Blessings folk!

Time for the yearly reminder (rant?).


Today is Wednesday, April 8, Nisan 14 in the Hebrew calendar.
(Unless I’m mistaken, “our” calendar and the Hebrew calendar align this year with the week that Jesus died&hellip

Leviticus tells us this…

Lev 23:5
‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the LORD’S Passover.

“At twilight” means “between the evening”…literally 3 pm.

Nisan 14 was the “day of preparation” for the Passover meal.
The lamb was killed at 3 pm.
The meal was prepared.
They sat down to eat the meal…at sunset.
At sunset a new day began…remember, the day begins at sunset in the Hebrew calendar.
Nisan 15 begins.
Nisan 15 is the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread - a High Day, a holy convocation day, a sabbath day.

Lev 23:6-7
‘Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

‘On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.

Jesus is our Passover Lamb.

1Co 5:7b
…For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

Here is the correct sequence of events according to the Word…

Jesus died at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Nisan 14.
He had to be taken off the cross because at sunset a new day began, a sabbath day.
Not the weekly sabbath.
The holy convocation of the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

John 19:14
Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover;
it was about the sixth hour.
And he said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

 John 19:31
Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

 John 19:42
Therefore because of the Jewish day of preparation,
since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

Evening/morning - Nisan 15 (Thu)
Evening/morning - Nisan 16 (Fri)
Evening morning - Nisan 17 (Sat)
Evening…Nisan 18 begins…Sunday, the Lord was resurrected at some time prior to the women finding the tomb empty just before dawn.

It is as Jesus said…

Mat 12:39-40
But He answered and said to them,
“An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign;
and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet;

for just as JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE SEA MONSTER, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Three days.
Three nights.
Full.
Complete.
Not “portions thereof” as many try to teach.

Why is this important?
Well, we do not separate fellowship over such.
But, it is important.
Simple.
Why not be accurate?
Why not be correct?
People have questions.
People are curious.
If we are not willing to learn and then provide the truth over a simple, clear matter of timing, why will they listen to us about other things?

I have had folk get really bent out of shape about this.
Such should not be.
Go ahead.
Have all the various man-made gatherings to remember the various occurrences of the last week of the Lord in corporeal existence upon the earth.
It will do you no harm.

But, know the truth.
None of these gatherings/remembrances are mandates by the Word or the Lord…only by man.
Know that the timing of the last week - and there are many, many elements - confirms that which the Lord had given to His people through the ages.

And remember this…

In the same way that He fulfilled every prophetic element about His first coming, He will fulfill the Word related to His coming again.

The Lord gives us much insight and understanding.

Let us learn the Truth.
Fear not!

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