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Easter…

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Adoration of the Mystic Lamb on display in Ghent, Belgium


Read Exodus 12. Tenth of the month, lamb selection is Palm Sunday. Passover, Crucifixion was on the fourteenth. Check a calendar, try May. If the tenth is a Sunday then the fourteenth is a Thursday.

When the gentile believers decided on passion week traditions, they didn’t study the Torah but just the gospels.

Read Leviticus 23.
Just like Christmas is a day but also a season. Passover and unleavened bread get blurred in the vernacular.
In Lev 23 we see Passover, the next day starts the seven days of unleavened bread
  The first day is a day of no work, an annual feast Sabbath. During the seven days would be a weekly Sabbath. The day after, during the seven day feast, would be the feast of first fruits.

Now a biblical day starts at sundown, not midnight like our current calendar. See genesis 1 six times evening and morning is a day. Also Exodus 12 18 Leviticus 23 32 and Psalm 55

Wed night that year, translating to our calendar, was the last supper – a gallilean tradition worth researching. Thursday at 3 pm Messiah died just at the time of the Passover lamb
See John 19:31. Preparation day for an especially important Sabbath. Prep day is the day before. Luke 23:54 more general “a Sabbath”.
The men place Jesus in the tomb, the women go home and prepare spices (not realizing the men had them). They rested for 2 Sabbaths. Matthew 28 1 when literally translated says Sabbaths. This was translated out, people assumed it was a copy error.
Mark 16:1. Sat night after the Sabbath ( ends at sundown). The women go buy more spices. Verse 2 in the morning go to the tomb

Mark 16:9. Early on the first day, ie Sat night, He arose.

Thursday afternoon, 5th day Crucifixion to Sat night First day Resurrection.
3 days and 3 NIGHTS in the grave. 5th day, 6th night and day, 7th night and day, 1st night

He also arose on the third day (of unleavened bread).
He arose on first fruits. See 1 Corinthians 15
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It wasn’t about the day of the week but the 3 spring feasts of Leviticus 23. Pentecost fulfills Shavuot. The 3 fall feasts foreshadow the second coming.

Early first century believers kept Sabbath Acts 15 21 then met Sat night to honor the resurrection Acts 20:7.

The Cross

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The wounds on His head, hands, and feet each bear significance.  Easter (Resurrection Sunday) helps believers understand the significance of the crucifixion and what was accomplishd through the Christ’s death.

John 19:31-37  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 an high day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with Him.

But when they came to Jesus, and saw that He was dead already, they brake not His legs:

But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced His side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.

For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of Him shall not be broken.

And again another scripture saith, They shall look on Him whom they pierced.

    They wanted Jesus off the Cross because the next day was a high Sabbath (Passover day proper), followed by a regular Sabbath.

    This year Passover begins at Sundown, April 2nd making Friday a high Sabbath followed by a regular Sabbath.  Whenever we understand that He was Crucified on Thursday, the timeline makes far more sense than the way we traditionally look at Holy Week.

    His body is taken down by Joseph of Arimethia and Nicodemus at about 3pm and taken to the tomb, the time that the preparation for the Sabbath begins.

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