1.  Ezekiel predicts the destruction of Tyre by Nebuchadrezzar and is wrong.
      Ezekiel incorrectly predicts that the island of Tyre (Tyrus) will be utterly destroyed and "made a bare rock" which will "never be rebuilt". At the time of the prediction, it seemed like to be a sure thing, but 13 years of seige later Nebuchadrezzar gives up. The Island of Tyre is not destroyed or even conquered. It is not made "a bare rock" that will "never be rebuilt".  Ezekiel admits his error in Ezek 29:17  

      In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: (Ezek 26:1NRSV)
      For thus says the Lord GOD: I will bring against Tyre from the north King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, king of kings, together with horses, chariots, cavalry, and a great and powerful army. (Ezek 26:7 NRSV)
      I will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place for spreading nets. You shall never again be rebuilt, for I the LORD
have spoken, says the Lord GOD. (Ezek 26:14 NRSV)
      In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you, and lament over you: "Who was ever destroyed like Tyre in the midst of the sea? (Ezek 27:32 NRSV)

      (After 13 years of futile effort by Nebuchadrezzar, Ezekiel realizes he has bet on the wrong horse....)

      In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: (Ezek 29:17 NRSV)   Mortal, King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare; yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had expended against it. (Ezek 29:18 NRSV)
(So he then predicts that God decides to give Egypt to him instead, another Ezekiel prophecy that completely failed)

2.  Seeking parallels to the Old Testament, Matthew says that Jesus speaks of his Execution:
Matt 12:40 For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.  The interesting thing to note here is that, if we assume Jesus was indeed found missing from the grave following his burial (and by this we do not mean to imply that we assume he was resurrected), then the time he spent in the grave/earth was less than three days and three nights, and this "prophecy", probably worded this way by St. Matthew rather than Jesus, fails.

  Each Jewish day began at sunset, and ended at sunset 24 hours later. It was the convention to divide a full 24-hour day into two parts, a "night" and a "day" (think of them as night-time and day-time, if you wish). The "night" ran from sunset to sunrise, and the "day" from unrise to the next sunset. That is why the Bible speaks of X days and Y nights so often. A full 24-hour sunset-to-sunset time span is referred to as a "day," but when days and nights are mentioned together, each 12-hour period is what is meant.

This night-and-day convention was established in Genesis 1:4-13, and even Jesus himself acknowledged that there are 12 hours in a day, "Jesus answered, 'Are there not twelve hours in the day?'".  (John 11:9 )   And the remaining 12 hours are in the night that precedes that day. 

The Jewish Saturday (sabbath) spans a full 24-hour day, or one night and one day, and begins at sunset on our modern Friday, and ends at sunset of our modern Saturday. 

According to Matthew and the others, Jesus died on the "ninth hour" of Paraskeuen (Preparation-Day), in the week in which Passover began. Specifically, they say this was on the First Day of the Feast of Unrising Bread (which is the 15th day of the Jewish month of Nisan) (Mark 14:12-16, 15:42-44, Matt 26:17-19, Luke 22:1,7-10). The word, Paraskeuen (Paraskeuhn) Greek for "Preparation"), was used in the first century and thereafter as a proper name for the day before the weekly sabbath, much like we use the word, "Friday".    This is well established.   Thus, that is why the Bibles translate "Preparation" as meaning "Preparation-Day".  It does not mean the day on which preparations for the Passover festivities were made, although, by coincidence, there were certainly some preparations going on for Passover. Incidentally, the First Day of the Feast is a holy convocation, but it is not a sabbath (unless of course it happens to fall on the last day of the week, as it does here).

The fact that Preparation-Day was the day before the weekly sabbath (modern Saturday), is acknowledged by Mark, Luke, and John. 

Mark 15:42-44
And now when the evening had come, because it was Preparation Day, that is, the day before the sabbath, Joseph of Arimathaea... went in boldly to Pilate, and desired the body of Jesus.  But, Pilate wondered if he were even dead yet...
Why did Joseph crave the body of Jesus? It was important to the Jews to get the criminals' bodies buried before the weekly sabbath began
(at sundown of Preparation-Day), because Deut 21:22-23 stipulates that people who were executed must be buried before sundown. They rushed Jesus to the nearest suitable tomb because they did not have much time before sundown.

Luke 23:53-54
And he took it (Jesus's body) down, and wrapped it in cloth, and laid it in a tomb that was dug in stone...
And that day was Preparation Day, and the sabbath was dawning.

John 19:31,42
The Jews, because it was Preparation Day, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath Day, because, the day of that
sabbath was great. They laid Jesus there because of the Jews' Preparation Day, for, the tomb was nearby.
The Jews, incidentally, wanted the body down not simply because the Sabbath was about to dawn, but because Deu 21:22-23 says that
criminals who are executed on any day must be buried before sundown. The fact that the day to come was the weekly sabbath, and also that it was the sabbath that fell within the seven days of the Passover festival, gave it extra importance.

In modern terms, the 9th hour of Preparation Day is Friday afternoon, about 3 p.m. Jesus then was put into the grave sometime close to
sundown (which was when Preparation Day ended and Sabbath Day began). Then, Jesus was gone from the grave, "risen", sometime before dawn of the first day of the week (Sunday morning, the sunrise after the sabbath). The Bible does not say exactly when, but we note that if it had been before sundown on Saturday, that would have put Jesus's or his god in the position of breaking the sabbath. And, were it earlier than sundown Saturday, the public would have surely noticed the rolled stone and the "dead" guards. And, since Jesus gave himself a 3-day and 3-night interval, let us give him as much time as we possibly can just to help out. Let us say that Jesus rose just before sunrise Sunday (which is the time accepted by the Church, anyway).

What this means is that Jesus was in the grave from:

Late Friday afternoon before sundown = less than 1/4th of 1 day Friday sundown to Saturday sunrise = 1 night
Saturday sunrise to Saturday sundown = 1 day
Saturday sundown to sometime before Sunday sunrise = 1 night
Jesus was gone from the grave after less than 39 hours (1 day, 2 nights, and a few hours of a day). This is horribly short of the three
days and three nights that Jesus said he would be in the grave. More than 1 night and almost 2 days are missing. Some would note that when counting spans of days, that the "few hours of a day" when Jesus was buried should count as a full 12-hour day. It is true that this was the Jewish convention for counting time spans. So, we allow it here. It still only makes for 2 days and 2 nights.

Either Jesus or St. Matthew made the mistake. The other gospel writers simply have Jesus saying things like "and on the third day, he shall rise". They are referring to full 24-hour days, in those cases, and their counts work. The Friday Jesus was buried is the first day, then, Friday sundown to Saturday sundown would be the second, and then Saturday sundown to Sunday sundown wold be the third day, during which Jesus was allegedly risen (Sunday sunrise). But, St. Matthew -- all too eager to force artificial prophecy into Jonah -- chose to specify three days and three nights, thus contradicting the resurrection timeline.

As a side note, some Christian denominations have scrambled to formulate some kind of explanation for this. This has led to such
ill-thought notions that suggest the crucifixion occurred on Wednesday instead of the Friday that the rest of the Christian church accepts.

SOME THOUGHTS

If God is the author of the Bible, and everything God does is perfect, why does the Bible need any explanation - can't God write clearly?

If God is not the author of the Bible, then what authority does it have? And why?

If the Fundamentalist Christians believe the Bible is the True Word of God, why do they feel it needs so many televangelists to explain it and so many books to make it clear?

It has the ridiculous consequence of having Jesus rising 3 days and nights later on Saturday afternoon. Others attempt to squeeze an entire day out of the little time (probably less than an hour) before Friday sunset, before Jesus was put into the grave. One poor fellow I read on the net suggested that this provides a second day. Scrambling for a third night, he said that the third night would be the exhausting night before the crucifiction (trial before Pilate, etc). But, someone else pointed out that his re-definition of "the grave" has it changing from the plain and literal meaning of physically being in the earth, as Jesus said, to merely being dead (prior to burial), and finally to merely being TIRED. After this was brought to light, I don't think anybody even wanted to point out to the poor fellow that it still left one day missing. Attempts to put the crucifixion on a Thursday run into similar problems.

3.  Why is it that the dead walked the streets of Jerusalem, were seen by many, yet there is NO record of it anywhere but the Bible?

(Mat 27:52-3 NRSV) The tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.
(Mat 27:53 NRSV) After his resurrection they came out of the tombs and entered the holy city and appeared to many.

4.  Ezekiel predicted Babylon would conquer Egypt and was wrong.

Ezekiel predicts that Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon will conquer Egypt utterly destroying it, slaying and scattering it's people, and that it will stay uninhabited for 40 years.

In 568 BCE Nebuchadrezzar tried to conquer Egypt and Egypt survived with no apparent damage.

Aahmes ruled for another generation over a prosperous Egypt and lived to see Nebuchadrezzar die. No Egyptians were scattered or dispersed.

(Ezek 29:10 NRSV) therefore, I am against you, and against your channels, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia.

(Ezek 29:11 NRSV) No human foot shall pass through it, and no animal foot shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.

(Ezek 29:12 NRSV) I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolated countries; and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries.

(Ezek 30:10 NRSV) Thus says the Lord GOD: I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt, by the hand of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon.

(Ezek 30:11 NRSV) He and his people with him, the most terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

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Before we go any further, we need to understand something very important. For those unaware of the tradition of not actually printing GOD's name, please note that whenever you see "LORD" or "GOD", in capital letters (here and in most of the bibles), those words have merely been substituted for the actual name of GOD. In the actual text of the Old Testament, GOD's name is there, spelled in Hebrew letters: Y, H, W, and H. This tradition started among the Jews a few hundred years before Christianity, and therefore was passed along naturally to the Christians. It is even common for some Jews to substitute for GOD's name when spoken with the phrase, "Ha Shem" (meaning, "The Name")