Oops of the Day  

Only a priest or bishop can hand out the bread of the Lord’s Supper.  In fact, common worshipers are not allowed to touch it with their hands because it is so holy.  The priest or bishop has to set it on the tongue of the worshiper.

Matthew 26:26  –  Acts 20:4-8

Fact of the Day

No! Jesus gave the bread to his apostles and told them to break off a piece to eat.    He did not set it on their tongues.  Further, years after Jesus died, a group of Christians met together on the first day of the week to break bread.  (In Greek “met” was a religious meeting.) They broke their own piece of bread off to eat.

 

Oops of the Day  

Jesus died on Friday because the Passover Sabbath was the following Saturday.

Matthew  26:17  –  Matthew 27:62  –  John 19:31  –  Leviticus 23:24-25

Fact of the Day

No!  The 14^th day of the first month was Passover.  It fell on different days each year. (Leviticus 23:5-6).  John called it a “special Sabbath.”  Sabbath does not mean seventh; it means “rest from labor”.  For example, the Feast of Trumpets was called a special sabbath because it was celebrated on the first day of the seventh month, whatever day of the week it might fall on.  Jesus died on Thursday.

 

Oops of the Day  

Jesus was condemned because he said he would destroy the temple and build it back in three days.

Matthew 26:61  –  John 2:18-19

Fact of the Day

No!  Jesus did not say that.  When the Jewish leaders challenged Jesus,  he answered, [You] destroy this temple, but I will rebuild it in three days.  Their worldly minds meant the stone temple they were standing in.  Jesus meant the temple of his body.

 

Surprise of the Day  

By the end of Jesus’ first year, the religious leaders were so jealous of him, the Bible says eight different times they kept trying to kill him…

Not counting the king’s failed attempt when he was a baby.

Matthew 12:14  –  Matthew 26:4  –  Mark 14:1  –  Luke 22:2  –  John 7:1-2  –  John 7:19-25, 30, 44  –  John 8:59  –  John 10:31 & 39  –  John 11:53;

Fact of the Day

For 2-1/2 years the religious leaders tried to kill Jesus.

1. Right after he healed on the Sabbath
2. Right after he fed 5000 miraculously
3. Right after he called himself the Bread of Life
4. Right after he told the religious leaders they were sons of Satan
5. Right after he told the religious leaders he could grant eternal life
6. Right after he brought Lazarus back to life
7. Right after his triumphal entry into Jerusalem as their king
8. Just before the 3^rd Passover during Jesus’s ministry.

How they hated their creator.

 

Oops of the Day  

Palm branches were always waved to celebrate Passover, so that’s what people waved when Jesus entered Jerusalem as their king.

Matthew 21:7-10  –  Leviticus 23:39-43

Fact of the Day

No! Palm branches were part of the Feast of Booths which was an extension of the Day of Atonement – the Day of SALVATION.  Passover was in the 1st month (spring), Feast of Booths in the 7^th month (autumn). So the people declared him their SAVIOR symbolically with the palm branches and would have no matter what part of the year it was.

 

Oops of the Day  

When Jesus returns, the first thing he will do is send the angels out to gather up people of the world to be punished

Matthew 13:24-30 & 36-43

Fact of the Day

No! The parable where good wheat is planted, then an enemy plants weeds among it during the night is about hypocrites. Notice, verse 41 says the angels will gather “out of the kingdom” (out of the church) those who cause others to stumble and are vulgar and pornographic and will punish them all.

 

Oops of the Day  

When Jesus rode a donkey into Jerusalem, it was showing his humility.

Matthew 21:5  –  Numbers 22:21  –  II Sammuel 18:9  –  I Kings 1:33, 38, 44  –  Judges 5:9-10  –  Judges 10:3-4  –  Judges 12:14

Fact of the Day

No! Donkeys were the ride of kings!

• Judge Deborah sang, “My heart is with Israel’s princes….you who ride on white donkeys.”
• Supreme Judge Jair led Israel 22 years and had 30 sons who rode 30 donkeys.
• Supreme Judge Abdon, who ruled Israel 8 years, had 70 sons and grandsons who rode on 70 donkeys.
• Absalom, King David’s son, rode on a mule.
• David ordained that his son, Solomon, ride on his own mule through the streets as  proof that he chose Solomon to be the next king.

Jesus was king on the donkey, but humble by riding on the colt of a donkey.

 

Oops of the Day  

Jesus gave the apostles the power to forgive sins and their decision was accepted in heaven.

Matthew 16:19  –  Matthew 18:18  –  I Corinthians 9:5

Fact of the Day

No!  In the original Greek of the New Testament of the Bible, the FUTURE TENSE term “will be” was actually “have been”.  The word “will” was not there.  What Jesus said was PAST TENSE – that whatever sins the apostles declare forgiven have already been forgiven in heaven. 

 

 

Oops of the Day  

• Jesus gave Peter the keys of the kingdom of heaven so he could forgive sins.
• Then he preached the first sermon in Jerusalem to start the church.
• Then he went to Rome and became the first pope and people bowed down to him.

Matthew 16:16-19  –  Matthew 18:18  –  Acts 2:6-11  –  Acts 2:14&37 Acts 10:25-26  –   II Peter 1:1 –  II Peter 14-15.

Fact of the Day

No! 

1-Jesus gave those binding keys to all the apostles.

2-All the apostles preached in the twelve languages of the crowd on the Day of Pentecost in Jerusalem.

3-When a someone bowed down to Peter, he made him stand up because “I am just a man like you”. 

4-Even in Peter’s second letter where he said he was about to die, he only identified himself as an indentured servant and apostle, but never as pope. 

5-And, by the way, Peter was married, not celibate

 

 

Oops of the Day  

When Jesus healed the maimed, they just had a hard time walking.

Matthew 15:30

Fact of the Day

No!  “Maimed” comes from a Greek word meaning crippled in any way such as by amputation.  Jesus & his apostles could make arms and legs grow back!