March 15th - The Millennium

At the start of the Millennium Jesus will bind Satan, the chief Adversary of God, for a thousand years preventing him from deceiving humanity during that time. 

"And I perceived a messenger descending out of heaven, having the key of the submerged chaos and a large chain in his hand. And he lays hold of the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the Adversary and Satan, and binds him a thousand years." (Revelation 20:1-2)

Those who are resurrected, all believers, will live and reign with Jesus during those years.

"Happy and holy is he who is having part in the former resurrection!  Over these the second death has no jurisdiction, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will be reigning with Him the thousand years." (Revelation 20:6) 

"I will be giving you the keys of the kingdom of the heavens, and whatsoever you should be binding on the earth shall be those things having been bound in the heavens, and whatsoever you should be loosing on the earth, shall be those having been loosed in the heavens." (Matthew 16:19)

Jesus will then gather representatives of all the nations of the Earth before Him.

"Now, whenever the Son of Humanity may be coming in His glory, and all the holy messengers with Him, then shall He be seated on the throne of His glory, and in front of Him shall be gathered all the nations." (Matthew 25:31-32)

The nations will be separated into two groups based on how they treated the Jews during the Tribulation. Those nations who helped Israel will have a honored place during the Millennium.

"And He shall be severing them from one another even as a shepherd is severing the sheep from the kids. And He shall be standing the sheep, indeed, at His right, yet the kids at the left. Then shall the King be declaring to those at His right, 'Hither, blessed of My Father! Enjoy the allotment of the kingdom made ready for you from the disruption of the world...In as much as you do it to one of these, the least of My brethren, you do it to Me." (Matthew 25:33-40)

Those nations who did not help Israel will be chastened during the Millenium.

"Then shall He be declaring to those also at His left, 'Go from Me, you cursed, into the fire eonian, made ready for the Adversary and his messengers...verily I am saying to you, in as much as you do it not to one of these, the least, neither do you it to Me.  And these shall be coming away into chastening for the age, yet the just into life during for the age." (Matthew 25:41-46) 

Jesus will cleanse the temple mount which was defiled by the abomination caused by the Antichrist. Then Israel will build a new Temple described in detail in the book of Ezekiel. Among those reigning with Christ Jesus during the Millennium will be King David and the twelve disciples of Jesus. They will reign over the twelve tribes of Israel.

"I, Yahweh, shall be their Elohim, and my servant David will be prince in their midst; I, Yahweh, have spoken." (Ezekiel 34:24)

"Then, answering, Peter said to Him, "Lo! we leave all and follow Thee. What, consequently, will it be to us?" Yet Jesus said to them, "Verily, I am saying to you, that you who follow Me, in the renascence whenever the Son of Mankind should be seated on the throne of His glory, you also shall sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." (Matthew 19:27-28)

All other believers will be take part in reigning with Jesus over the other nations during the thousand years of the Millennium.

"Happy and holy is he who is having part in the former resurrection! Over these the second death has no jurisdiction, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will be reigning with Him the thousand years." (Revelation 20:1-6)

The new Temple will be much larger than the previous ages. This worship center is 875 feet square, a huge building where people of all nations will come from time to time. This worship center is going to be built in the southern part of the land God gave to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The land promised Abraham will be distributed among the tribes of Israel. The last nine Chapters of Ezekiel give the details. 

"And I give to you and to your seed after you the land of your sojourning, all the land of Canaan, as an eonian holding..."  (Genesis 17:8)

"In appearances of Elohim He brought me to the land of Israel, and He rested me on a very lofty mountain, and on it was a citylike-building in the south." (Ezekiel 40:2-2)

"Thus says my Lord Yahweh: This is the boundary in which you shall allot the land for the twelve tribes of Israel (Joseph having two districts)." (Ezekiel 47:13)

During the Millennium the earth will again be repopulate by the unbelieving mortals who survived the seven year tribulation period by not taking the mark of the Antichrist. The activities in the worship center will remind mortal humanity of the death of Jesus as the Lamb of God who took away the sins of the world. 

"On the morrow he is observing Jesus coming toward him, and is saying, "Lo! the Lamb of God Which is taking away the sin of the world." (John 1:29)

The reign of Jesus over this Earth will be perfect and righteous. Satan will not be allowed to deceive the mortal humans among the nations of the Earth until the end when he is set free to again deceive mortal humanity. Satan will succeed as in past ages.

"And whenever the thousand years should be finished, Satan will be loosed out of his jail. And he will be coming out to deceive all the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to be mobilizing them for battle, their number being as the sand of the sea..."(Revelation 20:7-8)

This will be the final rebellion of mortal humanity. Satan, in his created role as the adversary of God, will be cast into the lake of fire where the Antichrist and the False Prophet were placed in at the return of Jesus a thousand years earlier. Only these three supernatural beings are said in the Bible to be tormented in the lake of fire for "the eons of the eons".  Mortal humans are destroyed by death, not tormented for the eons.

"And they went up over the breadth of the earth, and surround the citadel of the saints and the beloved city. And fire descended from God out of heaven and devoured them. And the Adversary who is deceiving them was cast into the lake of fire and sulphur, where the wild beast and where the false prophet are also. And they shall be tormented day and night for the eons of the eons."  (Revelation 20:9-10)

"Yet the heavens now, and the earth, by the same word, are stored with fire, being kept for the day of the judging and destruction of irreverent men...the heavens shall be passing by with a booming noise, yet the elements shall be dissolved by combustion, and the earth and the works in it shall be found." (2 Peter 3:7-11)

This rebellion will once and for all show that no mortal can become righteous before God by obedience to the Law, even if the Law is administered by the Son of God, Jesus Himself. Humanity will finally realize that they can only be made righteous (justified) through HIS faith, and the blood He shed to save humanity from perishing in death. Humanity, all of them, will be delivered/saved out of death because of the love, mercy, and grace of God.

"...a man is not being justified by works of law, except alone through the FAITH OF CHRIST JESUS, we also believe in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by the FAITH OF CHRIST and not by works of law, seeing that by works of law shall no flesh at all be justified." (Galatians 2:14-16)

"God, being rich in mercy, because of His vast love with which He loves us (we also being dead to the offenses and the lusts), vivifies us together in Christ (in grace are you saved!)..." (Ephesians 2:4-6)

The destruction of the present Earth will occur at the close of the Millennium.

March 14th - The Tribulation

The book of Daniel records a series of events during the last seven years before Jesus returns. Many refer to this as the 70th week of Daniel or the Tribulation. It ends with the return of Jesus and the beginning of a thousand year reign of Christ on this earth.

The seven years begins with a peace treaty between Israel and many other nations. This treaty is broken after three and a half years by a world leader who causes the sacrifices and offerings of the temple to stop and replaces them with rituals that will be viewed by the Jews as an "abomination".

"He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him." (Daniel 9:27)

"Now whenever you may be perceiving the abomination of desolation, declared by Daniel the prophet, standing where it must not (let the reader apprehend), then let those in Judea flee into the mountains...for in those days will be affliction such as has not occurred from the beginning of creation which God creates until now." (Mark 13:14-20)

The world leader who authorizes the abomination is called a wild beast in the book of Revelation but most scholars today refer to him as the Antichrist. He will have brought peace to the Middle East with the help of another wild beast called the False Prophet. The Jewish Temple in Jerusalem will be rebuilt on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The abomination in that future Temple will bring a rebellion by Israel against that world leader causing the greatest persecution of Jews in their long history. For two and a half years the Antichrist will seek to eliminate the Jews who have rebelled. However, God will protect them and supernaturally pour out His wrath on the Antichrist and his followers during the final year of the Tribulation. 

Before that one year of wrath begins, all believers who have died together with the living believers will be "snatched away" through the clouds to meet Jesus in air. They will be transformed into bodies like Jesus now has. They will reign with Him for one thousand years - called the Millennium by many today.

"For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. At the same time, we who are alive and remain will be snatched away together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord." (1 Thessalonians 4:15-18)

"For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him. Therefore encourage and build one another up,  just as you are already doing." (1 Thessalonians 5:9-11)

"Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war. He has eyes like blazing fire, and many royal crowns on His head. He has a name written on Him that only He Himself knows. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God. The armies of heaven, dressed in fine linen, white and pure, follow Him on white horses. And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh: King of kings and Lord of lords."(Revelation 19:11-16)

March 13th - The Return of Jesus

Jesus was asked about the end of the age by His Jewish disciples...

"...the disciples come to Him privately, saying, Tell us...what is the sign of Thy presence and of the conclusion of the age?" (Matthew 24:3)

Jesus told them that at the end the age He would return and it would be a time when many will be saying that He was the Christ, but those saying He was the Christ will be deceiving many. 

"And answering, Jesus said to them. Beware that no one should be deceiving you. For many shall be coming in my name saying I am the Christ, and shall be deceiving many." (Matthew 24:4-5)

Another thing Jesus said about His return would be that humanity would be like it was in the days of Noah before the flood. 

"For even as the days of Noah, thus shall be the presence of the Son of Mankind." (Matthew 24:37)

"Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time." (Genesis 6:5)

The final question that the Jewish disciples of Jesus asked before His ascension into heaven concerned the establishment of the kingdom of Israel.

"Lord, art Thou at this time restoring the kingdom to Israel? Yet He said to them, not yours is it to know..." (Acts 1:6)

Obviously, Jesus did not return during the lifetimes of His disciples, yet John was given a vision of the return of Jesus to restore the kingdom of Israel, and how long it would last -  one thousand years.

"And I perceived heaven open, and lo! a white horse. And He Who is sitting on it is called "Faithful and True," and in righteousness is He judging and battling.  His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems, having names written of which no one except Himself is aware, and He is clothed in a cloak dipped in blood, and His name is called "The Word of God." And the armies in heaven, dressed in cambric, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. And out of His mouth a sharp blade is issuing, that with it He should be smiting the nations. And He will be shepherding them with an iron club. And He is treading the wine trough of the fury of the wrath of God, the Almighty. And on His cloak and on His thigh He has a name written: "King of kings and Lord of lords." (Revelation 19:11-16)

"And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image, and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years." (Revelation 20:4)

The final seven years of Daniel's seventy-sevens prophecy for Israel endds with the return of Jesus to reign over this earth for one thousand years. He will be the King of kings and Lord of lords as He reigns with His chosen people Israel over the entire earth from Jerusalem - "Zion".

"Thus says Yahweh: I will return to Zion, and I will tabernacle in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem will be called the city of truth, and the mountain of Yahweh of hosts, the holy mountain." (Zechariah 8:3)

March 12th - The Results of the Death, Entombment, and Resurrection of Jesus

The Apostle Paul suffered much from both his fellow Jews and the Roman government for teaching about what the cross of Christ Jesus has done for humanity. Most of his teaching is still rejected. Nevertheless, in a nutshell, here is what Paul taught about the results of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.

FIRST:  All humanity will be saved.

"Faithful is the saying and worthy of all welcome, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and I am the worst." 
(1 Timothy 1:15-16)

“Faithful is the saying and worthy of all welcome (for for this are we toiling  and being reproached), that we rely on the living God, Who is the Savior of all humanity, especially of believers.” (1 Tim. 4:9-10) 

"He chooses us in Him before the disruption of the world, we to be holy and flawless in His sight, in love designating us beforehand for the place of a son for Him through Christ Jesus; in accord with the delight of His will, for the laud of the glory of His grace, which graces us in the Beloved." (Ephesians 1:3-6)

"God, being rich in mercy, because of His vast love with which He loves us...rouses us together and seats us together among the celestials, in Christ Jesus, that, in the oncoming eons, He should be displaying the transcendent riches of His grace in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For in grace, through faith, are you saved, and this is not out of you; it is God's approach present, not of works, lest anyone should be boasting." (Ephesians 2:4-9)

SECOND: All humanity will be ransomed from death and graciously justified (made righteous). 

"Being justified gratuitously in His grace, through the deliverance which is in Christ Jesus." (Romans 3:24)

“...our Savior, God, Who wills all humanity be saved and come into a realization of the truth. For there is one God, and one Mediator of God and mankind, a Man, Christ Jesus, Who is giving Himself a correspondent ransom for all..." (1 Tim. 2:4-7)

"Surely, He Who spares not His own Son, but gives Him up for us all, how shall He not, together with Him, also, be graciously granting us all?" (Romans 8:31)

THIRD: The whole creation will be reconciled to God.

"...God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, not reckoning their offenses to them, and placing in us the word of reconciliation."  (2 Corinthians 5:18)

“And He is the Head of the body, the ecclesia, Who is Sovereign, Firstborn from among the dead, that in all He may becoming first, for in Him the entire complement delights to dwell, and through Him to reconcile all to Him, making peace through the blood of His cross, through Him, whether those of the earth or those in the heavens.” (Colossians 1:18-20)

"For the premonition of the creation is awaiting the unveiling of the sons of God. For to vanity was the creation subjected, not voluntarily, but because of Him Who subjects it, in expectation that the creation itself, also, shall be freed from the slavery of corruption into the glorious freedom of the children of God." (Romans 8:19-21)

"God highly exalts Him, and graces Him with the Name that is above every name, that in the Name of Jesus every knee shall bow, celestial and terrestrial and subterranean, and EVERY tongue shall acclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord, for the glory of God, our Father." (Philippians 2:9-11)

March 11th - Age Five - The Formation of the Body of Christ - Romans through Philemon

After the leaders of Israel had rejected Jesus as the Messiah for the second time, it was revealed to the Apostle Paul that the body of Christ (church/ecclesia)would include people from all nations. 

"...to the ecclesia of God which is in Corinth, hallowed in Christ Jesus, called saints, together with all in every place who are invoking the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ." (1 Corinthians 1:2)

"Now you are the body of Christ..." (1 Corinthians 12:27)

"...Christ is the Head of the ecclesia." (Ephesians 5:23)

This joint and united group of believers from all nations, the body of Christ, had been kept secret until revealed to the Apostle Paul. The Greek word for church is "ecclesia" and simply means "called out".
  
"On this behalf I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you, the nations since you surely hear of the administration of the grace of God that is given to me for you, for by revelation THE SECRET is made known to me (according as I write before, in brief, by which you who are reading are able to apprehend my understanding in THE SECRET of the Christ, which, in other generations, is not made known to the sons of humanity as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets): in spirit the nations are to be joint enjoyers of an allotment, and a joint body, and joint partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus, through the good news of which I became the dispenser, in accord with the gratuity of the grace of God, which is granted to me in accord with His powerful operation." (Ephesians 1:1-7)

The Apostle Paul had the primary responsibility of delivering this good news to all nations of the world and refers to himself as the apostle to the nations.

"To me, less than the least of all saints, was granted this grace: to bring the good news of the untraceable riches of Christ to the nations, and to enlighten all as to what is the administration of THE SECRET which has been concealed from the past eons in God." (Ephesians 3:8-9)

The body of Christ is made up of people of all ethnic backgrounds and genders. The members do not join anything, but are placed in the body by God when they hear and believe the good new of what Jesus has done for them. 

"Yet now God placed the members, each one of them, in the body according as He wills." (1 Corinthians 12:18)

Members of the body can be identified by what they believe about Jesus. All in the body believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that He died for the sins of the world, and was raised to life.

“Now I am making known to you, brethren, the good news which I bring to you, which also you accepted, in which also you stand, through which also you are saved, if you are retaining what I said in bringing the good news to you, outside and except you only pretended to believe. For I give over to you among the first what also I accepted, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that He was entombed, and that He has been roused the third day according to the scriptures.”  (1 Corinthians 15:1-4).

The destiny of the body of Christ is to be a display of God's love, mercy and grace in saving humanity, all having fallen short of the glory of God. 

"God, being rich in mercy, because of His vast love with which He loves us (we also being dead to the offenses and the lusts), vivifies us together in Christ (in grace are you saved!) and rouses us together and seats us together among the celestials, in Christ Jesus, that, in the oncoming ages, He should be displaying the transcendent riches of His grace in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For in grace, through faith, are you saved, and this is not out of you; it is God's approach present, not of works, lest anyone should be boasting." (Ephesians 2:4-9)

That sinful humanity would become "holy and flawless" was determined by God before the world was created. God will transform all sinners into believing saints. Doing so magnifies His love and grace.

"...He chooses us in Him before the disruption of the world, we to be holy and flawless in His sight, in love designating us beforehand for the place of a son for Him through Christ Jesus; in accord with the delight of His will, for the laud of the glory of His grace..." (Ephesians 1:4-6)

Membership in the body of Christ has nothing to do with obedience to the things required in the law given Israel, or the things required in the institutional churches of our modern era. Membership is solely the achievement of God apart from any works of humanity.

"For His achievement are we, being created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God makes ready beforehand, that we should be walking in them." (Ephesians 2:10)

Again, God had kept this a "secret" from humanity until it was revealed to the Apostle Paul almost two thousand years ago. 

"I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you, the nations - since surely you hear of the administration of the grace of God that is given me for you, for by revelation THE SECRET is made know to me...which, in other generations, is not made known to the sons of humanity." (Ephesians 3:1-5)

March 10th - The Ascension of Jesus and the Hardening of Israel - Acts 1:4 through Acts 28

When Jesus came the first time He presented Himself to Israel as their Messiah and was rejected. The leaders had Him crucified by the Roman government but God raised Him from the dead. Forty days later Jesus ascended into heaven and is now seated at the right hand of God. 

"And saying these things, while they are looking, He was lifted up, and a cloud took Him up from their eyes." (Acts 1:9)

"This Jesus Who is being taken up from you into heaven shall come thus, in the manner in which you gaze at Him going into heaven."  (Acts 1:11)

Ten days later, on the Jewish festival day of Pentecost, the disciples received power from God to boldly go tell all Israel that the resurrected and crucified Jesus is their Lord and Messiah (Christ). The Apostle Peter told them...

"This Jesus God raises, of Whom we all are witnesses. Being, then, to the right hand of God exalted...Let all the house of Israel know certainly, then, that God makes Him Lord as well as Christ - this Jesus Whom you crucify!" (Acts 2:32-33)

Peter then told them to repent and be baptized. If the people of Israel did so, God would send Jesus back to complete the restoration of the kingdom of Israel on earth... 

"Repent and be baptized, each of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the pardon of your sins"..."the Inaugurator of Life you kill, Whom God rouses from among the dead, of which we are witnesses...And now, brethren, I am aware that in ignorance you commit it, even as your chiefs also. Yet what God announces before through the mouth of all the prophets - the suffering of Christ - He thus fulfills.  Repent, then, and turn about for the erasure of your sins, so that the seasons of refreshing should be coming from the face of the Lord, and He should dispatch the One fixed upon before you, Christ Jesus, Whom heaven must indeed receive until the times of restoration of all which God speaks through the mouth of His holy prophets who are from the age." (Acts 2:38; 3:15-21)

The book of Acts records that Israel again rejected Peter's message and the result is that the nation of Israel is now in a state of unbelief until Jesus returns. Paul would later explain...

"For I am not willing for you to be ignorant of this secret, brethren, lest you may be passing for prudent among yourselves, that callousness, in part, on Israel has come, until the complement of the nations may be entering. And thus all Israel shall be saved, according as it is written, arriving out of Zion shall be the Rescuer. He will be turning away irreverence from Jacob. And this is my covenant with them whenever I should be eliminating their sins." (Romans 11:25-27)

Paul further explained that until Israel repented and embraced Jesus as the Messiah, the gospel of salvation would be taken to the other nations of the world.This has been going on for almost two thousand years.

"Let it be known to you, then, that to the nations was dispatched this salvation of God, and they will hear."  (Acts 28:28)

Even though Israel as a nation has rejected Jesus for now, God has always reserved for Himself a remnant of faithful believers among the Jews.

"Yet I will let remain in Israel 7,000, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal." (1 Kings 19:18)

"Thus, then, in the current era also, there has come to be a remnant according to the choice of grace." (Romans 11:5) 

When Jesus returns He will restore the kingdom of Israel on this Earth. The nation of Israel will again be established and Jesus will reign over this Earth for 1,000 years. The believers of Israel will be the priests of God during this time with Jesus Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords.

"And I perceived heaven open, and lo! a white horse. And He Who is sitting on it is called "Faithful and True," and in righteousness is He judging and battling. Now His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems, having names written of which no one except Himself is aware, and He is clothed in a cloak dipped in blood, and His name is called "The Word of God." And the armies in heaven, dressed in cambric, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. And out of His mouth a sharp blade is issuing, that with it He should be smiting the nations. And He will be shepherding them with an iron club. And He is treading the wine trough of the "fury of the indignation of God, the Almighty. And on His cloak and on His thigh He has a name written: "King of kings and Lord of lords." (Revelation 19:11-16)

"Happy and holy is he who is having part in the former resurrection! Over these the second death has no jurisdiction, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will be reigning with Him the thousand years." (Revelation 20:6)

March 9th - Age Five From the Birth of Jesus to His Crucifixtion and Resurrection

"The scroll of the lineage of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham...from the Babylonian exile till the Christ are fourteen generations..." (Matthew 1:1-17)

Anno Domini (AD) means "in the year of the incarnation of our Lord" according to its inventor. So, AD begins in the year that Jesus, the Son of God, was born to save Israel and the whole world from its sin.  To do so, the Son of God became a Man.  

"The Father has dispatched His Son, the Savior of the world." (1 John 4:14-15)

He was born of a young virgin of Israel who had been miraculously impregnated by the power of God. 

"Lo! the virgin shall be pregnant and shall be bringing forth a Son, and they shall be calling His name Emmanuel, which is, being construed, God with us" (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23) 

"At the espousal of His mother, Mary, to Joseph, ere their coming together, she was found pregnant by holy spirit." (Matthew 1:18)

An angel appeared to her fiancee Joseph and instructed him to name the child Jesus which means "Yahweh our salvation".

"...that which is being generated in her is of holy spirit. Now she shall be bringing forth a Son, and you shall be calling his name Jesus, for He shall be saving His people from their sins." (Matthew 1:21)

Jesus is the Messiah of Israel and the Savior of the whole world. He was born in Bethlehem but grew up in Nazareth, both small towns in the land of Israel. After reaching the age of thirty He begin His ministry to announce the restoration of the kingdom of Israel on Earth which was and still is held in the heavens for them. His message to Israel was one of repentance and preparation.

"Thenceforth begins Jesus to be heralding and saying, Repent! for near is the kingdom of the heavens."  (Matthew 4:17)

He chose twelve Jewish men to follow him and for several years they traveled around the land of Israel, confirming that Jesus was the Jewish Messiah by performing many miracles among the people of Israel. In spite of that, the Jewish religious leaders - called the Sanhedrin - rejected Him, arrested him, and sentenced Him to death for the blasphemy of claiming to be the Son of God.

"...the chief priest said to Him, I exorcise you by the living God that you may tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.  Saying to him is Jesus, You say it! Moreover I am saying to you, Henceforth you shall be seeing the Son of Humanity sitting at the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven. Then the chief priest tears his garments, saying that He blasphemes!" (Matthew 26:63-65)

The Sanhedrin handed Him over to the Romans to be crucified. This occurred on the preparation day for the annual Jewish Passover festival. He died on the cross around 3:00 PM as the final sacrifice for the sins of Israel and the "whole world".

"...yet now, once, at the conclusion of the eons, for the repudiation of sin through His sacrifice, is He manifest." (Hebrews 9:26)

"Lo! I am arriving to do Thy will, O God!...This One, when offering one sacrifice for sins, is seated to a finality at the right hand of God, waiting furthermore until His enemies may be placed as a footstool for His feet. For by one approach present He has perfected to a finality those who are hallowed." (Hebrews 10:9, 12-14)

"And He is the propitiatory shelter concerned with our sins, yet not concerned with ours only, but concerned with the whole world also." (1 John 2:2)

On Saturday at sunset, the third day after Jesus died, having been in the tomb three days and three nights, God brought Him back to life.

"Now, answering, the messenger said to the women, "Fear you not! For I am aware that you are seeking Jesus, the Crucified. He is not here, for He was roused, according as He said. Hither! Perceive the place where the Lord lay. And, swiftly going, say to His disciples that He was roused from the dead." (Matthew 28:5-7)

He spent another 40 days among the Jewish believers speaking to them about the Kingdom of God. 

"He presents Himself alive after His suffering, with many tokens, during forty days, being visualized to them and telling them that which concerns the kingdom of God." (Acts 1:3)