34A                                           WHICH DAY WAS CHRIST BURIED ?

The evidence of the death of Jesus Christ occurring on Wednesday comes directly from the Bible. The Bible clearly states that Christ was buried near the beginning of a Sabbath (Luke 23:50-54). Since the biblical days begin at sunset, He was buried just before or exactly at sunset. It was not done later, after the Sabbath had commenced, as this was prohibited. Matthew and Mark likewise state that the burial occurred at evening (Matthew 27:57-60; Mark 15:42-46).

A brief review of the preceding hours proves the next day was called the first day of Unleavened Bread, and not the weekly seventh-day Sabbath as so many falsely assume.

Jesus Christ kept the Passover with His disciples the night before He was killed (Mark 14:12-17; Luke 22:8). The day after Passover is a high day. The first day of Unleavened Bread begins the festival season. The Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Commentary states: “And though ‘the Days of Unleavened Bread’ properly began with the 15th, the preparations for the festival being made on the 14th ….” This correctly refers to the day before the high day as a preparation day. Since Passover is on the 14th of Abib/Nisan the day of the week changes from year to year. That means the preparation day changes from year to year and is not necessarily on Friday as is the weekly preparation day. In fact, Nisan 14 was a Wednesday in a.d. 31. Any simple Hebrew calendar program or book will demonstrate this fact. On average, Passover will only fall on Friday three out of 19 years. The other 16 years it will be some other day, yet it is still called a preparation day because the next day is a high day, or annual Sabbath day.

In a.d. 31, the year of Christ’s death, Passover fell on a Wednesday. That means He ate the Passover supper at the beginning of the 14th of Abib, or just after sunset on what today’s Roman calendar calls Tuesday.

Next, Christ and His remaining 11 disciples (Judas had departed) went to the garden of Gethsemane. During the night Jesus was arrested and tried. Then at midday Wednesday, He was crucified. He died that afternoon (Luke 23:44). His body was claimed for burial by Joseph of Arimathaea at the end of the preparation day and before the first day of Unleavened Bread began.

Several commentaries suggest that it was very near sunset when Joseph of Arimathaea asked Pilot for Christ’s body. Joseph had been a follower of Christ, but not publicly, for fear of persecution by the Jews (John 19:38). Therefore, it is reasonable to believe it would have taken the urgency of a soon-arriving holy day to force Joseph to step forward and claim the body, thereby exposing himself as a follower of Jesus.

We have further proof directly from the Bible. “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). The ninth hour is 3 p.m., according to Jamieson, Fausset and Brown.

Since this was a preparation day, it was unlawful for the Jews to buy and sell after the ninth hour. The only work to be done between the ninth hour and sunset was to prepare for the following holy day. This means the women would be unable to buy or prepare spices for anointing the body of Jesus. But, since Christ was killed on Passover, a Wednesday in 31 a.d., with the high day being Thursday, the women were able to buy and prepare spices on Friday and then wait until after the weekly, seventh-day Sabbath. After the Sabbath, the women arrived at the tomb on the first day of the week, Sunday.

This is the only explanation that fits all the New Testament scriptures perfectly.

But why spend so much time proving this schedule of events in a.d. 31? Because in a.d. 31, if the dates for holy days are established without using the rules of postponements, Passover would have been on Monday, not Wednesday. But since Passover was on a Wednesday, we have biblical proof that Christ adhered to the postponement rules on the Hebrew calendar.

Postponements
Had the method of calculating the holy days been incorrect at the time, Jesus Christ was given a perfect opportunity to correct it. But the fact is, He did not. He kept the Passover according to the same calculations we use today, calculations that include certain rules of postponement. The Bible proves that Christ, Himself, respected the rules of postponement when keeping the Passover.

The rules for calculating the calendar were committed to the Jews as part of the “oracles of God.” “What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged” (Romans 3:1-4). Clearly, God expected that some people would disbelieve these wonderful facts, but that does not change the truth.

Briefly, here is how the calendar calculations work. The new moon for the Hebrew month of Tishri is the starting point. Tishri 1 is a holy day called Trumpets (Rosh Hashana in Hebrew, which means the head of the year). After calculating the exact moment the new moon will appear, the rules of postponement are applied. These rules, coupled with the time and day of the new moon, will determine the holy days for that year. As an example, a.d. 31 will be used.

The new moon appeared in Jerusalem at 11:52.5 p.m. on Thursday, October 5, a.d. 31, but the Feast of Trumpets was actually celebrated on October 7. If the appearance of the new moon was the only determining factor for the holy days, Passover would have been on Monday, April 23, but it was on Wednesday the 25th, as this article has already proven. The reason for the two-day shift for the holy days can be found in the rules of postponement.

Rule One: When the molad (new moon) of Tishri occurs at noon or later, the Feast of Trumpets is postponed until the next day.

Rule Two: When the molad of Tishri or a postponement occurs on Sunday, Wednesday or Friday, the Feast of Trumpets is postponed one day to a Monday, Thursday or Sabbath respectively.

As stated, the molad of Tishri in a.d. 31 was on Thursday about 30 minutes before midnight. As that is clearly after noon, rule one is applied, postponing the day from Thursday to Friday. Rule two is then applied. Rule two states if the molad of Tishri or a postponement occurs on Friday, the Feast of Trumpets is postponed until the Sabbath day (Saturday). That is exactly what happened in a.d. 31.

Passover is always exactly 164 days before Trumpets because the number of days from the 14th of Abib/Nisan until the 1st of Tishri is always the same. Since the Feast of Trumpets (Tishri 1) was postponed two days from Thursday until Saturday, Passover occurred on a Wednesday instead of a Monday. That is when Jesus Christ celebrated His last Passover as a man. He did not change anything. He simply observed the calculations of the Hebrew calendar just as we do today.

Sunday morning, near sunrise, the ladies came to the tomb to find that Jesus was already risen.

Using elementary math, we can count the following: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night total three nights. The days of Thursday, Friday and Saturday total three days.

The holy days actually lined up to these dates in a.d. 31. The first day of Unleavened Bread fell on Thursday, April 26. That meant Wednesday was the preparation day for the high sabbath. After the high day came Friday, April 27—the preparation day for the weekly Sabbath, when the ladies prepared the spices. Saturday was the weekly Sabbath and Sunday was the first day of the next week, when the ladies came to the tomb early in the morning.

chapter 34B

 CHRIST NOT RESURRECTED ON SUNDAY,but on the True Sabbath Day, Saturday !

Keep in mind the Roman Calendar in effect then is the same one we use today, each day being named after a pagan god.

Our entire calendar is pagan because Satan is the god of this world.(2nd Cor. 4:4)

So naturally Satan would cause deception on the subject of Christs resurrection.

The
day of Christ’s resurrection can be proven scripturally .
Mark 16:1 states , “ and when the Sabbath was
passed Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome had
brought sweet spices that they might come in and anoint Him(Christ) and
very early in the morning , the first day of the week(Sunday), they came
on to the Sepulcher at the rising of the sun and they said among
themselves , who shall roll away the stone from the door of the
Sepulcher ? And when they looked they saw that the stone was
rolled away , for they saw it was very great and entering into the
sepulcher they saw a man sitting on the right side in a long white
garment and they were afraid . He said unto them , be not afraid , ye
seek Christ of Nazareth , which was crucified , he has risen , he is not
here, behold the place where they laid him . ”

The breakdown is
as follows , the scripture starts as saying “ When the Sabbath was
passed ”. First it must be made clear , days , according to Almighty God
in the bible and observed by the Jews , go from sundown to sundown .

Mary
, James , and Solemn , to, NOT DO any work on the Sabbath(Saturday),
waited until “ the Sabbath had passed “, Saturday’s sunset, to go out to
get sweet spices to anoint the body of Christ . The scripture
continues , “ very early in the morning the first day of the week ”,
obviously Sunday morning , “ AT the rising of the sun ”, they discovered
the tomb open and Christ ALREADY gone , the man in the white robe
having previously discovered him being risen and GONE BEFORE SUNRISE
Sunday morning. The man, in the white robe, testified that “ Christ has
risen “ already and “ gone before sunrise “, at sunrise Sunday .

The
man, in the white robe, testified that “ Christ has risen “ already and
“ gone before sunrise “, at sunrise Sunday .

Christ being , the “ light of the World ”(John 8:12),
would obviously not have arose during the night, but on the previous
day, Saturday the Sabbath, before sunset, as the man in the white robe
testified.

1st Thessalonians 5:7-8 states, “ for they that
sleep, sleep in the night and they that be drunken are drunk and in the
night but let us who are of the day(light) be sober putting on the
breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation. “
We can clearly see from this that Christ, Christians, “ hope of
salvation “ , “ who are of the day “, would certainly have risen during
the previous SaturDAY, and not during Saturday, night since the man in
the white robe said he was gone at sunrise.

In contrast,
Ephesians 6:12 states, “ for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but
against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the
DARKNESS of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. “
Obviously these “ rulers “ are Satan and his demons and the “ high “
ruler of darkness, is the Prince of Darkness, Satan.

7 is The
Creators number of perfection and completeness, so naturally Christ,
being perfect, perfected man’s relationship with The Father, by removing
the penalty of sin from him, by completion of His perfect sacrifice for
our sins, being Resurrected, on the Holy perfect day of the week, the
Saturday Sabbath ! He then, perfected man, by sending down the Holy
Spirit at His Ascension to the Father.
Not only does this make
perfect sense, but, The Father resurrected Him on Saturday as
confirmation, which day was His Holy Day !
This can be proven other ways
as well but this is the most simple.

This is simply a case of
Satan’s hatred and wanting to replace Almighty God’s holy weekly
Sabbath, Saturday, with his false, unholy, day of sun worship, Sunday !

On a directly related note, the Catholic church also CHANGED
the Saturday Sabbath to Sunday, the day of sun worship !

The Roman emperor Constantine, a former sun-worshiper,
professed conversion to Christianity. His subsequent actions suggest the
“conversion” was more of a political move, to gain power, through
uniting of church and state, than a genuine heart change.

The Satanic pagan religions
and their festivals were quite popular, and still are !

As we shall see the changes Constantine made have
remained quite constant.
Constantine
named himself Bishop of the Catholic Church and enacted the first civil
law regarding Sunday observance in A.D. 321. “ On the venerable day of
the sun let the magistrate and people residing in cities rest, and let
all workshops be closed. In the country however, persons engaged in
agricultural work may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits;
Because it often happens that another day is not so suitable for grain
growing or for vine planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for
such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost “. —Schaff’s History
of the Christian Church, vol. III, chap. 75.

Note that
Constantine’s law did not even mention the Sabbath, but referred to the
mandated rest day as a “the venerable day of the sun.” And how
arrogantly kind he was to allow farmers to observe it as it was
convenient. Contrast this with Almighty God’s command to observe the
Sabbath “even during the plowing season and harvest” ! (Exodus 34:21)
Perhaps the church leaders noticed this laxity as well, for just four
years later, in A.D. 325, Pope Sylvester officially named Sunday “the
Lord’s Day,” and in A.D. 338, Eusebius, the court bishop of Constantine,
wrote, “All things whatsoever that it was the duty to do on the Sabbath
(the seventh day of the week) we (Constantine, Eusebius, and other
bishops) have transferred to the Lord’s Day (the first day of the week)
as more appropriately belonging to it.”

The Roman Council of Laodicea in A.D. 365 said : “
Christians must not Judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on
that day, rather honoring the Lord’s Day, (Sunday) and, if they can,
resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be Judaizers,
let them be anathema from Christ ”. (Canon XXIX). Anathema means
separated from Christ for some great evil. So, keeping the Sabbath on
Saturday was considered “Judaizing,” which was considered a great evil !
This not only shows Romes changing of the Sabbath but shows their
hatred of all things Jewish(Judaizing), calling it a great evil.

Both the change and Romes hatred of
His people is mentioned in Daniel 7:25, which states, “ And he shall
speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints
of the most High, and think to change times and laws “ .

Many years later Romes Catholic church
continues its open arrogance and rebellion against The Creator .

The Catholic Virginian said in 1947: “ All of us believe
many things in regard to religion that we do not find in the Bible. For
example, nowhere in the Bible do we find that Christ or the Apostles
ordered that the Sabbath be changed from Saturday to Sunday. We have the
commandment of God given to Moses to keep holy the Sabbath Day, that is
the 7th day of the week, Saturday. Today most Christians keep Sunday
Because it has been revealed to us by the Church outside the Bible.”
How openly arrogant, just like her father, Satan !

Here are some other Catholic quotes showing her open, arrogant nature;

“
Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church
ever did, happened in the first century. The holy day, the Sabbath, was
changed from Saturday to Sunday. "The Day of the Lord" (dies Dominica)
was chosen, not from any directions noted in the Scriptures, but from
the Church's sense of its own power. The day of resurrection, the day of
Pentecost, fifty days later, came on the first day of the week. So this
would be the new Sabbath. People who think that the Scriptures should
be the sole authority, should logically become 7th Day Adventists, and
keep Saturday holy." Sentinel, Pastor's page, Saint Catherine Catholic
Church, Algonac, Michigan, May 21, 1995 . “

“ If
Protestants would follow the Bible, they would worship God on the
Sabbath Day. In keeping the Sunday they are following a law of the
Catholic Church.” Albert Smith, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of
Baltimore, replying for the Cardinal, in a letter dated February 10,
1920.

“The observance of Sunday by the Protestants is homage they
pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the [Catholic]
Church.” Monsignor Louis Segur, ‘Plain Talk about the Protestantism of
Today’, p. 213.

“ It is well to remind the Presbyterians,
Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians, that the Bible does not
support them anywhere in their observance of Sunday.

Sunday is
an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the
day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church.” Priest Brady, in an
address, reported in the Elizabeth, NJ ‘News’ on March 18, 1903.

“
Protestants ... accept Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for
public worship after the Catholic Church made the change... But the
Protestant mind does not seem to realize that ... in observing Sunday,
they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the Church, the
pope. “Our Sunday Visitor, February 5th, 1950.

Q. Have
you any other proofs that they(Protestants) are not guided by the
Scripture? A. Yes; so many, that we cannot admit more than a mere
specimen into this small work. They reject much that is clearly
contained in Scripture, and profess more that is nowhere discoverable in
that Divine Book. Q. Give some examples of both? A. They should, if the
Scripture were their only rule, wash the feet of one another, according
to the command of Christ, in the 13th chap. of St. John; —they should
keep, not the Sunday, but the Saturday, according to the commandment,
"Remember thou keep holy the SABBATH-day;" for this commandment has not,
in Scripture, been changed or abrogated;... Rev. Stephen Keenan, A
(Catholic) Doctrinal Catechism; New York in 1857, page 101 Imprimatur.

“….
you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not
find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The
Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we
never sanctify. “ The Faith of Our Fathers, by James Cardinal Gibbons,
Archbishop of Baltimore, 88th edition, page 89. Originally published in
1876, republished and Copyright 1980 by TAN Books and Publishers, Inc.,
pages 72-73.

“ The Sun was a foremost god with
heathen-dom…The sun has worshipers at this hour in Persia and other
lands…. There is, in truth, something royal, kingly about the sun,
making it a fit emblem of Jesus, the Sun of Justice. Hence the church in
these countries would seem to have said, to 'Keep that old pagan name
[Sunday]. It shall remain consecrated, sanctified.' And thus the pagan
Sunday, dedicated to Balder, became the Christian Sunday, sacred to
Jesus. “ William Gildea, Doctor of Divinity, The Catholic World, March,
1894, p. 809

The reason they made these changes is
because, it is a Satanic, counterfeit Christian religion, that does not
worship the Son, but the sun ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Aspects of this are
covered in several chapters of this site. Here is just one……..

It is
interesting to note that Egypt was Sun worship capital of the world,
second only to Babylon, which is where this Babylonian Mystery Religion
gets all her customs and traditions from.(see chapters 21-28)

Obelisks are the major symbol of sun worship.
Rome has more obelisks than
anywhere else in the world !
The third largest city in Egypt, Heliopolis, means City of the
Sun.

A obelisk from there, built in 2500 B.C., from the ancient
Egyptian Temple of the sun god Ra, was moved to the Catholic churches
headquarters in Vatican square.

It has this Egyptian obelisk at
the center, forming the pointer of the world's largest sundial, where
various monuments are placed strategically to mark the shadow of the
obelisk at the different solar equinoxes throughout the year !

About 100 years
before Christianity, Egyptian Mithraists, inheriting Babylonian customs
of sun worship, introduced the festival of Sunday, dedicated to
worshiping the sun, into the Roman Empire.
Later, as Christianity
grew, church leaders wished to increase the numbers of the church. In
order to make the gospel more attractive to non-Christians, pagan
customs were incorporated into the church’s ceremonies. This was known
as syncretism . The custom of Sunday worship was welcomed by Christians
who desired to differentiate themselves from the Jews, whom they hated
Because of the Jews’ rejection of the Savior . The first day of the week
began to be recognized as both a religious and civil holiday. By the
end of the second century, Christians considered it sinful to work on
Sunday.

The Roman emperor Constantine, a former sun-worshiper,
professed conversion to Christianity, though his subsequent actions
suggest the “conversion” was more of a political move than a genuine
heart change. Constantine named himself Bishop of

the Catholic
Church and enacted the first civil law regarding Sunday observance in
A.D. 321. “ On the venerable day of the sun let the magistrate and
people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the
country however, persons engaged in agricultural work may freely and
lawfully continue their pursuits; Because it often happens that another
day is not so suitable for grain growing or for vine planting; lest by
neglecting the proper moment for such operations the bounty of heaven
should be lost “. —Schaff’s History of the Christian Church, vol. III,
chap. 75.

Note that Constantine’s law did not even mention
Sabbath but referred to the mandated rest day as a “the venerable day of
the sun.” And how arrogantly kind he was to allow farmers to observe it
as it was convenient. Contrast this with Almighty God’s command to
observe the Sabbath “even during the plowing season and harvest” !
(Exodus 34:21) Perhaps the church leaders noticed this laxity as well,
for just four years later, in A.D. 325, Pope Sylvester officially named
Sunday “the Lord’s Day,” and in A.D. 338, Eusebius, the court bishop of
Constantine, wrote, “All things whatsoever that it was the duty to do on
the Sabbath (the seventh day of the week) we (Constantine, Eusebius,
and other bishops) have transferred to the Lord’s Day (the first day of
the week) as more appropriately belonging to it.”

The Roman Council of Laodicea in A.D. 365 said
: “ Christians must not Judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must
work on that day, rather honouring the Lord’s Day, (Sunday) and, if they
can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be
Judaizers, let them be anathema from Christ ”. (Canon XXIX). Anathema
means separated from Christ for some great evil. So, keeping the Sabbath
on Saturday was considered “Judaizing,” which was considered a great
evil. This not only shows Romes changing of the Sabbath but shows their
hatred of all things Jewish(Judaizing), calling it a great evil.

Both the change and Romes hatred of
His people is mentioned in Daniel 7:25, which states, “ And he shall
speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints
of the most High, and think to change times and laws “ .

Many years later Romes Catholic church
continues its open arrogance and rebellion against The Creator .

The Catholic Virginian said in 1947: “ All of US believe
many things in regard to religion that we do not find in the Bible. For
example, nowhere in the Bible do we find that Christ or the Apostles
ordered that the Sabbath be changed from Saturday to Sunday. We have the
commandment of God given to Moses to keep holy the Sabbath Day, that is
the 7th day of the week, Saturday. Today most Christians keep Sunday
Because it has been revealed to US by the Church outside the Bible.”

Since The Bible is the Holy
Word of The Creator how can ANY church support ANYTHING that is “
outside the Bible “ ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Once again, plain and simple, Romes
Catholic church is blatantly arrogant and rebellious Because its father,
Satan is ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Here is some more recent unashamedly arrogant statements by the Catholic church:

Cardinal
James Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (Ayers Publishing, 1978):
pg.108: “ But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you
will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday.
The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which
we never sanctify.”

The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine
(1957): pg. 50: Q. Which is the Sabbath day ? A. Saturday is the
Sabbath day. Q. Why Do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday ? A. We
observe Sunday instead of Saturday Because the Catholic Church
transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.
This is
specifically prophesied in Daniel 7:25, which states, “ And he shall
speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints
of the most High, and think to change times and laws “ .

Chancellor Albert Smith for Cardinal of
Baltimore Archdiocese, letter dated February 10, 1920: If Protestants
would follow the Bible, they should worship God on the Sabbath day by
God is Saturday. In keeping the Sunday, they are following a law of the
Catholic Church.
This is only one
reason the Catholic church is Satan’s “ Babylon the Great, the Mother
of Harlots “ that has sold out to do him, selling his lying “
Abominations “(Rev. 17:5) to Christians and has “ Deceived the whole
world “(Revelation 12:9)

Once again, same arrogance as Satan
himself, who fathered the first lie, to himself and to the Angels,
becoming the first rebel, by rebelling against The Creator.
This is only logical since he is the Father of
this Church of Lies, who still rebels against Almighty God today !

Almighty
God’s true holy days , depicting His plan of salvation for mankind are
certainly no exception either . Satan has kept the world in the dark and
tricked US into accepting his counterfeit holy-days, holidays, based on
sun and fertility worship , originated in Babylon , that are a top
factor in maintaining his title , “ God of this world . 2nd Con. 4:4
states , “ In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them
which believe not , lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ ,
who is the image of Almighty God , should shine unto them.

The
preoccupation with money , eating , drinking and partying has
overshadowed , if not totally removed the Creators Son from this false
holy-day , that disrespects Christ , The Truth , Because it is based on a
lie in the first place !

Just as Sunday is Satan’s counterfeit
replacement day of sun worship for the true Day of His Resurrection and
the true Sabbath, Saturday, Easter is Satan’s counterfeit replacement
for Passover , the first of our Creators true 7 Annual Holy Days .

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