In the
crucifixion account and the forty days following Yahshua’s resurrection,
there are some wonderful testimonies regarding the true sabbath. But in order to see them, we have to
accurately lay out the true account of what took place. We will spend considerable time here,
in fact the bulk of the remaining writing, but the information will be quite
valuable.
There are
many ideas proposed as to when Yahshua’s crucifixion occurred, but there
are numerous critical elements that all have to exist, and many ignore
these. The reason for these
requirements is because the Scripture’s accounts set them forth;
therefore, they must all be incorporated.
We will list these here, and then throughout the remainder of the
writing address each one.
As you can see,
with these standards, Yahshua could never have been crucified on
Christianity’s traditional Friday, followed by the sabbath, and resurrect
on a Sunday. First, there are not
three days and three nights.
Second, since Saturday was the sabbath, they could not have bought
spices. And third, as you will
see, it specifically states that the women went to the tomb “on one of
the sabbaths,” and Sunday was not a sabbath. Thus, Christianity’s claims are entirely false.
Now that we
have laid out all of these critical elements, let us consider each one. Some of these can be addressed quite
briefly, and yet some are quite involved and take lengthy examination.
This matter
will not be examined extensively, though it obviously could be a writing in and
of itself. However, other writings
here have addressed these points, so all that will be mentioned here are the
conclusions.
There are two
main points that tie the crucifixion to this year. First, as addressed in Shelah and
Clay of Spittle, pages 4 and
5,
Daniel 9:24-27 address what has been falsely called “Daniel’s
seventy weeks.” These
passages are some of the most blatantly erroneous translations of the scriptures
that exist in the Bible. The true
name for these passages should be “Daniel’s seventy sevens.”
As addressed
in Shelah and Clay of Spittle, we find the following fulfillment of these
seventy periods of, what are, seven years. The beginning date of 458 B.C. is the decree of Artaxerxes
to “establish the law of your God,” an act that would “adorn
the house of Yahweh” (Ezra 7:25-27). Most notably, this decree was at the completion of the
seventieth Jubilee waiting period from the fall of Adam, or 70 x 49 years. From Shelah and Clay of Spittle we find:
Periods of Seven |
Number of Years |
Years in History |
Seven periods of seven |
7 x 7 years = 49 years |
458 BC – 409 BC |
Sixty-two periods of seven |
62 x 7 years = 434 years |
409 BC – 26 AD |
One period of seven |
1 x 7 years = 7 years |
26 AD – 33 AD |
As you see
here, the promised seven years in which “He (Messiah the Prince) will
prevail in the covenant” (Daniel 9:27), is the concluding seventieth period
and ends in 33 A.D., undoubtedly the year of the crucifixion of Messiah the Prince.
This very
significant year of 33 A.D. is also dramatically evidenced in the larger
picture of the Jubilee waiting periods in that forty Jubilee waiting periods
from Adam’s fall leads one to Abraham at the age of nineteen, the age of
those who entered the promised land.
Forty more Jubilee waiting periods places one at 33 A.D., or
Yahshua’s crucifixion. And
another forty Jubilee waiting periods places one at 1993 A.D. This would mark the end of 120 Jubilee
waiting periods from Adam’s fall, placing the beginning of Jubilee in
1994. (Read the book, The Curse
of 1920, Appendix 10.)
This last
period of forty Jubilee waiting periods which came about because of the events
in 33 A.D., including Yahshua’s crucifixion and Pentecost, are the forty
periods of time in which the church has been in the great and terrible
wilderness (Deuteronomy 8:15), or as Stephen called them, “the church in
the wilderness” (lit. of Acts 7:38).
Thus we see
mandated by Yahweh’s sovereign governmental order set forth in time, that
Yahshua’s crucifixion had to be at the end of the eightieth Jubilee
waiting period, even the completion of Daniel’s seventy sevens. So we can say that the first
requirement is that the crucifixion must fit the timing and moon requirements
for a Passover specifically in 33 A.D.
Now for the next requirement:
In Matthew
12:39-40, Yahshua clearly declared:
“An
evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign; and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah
the prophet; for just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of
the sea monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in
the heart of the earth.”
And likewise,
in Matthew 20:18-19 we read His additional declaration:
“Behold,
we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief
priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death, and will hand Him over
to the Gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify Him, and on the third day He will be raised up.”
What you just
read is an oft-repeated statement, recorded twelve times in the New
Testament. Obviously, these clear
statements do not fit with Christianity’s three-day scenario with a
Sunday resurrection, so they have to come up with all kinds of contorted faulty
reasoning in order to disregard them.
Even the men on the road to Emmaus confirmed this requirement as
recorded in Luke 24:21:
But we were hoping that it was He who was going to
redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, it is the third day since these things
happened.
One can try
to skirt the “third day” with mental contortions, but the
“three days and three nights” cannot be compromised. If one is committed to believe
otherwise, they can only whisk it away.
But, if one is committed to taking the Scriptures for what they say and
seeking the truth, that passage and its timing must stand. And as you will see, this is the only
sequence that will truly work, and greatly prophesies. Anything less falls short. Yahweh is government, and government is
rigid and cannot be compromised.
Thus, whatever crucifixion sequence is resolved, Yahshua must be in the
grave three days and three nights, even as He said.
Before we lay
out these required days, let us now add the next two required criteria.
One of the
outstandingly compelling and confirming testimonies regarding the true sabbath
and the validity of the Millennial Calendar is revealed in Yahshua’s
crucifixion. At that time, Yahweh
had blinded the Jews so that they believed that the Passover was not on the
fourteenth, but on the fifteenth.
This came from their error that the day began in the evening. With this false standard, yet knowing
that the Passover lamb was to be slain on the fourteenth, the Jews falsely
regarded that the evening when they ate the Passover lamb was the beginning of
the fifteenth. Thus, they regarded
the next day as Passover (John 19:31).
The truth was, the lamb was to be killed on Passover on the fourteenth,
and it remained Passover until the next morning. The true day is reckoned from sunrise to sunrise.
So why would
Yahweh blind the Jews to this truth?
Because, one, they were in the flipped dark-first period. But also, as it is written in John
19:14, it was necessary so as to insure that Yahshua was crucified on Passover
when the lambs would be slain. If
the Jews had known that the fourteenth was in fact Passover, they would never
have crucified Yahshua on that day; so Yahweh blinded their eyes to this
fact. Let us go ahead and lay out
the days from the crucifixion to the resurrection so that we can further
consider these set requirements.
In the year
33 A.D., on the fourteenth day of the first month, Yahshua was crucified as our
Passover Lamb. As you saw in
section two, “The Calendar,” on the Passover-first Millennial
Calendar, this was in fact the true seventh-day sabbath, or Wednesday. But consistent with all the ways of the
Jews, they acknowledged Saturday as their sabbath. (More on this later.)
The next day,
the fifteenth, or Thursday, was Passover for the Jews, a holy convocation
sabbath. Friday, the sixteenth,
was not a rest day, so all the shops would have been open. But then the next day, Saturday, the
seventeenth, was the Jews’ seventh-day sabbath when Yahshua resurrected
from the dead “on the third day.” The practice of these days being according to the custom of
the Jews is confirmed in passages such as John 2:13 where it specifically
states that “the Passover of the Jews was near.” This is found in other like passages in John where it
addresses feasts as “the feast of the Jews.”
The Jews had their own modified ways of doing things, and Yahweh used
this for His purposes. Thus we see
the following chronology:
Very
importantly, this chronology is confirmed in Mark 16:1-2. Here again, we have to reckon with that
which is written and follow it.
This account picks up on Thursday, after Yahshua’s crucifixion and
burial on Wednesday. In a more
literal translation, we read:
When
the sabbath [of the Jews’ Passover, Thursday] was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices [Friday], so that they might come and anoint Him. Very early on one of the [Jews’]
sabbaths [Saturday], they came
to the tomb as the sun rose.
Thus you have
this vital congruent chronology:
These events
clearly account for the two sabbaths separated by a non-sabbath,
Yahshua’s resurrection on a sabbath, as well as His required three days
and three nights in the grave – Wednesday afternoon (3:00) and night,
Thursday and Thursday night, Friday and Friday night, and Saturday
morning.
Briefly,
someone might want to argue that when the sun set on the day after
Yahshua’s crucifixion, the women could have bought spices then. But not so, for it specifically says
that they went to the tomb on one of the sabbaths; therefore, that evening
would have been the beginning of yet another sabbath – a seventh-day
sabbath. So they still could not
have purchased the spices. The
only way they could have bought spices was if there was a break in the
sabbaths, requiring an open day.
Continue to
page 5 of The New Millennial Calendar for THE RESURRECTION