"Three Days And Three Nights"

[BYT YHWH]

PART 1

Quite a controversy exists concerning when YAHSHUA
MESSIYAH (MASHIACH)'s Death, and Resurrection
Occurred.

For many centuries it was mainly taught and believed that
He Died on a "Friday", and Resurrected on the following
"Sunday".

Out of that teaching and belief arose such "venerated" days
as "Holy Thursday", "Good Friday", and "Easter Sunday".

It also resulted in changing The Weekly Sabbath from The
Seventh Day to the first day of the week, in honor of His
Resurrection on that day.

In recent decades, however, a Teaching and Belief that
YAHSHUA MESSIYAH (MASHIACH) Died on a
"Wednesday", and Resurrected "at the End of The Weekly
Sabbath" came to exist.

The intent of that "doctrinal" change was to refute the
veneration of "Sunday" as the "Christian Sabbath".

If it could be proven that YAHSHUA MESSIYAH
(MASHIACH) Resurrected on The Seventh Day, then there
would no longer be any whatever foundation and
justification for a "Sunday Sabbath".

The Purpose of this Scriptural Study is to Restore The
Truth about when YAHSHUA MESSIYAH (MASHIACH)'s
Death, and Resurrection Occurred, according to The
Scriptures.

As we will clearly Prove in this Scriptural Study, The Truth
is that YAHSHUA MESSIYAH (MASHIACH) did NOT Die on
a "Friday", NOR on a "Wednesday", and YAHSHUA
MESSIYAH (MASHIACH) did NOT Resurrect "at the Early
Morning of Sunday", NOR "at the End of The Weekly
Sabbath"!

Those of us who continue to Keep The Seventh Day
Sabbath Set Apart do NOT Need to Disprove a "Sunday"
Resurrection, NOR to Prove a "Sabbath "
Resurrection, in order to Support Sabbath Keeping.

YAHWEH's Commandments are Immutable.

If HE, His Son, or the Apostles did NOT Change The
Sabbath Commandment, then it must continue to be
Observed on The Seventh Day of the Week despite what
others say, and do.

The first thing to say is that, since there is quite a
controversy about which Year YAHSHUA MESSIYAH
(MASHIACH) was Born, and about
which Year He Died, and Resurrected, is not possible to
surely Discover,
by History, which Days of Week were The Passover, and
The Feast of
Unleavened (Bread), strictly related to His Death, and
Resurrection, in
the Year that He Died, and Resurrected.
It needs to Discover them only by The Scriptures!
Let's Start Reading Mattithyah / Matthew 12:38-41, that
are The
Scriptures more controversial on this Issue.
"Then certain of the Scribes and of the Pharisees
answered, saying,
'Teacher, we would see a Sign from you'. But He answered
and said to
them, 'An evil and adulterous generation seek after a Sign;
and there
shall no Sign be given to it, but the Sign of the Prophet
Yahnah: For as
Yahnah was three days and three nights in the belly of the
great fish;
so shall The Son of Man be three days and three nights in
the heart of
the earth. The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this
generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at
the preaching
of Yahnah; and, behold, a Greater One than Yahnah is
here".
The focal point here is on "THREE DAYS AND THREE
NIGHTS".
Are they "three full days" of 12 hours each, and "three full
nights" of
12 hours each, for a total of "exactly 72 hours"?
Or are they "three days and three nights", meaning three
periods of
"Light" (Day), and three Periods of "Darkness" (Night)
(Genesis 1:3-5,
14-18)?
First, please, note that they are "three days and three
nights", and NOT
"three nights and three days"!
That means such "three days and three nights" begin with a
Day, and end
with a Night.
Proponents of a "Friday" Death say that is only an "idom"
that is not to
be understood literally, but meaning "any part of three days
or nights
is involved", because other correlated Scriptures say "after
three
days", and "on the third day".
Anyway, whatever "part" of them would be involved, there
are NOT "three
Days and three Nights", from "Friday" evening to "Sunday"
early morning!
But, at most, there are TWO "full" Nights (the entire Nights
after
"Friday", and after Sabbath Day), and ONE "full" Day (the
entire Sabbath
Day), and "parts" of TWO Days (a few hours, after the
Death, late in the
afternoon, or maybe just a few minutes, if any, after the
Burial, in the
evening, at the end of "Friday", and maybe just a few
minutes, if any,
before the Rolling of the Stone at the Door of the Tomb,
very early in
the morning, at the beginning of "Sunday", if that would be
considered
as the time of the Resurrection, even if the Body already
was NOT
there)!
Proponents of a "Wednesday" Death say that The Sign of
the True MESSIYAH
(MASHIACH) was that YAHSHUA would be in the Tomb
"exactly 72
hours", from "Wednesday" evening to Sabbath evening, just
as the Prophet
Yahnah would be in the belly of the fish "three days and
three nights",
for a total of "exactly 72 hours".
But, anyway, at most, such "exactly 72 hours" from
'Wednesday" evening
to Sabbath evening, would be "three Nights and three
Days", and NOT
"three Days and three Nights"!
To Understand the True Meaning of these Verses, we must
Study All that
The Scriptures say concerning this Event.
A parallel account to this encounter with the Scribes and
Pharisees is
found in Luke 11:29-30: "And when the people were
gathered thick
together, He began to say, 'This is an evil generation: they
seek a
Sign; and there shall no Sign be given it, but the Sign of
Yahnah the
Prophet. For as Yahnah was a Sign unto the Ninevites, so
shall also The
Son of Man be to this generation".
Here YAHSHUA specifically tells us that the Sign was the
Prophet Yahnah himself, and not only the Miraculous Fact
that he was
"three days and three nights" in the belly of the great fish.
He says that HimSelf, The Son of Man, would be The Sign
to the current
generation of Israel.
The emphasis is not only on how long those men were
entombed in their
respective prisons, but also on the men themselves, and on
The Messages
of Repentance that they Preached.
The Ninevites were quick to Repent after hearing the
Prophet Yahnah's
Message, however, the evil generation of Israel would not
respond to The
Greater Message of The Greater Messenger, YAHSHUA
MESSIYAH (MASHIACH).
A Sign is something that is VISIBLE to the Sign seekers,
who have to be
eyewitnesses.
The Yahdaim (Jews) wanted a VISIBLE Sign that was even
more convincing
than the Miracles that YAHSHUA performed.
The emphasis is either on The Man and His Message, and
on The Time
Element involved.
The Prophetic and Miraculous Sign that YAHSHUA
MESSIYAH (MASHIACH) Gave, related to the Time
Element, is that just as the
Prophet Yahnah was in the belly of the great fish (as if he
was dead!)
THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS, and then he came out
alive (Yahnah 1:17;
Chapter 2), so The Son of Man will be in the heart of the
earth (Dead,
in the sepulchre, the tomb!) THREE DAYS AND THREE
NIGHTS, and then He
would be come out ALIVE (Resurrected) (Mattithyah /
Matthew 12:38-40)!
If the "Sign" was ONLY the Messenger, and the Message,
then YAHSHUA
could parallel HimSelf to ANY of YAHWEH's Prophets until
Yahchanan The
Immerser - but He did specifically Parallel HimSelf to the
Prophet
Yahnah ALSO for the Prophetic and Miraculous "Sign' of
"THREE DAYS AND
THREE NIGHTS", and NOT ONLY for the Messenger, and
the Message!

[BYT YHWH]

PART 2

If the "Sign" of "three Days and three Nights" was of
"exactly 72
hours", then YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA) MESSYAH
(MASHIACH) would be Dead, and
then Buried, early in the morning, at the beginning of the
Day - THAT IS
NOT, according to The Scriptures (and so it had to be NOT
also for the
Prophet Yahnah in the belly of the great fish)!
The most common expression that YAHSHUA
(YAHWSHUA) used concerning His
Resurrection was "the third day".
YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA) gives us a clear example of what
He means by "the
third day" in Luke 13:32: "And He said to them, Go you, and
tell that
fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures today and
tomorrow, and
the third day I shall be perfected".
YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA) refers to "today" as "day 1",
"tomorrow" as "day 2",
and "the third day" as "day 3".
Regardless of how much time remained in "day 1", it was
still included
in YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA)'s Count.
In YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA)'s Mind, "the third day" is the
day after
"tomorrow".
"Tomorrow" is the day after "today," and "today" is the day
He was
speaking.
With that in mind, we can understand some other
references to three
days.
In Luke 24:13-35, we read of the encounter between
Cleopas, his
companion, and YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA) already
Resurrected.
The meeting takes place on the same day that the women
came to the tomb
and found it empty.
Verse 29 shows it was late in the day, therefore their
conversation must
have taken place during the afternoon of "Sunday", or as
Luke 24:1
states, "the first [day] of the week".
The conversation with YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA) begins in
Verse 17, "And He
said to them, 'What manner of communications are these
that you have one
to another, as you walk, and are sad?' And the one of
them, whose name
was Cleopas, answering said to him, 'Are you only a
stranger in
Yerusalem, and have not known the things which are come
to pass there in
these days?' And He said to them, 'What things?' And they
said to him,
'Concerning YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA) of Nazareth, which
was a Prophet Mighty
in deed and word before YAHWEH (YHWH) and all the
people: And how the
chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned
to Death, and
have [impaled] Him. But we trusted that it had been He
Which should have
Redeemed Israel: and beside all this, TODAY IS THE
THIRD DAY, AFTER
Passover was celebrated, SINCE these things were done".
The last sentence is very important!
The day they were speaking was "the third day" AFTER
Passover, SINCE the
things they were speaking about took place.
What were they speaking about?
Cleopas began his account of past events with the arrest of
YAHSHUA
(YAHWSHUA) and ended them with MESSYAH
(MASHIACH)'s Death, and Burial,
and the Celebration of the Passover of the Yahdaim (Jews).
Cleopas said, "today is the third day, AFTER Passover was
celebrated,
SINCE these things were done".
Therefore, going back, "Sunday", the first day of the week,
was the
third day "AFTER Passover was celebrated, SINCE these
things were done";
Sabbath, The Seventh Day of the week, was the second
day "AFTER Passover
was celebrated, SINCE these things were done"; and
"Friday", the sixth
day of the week, was the first day "AFTER Passover was
celebrated, SINCE
these things were done".
Then, "these things were done", meaning the events ended
with YAHSHUA
(YAHWSHUA)'s Death, and Burial, and the Celebration of
the Passover of
the Yahdaim (Jews), Occurred the day BEFORE "Friday",
that was / is
"Thursday", the fifth day of the week!
It could be NOT "Friday", that was the first day, AFTER
Passover, SINCE
all that occurred, NOR it could be "Wednesday", that was
FOUR days back
from "Sunday", that Cleopas said to be "the third day",
AFTER Passover,
SINCE all that occurred!
Consequently, the "Last Supper", that occurred the Day
BEFORE His Death,
and Burial, that Really was THE TRUE, SCRIPTURAL
PASSOVER (explanations
and details later, in this Scriptural Study), that YAHSHUA
(YAHWSHUA)
Kept and Ate with His Disciples, introducing The New
Covenant in His
Blood, was on "Wednesday", the fourth day of the week, at
evening (and
continuing during the night), that is, "in the midst of the
week"
(Daniel 9:26-27), in the Year that He Died, and Resurrected!
The "Last Supper" was NOT on "Thursday", as "Death on
Friday, and
Resurrection on Sunday" proponents WRONGLY teach,
NOR it was on
"Tuesday", as "Death on Wednesday, and Resurrection on
The Sabbath"
proponents WRONGLY teach!
As we said before, referring to YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA)'s
Understanding of
Counting Days, in Luke 13:32, we see that "day 1", or
"today" was
counted as "one day" regardless of how much time
remained in that day.
So, that "Thursday", when YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA)
MESSYAH (MASHIACH) was
UNRIGHTLY and WRONGLY Killed, about at "the ninth
hour", that is about
at 3:00 in the afternoon, at the same time the Yahdaim
(Jews) were
UNRIGHTLY and WRONGLY killing their Passover lambs
(explanations and
details later, in this Scriptural Study), was the First Day, in
the
count of "three Days and three Nights".
Then, even though only about three hours remained in that
day, it still
was "Day 1" in the count of "three Days and three Nights".
A review of the following 13 Scriptures clearly shows the
count of three
days and three nights begins with the Death of MESSYAH
(MASHIACH),
occurred in the afternoon, more than His Burial, occured at
evening, at
the end of "Thursday": Mattithyah / Matthew 16:21; 17:23;
20:18-19;
27:63-64; Mark 9:31; 10:34; Luke 9:22; 13:32; 18:33; 24:7;
Yahchanan /
John 2:19-21; Acts 10:39-40; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4.
Then, in the count of "three Days and three Nights",
"Thursday" was "Day
1", and the night following "Thursday" was "Night 1".
"Friday" was "Day 2", and the night following "Friday" was
"Night 2".
The Sabbath Day was "Day 3", and the night following The
Sabbath Day was
"Night 3".
Since YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA) MESSYAH (MASHIACH)
Clearly Said that The Sign
was that He will be "in the heart of the earth (Dead, in the
sepulchre,
in the tomb!) THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS", then
HE Resurrected at the
end of the Night of (AFTER) The Sabbath Day, that was the
THIRD Night
since (after) His Death, and just BEFORE the Beginning of
the First Day
of the Week ("Sunday"), very early in the morning, that was
the THIRD
Day since (after) His Burial!
That was NOT a Resurrection "at the Early Morning of
Sunday", as "Death
on Friday" proponents WRONGLY teach, NOR a
Resurrection "at the End of
The Sabbath Day", as "Death on Wednesday" proponents
WRONGLY teach!
In Mattithyah / Matthew 27:62-66, we learn something
interesting
concerning the sealing of the sepulchre, and the soldiers
that were to
guard it.
Verse 63 says the Chief Priests and the Pharisees were
concerned about
MESSYAH (MASHIACH)'s Prophecy of Rising Again
AFTER THREE DAYS.
They requested the sepulchre be made sure "UNTIL THE
THIRD DAY".
That phrase must surely mean "until the third day ENDS".
Pilate granted them the "watch", and eventually the
sepulchre was sealed
and
guarded by soldiers.
If MESSYAH (MASHIACH) Died on a "Friday" - THAT IS
NOT! - then the Chief
Priests and the Pharisees, very strictly Torah and Sabbath
observant
people, went to Pilate, a pagan Roman governor, at his
"unclean" place,
on The Sabbath Day, to ask him for the "watch", and then
they went to
seal the sepulchre, and to set the guards on The Sabbath
Day!
Very Hard Things to Believe to be Really Occurred!
If MESSYAH (MASHIACH) Died on a "Wednesday" - THAT
IS NOT! - and we even
count in the way "Wednesday" proponents prefer, then
"Thursday" was the
day the watch began, and would have been "day one" of
the watch,
"Friday" was "day two" of the watch, and The Sabbath was
"day three" of
the watch.
Then, as the sun set, ending the Sabbath, the command to
make the
sepulchre sure "until the third day" would have ended.
The soldiers would have gone home for a warm night sleep.
The Roman soldiers certainly followed commands to the
letter.
But what occurred?
We see, in Mattithyah / Matthew 28:1-4, that the "keepers"
or those that
guarded the Tomb were scared to death by the Angel
(Malak) of YAHWEH
(YHWH) who rolled the sepulchre stone away on Sunday
early morning.
Therefore, the watch would be continuing to guard the
Tomb on the FOURTH
day, even though they were only commanded to guard until
the THIRD day.
It would make No Sense At All!
Instead, if MESSYAH (MASHIACH) Died on a "Thursday" -
AS HE DID! - then
"Friday" was the day when the Chief Priests and the
Pharisees went to
Pilate, and the watch at sepulchre began, and Sabbath was
the Second Day
of the watch at sepulchre, and "Sunday" was the THIRD
Day of the watch
at sepulchre, which would justify why the watch was still
there on
Sunday morning.

[BYT YHWH]

PART 3

There is also another very interesting thing to note, related
to YAHSHUA
(YAHWSHUA)'s Death, and Resurrection.
Mark 16:1 states that the women bought spices AFTER
The Sabbath ended.
Luke 23:56 shows that the women prepared spices and
ointments BEFORE The
Sabbath.
And even if the women could already have spices and
ointments to prepare
BEFORE The Sabbath, then why did they buy them AFTER
The Sabbath, and No
Scripture says that the women prepared spices and/or
ointments AFTER The
Sabbath?
Then, how would be possible that, BEFORE The Sabbath,
the women prepared
spices and ointments that they bought AFTER The
Sabbath, and they did
not prepare them AFTER The Sabbath?
The only solution to this "enigma" is: there were TWO
Sabbaths in the
Week in which YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA) MESSYAH
(MASHIACH) Died - The Annual
High Sabbath of The First Day Feast of Unleavened
(Bread), on Abib /
Aviv 15, that was on "Thursday", the Day after The
Passover, on Abib /
Aviv 14, that was on "Wednesday", and The Weekly
Sabbath, on The Seventh
Day.
The women returned from watching where and how
Yahseph laid YAHSHUA
(YAHWSHUA)'s Body in the sepulchre, just before the end,
at evening, of
"Thursday", and then they bought spices, AFTER The
Sabbath, that was The
Annual High Sabbath, The First Day Feast of Unleavened
(Bread), that
ended at evening of "Thursday".
During "Friday", and BEFORE The (Weekly) Sabbath, the
women prepared
ointments and spices bought AFTER The (Annual High)
Sabbath.
Then, they Rested on The (Weekly) Sabbath, The Seventh
Day, according to
The Commandment.
And the Night of (AFTER) The Sabbath, at dawn, very early
in the
morning, at the beginning of the First Day of the Week
("Sunday"), they
went to the sepulchre, taking ointments and spices bought
AFTER The
(Annual High) Sabbath, and prepared on "Friday", BEFORE
The (Weekly)
Sabbath!
All that would be simply impossible to occur, with a "Death
on Friday"!
And, with a "Death on Wednesday", there would be a too
long time span
(three days), that is NOT in The Scriptures above - even
having to wait
from "Wednesday" evening to "Thursday" evening, AFTER
The (Annual High)
Sabbath, to buy spices, to prepare them "Friday", then to
Rest on The
Weekly Sabbath, and to go to the tomb very early in the
morning of
"Sunday"!
Also, to Verify if such a VISIBLE Sign of "THREE DAYS
AND THREE NIGHTS"
Truly Occurred, and, consequently, to Discover when He
Died, and when He
Resurrected, and to Prove that YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA)
was / is The True
MESSYAH (MASHIACH), it needed, also according to
YAHWEH (YHWH)'s Law
(Torah), Witnesses (at least, Two or Three) to See It,
either at His
Death, and at His Resurrection!
Then, since the "Sign" of "Three Days and Three Nights"
had to be a
VISIBLE "Sign", with Witnesses of It, then the "Resurrection
at the end
of The Sabbath" is NOT such a case, because there was
NO Witness of It
in The Scriptures, because NO ONE Saw YAHSHUA
(YAHWSHUA) Resurrected at
that time, NOR He Showed Himself at that time, simply
because He had NOT
Risen YET!
And the "Resurrection at early morning of Sunday" is NOT
True, because,
at that time, the Angel (Malak) of YAHWEH (YHWH), Who
rolled away the
sepulchre stone, clearly said, "HE IS NOT HERE, HE HAS
RISEN AS HE SAID.
COME, SEE THE PLACE WHERE YAHSHUA
(YAHWSHUA) LAY" (Mattithyah / Matthew
28:1-8)!
So, the Angel (Malak) of YAHWEH (YHWH), the women
who prepared ointments
and spices, and also the guards, were Witnesses of such
VISIBLE "Sign" -
very early in the morning, just at the beginning of the First
Day of the
Week ("Sunday"), AND NOT BEFORE OR AFTER THAT
TIME, the Angel (Malak) of
YAHWEH (YHWH) Opened the Sepulchre, to Show, and
Prove that YAHSHUA
(YAHWSHUA) MESSYAH (MASHIACH) was NOT there,
that He had Risen from the
dead, just as He Said: AT THE END OF THE NIGHT OF
(AFTER) THE SABBATH,
AND JUST BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST
DAY ("SUNDAY"), VERY EARLY IN
THE MORNING, ON THE THIRD DAY, JUST AFTER
THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN
THE HEART OF THE EARTH, AS YAHSHUA
(YAHWSHUA) HIMSELF SAID, PROVING TO
BE THE TRUE MESSYAH (MASHIACH) (Mattithyah /
Matthew 12:38-40)!
Clearly, His Resurrection was NOT on "Early Sunday
Morning", NOR It was
on "Late Sabbath Evening" - but, according to The
Scriptures, YAHSHUA
(YAHWSHUA) MESSYAH (MASHIACH)'s Resurrection was
at the end of the Night
of (AFTER) The Sabbath Day, and just BEFORE the
beginning of the Day of
"Sunday"!
Now, let's Verify what occurred BEFORE such "three Days
and three
Nights", to Discover what "The Last Supper" Truly was, and
when The
Passover, and The First Day Feast of Unleavened (Bread)
Truly occurred
on the Year that YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA) MESSYAH
(MASHIACH) was Sacrificed!
All the Scriptural evidences - Mattithyah / Matthew
26:17-30; Mark
14:12-26; Luke 22:7-30; Yahchanan / John Chapter 13 -
Prove that "The
Last Supper" Truly was THE PASSOVER!
Surely YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA) MESSYAH (MASHIACH)
broke UNLEAVENED Bread as
Symbol of His Body.
UNLEAVENED Bread is from the 14th Day of the 1st Month
/ Moon, AT
EVENING, to the 21st Day of the 1st Month / Moon, AT
EVENING, for SEVEN
Days (Exodus 12:15-18)!
YAHSHUA broke Unleavened Bread because it was THE
PASSOVER, on the 14th
Day at evening, to be eaten during the night, just as He did
with His
Disciples!
According to The Scriptures, YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA)
MESSYAH (MASHIACH) and
His Disciples, and the minority in Israel (as the Essenes),
Kept The
Passover RIGHT, on the 14th Day at the evening, and to be
Eaten during
the night, because they Kept The New Moon RIGHT, at the
Conjunction
(Covered Moon), and The Day RIGHT, from morning (dawn
to sunrise) to
evening (sundown to dark)!
And, instead, the majority in Israel (Scribes, Pharisees,
Sadducees, as
they usually did during the ages - too long to list all their
breakings
of The Torah, because of their pagan doctrines, and
traditions of men!)
kept the Passover WRONG, the day AFTER, because of
their Babylonian
"first crescent / silver new moon" (please, Read the
Scriptural Studies,
"THE TRUE NEW MOON IS NOT THE FIRST
VISIBLE CRESCENT", and "CONJUNCTION, OR CRESCENT, OR FULL
MOON?"), and of their Babylonian
"sunset to sunset day" (please, Read the Scriptural Studies,
"THE SCRIPTURAL DAY", and "BABYLONIAN ORIGINS
OF 'SUNSET TO SUNSET'
DAY")!

[BYT YHWH]

PART 4

No doubt whatever that YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA)
MESSYAH (MASHIACH) Kept THE
PASSOVER with His Disciples that "Last Supper", since,
"Now before the
First Day of Unleavened (Bread) (when the Passover Lamb
had to be
sacrificed - See Luke 22:7) the Disciples came to
YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA),
saying, 'Where will you have us PREPARE FOR YOU TO
EAT THE PASSOVER?'.
HE SAID, "Go into the city to a certain one, and say to him,
'The
Teacher says, My time is at hand; I WILL KEEP THE
PASSOVER AT YOUR HOUSE
WITH MY DISCIPLES'. And the Disciples did as YAHSHUA
(YAHWSHUA) had
directed them, and THEY PREPARED THE PASSOVER"
(Mattithyah / Matthew
26:17-19; Luke 22:7-13), and "when THE HOUR CAME (at
evening!), He sat
at table, and the Apostles with Him. And He said to them, 'I
have
earnestly desired TO EAT THIS PASSOVER WITH YOU
BEFORE I SUFFER; for I
tell you I shall NOT eat it (again) until it is fulfilled in The
Kingship of YAHWEH (YHWH)" (Luke 22:14-16)!
That Day, that was on "Wednesday", the Fourth Day of the
Week, in the
Midst of the Week, the Year He Died, was the Day when
the Passover Lambs
were sacrificed, that was on the 14th Day at the evening -
at the END of
the 14th Day, and SURELY NOT at the 13th Day at
Evening, OTHERWISE there
would be EIGHT Days of Unleavened (Bread), and NOT
SEVEN Days, from the
14th Day at Evening to the 21st Day at Evening,
ACCORDING TO THE
SCRIPTURES (Exodus 12:15-18)! - so it CLEARLY was
THE PASSOVER that
YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA) MESSYAH (MASHIACH) Ate,
and Kept with His Disciples,
BEFORE to Suffer, and to Die for us, for our sins!
The majority of Yahdaim (Jews), instead, kept and ate (and
still keep
and eat!) the Passover WRONG, the Day AFTER, because
of their Babylonian
"first crescent / silver new moon" and "sunset to sunset
day" pagan
doctrines, and traditions of men!
Please note, "In the night of (AFTER) the Sabbath, as it
began to dawn
toward the First Day of the week..." (Mattithyah / Matthew
28:1), "And
very early on the First (Day) of the week, they came to the
sepulchre
when the sun had risen" (Mark 16:2), "Now on the First Day
of the week,
at the earliest dawn..." (Luke 24:1).
It's Very Clear WHEN The Day BEGINS - very early in the
morning, from
dawn to sunrise - and also that the night of (AFTER) the
Sabbath is just
that, and NOT the night of the 1st Day, NOR the night of
(after)
"friday"!
The TRUE First Day Feast of Unleavened (Bread), an
Annual or High
Sabbath, was on "Thursday", the Day when YAHSHUA
(YAHWSHUA) MESSYAH
(MASHIACH) Died - the Day when the Yahdaim / Jews
UNRIGHTLY and WRONGLY
sacrificed / killed the Passover Lambs, just as they
UNRIGHTLY and
WRONGLY Sacrificed / Killed YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA)
MESSYAH (MASHIACH), THE
LAMB OF YAHWEH (YHWH) WHO TAKES AWAY THE
SIN OF THE WORLD (Yahchanan /
John 1:29), OUR PASSOVER SACRIFICED FOR US (1
Corinthians 5:7)!
That is further Proven from the account in Mattithyah /
Matthew
27:57-62, showing Yahseph, a rich man, who was also a
Disciple of
YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA), coming from Arimathea, WHEN
IT WAS EVENING, at the
end of the Day when YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA) MESSYAH
(MASHIACH) was Killed,
and going to, and asking Pilate for the Body of YAHSHUA
(YAHWSHUA), and
then taking the Body, wrapping It in a clean linen shroud,
and laying It
in his own new Tomb in the rock, and rolling a great stone
to the door
of the Tomb!
That Very Hardly could occur IF it was the time of keeping,
and eating
the Passover, since the touching of a Dead Body would
make him unclean
for the Passover!
And that Very Hardly could occur IF it was the Beginning of
the Annual
or High Sabbath of the Feast of Unleavened (Bread),
because of the hard
work he did to take the Body, to wrap it in a clean linen
shroud, to
laid it in the Tomb, and to roll a great stone to the door of
the Tomb!
Yahseph purposely came WHEN IT WAS EVENING,
because it was the END of
the Annual or High Sabbath of The Feast of Unleavened
(Bread), and he
could accomplish what he did!
In fact, being a Disciple of YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA),
Yahseph kept The TRUE
Passover on the Evening and Night BEFORE, just as
YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA)
MESSYAH (MASHIACH) and HIS Apostles, and the
minority in Israel
(Essenes) did, contrary to what the majority of the Yahdaim
(Jews),
mainly Scribes, Pharisees, and Sadducees, WRONGLY did
A DAY LATER!
In conclusion, YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA) MESSYAH
(MASHIACH) was in the heart of
the earth THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS, just as He
said (Mattithyah /
Matthew 12:38-40)!
Please note, He said, "THREE DAYS AND THREE
NIGHTS", and NOT "three
nights and three days"!
He did Resurrect at the end of the Night of (AFTER) the
Sabbath Day,
just BEFORE the beginning of the 1st Day of the Week
("Sunday")!
THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS - absolutely NOT
necessarily 'exactly 72
hours'! - were from the day of "Thursday" (when He died,
about at "the
ninth hour", that is about at 3:00 p.m., and then He was put
in the
sepulchre, in the Tomb, at the evening) to the night of The
Sabbath
(when He was Resurrected) - that is, "Thursday" Day and
Night, "Friday"
Day and Night, and Sabbath Day and Night - THREE DAYS
AND THREE NIGHTS!
Just at the beginning of "Sunday", the First Day of the
Week, very early
in the morning - that was the THIRD Day since (AFTER)
Death and Burial
of YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA) MESSYAH (MASHIACH) - the
Angel (Malak) of YAHWEH
(YHWH) came and rolled away the stone of the sepulchre,
showing the
eyewitnesses that the Tomb was empty, and saying to
them that YAHSHUA
(YAHWSHUA) MESSYAH (MASHIACH) was NOT there,
but He was Risen JUST AS HE
SAID!
As the Apostle Shaul (Paul) wrote, "For I delivered you as
of first
importance what I also received, that MESSYAH
(MASHIACH) Died for our
sins IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SCRIPTURES, that HE
was Buried, that HE was
Raised ON THE THIRD DAY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
SCRIPTURES" (1
Corinthians 15:3-4)!
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SCRIPTURES:
- YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA) MESSYAH (MASHIACH) Died
about at the Ninth Hour
(about 3:00 pm) of The First Annual Sabbath or High Day of
The Feast of
Unleavened (Bread), that was on a "Thursday", in the Year
when HE was
Killed and Sacrificed, and it was just the time when the
Yahdaim (Jews)
WRONGLY and UNRIGHTLY killed and sacrificed the
Passover lambs, just as
they WRONGLY and UNRIGHTLY Killed and Sacrificed
YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA)
MESSYAH (MASHIACH), The Passover Lamb of YAHWEH
(YHWH) Who takes away
the sins of the world, Who Died for our sins!
- YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA) MESSYAH (MASHIACH) was
Buried when it was Evening,
at the End of The First Annual Sabbbath or High Day of The
Feast of
Unleavened that was on a "Thursday", in the Year HE Died!
- YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA) MESSYAH (MASHIACH) was
Risen at the End of the
Night of (AFTER) The Sabbath Day, and just BEFORE the
beginning of
"Sunday", very early in the morning, ON THE THIRD DAY
since (AFTER) HIS
Death, and Burial!
A final Important Note - YAHSHUA (YAHWSHUA)
MESSYAH (MASHIACH) was / is
The One Who Fulfilled DANIEL 9:26-27!
It was Prophetised that "IN THE MIDST OF THE WEEK HE
WILL CAUSE THE
SACRIFICE AND THE OBLATION, TO CEASE"!
What is "the Midst of the Week"?
Prophetically - a Day for a Year (Numbers 14:34) - it was 3
Years and a
half of His Ministry, but it is very interesting that He Fulfilled
it
even Literally!
In fact, literally "The Midst of the Week" is "Wednesday"
evening!
What did occur on "Wednesday evening" in the Week when
YAHSHUA
(YAHWSHUA) MESSYAH (MASHIACH) Died?
HE Kept THE PASSOVER with His Disciples, introducing
The NEW Covenant in
His Blood, Being THE LAMB OF YAHWEH (YHWH) Who
Takes Away the Sin of the
World (Yahchanan / John 1:29), Our PASSOVER
Sacrificed for us (1
Corinthians 5:7), so causing the sacrifice and the oblation to
cease,
according to the Prophecy in DANIEL 9:26-27!