2.  “Where is God?”  God doesn’t micro-manage our individual lives…  He allows Free Will…  Yet God interrupts Human History.

3. Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was* still dark, and saw the stone already taken away from the tomb. John 20:1

4. She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, “They have taken the Lord’s body out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!” Peter and the other disciple started out for the tomb. John 20:2-3 The two were running together; and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first; and stooping and looking in, he saw* the linen wrappings lying there; but he did not go in. John 20:4-5

5. And so Simon Peter also came*, following him, and entered the tomb; and he saw* the linen wrappings lying there, and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself. John 20:6-7 (NASB95)

6. So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed. John 20:8

9.  “Where is God?”  Moving through history…  A Chosen People  Old Testament Foundation  Prophecy

16. 7 sevens and 62 sevens 7 X 7 = 49yrs. 62 X 7 = 434 yrs. 49 + 434 = 483 years

17. Convert Hebrew Lunar years to our Solar years Lunar years = 360 days each 483 years = 173,880 lunar year days / 365¼ (Solar Days) = 476 Solar Years

18. Encyclopedia Britanica Vol. 1 p. 598

19. - 444 (BC) +476 =32 (AD) =32 (AD) + 1 (No “0” yr) =33 (AD) =33 (AD) 1 AD2 AD3 AD2 BC3 BC1 BC - 3- 2- 1 0 1 2

20. # 20 33 AD, 22 Nissan Luke 19:37 And as He was now approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen, 38 saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord; Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!" 39 And some of the Pharisees in the multitude said to Him, "Teacher, rebuke Your disciples." 40 And He answered and said, "I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!" 476.06 = Precise Days.06 = 22 Days

21. This passage accurately predicts the date of the coming of Christ over 500 years before the fact! Was it forged later by Christians? The pre-Christian date of Daniel 9 is irrefutable! (Even skeptics don’t take this route.) The date for this 444 bc decree is accepted by all. Could the New Testament authors fake the dating of Christ? Impossible! Tiberius, Augustus, Herod, Quirinius, Pilot, Passover on a Friday

23. "He gave up his divine privileges…" Phil. 2:7 "Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus“ v5 “regard one another as more important than yourselves” v 3

24.  “ Every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Phil2:11)