Every year we celebrate the death of Jesus Messiah. This sounds strange. Why celebrate the death of someone, let alone the death of someone who is the Messiah? While the Jews celebrate passover, the day that the devourer passed over the homes that had the blood of the lamb over the door, Christians celebrate the death of the Messiah with painted chicken eggs, supposedly delivered by a bunny. While there is no point in studying the weird spiritual holy days and their symbolism, we can see why Satanas, the god of this world, merged that ridiculousness with a day that we should be celebrating because Jesus took back the keys to hell and death. Why would we want to celebrate Jesus overcoming the grave? Because it was the defeat of Satanas. The defeat of Satans’ kingdom is what we should recognize and celebrate. Satanas doesn’t want us to know that he lost.
The Holy Spirit decided that we should push deeper on the studies that we already did, meaning that we are building on those subjects and going forward. This means that we have to be familiar with the previous studies. The subject of Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection, is very important to our own foundation. We cannot tell people that Jesus spent three days and three nights in the grave and then proceed to tell them that he was killed on a Friday afternoon and rose up on a Sunday morning. That is ridiculous. If there are people still teaching this nonsense they need to be lovingly corrected. Here are the previous studies.
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2016/04/three-days-14-17-nisan-graves-open.html
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2022/08/reconciled-by-perfect-sacrifice.html
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2019/04/14-nisan-dates-times-calendars-caiaphas.html
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-day-did-jesus-die-who-are.html
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2020/04/lord-of-nations-called-from-matrix-fat.html
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2014/11/jesus-face-god-of-living-resurrection.html
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2011/04/graves-open-woman-in-travail-book-of.html
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2020/04/king-of-glory-lift-up-your-gates-yahweh.html
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2020/02/plague-10-signs-and-wonders-in-egypt.html
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-coming-king-kingdom-of-cosmos.html
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2018/08/judgment-day-erased-second-death-new.html
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2020/02/hidden-son-death-and-hades-highest-god.html
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2017/08/created-to-be-immortal-two-deaths-7.html
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-path-of-life-davids-monument-not.html
Jesus Messiah was crucified on a Wednesday just before sundown. He rose up after midnight Saturday night. Sunday morning the grave was found opened and empty. The week that Jesus died there were technically three Sabbaths, two recognized by the Pharisees. The Pharisaical calendar was a lunar calendar in which the days began at sundown and ended at sundown, while the Essene calendar, better known as the Zadok priest’s calendar, was a solar calendar, morning to evening like as we use today. Jesus kept the original passover on the fourteenth, while that year the Pharisaical passover was the fifteenth at sundown. Tuesday the fourteenth day of the year is always the day of the passover on the Zadok calendar, which the Essenes followed. It is a fixed day that never changes. (Incidentally, this year April 4th 2023 is the fourteenth day of the year, the true passover.) Jesus was an Essene. Jesus kept the Zadok priest passover on Tuesday the fourteenth with the disciples, washed their feet, and then went out to pray. That evening the Pharisees sent the guards to arrest him. They wanted him crucified before their passover at sundown on Wednesday the fifteenth. They twisted the arm of Pilate, the Roman guards beat and tortured him, and then tore out his beard.
While Pilate wanted Jesus released, he abided by the custom of releasing one prisoner. The Pharisees seeded the crowd to call for Barabbas, who was a Zealot, to be released. The Zealots were pushing for a civil war to gain back Israel’s control of the country. They succeeded in starting a civil war, but the Jews were thrown out of Jerusalem by the Romans (which was a culmination of the civil war between Zealots and Jews) in 70 AD.
Jesus died sometime around 3pm. They took his body down and put it in a new tomb, but they did not have time to anoint the body because sundown started a holy day. Thursday the sixteenth at sundown started a new day. It was still a holy day so they could not go shop for oils and spices until Friday morning the seventeenth. They gathered all the things they needed on Friday, but Friday at sundown was the weekly Sabbath. By sundown they had to stay inside until Saturday night. They could not go to anoint the body at night on Saturday the eighteenth so the women rose up early on Sunday the nineteenth to anoint Jesus’ body, but he wasn’t in the tomb.
14th Tuesday Jesus and Disciples have passover, then Jesus is arrested
15th Wednesday at 3 pm Jesus dies, sundown starts the Pharisaical lunar passover
16th Thursday evening passover is over
17th Friday Women buy oils and spices, sundown is weekly sabbath
18th Saturday evening weekly Sabbath is over
19th Sunday women rise early to anoint Jesus but he is not there
At the time Jesus was crucified something else happened according to Matthew. The veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom. If we were going to tear a curtain we would normally grab the bottom and tear upward. This was top down, a sign from the Elohim. Also at that time it was unusually dark from noon (the sixth hour) to three in the afternoon (the ninth hour). Another phenomenon that occurred was that the graves opened and many people came out of their own graves, went into Jerusalem and some went into the temple. Two former priests gave their account of events which Nicodemus recorded.
Those three days from the fifteenth to the eighteenth were the saddest and darkest days on earth. It looked like Satanas killed the Messiah, who is the creator, his own creator. Satanas did not win. The gates of hades could not admit Jesus because he was sinless. Jesus led captivity captive. He witnessed to the imprisoned spirits and set the captives free. Who was set free? The believers in the Messiah, those who had a relationship with Yahweh, and believed he would come. As David prophesied, Yahweh would not leave his soul in hell or suffer his Holy One to see corruption. Peter notes this on Pentecost.
The saddest and darkest days on the earth became the victory of the Messiah. Not only did Jesus overcome the grave and open paradise to the children of the Most High God, he took back the keys to hades and death. No one can go to hades or death without Jesus knowing, yet Jesus allows everyone to make that decision for themselves. Jesus explained hades and death, which Luke records about Abraham’s bay. Now that Jesus took back the control over hades and death that the adam lost, Satanas has no authority there, nor can he decide who goes where when they die.
This is why Satanas had to hide everything he could about Jesus Messiah. He inspired people to alter scripture, to erase Jesus from all the prophecies that he fulfilled. Satanas inspired people to eliminate 243 years from the calendar to try and buy time to make someone else Messiah. Satanas added odd traditions to our most holy days and promoted them. Pastors teach traditions rather than scripture and our faith looks weak because we cannot even count to three. Nonetheless, Jesus redeemed us and we are now children of the Most High Living Elohim. The Messiah’s death was part of the plan for our salvation. It was dark and depressing for three days and nights but it is finished. Our Yahweh Jesus Messiah loves us more than we know. Let’s fix our eyes on Jesus, our perfect passover lamb.
Isa 52:14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
Isa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isa 53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isa 53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isa 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Isa 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Isa 61:1 (Brenton) The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me; he has sent me to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken in heart, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind;
Isa 61:2 to declare the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of recompence; to comfort all that mourn;
Luk 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
Luk 4:17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
Luk 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luk 4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Luk 4:20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
