am First, I am Last, I'm Alive, I died, but I came to life, and my life is now forever.� See these keys in my hand?� They open and lock Death's doors, they open and lock Hell's gates. | |||||||||||||
| [36]����� THE BIBLE, REVELATION 8:3,4 - He was given a great quantity of incense so that he could offer up the prayers of all the holy people of God on the Golden Altar before the Throne.� Smoke billowed up from the incense-laced prayers of the holy ones, rose before God from the hand of the Angel. | |||||||||||||
| [37]����� THE BIBLE, ISAIAH 53:10b-11; ACTS 2:27 [LB] EPHESIANS 4:8b [LB] - ...the Lord makes his life a guilt offering....After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied. You will not leave my soul in hell....When Christ returned triumphantly to heaven after his resurrection and victory over Satan, he gave generous gifts to men. | |||||||||||||
| [38]����� THE BIBLE, PSALM 22:1a; MATTHEW 27:46 - My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?....Around mid-afternoon Jesus groaned out of the depths, crying loudly, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" which means "My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?" | |||||||||||||
| [39]����� THE BIBLE, PSALM 22:21b - Yes, God will answer me and rescue me. | |||||||||||||
| [40]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 27:47-49 - Some bystanders who heard him said, "He's calling for Elijah."� One of them ran and got a sponge soaked in sour wine and lifted it on a stick so he could drink.� The others joked, "Don't be in such a hurry.� Let's see if Elijah comes and saves him." | |||||||||||||
| [41]����� THE BIBLE, GENESIS 3:15 - From now on you [Satan] and the woman will be enemies, as will your offspring and hers.� You will strike his [Jesus'] heel, but he will crush your head. | |||||||||||||
| [42]����� THE MERCK MANUAL OF DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY, "Shock," - Patients often complain of thirst.� In mild shock, water may be given in small amounts.� In severe shock, nothing should be given by mouth as it often results in sudden death. | |||||||||||||
| [43]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 19:28-30a - Jesus, seeing that everything had been completed so that the Scripture record might also be complete, then said, "I'm thirsty."� A jug of sour wine was standing by.� Someone put a sponge soaked with the wine on a javelin and lifted it to his mouth....he took the wine. | |||||||||||||
| [44]����� THE MERCK MANUAL OF DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY, "Congestive Heart Failure," - With decrease in cardiac output, marked reduction of renal blood flow is evident, and water often appears.� This fluid retention increases tissue and blood volume and aggravates the circulatory congestion.� | |||||||||||||
| [45]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 19:30b - Jesus said, "It's done...completed." | |||||||||||||
| [46]����� THE BIBLE, 2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 - Become friends with God; he's already a friend with you.� How? you say.� In Christ.� God put on him the wrong [sin] who never did anything wrong [sinful], so we could be put right [sinless] with God. | |||||||||||||
| [47]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 23:46 - Jesus called loudly, "Father, I place my life in your hands!" | |||||||||||||
| [48]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 27:50 - But Jesus, again crying out loudly, breathed his last. | |||||||||||||
| [49]����� How can we know any of this really happened?� Facts, both historical and scientific, that were not known for centuries by man, are all through the Bible.� If these provable things are true, then the unprovable things must be true too.� For help proving historical facts, read the scholarly EVIDENCE THAT DEMANDS A VERDICT, VOLS. I & II, by Josh McDowell, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, CA 92402.� For help proving scientific facts, subscribe to DOES GOD EXIST?, 718 E. Donmoyer Ave., South Bend, IN� 46614-1999.� | |||||||||||||