It did not say it was not a real event but rather that the statement of the two messengers in brilliant white raiment was an idiomatic statement. When will you learn that without Torah we know nothing of what things Yeshua spoke, taught, and expounded? The story of the passing of Jacob in Egypt and his so-called "embalming" (most English translations) has everything to do with the burial of Messiah and how it was performed. Israel was not however "embalmed" but rather "spiced" upon his passing in the land of Egypt. Likewise the physicians of Joseph, (not those of Pharaoh) which performed the spicing ceremony are called rapha'-healers, and this form of rapha' is likewise from where the name of the messenger Rapha'el is derived.
Genesis 50:2-3 KJV
2. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians [HSN#7495 rapha'] to embalm [HSN#2590 chanat] his father: and the physicians [HSN#7495 rapha'] embalmed [HSN#2590 chanat] Israel.
3. And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: [HSN#2590 chanat] and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Original Strong's Ref. #7495
Romanized rapha'
Pronounced raw-faw'
or raphah {raw-faw'}; a primitive root; properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure:
KJV--cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, X thoroughly, make whole. See HSN7503.
Original Strong's Ref. #2590
Romanized chanat
Pronounced khaw-nat'
a primitive root; to spice; by implication, to embalm; also to ripen:
KJV--embalm, put forth.
Forty Days are "fulfilled" for Israel, ("for so it is with those having been spiced").
The same Forty Days are again fulfilled in Yeshua who was likewise "spiced" at burial:
John 19:38-40 KJV
38. And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
39. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
40. Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
Forty Days ~ 17 Nisan to 27 Iyyar ~ Acts 1:9
Luke 24:42 KJV (17 Nisan - Firstfruits of the Harvest)
42. And they gave him a piece of a broiled [baked on coals] fish, and of an honeycomb.
Elijah goes the same Forty Days on a small meal to Horeb the Mountain of God:
1 Kings 19:1-8 KJV
5. And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
6. And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
7. And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.
8. And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
Acts 1:2-3 KJV
2. Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
3. To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
Yeshua was seen of them Forty Days and then received up into a cloud on 27 Iyyar.
27 Iyyar is the Day wherein Noah and his family came forth from the Ark and offered up burnt offerings to God:
Genesis 8:14-21 KJV
14. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
15. And God spake unto Noah, saying,
16. Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
17. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
18. And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
19. Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
20. And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
And the Father smelled the sweet savour of THE SMOKE of the burnt offering ascending up into heaven.
Acts 1:9 KJV (27 Iyyar)
9. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
2 Corinthians 5:16 KJV
16. Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
So you see Paul is correct and you are not. And why? Because Paul loved the Father, loved Torah, and then he met Yeshua on the road to Damascus. And when Paul met Yeshua what he saw was a pure white blinding Light; no man, no body, only the Light. :)
shet haro'im (three of the shepherds) also I disposed of in one month; and my nefesh wearied of them, and their nefesh also abhorred me.
