The Sacred Drama:
First day: Jesus descends on the earth, he was killed by demons, the his corpse was exposed on the cross. (
MYTH)
Second day: before the night, he was buried as per prescriptions in Deut. (
MYTH)
Third day: he was risen and he was “seen” by Peter, then by John, then by James, then by the 500 brothers and lastly by Paul. (
HISTORICAL FACT)
An objection may be: if Jesus descends
on the earth, then why was the crucifixion not a
Roman crucifixion, given the fact that it was placed by Paul in the contemporary time (“First day”)?
Answer: Because Revelation 11:8-9 confirms that the Jewish crucifixion was applied only on the
corpse of the victim. If that happened for the two
witnesses of Rev 11:8-9, then probably this had to happen also for the
witnessed (as confirmed also by
Ascension of Isaiah).
8 Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city—which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified. 9 For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial.
“Where also their Lord was crucified” means “where also their Lord was
exposed”, i.e. on the cross (exposition
post mortem).
Now, the two witnesses may be Bar Kokhba and Eleazar. Their killers were the Romans. But the killers of Jesus were directly the
demons.