”Secrets” in the Bible, Hebrew reveals

[mattfivefour]

Well,as far as I understand the prophetic timeline of the last few days before PASSOVER, our Lord Jesus entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey on the first Day of the Week (Palm Sunday).
Matthew24:4-5+9
This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:“Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”
The crowds that went ahead of Him and those that followed were shouting: “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest!”
We read furthermore, that the Messiah arose from the dead on the Feast of Firstfruits/Bikurim, being Himself the Firstfruits of those who fell asleep (1.Cor15:20).
Firstfruits is always kept on the first Day of the Week/Sunday, after the Passover (Lev.23:10-11).
Some time before Passover, Jesus also prophesied that there will be only one Sign given to this Generation:
Matthew 12:39+40
Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights."

So, all we have to do is subtract 3 days and 3 nights from the time He was RESURRECTED,after Shabbat was over(counting from sun down) !

Friday, Night + Shabbat = 3.night and day
Thursday, Night + Friday =2.night and day
Wednesday, Night + Thursday= 1.night and day

Our Lord Jesus was crucified on a Wednesday, which is the 4th Day of the week, at the third hour/9 AM (Mark15:25-38),there was Darkness for 3 hours before He died!
Yeshua/Jesus was laid to rest in a tomb before the sun set, and the Passover meal was eaten with unleavened bread.

I find it remarkable,that it happened in the middle of the week!
Because it was on the 4th Day of the Creation week,when GOD set the Sun,Moon and Stars in the Expanse of the Heavens for Signs,and for appointed Times/Seasons, and days and years!
Our GOD always has the perfect timing for everything!

Given the Hebrew method of counting days from evening to evening and counting part days as full days, if he was crucified on Wednesday morning as per your belief, then according to your timetable He was in the grave at least 4 days, not 3-- crucified Wednesday morning (day 1), Wednesday sundown to Thursday sundown (day 2), Thursday sundown to Friday sundown (day 3, Friday sundown until whenever (day 4).

 

[Trudy]

Well,as far as I understand the prophetic timeline of the last few days before PASSOVER, our Lord Jesus entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey on the first Day of the Week (Palm Sunday).
Matthew24:4-5+9
This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:“Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”
The crowds that went ahead of Him and those that followed were shouting: “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest!”

Rereading my Post, I just noticed that it is not Matthew 24, but the text about the coming King is in Chapter 21,as it was prophecied through the Prophet Zechariah 9:9!
Sorry for the typo!!

 

[mattfivefour]

Rereading my Post, I just noticed that it is not Matthew 24, but the text about the coming King is in Chapter 21,as it was prophecied through the Prophet Zechariah 9:9!
Sorry for the typo!!

no problem. Typos are part and parcel of writing with smartphones, it seems. But going back to my post which you quote, how do you deal with that apparent discrepancy given that the Bible says the Lord rose on the first day of the week (Sunday)?

 

[Trudy]

Given the Hebrew method of counting days from evening to evening and counting part days as full days, if he was crucified on Wednesday morning as per your belief, then according to your timetable He was in the grave at least 4 days, not 3-- crucified Wednesday morning (day 1), Wednesday sundown to Thursday sundown (day 2), Thursday sundown to Friday sundown (day 3, Friday sundown until whenever (day 4).

There is a lot of proof text for counting Days from evening to evening in the Scriptures.But a partial counting as a full day ?
Where does this method come from?

Trusting the Lord's words of explaining "Times and seaons" , He said for example,that there are 12 hours in a Day.
John 11:9
Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.
I would guess,that there are also 12 hours for the night.

He also said,that He will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.That is a specific time frame!
The Passover Lamb was killed on the preparation day at Even/Twilight,on Nissan14th, and then eaten on Nissan 15th,at that evening!
Which means that our Lord Jesus was put into the Tomb at that time, before the begin of the High Sabbath!
So,after getting Him prepared for the burial and being put in a grave,then the count of 3 days and 3 nights would have begun,leading up to the Feast of Firstfruits!The time has to fit in ,all the days and all the nights.

 

[mattfivefour]

There is a lot of proof text for counting Days from evening to evening in the Scriptures.But a partial counting as a full day ?
Where does this method come from?

Well, repeatedly in the OT, people told to wait or do something AFTER the third day or the seventh day are seen acting or doing DURING the third day or the seventh day. Clearly the third (or seventh) day was considered an entire day despite it not being over. Confirming this is the fact that Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah, tenth in the descent from Ezra was very specific: "A day and a night are an Onah ['a portion of time'] and the portion of an Onah is as the whole of it" (Jerusalem Talmud, Shabbath 9.3 and Babylonian Talmud, Pesahim 4a). It is historical fact that the Jews considered a part day as a whole day. This fact eliminates any other argument you may raise against my post. So, in light of this, I have to respectfully ask, what do you do with the three day/three night prophecy regarding Messiah if you claim he was crucified on a Wednesday morning?

 

[Kaatje]

“Secrets” only Hebrew can reveal, today we are looking at the word “Sar”.

Sar - Prince, chief captain, Minister (modern)

The amazing name denotes the most exalted rank of leadership, nearly equal to that of a king or a ruler.
It can come from two roots: SRI (to fight, to wrestle) and SRR (to govern, to rule).

Sarah is the feminine form of that warrior Prince, with the same power vested in the warrior Prince.

The name Israel came from the very same two roots.
It was changed from Jacob to Israel because Jacob was wrestling (warrior) with God and he prevailed and won (govern, rule). See Gen. 32:29

The exalted name Sir, also comes from “sar”. As did all of these leadership names: Caesar, Kaiser, Tzar, Minister, Mister, senor, monsignor, monsieur, and even words like senior and seniority.

The most famous bearer of the name is our Sar Shalom - Prince of Peace
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. (Isa. 9:6)

 

[Kaatje]

And another word, “Nesher”

Nesher - Eagle
Rootword Nashar - to fall out, to be bald
The last two letters of the word “nesher” comes from “sar” - warrior Prince
(as explained in the previous post)

The Eagle is viewed symbollically as a kingly bird, to the extent that it is compared to God protecting His people: As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over its young, spreads out its wings, takes them, bears them on its pinions. (Deut 32:11)

The eagle carries the character of a mighty warrior, and at the same time it is the protecting fatherly manifestation of God. This biblical, powerful metaphor has inspired the adaptation of the bald eagle as the U.S. National emblem since 1782.

The idea of the eagle extending its wings to shelter its young, went beyond this image and connected to the idea of the tabernacle, under which one finds God’s protection, and likewise to the “Talit”, the prayer shawl, making it the same metaphor: eagle-God-tabernacle-talit, and we may even add to this the laying on of hands upon someone’s head while praying for them.

Question: Have you ever noticed the connection between these metaphors and the image of you own pastor, standing on the podium, extending his hands up and sideways, just like the eagle extending its wings, and casting down the Blessing upon your head?

 

[DanLMP]

This stuff is always very interesting to me but the following day I completely forget what I learned.

 

[pixelpusher]

This stuff is always very interesting to me but the following day I completely forget what I learned.

Me too. Like a leaky sieve. Some chunks get caught tho.

 

[Spartan Sprinter 1]

there's a secrets in Hebrew video where Gary stearman interviews this Jewish guy Danny Ben Gigi stating that in the Hebrew text or translation of genesis when it talks about god creating the earth , god was involving his literal name whilst he was creating everything.

 

[josiah7]

The study of the Hebrew language has always been interesting to me. The further you go back the more things become much clearer in scripture.

I may have miss this as I was reading as to how long the Messiah was in the grave. Died Wednesday afternoon and buried before sunset.Wednesday evening, Thursday evening (1 day) Thursday evening, Friday evening (2nd day), Friday evening, Saturday evening (3rd day). Rose on the first day of the week after sunset Saturday. Three days and three nights. That is my understanding. As a Catholic, I was brought up on the teaching that He died on Friday and rose on Sunday, never could understand that. That is not 3 days and 3 nights according to scripture.

Thanks Kaatje, your work is interesting and will open eyes.

 

[Kaatje]

I may have miss this as I was reading as to how long the Messiah was in the grave. Died Wednesday afternoon and buried before sunset.Wednesday evening, Thursday evening (1 day) Thursday evening, Friday evening (2nd day), Friday evening, Saturday evening (3rd day). Rose on the first day of the week after sunset Saturday. Three days and three nights. That is my understanding. As a Catholic, I was brought up on the teaching that He died on Friday and rose on Sunday, never could understand that. That is not 3 days and 3 nights according to scripture.

Question: "On what day was Jesus crucified?"

Answer: The Bible does not explicitly state on which day of the week Jesus was crucified. The two most widely held views are Friday and Wednesday. Some, however, using a synthesis of both the Friday and Wednesday arguments, argue for Thursday as the day.

Jesus said in Matthew 12:40, “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” Those who argue for a Friday crucifixion say that there is still a valid way in which He could have been considered in the grave for three days. In the Jewish mind of the first century, a part of day was considered as a full day. Since Jesus was in the grave for part of Friday, all of Saturday, and part of Sunday—He could be considered to have been in the grave for three days. One of the principal arguments for Friday is found in Mark 15:42, which notes that Jesus was crucified “the day before the Sabbath.” If that was the weekly Sabbath, i.e. Saturday, then that fact leads to a Friday crucifixion. Another argument for Friday says that verses such as Matthew 16:21 and Luke 9:22 teach that Jesus would rise on the third day; therefore, He would not need to be in the grave a full three days and nights. But while some translations use “on the third day” for these verses, not all do, and not everyone agrees that “on the third day” is the best way to translate these verses. Furthermore, Mark 8:31 says that Jesus will be raised “after” three days.

The Thursday argument expands on the Friday view and argues mainly that there are too many events (some count as many as twenty) happening between Christ's burial and Sunday morning to occur from Friday evening to Sunday morning. Proponents of the Thursday view point out that this is especially a problem when the only full day between Friday and Sunday was Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. An extra day or two eliminates that problem. The Thursday advocates could reason thus: suppose you haven't seen a friend since Monday evening. The next time you see him it is Thursday morning and you say, “I haven’t seen you in three days” even though it had technically only been 60 hours (2.5 days). If Jesus was crucified on Thursday, this example shows how it could be considered three days.

The Wednesday opinion states that there were two Sabbaths that week. After the first one (the one that occurred on the evening of the crucifixion [Mark 15:42; Luke 23:52-54]), the women purchased spices—note that they made their purchase after the Sabbath (Mark 16:1). The Wednesday view holds that this “Sabbath” was the Passover (see Leviticus 16:29-31, 23:24-32, 39, where high holy days that are not necessarily the seventh day of the week are referred to as the Sabbath). The second Sabbath that week was the normal weekly Sabbath. Note that in Luke 23:56 the women who had purchased spices after the first Sabbath returned and prepared the spices, then “rested on the Sabbath.” The argument states that they could not purchase the spices after the Sabbath, yet prepare those spices before the Sabbath—unless there were two Sabbaths. With the two-Sabbath view, if Christ was crucified on Thursday, then the high holy Sabbath (the Passover) would have begun Thursday at sundown and ended at Friday sundown—at the beginning of the weekly Sabbath or Saturday. Purchasing the spices after the first Sabbath (Passover) would have meant they purchased them on Saturday and were breaking the Sabbath.

Therefore, according to the Wednesday viewpoint, the only explanation that does not violate the biblical account of the women and the spices and holds to a literal understanding of Matthew 12:40 is that Christ was crucified on Wednesday. The Sabbath that was a high holy day (Passover) occurred on Thursday, the women purchased spices (after that) on Friday and returned and prepared the spices on the same day, they rested on Saturday which was the weekly Sabbath, then brought the spices to the tomb early Sunday. Jesus was buried near sundown on Wednesday, which began Thursday in the Jewish calendar. Using a Jewish calendar, you have Thursday night (night one), Thursday day (day one), Friday night (night two), Friday day (day two), Saturday night (night three), Saturday day (day three). We do not know exactly what time He rose, but we do know that it was before sunrise on Sunday. He could have risen as early as just after sunset Saturday evening, which began the first day of the week to the Jews. The discovery of the empty tomb was made just at sunrise (Mark 16:2), before it was fully light (John 20:1).

A possible problem with the Wednesday view is that the disciples who walked with Jesus on the road to Emmaus did so on “the same day” of His resurrection (Luke 24:13). The disciples, who do not recognize Jesus, tell Him of Jesus' crucifixion (24:21) and say that “today is the third day since these things happened” (24:22). Wednesday to Sunday is four days. A possible explanation is that they may have been counting since Wednesday evening at Christ's burial, which begins the Jewish Thursday, and Thursday to Sunday could be counted as three days.

In the grand scheme of things, it is not all that important to know what day of the week Christ was crucified. If it were very important, then God's Word would have clearly communicated the day and timeframe. What is important is that He did die and that He physically, bodily rose from the dead. What is equally important is the reason He died—to take the punishment that all sinners deserve. John 3:16 and 3:36 both proclaim that putting your trust in Him results in eternal life! This is equally true whether He was crucified on a Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.

https://www.gotquestions.net/Printer/Jesus-Friday-Sunday-PF.html

 

[Salluz]

I feel like got questions misrepresents the Thursday view with that. It automatically assumes that it isn't scriptural by saying it comes from combining the other two view points, not from reading the bible.

From gracethrufaith:

https://gracethrufaith.com/topical-...ys/solving-the-three-day-three-night-mystery/

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley

In Matthew 12:38 Jesus was asked for a sign to show that He was the promised Messiah. The religious officials had just accused Him of using the power of Satan to perform His miracles, and so He described the only sign they would see. “Just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish,” He said, “So will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth (Matt. 12:40).” By this He meant that because of their hardened hearts they would only know for sure that He was their Messiah after He rose from the dead, an unmistakably miraculous sign. History shows they didn’t accept even as incredible a sign as this, but His response has resulted in a 2,000 year controversy surrounding the time of His death.

What’s A Sabbath?
People who were unfamiliar with the sequence of the spring Feasts of Israel determined that the phrase in John 19:31 identifying the day after the crucifixion as a special Sabbath meant that Jesus was crucified on a Friday, because everyone knows that the Jewish Sabbath is Saturday. And almost everyone agrees that He rose again on Sunday. But there isn’t any way you can put three days and three nights between Friday afternoon and Sunday morning. Hence the controversy.

So let’s set the record straight. Sabbath is a Hebrew word that means means “rest” and refers to holy days when no work is allowed. There is one every Saturday in Israel, but there are also several during the year that are date specific. That means they are always observed on a specific calendar date, regardless of the day. They’re like our Christmas. Every year it comes on the 25th of December no matter what day of the week that happens to be.

The special Sabbath John referred to is the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and it’s a date specific holy day; always observed on the 15th of the month they call Nisan, which corresponds to March/April on our calendar. So the first thing we learn is that the special Sabbath mentioned in John 19:31didn’t have to be a Saturday.

Originally there were four special days in the month of Nisan. The first was Passover on the 14th. Then the Feast of Unleavened Bread which began on the 15th and ended on the 22nd, both of which were special Sabbaths. And finally, there was the Feast of First Fruits which fell on the Sunday morning following Passover (Leviticus 23:4-14).

Of the four, only the two that opened and closed the Feast of Unleavened Bread prohibited work like the weekly Sabbath, but all have both a historical and prophetic purpose and like all days in the Jewish calendar they begin at sundown, following the pattern of Genesis 1 where God repeated the phrase, “and there was evening and there was morning” six times, once for each day of creation.

The Passover Lamb
The next issue we have to consider is the sequence of events in the week we call Holy Week. In Exodus 12:1-13, where the Passover was ordained, we learn what that sequence was. God told the Israelites to select a lamb on the 10th day of the month and inspect it for defects until the 14th. This means through the end of the 13th. Then at twilight they were to slaughter and roast it, eating it that same evening, as the 14th was beginning. Using some of its blood they were to paint their door posts red to protect them from the plague coming upon Egypt at midnight.

Jesus came to fulfill the prophecy of the Passover Lamb, to save from death everyone who spiritually applies His shed blood to their lives. The only day He ever allowed the people to hail Him as King was on the day we call Palm Sunday, and as we’ll see it was the 10th day of the month. He did this to fulfill the selection process for the Passover Lamb. When the officials told Him to rebuke His disciples, He said that if they became quiet, the very stones would cry out (Luke 19:40). For this was a day ordained in history. It was the day He officially presented Himself as Israel’s Messiah, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29). It was 483 years to the day from the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, spoken of by Daniel the Prophet (Daniel 9:25). A little while after the officials cautioned Him, He condemned Jerusalem to utter destruction because they did not recognize the day of His visitation (Luke 19:41-44).

The next three days were filled with the most aggressive debate and confrontation with the officials in His entire ministry. He was being inspected for any doctrinal spot or blemish that would disqualify Him as the Lamb of God. They found none, and finally no one dared ask Him any more questions. (Matt. 22:46)

Tradition, Tradition
Some years before the birth of Jesus, the Passover celebration had been changed and in the Lord’s time called for a brief ritual meal of lamb, unleavened bread, and bitter herbs (horseradish) to begin the 14th followed by a great and leisurely festival meal on the 15th, when the Feast of Unleavened Bread begins. This meal is called the Passover Seder.

The 14th became known among the people as Preparation Day , because during the day they made ready for the great feast day beginning at sundown, after which no work was permitted. Mark 15:42, Luke 23:54, John 19:31 all identify Preparation Day as the day of the Lord’ s death, while Matt. 27:62 says the day after the crucifixion was the day after Preparation Day. So all four Gospels agree; Jesus died on Preparation day, the 14th of their month Nisan, which is Passover. As evening began the day, He ate the ritual meal with His disciples in the Upper Room, and then was arrested, tried, convicted, and put to death; all on Passover. So just like the Lord had commanded in Exodus 12, our Passover Lamb was selected on the 10th, inspected on the 11th, 12th, and 13th, and executed on the 14th of Nisan.

How Do We Know This?
A little over 100 years ago a believer named Robert Anderson was head of Scotland Yard’s investigative division. He became intrigued by the three days and three nights issue and enlisted the help of the London Royal Observatory to investigate the problem since astronomers can locate the exact position of the planets and stars on any date in history. Since Passover always falls on the 14th, and since the Jewish calendar is lunar (moon) rather than solar (sun) oriented, there is always a full moon on Passover. This fulfills Genesis 1:14.

Plotting the course of the Sun and Moon they documented the day and date of every full moon. The Royal Observatory discovered that the first Palm Sunday was the 10th of Nisan, the day when Exodus 12 says to select the lamb. Therefore Passover, the 14th, was a Thursday. The Feast of Unleavened bread began on Friday the 15th, Saturday the 16th was the weekly Sabbath, and Resurrection Morning was also a Sunday, the 17th, when the Feast of First Fruits was celebrated. From Thursday to Sunday there are three days and three nights. It’s a little confusing to our way of thinking because the Hebrew day changes at sunset, which means that night precedes day. But read carefully and you’ll see that it makes sense.

As I’ve said, Jesus had to die on Passover to fulfill the prophecy. Early that Thursday morning the Jewish leadership had gotten permission to crucify Him. (Matt. 27:1-26) His fate was sealed and He was hanging on the cross by 9 AM, as good as dead. His actual time of death was about 3 PM and His body was laid in the tomb sometime later, since the officials wanted it off the cross before sundown brought the Feast of Unleavened Bread, after which no work was permitted. By then Jesus had been in Sheol for several hours. Thursday was day one.

Because in Jewish reckoning the night precedes the day, at sundown it became Friday the 15th, night one, and the special Sabbath John mentioned began (John 19:31). At sunrise it was Friday morning, and day two began. The next sundown brought Saturday night the 16th, night two, and the regular Sabbath began. As of sunrise it was Saturday day, the beginning of day three. At sundown on Saturday it became Sunday night the 17th, night three, and sometime before sunrise Jesus rose from the tomb. Three days and three nights. When the women arrived at sunrise to anoint His body early in the morning, He was already gone.

So in the week Jesus died two Sabbaths that permitted no work were observed back to back: The Feast of Unleavened Bread on Friday the 15th, and the regular weekly Sabbath on Saturday the 16th. In Matthew 28:1 we read that at dawn on the first day of the week (Sunday the 17th) the women who were close to Jesus went to the tomb. Luke 24:1tells us they were going to anoint His body for burial. The two consecutive Sabbaths had prevented them from doing so earlier (Luke 23:55-56). But He wasn’t there. He had risen. Being the Sunday after Passover, at the Jewish Temple it was Feast of First Fruits. At the Empty Tomb it was Resurrection Morning.

How Can We Confirm This?
Some people try to equate his time of death with the burial of His body and say you can’t count Thursday as day one, because His body wasn’t laid in the tomb until sunset was upon them. But that doesn’t make sense. A person’s death always precedes his or her burial, sometimes by several days. In the Lord’s case it was several hours between the time He died and the time His body was laid in the tomb.

The two disciples who met the Lord on the road to Emmaus that Sunday (the day the Lord’s resurrection was discovered) help us to confirm this (Luke 24:13-35). At first they thought the Lord must have been a very recent visitor to the area when He asked them to explain why they were so sad. In the course of the discussion they indicated it was the third day since the crucifixion. “Since” is roughly equivalent to “after”. It being a Sunday, the previous day (Saturday) would have been the 2nd day since it happened , and Friday would have been the first day since it happened, making Thursday the day it happened.

Others argue that this view doesn’t permit three full days and three full nights in the tomb but that’s not what the Scripture says. It simply says three days and three nights. If you move his death up to Wednesday to get three full days you violate the Passover Lamb prophecies, the women wouldn’t have waited until Sunday morning to prepare the Lord’s body because they could have done it on Friday, and the disciples on the Emmaus road would have said Sunday was the fourth day since the crucifixion. So the Thursday date is the only one that will accommodate both the Passover Lamb and the three day three night prophecies. Mystery solved.

 

[Trudy]

Having leaned mainly on verses containing the sign of Jonah, like Matthew12:40, being “3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the earth“, I now stand corrected after having read the last few posts,and scriptures mentioning „the third day“ in other prophecies,as well as texts concerning the Feast of Fristfruits/Bikurim!
In connecting these verses and their timelines , it creates a more comprehensive picture and understanding of the days after the Passover,the crucifixion and the Week of unleavened Bread!

So, working the timeline backwards,we read about the disciples on the first day of the Week/Bikurim (Sunday), walking to Emmaus and talking to the resurrected Lord Jesus, not recognizing him. They mentioned that it is “the third Day“ since they had crucified the Messiah,and invited “the Stranger“ to stay with them,because the evening hour was upon them.

At that (Sunday) morning though, very early with the first break of dawn, the Highpriest had gone outside to a field to cut the first Sheaf of Barley,which would later be used in the Temple as a wave offering of the Firstfruits to GOD,while the women disciples of Jesus had come to the garden tomb, only to find the tomb empty!The Lord Jesus is risen indeed! Hallelu Yah! On Firstfruits being the First of the first resurrection!

So it must have been at the end of “the third Night“ (dawning Sunday morning),that our Lord Jesus was resurrected,and leaving the grave behind him,he brought with him resurrected Saints as the first shief of His own firstfruits of the Harvest!
Matthew 27:52+53
“And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints having fallen asleep arose.
After Jesus’ resurrection, when they had come out of the tombs, they entered the holy city and appeared to many people.“

Going back further,the weekly Shabbat was therefore the “second Day and Night“, and the preparation Day/ Friday was “the first Day and Night“.

Which brings us to Thursday at evening, and not Wednesday,as I was thinking mistakenly, when the Lord Jesus was laid into a Tomb by Joseph of Arimathea,a member of the councel, and also a secret disciple of Jesus, John19:38.

Amazing how GOD has worked out the Plan of Salvation!

I wonder if there is also a connection between the fifth and sixth day of creation (fish and mankind) and the Whale and Jonah !?