Hello, John and Doves,Here's what you need to know: Every single day since creation has had two evenings!Why is that so? It is because every Jewish day begins in the evening, and ends in the evening.What do the scriptures say?"And the evening and the morning were the first day."This is why the Jews celebrated Passover on two days in Jesus' day.The scripture says,"1The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2“This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. 3Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamba for his family, one for each household. 4If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. 5The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. 7Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. 8That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. 9Do not eat the meat raw or cooked in water, but roast it over the fire—head, legs and inner parts. 10Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. 11This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover."You see, the fourteenth of Nisan begins at twilight, usually right after the 13th of Nisan ends. LOLThe fourteenth of Nisan also ends at twilight, usually just as the fifteenth begins. Ha HaWhat does that mean to us?Jesus is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world [Revelation 13:8], therefore, in a manner of speaking, He was dead even before He was born! He was born to die!Thus, He could celebrate Passover on what we would call Thursday night, 2 April, 33 AD, and he would still be on time to die as the Passover Lamb for all time at 3 pm, in the evening of 14th Nisan, which was Friday afternoon, 3 April 33 AD. See"Three evenings and three mornings" is exactly equal in meaning to "three days of Jewish reckoning."As such, Jesus was in the grave on Yom Shishi, Yom Shabat, and Yom Rishon. Keep in mind that every Jewish day begins at about twilight, when three stars are visible by two witnesses at the Temple Mount. In Jesus' day, there were such declarations of when each day began and ended.Therefore, although the Savior was in the grave for only about 39 hours [about 3 pm Friday to about 6 am Sunday], he was, in fact, in the tomb for three separate and distinct Jewish days. Therefore, in the vernacular, he was in the grave for "three days and three nights.""Easter" is obviously the Devil's play to bollox up the name of Yom Rishon [literally, "Day One"], which is Saturday evening to Sunday evening.Jesus rose on the first day of the week [Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:2, Luke 24:1, and John 20:1]. The first day of the week, as far as I know, follows the 7th day of the week. If anyone has an alternate understanding of this universe, created by God on the first day of the week, then you're probably joking, let's hope.The 14th of Nisan must have been on a Friday, because the day of preparation was the day before the weekly Shabat, because it is written,"Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day."The Burial of Jesus
57As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. 58Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. 59Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away. 61Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.The Guard at the Tomb
62The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 63“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.”
65“Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.” 66So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.
The Burial of Jesus
42It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath). So as evening approached, 43Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. 44Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him if Jesus had already died. 45When he learned from the centurion that it was so, he gave the body to Joseph. 46So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. 47Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.
"50Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the Council, a good and upright man, 51who had not consented to their decision and action. He came from the Judean town of Arimathea and he was waiting for the kingdom of God. 52Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body. 53Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen cloth and placed it in a tomb cut in the rock, one in which no one had yet been laid. 54It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was about to begin."The Burial of Jesus
38Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jews. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away. 39He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.d 40Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs. 41At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. 42Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
Ergo, Jesus was crucified on a Friday, the Day of Preparation, and on the Third Day, after two days had passed by completely, he rose triumphantly from the grave, being the firstfruits of our salvation.Please never challenge the veracity of scripture unless you are prepared to believe that God's Word is true. Otherwise, seeing, you will see and not perceive. Hearing, you will hear and not understand. [Acts 28:17-31] But that's the whole point in why Christians speak in open-coded format, huh?Open coded: A message is given that has reasonable surface meaning, but its real intended message is deeper. Else, the message is paradoxical on the surface [as confusing as encrypted text, yet seeming to display proper grammar and syntax, if not diction as well], but a key [Jesus] unlocks its true meaning.In this case, we remember that history is His Story. Therefore, when the scripture says something about Israel, it might well apply to Jesus in a special way.Witness the following:"After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence."This has two distinct, but related meanings.First, the obvious. On whatever day the person who is the focus of the prophecy dies, add two and only two days. On the third day, that one will be resurrected. This happened to Jesus. He rose on the Third Day. The only way He could have been crucified, and not left to hang overnight, is if He was killed as prescribed by Scripture, on the day of Preparation, Friday. He never hung on the cross overnight, so it must have been as late as Friday, during daylight hours.End of story. Actually, no, because this same Jesus [Acts 1:11] is returning, just as He left, onto the Mount of Olives!Therein lies the second meaning. The "he" in "he will revive us" is Yeshua Ha Mashiach. The "us" in that same phrase is Eretz Israel that Jesus leads from Bozrah."Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah, with his garments stained crimson? Who is this, robed in splendor, striding forward in the greatness of his strength? 'It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.' "This meaning, in turn, leads us to fuller understanding of "heart of the earth."It is written,"Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them."Psalm 68:18 NIVThose captives were from Abraham's Bosom, a section of Hades reserved for the saved who died before Christ died at the Cross.Since the two theives crucified beside Christ [who Himself had died at that point--see Matthew 27, Mark 15, Luke 23, and John 19] had not died when the soldiers checked on them, the Roman soldiers broke [not just bruised!] their shins, so that they must die within just a few minutes, unable to push themselves up to breathe. Therefore, the thief who believed was one of the first members of the Bride to go to heaven, where Jesus now dwells! He went to paradise, a couple of rungs up Jacob's ladder from Abraham's bosom. We know this, because Paradise is where the Tree of Life was, in the middle of the Garden of Eden. [See Revelation 2:7]More could be said, but my fingers have run out of words.See also http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/feb2011/Birth%20of%20Israel.doc for how close we are to the end of the age, despite the fact that it has been less than 2000 years since Yeshua's death, burial, and resurrection. There may be some typogaphical errors in that Word document, but they are meant by God to throw off those who are not serious about their salvation. Hence, if they do not love His appearing, they will not be able to become one of His own and escape the Great Tribulation.Baruch Haba B'Shem Adonai!Blessings~Mike C.______________________________________________________________________Mtnmollie (18 July 2012)
"When is the Lord's day? Did Jesus rise on Easter Sunday morning?"
Dear John and Doves,When is the Lord's day? Did Jesus riese on Easter Sunday morning?Is there a problem with Easter? Is Easter Pagan, or Christian?
He was 3 day and 3 nights in the earth, died on good Friday, rose on Easter Sunday morning, right?
Friday night, Sat. night, Sun. night, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, day?
3 days and 3 nights right?
What is wrong with this picture? (Michael Rood knows the answer. We have pagan worship in the church. )
4/22/11 From The Lord, Our God and Savior - The Lord’s Words Spoken to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear - Regarding Easter
Thus says The Lord YahuShua: Those who knowingly celebrate Easter, and its deplorable traditions, hate My resurrection.
Thus says The One who sees, The One who knows: Join not in the error of the people, have no part in their sin... I am The Lord.
For those who refuse My correction are foolish, and those who refuse to repent will walk through very dry places. For the pride of men is a heavy stone, which increases in weight each day it remains unbroken.
Join not in the error of the people...
Have no part in their sin...
Says The Lord.
http://trumpetcallofgodonline.com/index.php5?title=Join_Not_in_the_Error_of_the_People
“Those who knowingly celebrate Easter” When you know you are accountable to change what you are doing.
Jesus Fulfills Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits and the Sign of Jonah.
Chronology of Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion & Resurrection:
The chronology of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection is critically important because the first three Holy Days, commanded by God that we keep forever, are fulfilled through these events. He was crucified on Passover, "slept" in His tomb during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and was resurrected on First Fruits.
Jesus "slept" in His tomb three days and three nights as He, Himself, spoke of in Matthew 12:40, saying,..."the Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth". The "heart of the earth" refers to His tomb, or grave, not the man-made "hell" most churches proclaim. To say that One such as Jesus, being completely sinless and pure, being the Son of God, would descend into the lake of fire, which is saved for the wicked, or worse yet, He somehow descended into a -snip- more here –
http://gracehead.com/index.php/2009/03/22/jesus_fulfills_passover_unleavened_breadmore here-Respectfully,mtnmollie