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BORN AGAIN
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hey brother Sal in Scotland (gotta love this Internet church, and Lucifer-Satan has to hate this aspect of the Internet), it's good to get some more confirmation on this Good Friday or Passover matter which brother wparr brought up.
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"...which shows that the following day was “a great” sabbath. The day after Passover was always a sabbath, no matter on what day of the week it came. (Lev 23:5-7)
But when this special Sabbath coincided with the regular Sabbath (the seventh day of the week), it became “a great one.” So Jesus’ death took place on Friday, Nisan 14, by about 3:00 p.m.—Lu 23:44-46.
Yes, I agree with you, that's what John 19:31 feels like to me too.
thanks for the affirmation, brother.
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hi Sal, so you think He died on Passover Friday the 14th, which would make Saturday both a high day and a regular weekly sabbath?
John 19:31
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was a high day) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
It certainly seems that the language of John 19:31 tends to agree with that notion "that sabbath day was a high day", as if saying that regular weekly Sabbath was a high day because it was also the first day of Unleavened Bread.
Assuming the above for a moment, how do you arrive at Jesus being three days in the earth?
It seems to me that the Hebrews/Israelites could count "parts" of days as "a day", and if that be the case, it could be said that Friday was one day, Saturday was the 2nd day, and Sunday was the third day?
thanks, BORN AGAIN ![[Cross]](graemlins/cross.gif)
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UNDERSTANDING THE PASSOVER EVENING/NIGHT AND THE PASSOVER MORNING/DAY
written in 1997 (modified in March 2006)
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the Wise Counsel of the Holy Spirit and by BORN AGAIN
THE PASSOVER
Leviticus 23:5 shows when the Passover occurred among the Israelites in Egypt:
23:5 In the 14th day of the first month, at evening, is the LORD’s Passover.
But 4 days before that, on the 10th day of that same first month, the Israelites in Egypt were to take a lamb without blemish from the flock (Exodus 12:3):
12:3 In the 10th day of the first} month they {the Israelites} shall take to them every man a lamb, a lamb for a house.
The Israelites were to keep this lamb alive until the 14th day of that first month (Exo.12:6):
12:6 You shall keep it {the lamb} up until the 14th day of the month.
And then they were to kill the lamb in the evening of the 14th day (Exo.12:6):
12:6 The whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it {the lamb} in the evening.
It is important to understand that the Israelites divided the 24-hour-day up differently than people in the West.
An Israelite yom or 24-hour-period began with a 12-hour evening&night which lasted until about 6 a.m. (probably also depending on the season).
And the second 12-hour-period of an Israelite yom began at 6 a.m. and lasted until sunset around 6 p.m. (depending on the season, when sunset was).
That is, an Israelite day or yom began with an evening/night at sunset around 3-6 p.m. (depending on the season) until 6 a.m, followed the morning/day portion of the same Israelite day or yom which lasted until sunset, when that Israelite day or yom ended and a new day or yom began at sunset with an evening, followed by the morning/day of that second Israelite day or yom. By contrast, Western days begin and end at midnight.
Once the above is understood about Israelite days, it must next be determined which evening was meant in Exo.12:6 which said:
12:6 The whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it {the lamb} in the evening.
Was the lamb killed on the evening or at the sunset which followed the morning/day of the 13th day, at the sunset which began the evening portion of the next or 14th day?
Or was the lamb killed on the evening or at the sunset which followed the morning/day portion of the 14th day or yom, at the sunset which began the evening portion of the next or 15th day?
The 14th day is Passover Day and the 15th day is the the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Leviticus 23:5
In the 14th day of the first month at evening is the LORD's passover.
Deuteronomy 16:1
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to the LORD your God: for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.
Leviticus 23:27,32, while discussing the Day of Atonement Feast, shows that the evening which preceded the Feast was meant in the above case:
23:27 On the 10th day of the 7th month shall be a Day of Atonement.
23:32 It {this 10th day of the 7th month} shall be a Sabbath and you shall afflict your souls; in the 9th day of the month at evening, from evening unto evening, shall you celebrate your Sabbath.
Lev.23:27,32 thus shows that the Day of Atonement Feast began at sunset which ended the morning/day portion of the 9th day at sunset and that began the evening portion of the 10th day, followed by the morning/day portion of the 10th day which ended at sunset which began the evening portion of the 11th day, which vs.23:32 calls from evening to evening.
Likewise, after the morning/day, at sunset ended the morning/day portion of the 13th day and began the evening portion of the 14th day which was Passover.
First started the evening/night portion of the 14th day or the Passover, followed by the morning/day portion of the 14th day which was Passover, until, at sunset, began the evening portion of the 15th day which was the Feast of of Unleavened Bread. Passover thus lasted from evening to evening, or from the sunset which ended the 13th day until the sunset which ended the 14th day, from evening to evening
So when Exo.12:6 said that the Israelites should kill the lamb in the evening, the evening or sunset which ended the 13th day and began the evening/night portion of the 14th day which was Passover. This was the evening/night in which Jesus ate the Passover with His disciples, as we shall see.
Exodus
12:6 And the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it {the lamb} in the evening {which ended the 13th day and began the 14th day}.
Deuteronomy 16:6 furthermore adds that the Passover was to be sacrificed at evening at the going down of the sun:
Deuteronomy 16
6 At the place which the LORD Your God shall choose, there shall you sacrifice the Passover, at evening at the going down of the sun…
The Passover lamb was killed on the evening or sunset which ended the 13th day and began the 14th yom evening/night, and the lamb also had to be eaten in that same evening/night which started the 14th day or Passover, as Numbers 9:11 says:
Numbers 9
11 Until the 14th day of the month at evening shall they keep it {the lamb} and eat it.
And Exo.12:10 further says that nothing of the lamb was to remain until morning:
Exodus 12
10 And you shall let nothing of {the lamb} remain until the morning; that which remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.
If any part of the lamb was not eaten during the evening/night which began the 14th day or Passover, then the rest of the lamb had to be burned sometime before the morning/day portion began of the 14th day.
And lastly, Exo.12:27 says that the meaning of the Passover was to commemorate the passing of the LORD over the houses of the children of Israel:
Exodus 12
27 It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s Passover who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt...
So this is what the children of Israel did at the start of Passover, at sunset which ended the 13th yom and which began the evening/night of the 14th yom.
They selected a lamb or kid without blemish of the sheep or goats on the 10th day of the first month which was Abib. They kept the lamb or kid alive with them until the sunset which ended the 13th yom and started the evening/night of the 14th yom of the first month of Abib.
On that evening which started the 14th day of the month of Abib, which was Passover, they killed the lamb or kid. They took of the blood and struck it on the sideposts and upper doorpost of the house in which they ate it. The flesh was roasted with fire and they ate all the flesh that evening/night which started the 14th yom, but they not allowed to break a bone of the lamb or kid.
They had to eat it with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs. They ate it with their loins girded and their shoes on and their staff in their hand; and they were to eat it in a hurry, at least have it all eaten before morning. If it looked like any flesh would remain until morning, they had to burn it before morning. That is how the children of Israel kept the Passover.
TO BE CONTINUED with THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD
BORN AGAIN
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