The Day
The Biblical Day begins in the evening right after sundown. Some people still do not understand this even though our day with our calendar is measured from midnight to midnight. The Biblical New Year begins in the spring at the sighting of the first new moon. The first Day in the creation story in the Bible began in darkness and ended with light. When we observe each day in biblical times the day always starts in darkness and goes through the night “of that day” and ends in the light “of that day.” Morning breaks and never returns to darkness, and light drives the day until sundown takes over again marking the beginning of the new day that follows. Each biblical day in the creation story went from the evening at sundown through to the morning and lasted until sunset. Christ was crucified on the 3rd hour of daylight or 9:00 am. When Christ died on the cross the 9th hour of light or 3:00 PM the people that prepared his body for burial were in a HUGE rush because the Sabbath was approaching and no work is allowed on the Sabbath. He was killed on the day of the Sabbath preparation (you prepare your meals and your live stocks meals the day before so that you do as little as possible on the day of rest) or the day before Sabbath. He was killed in the daylight of Friday and buried in the daylight of Friday (1st day dead and 1st day buried). The Sabbath began (1 st night dead and buried) after Friday’s sunset. The Seventh-day began (2nd day dead and 2nd day buried) in darkness (continued through 2nd night dead and buried) and ended with morning light. The first day of the week began at sunset after Sabbath, beginning with its night into darkness (3rd night dead and buried) which gave way to its’ daylight in its’ morning (3rd-day early morning, alive again with an empty tomb). “He rose again on the third day.” (Three Days and three nights just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale) The Gregorian calendar (From Pope Gregory) that we follow today begins each day at midnight and that messes up our thinking when it comes to understanding the day, the week, and the timeline of Christ’s crucifixion, death, burial, and resurrection. On the Gregorian calendar, for example, I can say it is 1 am Tuesday and you will understand that it is dark outside at that time but you will still understand that it is Tuesday. The biblical day actually begins after sunset by design in the creation story. Each new biblical day begins in DARKNESS (night) and ends in LIGHT (day). The combination of night and day is called DAY for every single day in the creation story. (All of this is with respect to understanding that this is all based on the geolocation of Israel and the Hebrew lunar Calendar) According to the Law of Moses, (The Torah), The Passover lamb is killed before sundown on the 14th day of the first month of the New Year. The lamb is cooked over the fire with unleavened bread, bitter herbs, and wine, and is eaten in haste in the darkness after sundown at the beginning of the 15th day. Christ ate the PASSOVER meal with his disciples on the 15th Day of the New Year in darkness and was betrayed, captured, tried, and crucified by 9:00 am on the 15th Day. He was buried before Sundown on the 15th day before the Sabbath began. The 15th day was Friday. He was already buried and going into Sabbath at Fridays Sundown. As always, Sabbath began in darkness, (rest) and lasted until Sundown of its’ own Daylight period. Sunday began at the Sun down after Saturday evening and Christ rose in darkness (night) and did not appear to Mary Magdalene until the early morning daylight of the first day. This year the new moon is sighted on the 2nd of April at sunset. The preparation day for Passover falls on the 16th calendar day which is 14 days after the new moon beginning at sunset on the 15th which just happened to be Friday at sunset this year, and the Passover falls on the 17th at the 16th sunset which just happens to be the Sabbath or 7th day on our Gregorian calendar at sunset. To simplify, The Passover is prepared within the 24 hours from Friday after sunset and then is eaten Saturday night after sunset, with the meal lasting until just before morning daylight and then follows the days of unleavened bread where the nation of Israel departed Egypt and rushed away with no time for their bread to rise. Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
