THE GOOD FRIDAY MYTH: YOU DO THE MATH PART 2

Exodus chapter 12







Today we are walking in: The Good Friday Myth Part 2







Today we look to the word-DAY- H3117 yowm--day, time, year, as a division of time, as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1, as a division of time









The Torah testifies.........……







Deuteronomy 11:21




That your days H3117 may be multiplied, and the days H3117 of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days H3117 of heaven upon the earth.












The prophets proclaim..................






Nehemiah 8:11




So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day H3117 is holy; neither be ye grieved.














The writings bear witness............






Psalm 90:12




So teach us to number our days, H3117 that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.







One can imagine that Mary (the mother of James) asked Mary Magdalene, “Who would roll away the stone?” as they approached the tomb, since Mary Magdalene had not mentioned that she had been there earlier and saw the empty grave. Then she went and told the disciples that she saw the angel and saw Yahusha. What any reader should realize is that the Holy Spirit gave us the four gospels with fragments of the story in each, and it takes a study of all together, to arrive at the complete picture. The following verse clearly shows us that Mary Magdalene came to the grave as the weekly Sabbath was ending.




(Matthew) 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first [day] of the week, came Miryam (Mary) Magdalene and the other Miryam (Mary) to see the sepulchre.




Bishop Papias was an early church bishop in Syria and he wrote that the book of Matthew was originally written in Aramaic, and then translated into Greek by the apostles. Irenaeus and Clement also mentioned seeing the original Aramaic of the book of Matthew.




We have some precedence and evidence that at least some of the New Testament books were first written in Aramaic, and translated by the apostles into Greek, and Matthew is one of them. I say all of this because the Aramaic of Matthew 28:1 is much clearer than the Greek. A literal, word for word translation of the Aramaic directly to English is as follows (commas separate meaning of each word):




(Matthew) 28:1 “…in the evening, at Sabbath, when went up, the beginning (the dawning), belonging, to the last of, in the Sabbath, arrived, Miryam, the Magdalene, and Miryam, the different (the other), came to see, the tomb (the grave).”




It is obvious by repeating “The Sabbath” twice, that it is making the point that it was at twilight that Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to the tomb. By stressing “The last of the Sabbath,” the verse drives home the point that this was Saturday evening, but that the twilight period still belonged to the Sabbath.




There were no streetlights then, and no flashlights, so if the full moon had not yet risen, then when it got dark, it got really dark, really fast. The two Mary’s had just enough time to look around and leave. No one can read the Peshitta Aramaic of Matthew 28:1 and mistake it for any other understanding than that the Mary’s arrived at the tomb at twilight on Saturday evening and the stone had already been rolled away.




Why didn’t the two Mary’s try to anoint the body of Yahusha on Friday, since they had prepared the spices and perfumes on Friday before the weekly Sabbath began? It is because in Matthew 27:62-66, Pilate had given the Roman order to have the grave sealed on Thursday morning, and they had put the Roman seal on it and posted guards until the 3 days were complete. Therefore, if the two Mary’s had tried to anoint the body on Friday, they would have broken the law and been arrested. They waited until after the 3 days, so as to avoid arrest. The apostles were all in hiding at the time, fearing possibly of their own arrest, so it fell to the two Mary’s to anoint the body.




The fact is that the Last Supper celebrated with the bread and wine by Yahusha and the disciples took place on the evening of the third day of the week (we would say Tuesday evening). He was crucified on a Wednesday and was in the grave 3 days and 3 nights. He rose from the dead late on the Sabbath. Finally, He revealed Himself to Mary Magdalene and the disciples on the first day of the week, shortly after sunrise. Of course this means that we have a Palm Saturday and NOT a Palm Sunday.




It also means that Yahusha performed the sign He said He would, and that Sunday being “The Lord’s Day” is a fabrication of the bishop of Rome. In due time, even the keeping of the Passover bread and wine remembrance was outlawed with ex-communication.




Yahusha rose again on the Sabbath and was crucified on a Wednesday. No wonder why HaSatan has used the Catholic Church to change all of these dates!




In the 3rd Century, Constantine, the Roman Emperor changed the Sabbath day to Sunday for the pagan “sun-god,” and this is why the Roman Catholic Church has had to change all other calendar dates in order to force our Messiah to resurrect on Easter Sunday!




In reality, this was not a on a Sunday. Our Messiah rode through the streets of Jerusalem on a Sabbath day, and it can be proven by counting backwards to the 10th day of Abib. The commandment in Exodus 12:3 is to select the lamb for Passover on the 10th day of the first month of Abib (Nisan). Counting backwards from Wednesday, Abib 14, we land on the 10th of Abib, which was on the weekly Sabbath day!




As the Lamb of The Most High, Yahusha was selected as the acceptable lamb for slaughter following the triumphal entry, when the chief priests met to determine his death on the Sabbath. He was laid in the tomb as the annual Sabbath was beginning. On the following weekly Sabbath, (as it was ending), Yahusha rose from the dead. This is consistent with his teaching that he is the “Lord of the Sabbath.”




There have been many believers in a Wednesday crucifixion, from the time of the early church until now. We now know that the Bible teaches a Wednesday crucifixion, so the reader now must face the facts of the Bible as compared to the traditions of men.




At the same time, I say that this does not determine salvation, for I know that there will be millions who have believed the Friday crucifixion hoax. Also, a superficial reading of the gospels does tend to lead one to the conclusion of a Friday crucifixion, when read separately, so one cannot blame the majority of believers for this false belief.




The learned reader might say that the Passover as kept today cannot fall on a Wednesday, in the Hebrew calendar. That is the case today, but then neither does First Fruits (wave offering) or the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) occur on the first day of the week in the Hebrew calendar. The reason is a matter of history. There was a controversy between the Phariseean and Sadduceean way of keeping these important feast days. At the time of Yahusha, the Sadducees were the high priests and kept the days according to our present Hebrew understanding from the Torah.




For example, the Sadducees believed that First Fruits always fell on the first day of the week, which meant that Pentecost also fell on the first day of the week. While the Pharisees believed that First Fruits fell on the 16th of Abib (Nisan), the day after the annual Sabbath, leading to Pentecost on various days of the week. At the time of Yahusha, the Sadduceean keeping of the feasts was in effect, but after the dispersion, the more numerous and stricter Pharisees perpetuated their understanding of Hebrewism. They were the ancestors of modern day Orthodox Hebrews and are the keepers of the calendar today. Their rules have supplanted the days as kept in the time of Yahusha.




Jesus died on a Wednesday,” I’ve decided to add this part 2, to point out the explanation for ALL individual verses that readers have raised. There is not one verse that disproves the Wednesday afternoon crucifixion of Yahusha. While that’s a strong statement, you be the judge.




First, let’s review the scenario proven in part 1. The Last Supper was held on a Tuesday evening. On Wednesday the 14th of Abib/Nisan, Yahusha was crucified, and died late in the afternoon. Joseph of Arimathea received permission from Pilate and took down the body of Yahusha from the crucifixion stake, probably with Nicodemus’ help. The scriptural record states that Joseph and Nicodemus worked together.




Nicodemus had brought about 100 lbs. of myrrh and aloes. They wrapped the body in a sheet (shroud) and bound it with the myrrh and aloes. It was already getting dark, so they had to hurry, because the annual Sabbath was beginning, the first day of Unleavened Bread on the 15th of Abib (Nisan), which was a Thursday.




Watching all this a short distance away were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses. Joseph had a new garden tomb that had never been used nearby. They laid the body of Yahusha in the tomb and rolled the stone over the entrance to the tomb. The next morning the Jewish leaders met with Pilate and received permission to seal and guard the tomb, so that his disciples couldn’t steal the body and say Yahusha had risen from the dead.




They sealed the tomb and posted guards (on Thursday). The women including Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of Joses, and Mary the mother of James and Salome, bought spices on Friday and prepared them. They bought spices on the day after a Sabbath (the annual Sabbath), and after preparing them on Friday, rested on the weekly Sabbath on Saturday. As the weekly Sabbath was ending late on Saturday afternoon, Mary Magdalene and one of the other Marys’ came to the tomb to anoint the body. Since it was already almost dark, or was dark, all they saw was that the stone had been rolled away and nobody was there.




Yahusha died on Wednesday afternoon and was laid in the grave as the annual Sabbath was beginning. He was in the grave Wednesday night, Thursday day, Thursday night, Friday day, Friday night, and Saturday day. Therefore, He was in the grave 3 days and 3 nights. He was resurrected late on the weekly Sabbath on Saturday. Therefore, He rose on the third day. Also, it was after 3 days and 3 nights. Those are the incontrovertible facts from the scriptural record.




I’d like to face the most troublesome verse first (Luke 24:21), that of the two men walking to Emmaus on Sunday, who were later joined by a stranger who explained all the scriptures to them. We know they were walking on Sunday, the first day of the week, because it is clearly stated so in Luke 24:1, where the sequence of events started.




(Luke) 24:21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Yisra’el; and besides all this, today is the third day since these things were done.




Yes, the walk to Emmaus was on a Sunday, but it is a misunderstanding and a mistranslation that Sunday was the third day since the crucifixion. Instead of writing down the verse in Greek, (which most of you don’t know), I decided that I ought to use what others have shown concerning this verse (Luke 24:21), which will have greater weight with you.




The Greek word for “since” after “the third day” in Luke 24:21 actually means “away from.” Away from is the same as our “after.”




Yahusha died late on a Wednesday afternoon and was laid in the grave at sundown on Wednesday as Thursday was beginning. He was in the grave for 3 days and 3 nights beginning on Wednesday night, Thursday night, and Friday night and Thursday day, Friday day, and Saturday day using our reckoning of days and nights. He rose as the Sabbath was ending. So He was in the grave 3 days and 3 nights and rose after 3 days and 3 nights while the Sabbath was ending. So He rose on the third day. Sunday is therefore the 4th day. The actual literal Greek translation of Luke 24:21 is:




“But surely also together with all these things, it brings a third day away from which all these things occurred.”




Translators take the cumbersome literal translation and make it flow, taking some liberty with it, but trying to retain accuracy. The 4th day is “away from” the third day. So it is apparent that the verse is literally saying they were walking and talking after the third day, which was Sunday. However, have other translators understood this point too? Yes, let’s look at 3 of them. (Luke 24:21)




“....but he is dead, and that is three days ago!”





“Moreover, three days have already passed, since all these events occurred.”




“...and lo, three days have passed since all these things have occurred.”




There is exceedingly ample evidence that the correct translation for Luke 24:21 is that the KJV should read, “Today is after the third day since these things were done.” As the information above shows, the oldest and multiple original manuscripts show that “away from” is the correct word for since, and shows us that they were talking about Sunday being the 4th day since Yahusha was laid in the grave. That troubled them; because He has clearly said many times that He would rise on the third day, after 3 days and 3 nights.




He would fulfill the sign of Jonah, as Jonah was 3 days and 3 nights in the great fish, so Yahusha would be 3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the earth. These two disciples were challenged in their faith; because it appeared that Yahusha’s many prophecies concerning His being raised from the dead had failed. They were going back to Emmaus in defeat, when a stranger joined them.




This stranger explained to them all the prophecies concerning the Messiah from the Bible (Tanakh or Old Testament). They did not recognize that it was Yahusha, the risen Messiah talking to them. Only when they sat down to eat and He blessed the bread and gave it to them, were their eyes opened and they recognized Him as Yahusha. He then instantly disappeared from them. The next set of verses raised by readers all say the exact same, that He would rise on the third day. The answer is that He did rise from the dead on the third day, late on Saturday afternoon. First, a verse that tells us that He rose as the Sabbath was ending on Saturday afternoon:




(Matthew) 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first [day] of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.




The dawning of a new date in the biblical and Hebrew day reckoning is at twilight as it is getting dark, not first light in the morning. The Sabbath ended at sundown, and the two Mary’s came to look at the gravesite after the Sabbath ended. Yahusha had already risen.




Therefore, the Bible teaches He rose on the third day, on the Sabbath, regardless of what your tradition or any later creed states. Now let’s show all the verses where Yahusha said He would rise on the third day, or those afterwards that state He did rise on the third day.




(Matthew) 16:21 From that time forth began Yahusha to show unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.




(Matthew) 17:23 And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.




(Matthew) 20:19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.




(Matthew) 27:64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.




(Mark) 9:31 For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.




(Mark) 10:34 And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.




(Luke) 9:22 Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.




(Luke) 13:32 And he said unto them, Go You, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I shall be perfected.




(Luke) 18:33 And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.




(Luke) 24:7 Saying, the Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.




(Luke) 24:46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Messiah to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day.




(Acts) 10:40 Him The Most High raised up the third day, and showed him openly;




(1 Corinthians) 15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:




All of the above verses state a prediction that he would be raised on the third day, or that some feared it coming true, or after-wards stated that it had come true. [Matthew 16:21; 17:23; 20:19; 27:64; Mark 9:31; 10:34; Luke 9:22; 13:32; 18:33; 24:7; 24:46; Acts 10:40; and 1st Corinthians 15:4].




The scriptural facts show that Yahusha rose from the grave late on the Sabbath, late on Saturday afternoon. This was 3 days and 3 nights AFTER He had been crucified, and it was also the third day. The first day being Thursday; the second day being Friday; and the third day being Saturday.




Somehow we modern people have trouble juggling the concept of the biblical day running from evening to evening, with that of the civil day from midnight to midnight.




Actually, Luke 13:32 above is often translated differently, where instead of the word “perfected,” they translate it as “reach my goal.”




The verse then tells the story of Yahusha saying that He would cast out devils and heal the sick for the next two days, and then reach Jerusalem on the third day. That’s what happened, and in context, the KJV translation is less satisfactory.




There are yet a few other verses that apply to the Wednesday crucifixion:




(Matthew) 24:63 “…Saying, Sir, we remember that the deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days, I will rise again.”




(Matthew) 26:61 “....able to destroy this temple of The Most High, and build it in three days…..”




(Mark) 8:31 “....and be killed, and after three days rise again.”




(Mark) 14:58 “...and in three days I will build another made without hands.”




(Mark) 15:58 “...to destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days.”




(John) 2:19-21 “…and in three days I will raise it up.”




All these verses are answered the same way. Yahusha did rise from the grave on the third day, late on the Sabbath. He did rise after three days; Thursday, Friday, then Saturday. It was 3 full days and 3 full nights AFTER He died. There are NO verses that cannot be reconciled to the Wednesday afternoon crucifixion. The verse Yahusha so often referred to from Jonah, was where Jonah was in the great fish 3 days and 3 nights.




(Jonah) 1:17 Now The Most High Yah had prepared a great fish to swallow up Yonah (Jonah). And Yonah (Jonah) was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.




(Matthew) 12:40 For as Yonah (Jonah) was three days and three night’s in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be.




Pastors are also fond of using allegories and allusions to teach a concept or doctrine, and perhaps Luke 2:46 ought to be a direct allusion to the 12-year old Yahusha being found AFTER 3 days.




(Luke) 2:46 And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.




Why should this story be a direct allusion to be used by pastors to teach the resurrection?




Note that in Luke 2:41, that the feast they went to was the Passover. So Yahusha disappearing for 3 days was a direct showing of what would later occur in His life!




And it was done at the same feast, and He did appear to His disciples who were to be the teachers.




He had disappeared for 3 days and 3 nights from His parents as a 12-year old, and was found AFTER 3 days. In the same way, when crucified, he disappeared for 3 days and 3 nights through death, and was hidden from friends, family, apostles, and numerous disciples, and then revealed to them after 3 days!




Another reason why proving a Wednesday crucifixion and a Sabbath resurrection is because we are commanded to honor the Sabbath day and to keep it holy (set apart). It is because Yah knew in advance that he was going to be raised from the dead on the weekly Sabbath, and that day would be victorious for us all!




Yahusha commands us to “keep his commandments” if we want to enter into life:




(Matthew) 19:17 And he said unto him..... but if you will enter into life, keep the commandments.




Was he speaking of the “Nine Commandments?”




Or was he speaking of all Ten Commandments?




Does he still expect us to keep the 4th Commandment?




Let’s see what Messiah said:




(Matthew) 24:20 But pray You that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day:




(Luke) 6:9 Then said Yahusha unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the Sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?




Yah tells us that keeping his “Sabbaths” (Holy Days) are a “sign” between us and him throughout our generations. This means “forever:”




(Exodus) 31:13 Speak you also unto the children of Yisra’el, saying, Verily my Sabbaths You shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that You may know that I am The Most High Yah that does sanctify you.




(Ezekiel) 20:12 Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am The Most High Yah that sanctify them.




(Ezekiel) 20:20 And hallow my Sabbaths and they shall be a sign between me and you, that You may know that I am The Most High Yah your The Most High.




You will notice that the verses above state that by hallowing his “Sabbaths” (feast days) we may “know” that he is Yah. In other words, we know him by the fact that we keep his appointed holy days!




This is the ONLY thing that differentiates him from the other false pagan gods and impostors!




It is by his holy days that we KNOW HIM!




Another important reason why a Wednesday Crucifixion validates Yahusha as the Messiah, is because he fulfilled Daniel 9:26-27, where it says that he would be “Cut off....in the midst of the week....”




Daniel 9:26-27 states that “In the midst of the week, he shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease.”




Our Messiah was “cut off” (Daniel 9:26) literally in the midst of Passover “week,” and also in the middle of the last seven years of the 490-year prophecy.