timtofly
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Passover is always on the 15th of Nissan. Because the day of preparation is the 14th day after a new moon. Sometimes the full moon is prior to the 15th and sometimes on the 15th. But the calendar was adjusted by the new moon and the 14th is always the day of preparation.
So at some time in the first few hundred years, after the Cross, someone chose the wrong year as the actual crucifixion, thus placing the Passover on a Saturday. That you would not accept the Passover on any other day than Saturday is telling. In light of the fact that you are attempting to show a Hebrew mindset, it does not matter what day the Passover is on.
Unlike Christians who celebrate Easter on the first Sunday after a full moon, the Hebrews celebrated the Passover on the 15th day after a new moon. The same moon, is used so they are close to each other.
Easter is always on a Sunday. Passover could be any day of the week. It was also called the high Sabbath whether it happened on a Sabbath or not, because it was one of the special feast days of the year. The Passover Lamb was always prepared on the day prior to the evening of the Passover as the blood was placed on the door frame as a sign to the death angel that the firstborn in that household should not die.
Good Friday is not sound doctrine. It may be doctrine and accepted by the universal church, but so is infant baptism. No one can change the past so it is rather pointless to prove a past event.
But there are some points of this 8 day week that are rather interesting. This was the second of 3 such 8 day weeks that change the course of Hebrew history.
If you change the day of the week to Friday it sort of messes up what the midst of the week symbolizes. Friday is not the midst of the week.
Still 3.5 days can split a 7 day week, even if 8 days are involved. Certainly your analogy is looking back, but can it look forward?
The first 8 day week was marching around Jericho. The Cross was the second. The 7th Trumpet is the third week of 8 days. The 7th Trumpet starts out declaring the kingdoms of the earth all belonging to Jesus on a Sunday, just like Palm Sunday. What happens after 3.5 days is prophetic.
Here is the other implication of an 8 day week. Earth itself will consist of 8 thousand year periods with 6 days (6,000 years) of labor and Adam's punishment in between 2 Days of the Lord. Remember the Sabbath was a command. What Sabbath are we to remember? The first Lord's Day. The 6th day was the day humans were created on and the 7th day was the day of rest.
More than that the 7th Day was also the first Day of the week of current creation. A Sunday as the Lord's Day. The final Sabbath of rest is also the 8th day of the week, but the 7th after Adam's punishment. Did the Hebrews think they were in the 5000th year instead of the 4000th when Christ was born. They should if they remembered that first Lord's Day. If you go from when Adam disobeyed the half way point of 3500 years would be the Babylonian captivity. Daniel hinted there would be 3500 years left. Time being 1000 years, 2 times would be 2,000 years and 500 years as half a time. However half of 8000 is 4000 years so 500 years prior to Daniel would be the halfway point. About the time of King David and Solomon, the Golden years of Israel. The Cross did not happen in the middle even of only 7,000 years. Can the days of creation echo history? The achievements of humanity have flourished in the last 1,000 year period. Jesus will once again bring a period of rest without sin and death, before creation is handed back to God.
Not that Jesus has to die on a particular day, but certainly trying to defend Friday is certainly an interesting theory, considering why the demand for Good Friday to begin with. Going by Friday places the Passover in the year 33AD. Looking for a more suitable day, gives us a Passover on Thursday of 30AD. Nothing in Scripture contradicts Thursday being a suitable day in 30AD. And having the Cross as an event on a Wednesday is plausible. The only contradiction is a man made doctrine that has a reason obscured by history, or purposely hidden from the church body as a whole. It was never a creed.
But one source of information stated that the early church always celebrated on the eve of Easter Sunday, but since Passover sometimes fell on that Saturday it was banned by the church to not confuse it with the Passover, at a time the church persecuted the Jews. The Passover fell on the Sabbath frequently. But there is no indication the early church thought nor celebrated a yearly Friday event. Nor was it ever instituted always on a Friday by a creed. It was only changed from a Saturday observances to a Friday observance to not be on the same day as a Passover celebration. Obviously lent was added which was not part of the passion week but about the fasting of Jesus before He started His earthly ministry. Then more days were added to the passion week. In Scripture the day of the Cross itself was never a seperate celebration from the Resurrection. The church already distanced itself by celebrating the first day of the week as a resurrection, especially since the blood of animal sacrifices was done away with as Jesus was the only Lamb required by God. The church focused more on new life and the 2nd birth over a certain day each year when the Cross was remembered. That and the Lord's supper prior to the Cross was communion every time they met, normally on a Sunday. Not just a yearly commemoration. The supper became so commonplace, Paul wrote that it had become abusive instead of a remembrance.
It was pointed out that perhaps is was not well defined, so as not to be a certain day to take away from gospel itself?
To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.”