Posted by Steven Benjamin on April 11, 2009, 5:45 pm, in reply to "Sabbath Study: US NAVAL reports on MOON PHASES for March's New Moon"
Ok, Ressurection DAY and THE ANNIVERSARY OF CHRIST's RESSURECTION are in fact TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.
If one notes to observe the actual ANNIVERSARY of Christs RESSURECTION, then one would note that he was Crucified on 14 Nissan. Hebrew timestandards for what is the 9th hour of the day can get confusing. I believed this once pointed to just about noon. Others point that it was later in the day, about 3 pm.
There was a time I thought it was about 6 am, due to the day beginning in the evening, and so the 9 hrs from the onset of NIGHT which occurs officially about 40 minutes to 72 minutes after sunset, would be somewhere about dawn.
What we I do know is because he kept the passover feast, he was Crucified on the 14th of Nissan due to the Calendar of events.
Now Scripture records:
JOHN 19:31
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross 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.
There are those who argue he was Crucified on the day approaching a HIGH Holy Sabbath, which demanded he had to be buried before sunset on Nissan 15. Scripture supports this. There is arguements however that the RABBINICAL counsel in that day, event today, INCORRECTLY Observe NISSAN 15 as a HIGH HOLY DAY. And Scripture supports that stance as well. While various interpretations justify observing Nissan 15,
the fact is EXODUS 12 clearly states a Date for the Feast of Unleavened Bread to occur between "the 14th day of the 1st month until the 21st Day of the 1st month" SO, while the 15th may indeed be the anniversary of the EXODUS, the acutal PASSOVER and beginning of the feast of Unleavened Bread BOTH BEGIN on the same night, ABIB 14, or NISSAN 14.
Now in any event the PASSOVER feast was and is still Celebrated on 14 Nissan and following the events from the Last Supper Forward, we see that Christ was Crucified on the following Roman morning. Then by accounting one night, one day you arrive at 15 Nissan just before Sunset, two days, two nights, 16 Nissan, three days three nights 17 Nissan, to place according to passages of Scripture that Christ rose in the very 1st hour of the 18th day of Nissan, which would have been just after dark on a ROMAN Saturday, or the very FIRST HOUR of the HEBREW Sunday. Scripture Shows in 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.
2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
Now when does Sabbath End? At SUNSET! You see the concept of the DAWN Of the NEW DAY by ROMANIZED thinking looks at SUNRISE to BE DAWN, but the HEBREW concept looks at the FIRST HOUR following SUNSET, to be the DAWN of the NEW DAY.
SO In 31 C.E. Christ Ressurected in the very FIRST HOUR of the HEBREW SUNDAY, the DAWNING of that new day, which occurred just after SUNSET on a ROMAN Saturday. That would have began 18 NISSAN.
So if you believe that Tuesday at Sunset actually began Nissan 14, then at SUNSET today, in the first hour, would mark the lITERAL anniverary of his Ressurection by calculating a 3 full days and 3 full nights timeframe from the burial of Christ...BURIAL in a borrowed tomb..."IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH."
If you follow OFFICIAL standards for the schedule of THE NEW MOON, which would place 14 Nissan to have begun at SUNSET Wednesday...then the actual timeframe of the 3day, 3 night following ressurection, would occure at SUNSET Tommorrow in the first HOUR of the HEBEREW MONDAY, and the final hours of the Roman Easter Sunday. If you hold to those who follow the WAXING CRESCENT of the New Moon to be accounted as THE NEW MOON, which occurred on a Gregorian Friday, March 27th, then THE Actual Anniversary will be in the first HOUR after Sunset on MONDAY, or the 1st hour of the Hebrew Tuesday.
NOW, as to "Ressurection DAY"...this celebration is ALWAYS on the FIRST SUNDAY following Passover. Which on some years can be as much as 6 days apart and not THREE at all! On some years, this could be ONE day apart.
The reason for this is that CHRIST YEHESHUA rose in the first hour of The Hebrew SUNDAY, but a VERY SPECIFIC SUNDAY, on which the Waiv Sheaf offering was made. This is for very signifacant doctrinal reasons and symbolic observances to the same. AND some years, as last year, even THAT SUNDAY, was approx a MONTH prior to what the world celebrated as EASTER SUNDAY!
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