Mattithyah 12:40—
For as Yahnah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish,
so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in
the heart of the earth.
The words coming from Yahshua's own mouth about His resurrection, were that He would be in the grave three days and three nights, saying in:
For as Yahnah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
The teaching of the majority of Sunday keeping Christianity, is: the Messiah was put in the grave on Good Friday at sunset and that He was resurrected at sunrise on Easter Sunday morning.
I would like to ask you to add this for yourself. Can you get three days and three nights from this time sequence? Friday Night—One Night; Saturday Day—One Day; Saturday Night—One Night; Resurrected Sunday at dawn—no day
There are two nights and one day in this time sequence. Our Messiah said that the only sign He would give that He was the true Messiah, was the sign of the Prophet Yahnah, that He would be in the grave three days and three nights.
In effect, Christianity calls Him a liar, and not the true Messiah. By their count, He only remained in the grave two nights and one day.
Yahshua stated that His claim to being the true Messiah sent by Yahweh would be verified only by His remaining in the grave for exactly three days and three nights. If Yahshua remained three days, and three nights in the grave, He would prove that He was the Messiah sent by Yahweh; if Yahshua failed to fulfill this sign, then He must be rejected as an imposter.
No wonder Satan has caused unbelievers to scoff at the story of Yahnah, and the great fish. No wonder Satan has set up a lying tradition that actually denies Yahshua as the true Messiah.
Even a child can figure that there are not three days and three nights from Friday sunset to Sunday sunrise, yet Satan has caused most of the people in the world to accept this lie.
Commentators and critics alike have tried to explain away this sign, in order that they might hold onto the pagan practice of Good Friday and Easter Sunday worship.
The proof that Yahshua was in the grave three days and three nights is in your own Bible. By letting Scripture interpret Scripture, we see that Yahnah was three days and three nights in the fish's belly:
Now Yahweh had prepared a great fish to swallow up Yahnah. And Yahnah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Even the critics admit that the phrase in Yahnah 1:17, three days and three nights, means a period of 72 hours. They admit that there were three 12 hour days, and three 12 hour nights in which Yahnah was in the belly of the fish.
Just as distinctly Yahshua Messiah said that He would be in the grave for the same length of time. He said three days and three nights, just as Yahnah (Mattithyah 12:40). Yahshua Himself gives us the length of time in a day.
8 His disciples said to Him; Teacher, the Yahdaim just recently tried to stone You, and You go there again?
9 Yahshua answered: Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.
Yahshua knew how long He would be in the grave. There was no guessing nor speculation. He testified to the fact that He would be killed, and then He would be resurrected the third day—a fact that Yahshua repeated to His Disciples, in order that they might believe when it came to pass.
To know the time sequence in a day, we will let the Creator of the day, Yahweh our Heavenly Father, tell us:
4 And Yahweh saw the light, that it was beneficial; and Yahweh divided between the light and between the darkness.
5 And Yahweh called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and then the morning were the First Day.
Yahweh created a day to be an evening (darkness) first, and then the morning (light). This same principle applies to the time span in which Yahshua was in the grave.
Genesis 1:4-13 gives the story of the creation of the seven days in a week; each day was one night, then one day, which is one day, Yahweh's way. Yahshua Messiah, as well, was buried for three days, Yahweh's way.
The Word of Yahweh is so simple that even a child is able to understand it; yet, it seems, the wise and prudent are just unable to do so. What proof do these wise and prudent have for their Good Friday-Easter Sunday tradition? The simple truth is they have no proof at all.
They follow a tradition which has its foundation in pagan antiquity, which is taught to deceived Christianity as Scripture. By following tradition rather than the Word of Yahweh, they have made the Word of Yahweh of no effect.
Yahshua Messiah told His disciples of His death and resurrection.
Then He began to teach them that the son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed; and after three days, raised up.
This Scripture plainly states Yahshua Messiah Himself said that He would be killed, and then after three days rise from the dead.
Anyone reading this Scripture should have enough sense to know that if Yahshua was placed in the grave on Good Friday evening at sunset, and the Scriptures also plainly state that He must be in the grave three days and three nights in order to fulfill the only sign of the true Messiah, then His resurrection should not even have taken place until Monday evening at sunset.
Yet, most of Christianity teaches that the Savior was placed in the grave on Good Friday a period of about 36 hours, encompassing only two nights and one day. But the Scriptures plainly say:
Because He was teaching His disciples, and telling them: The Son of Man is being delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill Him; and after He is killed, He will be raised up the third day.
Then He began to teach them that the son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed; and after three days, raised up.
Saying; Ruler, we remember how that deceiver, while He was still alive, said: After three days I will be raised up.
18 Then the Yahdaim answered, and said to Him; What sign can You show us that you have authority to do these things?
19 Yahshua answered, and said to them: Destroy this House, and in three days it will be raised up.
20 The Yahdaim then said; It took forty-six years to build this House, and You will raise it up in three days?
21 But He spoke of the House of His body.
22 Now when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them; and they believed the Scripture and the plan of Yahweh, which Yahshua had spoken.
Yes, Yahshua Messiah fulfilled the only sign of the true Messiah, for just as the inspired Scriptures say: He was in the grave three days and three nights, and He rose the third day, regardless of what Christianity may teach.
For Yahshua Messiah to be in the grave for exactly three days and three nights, as He said He would be, He would have to be resurrected exactly 72 hours after He was buried. What this also means is that He would have to be resurrected at exactly the same hour of the day in which He was placed in the grave.
Therefore, all one has to do to find the exact time of His resurrection is to find the exact time of His burial. And the Scriptures are not silent about these facts. All one has to do is search the word of Yahweh, to find Yahweh's truth about the events of Yahshua Messiah's death and resurrection.
The Scriptures show that Yahshua cried out to Yahweh about the Ninth Hour, which is around 3:00 in the afternoon, and He died after that.
46 And about the ninth hour Yahshua cried out with a loud voice, saying: Yli! Yli! lamah ozabatniy?! which means: My Strength! My Strength! Why have You forsaken Me?
47 Some of those who stood there, when they heard that, said; This Man calls for Yliyah.
48 Then immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, filled it with vinegar; sour wine, put it on a reed, and gave it to Him to drink.
49 The rest said; Leave Him alone! Let us see if Yliyah will come to save Him.
50 Yahshua, when He had cried out again with a loud voice, yielded up His Spirit.
34 And at the ninth hour Yahshua cried with a loud voice, saying: Yli! Yli! lamah ozabatniy?! which is, being translated: My Strength! My Strength! Why have You forsaken Me?!
35 Then some of those who stood by, when they heard this, said; Behold, He calls Yliyah!
36 And one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar; sour wine, put it on a reed, and gave it for Him to drink, saying; Leave Him alone! Let us see whether Yliyah will come to take Him down.
37 Then Yahshua cried with a loud voice, and died.
The day on which Yahshua Messiah was sacrificed, was the day before the First Holy Day Sabbath of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The day before the First Holy Day is called the preparation day.
Now the next day that followed the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate.
By now, the first evening had come, and because it was the Preparation, that is, the day before the Passover High Holy Day Sabbath.
And that day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.
Now because it was the Preparation Day, and since the Yahdaim did not want to have the bodies left on the stake during the Sabbath: for that Sabbath was a High Feast Day; they asked Pilate to have their legs broken, so they might be taken away.
The world has lost sight of the way Yahweh sets His days. Because Yahweh's way is lost to the world, the world can read these previous Scriptures, and never comprehend the time span that the preparation day, the day on which Yahshua Messiah was sacrificed, encompasses.
To those who do not understand how Yahweh begins, and ends His days, the preparation day always means Friday. So it is no wonder that they are deceived into thinking that Yahshua was placed in the grave on Friday.
The Scriptures speak of more than one Sabbath, which must be observed by those who want to know Yahweh. Let us first read of Yahweh's weekly seventh day Sabbath in:
13 Speak also to the children of Israyl, saying; Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for they are a sign between Me and you throughout your gener-ations, that you may know that I am Yahweh Who sanctifies you, and makes you holy.
14 You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on that day, that person shall be cut off from among his people.
15 For six days work shall be done, but the Seventh Day is the Sabbath of rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath Day, he shall surely be put to death.
16 Therefore the children of Israyl shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.
17 It is a sign between Me and the children of Israyl forever, for in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, and on the Seventh Day He rested and was refreshed.
The first thing I want you to be absolutely aware of is the fact that keeping Yahweh's Sabbaths is a sign between you and Yahweh. It is the Mark of Yahweh, the sign that you belong to Him. The second thing I want you to be aware of is that, when you keep all of Yahweh's Sabbaths, which include Yahweh's Feast day Sabbaths, then you have the understanding to know that Yahweh's Feast day Sabbaths can fall on any day of the week, not just Saturday.
We see the Feast of Trumpets is called a Sabbath in Leviticus 23:24.
We find that the Day of Atonement is a Sabbath in Leviticus 23:32.
Leviticus 23:34-36 speaks of the Feast of Tabernacles. We are shown that we are to celebrate the first day and the Last Great Day as Sabbaths.
We must keep Yahweh's Sabbaths, and Yahweh's Sabbaths include His Feast day Sabbaths, which may fall on any day of the week; therefore, the preparation days for Yahweh's Feast day Sabbaths may fall on any day of the week, as well.
Then we read about Yahweh's Feast of Unleavened Bread, and about the Passover sacrifice to Yahweh before this Feast even begins:
5 On the Fourteenth of the First Moon, between the two evenings, Yahweh's Passover Sacrifice is to be killed.
6 And on the Fifteenth Day of the same Moon is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to Yahweh; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
7 On the first day you shall have a Holy Convocation; you shall do no regular work on it,
8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh for seven days. The seventh day shall be a Holy Convocation; you shall do no regular work on it.
The Scriptures plainly show that the Passover sacrificial lambs were merely a representation, or a shadow, of the true sacrifice to come: Yahshua Messiah, our Passover sacrifice. The Apostle Shaul plainly said in:
Therefore, purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new batch, since you are unleavened. For truly Yahshua our Passover was sacrificed for us.
In order for Yahshua to be our Passover sacrifice, He had to have been sacrificed at the exact same time that the lambs were being sacrificed for Passover on the Temple Mount, on the Preparation Day, which He was.
Yahshua died around the ninth hour: around 3:00 in the afternoon, between the two evenings. >/h4>
I would like for you to remember that the Scriptural day, Yahweh's day, begins and ends at sunset, not at 12:00 midnight according to the Roman tradition. I want you to remember that Yahshua was put in the grave before sunset.
50 Now behold, there was a man named Yahseph, a member of the council, a virtuous and just man.
51 (The same had not consented to their decision nor their action.) He was from Arimathea, a city of the Yahdaim, who himself was also waiting for the Kingdom of Yahweh.
52 This man went to Pilate and asked him for the body of Yahshua.
53 Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulcher that was cut out of the rock; in which no one had ever lain before.
54 And that day was the Prepar-ation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.
Yes, Yahshua was buried on the preparation day before the first Holy Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is a Sabbath. He was buried before that Sabbath even began. By the time Yahshua was prepared for burial and buried, the Sabbath was almost ready to start.
Luke 23:54,KJV—
And that day was The Preparation, and the Sabbath
drew on.
Luke 23:54, NKJV—
And that day was The Preparation, and the Sabbath
drew near.
Luke 23:54, NASV—
And that day was The Preparation, and
the Sabbath was about to begin.
Another vital fact which is completely overlooked in Christianity is the fact that there is a Scripture which states that Sabbath Day was a high day, not the weekly Sabbath.
Now because it was the Preparation Day, and since the Yahdaim did not want to have the bodies left on the stake during the Sabbath: for that Sabbath was a High Feast Day; they asked Pilate to have their legs broken, so they might be taken away.
You may read this Scripture for yourself in the popular King James Version, and you will read the same thing. Therefore, this Scripture has been overlooked or ignored by those who teach Christian doctrine.
According to the Law, bodies could not remain hanging on any Sabbath Day, and that is why the Yahdaim asked Pilate to have their legs broken so they would slump down, which would cut off their breath, and they would die of suffocation.
However, when the Romans came to break Yahshua's legs, they found that He was already dead. The Romans broke the legs of the other two men who were hung alongside of Yahshua; they slumped down, their breathing was shut off, and they died quickly thereafter so their bodies could be removed before the Sabbath arrived.
As we have proven from the Scrip-tures, Yahshua Messiah died around 3:00 in the afternoon on the preparation day. Then Yahshua was buried after 3:00 in the afternoon, but before sunset, before the Sabbath began. The Scriptures also show the burial preparations which had to be made before Yahshua was officially buried. Yahseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for Yahshua's body (Luke 23:50-54) He then claimed Yahshua's lifeless body from the Romans (Mattithyah 27:57-60, Yahchanan Mark 15:42-46), Yahseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus wrapped Yahshua's body in linen, with myrrh and aloes (Yahchanan 19:38-42), finally they laid Yahshua in a new sepulcher and rolled a stone over the door.
At the very moment that Yahshua was buried, His resurrection had to take place exactly three days and three nights later.
We know that Yahweh's days begin and end at sunset, and we know that Yahshua was buried sometime just before sunset. We also know that Yahshua Messiah was resurrected very late in the afternoon on the third day before sunset, not at sunrise.
If Yahshua had risen from the dead at any other time of day, without being in the grave three days and three nights, He would not have fulfilled the only sign of the true Messiah, which He gave as proof.
Since the Scriptures prove that Yahshua Messiah was not resurrected on a Sunday, can we locate this day through the Holy Scriptures? Yes, we can! The confusion abounds about the day on which Yahshua was resurrected, because the Scriptures on which Christianity bases their doctrine concerning the Sunday sunrise resurrection have been mistranslated and misunderstood. One such mistranslation is found in:
And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
The Zondervan Parallel New Testament in Greek and English shows the word for word translation of this Scripture:
As you can read for yourself the words "in the morning," were added by the translators of the King James Version. These words are not written. These words were added to bolster the pagan Christian doctrine of a sunrise resurrection.
The words translated, rising of the sun, should have been translated setting of the sun.
The Greek phrase that is underlined in the copy of the Interlinear, anateilantos tou heliou, all translators have translated it as "at the rising of the sun." The Greek word anateilantos is the genitive singular masculine particle form of the Greek word anatello. This word is a combination of the preposition ana, which means after, and the ancient Greek root tello, and its later form telos, a derivative of the Hebrew word qtz, which means end, cutting off of a period of time.
The period of time which is coming to its end is shown in the last two Greek words of this phrase, tou (the) heliou (sun). The phrase anateilantos tou heliou, properly translated, says After the setting (end) of the sun. This Scripture is properly translated in The Book of Yahweh:
And very early on the First of the week, they came to the sepulcher just after the setting of the sun.
Since Yahweh's days begin at sunset, the fact is that when they came to the grave very early on the First Day of the week (which is Sunday), they would have come to the grave immediately after sunset on Saturday.
Another Scripture which has been mistranslated, as well as being misunderstood, is:
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
The word for word Greek, from The Zondervan Parallel New Testament in Greek and English, by Alfred Marshall is displayed:
The phrase which has been translated in the King James Version as "very early in the morning" is circled for your convenience. We will let A Critical Lexicon And Concordance To The English And Greek New Testament, by Ethelbert W. Bullinger, page 507, show us how this should have been translated:
As you may read for yourself from this Lexicon, this should have been translated deep twilight or earliest dawn. The Greek words which meant very early in the morning were not the Greek words which were used in this Scripture.
Again, I remind you that Yahweh's days begin and end at sunset. Therefore, when a day dawns Yahweh's way, that means that the sun has just set, which marks the beginning of a new day. Correctly translated in The Book of Yahweh, this Scripture reads:
Now on the First Day of the week, at the earliest dawn, they came to the sepulcher bringing the spices which they had prepared, with certain other women with them.
Therefore, when these women came at the earliest dawn, they came just after sunset, not just before sunrise.
The third Scripture which has been mistranslated and misunderstood is found in:
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
The word for word Greek translation of this Scripture, from The Zondervan Parallel New Testament in Greek and English is shown:
The Greek phrase which has been underlined reads skotias eti ousas. The Greek word skotias means dimness, darkness. Eti means further, yet, after that. Ousas is a form of the Greek verb eimi, which means to exist. In other words, what this is saying is "darkness yet to exist." Darkness did not yet exist. Therefore, correctly translated in The Book of Yahweh, this Scripture reads:
Early on the First of the week, before darkness arrived, Miriam Magdalene went to the sepulcher, and saw the stone taken away from the sepulcher.
The whole Christian world, under the influence of Satan the Devil, has taken these three mistranslated, and mis-understood, Scriptures to prove that the resurrection took place at sunrise on Sunday morning. However, as we have proven, these Scriptures simply do not say that.
This misunderstanding on the part of the Christians stems from their misunderstanding of how a day Yahweh's way begins and ends. I would like for you to think about the following point for one moment. If Miriam Magdalene arrived at the sepulcher while it was yet dark, which the Christians maintain, as being before sunrise, why did she not give us an eye-witness account of Yahshua's resurrection? She was supposed to have been there before sunrise and the Savior was resurrected at sunrise on Sunday morning, so the Christians claim. As so many of Christianity's doctrines, this just does not make any sense.
The Scriptures positively show that Yahshua was put in the grave in the late afternoon. Therefore, three days and three nights later, a 72 hour period having elapsed, late in the afternoon of the Third Day, Yahshua would have been resurrected.
Let us review the events that took place from the time of burial until the time of resurrection.
Yahshua Messiah was placed in the grave just before the First Holy Day Sabbath of the Feast of Unleavened Bread
was about to start, and the Feast began at sunset.
Yahshua Messiah was in the grave for three days and three nights.
The women came to Yahshua's grave the First Day of the week, which began directly after sunset, and Yahshua was
already gone. Yahchanan Mark 16:6, Luke
24:3, and Yahchanan 20:2.
Yahshua Messiah was resurrected by Yahweh on the seventh day (Saturday) Sabbath afternoon.
Yahshua Messiah stated that He would be in the grave for three days and three nights, but only the malakim of Yahweh were witnesses to the actual minute in which He was resurrected. However, Yahshua said that He would be resurrec-ted according to a certain time span, and He was resurrected, just as He said.
But He is not here. He has been raised up, as He said. Come, see the place where He lay.
If Yahshua had not been in the grave for exactly three days and three nights, then He would not have risen, as He said.
If He had been in the grave for a shorter length of time, as Christianity proclaims, then He was not resurrected, as he said.
Yahshua was resurrected on the weekly Sabbath (Saturday) afternoon— exactly 72 hours—three nights and three days, after He was put in the grave. The Apostle Shaul was inspired to write of Yahshua's resurrection, saying in:
3 Now first of all, I delivered to you that which I also received: how that the Messiah died for our sins in accordance with what the Scriptures foretold;
4 That He was buried, and that He rose again the third day, in accordance with what the Scripture foretold.
By rising from His grave on Saturday afternoon, according to the Scriptures, it is evident that Yahshua was placed in the grave on a Wednesday afternoon, three days and three nights before.
Count this for yourself: From Wednesday afternoon, very shortly before sunset, to Saturday afternoon, very shortly before sunset, you will find that Yahshua was in the heart of the earth for exactly three days and three nights, just as Yahnah was in the belly of the fish for exactly this length of time.
Yahshua was not resurrected at sunrise on Sunday morning because He had already been resurrected just before sunset on Saturday afternoon.
In Yahchanan 13, we find undeniable Scriptural proof that Yahshua was betrayed and killed before Passover.
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Yahshua knew His hour had come that He should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
Yes, this was before the Passover. In fact, this was the very night before the Passover night. It was on this night, that Yahshua symbolically gave His disciples the bread and wine which represented His body and blood, because He knew that He was to be sacrificed as the Pass-over Lamb, to die the very following afternoon.
This night in which He was betrayed, and all the following day was the preparation day of the Passover. This night in which He was betrayed was the night in which He washed His disciples feet, as we find in:
After that, He poured water into a basin, then began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel that He had tied around Himself.
The fact is, Yahshua knew that He would be betrayed that night, as we find in:
21 When Yahshua had said these things, He was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said: Truly, truly, I say to you: One of you will betray Me.
27 And after the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Yahshua said to him: What you are going to do, do quickly!
All of this had taken place, and it was still before the
Passover.
Yahchanan 13:1—
Now before the Feast of the
Passover, when Yahshua knew His hour had come that He should depart out of this
world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
The first proof we find is the fact that the Scripture says that this was before the Feast of the Passover. The next proof that this was before the Feast is found in:
For some thought, since Yahdah had the moneybag, that Yahshua had said to him: Buy those things that we have need of for the Feast; or that he should give something to the poor.
The word which has been translated for in The Book of Yahweh, The Holy Scriptures, is translated against in The King James Version. These words come from the Greek word eis, which in Strong's Greek Dictionary means into, to, unto, toward, in regard to.
Yahshua's disciples thought that Yahshua had instructed Yahdah Iscariot to purchase something that they had need of in regard to the Feast. However, if this night in which He was betrayed was the Passover Night, it would have been a High Day and there would be no buying taking place whatsoever. Yet, the disciples thought purchases were going to be made.
If you will remember, the Passover night is a Sabbath and a Feast and Yahweh commands that we keep His Sabbath Days holy. Therefore, we can not buy or sell on His Sabbaths. Had this been the night of the Passover, as some teach, then Yahdah could not have been expected to buy something. Scripture proves the night in which He was betrayed was not a Sabbath, it was the preparation day. The night in which He was betrayed was also the night in which He was arrested.
Then the band and their captain, with the officers of the Yahdaim, arrested Yahshua, bound Him.
After a mockery of a trial, and after enduring the remainder of that night suffering humiliating torture, Pilate then handed Yahshua over to be sacrificed on the stake.
16 So then he handed Him over to them to be nailed to a stake. And they took Yahshua, and led Him away.
17 And He, carrying His stake, went out to a place called The Place of a Skull (which is Golgotha in Hebrew),
18 Where they nailed Him to a stake, and with Him two others: one on either side, and Yahshua in the middle.
Yahshua Messiah died at the very same time in which the Passover lambs were being slaughtered on the Temple Mount, between the time of approximately 3:00 in the afternoon and sunset on the preparation day.
The day that Yahshua died was the preparation day for Passover: and He died in the very afternoon, before the Passover began that night.
30 And when Yahshua had received the vinegar, He said: It is finished; then He bowed His head, and expired; breathed His last.
31 Now because it was the Prepar-ation Day, and since the Yahdaim did not want to have the bodies left on the stake during the Sabbath: for that Sabbath was a High Feast Day; they asked Pilate to have their legs broken, so they might be taken away.
So they laid Yahshua there, because of the Preparation Day of the Yahdaim, for the sepulcher was nearby.
Yahshua Messiah was buried before the Passover. The Scriptures plainly show that He was buried on the preparation day, shortly before sunset.
The Passover service today commemorates the day when Israyl was delivered from Egypt. Egypt symbolically pictures sin, Passover pictures the deliverance from sin.
This Passover Feast, when unleavened bread is first eaten, begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and is recorded in Exodus 12 and Numbers 28.
This Passover offering was a lamb. This Passover offering was killed on the fourteenth day of the First Moon of Yahweh's sacred year in the afternoon. After this lamb was sacrificed, its blood was shed into a basin, and then was poured out against the sides of the altar of burnt sacrifice. Thereafter, its carcass was roasted with fire, and eaten that very following night
The night in which this lamb was eaten was Passover night. I must remind you that Yahweh's Days, Yahweh's way, begin and end at sunset. Therefore, the beginning of the fifteenth day started on the fourteenth day at sunset.
The Holy Scriptures show that the Passover sacrifices were a representation, or a shadow, of the true sacrifice to come: Yahshua Messiah, our Passover sacrifice.
...for truly Yahshua our Passover was sacrificed for us.
As our Passover sacrifice, Yahshua Messiah was killed on the fourteenth day of the moon of green ears of barley, in the afternoon.
Yahshua, our Passover sacrifice, was killed at the same time that the lambs were being killed on the Temple Mount, on the very same day.
Yahshua our Passover sacrifice was killed for the remission,the passing over, of our sins.
22 For to bind anything by the Law it must be purged with blood; so without shedding of blood there is no remission; forgiveness of sins.
28 So also the Messiah was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto those who look for Him will He appear the second time, apart from sin, unto salvation.
Yes, Yahshua was killed as a sacrifice in order that the past sins of those who turn to Yahweh with all of their hearts might be forgiven.
13 For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a red heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh,
14 How much more will the blood of the Messiah, Who, through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to Yahweh, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living Father?
15 And for this reason He is the Mediator of the renewed covenant, under which, through the means of death to bring redemption from transgressions committed under the covenant, the first who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Yahshua Our Passover was killed as a Passover offering, as a lamb without blemish or spot.
But with the precious blood of Messiah, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
Just as the joyous Passover celebration symbolically pictures coming out of Egypt, sin, so Yahshua's death as our sacrifice pictures our deliverance from sin, because Yahshua our Passover died for us.
The Passover sacrificial offering had to be killed in the afternoon on the fourteenth day, so that it could be eaten after sundown, which officially began the fifteenth day, the Passover Feast, Yahweh's way.
The fifteenth day of the moon of green ears of barley is the first Holy Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is a Sabbath Day. This High Day Sabbath, unlike the weekly Seventh Day Sabbath, can and does, fall on any day of the week.
During the time of Yahshua's sacrifice, the fourteenth day of the moon of green ears of barley was on a Tuesday night, and Wednesday day, the very day that the Passover lambs and Yahshua Messiah were killed.
Then, the fifteenth day, the High Day Sabbath, fell on a Wednesday night and Thursday day that year.
Therefore, there were two Sabbaths in that one week: the High Day Sabbath, which fell on Wednesday night/Thursday day, and the weekly Sabbath, which fell on Friday night/Saturday day.
Do other Scriptures show that there were more than one Sabbath in that week? Yes, there most assuredly are.
And when the Passover Sabbath was past, Miriam Magdalene, and Miriam the mother of Yaaqob and Salome, bought sweet spices, that they might go and anoint Him.
Notice that the Sabbath was past when they bought the spices. This Sabbath was not the Weekly Seventh Day Sabbath.
These ladies could not prepare the spices until after they had bought them, and they did not buy them until after the Sabbath had passed. After preparing the spices, these ladies rested on the Weekly Seventh Day Sabbath as we find in:
Then they returned. Then they prepared spices and ointments. Then they rested the Sabbath Day according to the commandment.
After the First High Day Sabbath of the Feast of Unleavened Bread had passed, these women bought the spices.
These two Sabbaths had one day in between them on which to prepare spices. The High Day Sabbath was on Wednesday Night/Thursday Day—they rested and observed Yahweh's Feast Day. The very next day was Friday, the day on which these women bought and prepared spices—Friday day. Knowing the customs of the observant Yahdaim, we also know that these women prepared for the weekly Seventh Day Sabbath on that same day__Friday. Then, these women rested on the Sabbath Day according to Yahweh's Law—they rested on Saturday.
When the sun had set on Saturday afternoon, which marks the beginning of the first day of the week, Yahweh's way, these women went to Yahshua's grave, and were informed that Yahshua Messiah had already risen, just as He had said. Yahshua Messiah had already risen late Saturday afternoon, so naturally, when these women came to the sepulcher as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week,Yahweh's Way, He had already left the area.
Thousands of people all over the world are now coming to the truth about the sacrifice and resurrection of Yahshua, the true Messiah sent by Yahweh.
Unsuspecting, innocent people throughout this world have been deceived by Satan. Pagan practices and customs have been engrafted into the pure word of Yahweh. Superstition and counterfeit doctrines have taken the place of the true teachings of the prophets and apostles.
Although the truth of Yahweh's Word has been twisted throughout the generations, Yahweh's truth has always been preserved in the pages of the Holy Scriptures. All one has to do is prove all things, thereby showing themselves approved to Yahweh, just as He commands. Therefore, prove all things, and show yourself to be a faithful servant to Yahweh. When you have proven these things to be the truth, then you are also commanded to hold fast to it.
Study to show yourself approved to Yahweh: a workman who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is righteous.