“…and
ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32
If you are a lover and
seeker of truth then this teaching is for you. It is for right thinking people,
for men and women who walk beyond the corridors of the traditions of men and
the religious philosophies of sense ruled men. As you read along take special
not of the scripture passages outlined here. The truths presented here will
thrill your heart.
The crucifixion of Jesus
took place on the day of preparation for the Jewish special Sabbath (not their
usual Saturday Sabbath), John 19:31. This
special Sabbath was not the regular Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, which always
began from 6 pm on Friday and ran until 6 pm the next evening. That is, from
sundown to sundown. According to Jewish time a new day begins from 6pm (evening
time) and ends by 6 pm the next evening. The Jews and the Romans applied
different rules for reckoning the hours of the day, even though both systems divide
the day into two equal periods of 12 hours. A new day for the Romans began at
midnight (i.e. 12 midnight, as it is for us today), whereas a new day for the
Jews began in the evening 6 pm.
The high day was a special
Sabbath day commemorating the feast of Unleavened Bread. That high day was a
Thursday (34 AD), and the day of preparation before that Thursday was a
Wednesday (i.e. the day before the feast of unleavened bread). That Wednesday
was a Passover day, which was a day before the day of Unleavened Bread, which
took place on the 14th day of the first Month (Abib, or also known
as Nisan) of the Jewish religious calendar (See Leviticus 23: 4-7).
Jesus was crucified on a
Wednesday (the Passover day) and He died by 3pm (i.e. the Ninth hour), Matthew 27:45, 46; John 19:42.
Jesus
Burial and Resurrection
The burial of Jesus took
place before it was 6pm on the same Wednesday of His crucifixion. The Jewish
authorities had to ensure He was buried before 6 pm because their special
Sabbath was to begin by 6 pm that same evening (which was the beginning of a new
day according to the Jewish standard of time and the beginning of their special
Sabbath). The Jewish special Sabbath for that year was to begin by 6 pm that
same Wednesday evening and would end by 6 pm (evening) of the next day. The next
day which was a Thursday was their day of Unleavened Bread.
Paul called Jesus our
Passover Lamb (1 Corinthians 5:7)
because He was crucified and died on the Passover day, which was Wednesday of
34AD. This was the day before the day of Unleavened Bread of that year. Also,
Jesus body was hurriedly brought down from the cross before 6pm of that
Wednesday because if the Jewish religious authorities had allowed the body to
remain on the cross, they would have desecrated their special Sabbath which was
to commence by 6pm that evening. According to the Law of Moses, bodies were not
allowed to hang all night on a cross, (Deuteronomy
21:22, 23).
Jesus Christ was dead for
three full days and three full nights. The Hebrew idiom “three days” can be used for any part of three days, but when the
word “night” is included in the terminology,
then the term can only mean three complete literal days and three literal
nights, (see Jonah 1:17).
According to Jesus Himself,
the only sign which he gave to prove His Messiahship was the sign of the
prophet Jonah, Matthew 12: 40. He
gave this proof in reference to His death and resurrection. Notice how He
specified it, He said, “three days and
three nights.” He meant three full days and three full nights. This
was how long Jonah himself stayed in the belly of the whale. Our Lord was put
in the grave on Wednesday by sundown, just before 6pm and He resurrected at the
sundown of Saturday, just before it was 6pm, at the same exact time He was buried.
He completed three full days and three full nights according to what He said in
Matthew 12:40.
When Sunday morning (day
break) came Jesus had already risen. The resurrection having taken place at
sundown of the day before, that is, on Saturday sundown just by 6pm. Counting
back three days and three nights would bring us to Wednesday Sundown. Someone
asked? “Would this make three days and
three nights?” Yes!
If you were to count it, Wednesday
night, Thursday night, and Friday night-three nights. Likewise, Thursday,
Friday, Saturday- making three days. This would make a total of exactly three
days and three nights or complete 72 hours.
The Good Friday Concept a Religious
Hoax
There
is no such thing as “Good Friday” in
the Christian faith. This concept is totally based on deception. As far as
Christianity is concerned “Good Friday”
is a religious hoax. Its main aim was to introduce pagan beliefs into the
Church world. But Satan is a liar, he has failed. Only those who are
scripturally ignorant get swayed by his deceptive craftiness. I’ll talk more on
this “Good Friday Hoax” in another
post.
Jesus
resurrected at the end of the Jewish Sabbath day celebration. This signified
that the resurrection of Christ brought the Jewish Sabbath to an end; see Matthew 28:1-10.
Prize Chukwuka
Prize Chukwuka
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