The Day of Jesus Resurrection Revealed

The Day of Jesus Resurrection Revealed

I want to make this message short and sweet. I am not out to change anyone, for I know some would rather fight than switch. But I am obligated by God to replace error with truth.

God does nothing for the sake of just doing something. Everything God does with a purpose.

When God does something on a particular day that Day and time is significant. If God dies on a specific day, we need to know what Day and the purpose behind that Day.

Seventh-day is a special day. The Seventh Day is called the last Day. The Last Day is the Day in scripture, where God declares that he will raise the dead in Christ. When speaking of his body, Jesus said,

"Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days."

They replied, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?" But the temple he had spoken of was his body. (John 2:19-21).

Jesus spoke of his resurrection when he said the last Day I would raise it. We have known the last Day to be the seventh Day; it's the Day of the Sabbath.

But for reasons unknown to most, the Day of his resurrection changed to the First Day of the week, which is Sunday.

The Day of the resurrection the Bible Scholars changed to Sunday. But before we go there, let me share something else with° you.

The easiest and quickest way to know when Jesus resurrected is to see the Day Jesus died. For we know that it's three days and three nights after his death that he said he would rise.

Have you ever heard the expression the Day you were born was the Day you died? Some of the younger people may not have.

With Jesus, it's right on two sides. What do I mean by that? First, Jesus died the moment he became flesh because, when Jesus became flesh, he also became sin. When the Word became sin, he died. The Word became mortal.

In the beginning, was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1).

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John 1:14).

Secondly, we measure the time from Adam to the birth of Jesus. From Adam to Abraham, there are two thousand years. From the time of Abraham to the birth of Jesus are two thousand years, and it's four thousand years from the time of Adam to Jesus. Thus, Jesus was born in the year of four thousand.

In the year that our Lord was born, he also died. That is to say, Jesus died in the four thousandth year.

Also, we want to tie what we said above with what the scripture means when it says a thousand years is as a day unto the Lord. And a day as a thousand years.

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. (2 Peter 3:8).

Therefore, when looking at a thousand years, Jesus died in the four thousandth year. But when looking at the time at the level of four days, like one, two, there, and four, Jesus died four days from the first day.

The First Day of the week is Sunday. If we count four days from Sunday, we land on Wednesday. Jesus died on a Wednesday.

Jesus said he would be in the grave three days and three nights. Now, let's do the math.

Jesus was on the cross until the ninth hour. We find the ninth hour to be three o'clock in the afternoon. The count is from six AM till three PM. We're counting watch hours. There are three hours per watch.

Thus, from six AM, until nine AM, there are three hours. From nine AM to noon, there are three hours. From twelve noon to three PM, there are three hours. Three times three equals nine; Jesus remains on the cross until the ninth hour, which is three PM.

On Wednesday afternoon, they had what's called the time of preparation. This time of preparation is called the Sabbath, but it's only a time of preparation for the Sabbath.

Because they were preparing for the Sabbath, they treated this time as the Sabbath.

The time of preparation begins at sunset. So not wanting to violate the Sabbath, they needed to get Jesus off the cross before sunset; because even though they were only preparing for the Sabbath, yet no other working allowed, moving the body of Jesus considered working.

Receiving the body of Jesus, they put his body in the tomb. Because at the time of placing the body in the grave, there was still light, Wednesday we count as one day or light.

Thus, Wednesday during the light is one day, and Wednesday night is one night.

Thursday during the light hours is two days. Thursday night is two days.

Friday during the light hour is three days. Friday from six PM till three AM is three nights.

Jesus resurrected at the end of the Sabbath, which ran from six PM Friday evening and lasted until Saturday morning at three AM.

The First Day of The Week

I know that some are yet skeptical. Thus, there's one other discrepancy we need to give our attention.

Some hold Sunday morning as the Day of the resurrection, and Friday as the day of the crucifixion. But everyone with any intelligence knows that we cannot get three days and three nights from Friday to Sunday morning. But yet we preach this false message year after year. Let's give our attention to the following text.

And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.

And very early in the morning the first Day of the week, they came unto the sepulcher at the rising of the sun. (Mark 16:1-2).

Notice it said when the Sabbath had passed. In another place, it says at the end of the Sabbath. Verse two says, very early in the morning, the First Day of the week. It's the statement here in Marks gospel that's used as a premise to set the day of the resurrection on Sunday morning.

Knowing that we cannot get three days and three nights from Friday to Sunday, you would think we would conclude it to be a translation error, but we didn't. But that's what we have.

The words the first Day of the week leads us to think that the resurrection is on Sunday. But we know that it cannot be because we can't get three days and three nights from Friday to Sunday morning. Ladies and gentlemen, God is not the author of confusion.

Thus the error is in the wording placed by the translators. Let's look at this.

First, note the words' early in the' are not in the original writing but added by the translator for clarity.

Thus, it starts by saying, and very morning. The Word translated 'morning' is the Greek Word that means at dawn. The word 'very' tells us that it is still dark. The light shines in increments; light grows, and each increase equals one dawn.

In the book of Genesis, God called the light Day. Thus the Day and the light are synonymous. Light is Day, and Day is light.

Therefore, it was the first Day or light of the week. The Greek Word translated 'week' is the same Word translated 'Sabbath.'

Thus, it was the first light of the Sabbath as the light began to dawn, the early dawn. There are six increments of light (called dawn) that makes one full Day.

The Evening and the Morning

God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the First Day. (Genesis 1:5).

Notice it says the evening and the morning. The first thing I would like to ask is, what do we have between the hours of the evening to morning? Your answer should be the darkness. Thus, God is doing work with the dark hours.

The Hebrew word translated evening is the Word for 'dusk.'

The Hebrew word translated 'morning' means dawn. From dusk to dawn equals light one. Dawn is the first light or Day of the Seventh-day.

They came to the tomb of Jesus at the first light of the Sabbath.

The midnight hour is the darkest. The midnight hour reaches its peak at three AM or the ninth hour.

Jesus was on the cross until the ninth hour or three PM. Jesus was in the grave until the ninth hour or three AM Saturday morning.

At the ninth hour of his death, the light was at its peak. At the night hour of the time of his resurrection, it was the darkest hour.

For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people; but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee. (Isaiah 60:2).

The people of God have viewed God's work in Genesis as the beginning of all things. When I read the book of Genesis, I see God purging the light of the darkness.

In Genesis, I see the work of redemption. The definition of the word redemption is riddance. Redemption is getting rid of the old man of the flesh. The former is dissolving at the appearance of the new. Darkness changed into light.

God Blessed and Sanctified the Sabbath Day

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

2 And on the seventh Day, God ended his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh Day from all his work which he had made.

And God blessed the seventh Day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Please open your eyes because we have read these verses with our eyes closed for too long. In the context, the work is what we see in chapter one of Genesis.

In chapter two, God blessed the work of chapter one. The Word translated 'blessed' is the Hebrew word that means 'to bow.'

The day or light Seven is the finished product of Day (light) one through six.

God both blessed and Sanctified Day seven. Day seven stood before God, God acknowledging Day seven, he bowed and Sanctified Day seven. Like a night in the presence of the king, God bowed, pronouncing the Seventh Day clean. In his observation of the Seventh Day, he declared the Seventh Day clean.

Day one was not complete without Day two. Day one and two incomplete without Day three. Day one, two, and three Incomplete without Day four. Day one through four incomplete without Day five. Day one through five incomplete without Day six. Day one through six equals one full Day. The one complete light is called the Seventh Day.

God called the Seventh Day clean. God would not need to pronounce the Seventh Day clean if it had not been unclean? We have failed to see God cleaning up a mess already made; this is what we should see when reading the Bible.

Furthermore, when God sanctified the Seventh, he Sanctified his people. If this is the case, then the Seventh-day is the people of God; the Seventh is the children of light. God rested from his work, and we are to rest from our work. We are to no longer walk after our flesh; to do so is to violate the Sabbath.

Moreover, also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between them and me, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them." (Ezekiel 20:12).

The natural Sabbath is a sign that God has cleansed his people. We violate the Sabbath when we do things our way when we seek our pleasure and speak our own words.

If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy Father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. (Isaiah 58:13-14).

The Hebrew word translated 'delight' means to become pliable. When we are flexible to God, it is then that God can do with us what needs to be. We need to abandon our way, our pleasure, and our words, for God's pleasure, way, and words.

Jesus resurrected on the Sabbath as the scripture foretold. I was told by some deer soul years ago, that it doesn't matter. But knowing the truth always matters, for only the fact will make us free.

I want to know the truth and not some imitation of the fact. I don't want your theory. I don't want to know what it might be, could be or maybe. I want the truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God.

Jesus said when the Spirit of truth appears, he will guide us into all the truth. It's time that we begin to allow the Spirit to do what he's here to do.

We should never give our thoughts apart from the views of the Spirit of God. Let's get out of ourselves and begin to read the Bible in the Spirit.

Let's join the Apostle Paul In saying I count all things as loss that I may excel in the knowledge of Christ. To God, be the glory.

James Manning