Easter Is Idolitry

[gumby]

Hi there CB members as many of you are following holidays this year i would like you to know that easter is nothing short od idolitry and the junk it teaches. Easter eggs relate to the queen of heaven as the bible refers to her as its supposed fairytale that ishtar actually fell from heaven and hatched from a egg. Eggs are pagan symbols that represent fertility, better off lets look at the rabbit know does the rabbit lay eggs nope far from it the rabbits a mamel. Rabbits and eggs are of no value in the word of god there is no command to hide eggs, color eggs or to buy choclate coated rabbits of idolitry. Lets look at what god says of these matters through scripture shall we:

Jeremiah 7:17, Jeremiah 7:18, Jeremiah 7:19 and Jeremiah 7:20

Jeremiah 44:1, Jeremiah 44:2, Jeremiah 44:3, Jeremiah 44:4, Jeremiah 44:5, Jeremiah 44:6, Jeremiah 44:7, Jeremiah 44:8, Jeremiah 44:9, Jeremiah 44:10, Jeremiah 44:11, Jeremiah 44:12, Jeremiah 44:13, Jeremiah 44:14, Jeremiah 44:15, Jeremiah 44:16, Jeremiah 44:17, Jeremiah 44:18, Jeremiah 44:19, Jeremiah 44:20, Jeremiah 44:21, Jeremiah 44:22, Jeremiah 44:23, Jeremiah 44:24, Jeremiah 44:25, Jeremiah 44:26, Jeremiah 44:27, Jeremiah 44:28, Jeremiah 44:29 and Jeremiah 44:30

Ezekiel 8:15, Ezekiel 8:16, Ezekiel 8:17 and Ezekiel 8:18.

This was blatent sun worship within what was supposed to be the lords house so i ask you all look what your churches are doing today the exact same thing that the lord forbids in his word. The sun is a great creation of god and we should admire and love god who made it not rising and chasing after the sun. This is my main message this year cut off the false holiday of easter. Revelation 3:16 clearly states that the lukewarm will be spewed out of the lords mouth, please cut off the lukewarm holiday and realize that christ is our passover for one and all times. The appointed time for passover is this. Leviticus 23:5.

I hope i have helped shed some truth concerning eatser and the falsehood of it. Please open your eyes and stand up againt such hethanistic practices of egg rolling and rabbits. Those have no place within the body of christ.

God bless :)

 

[jiggyfly]

Tis true but it doesn't just stop with Easter, the christian religious institution has ordained many practices into it's liturgy that are simply of a carnal nature.
The clergy/Laity system is a carnal system and the concept of the building where people gather being God's house is another carnal fantasy. How about the pulpit and the altar being hallowed ground,LOL, boy we could go on for hours coundn't we. The christian religious institution is really a conglomerate of hundreds of thousands of mini micro kingdoms. Its a carnal attempt to imitate the ekklesia of which is of spiritual nature and originated with God.

 

[sniper762]

Tis true but it doesn't just stop with Easter, the christian religious institution has ordained many practices into it's liturgy that are simply of a carnal nature.
The clergy/Laity system is a carnal system and the concept of the building where people gather being God's house is another carnal fantasy. How about the pulpit and the altar being hallowed ground,LOL, boy we could go on for hours coundn't we. The christian religious institution is really a conglomerate of hundreds of thousands of mini micro kingdoms. Its a carnal attempt to imitate the ekklesia of which is of spiritual nature and originated with God.

easter is a celebration of the resurection of jesus christ. according to modern day christian tradition, he suppose to have been in the earth for 3 daysand 3 nights. upon reading the gospel's account
in the bible, i can only count 2 nigts and 1 day.

can anyone explain?

 

[gumby]

Yes im aware that basically all the holidays exept thanksgiving are pagn based and therefor evil. But my points were as follows:

Ezekiel 8:16 now here we have holy men supposed to be conducting church in the lords presence but instead there out worshipping the sun. Now i know that god doesnt dwell within carnal walls but if they claim it to be the lords house and are defiling it with idolitry that makes god angry. I ask you though whats going on with modern churches sunrise services, egg hunts, egg coloring and choclate bunnys in place of christ. All those abomidable things being practiced in what they claim as the lords house. My solution stop buying it stop buying the plastic eggs, the egg coloring kits, the easter grass, the choclate bunnys and eggs. You name it stop buying it and see how far easter gos the answer is if we can get this logic in not only this website but worldwide easter will systematically cease to exist if theres no funding for it. Same thing gos for christmas and holloween if we stop buying the holiday stuff they to as holidays will cease to exist. Just food for thought, god bless :)

 

[jiggyfly]

I understand what your saying and agree with much of it. But as far as what people are doing within the christian religious institution, I personally stopped worrying about, it's all carnal and is an invention of man's prideful and haughty mind, IMHO. I stopped participating in religious liturgy some years ago. But even if they quit celebrating in these manners it is still a carnal system void of spiritual life.

 

[Martin W.]

I celebrate Every Easter by remembering the Crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
And yes , there are Easter eggs and chocolates around.

Millions of Christians around the world do the same. Never once is there mention or thought about secular pagan idolatry among us. We eat the sweets and worship The Christ.

We should never expect the non Christian people of the world to be like us , they just want the chocolates , candies , bunnies, and a day off work.

What the secular world does at Easter and what the Christians do at Easter is miles apart. We should not attempt to make them one and the same even if it happens on the same day of the week.

The pagan is not a christian at Easter and the christian is not a pagan at Easter.

 

[gumby]

Easter does not come from passover martin, christ became our passover. The practice of hiding eggs, coloring eggs, buyying choclate bunnys, buying easter baskets and attending sunrise services are all the work of our hands:

Deuteronomy 4:25, 1st Kings 14:9, 2nd Kings 21:6, 2nd Kings 22:17, 2nd Chronicles 34:25, Jeremiah 25:6, Jeremiah 25:7 and Jeremiah 44:3.

Easter eggs and choclate rabbits are the work of mans hand and dare i say the lord frowns upon it when we replace christ our PASSOVER with such

 

[fivesense]

Easter does not come from passover martin, christ became our passover. The practice of hiding eggs, coloring eggs, buyying choclate bunnys, buying easter baskets and attending sunrise services are all the work of our hands:

Deuteronomy 4:25, 1st Kings 14:9, 2nd Kings 21:6, 2nd Kings 22:17, 2nd Chronicles 34:25, Jeremiah 25:6, Jeremiah 25:7 and Jeremiah 44:3.

Easter eggs and choclate rabbits are the work of mans hand and dare i say the lord frowns upon it when we replace christ our PASSOVER with such

Frowns upon it? Interesting... The Sinless One made to suffer for us while we were still yet enemies, the bloody crucifixion of the Son of God's love, the perfect and complete sacrifice for the sins of the world, so that the Father could draw all men unto the Son; this Christ, this Lord of mercies and pities, frowning upon something as innocous as an easter egg hunt? Is that how He is looking at things, really? Seems rather trite for God to be occupied with something that insignificant in the whole scheme of things. I dunno...
fivesense

 

[Adstar]

easter is a celebration of the resurrection of jesus christ. according to modern day christian tradition, he suppose to have been in the earth for 3 daysand 3 nights. upon reading the gospel's account
in the bible, i can only count 2 nigts and 1 day.

can anyone explain?

Yes. you do not have the understanding to interpret the story. Now i am not being a smart mouth saying that. I am saying it without ill feeling towards you.

Just as the traditions of men have mixed paganism with the Word of God with the celebration of easter. (easter a very marginally altered name of the pagan god of fertility Ishtar to whom the celebration actually belongs) So also have the traditions of men brought to you the tradition of Friday as the Messiahs day of execution. Indeed the same people who mixed paganism with the Word with easter, are the same who instituted the Friday crucifixion belief.

Truth is that The Messiah did as He prophesised spend 3 days and 3 nights in the earth and then he was raised from the dead.

The Messiah died on the cross on the afternoon of Wednesday (sorry corrected) and was raised from the dead at the end of the Jewish Sabbath on Saturday just before sunset.

So The Messiah was in the earth Wednesday night, Thursday day, Thursday night, Friday day, Friday night, and lastly Saturday day.

In the week of the execution there where two Sabbaths.

Because of the wilful ignorance of the Word of God by those who hold the traditions of men higher they could only see 1 Sabbath, that being, the Weekly Saturday Sabbath which starts on Friday sunset and goes to Saturday sunset. Bible days are not as our days are figured. Biblical days start at sunset. We read in the book of genesis

Genisis 1
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Even these days you can observe some observant Jews rushing home on Friday afternoons to be at Home for the start of their Sabbath.

The second Sabbath that happened in the week of the Execution of our Messiah was a High Sabbath called the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

This Sabbath started on Wednesday night and ended Thursday sunset.

We see the foundation of this day in the same passage of scripture that founded the weekly Sabbaths

Leviticus 23
2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

Note this verse above says feasts of the LORD not just feast of the LORD the very next verse Declares the First Feast the weekly Sabbath.

Leviticus 23
3Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings. 4These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 5In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's Passover. 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. 7In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

See How this day happens Directly after the Day of Passover. The Messiah Celebrated this Passover with His disciples on the very night he was captured. On the very night before the day He was executed and He was executed before sunset on the Day of Passover. Remember the Biblical day starts at Sundown. The Messiah celebrated the Passover at the start of the day (sunset) and at the end of the day became the Perfect Lamb of God. All on the same day the day of Passover. The Jewish religious authorities where eager to have Jesus buried before the start of the Sabbath of the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

Note most of the Jews had their Passover meal at the wrong time also. God commanded on the Original Day of Passover for them to eat the Passover Lamb on the night of the 14th day of the first Month (Nissan)

Exodus 12
5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats 6And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. 7And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. 8And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

And in the Jewish Day the Night comes before the Day.

Oh and Nissan 14 the first month and the 14 day in the Jewish calendar occurred on a Wednesday (Tuesday night Wednesday day Jewish) in the years 30 AD. and 31 AD :) right at the right time frame. Many who have studied the life of the Messiah believe Jesus was Born around 4 BC or 5 BC.

So the 15th of Nissan was a Thursday (Wednesday night Thursday day Jewish) in 30AD. and 31AD. This was the High Sabbath mentioned in John.

John 19
31 Therefore, because it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.


So with this Knowledge you will see that The Messiah was no liar. He did spend 3 Nights and 3 Days in the earth.


All Praise The Ancient of Days

 

[sniper762]

Yes. you do not have the understanding to interpret the story. Now i am not being a smart mouth saying that. I am saying it without ill feeling towards you.

Just as the traditions of men have mixed paganism with the Word of God with the celebration of easter. (easter a very marginally altered name of the pagan god of fertility Ishtar to whom the celebration actually belongs) So also have the traditions of men brought to you the tradition of Friday as the Messiahs day of execution. Indeed the same people who mixed paganism with the Word with easter, are the same who instituted the Friday crucifixion belief.

Truth is that The Messiah did as He prophesised spend 3 days and 3 nights in the earth and then he was raised from the dead.

The Messiah died on the cross on the afternoon of Tuesday and was raised from the dead at the end of the Jewish Sabbath on Saturday just before sunset.

So The Messiah was in the earth Wednesday night, Thursday day, Thursday night, Friday day, Friday night, and lastly Saturday day.

In the week of the execution there where two Sabbaths.

Because of the wilful ignorance of the Word of God by those who hold the traditions of men higher they could only see 1 Sabbath, that being, the Weekly Saturday Sabbath which starts on Friday sunset and goes to Saturday sunset. Bible days are not as our days are figured. Biblical days start at sunset. We read in the book of genesis

Genisis 1
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Even these days you can observe some observant Jews rushing home on Friday afternoons to be at Home for the start of their Sabbath.

The second Sabbath that happened in the week of the Execution of our Messiah was a High Sabbath called the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

This Sabbath started on Wednesday night and ended Thursday sunset.

We see the foundation of this day in the same passage of scripture that founded the weekly Sabbaths

Leviticus 23
2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

Note this verse above says feasts of the LORD not just feast of the LORD the very next verse Declares the First Feast the weekly Sabbath.

Leviticus 23
3Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings. 4These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 5In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's Passover. 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. 7In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

See How this day happens Directly after the Day of Passover. The Messiah Celebrated this Passover with His disciples on the very night he was captured. On the very night before the day He was executed and He was executed before sunset on the Day of Passover. Remember the Biblical day starts at Sundown. The Messiah celebrated the Passover at the start of the day (sunset) and at the end of the day became the Perfect Lamb of God. All on the same day the day of Passover. The Jewish religious authorities where eager to have Jesus buried before the start of the Sabbath of the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

Note most of the Jews had their Passover meal at the wrong time also. God commanded on the Original Day of Passover for them to eat the Passover Lamb on the night of the 14th day of the first Month (Nissan)

Exodus 12
5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats 6And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. 7And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. 8And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

And in the Jewish Day the Night comes before the Day.

Oh and Nissan 14 the first month and the 14 day in the Jewish calendar occurred on a Wednesday (Tuesday night Wednesday day Jewish) in the years 30 AD. and 31 AD :) right at the right time frame. Many who have studied the life of the Messiah believe Jesus was Born around 4 BC or 5 BC.

So the 15th of Nissan was a Thursday (Wednesday night Thursday day Jewish) in 30AD. and 31AD. This was the High Sabbath mentioned in John.

John 19
31 Therefore, because it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.


So with this Knowledge you will see that The Messiah was no liar. He did spend 3 Nights and 3 Days in the earth.


All Praise The Ancient of Days

A SABOTH IS CELEBRATED AS EITHER A SABBATH DAY OR A SABBOTH WEEK. THE SCRIPTURES SAY THAT JESUS DIED JUST PRIOR TO THE SABBATH, ON THE DAY OF PREPARATION AND THAT HE WAS FOUND TO BE RISEN AT JUST BEFORE DAWN ON THE DAY AFTER THE SABBOTH. NEVER WERE "TWO" SABBATH DAYS OBSERVED IN THE SAME WEEK. EVEN SO, TWO SABBATHS WOULD HAVE BEEN SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED IN THE SCRIPTURES AND WOULD HAVE ENTAILED MORE THAN 3 DAYS. INSTEAD OF SIMPLY SPECULATING, PLEASE SUBMITT DOCUMENTATION TO SUPPORT YOUR ASSUMPTION THAT "TWO" SABBOTHS EQUALING THREE DAYS MIGHT HAVE BEEN OBSERVED.

Sabbath day = a weekly day of rest (traditionally the 7th day), starts sundown on Friday until 3 stars appear in th e sky on Saturday evening. Celebrated either on the 1st day of the week (Sunday) or the 7th (Saturday)
Any of 7 annual festivals in Judaism
Derives from Hebrew “Shabbat” meaning “to cease”
A 7-day “weekly” Sabbath
7 annual biblical festivals: three in spring and four in fall
1st and 7th day of “pesach” Hebrew meaning “he passed over” (Passover), beginning on the 15th of nissan (in israel, passover is a 7-day “feast of the unleavened bread’ with the 1st and last days considered Sabbaths and “shevuot” (pentacost), celebrated 50 days after easter.
7th month, “rosh Hashanah” (trumpets), “yom kippur” (atonement) and the 1st and 8th days of “sukkoth” (tabernacles)

 

[Martin W.]

Easter does not come from passover martin, christ became our passover. The practice of hiding eggs, coloring eggs, buyying choclate bunnys, buying easter baskets and attending sunrise services are all the work of our hands:

Easter eggs and choclate rabbits are the work of mans hand and dare i say the lord frowns upon it when we replace christ our PASSOVER with such

You missed my whole point Gumby. When Christians celebrate Easter it is everything to do with Christ and nothing to do with what the non Christians do (eggs and chocolate bunnies).

Who cares what the world does at Easter. They have to do something that is not christian and We should expect it just like we expect them to embrace things like evolution because they do not want God.

The unsaved world will try to ruin every sacred thing in Christianity. We are told that clearly in the bible. We are separate from that world.

Take in a church service this weekend and leave the unsaved to their own devices. They are lost anyway. We are fools if we think the pagans should change their form of Easter to ours. It will never happen.

In summary Gumby , do not waste one split second of time on what the unsaved do.

On the other hand , if the Lord wants to use you to bring someone to Christ , he will provide the right circumstances.

Thanks
Martin W

 

[gumby]

Frowns upon it? Interesting... The Sinless One made to suffer for us while we were still yet enemies, the bloody crucifixion of the Son of God's love, the perfect and complete sacrifice for the sins of the world, so that the Father could draw all men unto the Son; this Christ, this Lord of mercies and pities, frowning upon something as innocous as an easter egg hunt? Is that how He is looking at things, really? Seems rather trite for God to be occupied with something that insignificant in the whole scheme of things. I dunno...
fivesense

Yes frowns. Matter a fact God is very angry with the wicked who teachj egg rolling and rabbits of fertility in place of jesus christ whoi hung on the cross and bled and died. Tell me did rabbits die on the cross for my sins? did eggs die on the cross for my sins. No neither didnt. Read Psalms 7:11.

 

[Adstar]

A SABOTH IS CELEBRATED AS EITHER A SABBATH DAY OR A SABBOTH WEEK. THE SCRIPTURES SAY THAT JESUS DIED JUST PRIOR TO THE SABBATH, ON THE DAY OF PREPARATION AND THAT HE WAS FOUND TO BE RISEN AT JUST BEFORE DAWN ON THE DAY AFTER THE SABBOTH. NEVER WERE "TWO" SABBATH DAYS OBSERVED IN THE SAME WEEK. EVEN SO, TWO SABBATHS WOULD HAVE BEEN SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED IN THE SCRIPTURES AND WOULD HAVE ENTAILED MORE THAN 3 DAYS. INSTEAD OF SIMPLY SPECULATING, PLEASE SUBMITT DOCUMENTATION TO SUPPORT YOUR ASSUMPTION THAT "TWO" SABBOTHS EQUALING THREE DAYS MIGHT HAVE BEEN OBSERVED.

Why the need for shouting sniper? did my post shake you.

I have provided my support by using scripture establishing that like the weekly Sabbath there are 7 other days during the year that are Sabbaths that have the same stipulation as the weekly sabbath in that "holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein."

These days are:
Feast of unleavened bread: First day and Last day of the 7 day feast are Sabbaths.
First Fruits
Pentecost
Feast of Triumphs
Feast of Atonement
Feast of Tabernacles

Oh and here God Himself refers to the Feast of Trumpets as a Sabbath:
Leviticus 23
23 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 24 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. 25 You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.’”

The Feast of Unleavened Bread was indeed mentioned
Mark 14
1After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. 2But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.

Sabbath day = a weekly day of rest (traditionally the 7th day), starts sundown on Friday until 3 stars appear in th e sky on Saturday evening. Celebrated either on the 1st day of the week (Sunday) or the 7th (Saturday)

The weekly Sabbath was never celebrated on a Sunday by the Torah observant Jews.

Any of 7 annual festivals in Judaism

Thats right they are Sabbaths and they fall on Particular Dates, Not on particular days of the week as the weekly Sabbath does.



All Praise The Ancient Of Day

 

[Adstar]

You missed my whole point Gumby. When Christians celebrate Easter it is everything to do with Christ and nothing to do with what the non Christians do (eggs and chocolate bunnies).

Who cares what the world does at Easter. They have to do something that is not christian and We should expect it just like we expect them to embrace things like evolution because they do not want God.

The unsaved world will try to ruin every sacred thing in Christianity. We are told that clearly in the bible. We are separate from that world.

Take in a church service this weekend and leave the unsaved to their own devices. They are lost anyway. We are fools if we think the pagans should change their form of Easter to ours. It will never happen.

In summary Gumby , do not waste one split second of time on what the unsaved do.

On the other hand , if the Lord wants to use you to bring someone to Christ , he will provide the right circumstances.

Thanks
Martin W

Do you know that i have Seen muslims Jews and Athiests justify their rejection of Jesus as the Messiah by pointing out that He was a false messiah because He did not fulfil His 3 days and 3 nights in the earth prophecy. They proclaim Him a Liar and no Liar can be the true Messiah.

What the traditions of man have done is created a straw man church set up to be a target that can be destroyed by their arguments. Not against the truth of Scripture. But against the faulty doctrines of men that most people believe is true Christianity.

I see Athiest coming forward with theories that Christianity is based on paganism and the things they use to support this are the traditions of easter and christmas both of them based not on scripture but on the injection of paganistic traditions of men into the church that have become accepted as standard Christianity.

There is indeed a reason why we should never mix paganism with the Word of God. It provides a weakness that can later be used to attack the truth.


All Praise The Ancient Of Days

 

[sniper762]

sorry adstar, not shouting, i didnt realize the caps being on until after i had typed the post. i didnt want to retype it.

what im saying is that if there had been two sabbaths being celebrated, the gospel writers would have mentioned it specifically.

notice that the sabbath (passover) that mark spoke of was not the time of the crucifixion. they didnt want to do it at that time in fear of rialing up the people.

if the sabbath of the unleaved bread was celebrated on the FIRST day, then that combined with the 7th day sabboth would have been a whole week (longer than 3 days)
if the sabbath of the unleavened bread were celebrated on the LAST day, then it would coincide with the 7th day sabboth therefore not adding any time to the 1 1/2 days (from the day before the sabbath, when he died until the day after the sabboth, when he rose). this is according to the gospel accounts.

please show us the specific scripture that suggests(s) that there might have been two sabbaths being celebrated during jesus' crucifixion and resurection.

 

[HammerStone]

With all due respect - and I realize this might come off a bit harsh - they did state it rather plainly. You have to jump back and understand that these accounts were composed in the knowledge of the Old Testament. This means that you would be familiar with the Old Testament laws regarding things like the feast days such as Passover. IE: There's no reason to state what was obvious. The author (both God as the divine inspiration and the disciple - be it John or whomever from the accounts) would know this and expect their readers to know this. This is the culture and this is the religion of the time. It's difficult to put an easy analogy on this, but it would be like writing an account of a modern holiday where you refer to the "Federal holidays" at the beginning and then you talk about Christmas later. You wouldn't rehash rules and procedures that every knows as if the person who is reading them is unread and not familiar with them. They're already printed right there in Leviticus. Leviticus 23:1-8 is crystal clear on this, I don't know how else to explain it if that won't do the trick.

I'll close with a word of caution. Like adstar mentioned above, the folks that would deny the three days are denying a critical piece of what Christ did. I cannot tell anyone what to believe or make them believe, but this is a serious point because the fact is attested to elsewhere.

John 2:19
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

Luke 24:26
And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:

I Corinthians 15:14
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

Do yourself a favor and don't assume that these folks were somehow lower on the intellectual totem poll than yourself and didn't recognize the apparent inconsistency if there were not more to the story.

 

[sniper762]

i am a true bible believing christian. i just wanted to show others that the bible does not allways support modern day traditions of men.

god bless you all

 

[Adstar]

sorry adstar, not shouting, i didnt realize the caps being on until after i had typed the post. i didnt want to retype it.

what im saying is that if there had been two sabbaths being celebrated, the gospel writers would have mentioned it specifically.

notice that the sabbath (passover) that mark spoke of was not the time of the crucifixion. they didnt want to do it at that time in fear of rialing up the people.

if the sabbath of the unleaved bread was celebrated on the FIRST day, then that combined with the 7th day sabboth would have been a whole week (longer than 3 days)
if the sabbath of the unleavened bread were celebrated on the LAST day, then it would coincide with the 7th day sabboth therefore not adding any time to the 1 1/2 days (from the day before the sabbath, when he died until the day after the sabboth, when he rose). this is according to the gospel accounts.

please show us the specific scripture that suggests(s) that there might have been two sabbaths being celebrated during jesus' crucifixion and resurection.

I have shown you and all who are willing to read it. Only the first day of the Feast of unleavened bread and then 7th day where sabbaths the 5 days in the middle where not. But in the time of the Messiahs Execution the Weekly sabbath fell inbetween the first day of unleavened bread and the last day. Now the feast of unleavend bread was not linked to a Week as in Sunday to Saturday. It was linked to dates of the year from the 15th of Nissan to the 22nd of Nissan.

So on the week came

Passover - Unleavend Sabbath - Normal Day - Weekly Sabbath - and the first day of the week was the Feast of First Fruits.


All Praise The Ancient Of Days

 

[sniper762]

I have shown you and all who are willing to read it. Only the first day of the Feast of unleavened bread and then 7th day where sabbaths the 5 days in the middle where not. But in the time of the Messiahs Execution the Weekly sabbath fell inbetween the first day of unleavened bread and the last day. Now the feast of unleavend bread was not linked to a Week as in Sunday to Saturday. It was linked to dates of the year from the 15th of Nissan to the 22nd of Nissan.

So on the week came

Passover - Unleavend Sabbath - Normal Day - Weekly Sabbath - and the first day of the week was the Feast of First Fruits.


All Praise The Ancient Of Days

here is another testimate that says that jesus was crucified on the sixth day of the week (friday). it coincides with the biblical gospel accounts.

Narrative of Joseph of Arimathæa, Arimathea

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Text edited by Rev. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson and first published by T&T Clark in Edinburgh in 1867. Additional introductionary material and notes provided for the American edition by A. Cleveland Coxe, 1886.

And going out at the fourth hour, and at the fifth, he finds Jesus walking in the street. And as evening was coming on, Judas says to the Jews: Give me the aid of soldiers with swords and staves, and I will give him up to you. They therefore gave him officers for the purpose of seizing Him. And as they were going along, Judas says to them: Lay hold of the man whom I shall kiss, for he has stolen the law and the prophets. Going up to Jesus, therefore, he kissed Him, saying: Hail, Rabbi! it being the evening of the ]fifth day. And having laid hold of Him, they gave Him up to Caiaphas and the chief priests, Judas saying: This is he who stole the law and the prophets. And the Jews gave Jesus an unjust trial, saying: Why hast thou done these things? And he answered nothing.

Having therefore done many and dreadful things against Jesus that night, they gave Him up to Pilate the procurator at the dawn of the preparation, that he might crucify Him; and for this purpose they all came together. After a trial, therefore, Pilate the procurator ordered Him to be nailed to the cross, along with the two robbers. And they were nailed up along with Jesus, Gestas on the left, and Demas on the right.

 

[Martin W.]

Do you know that i have Seen muslims Jews and Athiests justify their rejection of Jesus as the Messiah by pointing out that He was a false messiah because He did not fulfil His 3 days and 3 nights in the earth prophecy. They proclaim Him a Liar and no Liar can be the true Messiah.

What the traditions of man have done is created a straw man church set up to be a target that can be destroyed by their arguments. Not against the truth of Scripture. But against the faulty doctrines of men that most people believe is true Christianity.

I see Athiest coming forward with theories that Christianity is based on paganism and the things they use to support this are the traditions of easter and christmas both of them based not on scripture but on the injection of paganistic traditions of men into the church that have become accepted as standard Christianity.

There is indeed a reason why we should never mix paganism with the Word of God. It provides a weakness that can later be used to attack the truth.


All Praise The Ancient Of Days

Hello Adstar

Those who do not want Christianity have many reasons , and to them any excuse will work.

What surprises me is how many Christians are surprised at how many people reject The Christian Savior , yet the bible clearly tells us they will be the majority and we are the minority.

People who do not want Christ will not have Him.

People who do not have him will blame us , not themselves.

It has always been that way. We should not be surprised at all.

The Christian Church is far from perfect , but if it was almost perfect , those people would still reject it. It is Christ they do not want and they try to blame "the Church" .

Best regards
Martin W.