The Resurrection Evidence Unveiled

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Greetings to the brightest audience in the country and welcome to Bobbineer Live. Today, with Resurrection Sunday around the corner, we are playing Bob’s documentary, Mount Moriah, evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Yesterday, we played part one. Today, we’re getting into Part 2. I think you’ll still enjoy this even if you didn’t get all of Part 1. Hey, and also, if you want the full thing, you can get that in two different ways. One, email us, service at kgov.com, and we’ll get this to you absolutely free of charge. Or you can sign up and get this Mount Moriah documentary and all of Bob Enyart’s Bible studies at enyart.shop. That’s E-N-Y.com. A-R-T dot S-H-O-P, nyart.shop. With that said, let’s jump right into part two of Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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Oh, the Hebrew doesn’t have to be translated because if David really wrote that a thousand years before Christ, this is about the Messiah, wow, that’s pretty compelling evidence. So some people who want to take away the deity of Jesus Christ, that he’s not God the Son, he’s not the Savior, he didn’t rise from the dead, they say, the Hebrew doesn’t have to be translated that way. As with many languages, all languages, there’s sometimes variation in the way something could be translated. And they say, you shouldn’t translate it. They pierce my hands and my feet. They say, that’s a bad translation. But you know what? When you look at the Septuagint that was translated hundreds of years before Jesus Christ, how did they translate this passage? From Hebrew, it was David wrote it in Hebrew, they translate it into Greek. You know what they wrote? They wrote, they pierced my hands and my feet. And why is David saying that? Why is it in, it’s in the first person, right? David wasn’t, David was not crucified. god moved him to write this to prophesy of his son jesus christ who would die on mount moriah in isaac’s place in david’s place in the place of all israel and all who would believe in god jesus christ died for them wow it’s really absolutely incredible now we’ll go to the new testament we’ll look at a few verses in matthew and then in john the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of John, and we’ll tie them in. We’ll refresh our memories as to the specifics of Christ’s crucifixion. I’m going to start in Matthew chapter 27 in verse 27. Then the soldiers of the governor, Pilate, took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him. When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they took thorns, they put it on his head and a reed in his right hand, and they bowed the knee before him, mocking him, saying, “‘Hail, King of the Jews!’ Then they spat on him and took the reed and struck him on the head. Then when they had mocked him, they took the robe off him, put on his own clothes, and led him away to be crucified. Now we’re going to go to verse 33. And when they had come to a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of the skull, in Latin, Calvary. Hebrew Golgotha, they gave him sour wine mingled with gall to drink. But when he had tasted it, he would not drink. That’s because in another gospel we read he cried out, I thirst. Then they crucified him and divided his garments, casting lots. Verse 37. And they put up over his head the accusation that was written against him. Jesus of Nazareth, king of the Jews. They did that in three languages. Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, so that all the world would know what was happening. Verse 41, likewise the chief priests, also mocking with the scribes and elders, said, he trusted in God, let the Lord deliver him. Wow. All right, now we’re going to go to John. We’re going to go over to the Gospel of John. Let me make sure. Over to John, chapter 19. We’re going to look at a few passages here, starting in verse 31. Therefore, because it was the preparation day, see, Jesus died on the same day, on the same day that the Passover lamb was killed in all of Israel. Why? Because Jesus was our Passover, as the apostle Paul wrote. Because remember with the Exodus, the Jews were in Egypt and Moses was the deliverer to bring them out of Egypt into the promised land. And God said, but this is what I want you to do. The night before the 10th plague, right, where death came on the firstborn of all the Egyptians, God said, take a lamb, a perfect lamb without spot or blemish and kill it, but don’t break any of its bones. That’s in Exodus chapter 12, verse 43 and 46. Why would God care whether any of its bones were broken? And we could go to another Psalm that David wrote about the Messiah. Psalm 34, verse 22. And it’s another fascinating passage. It doesn’t really seem to make sense, like some of these other details. He guards all his bones. Not one of them is broken. That’s in verse 20. Verse 22, the Lord redeems the soul of his servants and none of those who trust in him shall be condemned. See, God did that thing with the Passover lamb, with the Jews and Moses, just as a sign of what he was going to do for real later with Jesus Christ. And none of the bones, they killed the Passover lamb. They cooked it, they ate it. Any leftover, they burned it. What would it matter if they broke any of the bones? And when Moses wrote that, he didn’t know why he was writing that. They didn’t know why. They didn’t say why. They did it because God wanted them to do it so that 1,500 years later, when Jesus Christ would come, and as Moses wrote and as David prophesied, and when he was on the cross, none of his bones would be broken. so that we would be able to see all that’s why god said that fifteen hundred years ago in a thousand years ago let’s read it so anyway jesus died remember you know how the passover is celebrated right around easter as christ jesus dot christ died on the day that israel killed the passover lamb not by accident by design from god therefore because it was the preparation day of the passover that the body should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a high day, the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and they might be taken away. When someone’s being crucified, if you break their legs, they can’t prop themselves up and they die quicker because they can’t breathe and their heart literally could burst within them, as it said in Encyclopedia Britannica. Then the soldiers came and broke the legs. Remember there was two… Two criminals crucified with Jesus Christ. The soldiers came, Roman soldiers, and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with Jesus. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear and immediately blood and water came out. And what did David write a thousand years earlier? I am poured out like water. My heart has melted within me. And John, the writer of this gospel, John wrote, and he who has seen has testified and his testimony is true. And he knows that he is telling the truth so that you may believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s real. Bible history is reliable, providing enough details for the historian and the archaeologist to confirm it. Let’s go to Micah, a Hebrew prophet. Micah 5, verse 2. This is what he wrote about the Messiah. And this is where the Messiah would be born, where he’d come from. But you, Bethlehem, Ephratah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to me the one to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth have been from old, from everlasting. Verse 4, he shall be great to the ends of the earth, and this one shall be peace. Jesus Christ is the Prince of Peace. Now, so the prophecy is that this ruler of Israel, and some of this is yet still future to be fulfilled because Jesus Christ will be the ruler of Israel and all the world at his second coming. But he came out of Bethlehem. Now, let’s see, how could people know back then where a man was born? Well, so that this could be corroborated, so that historians, investigators, Jews who were interested, Gentiles, Greeks, Romans, so that they could look into where was this Jesus of Nazareth? Where was he born? Was he born in Nazareth? Well, guess what happened? It’s recorded in the Gospel of Luke and in the history of the ancient world. And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, the ruler of the world at the time. A decree went out. from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. The census, the first of a census that was taken every 14 years. The census first took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city. You know, they had incredible records back then. We forget those things, but they did. They had banks. You could make loans, take out loans, pay interest. Well, everyone went to be registered to his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the city of Nazareth into Judea to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. So it was that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered.” Why did the Romans have everyone take such detailed information about where they were born, what their city was, who they married, who were their children? For tax purposes. There was a head tax. Everyone had to pay the tax collector, who Matthew was, in fact, a tax collector for the Romans. All right. So anyone interested back then for many years could find out with absolute certitude that Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem. Going to Bethlehem, knowing his age, knowing the time of his birth and where he’d be, because that’s where Joseph had to be at that very time. And the New Testament is filled with historical references. I’ll read you a verse out of Luke chapter three, the next chapter, verse one. Now in the 15th year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate, and now earlier it was when Jesus was born. Now this was when he was about to die. He was born in his early years were under Augustus. And then I believe when Jesus was about 14 years old or so, Tiberius Caesar started to rule. Now in the 15th year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iteria in the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, Annas and Caiaphas being high priests, the word of God came to John the Baptist, and he went and preached into the region around Jordan. You see how many historical references in that passage? So that people that want to inquire, could these things be true? When did they happen? Where did they happen? They have exact reference points to go and determine. Is this book filled with silliness and foolishness or is it accurate and reliable? All right, now we’re gonna go, that was, we started there in Micah chapter five. Now we’re going to go to the prophet Isaiah. And this is absolutely fascinating because in Isaiah 53, we find out about the Messiah, Israel’s Messiah. Again, remember these were all written hundreds of years before Christ was born, translated into Greek. two, three hundred years before Christ was born. Well, now we go to Isaiah. And we’re going to look at chapter 53, incredible prophecies about Christ. But first, one verse out of Isaiah, chapter 7, verse 14. Then the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name will be Immanuel. That means God is with us. Jesus Christ is the son of God. Now, you know what a lot of people who don’t like Jesus Christ and that he’s God and that he rose from the dead, you know what they say about this verse? They don’t like the tie-in to Jesus being born of a virgin, that story in the New Testament. So they say, oh, this is mistranslated because it’s mistranslated because the word for virgin here, the Hebrew word also could mean a young maiden. And they say this should be translated, young maiden. Of course, when this verse is quoted in the New Testament in the Greek, it is specifically virgin in the Greek, very specifically. It can’t be maiden there. But you know what? When they say this should be translated maiden, they’re wrong. You could tell if you don’t even know Hebrew just by reading the verse. Behold, the Lord himself will show you a sign. A virgin shall conceive and bear a son. Well, what kind of sign would it be if a young woman conceived and bore a son? That’s not a sign, right? If she’s married, it’s pretty normal, right? A young woman, young maid, she’s married. If she’s not married, then it’s not a sign, it’s a sin. That happened all the time too. So the only way this verse makes sense is if God is saying, behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son. And you know, when this story came out, Mary was pregnant. And she wasn’t even married yet. That was incredibly embarrassing to her and Joseph, who was a righteous man. Joseph was in turmoil. They didn’t know what to do about it. They didn’t construct these events, make these stories up. It was beyond them. It’s the truth recorded centuries before Christ and then fulfilled with Jesus Christ. So then we’re going to go over to Isaiah chapter 53. And he’s writing about a suffering servant. Who’s he talking about? Well, in chapter 52, he says, my servant shall be, and God is speaking, my servant shall be exalted and lifted up. His appearance was marred more than any man and his form was marred. Well, what does he mean? His appearance. Remember those crowns of thorns and they hit Christ over the head with that reed? And the nails that were driven through his hands and his feet? And the sword he was pierced with? Wow. And here’s what Isaiah wrote about the suffering servant, the Messiah. He is despised and rejected by men. He was wounded for our sins. He was bruised for our iniquity. The chastisement, the punishment for our peace was upon him. Peace, shalom. He was cut off. That’s killed in Hebrew, karat. He was killed. He was cut off from the land of the living. For the sins of my people, he was stricken. And they made his grave with the wicked. They killed him with the criminals, but with the rich at his death. Joseph of Arimathea’s tomb he was buried in. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him, to injure Jesus Christ. He has put him to grief when you make his soul an offering for sin. See, we should all die and go to hell because we shook our fist at God. We hate him. We’re mad. We want to do things our own way, not God’s way. And because of that, we should live without God forever. That’s our just punishment. But Jesus was punished for us so that if we believe in him, we don’t have to go to that punishment without God forever in hell. Jesus Christ died and took our punishment. My righteous servant, Isaiah wrote, shall justify many. He shall bear their iniquities. He poured out his soul unto death. He was numbered with the criminals and he bore the sins of many and he made intercession for the transgressors. And verse chapter 54, and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. He is called the God of the whole earth. Jesus Christ is God. And we all and I worship him as God. and my Creator.” So that’s in the book of Isaiah, such an exciting and incredible prophecy, hundreds of years before Jesus Christ was born. And then the final prophecy we’ll look at in the Old Testament, and there are hundreds of them that we could look at. But the final one is in Daniel chapter 9, a most incredible prophecy. Daniel’s famous 490-year prophecy predicted the exact time of the Messiah’s crucifixion. It’s astounding. If we read in the book of Luke, we find out that all the people were in expectation. They thought John the Baptist was the Messiah. Are you the Messiah? They asked him. Why were the people in expectation? Because Daniel’s prophecy went right to the days of Christ, 490 years to when the Messiah, Daniel said, would be killed, would be cut off. Well, We’re going to look at just a few brief quotes of this prophecy from Daniel 9, verses 24 through 27. But to do that, to understand it, you have to know this. It’s a 490-year prophecy. But it doesn’t say 490 years in the text. It calls it 70 weeks. In the Hebrews, that was an idiom, a figure of speech. They did that a lot. A week could mean seven days or seven years. For example, in Genesis 29, verse 27, remember when Jacob wanted to marry Rachel and his father-in-law, future father-in-law Laban said, work for me seven years and I’ll give you Rachel. And he worked seven years and he married. It was that night. He couldn’t see her. He woke up in the morning. He didn’t get Rachel. He got her older sister, Leah. He was so upset. And Laban, he tricked him. And Laban said to him, and he said, I wanted to marry Rachel. And Laban said, well, fulfill her week, fulfill Rachel’s week. And we will give you this one also for the service, which you will serve me still another seven years. The Hebrew word week there is identical, of course, to the one here in Daniel. A week is seven years or seven days. Well, Daniel had a prophecy. Seventy weeks or 70 times seven, 490 years are determined. 490 years are determined to make reconciliation for sin. And when does this 490-year period start? Well, it says when it starts in verse 25, from the going forth of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah, there shall be 483 years. And after that, after that time, there will be a seven-year tribulation period, a great tribulation that will fulfill the whole 490 years. Well, the Babylonians had carried into exile, Daniel and his fellow Israelis, from Israel into Babylon, all right? And Daniel was a government official during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled, I have it here, from 604 to 562 BC, and he was also an official during the reign of Cyrus, who ruled 539 to 529 BC. And in Daniel’s old age, he ruled part of the time under Darius I, who began reigning in 522 BC. Now Daniel’s prophecy then was written at least 500 years before Jesus Christ was born. But when did the 490 year period begin? Because it tells us that from the going forth of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah, there’d be 483 years. Well, guess what? A command to rebuild Jerusalem was issued by King Artaxerxes. King Artaxerxes, you can read about this in the book of Nehemiah, chapter 2. We won’t do it now, but verse 1 and verses 5 through 8 was issued in the month of Nisan, the very month Jesus Christ died, the month of the Passover. In the 20th year of King Artaxerxes, that was the year 454 B.C. And if you want the phenomenal history behind all this, even from secular sources, go to a book called The Coming Prince by Sir Robert Anderson. Phenomenal, phenomenal book. These 483 years ended the very year that Jesus Christ was crucified. Artaxerxes’ command was given in the month of Nisan. Jesus Christ was crucified in the month of Nisan. Wow. It’s phenomenal. The Old Testament prophecies. are historical evidence. Historical evidence. Because they were written centuries before Jesus Christ for the truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But there’s more. mount moriah the geographic and historical information for the evidence for the resurrection of jesus christ what do we know about the crucifixion site well a number of things but specifically four that we’ll look at now jesus christ was crucified at the place of the skull it’s called golgotha or calvary it was outside the city walls as it says in hebrews at a garden on mount moriah now we’ll look at these one by one and we’ll start with the first evidence if you found the crucifixion site what’s the first thing you’d look for what was the place of the skull apparently there was in the rock of the mountain something that looked like a human skull so it was called golgotha well there’s photographic evidence that goes back 100 years, over 100 years of a place just north of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on the very top of Mount Moriah. And it sort of looks like a skull to this day, people think so. And you see the two deep eye sockets in rock. Now we’re going to show you that. In fact, this was taken in November 1995. And we’ve got, there’s this here cliff is right next to the garden tomb. In fact, it’s attached to the garden tomb, and there’s a garden and a tomb in it that we’ll show you in a little bit. But those eyes, and unfortunately in recent years there’s been some snow and ice damage, and it’s not quite as dramatic as it has been, but still to this day, those deep eye sockets in this cliff is called the skull. Now, we know that this skull, where this is right now, well, where is that? Well, it’s outside the city gate. It’s just outside the city walls of Jerusalem. And that’s what Romans, the book of Hebrews told us that Christ was crucified just outside of the city. And if we look at any standard outline of the old city of Jerusalem, which there’s still a wall today, in fact. And we know that Christ was at the Roman Praetorium, and then he was led to Golgotha. And here we have the old city, and the Praetorium was either, it’s somewhat questioned, but it was either, here’s the Temple Mount, and this is the Antonia Fortress right here, that number seven. And if we pull out a little bit from this, right here is Golgotha. the current location of this tomb at the garden in Jerusalem. Well, over across the map here is Herod’s Palace, and the Praetorium was either at Herod’s Palace or back here, and this is the most likely location, the Antonia Fortress. So the point being that wherever they took Jesus, in fact, now I’ll read the quote. I’ll read the quote out of the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 27, verse 27. Then the soldiers of the governor, we heard this earlier, took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around him. They put the thorns on him, they mocked him, beat him, and they led him away to be crucified. So the point being that this site that we’re showing you, this Jerusalem garden tomb, is right either location. The ancient city of Jerusalem, we have extensive descriptions of it, extensive, compared to other cities. It’s incredible what we have. But there is the slight question if the praetorium where the soldiers were housed, kept their weapons, was it at Herod’s palace?

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