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Milestones to Emmaus: The Third Day Resurrection in the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Does the Old Testament clearly teach the resurrection? Every time Jesus speaks of his coming resurrection, he claims that the Scriptures teach that it must happen on “the third day” (Matt. 16:21; Mark 8:31; Luke 9:22; John 2:19). Paul, likewise, teaches that the Scriptures require Christ’s resurrection to be on the third day (1 Cor. 15:4). Milestones to Emmaus explores 40 explicit references to...

Gibeonites, according to the law of Moses. Moreover, Esther’s death was decreed by the unalterable law of the Persians, apart from the singular act of mercy by the king. Second, these death decrees are most commonly associated with a piercing of some kind. Isaac is to be slain with a knife (Gen 22:10). The Gibeonites face the sword of Joshua (cf. Josh 6:21). David is threatened by the spear of Saul (1 Sam 18:10–11); he is likewise emblematically threatened with arrows, which Jonathan causes to be
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