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There Is One God, Yahweh (YHWH), And One Mediator Between Yahweh And Men, The Man Yesu The Messiah (Jesus Christ). 1 Timothy 2:5
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE 3 NIGHTS & 3 DAYS OF THE MESSIAH'S DEATH & THE WAVE OFFERING DAY
Augustus Caesar died on August 19, 14 CE and his stepson Tiberius Caesar became the Roman Emperor. In the Fifteenth Year of Tiberius' reign (August 28 CE to August 29 CE), John the Baptist was preaching throughout the country of Jordan, about a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, Luke 3:1-20. Hence, John was preaching until 29 CE (Augustus' death in 14 CE + 15 years), and this was the year that Herod Antipas (the ruler of Galilee) had put John to death for shaming Herod about his adulterous affair and evil acts.
John the Baptist began his ministry sometime during the High Priesthood of Caiaphas, who was appointed High Priest in 18 CE. Caiaphas was assisted by his father-in-law Annas, who was a former High Priest from 6 CE to 15 CE, Luke 3:2, John 18:13, & John 18:24. Before John's imprisonment and execution, Yesu went to purify himself and John baptized Yesu the Messiah. The order of the priesthood changed hands at Yesu's baptism, from the order of Aaron (John) to the order of Melchizedek (Yesu), Hebrews 7:11-28. Yesu then began his ministry in the Fifteenth Year of Tiberius' reign (most likely in the Spring or near Pentecost of 29 CE) and he preached the same message as John, about a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins and about the Kingdom of Heaven, Matthew 4:17, 28:19, Luke 4:15-21, & John 3:22, 3:26.
Six days before the First Day of Unleavened Bread (Passover), that is on the Tenth Day of the month of Abib, Yesu went to Bethany to purify himself, and he was anointed in preparation for offering himself as the sacrifice for the sins of the world:
John 12:1-7 (1) Six days before the Passover, Yesu came to Bethany, where Laz'arus was, whom Yesu had raised from the dead. (2) There they made him a supper; Martha served, and Laz'arus was one of those at table with him. (3) Mary took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Yesu and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. (4) But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was to betray him), said, (5) "Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?" (6) This he said, not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box he used to take what was put into it. (7) Yesu said, "Let her alone, let her keep it for the day of my burial.
Exodus 12:3-6 (3) Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they shall take every man a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household; (4) and if the household is too small for a lamb, then a man and his neighbor next to his house shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. (5) Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old; you shall take it from the sheep or from the goats; (6) and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs in the evening.
The Israelites had also purified themselves before the Passover, on the 10th day of the month of Abib:
Joshua 3:5 And Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow YHWH will do wonders among you."
Joshua 4:19 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.
Even the Jews and the disciples were purified before the First Day of Unleavened Bread (The Passover):
John 11:55 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
John 13:5-11 (5) Then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded. (6) He came to Simon Peter; and Peter said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?" (7) Yesu answered him, "What I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand." (8) Peter said to him, "You shall never wash my feet." Yesu answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part in me." (9) Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!" (10) Yesu said to him, "He who has bathed does not need to wash, Except For His Feet, but he is clean all over; and you are clean, but not every one of you." (11) For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, "You are not all clean."
In the Holy Scriptures, the Day of Preparation refers to the day before the Sabbath, both the Weekly Sabbaths and the Annual High Sabbaths. The book of Mark tells us that Yesu was executed on the Day of Preparation, and the book of John explains that the following day was a High Sabbath, the First Day of Unleavened Bread. This particular year, the High Sabbath (i.e. the First Day of Unleavened Bread) fell on the Weekly Sabbath:
Mark 15:42 And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
John 19:31 Since it was the day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a High Day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Yesu Offered Himself as the Sacrificial Lamb, to make atonement for the sins of the world, and he was the First and the Last Human Offering made to YHWH:
Hebrews 7:27 Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself.
John 1:29 The next day he saw Yesu coming toward him, and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
The Holy Scriptures describe the events that occurred after Yesu Offered Himself as the Sin Offering (Hebrews 7:27 & 10:12), i.e. the darkening of the earth in the middle of the day, from the sixth to the ninth hour, and the earthquakes that followed. The Book of Jubilees also shows that the Passover lambs were killed when there was "No Daylight," and it confirms Exodus 12:6 that the lambs were killed on the Fourteenth Day "After Sunset:"
Jubilees XLIX:12. And it is not permissible to slay it during any period of the light, but during the period bordering on the evening, and let them eat it at the time of the evening until the third part of the night, and whatever is leftover of all its flesh from the third part of the night and onwards, let them burn it with fire.
Exodus 12:6 And you shall Keep it until the Fourteenth Day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall Kill their lambs in the Evening.
Isaiah 53:4-12 (4) Surely he has borne our sorrows and carried our grief; but we considered him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. (5) But he was slain for our sins, he was afflicted for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his wounds we are healed. (6) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and YHWH has laid on him the sins of us all. (7) He drew near and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as an ewe before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. (8) He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who can describe his anguish? For he was cut off out of the land of the living; and some of the evil men of my people struck him. (9) He made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; although he had done no iniquity, neither was there any deceit in his mouth.
(10) Yet it pleased YHWH to afflict him; he has put him to grief; "He Laid Down His Life As An Offering For Sin," that posterity may see, and his days shall be prolonged, and the pleasure of YHWH shall prosper in his hand. (11) He shall see the reward of the travail of his soul, and be satisfied with the knowledge; he shall justify the righteous; for he is a servant of many, and he shall bear their sins. (12) Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he has poured out his life to death; and was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and died the death of transgressors.
Amos 8:7-10 (7) YHWH has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their deeds. (8) "Shall not the land tremble on this account, and every one mourn who dwells in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?" (9) "And on that day," says the Lord YHWH, "I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight. (10) I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day."
Matthew 27:45-46 (45) Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. (46) And about the ninth hour Yesu cried with a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, la'ma sabach-tha'ni?" that is, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
Mark 15:33-34 (33) And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. (34) And at the ninth hour Yesu cried with a loud voice, "E'lo-i, E'lo-i, la'ma sabach-tha'ni?" which means, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
Luke 23:44-46 (44) It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, (45) while the sun's light failed; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two. (46) Then Yesu, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!" And having said this he breathed his last.
Matthew 27:50-54 (50) And Yesu cried again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. (51) And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom; and the earth shook, and the rocks were split; (52) the tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, (53) and coming out of the tombs "After His Resurrection" they went into the holy city and appeared to many. (54) When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Yesu saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe, and said, "Truly this was the Son of God!"
The historical writings of Phlegon of Tralles provide evidence that the year of Yesu's death was in 33 CE. He explains that an "extraordinary eclipse" took place in the fourth year of the 202nd Olympiad (June of 32 CE to June of 33 CE) and that the darkening of the earth was caused by something greater then just the moon's shadow, and he also describes the major earthquakes that followed. Phlegon was a Greek writer who wrote about the Olympic Games for the Roman Emperor Hadrian (76-138 CE). He wrote sixteen books about the Olympic Games, which began on the Full Moon closest to the Summer Solstice, from the 1st Olympiad down to the 229th Olympiad (776 BCE to 137 CE). In his thirteenth book, "Olympiades he Chronika," he states the following:
Now, in the fourth year of the 202nd Olympiad a great eclipse of the sun occurred at the sixth hour that excelled every other before it, turning the day into such darkness of night that the stars could be seen in heaven, and the earth moved in Bithynia, toppling many buildings in the city of Nicaea.
The Cronicles of Eusebius provide additional evidence that the crucifixion occurred at the beginning of 33 CE in the Hebrew Calendar. Eusebius of Caesarea finished writing his two volume Chronicles in 325 CE, and the first part gives the History (Chronographia) and the second part gives the Timeline (Chronikoi Kanones) of events that occurred from the birth of Abraham up until the First Council of Nicaea. Alfred Schoene translated the Armenian version into Latin (Eusebi Chronicorum libri I, II. Berlin: Weidmann. 1866 and 1875) and the Timeline states that Yesu was crucified in the 19th year of Tiberius' reign (August 32 CE to August 33 CE), which is 2048 years from the time of Abraham, See Olympiad Timeline :
[2048] Jesus Christ, in accordance with the prophecies which were spoken about him, went to his passion in the 19th year of Tiberius, and we have found the following things written about this year in the histories of the Greeks: there was an eclipse of the sun, Bithynia was devastated by an earthquake, and many buildings in the city of Nicaea were destroyed. All this coincides with the events of the passion of our Saviour. Phlegon, in the 13th book of his admirable account of the Olympiads, writes about this as follows: "In the fourth year of the 202nd Olympiad, there was an eclipse of the sun, greater than any which had occurred previously. At the sixth hour, the day became as dark as night, and the stars were visible in the sky. An earthquake in Bithynia destroyed many buildings in Nicaea." Proof that the passion of our Saviour happened in this year is provided by the gospel of John, who write that our Lord taught for three years after the 15th year of Tiberius. And Josephus, the native historian of the Jews, relates that around this time, on the day of Pentecost, first the priests noticed some movement and noise, and then a voice suddenly burst forth from the innermost sanctuary of the temple, saying "Let us move out of here". Josephus also says that in the same year the governor Pilatus secretly by night set up some statues of Caesar in the temple where it was not right for them to be, and this was the first cause of rebellion and disturbances amongst the Jews. Flaccus Avulius, the governor of Alexandria and Egypt, proposed to Tiberius many plots against the Jews.
In reviewing the First Century astronomical records at NASA (National Aeronautics And Space Administration), the data shows that there was a Full Moon on Friday, April, 3, 33 CE. This is the only date in the first fifty years of the first century that coincides with the historical accounts of Phlegon of Tralles and Eusebius of Caesarea, regarding the Fourth Year of the 202nd Olympiad and the Nineteenth Year of Tiberius' reign, which were in 32 CE to 33 CE, and also the New Testament accounts that tell the day of the week that the crucifixion and resurrection took place, i.e. the Preparation Day (Friday), John 19:31, and arising from grave on the First Day of the Week (Sunday), John 20:1.
Based on these facts, we have estimated that Yesu died in the year 33 CE. The Dark Moon (Conjunction) was on Thursday, March 19, 33 CE, at 3:40 p.m. Jerusalem time (a "Total Solar Eclipse" took place this day ). The Crescent New Moon was either sighted on Friday, March 20, 33 CE or March 20th was consecrated the 30th day of the month. New Years Day was on Saturday, March 21, 33 CE (on the Crescent New Moon); Passover was on on Friday, April, 3, 33 CE , on the Full Moon (a "Partial Lunar Eclipse" took place this day), at 7:37 p.m. Jerusalem time (shortly after the sunset at 6:00 p.m.), on the 14th Day of the First Month and the day that Yesu Offered Himself as a Sacrifice for the Sins of the World; the First Day of Unleavened Bread was on Saturday, April 4, 33 CE (on the High Sabbath); the Wave Offering, where our High Priest Yesu "Offered Up himself to YHWH as the Firstfruit of the Dead," was on Sunday, April 5, 33 CE (on the First Day of the week) which was the day after the High Sabbath and was the Second Day of Yesu's death, and the Second Day of Unleavened Bread, and the 16th Day Of The Month; and after the three nights and three days had ended, Yesu Ascended to our Father on the Fourth Day, Tuesday, April 7, 33 CE, as shown in the chart below.
Now, there are two very important Scriptures that are always overlooked in determining the Day of the Wave Offering. The first one is John 20:8-9, that shows that the disciples were surprised to see the tomb empty on the Second Day of Unleavened Bread, (the 16th day of the month) which was the First Day of the Week (Sunday):
John 20:8-9 (8) Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; (9) for as yet "They Did Not Know The Scripture," that he must Rise from the dead.,
The Scriptures that the disciples "Did Not Know" or understand was Hosea 6:1-3, which explains what happened. YHWH released Yesu from death soon after the tomb was sealed, on the First Day of Passover (the High Sabbath), and Yesu went to preach to the dead people about repentance and the Kingdom of God. On the Second Day of Passover (the 16th day of the month), YHWH revived the dead people who had repented. Hosea said that this took place on the on the Second Day, which was the Second Day of Unleavened Bread and was the Wave Offering Day, and was the day after the High Sabbath of Passover:
Hosea 6:1-3 (1) In their affliction they will seek Me early, saying, Come, let us return to YHWH our God, for it is He who hath torn and He can heal us. He can smite, and into our wounds He can pour balm; (2) In two days He can restore us to health; on the third day we shall be raised up and live before Him. (3) Let us acknowledge, Let us continue our pursuit to know YHWH; sure as the morning we shall find Him. He will come like rain for us; like the former and latter rain for the earth.
Soon after the tomb was sealed, at the beginning of the First Day of Unleavened Bread (Passover), YHWH released Yesu from death. The Scriptures tell us that Death had no power over Yesu and he could not be held by it:
Acts 2:24 But God raised him up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
Acts 2:31 He foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
Psalms 16:10 Because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay.
During the first night and first day after his death, Yesu went to Hades (the underworld and abode of the departed souls) and he preached to the people who were dead, including the two thieves that were crucified with him:
Luke 23:42-43 (42) And he said, "Yesu, remember me when you come into your kingdom." (43) And he said to him, "Truly, I say to you, TODAY you will be with me in the Abode of the Souls."
1 Peter 4:6 For this reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
Yesu was the First of the Great Harvest to be raised from the dead:
1 Corinthians 15:20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
Yesu, our High Priest, then "Offered Up himself to YHWH as the Firstfruit of the Dead" on the Morning After the First Day of Unleavened Bread, which was on the 16th Day of the Month and the Second Day of Unleavened Bread:
Leviticus 23:11 And he shall Offer Up the Sheaf before YHWH, to be accepted for you, On the "Morrow After the First Day," the priest shall Offer This Up.
The First Day of Unleavened Bread was known as the Passover, as they ate the Passover Lamb with unleavened bread made from the "Old Grain" on the evening beginning the 15th Day, and any left over meat and old grain bread would be burned before the Morning of the 16th Day (Exodus 12:8-10, 23:18, *29:34, & Deuteronomy 16:4). This is because on the Morning of the 16th Day, the Priest Waved the Offering of the "New Harvest," and after the Offering was made, the people celebrated the remaining "SIX DAYS" of the Feast by eating unleavened bread made of the "New Grain." The ancient Israelites also ate of the New Grain of the land of Canaan beginning on the "16th Day" of the Month of Abib (which is the Wave Offering Day that begins the Omer Count), and on this "Same Day" the manna had ceased coming from heaven:
Deuteronomy16:8 For "SIX DAYS" you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to YHWH your God; you shall do no work on it.
Joshua 5:11-12 (11) And "On the Morrow After the Passover," on that Very Day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain. (12) And the Manna Ceased on the Morrow, when they ate of the produce of the land; and the people of Israel had manna no more, but ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
Exodus 23:15 You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread; as I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for "Seven Days" at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear before me empty-handed.
Exodus 34:18 The feast of unleavened bread you shall keep. "Seven Days" you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.
Yesu did not only die for the sins of humanity, but he also died for the sins of the fallen angels, who he was with before the creation of man. The purpose of Yesu's death was to reconcile "All Things," (in heaven, on earth and under the earth) to our Father YHWH:
John 6:62 Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending "Where he was Before?"
Colossians 1:19-20 (19) For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, (20) and through Yesu to reconcile "All Things" to YHWH, by him, whether things on earth or "Things in Heaven," having made peace through the blood of his cross.
1 John 2:2 And Yesu himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the "Whole World."
John 3:16 For YHWH so loved the World that He gave His only begotten son, that "Whoever" believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Philippians 2:10 that at the name of Yesu every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
This is why, during the three nights and three days, Yesu also went to preach to the fallen angels whom YHWH has chained up in darkness, in the heart of the earth:
1 Peter 3:18-20 (18) For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit; (19) in which he went and preached to the Spirits in Prison, (20) who formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.
2 Peter 2:4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be "reserved for judgment;"
Jude 1:6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness "for the judgment of the Great Day;"
Philippians 2:9-10 Therefore God also has highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Yesu every knee should bow, "of Those IN HEAVEN, and of Those ON EARTH, and of Those UNDER THE EARTH,"
When Mary saw Yesu at the tomb at dawn, on the Second Day of Passover (the Wave Offering Day), which was the First Day of the Week that year, Yesu told her not to come near him, as he had to present himself holy and clean to God, the Father:
John 20:17 Yesu said to her, "Do not come near me; for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I AM ASCENDING to "my Father" and your Father, and "my God" and your God."
After showing himself to many people, Yesu then Ascended to the Father after the Third Day had ended:
Matthew 12:40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Hosea 6:2 In two days He can restore us to health; on the third day we shall be raised up and live before Him.
After the third day, YHWH released all the dead people from their graves, the ones that Yesu preached to who had Repented, and they were seen by many people in Jerusalem:
Matthew 27:51-53 (51) Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, (52) and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; (53) and coming out of the graves after his resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
Hosea 6:2 In two days He can restore us to health; on the third day we shall be raised up and live before Him:
The date of Yesu’s death, on Friday, April 3, 33 CE, also agrees with the prophecy in Daniel 9:24. Daniel said that their would be an end to the transgression of the Law and atonement would be made for the inequity. This took place under Ezra the Priest, in 458 BCE, when Ezra put an end to the Israelites taking pagan wives. Daniel also said that there would be seventy weeks of years, that is 490 years, until the Anointing of the Messiah:
Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to Anoint the Most Holy.
Ezra 10:3 Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the Commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the Law.
John 12:1-3 (1) Six days before the Passover, Yesu came to Bethany, where Laz'arus was, whom Yesu had raised from the dead. (2) There they made him a supper; Martha served, and Laz'arus was one of those at table with him. (3) Mary took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Yesu and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
The word for "week/s" in Hebrew is "shabuwa," which means a "period of seven" (seven complete days or seven complete years). The seventy weeks spoken of in Daniel 9:24 means "Seventy Periods of Seven," which is 70 times 7 or 490 years. Leviticus 25:8 is an example of how this is determined:
Leviticus 25:8 And you shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
So, from the time that Ezra the Priest put out all the pagan wives in 458 BCE, to the time that Yesu the Messiah was Anointed (six days before his death, John 12:1-7) at the beginning of 33 CE, was exactly 490 Years (458 years in BCE plus 32 years in CE), which is Daniel's Seventy Weeks.
Some try to use Daniel 9:27 to justify a Wednesday crucifixion, claiming that "the middle of the week" means it took place on a Wednesday, which is an incorrect interpretation:
Daniel 9:27 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for "One Week;" But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate."
As we have shown previously, the Hebrew word "week/s" means a "period of seven" (seven complete days or seven complete years). Since with YHWH, "One Complete Day is as 1,000 years completed," then with YHWH "One Complete Week" is as 7,000 years completed, and the Middle of One Complete Week is as 4,000 years completed:
2 Peter 3:8 But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord One Day is as a Thousand Years, and a Thousand Years as One Day.
Daniel 9:27 is saying that YHWH had confirmed a covenant with His people for 7,000 years, and in the middle of the 7,000 years (at the end of the 4,000 year mark), He will put an end to His commanded sacrifices and offerings. Yesu the Messiah's death was the Last Sacrifice and Offering made to YHWH, and he was sacrificed and "Offered Up As The Firstfruit" in the middle of the YHWH’s great week of 7,000 years. In other words, from the creation of Adam to the death of Yesu, on April 3, 33 CE, 4,000 years had passed, which was in the Midst of YHWH’s great week. We are now approaching the end of the 6,000th year in YHWH's great week, when Yesu will return and the "Millennial Sabbath Rest" will begin.
In addition, if the crucifixion had occurred on a Wednesday, then Thursday would have been the High Sabbath of Passover (the First Day of Unleavened Bread), and Friday would have been the day after the High Sabbath, and the women could have gone to the tomb to Anoint Yesu's body on Friday, but "They Did Not." There was No Reason to "Not Anoint Yesu On Friday," if the crucifixion was on a Wednesday.
Mark 16:1 and Luke 24:1 tell us that the women went to anoint Yesu's body at dawn on the First Day of the Week (Sunday), after the High Day of Passover, which was on Saturday that year. The book of John clarifies this point by telling us that this particular Sabbath was also a "High Day" (the First Day of Passover). This shows that the crucifixion was on a Friday, and that Yesu returned to our Father three days later, on a Tuesday:
Mark 16:1-2 (1) And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Mag'dalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salo'me, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. (2) And very early on the First Day of the Week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen.
Luke 24:1 But on the First Day of the Week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices which they had prepared.
John 19:31 Since it was the day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a High Day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
We have estimated that Yesu was about 40 years of age at the time of his death. Yesu was born near the beginning of Spring in 7 BCE. After the 40 day purification period (Lev. 12:1-4), Joseph and Mary brought Yesu to present him and their offerings to YHWH at the temple in Jerusalem, Luke 2:22-24, and soon after they fled to Egypt, as Herod The Great sought out to kill Yesu, Matthew 2:13-15. They lived in Egypt for almost 3.5 years, Revelation 12:4-6, and returned to Palestine after Herod died in 4 BCE, Matthew 2:19-23.
According to the events recorded in Flavius Josephus' Antiquities Of The Jews, Book 17, Chapters 6-9, Herod The Great died not long after the Autumn Festivals, i.e. the Fast of Yom Kippur and the First Day of Sukkot where a "Total Lunar Eclipse" occurred on September 15, 4 BCE at 10:10 p.m. Jerusalem time. Josephus also states that, during this day, Matthias and others were executed for pulling down the golden eagle off of the Great Gate of the Temple and for chopping it into pieces with axes:
Josephus 17:6:4 Now it happened, that during the time of the high priesthood of this Matthias, there was another person made high priest for a single day, that very day which the Jews observed as a Fast. The occasion was this: This Matthias the high priest, on the night before that day when the Fast was to be celebrated, seemed, in a dream, to have conversation with his wife; and because he could not officiate himself on that account, Joseph, the son of Ellemus, his kinsman, assisted him in that sacred office. But Herod deprived this Matthias of the high priesthood, and burnt the other Matthias, who had raised the sedition, with his companions, alive. And that very night there was an eclipse of the moon.
Herod's death was in the Autumn of 4 BCE. Adding the 3.5 years that Yesu spent in Egypt to this time brings us to Yesu's birth near the Spring of 7 BCE. Yesu died on the Full Moon of April 3, 33 CE, so from his birth near the beginning of 7 BCE to his death at the beginning of 33 CE, plus "Year Zero," would make him 40 years of age at the time of his death, See Olympiad Timeline. The number 40 is very significant in bible history and signifies a period of testing and purification followed by a period of renewal.
There is also further evidence that Yesu was born near the Spring of 7 BCE, near the New Year, as a Census was taken in 8 BCE. Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem to be counted for the census at the end of 8 BCE. Augustus Caesar took three census’ during his reign, one in 28 BCE, one in 8 BCE, and one in 14 CE, according to his own statement, which is documented below:
Lectio Senatvs and Censvs under Avgvstvs [Lectio Senatus and Census under Augustus] E. G. Hardy, The Classical Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Jan.,1919), pp. 43-49, Cambridge University Press.
In the Mon. Ancyr. II. 2-11 Augustus makes four statements: (1) He carried out a lectio senatus on three occasions. (2) He held a census in his sixth consulship (28 B.C.) with Agrippa as his colleague, and completed the lustrum after an interval of forty-two years, the number of citizens registered being four millions and sixty-three thousand. (3) He completed a second lustrum in 8.B.C. invested with the consular imperium and without a colleague, the number of citizens having increased by one hundred and seventy thousand. (4) He completed a third lustrum in 14 A.D. again invested with the consular imperium, but with Tiberius as his colleague, the number of citizens having again increased by seven hundred and four thousand.
That Augustus held a census in the three years specified must be accepted as beyond doubt, although no record remains beyond his own statement of that in 8 B.C. It cannot be asserted with equal certainty that no census was begun or contemplated at any other date, but it is impossible to believe that, if another lustrum had been completed,, Augustus would have suppressed it.
As we diligently preach the good news of our Father YHWH's soon coming Kingdom, we await Yesu's return to gather his elect to establish the Kingdom of our Father YHWH here on the earth:
Exodus 23:20-21 (20) Behold, I send a messenger before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. (21) Take heed of him, and harken to his voice, exasperate him not; for he will not bear your trespasses, for My Name Is In Him:
Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
Luke 21: 25-28 (25) And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, (26) men fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. (27) And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. (28) Now when these things begin to take place, look up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.
Revelation 3:10-12 (10) Because you have kept my word of patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial which is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell upon the earth. (11) I am coming soon; hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown. (12) He who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.
Revelation 5:9-10 (9) and they sang a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the scroll and to open its seals, for thou wast slain and by thy blood didst ransom men for God from every tribe and tongue and people and nation, (10) and hast made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on earth.
Revelation 20:4-6 (4) Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom judgment was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Yesu and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (5) The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. (6) Blessed and holy is he who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they shall reign a thousand years.
Read straight down the columns below to understand the three day events and the related Scriptures, and also view the Pictures below of the location of the Crucifixion and Burial Site: