Where/When was/is Jesus during the 3 Days?

OK, the title of this one is a bit …. or a lot confusing.

If the title is making your head hurt, then this might be one to skip and hopefully, normal service will be back, for next week. 🙂

The 3 days I’m talking about are the 3 days between Jesus dying on the cross and then being raised back to life again.

I’m going to share some thoughts that I have had about the 3 days. If you do read it, then please understand that it amounts to just a theory, (along with some bits we do know) that you then need to decide if there is anything to it.

Where to start???
The price Jesus paid on the cross.
When Jesus died on the cross, He did pay the whole price of that which separates us from God. (This bit is fact.)
But in my mind, the price for sinning is eternal separation from God.

Romans 6:23
²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

So how can a price of eternal separation be paid in full in just 3 days?

If someone owed you a million pounds, and they tried to settle the debt with a single pound… Would you feel that the debt had been paid in full?
Well, I can’t help but think that I would have been short changed, by quite a large measure, if someone where to try such a thing with me.
Are you able to see my concern/thought?

I know that 2 Peter 3:8 states,
But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

Now if I’m going to be a bit simple, I can apply the above to the 3 days…. and then come up with 3 thousand years of separation paid???
But even that seems like being short changed on eternity?
So was a greater price paid?? ….
Is a greater price still being paid? (Theory).
Whilst it has already been paid! (Fact)

Isaiah 53:5
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
    and by his wounds we are healed.

1 Peter 2:24
“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”

Are you still with me??
Can I try to explain what I mean by, “Being still paid, whilst it has already been paid?” ???

Eternity is all time, as such, now is a part of eternity.
So is an eternal separation from God the Father still being paid now?
All at the same time that it has been paid.

We know that the price has been paid, for Jesus also tells us so.

John 19:28-30
The Death of Jesus

²⁸ Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” ²⁹ A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. ³⁰ When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

So am I losing the plot by asking “Is the price still being paid?” ???

For us mere humans, time is linear. We have a start in time, and we have an end in time. We start a new day, and 24 hours later we know that, another day has gone by. We travel through time at a constant rate, moment by moment. We can’t travel through time any faster than the rate we do. We can’t go into the future or into the past. We only have the now to live in.

Is God constrained by time in the same way that we are?
I do think that the simple answer to that question is “no”.

Revelation 1:8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

The above verse is among many that shows us that time is different for God. We can only know the “is” (the here and now) but God can know the “was” and “is to come” as well as the “is”, all at the same time.
Time is different for God. Quite how that actually works out for God ….. ???
I just have more questions than answers, but I think it is suffice to say that time is different for God. (A previous post of, Is our God the God of Instantaneous Eternity? looks into these thoughts a bit more.)

I thought that I had a theory before I started writing this. Now I’m thinking that I’m just clutching at straws. 🙂

So what is this theory I have/had?
It’s below, for any who are still reading this.

When Jesus died, did He travel back to the start of time? (If you are going to make a payment of all eternity, then wouldn’t you need to make a start at the beginning?)
Did He then spend (is still spending) an eternity separated from God the Father?
Did He then travel back to the time on the cross where He stated, “It is finished”, or to 3 days later when He was resurrected and appeared to many people?
After this we know that He ascended to heaven and is now seated in Glory, with the Father.

If we do consider the when was Jesus, during the 3 days, then could we observe Jesus in three different places, from our point of view?
Could Jesus be on the outward journey, still paying the price?
Could Jesus be on the return journey back to the cross, having paid the price?
As well as knowing that, Jesus is seated in glory, with Our Heavenly Father.

I didn’t put a question mark after that last statement, as that one is known to be true.
But could the other two also be true, all at the same time?
For us mere human beings, we can only know the here and now. But do the rules of time that we experience, apply to God?

As I have already stated, this is mostly just a theory, with some bits that we do know. But if there is any truth to the theory, then it does put a different perspective to the three days, and just how long it actually was (is) from Jesus’s position.

If Jesus is still paying for the wrongs that I have done, or more to the point, that I am doing in the here and now, then could that change my view on just how much it matters of what I do, in the here and now?
If my doing wrong causes, yet another hot coal to be handed to Jesus, in the here and now, for Him to pay the price for, then could my not doing wrong, mean that He then has less hot coals to deal with???
Could this thought spur me on to try all the more to follow the path that I am being shown that much more closely, so that less hot coals are handed over to be dealt with from me? (Yes, is the answer to that one.)

When I first had these thoughts, I was a bit (a lot) overwhelmed by them. Until I was also reminded that, whilst the price could be, being paid, the price has actually been paid.
This means that what I am doing wrong, and will do wrong, has also already been paid for, by Jesus, by what He has done. (Or is still doing???)

Jesus does accept me, even with all that I have done wrong, and will do wrong.
It puts a new perspective on Jesus’s words, when He said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”