Luke 23:56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

Thursday was Passover, yesterday was Good Friday and tomorrow is Easter. What is today, other than the Sabbath? It is silent Saturday, a day in which nothing is written. No one preaches on the events of silent Saturday, nothing happened. Do you think it is by chance that Christ died and was laid in the grave without His body being prepared in accordance with Jewish rituals?

Death came just before sundown Friday, the beginning of the Sabbath. They had not time to lay Him in a grave, none had been prepared until the very last minute. Joseph of Arimathaea had to beg Pilate for His body. There was not enough time left to perform the rights before the Sabbath. This meant that His family would have to return to His grace on the day after the Sabbath to complete their family obligations. Someone was appointed to check the grave. That in itself is enough to rejoice. God made one of those divine appointments with man, in this case women.

Luke 24:1, 5c, 6a Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen:

I only have one more thing to say about silent Saturday. You may find it profound or just silly. Personally I find it to be true.

John 15:5 c without me ye can do nothing.

Nothing happened because Jesus wasn’t there.

1 Corinthians 12:16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

A metaphor is an implicit comparison. Metaphors and tupos, which is a foreshadowing, are used throughout the bible. Jesus is the Rock, the Cornerstone, is one example of a metaphor. The image is implicit, easily related.

Many within the body of Christ have wondered what body part they are implicit comparisons. Am I the eye? Am I the ear? Am I the feet? Am I the tongue? They use comparative language to try and discover who they are in Christ, so that they should know how to act. They seek to act in character with their calling.

1 Corinthians 12:31a But covet earnestly the best gifts:

Error can be seen within the body of Christ in how they interpret this verse. Even if you replace covet with desire or seek as are listed in other versions of the bible, the danger still remains. I will try and describe this danger by exchanging one word in a bible quote. That being metaphor.

1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of metaphor is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Money after all is also a metaphor. The error comes not from misunderstanding the metaphor but misapplying it. We err when try to discover who we are in Christ.

Discover who Christ is in you.