Three days and Three nights
Before we get into a
discussion whether part of the day is considered as a day by rabbinic law, we
have to lay some ground rules.
1. What is taught in the OT
has to equal what is taught in the NT and vise-versa
2. Deut 4:2; Deut 12:32; Rev
22:18?? You can neither add nor
subtract/diminish from the word of God.
Webster's Encyclopedia of Dictionaries Definitions
And Conjunction added to; together with; a word
that joins words, clauses, or sentences.
Day (Heb Yom)The period from sunrise to sunset
(approximately 12 hours); the period of the sun's revolution on its axis; 24
hours; time of life;
Night the time of darkness from sunset to sunrise
(approximately 12 hours); end of daylight; intellectual spiritual darkness;
ignorance; death.
Or Conjuction. introducing an althernative; if
not;
Bible Dictionary Definitions
for Day and Night
One of the commonest and most ancient of
the divisions of time. As used in Gen 1:5., day marks an entire revolution of
time, as of natural day and night --not day as distinguished from night, but
day and night together. "If the days of creation are regulated by the
recurring interchange of light and darkness, they must be regarded not as periods of time of incalculable
duration, of years or thousands of years, but as simple earthly days. It is
true the morning and evening of the first three days were nor produced by the
rising and setting of the sun, since the sun was not yet created; but the
constantly recurring interchange of light and darkness, which produced day and
night upon the earth, cannot for a moment be understood as denoting that the
light called forth form the darkness of chaos returned to that darkness again,
and thus periodically burst forth and disappeared. The only way in which we can
represent it to ourselves is by supposing that the light called forth by the
creative mandate was separated from the dark mass of the earth, and concentrated
outside or above the globe, so that the interchange of light and darkness took
place as soon as the dark chaotic mass began to rotate, and to assume in the
process of creation the form of a spherical body. The time occupied in the
first rotations of the earth upon its axis cannot, indeed, be measured by our
hourglass; but even if they were slower at first, and did not attain their
present velocity till the completion of our solar system, this would make no
essential difference between the first three days and the last three, which
were regulated by the rising and setting of the sun.
Day as signifying a period of 24 hours is
found both in the OT and NT. The days of creation (Gen 1:5++) are reckoned
"evening and morning, day x" (Gen 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23). The Hebrews
after the Exile and in the NT times, like the Babylonians, reckoned the day as
beginning with sunset and extending to the following sunset (Sabbath rest, Neh
13:19; Passover, and Mazzoth festival , Ex 12:6-10, 18; Kev 23:32). In earlier
times the night was reckoned with the preceding day (Gen 19:34; Lev 7:15;
22:30; Jgs 19:4-9; 1 Sam 19:11). In popular speech day more commonly signifies
the hours of daylight from sunrise to sunset. Day and night are contrasted as
distinct realities in the creation account of Gen 1:4, where light is separated
from the darkness of chaos and called day (Job 38:12-20). The Mesopotamian
division of daylight into 12 double hours and the night into three watches does
not appear in the OT. In the NT the Jews had adopted the Greek division of the
day into 12 hours from sunrise to sunset; the length of the hours varied
according to the season of the year (Matt 20:3,5,6; Jn 11:9). Commonly also day
is used to signify an appointed time (eth, chronus), a season (Kairous), or a
period of time.
The basic unit of time was the day. Like
all ancients, the Israelites watched the movement of the sun (and shadow) as a
mark of the passing of the day. They counted days, months,and years, and
divided the nights into three watches (Jud 7:19; Ps 90:4; 119:148; Jer 51:12;
Hab 2:1). So far as we know, the divisions of the day were not into exact
hours; but evening and morning, midday and dawn were the usual designations.
From the variations in sunrise and sunset this division, which had these
natural phenomena for its two terminations, could never be exact and was
therefore unsuited to nations that had reached a high degree of civilization.
Such nations accordingly adopted midnight as the fixed point from which the
daily cycle might be reckoned, divided into twice twelve, to twenty-four hours.
Night. The unit of time
designating the period from sunset to sunrise, including the morning and
evening twilight. 3 watches; Greek and roman divide the night into 4 watches
(Matt 6:48; 14:24).
Hour. The Babylonians
divided their days into 12 bere (the Grk hora; Eng. hour). These were two of
our hours in duration, for a certain Babylonian astrologer reports that at the
equinox the six bere of the day and the six of the night were exactly equal.
There is no evidence in the OT that the Hebrews had any such hour or double
hour, though by NT times the hour was well established and they had become
single hours, 12 for the day and 12 for the night (Jn 11:9).
The original division of the day into 12
parts comes from the Sumero-Babylonian sexagesimal system of numbering, which
some believe may have originally derived form the obvious 12 lunations of the
moon through each seasonal cycle. Curiously this system survives to the present
day not only in our measurement of the day in hours but hours into minutes and
minutes into seconds.
(From my research into time,
months, years, hours, etc. over a four year period, God is still following
sunset to sunset as his rule for a 24 hour day) For God, His day is from
sunrise to sunset and His night is from sunset to sunrise, so when Yeshua
refers to three days and three nights,
He is referring to three 24-hour periods or 72 hours, and not 52 or 36 hours.
Now that we have looked from
a Biblical dictionary perspective as to what consists for a day and a night,
let us go to the math department and do the math in long written form. After
the math, we shall go and check out the calendars from 28 AD to 33 AD to find
the year of His death.
Jon_1:17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to
swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three
nights.
Mat 12:40 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.
Most people believe Yeshua died on Good
Friday at 3 PM and rose on Sunday at sunrise. Lets postulate that he was buried
around 5 PM so the people putting His body in the cave or grotto coud get back home by sunset. (We will
use this 5 PM for all of our math examples). We know by the scriptures that He
rose at night. So lets use three am as our starting point and work backwards.
(Draw U's touching each other for seven times. Each tip will represent a 24
hour period.) From 3am Sunday morning to 3am Saturday is 24 hours. From 3am
Saturday morning to 5 PM is an additional 7 hours. This totals 31 hours. If
Yeshua was to be in the ground for 72 hours, what happened to the remaining
hours. (It is also interesting to note that Palm Sunday to Friday does not
match at all to Exodus 12:3?? and Leviticus 23). There has to be four days
between home entry and the death of the lamb and not five days.
Based on the above evidence, the Good
Friday to Sunday is all lies.
B) Some suggest Yeshua died
on Thursday and not Friday.
Let us check the math here using the above
example in A. Sunday 3 AM to Saturday 3 AM = 24; Saturday 3 am to Friday 3 am =
24 hours. Now 48 hours has passed (24+24=48). We know from the previous example
that we have to add 7 hours. 48+7=55 hours. What happened to the remaining
hours?
Based on this evidence, Example B is also
a lie.
C) Some suggest Yeshua died
on Wednesday afternoon.
Let us check the math here using the above
example in A. Sunday 3 AM to Saturday 3 AM = 24; Saturday 3 am to Friday 3 am =
24 hours. Now 48 hours has passed (24+24=48). Friday 3 am to Thursday 3 am is
24 hours. We have now hit 72 hours but we still have to add 7 hours. 72+7=79 hours. Opps, we went over 72
hours so this must be a lie also.
D) Some suggest Yeshua rose
on the Sabbath somewhere between 5-7 PM.
Let us check the math out between here and
Wednesday since the other days do not add up to 72 hours. We are also going to
use the 6 PM burial time and go forward from there. Wednesday 6 PM to Thursday
6 PM to Friday 6 PM to Saturday 6 PM equals 72 hours (24+24+24=72 hours). Wow!!
Just imagine that He arose on Saturday Night and not Sunday after midnight
which the math does not add up to.
By
Jewish customs, the Feast of First Fruits had to be lifted up at the beginning
of the Jewish day, not in the middle of it, (Check out all the articles
concerning the Feast of First Fruits on the CD I give out freely--editor).
Passover--Passion Week:
AD 10
Passover Unleavened
bread Feast of First Fruits
28 Thursday
Monday, March 29; Tuesday Sunday
29 Tuesday
Saturday, April 16; Sunday
Sunday
30 Saturday
Wednesday, April 5 Thursday
Sunday
31 Thursday
Monday, March 26 Tuesday Sunday
32 Thursday
Monday, April 14 Tuesday Sunday
33 Monday
Friday, April 3 Saturday Sunday
Based on this data, Yeshua died in 30 AD
or CE. There are some who say that He died in 33 CE but this puts the Feast of
First Fruits on a Tuesday which does not line up with the Scriptures in
Leviticus 23. AS you notice there is not a single Passover on Thursday but
there is one on a Friday. However, on the Friday Passover, 72 hours would make
the Feast of First Fruits be on a Tuesday.
Passion Week Information
S= Sabbath; P= Passover; UB=
Unleavend bread; FF= First Fruits; PS Preperation for Sabbath; AS=Annual Sabbath
Days S
M T W
T F S S
30CE 10 11
12 13 14
15 16 17
S
PS AS PS
S
P UB
FF
Based on this Roman calendar of 30 CE;
Yeshua died in 30 CE and Palm Sunday was on a Saturday of that year based from
these Biblical locations: Exod 12:3; Lev 23:11; Matt 28:1; Mrk 16:1,2; Lk 24:1;
Jn 20:1.
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