The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar eBook - Book - Page 251
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stone rolled away in the morning after sunrise the same day. Evening was not a
new day. The sun rose, the new day began and it was no longer Sabbath (Saturday)
but now Sunday. Messiah rose just before sunrise on the Sabbath (Saturday) still.
One cannot read this any other way. That evening is still the first day of the week
Sunday and not a new day meaning the new day does not begin in the evening
because it is the same day as it was after sunrise because sunrise begins the day
according to scripture. Messiah’s death also entrenches this calendar.
Luke 23:44-46 KJV
And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until
the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the
midst. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I
commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
Messiah died on the 9th hour. This cannot be during the evening because the sun
was darkened from the 6th to the 9th hours meaning this is during the day. This
was noon to 3 pm essentially. If the day began in the evening as we are told by
the Rabbis, then, this would be midnight and somehow the sun was supposed to
be out at midnight? It does not work. Luke continues as he records what happens
later in the day after Messiah had died.
Luke 23:54-56 KJV
And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on. And the women also,
which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how
his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested
the sabbath day according to the commandment.
If the Sabbath drew on as Messiah’s body was laid in the tomb, it is still Saturday in
the evening. However, it was the day of preparation meaning the preparation for
the Sabbath. How can it be both the Sabbath and preparation at the same time?
This was a Feast Sabbath within the Passover/Unleavened Bread Season not the
weekly Sabbath. Passover occurs in the evening and the Sabbath begins the next
day at sunrise for those following the Biblical calendar. However, the Rabbis did
not including Joseph of Arimathea who laid Messiah’s body in the tomb. He and
the Pharisees were anxious to get him in the tomb before sundown because they
followed a Lunar calendar even in those days thus their Sabbath would not begin
until sundown but Mary and the women who followed the Biblical calendar were
already in observance of the Sabbath. Joseph was a ranking Pharisee who was
saved but still following that observance. Notice, the women did not anoint the
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