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Ituttut,
“Passover is death to some, and life to others. It happened, as scripture can prove, just as Wednesday and Thursday were blending together.
Leviticus 23:6-7, ”And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. 7. In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.”
Leviticus above, 23:5-7 tells us when Passover blood is applied. I believe Jesus' body had to be in the Tomb just at the close of Nisan 14, and the beginning of Nisan 15 in Israel's time keeping. But Jesus' blood has to be available before Passover comes. So when did Jesus die? We know it was on Nisan 14 (preparation day) and this particular year it was a Wednesday, and He died at 3pm. The blood was now available to be applied as Wednesday turns into Thursday.
3pm Wednesday to 3pm Thursday is 24 hours. 3pm Thursday to 3pm Friday is 24 hours. 3pm Friday to 3pm Saturday (the regular Sabbath) is 24 hours. It is just as He says, i.e. three days, and three nights will be accomplished according to HIS TIME.
On His death we know he was in Paradise, and it was at 3pm He died and was in the Heart of the earth. That means his Spirit and Soul returned to His body at 3pm on that Saturday. So He arose from the heart of the earth on the third day.
But we must account for the Passover time, and Jesus arising in His Body, and coming forth from the Tomb.”
GE:
I read things I agree on, like, “…his Spirit and Soul returned to His body at 3pm on that Saturday. So He arose from the heart of the earth on the third day.” But I admit, I don’t see or understand, how you got there.
I also, see things I disagree with – just about everything else of what you say. But I can understand why I don’t understand anything of it— it’s because I cannot find anything of it in the Scriptures, Ituttut, sorry mate.
The Scriptures that you quote, you mix up so much, it’s difficult to follow your logic. But I do know your logic if it could be called that; and it’s all wrong of course.
Why is it wrong?
Here’s a few things why it’s wrong…
… “scripture can prove, just as Wednesday and Thursday were blending together.”
Which “Scripture”?
“Leviticus 23:6-7 … 23:5-7 ”?
No! These Scriptures “prove” nothing of the kind!
So here’s the actual ‘proof’ of Ituttut’s OWN,
“We know … this particular year it was a Wednesday”
“We know” is not “scripture” if it’s not “scripture”, but it’s “We” who THINK “We know”. Meantime it’s “We” who ASSUME and then take our assumption for a priori conditional knowledge.
It does not work that way.
So, “We”, “prove”, “just as Wednesday and Thursday were blending together”, “Passover … happened”, and what “happened”, was, “death to some, and life to others”.
But Ituttut, The Scriptures prove, “death to some, and life to others”, “happened”, “in the night … by night”, “this night”, “And it HAPPENED, that at MIDNIGHT the LORD smote all the firstborn”. Exodus 12:30,31,12,29.
Do you believe a midnight to midnight day-cycle, Ituttut?
Do you say Israel killed the passover lamb after sunset before midnight, and ate it after midnight?
If you do, then the firstborn of the Israelites would also have been killed. The blood on the doorposts had to be ON the door posts before sunset because everyone had to be inside his house all night until midnight when Israel had to move out!
So even if you mean the passover was killed literally only “just as Wednesday and Thursday …” or whichever two days “… were blending together” at sunset, it still would be IMPOSSIBLE to have “happened” because the blood had to be applied to the door posts and lintel before night and before the Israelites were to be indoors and were to stay indoors and were “not (to) go out of his house until morning” Exodus 12:22 and the turn of day at midnight. The meal and the day of the meal, BEGAN, here, already, “In the evening ye shall eat” Exodus 12:18.
WHAT “happened” is most important to know exactly, so that one should not be confused about WHEN it happened.
Passover – sacrifice – was KILLED on, the fourteenth;
Passover – meal – was EATEN, on, the fifteenth.
These two passover events “happened” about six hours apart; three hours after sacrifice before sunset plus three hours after sunset before meal.
The demarcation between the passover day of sacrifice and the passover day of feast was clear and central; as the demarcation between the passover day of feast and passover “bone-” or “middle-day-of-that-which-remained”, was clear and central, RIGHT ON SUNSET! And the same remains for the passover “feast day of great sabbath” and “the day that you waved the sheaf”— the demarcation between them was clear and central, RIGHT ON SUNSET!
Again, Ituttut, “… it was on Nisan 14 (preparation day …” : “OF THE PASSOVER” John 19:14; “… and He died at 3pm. The blood was now available to be applied …” during the remainder of sacrifice-day the fourteenth, and had to be finished applied, BEFORE, “as” the sacrifice-day “… turns into …” the feast-day.
Then, how do you get that “Leviticus 23:5-7 tells us when Passover blood is applied”? Blood was applied ONCE, at the actual exodus; never again, and that’s why Leviticus says NOTHING about the blood being applied to doorposts.
Ituttut, it’s not possible what you say, “I believe Jesus' body had to be in the Tomb just at the close of Nisan 14, and the beginning of Nisan 15 in Israel's time keeping.” It just doesn’t make any sense, and leaves us in total darkness as to what “Israel's time keeping” was.
All this confusion JUST BECAUSE YOU PRESUPPOSE FOR FACT, THE FALLACY, “Jesus' body had to be in the Tomb just at the close of Nisan 14” which is RIGHT ON SUNSET.
No! I repeat what I have said above, “He shall not hang ALL NIGHT, but before daylight be taken down and the SAME day, buried.” Deuteronomy 21:23 et al.
And that IS PROVEN BY AND IN THE CASE of Jesus Christ the Lamb of God Our Passover forevermore.
He died the ninth hour (3 p.m.) and was FINISHED buried, 3 p.m., “mid-afternoon” Luke 23:54.
The day He was crucified and died on, began with “evening” after sunset; and
the day He was buried on, began with “evening” after sunset.
Never a divergence.
Re:
Ituttut,
“But Jesus' blood has to be available before Passover comes. So when did Jesus die?”
A very, very deep question!
Yes, Jesus' blood had to be available before Passover came. “So when did Jesus die?” He died dying death and suffered the death of death “In the night in which He was betrayed and took bread”!
Jesus ALIVE AND LIVING, DESIRING AND OBEDIENTLY, DIED DEATH FOR OUR SINS. It was his suffering that atones for our transgressions and that makes us whole. It was the beginning of the Beginning of the creation of God. Where it seemed to be its end. Where Paradise was hell. Where the Kingdom of the Father was the kingdom of darkness. Where the hour and day of shame and being cast out into the pit, were the hour and “Day of the Lord” Triumphator. “For the LORD is a MAN of war. He triumphed GLORIOUSLY!”
Jesus Christ triumphed through DEATH.
God Almighty DIED IN VICTORY.
“God had sworn with an oath … He would RAISE UP CHRIST to sit on His Throne.”
And if Christ died not?
God, God forbid!, would have sworn falsely!