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Jesus the Messiah or Christ was killed on Passover day at about the 9th hour as counted by the Romans Luk 23:44-46.
The ninth hour corresponds to 3 pm by our reckoning. The body was immediately taken and placed in a tomb Luk 23:50-54,
so that this could be accomplished before the beginning of the First Day of Unleavened Bread, which is an annual Sabbath and
Holyday, which begins at sunset Luk 23:55-56. The Passover is also the preparation day for the Holyday beginning the
Feast of Unleavened Bread, therefore the body was entombed before that sunset which would begin that Holyday John 19:31-42.
Jesus said that the sign of His Messiahship was that he would be in the grave for three days and nights Mat 12:40.
Since He would be entombed for three days and nights and since He was buried shortly before sunset. He must be resurrected
and come out of His tomb just before sunset. The fact that those who came to the tomb on the morning of the first day
of the week found that He was already risen, is a clear indication that the scripture had been fulfilled and that He had risen
the previous evening, just before sunset, exactly three days and three nights after He was buried. As a slight aside
here; The first day of the week being Sunday was the day AFTER the Sabbath and their coming to the tomb to re-wrap the
body clearly indicates that they regarded Sunday as a COMMON WORK DAY. They were not willing to do this on the Sabbath
but were willing to work on Sunday. Jesus did NOT rise on Sunday, but was already risen and Sunday was considered a
COMMON WORK DAY by His disciples. The Sabbath as observed and taught by Jesus Christ was the seventh day, now called
Saturday and was not Sunday.
To find the day that Jesus died it is only necessary to count back, three days and
three nights from the time of His resurrection. Since He rose about six or seven pm on Saturday evening, counting back
would place His burial at about six or seven pm on the previous Wednesday and we know that He died about three pm on that
day. He was killed on Passover (see the PASSOVER and Calendar pages) and that evening began the annual Sabbath of the
First Day of Unleavened Bread, which fell on Thursday that year. The next day, Friday was the preparation day for the
weekly Sabbath, which falls on Saturday. His disciples went to the tomb on the next available COMMON WORK DAY Sunday
Luk 24:1 to re-wrap the body and found that He was ALREADY RISEN.
So we find in the scripture that Jesus was already
risen on Sunday morning and since He had been buried in the afternoon the resurrection had to have occurred on Saturday
afternoon. We find that counting back three days and nights He was buried on Wednesday afternoon and that He died
at about three pm Wednesday afternoon. We also find that Sunday was a COMMON WORK DAY and not a Sabbath. These
facts are not speculation or guesses, they are Holy Scripture.
THE WAVE SHEAF PRESENTATION
God COMMANDED
Moses that no one should eat anything from the new harvest in the Spring until the very first sheaf was cut and presented
to God Lev 23:14. On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover and the fifteenth day is the First Holyday of the
Feast of Unleavened Bread Lev 23;5-8. Then on the first day of the week, Sunday, the day AFTER the Sabbath, a sheaf
of the new harvest was to be cut and presented to God Lev 23;10-11.
During the days of the Tabernacle and the Temple,
the sheaf was cut, the grain winnowed and ground and baked without leaven and the loaf was lifted up before God and then brought
down again. This Wave Offering was to be presented to God to be ACCEPTED FOR YOU Lev 23:10.
When Mary
recognized Jesus in the garden, He said, Touch Me not for I have not yet ascended to My Father John 20:17. Later that
same day, still Sunday the day AFTER the Sabbath, came Jesus and stood in the midst of them John 20:19.
Yes, Sunday, the first day of the week, IS THE DAY AFTER THE SABBATH as kept by JESUS CHRIST! At this time He gave to
them all, His Holy Spirit John 20:22.
Jesus Christ was the First of the firstfruits of the New Covenant,
the Firstborn of many brethren Rom 8:29, 1 Cor 15:20. He died for our sins and His sacrifice was accepted for
us, by God (see the Passover page). As the Wave Sheaf was made without leaven, Jesus Christ was pure and Holy,
without the leaven of sin Heb 4:15. The Wave Sheaf was accepted for the people by God because of it's purity from
leaven and Jesus Christ was accepted as a perfect sacrifice for us because of His freedom from the leaven of sin. Jesus
was lifted up to be accepted by the Father even as the Wave Sheaf was lifted up to be accepted by the Father. Jesus
Christ ascended to the Father, to be ACCEPTED FOR US, on the same day as the Wave Offering was being presented to be accepted,
FOR US Lev 23:11, the first day of the week, the DAY AFTER THE SABBATH.
You shall count from the day
after the sabbath, the day of the Wave Offering, seven Sabbaths Lev 23:15-16 and on the day after the seventh Sabbath,
the fiftieth day, an offering of two loaves, baked WITH leaven shall be presented to God. This is the Feast of Pentecost,
which will be discussed in the near future. We shall begin counting weeks on the CURRENT EVENTS page, from this
coming Sunday 27 April 2008, the Wave Offering Day.
As the harvest could not begin until the first sheaf
had been presented to and been accepted by the Father, so the harvest of mankind could not begin until the True Firstfruit
of that harvest could be accepted by the Father, FOR US, in atonement for sin!
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