How Does “Good Friday” Discredit Our Messiah? Can You Count to Three?
By Maria Merola
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REPLY:
Copyright? You’ve got to be kidding me. At this point I’m just
getting started but I had thought that you were sharing a study from
somebody else. But I see that the credits so far belong to Maria
Merola; even copyrighted. So does that mean that somebody cannot use
this study and add their own thoughts to it and present it as their own?
Here we go –So your first question is “How does ‘Good Friday’ Discredit Our Messiah?”
The
Passover that took place on the preparation day already indicates that
it is a 6th day of the week. So it does not discredit the Messiah.
Unless you’re alluding to “fri-day” then I would agree with you.
There’s no such day on Yahuah’s calendar. What might help is if you can
find a passage in the Scripture that specifically shows a preparation
day referred to prior to a Sabbath that is not a 7th day Sabbath. IOW, a
Scripture that would show a preparation day before Yom Teru’ah or Yom
Kippurim.
The second question is “Can You Count to Three?”
The answer is yes, I can. But can you?
From Maria’s blog:Quote:
”Many
of us have been brought up in the church to believe that Yahu’shua
Messiah died on “Good Friday” and he resurrected on “Easter Sunday.”
Well
today I am here to dismantle these lies and show how these deceptions
actually prove to discredit Yahu’shua as the Jewish Messiah and also
make him out to look like a liar. First of all we must ask ourselves,
“Why have we been conditioned to believe that Messiah was crucified on
the 6th day of the week on Friday”?”
REPLY:
Maybe because that is the exact count in the Scripture: 14th, 15th,
16th. As the Scripture clearly indicates a preparation day; which is
considered the 6th day of the week. At this point let us keep in mind
that the children of Yisra’el kept the Passover on the 14th day of the
first month. The 15th day of that month was the beginning of the Feast
of Unleavened Bread in which the children of Yisra’el were delivered on
that day. Let us also keep in mind that the Messiah said:Luk 13:13 And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was straightened up, and praised Elohim.
Luk
13:14 But the ruler of the congregation, responding, much displeased
that יהושע had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, “There are six
days on which men should work, so come and be healed on them, and not on
the Sabbath day.”
Luk 13:15 Then the Master answered him and said,
“Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loosen his ox or his
donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it?
Luk 13:16 “And
this one, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, look, for
eighteen years, should she not be loosened from this bond on the
Sabbath?”
Luk 14:1 And it came to be, as He went into the house
of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that
they were watching Him closely.
Luk 14:2 And see, there was a certain man before Him suffering from dropsy.
Luk
14:3 And יהושע responding, spoke to those learned in the Torah and the
Pharisees, saying, “Is it right to heal on the Sabbath?”
Luk 14:4 But they were silent. So taking hold of him He healed him, and let him go.
Luk
14:5 And to them He said, “Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that
has fallen into a pit, shall not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath
day?”
Luk 14:6 And they were unable to answer Him regarding these matters.
Num
33:3 So they departed from Raʽmeses in the first month, on the
fifteenth day of the first month, on the morrow of the Passover the
children of Yisra’ĕl went out with boldness before the eyes of all the
Mitsrites,
Let us not forget also
when the children of Yisra’el were released on the Sabbath they were
also led to the Sea of Reeds which is a type of immersion in water. Luk
13:15 Then the Master answered him and said, “Hypocrite! Does not each
one of you on the Sabbath loosen his ox or his donkey from the stall,
and lead it away to water it?
Wow,
is that not what Yahuah did? Release the children of Yisra’el from
their bondage in Mitsrayim and led them out to water them?
So
the 15th day of the month from your understanding you call it a ‘high’
Sabbath or first day of ULB. From our understanding we call it a
seventh day Sabbath and the first day of the Feast of ULB. What I am
doing here is pointing out the reality of Yahuah of releasing the
children of Yisra’el from their bondage on a Sabbath. Scriptures would
seem to indicate that Yahusha is going to come back after 2,000 years
and in the 3rd day, which would be the 7,000th year, He will raise us up
(at the beginning, not the end):Hos 6:1 ‘Come, and let us turn back to יהוה. For He has torn but He does heal us, He has stricken but He binds us up.
Hos 6:2 ‘After two days He shall revive us, on the third day He shall raise us up, so that we live before Him.
Just
to keep in mind Yahusha is going to come and reign on the millennial
seventh day - Then Hoshea’s third day would also be the seventh day;
when Yahusha will come back and officially release us from our bondage.
We see here from the prophecy that after two days we will be revived –
after two days and ON the third day we will be raised up. This in the
millennial context a day for a 1,000 years which I believe has a direct
connection to how the Messiah was also raised up. Suffered on the 14th,
first day; in the ground on the 15th, second day; raised and ascended
ON the third day. By the way, the 16th is most commonly understood as
the day of the omer. Which would equate to the first day of the week
and that is the date given in the Scriptures that Yahusha raised. It
is commonly understood as the day of the wave sheaf.Mar
16:9 And having risen early on the first day of the week, He appeared
first to Miryam from Maḡdala, from whom He had cast out seven demons.
This
Scripture specifically says He rose early, as in morning, of the first
day of the week. So let’s see if this study concurs with this verse.
From Maria’s blog,
Quote:
“Well,
the answer to this question is simple. The biblical account tells us
that after Yahu’shua Messiah was crucified and his body taken down from
the Stauros (cross), the women were in a hurry to anoint his body with
spices because at sundown began the Sabbath.”
REPLY: This statement is not what the Scriptural account shows. So let us look at the verses in question.Joh 19:30 So when יהושע took the sour wine He said, “It has been accomplished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
Joh
19:31 Therefore, since it was the Preparation , that the bodies should
not remain on the stake on the Sabbath – for that Sabbath was a high one
– the Yehudim asked Pilate to have their legs broken, and that they be
taken away.
So let’s look at the law
concerning somebody hanging on a tree to get an idea why Yahusha was to
come down off the stake “before” the High Sabbath:Deu 21:22 “And when a man has committed a sin worthy of death, then he shall be put to death and you shall hang him on a tree.
Deu
21:23 “Let his body not remain overnight on the tree, for you shall
certainly bury him the same day – for he who is hanged is accursed of
Elohim – so that you do not defile the land which יהוה your Elohim is
giving you as an inheritance.
Now
this is the law pertaining to a man that is hung on a tree. Notice the
wording very carefully: “Let his body not remain overnight on the tree,
for you shall certainly bury him the same day”. See, there’s a big
problem here because the Scriptures specifically teach that Yahusha did
not come down off the tree until evening had come. That is when Yoseph
went to Pilate. There are three witnesses to this below that evening
came BEFORE Yoseph went to Pilate to ask for the body. This means that
He was still on the stake on that evening, which would be a
transgression of the law because He would have remained on the stake
from one day to the next according to the evening to evening which is
not lawful according to the Torah. Morning to morning doesn’t have this
problem.
According to the command, if you would put this in
context you would see that a day cannot begin in the evening. Notice it
says: You cannot leave them hang over night because you will bury them
the same day. If the day begins in the evening then you could not have
somebody hung in the daylight and have them remain past evening because
it says you will bury them the same day, so if you hang them during the
daylight portion you would have them in the ground BEFORE the next day
begins in evening.
It says the body is not allowed to remain
“overnight” so the only way the body could come close to being on the
stake overnight is if one is hung after evening. There are three
eyewitnesses in the Scriptures that show that Messiah was on the stake
during the daylight portion and He was not taken down until after
evening. Which means that would have been a violation of this Torah
command – you must bury them the same day.
Joh 19:38 And
after this, Yosĕph of Ramathayim, being a taught one of יהושע, but
secretly, for fear of the Yehudim, asked Pilate that he might take the
body of יהושע, and Pilate gave permission. Therefore he came and took
the body of יהושע.
Joh 19:39 And Nakdimon, who at first came to יהושע
by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a
hundred pounds.
Joh 19:40 Then they took the body of יהושע, and bound
it in linen wrappings with the spices, as was the habit of the Yahudim
for burial.
What was the ‘habit of
the Yahudim for burial’? How long would that have taken? Maria would
suggest that there was a big hurry going on. So I guess she would just
have haphazardly wrapped the body quickly and threw it in the tomb. Is
that the habit of the Yahudim for burial? Or is the burial process a
reverent process? Maybe we can picture the Messiah being totally
covered in blood with many open wounds and dried blood everywhere – so
how long would it have taken them to prepare the body as is the habit of
the Yahudim? Wouldn’t they have taken time to clean the body and apply
the spices? What about preparing the spices? I think what should be
obvious is that they would have taken the reverent process to the body
of Yahusha. Joh 19:41 And at the place where He was
impaled there was a garden, and in the garden a fresh tomb in which no
one had yet been laid.
Joh 19:42 There, then, of the Yehudimbecause of the Preparation , they laid יהושע, because the tomb was near.
These
verses clearly show that Yoseph did not go to Pilate until evening had
come and it shows that it is still the preparation day. Might I remind
you that preparation day is always attributed to the sixth day of the
week?Mat 27:55 And many women who followed יהושע from Galil, attending Him, were there, watching from a distance,
Mat 27:56 among whom were Miryam from Magdala, and Miryam the mother of Yaʽaqoḇ and Yosĕph, and the mother of Zabdai’s sons.
Mat
27:57 And when evening came, there came a rich man from Ramathayim,
named Yosĕph, who himself had also become a taught one of יהושע.
Mat 27:58 He went to Pilate and asked for the body of יהושע. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given.
Mat 27:59 And having taken the body, Yosĕph wrapped it in clean linen,
Mat
27:60 and laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn out of the rock.
And he rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb, and went away.
Mat 27:61 And Miryam from Magdala was there, and the other Miryam, sitting opposite the tomb.
Mar
15:40 And there were also women watching from a distance, among whom
was also Miryam from Magdala, and Miryam the mother of Yaʽaqoḇ the Less
and of Yosĕph, and Shelomah,
Mar 15:41 who also followed Him and
attended Him when He was in Galil, and many other women who came up with
Him to Yerushalayim.
Mar 15:42 And when evening had come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
Mar
15:43 Yosĕph of Ramathayim, a prominent council member, who was himself
waiting for the reign of Elohim, came, boldly went in to Pilate and
asked for the body of יהושע.
Mar 15:44 But Pilate wondered whether He was already dead, so summoning the captain, he asked him if He was already dead.
Mar 15:45 And when he learned this from the captain, he gave the body to Yosĕph.
Mar
15:46 And he, having bought fine linen, took Him down, and wrapped Him
in the linen. And he laid Him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the
rock, and rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.
Mar 15:47 And Miryam from Maḡdala, and Miryam the mother of Yosĕph, saw where He was laid.
Luk 23:49 And all those who knew Him, and the women who followed Him from Galil, stood at a distance, watching this.
Luk 23:50 And see, a man named Yosĕph, a council member, a good and righteous man –
Luk
23:51 he was not agreeing with their counsel and deed – from
Ramathayim, a city of the Yehudim, who himself was also waiting for the
reign of Elohim,
Luk 23:52 he, going to Pilate, asked for the body of יהושע.
Luk 23:53 And taking it down, he wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a tomb hewn out of the rock, where no one was yet laid.
Luk 23:54 And it was Preparation day, and the Sabbath was approaching.
Luk 23:55 And the women who had come with Him from Galil followed after, and saw the tomb and how His body was laid.
Luk 23:56 And having returned, they prepared spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the command.
Nowhere
in these accounts does it suggest that “the women were in a hurry to
anoint his body with spices because at sundown began the Sabbath.” How
do we know this? Because the women saw how the body was laid, they
weren’t going there to anoint Him, it only says they saw how the body
was laid and prepared and how the stone was rolled over. As a matter
of fact it would probably been considered improper for the women to be
cleaning and dressing the body of Yahusha. And THEN they went back and
prepared spices and perfumes. Remember, this is all taking place AFTER
EVENING. It was AFTER they prepared the spices that they rested
according to the command; which you claim is the 15th day of the month.
And it was, but the 16th day of the month according to your
understanding would have been ANOTHER preparation day, so on one hand
you say they were in a hurry and then they rested according to the
command but then there’s another preparation day (the 16th) yet they
didn’t go back to the tomb?! So how can you say they were in a hurry?
If they were in a hurry they would have surely gone on the 16th instead
of the day after the next Sabbath which you say is the 17th. We will
get back to the 16th, the day that no Scripture knows.
From Maria’s blog,
Quote:
“
Those within the Christian Church read this as though the “Sabbath” day
spoken of here is the weekly 7th day Sabbath (Saturday). But what is
being spoken of in this account is an annual Sabbath known as “The Feast
of Unleavened Bread.””
REPLY:
Yes, the Scripture does refer to that day as a Sabbath and only one
time is it referred to as a High Sabbath and you have completely built a
doctrine off of that one verse. There is nowhere in the Torah where it
calls the first or seventh day of Passover/ULB a Sabbath. So it is
your misconception that you are calling this a “high Sabbath/first day
of feast of ULB” because the Torah doesn’t and neither does the Besorah.
The Besorah refers to it as a ‘mega’ Sabbath, it was a regular 7th day
Sabbath, it is referred to as a mega Sabbath because the Feast of
Unleavened Bread begins on that day. That day is a commemoration of the
children of Yisra’el’s release from bondage. See the problem with you
taking the one verse that says mega Sabbath is that you apply that
terminology to all the other references that are made in the Besorah.
IOW, when it says and they rested on the Sabbath according to the
command it only says “Sabbath”. So what determines what a Sabbath is?
The only way we can determine if this Sabbath was a “High Sabbath”
meaning the first day of the Feast of Passover/ULB is if we let the
Torah tell us what days are considered Sabbaths and what days are not.
So out of one verse in Yahuchanon you’ve or whoever created a whole
doctrine about a “High Sabbath”. The Torah never calls the first or
seventh day of Passover/ULB a Sabbath let alone a “High Sabbath”. So
until you produce the verse from the Torah showing that the first or
seventh day of Passover/ULB are referred to as Sabbaths/rest/7676/7677
you are adding to the word, going beyond what it says, and building your
own tradition. Otherwise, produce the Scripture from the Torah. When
the eyewitness account says they “rested according to the command” we
need to be able to read the command in the Torah.
From Maria’s blog: Quote:
“ And so if we don’t have a foundation for understanding Yah’s Holy
Feast Days, we will naturally assume that the scriptures are telling us
that the night of Messiah’s crucifixion was followed by the weekly
Sabbath day (Saturday). But this is not the case. The night of
Yahu’shua’s crucifixion was followed by an annual Sabbath known as the
“Feast of Unleavened Bread”
REPLY:
Here again your words do not fit what the account shows. What is the
best way to get an idea about Yahuah’s feast days? How about looking at
what took place to begin with? The shadow of Yahusha’s death has
always been the 14th day of the first month. The shadow plan of
Yisra’el’s release from bondage is always recognized on the 15th. So
this is where we draw our comparison. Now remember what Yahusha said
about giving release of bondage on the Sabbath and because there are no
instructions that tell us the first day of Passover/ULB is a Sabbath we
can only assume by the instructions that it was a 7th day Sabbath. If
anyone is in doubt of this, please go to the Torah and look at every
occurrence where it is talking about the first or seventh day of
Passover/ULB and you will not find any reference to it being a
Sabbath/rest/7676/7677. Now if you compare that with the Feast of
Sukkoth you will find what is referred to as the first and eighth day
are referred to as a Sabbath/rest/7677. So again, anybody that calls it
a Sabbath is not using Scripture to back up what they are saying and
their foundation is sand. So when we understand that Yisra’el was
released from their bondage on the Sabbath then we will understand what
Yahusha was talking to them about, we will also understand that the 15th
day of the month when they were released was indeed a 7th day Sabbath.
Types and shadows. 14, 15, 16. 14 – Passover, 15th mega 7th day
Sabbath, 16th wave omer. There is no other progression of these days
other than that. In like manner as shown in Hoshea after two days on
the third = the 7th day of the millennial period. The millennial day we
will be released from our bondage, at the beginning – not the end.
From Maria’s blog: Quote:
”
And we know also from reading the gospel accounts, that there were two
more days in between his crucifixion, his burial and then yet another
Sabbath (the weekly Sabbath), followed by the day of his resurrection
known as “First Fruits.”
REPLY:
Well, maybe you will bring some Scripture out to prove this…. Because
this is one of my questions. Can you show an exact time line using all
the impalement accounts in the Besorah to show the timeline of the
**13th day of the month** when Yahusha told the emissaries to go and
prepare, the **14th day of the month**, which was Passover, the day He
was impaled, the **15th day of the month** your so-called high Sabbath –
first day in the grave, the **16th day of the month** which would be
your second preparation day, the **17th day of the month** which you
claim to be the 7th day of the week at which Yahusha raised at the end
of, and the **18th day of the month** which you claim is the first day
of the week, first fruits.
From Maria’s blog:
Quote:
“Because
most people assume that the day after Yahu’shua’s crucifixion was the
weekly Sabbath, they naturally assume then that he was crucified on the
6th day (Friday), and thus he would’ve been a false prophet and a liar
when he said that he would be “three days and three nights in the heart
of the earth.” “
REPLY: A
false prophet? He would be considered a false prophet to you because
you insist you understood what He meant by three days and three nights.
You are insisting that what He said must be what you conclude otherwise
He’s a liar. Okay, so let’s compare here. How many times did Yahusha
give the sign/parable of Yonah; as in three days and three nights?
Once. We need to understand that the sign that was given was number one
given to an adulterous and wicked generation that seeks after a sign
and number two the sign is a parable, number three Yahusha said those
who are on the outside would not understand the parables. So let’s look
at it again:Mat 12:38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from You.”
Mat
12:39 But He answering, said to them, “A wicked and adulterous
generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except
the sign of the prophet Yonah.
Mat 12:40 “For as Yonah was three days
and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so shall the Son of
Adam be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
From
what Yahusha said that all things were spoken in parables but they
would not understand. So here is a plain truth. The understanding of
Yonah could be mistaken. In other words, whatever the Yahudim were
trying to figure out what He meant, they would not understand it. Mat 13:10 And the taught ones came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
Mat
13:11 And He answering, said to them, “Because it has been given to you
to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, but to them it has not
been given.
Mat 13:12 “For whoever possesses, to him more shall be
given, and he shall have overflowingly; but whoever does not possess,
even what he possesses shall be taken away from him.
Mat 13:13
“Because of this I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not
see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
Mat 13:14
“And in them the prophecy of Yeshayahu is completely filled, which
says, ‘Hearing you shall hear and by no means understand, and seeing you
shall see and by no means perceive,
Mat 13:15 for the heart of this
people has become thickened, and their ears are hard of hearing, and
their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and
hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart, and
turn back, and I heal them.’
Mat 27:62 On the next day, which was after the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together to Pilate,
Mat 27:63 saying, “Master, we remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, ‘After three days I am raised.’
Mat
27:64 “Command, then, that the tomb be safeguarded until the third day,
lest His taught ones come by night and steal Him away, and should say
to the people, ‘He was raised from the dead.’ And the last deception
shall be worse than the first.”
Mat 27:65 So Pilate said to them, “You have a watch, go, safeguard it as you know how.”
Mat
27:63 Saying,G3004 Sir,G2962 we rememberG3415 thatG3754 thatG1565
deceiverG4108 said,G2036 whileG2089 he was yet alive,G2198 AfterG3326
threeG5140 daysG2250 I will rise again.G1453
G3326
μετά
meta
met-ah'
A
primary preposition (often used adverbially); properly denoting
accompaniment; “amid” (local or causal); modified variously according to
the case (genitive case association, or accusative case succession)
with which it is joined; occupying an intermediate position between G575
or G1537 and G1519 or G4314; less intimate than G1722, and less close
than G4862): - after (-ward),X that he again, against, among, X and, +
follow, hence, hereafter, in, of, (up-) on, + our, X and setting, since,
(un-) to, + together, when, with (+ -out). Often used in composition,
in substantially the same relations of participation or proximity, and
transfer or sequence.Both
the ISR and the KJV have translated ‘meta’ as ‘after’. But as we can
see in the definition it is ‘amd’ or among, with which it is joined;
occupying an intermediate position. Blueletterbible Lexicon Mat
27:64 CommandG2753 thereforeG3767 that theG3588 sepulchreG5028 be made
sureG805 untilG2193 theG3588 thirdG5154 day,G2250 lestG3379 hisG846
disciplesG3101 comeG2064 by night,G3571 and steal him away,G2813 G846
andG2532 sayG2036 unto theG3588 people,G2992 He is risenG1453 fromG575
theG3588 dead:G3498 soG2532 theG3588 lastG2078 errorG4106 shall beG2071
worseG5501 than theG3588 first.G4413
G2193
ἕως
heōs
heh'-oce
Of
uncertain affinity; a conjugation, preposition and adverb of
continuance, until (of time and place): - even (until, unto), (as) far
(as), how long, (un-) til (-l), (hither-, un-, up) to, while (-s).So
‘heos’ means ‘until’ – but obviously in this context ‘until’ would mean
until the end of because technically until the third day would be at
the end of the second.
How would these witnesses have known that
He was suggesting He would be in the grave until, after, among three
days? It could have been for two reasons. Number one – when He told
the parable they figured He was saying He would be in the grave for
three days and three nights and that is what they set the watch to.
Number two – Yahusha told the Pharisees:Joh 2:18 And the Yehuḏim answered and said to Him, “What sign do You show to us, since You are doing these?”
Joh 2:19 יהושע answered and said to them, “Destroy this Dwelling Place, and in three days I shall raise it.”
Yahusha Himself said “IN” three days. Joh
2:20 Then the Yehuḏim said, “It took forty-six years to build this
Dwelling Place, and You are going to raise it in (G1722) three days?”
Joh 2:21 But He spoke about the Dwelling Place of His body.
Joh
2:22 So, when He was raised from the dead, His taught ones remembered
that He said this to them. And they believed the Scripture and the word
which יהושע had said.
Joh 2:19 {Yahusha}G2424 answeredG611
andG2532 saidG2036 unto them,G846 DestroyG3089 thisG5126 temple,G3485
andG2532 inG1722 threeG5140 daysG2250 I will raise it up.G1453 G846
G1722
ἐν
en
en
A
primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or
state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or
constructively), that is, a relation of rest (intermediate between G1519
and G1537); “in”, at, (up-) on, by, etc.: - about, after, against, +
almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-) by (+
all means), for (. . . sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-) in (-to,
-wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-) on, [open-] ly, X outwardly,
one, X quickly, X shortly, [speedi-] ly, X that, X there (-in, -on),
through (-out), (un-) to(-ward), under, when, where (-with), while, with
(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import;
rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except
(elliptically) by a separate (and different) prep.En is a fixed position, meaning IN, at on. This next verse was at the impalement:Mar
15:29 AndG2532 they that passed byG3899 railed onG987 him,G846
waggingG2795 theirG848 heads,G2776 andG2532 saying,G3004 Ah,G3758 thou
that destroyestG2647 theG3588 temple,G3485 andG2532 buildestG3618 it
inG1722 threeG5140 days,G2250
This
is clearly reflecting IN the third day not at the end of or after. It
is referring to sometime IN the third day; which begins in the morning. Luk 24:1 And on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared,
This
verse specifically shows that the Miryams waiting until the first day
of the week at early dawn to come to the tomb bringing the spices which
they prepared before they rested the Sabbath according to the command.
Which begs the question again – if they were in such a ‘hurry’ why
didn’t they go at early evening instead of early dawn? Which clearly by
definition means ‘early morning’. Luk 24:2 and they found the stone rolled away from the tomb.
Luk 24:3 And having entered, they did not find the body of the Master יהושע.
Luk 24:4 And it came to be, as they were perplexed about this, that see, two men stood by them in glittering garments.
Luk
24:5 And becoming frightened and bowing their faces to the earth, these
said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?
Luk 24:6 “He is not here, but has been raised up! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galil,
Luk
24:7 saying, ‘The Son of Aḏam has to be delivered into the hands of
sinners, and be impaled, and the third day rise again.’ ”
Luk 24:8 And they remembered His words.
The
messengers also bear witness that it was the third day that He rose.
Now let’s take a look at what the Scriptures say about His rising:Mar
9:31 ForG1063 he taughtG1321 hisG848 disciples,G3101 andG2532
saidG3004 unto them,G846 TheG3588 SonG5207 of manG444 is deliveredG3860
intoG1519 the handsG5495 of men,G444 andG2532 they shall killG615
him;G846 andG2532 after that he is killed,G615 he shall riseG450
theG3588 tthirdG5154 day.G2250
Luk 24:7 Saying,G3004 TheG3588
SonG5207 of manG444 mustG1163 be deliveredG3860 intoG1519 the handsG5495
of sinfulG268 men,G435 andG2532 be crucified,G4717 andG2532 theG3588
thirdG5154 dayG2250 rise again.G450
Mar 16:9 NowG1161 when
{Yahusha} was risenG450 earlyG4404 the firstG4413 day of the week,G4521
he appearedG5316 firstG4412 to MaryG3137 Magdalene,G3094 out ofG575
whomG3739 he had castG1544 sevenG2033 devils.G1140
G450
ἀνίστημι
anistēmi
an-is'-tay-mee
From
G303 and G2476; to stand up (literally or figuratively, transitively or
intransitively): - arise, lift up, raise up (again), rise (again),
stand up (-right).
We can see
that Mark 9:31 by Yahusha’s own words He said He would rise the third
day, Luke 24:7 is the witness from the messengers proclaiming that He
would rise the third day, and the narrative in Mark 16:9 specifically
shows that Yahusha was risen/G450 early/G4404G4404
πρωΐ́
prōi
pro-ee'
Adverb from G4253; ; by implication the at watch: - early (in the morning), (in the) morning.At
dawn; by implication the day break the first day of the week; which
clearly shows He was risen G450 in the morning of the first day of the
week and not the end of the Sabbath or what you would be considered the
beginning of the day in your evening. Dawn is the growing of light, not
the diminishing.
Now I don’t know if any of you have ever
noticed this, but on one hand you claim that Yahusha was raised up at
the end of the 7th day Sabbath that was before the evening beginning the
18th, you claim that the end of that Sabbath was the end of the three
days and three nights, but yet the guards were still there on first day
morning. Which means the guards would have been there 3.5 days from the
beginning of your Sabbath in the evening. IOW, if they were counting
the three days and three nights they would have started with the evening
beginning your Sabbath which would have ended at the end of your 7th
day Sabbath. This would have been the completion of three days and
three nights, but yet they were there in the morning of the first day of
the week; which according to your calculations would have been 3.5
days. Technically they should have told the guards to stay there until
the morning of the fourth day. Now of course, you have a controversy
with the road to Amma’us and you can go and check the wording and find
that it is a different terminology. Where do we find the Messiah
Himself saying that He would spend three days and three nights in the
grave; other than the assumed understanding of the Yonah sign/parable?
Let’s see what the Scriptures record as Yahusha actually saying concerning the third day:Mat
16:21 From that time יהושע began to show to His taught ones that it was
necessary for Him to go to Yerushalayim, and to suffer much from the
elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and to be raised
again the third day. (theG3588 thirdG5154 day.G2250)
G3588
ὁ, ἡ, τό
ho hē to
ho, hay, to
The
masculine, feminine (second) and neuter (third) forms, in all their
inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at
others omitted, in English idiom): - the, this, that, one, he, she, it,
etc.
Mat 17:22 And while they were staying in Galil,
יהושע said to them, “The Son of Adam is about to be delivered up into
the hands of men,
Mat 17:23 and they shall kill Him, and the third day He shall be raised up.” And they were deeply grieved.
theG3588 thirdG5154 dayG2250
Mat
20:18 “See, we are going up to Yerushalayim, and the Son of Adam shall
be delivered up to the chief priests and to the scribes. And they shall
condemn Him to death,
Mat 20:19 and deliver Him to the gentiles to mock and to flog and to impale. And the third day He shall be raised.”
theG3588 thirdG5154 dayG2250
Mar
9:31 for He was teaching His taught ones and said to them, “The Son of
Adam is being delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill Him.
And having been killed, He shall rise the third day.” theG3588
thirdG5154 day.G2250
Mar 10:33 “See, we are going up to
Yerushalayim, and the Son of Adam shall be delivered to the chief
priests and to the scribes, and they shall condemn Him to death and
shall deliver Him to the gentiles,
Mar 10:34 and they shall mock Him, and flog Him, and spit on Him, and kill Him. And the third day He shall rise again.”
theG3588 thirdG5154 dayG2250
Luk 9:21 And strictly warning them, He commanded them to say this to no one,
Luk
9:22 saying, “The Son of Adam has to suffer much, and to be rejected by
the elders and chief priests and scribes, and to be killed, and to be
raised the third day.”
theG3588 thirdG5154 day.G2250
Luk 18:32 “For He shall be delivered up to the gentiles and shall be mocked and insulted and spat upon,
Luk 18:33 and having flogged Him they shall kill Him. And on the third day He shall rise again.” theG3588 thirdG5154 dayG2250
Luk 24:45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,
Luk
24:46 and said to them, “Thus it has been written, and so it was
necessary for the Messiah to suffer and to rise again from the dead the
third day, theG3588 thirdG5154 day:G2250
Luk 24:47 and that
repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His Name to
all nations, beginning at Yerushalayim.
We
can see from Yahusha’s words that He would rise from the dead THE third
day - the, this, that – third day. Nowhere in Yahusha’s own words does
He imply three days and three nights nor does He imply at the END of
the third day.
Here’s something else to consider concerning Yahusha raising at the end/on the 7th day Sabbath. According to the Scriptures:Mat
28:1 Now after the Sabbath, toward dawn on the first day of the week,
Miryam from Magdala and the other Miryam came to see the tomb
Mat
28:2 And see, there was a great earthquake, for a messenger of יהוה came
down out of heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door,
and sat on it.
Mat 28:3 And his appearance was like lightning, and his garments as white as snow.
Mat 28:4 And the guards trembled for fear of him, and became like dead men.
Mat 28:5 And the messenger responding, said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek יהושע who was impaled.
Mat 28:6 “He is not here, for He was raised, as He said. Come, see the place where the Master lay.
Notice
the Sabbath is passed – notice after the Sabbath toward dawn – dawn
means the growing of light evening means the diminishing of light, that
is when the Miryams went to the tomb as all accounts confirm. Joh
20:1 And on the first day of the week Miryam from Magdala came early
to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been
removed from the tomb.
Same thing,
it was the first day of the week; early the growing of light. So they
were coming to the tomb while it was yet dark; that word for dark is:G4653
σκοτία
skotia
skot-ee'-ah
From G4655; dimness, obscurity (literally or figuratively): - dark (-ness).This
is exactly what you have, the dimness or obscurity, that takes place in
the early morning. They started their journey to the tomb early in the
morning while the light was yet obscured. Mark 16:1 -2 gives a little
bit more detail:Mar 16:1 And when the Sabbath was past,
Miryam from Maḡdala, and Miryam the mother of Yaʽaqoḇ, and Shelomah
bought spices, to go and anoint Him.
Mar 16:2 And very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.
KJV. 2b: they cameG2064 untoG1909 theG3588 sepulchreG3419 at the risingG393 of theG3588 sun.G2246
This
verse shows that when they came unto the sepulcher it was at the rising
of the sun, so as the Sabbath was ending at the beginning of morning
after the commanded rest they saw the glow of morning on the horizon,
that is when they left to go to the tomb. By the time they got to the
tomb it was at the rising of the sun. Again, every account shows that
the Miryams waited until morning to go to the tomb but I believe you
will try to use the word “dawning” to say that the first day of the week
was ‘dawning in the evening’ as a metaphor for the day was dawning.
Something like a thought just dawned on me or occurred. So what you
would be doing is using an English idiom to explain what the growing of
light means – the growing of the next day. Again, this is an English
idiom not Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek.
From Maria’s blog, Quote:
“
Had Yahu’shua died on Friday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. and then buried at
sundown before the weekly Sabbath (which is erroneous), then he would’ve
only been in the heart of the earth for “one day” not three!”
REPLY:
As shown above according to what the Scripture says Yoseph of
Aramethea didn’t even go to Pilate to get the body off the stake until
evening had come; you don’t recognize this yet:Mat 27:57
And when evening came, there came a rich man from Ramathayim, named
Yosĕph, who himself had also become a taught one of יהושע.
Mat 27:58 He went to Pilate and asked for the body of יהושע. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given.
Maria
said, “buried at sundown”. You agree with this? You say He was buried
on the 14th day of the month before the evening of the 15th, you have
not provided a Scripture that tells us that. You have told us this, but
the Scriptures do not. The Scripture actually shows that Yahusha
didn’t even come off the stake until after evening had come; which you
consider to be the beginning of the next day.
From Maria’s blog, Quote:
“ Keep in mind that on Yah’s time table, a new Calendar date begins at sundown, not midnight.”
REPLY:
That’s interesting that you say “sundown, not midnight” so apparently
this study is directed at the world’s calculation of day to day. But as
we can see from your own calculations, from evening to evening, it does
not actually fit what the Scriptures say.
From Maria’s blog, Quote:
“ But the new “day” begins at “sunrise” the next morning since there are only “twelve hours in the day” (John 11:9).”
REPLY:
Okay, so the daylight portion begins the day and the evening begins the
day. That sounds quite convenient for you to be able to pick and
choose exactly what the Scripture is talking about – either a “day” as
in “daylight portion” or “day” as in a “civil day” or “day” as in a
“religious day”. When you start doing that you start getting into so
much trouble.
From Maria’s blog, Quote:
“ So who changed the new Calendar date to midnight instead of sundown?”
REPLY:
Let’s get to the real point, who changed the day beginning from
morning and put it at sundown? There is plenty of information on that.
That is an entirely different topic, when the day begins, and the
Scriptures most definitely teach that the day begins in the morning and
if you truly understood the impalement account it becomes glaringly
obvious.
From Maria’s blog, Quote:
“Since YHWH introduced his divine calendar to us at creation in Genesis 1:5, a new Calendar date was to begin at sunset”
REPLY:
Can you prove that? See here we go, you really ought to quote the
verses you are talking about. This is some of the problem I see, people
are too willing to listen to what somebody is saying that is not using
Scripture to back up what they say. As also is becoming glaringly
obvious. So when you tell people the day begins in the evening you can
be sure to tell them the “Scriptures say an evening and a morning are
one day” instead of telling them what the Scriptures actually say; which
is “became evening and became morning”. See it’s a very simple
controversy here. You would believe Yahuah for six days in a row was
giving us what a day consists of, in other words, an evening and a
morning that is one day. Now on the other hand I would argue that
Yahuah is showing us the progression of the day. In other words, Yahuah
said, “Let there be light” He separated the light from the darkness
which is the evening and the morning and He saw what He did, and then
came evening and then came morning, the first day was over. But in your
understanding there is a failure in understanding how and where the
word “hayah” is placed. I mean, think about it. Did Yahuah make Adam
and Hawwah that stupid or anyone else that stupid that He would have to
repeat day after day what a day consists of. “I just have to pound this
in their heads, they won’t understand” and then the question comes, why
didn’t He say this on the 7th day? Did He forget? How about let’s
look at the simplicity of it. All Yahuah was doing was showing us the
order in which it happened. He did what He did that day, then came
evening, then came morning, the first, second, third, fourth, fifth,
sixth… then He didn’t say it on the 7th. Why not? Did He forget too?
Or maybe it’s because the rest didn’t end when evening came. IOW, He
didn’t have to say then came evening and then came morning because He
didn’t stop resting. Which is also a great way to show that really the
Shabbat should be kept the whole day and not just the daylight portion.
So
and evening and a morning is a day…. How do you get that? I mean
really, I’d like to hear an explanation to this… Okay, evening begins
when the sun goes down, morning ends when the sun comes up – how do you
get a whole day out of that? An evening and a morning are what a day
consists of??? Or would you say evening covers the time from sundown to
morning and morning covers the time from morning to sunset? Wait a
minute…. He just gave us the definition – the light is day, the
darkness is night. But now you want to make the evening last throughout
the night and morning to last throughout the day? Let’s just stick
with Yahuah’s definition of light/day and darkness/night.
Here’s
something else you may not have considered, if evening begins the day
then where was the evening in the creation account? There was no
evening until Yahuah said let there be light. Darkness was on the face
of the deep, not evening. Truly, if you were going to be faithful to
the Genesis account shouldn’t you begin your day at night? Apparently,
what you do not realize is when the darkness was on the face of the deep
that was the end of an age, a yom and the next one began with light as
the increasing of the light portions begin the year so also does the
increasing of the light portion begins the month, so also does the light
portion increasing over the dark begin the day. These three are in
unity. But NooOOooo the day begins in the evening instead of beginning
at night (or in the morning where it is properly placed). I suggest you
do some studies on this, look into what the Talmud says, look into what
the gnostics teach – maybe that will shed some light on the popular
custom of beginning the day in the evening. Please people – do not stop
at Christmas and easter and think the next person that feeds you is
going to be feeding you the pure truth.
From Maria’s blog, Quote:
“but Pope Gregory XIII changed the new day to midnight during his reign in 1572.
In
Daniel 7:23-25, the angel tells Daniel that the “Beast” (Papacy) “shall
think to change times and laws” and so we see here that the Papacy has
been instrumental in distorting prophetic events by changing the
calendar of YHWH to fit these lies.”
REPLY:
Maria, as a self-proclaimed teacher-prophetess you should know that
the fourth beast is ROME and the whore that rides the beast (Rome) is
the Papacy. Isn’t the woman a metaphor for assembly?
This is
similar to what you did before. You started talking about how the day
was changed from in the evening to the middle of the night, not
considering that it had already been changed from the morning to the
evening. In the same manner you have assumed because the Catholics
“changed the day of worship” – which they really didn’t the beast only
THINKS to change times and laws - from “sun-day” to “Saturn-day” that
you have it all figured out. Not considering that it had already been
changed/hidden before.
In other words, it’s not only prophesied
in Dani’el that this 4th beast, Rome, that would think to change times
and seasons, but there is also a lamentation that says:Lam
2:5 יהוה has been like an enemy. He has swallowed up Yisra’ĕl, He has
swallowed up all her palaces, He has destroyed her strongholds. And He
increases mourning and lamentation In the daughter of Yehudah.
Lam
2:6 He has demolished His booth like a garden, He has destroyed His
place of meeting. יהוה has made the appointed times and Sabbaths To be
forgotten in Tsiyon, And despises sovereign and priest In His raging
displeasure.
Lam 2:7 יהוה has cast off His altar, He has rejected His
set-apart place, He has delivered the walls of her palaces Into the
hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the House of יהוה As on the
day of an appointed time.
Lam 2:8 יהוה has planned to destroy The
wall of the daughter of Tsiyon. He has stretched out a line. He has not
turned back His hand from destroying. And He has made the rampart and
wall to lament; Together they have languished.
As
we can see here Yahuah caused the Sabbaths to be forgotten in Tsiyon.
When did this take place? Could it be 70 c.e. when the temple was
destroyed? Is there any indication in this lamentation? Yahusha said:Mat
24:1 And going out, יהושע went away from the Set-apart Place, and His
taught ones came near to point out to Him the buildings of the Set-apart
Place.
Mat 24:2 And יהושע said to them, “Do you not see all these?
Truly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, at
all, which shall not be thrown down.”
Mar 13:1 And as He went
out of the Set-apart Place, one of His taught ones said to Him,
“Teacher, see what stones! And what buildings!”
Mar 13:2 And יהושע
answering, said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone
shall be left upon another at all, which shall not be thrown down.
Luk 21:5 And as some were speaking about the Set-apart Place, that it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, He said,
Luk
21:6 “These that you see – the days are coming in which not one stone
shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down.”
So
Yahusha just prophesied about 70c.e. and as we know there are some
stones still standing. The wailing wall; which we read about in
Lamentations. Did you notice that He left a wall for wailing? Did you
also notice that He said He would destroy the wall of the daughter of
Tsiyon? **note: I find it interesting as some have referred to you as
the daughter of Tsiyon. So these Scriptures would definitely give us
some understanding that there is a great possibility that the
lamentation was for the temple that was going to be destroyed in 70 c.e.
by the ROMANS. So why did Yahuah allow the temple to be destroyed?
Did He not say He was going to cause His appointed times and Sabbaths to
be forgotten? But yet they claim they keep track of the Sabbaths clear
back to Yahusha’s day. One thing I’d like to see you produce is the
documentation that shows when, where, and how Yahuah caused the
appointed times and Sabbaths to be forgotten and exactly when were they
remembered. Not only that if the Yahudim were keeping the true 7-day
count as you claim then where in history do we find the Romans adopting
the Yahudim’s 7-day count? The truth is the 7th day Sabbath as known on
the Gregorian calendar is a wide street, it is not the ancient path.
From Maria’s blog: Quote:
“At
the time of Yahu’shua’s crucifixion, Israel and the entire world still
acknowledged Yah’s standard of measure for a new day,”
REPLY:
First of all that’s a pretty big statement to say that the “entire
world” kept that time keeping measurement. Where is your proof? If
you’re going to say something then give us something to verify what you
are saying. “The entire world”… These calendation issues were alive
and well back then as they are these days; which is evident from the
Dead Sea Scrolls. You know, pick a scroll, whichever one best suits
your understanding.
From Maria’s blog:
Quote:
“
and so we learn that Yahu’shua was actually crucified and died on the
4th day of the week (Wednesday) around 3 o’clock in the afternoon”
REPLY:
So we have learned?? No, this amounts to so you have said.
“Wednesday”? Is there one Scripture that says “Wednesday”? Is there
one Scripture that says He was impaled on the 4th day of the week? NO.
There is Scripture that says He was impaled on the “Preparation”; which
is the sixth day of the week.
From Maria’s blog: Quote:
“, and then buried at sunset around 6 p.m. which began a new day”
REPLY:
What you are doing is speaking without providing Scripture to validate
what you are saying. He was not put in the ground on the 14th day of
the month in the evening. Technically – you can’t have the the 14th day
of the month in the evening at the end of the day. Don’t you teach
that evening BEGINS the day?? But of course, you conveniently put the
evening wherever you desire to make your understanding seem to work.
Technically from your understanding He would have been buried at the end
of the day, at the end of the 12 hour day, because evening begins the
next day.
Maria teaches:
Quote:
“and then buried at sunset around 6 p.m. which began a new day”
Scripture says:Mat
27:57 And when evening came, there came a rich man from Ramathayim,
named Yosĕph, who himself had also become a taught one of יהושע.
Mat 27:58 He went to Pilate and asked for the body of יהושע. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given.
Mat 27:59 And having taken the body, Yosĕph wrapped it in clean linen,
Mat
27:60 and laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn out of the rock.
And he rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb, and went away.
As
you will probably try to reason this away that explaining that the
evening actually means “between the evenings” and you’ll throw out your
Talmudic tradition of when between the evenings is we will quickly show
with the Scriptures that ‘between the evenings’ comes after ‘evening
comes’.Exo 16:12 “I have heard the grumblings of the
children of Yisra’ĕl. Speak to them, saying, ‘Between the evenings you
are to eat meat, and in the morning you are to be satisfied with bread.
And you shall know that I am יהוה your Elohim.’ ”
Exo 16:13 And it came to be that quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning the dew lay all around the camp.
These
Scriptures are irrefutable proof that ‘between the evenings’ comes
after the going down of the sun, the ‘bo’; you will kill the lamb in the
midst of the evening after the going down of the sun.. you see that?
The quails came up AT evening and then they were eaten BETWEEN the
evenings. Or more properly put; in the midst of the evening.
Christmas, easter, and Halloween is just the tip of the iceberg people.
From Maria’s blog: Quote:
“ going into Thursday, as the first day following his crucifixion.
Thursday at sunset completed one full day or 24 hours going into
Friday.”
REPLY:
Already we can see you’re not speaking in alignment. Yahusha said
three DAYS and three NIGHTS and you’re saying three NIGHTS and three
DAYS. Oh close enough. Doesn’t have to be exact. I will agree, but
that is totally backwards from what He was saying. Why didn’t Yahusha
say as Yonah was in the belly of the whale the Son of Man will be in the
heart of the earth three nights and three days?
From Maria’s blog: Quote:
“ Then Friday at sunset began the weekly Sabbath”
REPLY: Maria!!! Where did your second preparation go? Your
sixth day of your week?? You skipped right over without mentioning
that day. Now here you’re lining up with the Scripture. The Scripture
does not mention any 16th of the month as a preparation day – you forgot
to mention it as the Scriptures also. Which leads us back to what we
spoke of earlier. If the women were in a hurry to anoint the body and
they rested on the 15th (your high day) why did they not go to the tomb
after the Sabbath when you claim it ended at evening on the 16th or the
16th daylight portion? See, you witness against yourself in this
understanding. You absolutely have provided no Scripture to back
yourself with. Not even any mention of any verses. This is beginning
to sound like “Sun-day” school.
From Maria’s blog: Quote:
“and
was the second day after his crucifixion. Saturday at sunset became the
first day of the week or Sunday and it marked the third day after his
crucifixion. Yahu’shua rose again as the Sabbath was ending “after three
days.””
REPLY: After
the Sabbath was ending after three days? WHAT? Was He raised after
the Sabbath or on the Sabbath? On one hand you seem to be saying after
the Sabbath. Neither have you provided one Scripture for this time line
so far. You got this count all figured out – why aren’t you backing up
the count with the Scripture?
From maria’s blog: Quote:
“ This is why Yahu’shua called himself “the Lord of the Sabbath.”
REPLY:
WHAT? Because He was raised up on the Sabbath? Let’s get this
pinpointed here… it would be nice to see a Scripture that says He is
Master of the Sabbath because He was raised up on the Sabbath.
From Maria’s blog: Quote:
“
The Catholic Church changed the Sabbath to Sunday claiming that it is
because they rationalize “Jesus resurrected on Sunday morning,” but this
is wrong. Yahu’shua resurrected at sunset just as the Sabbath was
ending!”
REPLY:
Okay, we got this straight – you’re saying He raised on Sabbath? Just
before the next day started? So if the first fruits offering is to be
offered up on the morrow after the Sabbath, can you please explain this?
According to the instructions concerning the wave omer:Lev 23:9 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Lev
23:10 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and you shall say to them,
‘When you come into the land which I give you, and shall reap its
harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the first-fruits of your
harvest to the priest.
Lev 23:11 ‘And he shall wave the sheaf before יהוה, for your acceptance. On the morrow after the Sabbath the priest waves it.
The omer is to be waved on the day after the Sabbath; which would be a first day. As the Scripture says:Mar
16:9 And having risen early on the first day of the week, He appeared
first to Miryam from Maḡdala, from whom He had cast out seven demons.
You
said He was raised on the Sabbath, but the Scripture says He was raised
on the first day. And we’ve been through the mia tom sabbaton thing
before and that goofs up your understanding even more. Because if you
claim that is a Sabbath then your understanding would have Him rising on
one Sabbath going into another, so I don’t think you want to take that
road.Exo 34:21 “Six days you work, but on the seventh day you rest – in plowing time and in harvest you rest.
According
to the command you rest on the Sabbath day both in sowing and reaping.
You think that’s why the omer was brought on the first day of the week?
The morrow after the Sabbath? The question is would we expect Yahusha
to follow this order? According to your understanding He does not fit
the instructions concerning the wave omer nor does He fit the
instructions of being put in the earth, the mouth of the grave, that
night as you claim He was put in the evening, which does not coincide
with Passover instructions. Besides that you would also have Him
raised up on the Sabbath being “the third day” and then ascending on the
next day which you would have to consider the “fourth day” so His
rising from the dead and His ascension didn’t even take place on the
same day?? But as the verse shows He was raised and if you
cross-reference the word “raise” you will find that is what He referred
to when He said, “I will rise the third day”.
As we can see
everything that you are trying to teach was only taught from your
perspective without one Scripture being produced to validate your
understanding.
