Milestones to Emmaus: The Third Day Resurrection in the Old Testament
Overview
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 “the third day” or “three days” in the Old Testament. Warren Gage applies the “suffering followed by glory” template that Jesus taught (Luke 24:26) to each reference. Approaching each of these as Gospel texts in the Hebrew Bible, Gage “reverse engineers” his way back to an understanding of Jesus’ resurrection hermeneutics.
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- Strives to understand the Old Testament the way that Jesus did in terms of the resurrection
- Examines the Old Testament closely, revealing evidence of the “third day” resurrection of Jesus Christ
- Provides over 40 milestones to discuss
- The Resurrection of the Savior on the Third Day according to the Scriptures
- The Deliverance from a Decree of Death on the Third Day
- The Third Day as the Day of Life and Death Decision
- The Third Day When God Comes in Great Power
- The Dry Land Emerges from the Waters and Life Emerges from the Dry Land on the Third Day
- The Third Day as the Day of the Great Triumph of the House of David
- The Resacralization of the Temple and Jerusalem Rebuilt under the Direction of the Son of David on the Third Day
- Excursus: Evidence for the Third Day Doctrine in the New Testament
Top Highlights
“We will see that the third day passages fall into categories showing 1) a condemnation to death and a remarkable deliverance on the third day, 2) the third day as a day of life and death decision, 3) God coming in power on the third day, 4) life emerging from the earth (or death) on the third day, and 5) the third day as the day of triumph for the house of David.” (Page 11)
“The great eschatological event foreseen in the Hebrew Scriptures is the resurrection of the Christ on the third day.” (Page 98)
“Second, these death decrees are most commonly associated with a piercing of some kind.” (Page 26)
“If we have properly aligned these months in Genesis and Exodus, the seventeenth day of the month, when the ark came to rest in the new world, would correspond to the third day after the Passover observance. In other words, the new world emerged from the waters of judgment on the very day which was to become resurrection day in the New Testament, the same day when Christ came forth from the earth as the first fruits of the new creation.” (Page 66)
“In the symbolic world of the Old Testament, Egypt represents the land of the graves and death. By making a three days’ journey, Israel would emerge from the land of death. This journey is a thus a figure of resurrection. Moving from Egypt to Canaan is moving from the realm of death to the realm of life.” (Page 35)
- Title: Milestones to Emmaus: The Third Day Resurrection in the Old Testament
- Author: Warren A. Gage
- Publisher: St. Andrews House
- Publication Date: 2011
- Pages: 106
Dr. Warren Gage is founder and President of the Alexandrian Forum. He received his PhD and MA from the University of Dallas, his ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary, and his JD from SMU Dedman School of Law. Previously, Dr. Gage served as Professor of Old Testament and Dean of Faculty at Knox Theological Seminary. While at Knox, he founded and directed the Christianity and Classical Studies graduate program. Dr. Gage is an ordained minister in the PCA and has authored numerous books and both scholarly and popular-level articles.
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Koos de Lijster
2/17/2022
This is not a review, but information about the difference between two closely releated books by dr. Gage. "In our first book entitled Milestones to Emmaus: The Third Day Resurrection in the Old Testament, we sought to reconstruct the resurrection hermeneutic of Jesus by taking our clue from the Lukan account of the Emmaus disciples wherein Jesus said that the Old Testament taught a third day resurrection. We identified about forty references to the “third day” in the Hebrew Scriptures and then applied the “suffering to glory” template to the narratives where the third day reference was embedded. Our approach was inductive, seeking to discover the patterns that suggested a figural “suffering of death” followed by a kind of “resurrection glory.” We then attempted to “reverse engineer” our way back to a better understanding of the hermeneutic of the Savior by which Jesus was able to claim that all the Scriptures spoke of the suffering and glory of Christ. While our first approach to the Old Testament was inductive, our approach in this companion volume will be deductive. We begin by identifying the figural patterns of “death and resurrection” in the New Testament in the expectation that the figures of speech used by the evangelists and apostles respecting death and resurrection will open up windows to a similar interpretive method applicable to Old Testament narrative. By this means we will be able to explore Old Testament passages that express the suffering and glory gospel to other passages, some of which will not have a specific reference to the third day." (Warren Austin Gage, Return from Emmaus: The Resurrection Theme in Scripture (Ft. Lauderdale, FL: Warren A. Gage, 2011), 7.)