So
then, what is the rationale, what is the truth? If Jesus Christ stated
emphatically that He was going to spend three days and three nights in the
heart of the earth, and was placed in the heart of the earth at evening, and
was resurrected after the Sabbath, before it began to dawn towards the first
day of the week, which is at sunrise on Sunday morning, obviously the three
days and three nights would have to be as follows:-
First
night, the night He was placed in the tomb and this would have to be on a
Wednesday. The second night would have to be Thursday, and the third night
would have to be Friday. And, the first day would have to be Thursday; the
second day Friday; and the third day, Saturday. The Preparation Day for this
High Day Sabbath was on a Wednesday, which was the preparation day for the Jewish
Passover, which preceded the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, a Holy
Day, and a Day of solemn rest.
Even
in the New Testament, we are admonished to; “Get rid of the old leaven that you
may be a new batch without leaven, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover
Lamb has been sacrificed for us Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with
the old leaven, the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with bread without
leaven, the bread of sincerity and truth” ( 1Corinthians 5: 7-8).
Therefore,
the Jews, the high priests, the Pharisees, and the women who followed Christ
all rested on that Thursday, which was a High Day Sabbath, the Feast of
Unleavened Bread. Then from Thursday evening, which was the end of the High Day
Sabbath, and the whole of Friday, which was the preparation day for the weekly
Sabbath, that was the time the women brought and prepared spices and fragrant
oils, then rested on the weekly Sabbath according to the commandments, and at
the end of the Sabbath (sunset Saturday), as the first day of the Week (Sunday)
began to dawn, (meaning that it was not yet the first day of the week) Mary Magdalene
and the other Mary came to see the tomb, bringing the spices with them, but
Christ had already risen from the dead. (Matthew 28:1-8).
It
was also from Thursday evening after the High Day Sabbath, that the Pharisees
and the high priests went to Pilate, and asked that guards be posted around the
tomb. The truth of the matter is, Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead,
at the precise time that He was placed in the tomb, after spending three days,
and three nights in the heart of the earth, as He said He would. And thus He
fulfilled Daniel’s prophecy which states; “But in the middle of the week He
shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering” (Daniel 9:27).
One
important thing to know also is that the Sabbath is observed between the day
light periods between two evenings. For thus says the Lord; “I am the Lord, and
there is no other; there is no God besides me. I will gird you, though you have
not known me, that they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting that
there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is no other.” And, “For from
the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My name shall be great among the
Gentiles; In every place incense (prayer) shall be offered to My name, and a
pure offering; For My name shall be great among the nations.” Says the Lord of
hosts” Isaiah 45: 5-6; Malachi 1:11).
It
is only on the Day of Atonement that one begins observing the fast on the
evening before as the scripture clearly states; “Also the tenth day of this
seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for
you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the
LORD.
“It
shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on
the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall
celebrate your Sabbath" (Leviticus 23:27; 32).
Please
note carefully that, the Day of Atonement is on the 10th day of the
seventh month and the fast begins from the evening before which is not regarded
as part or the beginning of the tenth day but rather the evening of the ninth
day which confirms that a day does not begin in the evening. The reason why the
Day of Atonement begins from the evening it is because no food or drink should
be consumed on the Day of Atonement and so the fasting must begin from the
evening before.
The irony of truth is, if a Christ was buried on Friday evening, and rose on Sunday morning, he is an impostor, a deceiver, because he failed to fulfill his Messianic sign which was to spend three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
The
question now remains: Who will you believe?
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With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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