Isaiah 28
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
Here it is the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Why did we not give this day a special name? Where did Jesus go and what did Jesus do for that period of time just before sunset Friday until just after sunset Sunday? There are many words written about that period of time and no good clear argument can be made to understand exactly what happened.
V 19 implies that we shall receive a report of what happened and it shall be a vexation, a frustration of the spirit, to try and understand it. We will be in our perfected resurrected form when we get the report. V 21 speaks to a strange work and a strange act. A strange thing is a thing that has not been explained.
What makes any of us think that we should satisfy our own curiosity about the Lord’s doing this day when we are told that it will be hard to accept even after He explains it to us?
Where the scriptures are silent, perhaps we should follow the example.
Silent Saturday? Observe the time in prayerful meditation about what He has done.
“Where the Scriptures are silent, perhaps we should follow the example”….what wise advice. I remember Harry Hayhoe reminding us over and over again, “if you say I think, you think wrong, unless your thoughts are formed by the Word of God”. We are never wiser than Scripture. Thank you for this great message on “SILENT SATURDAY”. May God richly bless your message.
Ron I must confess that Fred helped. I angled towards this message but did not make it plain enough. We are wise in our own conceits, but that is just conceited. I am grateful to the Lord that I can bounce my thoughts off of sound counsel.
You have a super great helper in Fred…..I’ve known him for many years……his soul is anchored in the SOLID ROCK!!! Love him dearly in Christ.