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Missing For Three Days Pt. 1: The Sign of Jonah

Throughout His ministry, Jesus prophesied about His death. When the people asked for a sign, Jesus told them the only sign they would receive was the sign of Jonah. Many believe this sign told us where Jesus was for three days and three nights, but is this true? And if it is, what is the sign of Jonah, and what does it mean? Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he searches through Scripture for the True meaning of Jesus’ words and where He went when He died in his video, Missing For Three Days Pt. 1: The Sign of Jonah.

Missing For Three Days

The Sign of Jonah

³⁸Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered Him, saying, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” ³⁹But He answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. ⁴⁰For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man [Jesus] be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. ⁴¹The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. ⁴²The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

Matthew 12:38-42

¹ And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test Him they asked Him to show them a sign from heaven. ²He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ ³And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. ⁴An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed.

Matthew 16:1-4

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What Is Hades? Pt. 1: The Underworld

Hades is mentioned ten times in the Bible, all in the New Testament (as it’s a Greek word and the Old Testament was written in Hebrew and Aramaic). What does Hades look like, who goes there, where is it, and how is it described in the Bible? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture for the answer to these questions and more in her video, What Is Hades? Pt. 1: The Underworld.

Matthew 5:27-30
Matthew 23:23-36
Acts 2:27
Psalms 16:10
Genesis 37:35
Luke 16:19-31
Luke 23:43
Matthew 12:40
1 Samuel 28:11-14
Ephesians 4:7-10 (NKJV)
Matthew 22:42
Psalms 68:18
John 14:1-7
Revelation 20:11-15
Proverbs 27:20
Proverbs 30:15-16
Isaiah 5:14
Isaiah 14:15
Revelation 9
Revelation 11
Revelation 17
Revelation 20:1-10
Isaiah 14:9
Isaiah 38:10
Job 17:16

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Hades Described In The Bible

¹⁹There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. ²⁰And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, ²¹who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
²²The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried, ²³and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. ²⁴And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’
²⁵But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. ²⁶And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’ ²⁷And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house— ²⁸for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’
²⁹But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ ³⁰And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ ³¹He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’

Luke 16:19-31

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Where Is Paradise?

Throughout Scripture, we see that the afterlife plays a huge role in our theology. Where we go when we die isn’t left up to every person’s individual imagination or even interpretation, the Bible sets out a clear description of what happens when we die. So, then what or where was the man Paul speaks about being caught up to paradise go? What is paradise exactly? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture for the answer to these questions and more in her video, Where is Paradise?

Luke 23:40-43
Matthew 12:39-40
Psalms 16:9-10
Ephesians 4:8-10
2 Corinthians 12:2-4
Luke 16
Matthew 11:12
John 10:7-30
Revelation 2:7
Genesis 3:22-24
Ezekiel 31:15-17
Genesis 3:19
Psalms 139:7-8

Where is Paradise?

⁴²And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” ⁴³And He said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
Luke 23:42-43

²I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. ³And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— ⁴and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter.
2 Corinthians 12:2-4

⁷He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’
Revelation 2:7

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