UNDERSTANDING YOUR ORIGINAL KINGDOM MANDATE

Ecclesiastes chapter 9




Today we are walking in: Understanding Your Original Kingdom Mandate






Numbers 24:7


He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom H4467 shall be exalted.





KINGDOM



Today we look to the word-KINGDOM- H4467 mamlâkâh, (mam-law-kaw') -dominion, (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm):—kingdom, king's, reign, royal



The Torah testifies...............


Exodus 19:6


And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.


Numbers 32:33


And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom H4467 of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom H4467 of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.


Deuteronomy 17:18


And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, H4467 that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:




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


1 Samuel 10:18


And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, H4467 and of them that oppressed you:



Isaiah 9:7


Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.




Jeremiah 18:9


And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom H4467, to build and to plant it;







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



1 Kings 9:5


Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom H4467 upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.



1 Chronicles 17:11


And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom H4467.


Psalm 145:13


Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.









UNDERSTANDING YOUR ORIGINAL KINGDOM MANDATE




You are like a seed, you possess your future! Now in every mango seed as a mango tree. The mango tree’s future is in the mango seed. So The Most High has made you the same way, your future is in you and you are taking it into the next year. Therefore I put it to you that The Most High is committed to the future He placed in your present. This is why I have so much confidence in my life when things don't even look like they're working. I'm always at peace because The Most High's commitment to me is what keeps me full of hope and faith. The Most High is committed to the vision, He put in your life and therefore whether other people help you or not The Most High will be your helper!!!
Your future is more important than your past and therefore your future is more valuable than your past. Let's look back, learn some lessons, close the door.
Fiveamprayer, let's go forward--your future is more important than your past and that is why Yahusha died to forgive you. Not to reclaim your past, but to protect your future!!! He forgives your past, He just forgives it and forgets it, but it's your future that He came to redeem and that's why you must come to HaMaschiach--not because you want to become a religious person and become a part of some religious organization. You want to come back to The Most High because He deposited in you a future that only He could bring to pass. I am so excited about my life, my future is secure in the one who gave me the deposit! My boldness is just getting started!! In 5783 I'm going to be a reckless woman! I'm going to believe for so many big things in my life, because The Most High has been my helper. I put it to you, He would be your helper too! I say He would be your helper, your savior. The Most High's going to help you through things you cannot go through by yourself! Your future is concealed just like a tree is concealed in the seed! Let’s look at Isaiah 45, I love this verse I'll never forget it:
Verse 5 I am the Most High, and there is none else, there is no Most High beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
The Most High there's none like me--why? Because I'm the only Most HIgh, who makes known the end from the beginning. In other words I tell you what is yet to come even before it comes!
I place your past into My past, in other words, your future is The Most High's past. The Most High's already finished! He started with the end and then began after He ended! Look at that verse he says He placed the end before the beginning The Most High's not wondering about your future The Most High's already been in 5783 and knows exactly what happened to you that's why He knows your months. I am so secure in Him I call it the race to the end. How do you get to the end that the Most High already finished inside of your life? Well, the most important thing in life on Earth is to make it to your future and a lot of people won't make it to their future. The race to your future is a marathon not a sprint! Tell your neighbors, slow down let me tell you something if you try to speed up The Most High's program for your life. You will short-circuit and cause premature birth--take your time and keep moving!
You don't ever want to be ahead of The Most High, but you don't want to be behind Him so far that you lose sight of him! Here's what the Bible says about it:
Ecclesiastes 9:11 (NIV) I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.
The end, your future and your success is related to The Most High success. One of the things that made me bold, was when I discovered that if I failed it's bad for The Most High. I'm going to say it again--if I fail, it's bad for The Most High's reputation. So I have come to understand like Moses told The Most High many times, he said The Most High be it far from you to do such a thing--for you told the people, that we are your people. In other words, our success is tied to your reputation, The Most High. You have to help me succeed--so you're going to embarrass yourself you know what I mean? Most people think that if I fail I'm going to embarrass myself. No, The Most High says, this is about Me. You will succeed in 5783 because The Most High will protect His name! Listen to me, His plans for you already are finished!
The Most High's plan for you to succeed--He's already planned for it, your success, determines His success. I have come to appreciate Jeremiah 29 verse 11 it says:
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
The Most High has a plan for your future and a plan to make sure that you get there. You are not just a baby born wandering through the earth and this is why when a young person doesn't know The Most High's plan for their lives--they waste their energy and their time in areas that are not helpful. I suggest that the key to the future is trapped inside of The Most High. Ephesians chapter 1 verse 11 In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,
The Most High says I have a plan for your life, I also have a destiny for your life and the plan will take you to your destiny. But look at that statement, carefully it says in him we also have been chosen having been predestined according to the plan.
The word predestined comes from the word pre- and is actually a grammatical construct. The prefix pre means before and destiny, means the end. The Most High said I set your end before I began you, but then He says there's also a plan. According to that plan, it is supposed to get you there. The Most High doesn't only have your future established--He has a way to get you there, but look at the next statement. He says, but if you mess up the plan, I will still conform your mess to get back in line with my will no matter how you fail. He'll use your failure as a testimony--and get you back on the road. Let's conform that now and get your act together, rededicate your life to Me--let's get back on the road. Because you're wasting time with people who are not worth your time! He will conform, even your failures to His plan for your life this is why The Most High can take your mess and turn it into a miracle. He could take your test and turn into testimony. He can cause all of the things that you've done wrong, to become a witness of His greatness. Because you have failed--please don't stay away from The Most High! Come back to The Most High, I put it to you that purpose is permanent that's why The Most High never gives up on you! Plans may change, but purpose is permanent. Because purpose is more powerful than problems, purpose overcomes your mistakes. Romans chapter 8 verse 28 and 29 And we know that in all things the Most High works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those the Most High foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
The Most High says no matter what you've done, I will still restore your purpose, your destiny for your life. I put it to you then that this is probably one of the greatest verses I've ever read. Job chapter 8 verse 7 Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.
Your greatness Fiveamprayer, is trapped in your littleness--your humble beginnings qualifies you for a great ending! As a matter of fact He says, I like this, you know He says your beginnings seem humble. In other words, if they knew how great you were--they'd take you for lunch tomorrow! You just seem like
you are nobody right now, look at that word seem. You seem like you have nothing. Let me tell you something, people don't look and seek out poor people! When they think you got money they want to be your friend right away. Isn't that something? Tell your neighbor you're not rich, so you better seek me now!!! Be nice to me now, don't ignore me now. Shake my hand right now! Tell them to remember me, when you're coming into your glory! You never know who you are talking to! The Most High may be positioning you like Joseph to take care of your family. They didn't know who he was--You may have the same plan placed on your life by the Most High.
What you're going through now, you are going right through it! You watch and they are going to be shocked and you come out the other side!!! I'm telling you they don't know who you are--yet you're passing through. Some of you are sick now but healing is on the other side of this thing! You're going to walk out of here healed in Yahusha name! You are sitting next to a testimony, look at Psalm 37:37 Consider the blameless, observe the upright; a future awaits those who seek peace. Because sometimes when you live up right, things go wrong. That's okay, stay upright there's a future for you. You may say, I was doing good until I became a citizen of the kingdom--all of a sudden everything started going bad. The Most High, says that is supposed to happen. Those that live like The Most High, in HaMashiach Yahusha shall suffer persecution. So since you changed kingdoms they're going to be a little fight--you're going to lose a little bit, He said but there's still a future for you and they shouldn't laugh until the game is over!!!!
I know you are broke, but that's a temporary state. Listen, I'm going to be nice to you now because at the end of 5783 you can have so much money! The next verse says put the wicked and the sinner man seemed to be doing good but they can be cut off! There are some people who you know, and they weren't living right but they was loaded and you are living right and was broke! As time goes on you find out that somebody else is spending their money. And you still living good and you just coming up slowly, you rise to the top.
Look at Proverbs 16:3 Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.
Proverbs 16:9 In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Most High establishes their steps.
Psalms 20 verse 4 May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.
Psalm 37 verse 4 Take delight in the Most High, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
I know that my redeemer is faithful!! He said that if I stay delightful in Him--he will cause my plan to succeed! Make 5783 the year of delight!! Put down those other books and pick up the Bible!! As you read the book, until you begin to enjoy The Most High! He is not boring, you are boring!! The Most High owns the whole universe! You might as well keep company with The Most High, make your delight in The Most High! Learn to enjoy the Most High!! Read His book until you know His face. Stop making those resolutions, you're going to lose weight! We'd make better use of our time reading the whole Bible!! You may find once you start that it will use up so much of your time, that you stop eating!!
Write this down, the power of a season I want you to get this down. This is important, the turn of a new season brings opportunity to begin again. That's why The Most High gives us years so we could begin again. This is why it's so critical to understand what a new season is. For a new season provides incentive to recommit to the things you value. What's valuable to you? Think about it, what do you value? Make a list today, and say The Most High in 5783 will be the year that I get back to the important things!! Like prayer time and reading the word!!!
A new season presents us with the opportunity to reposition ourselves for greater success. Reposition yourself means that you reorganize and restructure what's important to you. That's what I have been doing all my life! Every year, I would check my favorite goals which are my purpose in life and make sure my life is realigned with them again because when it's all over--the Most High is not going to ask you: what you do for other people? He asked you what you did for Him. I have been conscious constantly of the value of my life and my time. This is why learning the secret to influence is so critical! This is probably the most important thing, I'm going to give you. Here it is the secret to success, I figured it out. I know how to be successful. This is how you become successful--the greatest enemy of success is your fear of failure. I figured something out years ago, if you're going to fail--fail big! I know they talk about taking it slow, but if you go, go for pure gold!!!!!! Listen if you fail small they can laugh at you anyhow--so fail big time! Try something big, guess what I figured it out cause after you die they can't get the payment!
You spent a whole year trying to decide to do something and the year is already gone! Actually, another one is about to start and you're still going to sit there trying to decide what to do. By the time you calculate what they think the time is gone.
Success is the potential destiny of all created things. I discovered something about success, the greatest enemy of progress is your last success. You can become so proud of what you accomplished that you stopped moving ahead to what you could accomplish. This is why I'm so nervous about accolades and about applause and about all these different awards. I'm nervous about it because you can become distracted by that stuff. It can stop you from progressing. See I discovered the world is amazing place. The world is so average it doesn't take much to be a genius--just do a little extra. The world is so mediocre, you can't believe none of the awards!! Listen if a guy is not doing, nothing and you finally did something you think you did everything--so you got to not measure success by what other people tell you. Matter of fact here's what I call success, is the completion and the fulfillment of the original intent or purpose for your life--that is success! Did you do what The Most High assigned you to do in this year? Are you moving toward the goal that He gave you? I suggest to you another thought, how do you bridge your success. Success is measured by purpose, when it's fulfilled. Success is not measured by what you've done compared to what others have done. Success is measured by what you've done compared to what you knew you could have done. So you are the measure of your own success! Only you knew how good you could have done and the average person will always think you did great, if you did a little bit better than they did. But you would know that you did poorly when you compared to what you know you could have done. So your success is never mentioned by other people nor by their measure but by what The Most High showed you that you can do and you didn't do. That's why I am constantly comparing myself with myself.
2 Corinthians 10:12 (NIV) We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.
Do you see what Paul was talking about, Fiveamprayer? Because only you know how great you can become. Never allow anybody's awards to stop you from going forward! Don’t worry about the awards, certificates or degrees--you are working for a purpose. And people observe you and they think, you're doing great when in reality you know--you're not doing great, compared to what you know you want to do. Can I put it this way? What's the key to success? The key to success is not to pursue success. If you want to be successful in this new year--How do you become successful, seek to become a person of value and that's it. It's that simple and that difficult.
If you want to be successful in life, seek to become a person of value. In other words, you must become a person of value. When you discover your unique gift and you make your significant contribution to the world, as a matter of fact you become significant when you develop, refine and serve your gift to the world. He showed me this years ago, value equals worth--this is very important, listen to me. Because your career will not make you wealthy--if you're going to become successful and you want to become great and influential in life, don't seek greatness. Don't seek influence, don't seek success, seek value because value is equal to worth! The more valuable a thing becomes the more it is worth!!! Are you listening to me? Why do you think you spent so much money on diamonds? Diamonds are considered valuable, therefore they are worth more than that plastic stuff, called costume jewelry. Listen carefully, why is oil so valuable? Because it is so rare, it's worth keeps rising--it's in-demand! You are worth what you are valued! I gave you one of the greatest secrets in life for this next year. You are worth what you are valued, so if you are not valued much to a job--they pay you less. How do you get more pay? You gotta increase your value to the company! There is no mystery to life--how do you increase your value to a company by secret? First of all you do it by becoming unique. How do you become unique? Easy by coming significant--how do you come significant? By becoming
Rare. Listen to me when you become rare they come to find you. That's why you dig for diamonds, that's why you dig for oil--that's why you dig for silver, that's why, you go diving for pearls. Why? When you are rare they have to come and find you and then they put a heavy price on you. Are you rare or are you just one of the crew? How do you become rare? This is very important. You become rare by refining your gift. That means you work at it and you work at it and you work at it and you work at it until it becomes so refined, it becomes rare! It becomes greater and brighter than all the others! If everybody is selling shoes you have to find a way to sell the kind of shoe that nobody else sells. If you go into the shoe business, don't you just sell shoes. Everybody is selling shoes. Sell shoes only for infants. Now you’re rare! They'll find you. I can charge for that idea. You have to find a certain thing you want, something so unique that they'll find you. You know McDonald's is the only Big Mac restaurant. Now everybody sells fries, everybody sells chicken nuggets, but if you want a Big Mac you have to go to McDonald's. You have to find your rare uniqueness. You know what's wrong with us? Everybody’s name is Jack or Jacqueline. Come on say with me, jack of all trades and mastering nothing. You have to master something. Write this down please. You will refine what you invest in. That means you want to develop and refine your gift. You have to spend more money on books related to your gift and start reading them. Shut the TV off and refine your gift. You have to now change your friends and start keeping up with people who can help refine your gift. Invest in friends. Then you have to change your associations and join with ones that can help refine your gift. You have to invest in your gift. You spent all day watching TV and you wonder why you are broke and no one is looking for you and you are only getting paid 20 bucks a month. It is because you are not rare. The Most High sent me to tell you, He's tired of you being mediocre. He is tired of you just getting paid a salary. He wants them to look and seek you out. He wants them to beg you to stay when you have a plan to resign. Matter of fact, here is a test. I want to see how rare you are. Resign on Tuesday, see what they say. Now if they say thank The Most High she is gone, now you are in trouble. That means you aren’t valuable anymore. You never were, you were a nuisance. Write this last one down please. You become valuable when you specialize. This sounds so simple but people still don’t get it. To specialize means sometimes you have to go by yourself. Take your own evening courses, take your own online courses. You have to go for it. Why? Don't worry about them folks who are laughing at you. You are refining yourself. Build on certain principles for globalization. Do something unique, otherwise you will not become valuable. Write this down please. What lies within you is greater than what lies ahead of you. Your seed of greatness is what you have to bring into value. You possess the hidden value of your life right now. It’s trapped in you. I will not tell you what I am worth an hour. I will not because you'll be jealous of me but my value came from focus. I refine myself. This past year, I read 8 books on leadership. How many books on development did you read last year? I refined my gift while you are watching Lifetime. Lifetime is a drug. It's causing you to lose value. You should be reading while you're watching that. They will pay you based on your investment in yourself. How do you locate your power? The power of your investment? It is in this verse. Now unto Him who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above, far beyond all you can ever ask or think. What's this according to? The power! It's not in heaven, it's not in angels, it's not even in Yahusha. It's in you! You came here loaded but it's trapped power. It's untapped refineness. It's hidden value. Make this the year 5783 of refining your gift to become valuable. Matter of fact here's a challenge. I want to challenge you to never confuse your work with your job again. Your job is what you were trained to do but your work is what you were born to do. What you were born to do is your seed of greatness. Therefore your work is what you were born to do and your job is just your career. Your work is your assignment, your career and you'll retire from it. Your job is a skill but your work is a gift. There's a difference. You will never become wealthy from your work. Ask the guy sitting next to you. How long have you been working but still struggling to pay your mortgage, still trying to make ends meet. I'm telling you something, if you don't capture your gift you'll be trapped in a job. If you're trapped in your job, I guarantee your retirement will not help you survive. People will look for you based on your gift, not your looks. You can never retire from your work but you could retire from your job because your job prepares you for your work. Write this one down. Your job can become your work. A job is someone paying you to refine your gift. I'm going to say this again. Don't be afraid of jobs. Embrace jobs but use the job opportunity to refine your gift and let them pay you to refine it. You were never designed by The Most High to survive off of your job. It's your gift that makes you valuable. What do you bring to the job that's unique? You get paid for the problems you solve. The more sophisticated the problem you solve the higher your value. Therefore you got to keep on upgrading yourself. Don't wait for people to send you to school. I have to keep refining my gift and the more I feed my gift the higher my value and therefore the greater the harvest in my life. What are you going to spend your money on this year? Write this down. Your goal in life is not to be employed. Your goal in life is to be deployed and to deploy means that you prepare your gift to serve to the world. Employment prepares you for deployment. Make yourself so valuable they don't want you to leave. Deployment activates your gifts and energizes your life. Deployment is the use and the serving of your natural gifts to the world. I promise you if you discover and work on your gift this year, your value will go up and your income will go up and you'll find people looking for you. A man's gift makes room for him in the world and will bring him to great men. I kept refining my gift when they called me a cult. I kept on working when they called me a demon, I kept on singing. There's a price to refine your gift. First of all you were created to influence the world. Do you agree on that? You better because it's true. Your gift is your key to influence. If you don't influence you will always be influenced. The purpose for your birth was to find and deliver your gift of influence to us. What is the key to your influence? I have discovered there are seven things that influence life. Write these down. If you're going to influence America or Jamaica or Canada or your city--there are only six specific things I discovered that makes people influential. Number one, wealth. If you don’t have any wealth or riches then you don’t have any influence. Number two, knowledge. The person with the most knowledge in an area has the most influence. Number three ownership. If you own a lot of property you have influence. Number four, power. Whoever has power has influence. Number five is people. The more people that listen to you, the more influence you have. It's called people power. Therefore you need to develop your gift to the point where a lot of people want it and whenever they want your gift then you become influential in the world. Number six, specialization. Anyone who is specialized has influence. Number six creates all the other six. If you specialize in something it'll attract wealth and you have knowledge in that area therefore you can buy any property. When you get money and the more property you get then the more you control and when you control things now you got power to influence politics. When you influence through politics with power then people honor you and they listen to what you say, but you have to specialize. Specialize and you become influential. How do you become specialized? Here's the key. The key to influence is specialization. You were created with the seed of influence on the inside. You will never get your greatness from education. Education cannot give you a seed, education can only refine the seeds you have. That's why it's important to know your seed so that you can take the right education. Your seed is in you. I learned from somebody else but the way I release what I have learned is under my unique gift. Refine your fruit and then they'll find you. It is the year of influence. You have to find your gift, refine your gift and they'll come and find you. When you want a mango you have to go to the tree. How does a mango tree becomes a mango tree? I discovered the secret here. Paul says you have to forget some things. The Most High created you in His own image. The Most High blessed you and The Most High said unto you, be fruitful. Multiply and replenish and subdue and then what? Have dominion over the earth. Now The Most High gave us three secrets. First of all he said be fruitful. Listen to me. The Most High never said to be seedful. It's impossible to be fruitful unless you already have seed because seed brings forth fruit. The Most High never told man to be seedful. He already presumed that the man had seed. The first act of The Most High is be fruitful which means that you have to produce something. Number 2 is multiply. Multiply means you reproduce what you produce. Then it says to replenish. Replenish means to distribute. Then the word subdue means to dominate the area of your gift. Bill Gates did this so effectively that he caused the entire government of America to come against him. Bill Gates produced a fruit. Microsoft software then he multiplied it and then he distributed it, and replenished until he was able to subdue the market and control all systems. He followed The Most High's plan. Whoever dominates, influences. Inside of you is a fruit trapped in a seed that you carry. That seed must bring forth the tree that's carrying your fruit and then you must multiply your fruit so we can begin to distribute it. Then subdue your area of gifting so you become known for something. What are you known for? If the answer is not one thing you got a lot of work to do. When I call some names like Michael Jordan, what comes to your mind? Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey? Let's call your name. Purpose is what are you known for.
Work on something so hard that it becomes your name. You will never find a mango tree trying to bring forward oranges. They stay with their seed. You would never find a coconut tree trying to bring forth mangoes. The key to bringing forward your fruit in this generation:
Number one the seed must first be in the right environment. Choose your associations. The seed has to be placed in the right environment.
Number two isolation. If you're going to become great you have to isolate yourself from friends. For a seed to become a tree it must be taken away from the earth and hidden under the ground. When they ask you where have you been, tell them I've been reading and you're in isolation. You are germinating. That's number three. You have to die. Every single seed must die. To die means self-discipline. You die to old friends, old habits, old associations or club life. Cut them off. Why? I am going to develop myself. A seed will not become a tree until it dies. Number four every seed must germinate. Germination means you motivate yourself from a source. You have to find people who motivate you. That makes you germinate. You have to be around people who dream big, think big, believe big. Let them germinate you. Number five is critical. You have to water the seed. Water means that you constantly develop a program to manage your development--that makes you develop a program. Join organizations, put yourself on a reading program. That's a watering program. Number six is critical. Fertilizer. That means you have to refine and refresh your program to constantly grow yourself. Some people are poison and pollute your life. You need fertilizer. You don't need pollution. May The Most High give us the wisdom to stop keeping bad company. There are people who add to you, subtract from you, multiply you or divide you. You have to choose the ones who add to you and multiply you and avoid those who divide you and subtract from you. Number seven you need sunshine. If you want to develop this fruit tree, you need special networking. That means you begin to network with organizations and people who become your light. That's especially the Ruach HaQadesh and professional people who can lead you to higher ground. Number eight this one you don't like. This one is pruning. If you are going to develop your fruit, there will be pruning. Pruning means you have to cut off some people, cut off some behaviors, cut off some habits, cut off some practices, cut off some situations. You have to cut off some opportunities. Number nine and this one is so important, time. When you put a seed in the ground you can't force it to grow. It takes time. If you're going to make and maximize 5783 as your best year, you're going to have to use your time wisely and don't rush it. You have to accept the process. The process is necessary for purpose to be fulfilled. Your process takes time. You can't rush success but you can guarantee it. The last one. Write this down in capital letters. PATIENCE. You know when you start working with a tree and you plant a seed, you have to be patient. You wonder why you're not growing... Patience. All trees need patience. One thing with the tree though when you see it finished, big, stately and strong, it just stands there. The winds blow, the waters beat it, hurricanes come and it just stands there because of number ten, patience. Reconnect to what makes you influential. 5783 is the year of influence so I challenge you to organize yourself, prioritize your life and then discipline your life. First ask The Most High to show you your gift, your strengths, your unique gift. In your place of humble beginnings it qualifies you for greatness. It doesn't matter where you were born--it's what you were born with. We want to organize our lives, prioritize our lives and The Most High will give us the power to discipline our lives to die for something.

THREE DAYS & THREE NIGHTS MYTH

Matthew chapter 12







Today we are walking in: Three Days & Three Nights in the Heart of the Earth: The Good Friday Myth




Exodus 3:18




And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three H7969 days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.








THREE





Today we look to the word-THREE H7969 shalowsh--three, triad, third









The Torah testifies...............








Exodus 10:22




And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three H7969 days:




Exodus 15:22




So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three H7969 days in the wilderness, and found no water.




Numbers 10:33




And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three H7969 days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.






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



Isaiah 20:3




And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three H7969 years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;




Jonah 1:17




Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three H7969 days and three H7969 nights




Daniel 3:24




Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three H7969 men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.







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






Esther 4:16




Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three H7969 days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.




1 Chronicles 21:12




Either three H7969 years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three H7969 days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.




2 Chronicles 4:4




It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three H7969 looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.




Three Days & Three Nights in the Heart of the Earth: The Good Friday Myth


Many of us have been brought up in the church to believe that Yahusha (whom many call Jesus) died on “Good Friday” and he resurrected on “Easter Sunday.”


Well today, I am going to dismantle these lies, and show how these deceptions actually prove to discredit him as the authentic Machiach.


In Matthew 12:38, the religious leaders of his day asked him for a “sign” to prove that he was their awaited Savior that was prophesied about by Moses and the prophets.


His response to their asking for a sign is in (Matthew) 12:39-40:


39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet (Jonas).



40 For as (Jonas) was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.



If he had not resurrected EXACTLY THREE DAYS & THREE NIGHTS after he was killed on the evening of Passover, then his prophecy would have failed, and this would have rendered him a false prophet, and not the true and genuine Machiach.


When the Christian Church teaches that he died on “Good Friday,” and then resurrected on Sunday morning, HaSatan dances with glee, because he knows that this makes him out to be a false prophet!


We all know that you cannot get three days and three nights out of 36 hours. HaSatan wants to discredit Yahusha as the Machiach, so that our faith in him will be destroyed. This would mean that his victory over death, Hell, and the grave was not won, and therefore, we are all doomed to eternal damnation. At least, this is what HaSatan wants you to believe!


That is why proving that he was in the heart of the earth for EXACTLY three days and three nights is crucial to our salvation!


Before I get into the meat of this study, we must first ask ourselves, “Why have we been conditioned to believe that Machiach was crucified on the 6th day of the week on Friday?”


The answer to this question is simple. The gospel accounts tell us that after Machiach was crucified, and his body taken down from the stauros (crucifixion stake), the women were in a hurry to anoint his body with spices, because at sundown began a High Sabbath.


Those who are uneducated in the Mosaic Law (Torah) see the word “Sabbath,” and they naturally assume that he was buried just before the weekly Sabbath, (what we today call Saturday). In John 19:31, it specifically tells us that this was not a regular weekly Sabbath, but an annual Sabbath:



(John) 19:31 The (Jews) therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the crucifixion stake 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.


What is a High Sabbath Day? The Greek word in John 19:31 used for “high day,” is “megas,” which means “great, mighty, large, high.”


(Exodus) 12:42 It is a night to be much observed unto The Most High Yah for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of The Most High Yah to be observed of all the children of Yisrael in their generations.


Our Machiach was killed on the 14th day of the first Hebrew Month known as “Abib” (Exodus 12:2 & 13:4). The Torah commands that we kill the lamb on the 14th day of the first month in the evening. The Hebrew word for evening is “ereb,” which means “dusk.”


He was nailed to the crucifixion stake at 9:00 a.m. and he died at 3:00 p.m. It was getting close to darkness at 3:00 p.m., for they did not have daylight savings time in 1st Century Jerusalem. This means that at 3:00 p.m. in the month of April, it was already growing dark by this time.


(Exodus) 12:6 And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Yisra’el shall kill it in the evening.


After the sun went down on the 14th of Abib, it then became the 15th of Abib, The Feast of Unleavened Bread. Remember, on the Creator's reckoning of time (Genesis 1:5), a calendar date changes at sundown, not at midnight. It was Pope Gregory who caused the date to change at midnight in the year 1582.


Right after our Machiach died on the 14th (Passover), he was taken down from the crucifixion stake, and then buried before the High Sabbath, known as The Feast of Unleavened Bread:


(Leviticus) 23:


5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at evening is The Most High Yah's Passover.


6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread unto The Most High Yah: seven days you must eat unleavened bread.


7 In the first day you shall have an holy convocation: you shall do no servile work therein.


The day in which Yahusha’s crucifixion took place was called the “preparation day.” On the 14th day of Abib (Passover) we are commanded to prepare the Passover Lamb, and clean out all the leaven from our homes. Our Machiach was buried just before the sun went down on the 14th, and then it became the 15th of Abib, the Feast of Unleavened Bread.


Since Yah introduced his divine calendar to us at creation in Genesis 1:5, a new calendar date was to begin at sunset. However, as I already mentioined Pope Gregory XIII caused the new date to change at midnight during his reign in 1582.


In Daniel 7:23-25, the angel told Daniel that the “fourth beast” (Rome) “shall think to change times and laws,” and since Rome has been instrumental in altering the calendar of our creator, the result has been the distorting of many prophetic events.



At the time of Yahusha’s crucifixion, Yisra’el and the entire world still acknowledged Yah’s standard of measuring time. Therefore, Yahusha was crucified and died on the 4th day of the week (what we today call Wednesday) at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and then he was buried at sunset, around 6 p.m. After sundown, the date changed, and it then became the 5th day of the week, (what we today call Thursday).


Since the day was almost over when he died, we don’t start counting “Three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” until he was buried, and the sun went down that Wednesday evening. The count of 72 hours (three days and three nights) begins on Wednesday Night after sundown once he was in the grave.


It is important to note that whenever we see a word in italics in the King James Version, it means that the word was not there in the original text. It means that the English translators added that particular word into the text to help the sentence structure flow better.


In order to help you see where the words are italicized in the King James Version, I will highlight in red the italicized words for “day.” This will bring clarity to many of the translation anomalies in the gospels which seem to confuse people about the timing of these events.


At creation, Yah “divided” (separated) the 12-hour period called “day” from the 12-hour period called “night,” and he treated them as two separate periods.


In Genesis 1:4-5 we read: “And The Most High saw the light, that it was good: and The Most High divided the light from the darkness. And The Most High called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.”


As you can see, the “day” has a different name than “night.” He also did not include the “night” in with the period called “day.” He divided the 12 hours of day from the 12 hours of darkness and called them two different things.


In Genesis 1:5 people are often confused by the phrase “And the evening and the morning were the first day.” They assume that the word “evening” means the same thing as “night” and that The Most High was combining these two periods of “day and night” and calling the combination of the two periods “day.”


However, this does not make sense, because he had just finished dividing the two periods in the previous verse, yet why would he combine day and night again and call it “day?” The Hebrew word for “evening” is “ereb” which means “dusk, mixture of light and darkness,” and it is still considered part of the twelve-hour period called “day.” However, it becomes “night” when all the light is completely gone. The Hebrew word for “night” is “layil” which means “opposed to the day.”


Thus, we see that there were actually six 12-hour periods being spoken of in the prophecy of Jonah wherein our Machiach said that he would be “Three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” If he was speaking of three 24-hour periods, he would have only said “Three days in the heart of the earth.”


You may be asking yourself “Why is this important?” It is important because some people would try to argue that he was in the heart of the earth approximately three days or “inside of three days.”


Many people rationalize that if one counts the day of his crucifixion (allegedly on Friday at 3:00 p.m.), the entire day counts as day # 1. The next logical conclusion is that day # 2 was Saturday, and day # 3 was Sunday.




They claim that even a fraction of the day counts as the same thing as a 24-hour period when reckoning the three days and three nights prophecy. The only problem with this logic is that Yah, our Creator always uses precise measurements when it comes to prophecy. He is perfectly accurate in all of his ways.


From Friday evening at 3:00 p.m. until Sunday morning (when he allegedly resurrected) would mean that he was rendering a 36-hour period as “Three days & three nights.” However, we know that he purposely spoke of “Three days & three nights” because it is exactly 72 hours.




Hence, the reason why it is important to distinguish that a day is only 12 hours--not 24 hours! The period called “night” is also a 12-hour period.


(John) 11:9 Yahusha answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walks in the day, he stumbles not, because he sees the light of this world.




Yahusha rose again as the Sabbath was ending “After three days.” This is why he said that he is “Lord of the Sabbath.” The Catholic Church changed the Sabbath to Sunday because they rationalize “Jesus resurrected on Sunday morning.” However, a careful study in the original language of the New Testament (Aramaic & Greek), will clear up this false notion of a Sunday resurrection.


What follows is a detailed and exhaustive study on the timing of the resurrection conducted by a man named Roy Reinhold. Mr. Reinhold has done an excellent job of dissecting all four gospels and laying it out for us to see, that our Machiach resurrected on what we today call Saturday (the seventh day of the week), just as the Sabbath was ending!


Biblical Proof Yahusha (Jesus) Died Wednesday & Rose on Sabbath: Good Friday is a Myth, Yahusha (Jesus) Died on a Wednesday!




3 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTS IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH


One of the most common questions asked by Christians is, this:


“How could Jesus have been in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights if He died on a Friday afternoon and rose before sunrise on a Sunday?”


Most Christians duck the question, since at most they can only come up with one day and two nights (Friday nighttime, Saturday daytime, and Saturday nighttime in our measure of days). If they add in the Friday daytime they get two periods of daytime, even though Yahusha would have died in the late afternoon. This late afternoon death is consistent with the Passover lamb being killed between the two evenings according to the Mosaic Law.


The lamb was killed between 3:00 and 6:00 p.m. on the afternoon of the 14th of Abib/Nisan and prepared, because the 15th was the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which was an annual Sabbath observance (the first and last days of Unleavened Bread were annual Sabbaths in addition to the normal weekly Sabbaths). This search of the Word is important, not because it affects salvation, but because it answers the questions posed on whether Yahusha kept His Word, and whether the Bible is true in this matter. A legitimate concern and question for all followers of Machiach!


(Leviticus) 23:5-8 In the fourteenth [day] of the first month at evening is The Most High Yah’s Passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto The Most High Yah: seven days You must eat unleavened bread. In the first day You shall have an holy convocation: You shall do no servile work therein. But You shall offer an offering made by fire unto The Most High Yah seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: You shall do no servile work therein.


The above text confirms that the first and last days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread are annual Sabbaths, to be observed as a day of rest in addition to the weekly Sabbaths. These days would occur on the 15th and 21st of Abib/Nisan.


The Passover meal was an important religious observance in which to remember that the blood of the lamb on the doorposts of their houses kept them alive when the angel of death passed by, and that Yah had delivered them from slavery in Egypt.


The Passover is a perpetual observance to celebrate passing from death to life. These ancient events foretold the blood of Yahusha being spilled for our sins, and our passage from death to eternal life, by the everlasting covenant of the blood of Yahusha. They also foretold that Yahusha would die exactly on the 14th of Abib/Nisan and that the day following was an annual Sabbath.


What follows is a close examination of the biblical record, in which Yahusha was killed on the 14th of Abib/Nisan in the afternoon, and the next day was the annual Sabbath, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. We shall also see from the biblical record that this annual Sabbath did not fall on the weekly Sabbath, in the year that Yahusha died.


(Matthew) 12:38-40 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from you. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Yonah (Jonah): For as Yonah (Jonah) was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.


(Matthew) 27:62-66 Now the next day that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. 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. Pilate said unto them, You have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as You can. So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.


The above verses show that Yahusha had openly taught that the major sign that He was the Machiach was that He would die and three days later rise again. Even more clearly, He said that He would be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. This promise meant that 72 hours would pass from His death to His resurrection and that this would be the sign for the Jews that He was who He said He was (the Machiach). The Friday crucifixion with a resurrection before sunrise on Sunday morning totals approximately 36 hours.


If we understood Yahusha to mean that “within” three days and three nights He would rise again, then any period short of that would suffice. But He taught that “after” three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, then He would rise again. This logically would necessitate the crucifixion on a Wednesday, then the daylight and nighttime periods of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday would be three days and three nights. We count from either His actual death shortly after 3:00 p.m. or from the time His body was laid in the tomb, shortly before the annual Sabbath began, although I believe we should count the 72 hours from the time the body was laid in the tomb.


You’ll notice that the above text from Matthew 27, recorded that the chief priests met with Pilate the morning after the crucifixion to get permission to post a guard and seal the tomb. The Bible records that this was the day after the day of preparation. This day of preparation is the 14th of Abib (Nisan), when the homes were scoured for any leavened bread within the house and a preparation of food was readied for the Passover meal, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread [Mark 15:42, Luke 23:54, John 19:14, 31, 42].


Therefore, the grave of Yahusha was not sealed until the morning of the 15th of Abib (Nisan), on the annual Sabbath. In the text from John 19, we learn that the body of Yahusha needed to be removed from the crucifixion stake because the Sabbath was about to begin and that Sabbath was a high day or annual Sabbath. This is consistent with the other verses which teach that the day of preparation was the day that Yahuw-shuwa died. Now we only need to determine whether the annual Sabbath and weekly Sabbath fell on the same day, which would lead us to the conclusion that Yahusha died on a Friday afternoon, shortly after 3:00 p.m. as commonly taught. If not, then He died on another day of the week.


(John) 19:31 The Yahuwdiy (Jews) therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the crucifixion stake 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.


A High Sabbath was an annual Sabbath, not the weekly Sabbath. Therefore, this is speaking of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, not the weekly Saturday Sabbath.


(John) 19:39-40 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Yahusha by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. Then took they the body of Yahusha, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Yahuwdiy (Jews) is to bury.


(Matthew) 27:59-61 And when Yahuwceph (Joseph) had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. And there was Miryam (Mary) Magdalene, and the other Miryam (Mary), sitting over against the sepulchre.


(Mark) 15:46-47 And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre. And Miriyam (Mary) Magdalene and Miryam (Mary) the mother of Yahuwseph (Joses) beheld where he was laid.


(Luke) 23:54-56 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on. And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.


In totality, the above verses together give us the complete picture of what happened after Machiach’s death, how His body was prepared for burial, and who observed this process. It is extremely important to notice that none of the above texts alone gives the complete story, and that you have to read all together to get the whole story. Joseph took Yahusha’s body after receiving permission from Pilate, bought a linen sheet, and bound the body with Nicodemus’ assistance.


Nicodemus had brought a hundred pounds of myrrh and aloes, which they bound with the body. The tomb was near where he was crucified, and it belonged to Joseph who had carved this tomb out of rock. It was a new tomb that had never before been used. Also, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses accompanied the body from the crucifixion stake and watched the entire process of burial.


When Yahusha’s body was laid in the tomb, then Joseph, assisted by Nicodemus, rolled a large stone in front of the tomb opening and left. Finally, the two Mary’s left and prepared spices and perfumes, before resting on the Sabbath. Up to this point, we have no evidence that the annual Sabbath and weekly Sabbath did not fall on the same day as traditionally taught.


The next collection of verses will explore the role of the women in preparing spices and perfumes with which they intended to anoint the body of Yahusha.


In the verses where the word “day” is italicized in the King James Version, the word “day” is highlighted in red to signify that the word “day” does not appear in the original text.


(Luke) 24:1-2 Now upon the first [day] of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.


(Matthew) 28:1-4 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. And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of The Most High Yah descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.


It is important at this point to give an explanation of the word “dawn” inMatthew 28:1. Most people assume that he resurrected on Sunday Morning because of this verse inMatthew 28:1.


The problem with Matthew 28:1 is that the word “dawn” is a poor translation from the Greek to English. If the English translators had realized that a new calendar date changes at sunset, they would have figured this out.


We know that the “end the Sabbath” cannot be talking about Sunday morning at sunrise. The Greek word there for “dawn” is the equivalent of a word in Hebrew that means “a mixture of light and dark.” Hence, the word should really be “dusk” as the sun was going down.


The Strong’s Hebrew Concordance reveals that at sundown is the “dawning of the new day” at twilight or dusk:


#5399. nesheph neh’-shef from 5398; properly, a breeze, i.e. (by implication) dusk (when the evening breeze prevails):--dark, dawning of the day (morning), night, twilight.


The Greek words are as follows:


#2020. epiphosko ep-ee-foce’-ko a form of 2017; to begin to grow light:--begin to dawn, draw on.


#2017. epiphauo ep-ee-fow’-o a form of 2014; to illuminate (figuratively):--give light.


You can see why the English translators thought that the word should be “dawn” as in early morning, just before sunrise. The Greek word epiphosko can mean “....to draw on,” and it can mean “the beginning of something” as in the “the dawning of a new era.”


For something to “dawn” means that something new is approaching. The term is much broader than the English word that we use to describe “sunrise.”


(Matthew) 28:1 And in the evening of the Sabbath as it was dusk, as the first [day] of the week began to dawn, came Mary of Magdala and the other Mary, to view the sepulcher.


You will notice that Murdock is calling this time of day “dusk” but he is saying that the “week” (Sabbaton in Greek) was beginning to “dawn” or to “draw on.” In other words it was not sunrise, but it was the end of the Sabbath at sundown, as the new week was approaching (dawning).


The MRC Translation translates it like this:


(Matthew) 28:1 Now late on the Shabbat, as it began to draw toward the first of the week, Miryam of Magdala and the other Miryam went to look at the grave.


Marqos (Mark) 16:1-4 And when the sabbath was past, Miryam (Mary) Magdalene, and Miryam (Mary) the mother of Ya’aqob (James), and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early in the morning the first [day] of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.


(John) 20:1-2 The first [day] of the week comes Miryam (Mary) Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and sees the stone taken away from the sepulchre. Then she runs, and comes to Shimone Keefa (Simon Peter), and to the other disciple, whom Yahusha loved, and said unto them, They have taken away The Most High Yah out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.


You may have to reread the above verses to notice that the women who had watched the body of Yahusha being laid in the tomb, prepared perfumes and spices. Then Mark 16 text says that Mary Magdalene and the other Mary bought spices AFTER the Sabbath and prepared them. While the Luke 23 text states that the women prepared spices and then rested on the Sabbath. This is consistent with an annual Sabbath on Thursday, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the weekly Sabbath on Saturday.


We know that these are the same women because the Bible verses all relate that Mary Magdalene was involved in all these events. However, two other Mary’s are mentioned, one the mother of James and Salome, and the other the mother of Joses. In all cases, Mary Magdalene was involved. Therefore, the women saw Yahusha’s body being laid in the tomb on a Wednesday afternoon; they rested on the annual Sabbath on Thursday, and bought spices on Friday.


They prepared the spices on the 6th day of the week (Friday) and then rested according to the commandment on the weekly Sabbath on Saturday. After the weekly Sabbath, they intended to anoint Yahusha’s body with the perfumes and spices. Therefore both intuitively and by evidence, we have proven that Passover was on the 4th day (Wednesday), that year, and that Yahusha did as He had said, which was to rise again after three days and three nights. What remains next to determine, is whether Yahusha rose as the weekly Sabbath was ending or at sunrise on Sunday?


You’ll notice through a comparison of the four gospels that Mary Magdalene and the disciples went to the tomb a number of times. In some it was still dark, and in some it was already light. It wasn’t until it was light on Sunday that they actually discovered that He had risen; in the first visits the tomb was empty.


The above text in John 20, tells us of the first visit by Mary Magdalene when it was dark, the tomb was empty, and she had not been told that Yahusha was risen, and only saw the stone rolled away. However, there is one verse which seems to tell us that Yahusha rose on the first day of the week.


(Mark) 16:9 Now when Yahusha was risen early the first [day] of the week, he appeared first to Miryam (Mary) Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.


“Early the first of the week” is immediately following the Sabbath at sundown on Saturday evening. It is called Havdalah in Hebrew which means “exiting the Sabbath.” The word “day” is not in the original text as indicated by the red highlighting, because it is italicized in the King James Version.


The above text would seem to conclusively prove that Yahusha rose early in the morning on the first day of the week, what we would call Saturday night. Some commentators have speculated that verses 9-20 of this chapter were later added since they weren’t in any of the early manuscripts. The original text did not have these punctuation marks in the Greek text, so they were added later. If a comma is added after risen, the verse takes on an entirely different meaning:


“Now after He had risen, early on the first [day] of the week He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons.”


This change is not altering scripture since it was not written with punctuation marks. This makes the verse consistent with all the four gospels, where Mary Magdalene visited the grave, shortly after the Sabbath ended, and saw the empty grave with the stone rolled away, but did not see an angel or see Yahusha. It was later, when the sun had risen on Sunday morning that she came with Mary the mother of James and Salome back to the tomb, saw an angel who told her that he had risen, and then they saw Yahusha.




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 Machiach to resurrect on Easter Sunday!


In reality, this was not a on a Sunday. Our Machiach 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 Machiach from the Bible (Tanakh or Old Testament). They did not recognize that it was Yahusha, the risen Machiach 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 Machiach 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 Machiach 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 Machiach, 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 Machiach 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.
There are a few more pieces of evidence that I have found which add more weight. The main purpose of this piece of evidence is to establish exactly what year our Machiach was crucified. We are going to learn that our Machiach spoke a prophecy about the destruction of Jerusalem exactly forty years before it happened. If we know that the Roman Siege took place in the year 70 C.E, and we know that our Machiach died 40 years earlier, that proves that his crucifixion took place in the year 30 C.E.




In the centuries following the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem (70 C.E.), the Jewish people began writing two versions of Jewish thought, religious history, and commentary. One was written in Palestine and became known as the Jerusalem Talmud. The other was written in Babylon and was known as the Babylonian Talmud.


We read in the Jerusalem Talmud:


“Forty years before the destruction of the Temple, the western light went out, the crimson thread remained crimson, and the lot for The Most High Yah always came up in the left hand. They would close the gates of the Temple by night and get up in the morning and find them wide open” (Jacob Neusner, The Yerushalmi, p.156-157). [the Temple was destroyed in 70 C.E.]


A similar passage in the Babylonian Talmud states:


“Our rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple the lot [‘For the Lord’] did not come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson-colored strap become white; nor did the western most light shine; and the doors of the Hekel [Temple] would open by themselves” (Soncino version, Yoma 39b).


What are these passages talking about? Since both Talmuds recount the same information, this indicates the knowledge of these events was accepted by the widespread Jewish community.


The Miracle of the “Lot”


The first of these miracles concerns a random choosing of the“lot” which was cast on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). The lot chosen determined which of two goats would be “for the The Most High Yah” and which goat would be the“Azazel” or “scapegoat.”


During the two hundred years before 30 C.E., when the High Priest picked one of two stones, again this selection was governed by chance, and each year the priest would select a black stone as often as a white stone. But for forty years in a row, beginning in 30 C.E., the High Priest always picked the black stone!


The odds against this happening are astronomical (2 to the 40th power). In other words, the chances of this occurring are 1 in approximately 5, 479, 548, 800 or about 5.5 billion to one! By comparison, your chances of winning your local state or municipal-run cash Lottery would be much more favorable!


The lot for Azazel, the black stone, contrary to all the laws of chance, came up 40 times in a row from 30 to 70 AD! This was considered a dire event and signified something had fundamentally changed in this Yom Kippur ritual. This casting of lots is also accompanied by yet another miracle which is described next.


The priests would also take a red ribbon (symbolizing sin) and tie half around the horn of the scapegoat and tie the other half to the temple door. The scape-goat bore the sins of the nation of Yisra’el. If Yah forgave them of their sins, the red ribbon on the temple door would miraculously turn white. This was done in front of a large crowd to show them they had The Most High’s favor:


(Isaiah) 1:18 “Come now, let us reason together,” says The Most High Yah. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”


Since 30 A.D., the ribbon stopped turning white as snow; this is also recorded in the Talmud:


Yoma 39b “Our rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple the lot [‘For The Most High Yah’] did not come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson-colored strap become white; nor did the western most light shine; and the doors of the Hekel [Temple] would open by themselves.”


There is only one possible explanation for this:


Because Yahusha Hamachiach was the perfect sin sacrifice who died in 30 A.D!


(Hebrews) 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.


Only His blood can truly atone for our sins and once He paid that price, animal sacrifice was worthless.


(Hebrews) 10:4-6 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure.


This was all done as a rehearsal for things to come, so Yisra’el would recognize the true Machiach when He came.


(Isaiah) 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? says The Most High Yah: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.


Another thing that is recorded in the Talmud is this historical mystery of the temple doors. The doors to the temple would swing open by themselves starting in 30 A.D. recorded in the Talmud:


Sota 6:3 Said Rabban Yohanan Ben Zakkai to the Temple, ‘O Temple, why do you frighten us? We know that you will end up destroyed. For it has been said, ‘Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedar.


Lastly, the most important menorah lamp that was to remain lit at all times kept going out on its own accord. The priests went to all measures to insure it would stay lit but much to their futile efforts, the menorah kept going out. Yahusha died for our sins and just like the book of Hebrews tells us, the priesthood changed.


Machiach is now our High Priest and has given us access to the Father. It is also significant that the temple was destroyed in 70 A.D, exactly 40 years after Yahusha’s death. Yah gave Yisra’el 40 years to repent of their sins and to accept Yahusha as their Machiach. And when they did not, (in spite of all the signs he gave them), their probationary period ended in 70 A.D. and their temple and city was destroyed just as Yahusha prophesied.


Earnest Martin states:


“In fact, we are told in the Talmud that at dusk the lamps that were unlit in the daytime (the middle four lamps remained unlit, while the two eastern lamps normally stayed lit during the day) were to be re-lit from the flames of the western lamp (which was a lamp that was supposed to stay lit all the time it was like the ‘eternal’ flame that we see today in some national monuments)...”


“…This ‘western lamp’ was to be kept lit at all times. For that reason, the priests kept extra reservoirs of olive oil and other implements in ready supply to make sure that the ‘western lamp’ (under all circumstances) would stay lit. But what happened in the forty years from the very year Machiach said the physical Temple would be destroyed? Every night for forty years the western lamp went out, and this in spite of the priests each evening preparing in a special way the western lamp so that it would remain constantly burning all night!” (The Significance of the Year C.E. 30, Ernest Martin, Research Update, April 1994, p.4).


For a better understanding of how our Machiach fulfilled the Passover Lamb, I recommend reading these two blogs at the links below:


Did Machiach Eat the Passover Before He Died?


Did Our Machiach Observe Passover or the Last Supper?