.
The safest, way to calculate the correct day of the civil week during which
Jesus was crucified is to go by the rules that God established very early-on
in the book of Genesis.
†. Gen 1:3-5 . . And God said: Let there be light-- and there was light. God
saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.
God called the light Day and the darkness He called Night.
Day and Night simply label two physical conditions-- the absence of light,
and/or the absence of darkness. Labeling those physical conditions may
seem like a superfluous detail, but when analyzing crucifixion week in the
New Testament, it's essential to keep those physical conditions separate in
regards to the Lord's burial and resurrection if one is to have any hope of
deducing the correct chronology of Easter week.
†. Gen 1:14-18 . . God said: Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to
separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark
seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the
sky to give light on the earth. And it was so. God made two great lights--
the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night.
He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light
on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from
darkness.
On the first day; God decreed Day as a condition of light; and Night as a
condition of darkness. Then in Gen 1:14-18, He further decreed that days on
the earth are when the sun is up; and nights on the earth are when the sun
is down. These rules occur so early in the Bible that they easily escape the
memories of Bible students as they slip into the reflexive habit of always
thinking of days as periods of one earth rotation of 24 hours. That's okay for
calendars but can lead to gross misunderstandings when interpreting biblical
schedules, predictions, and/or chronologies.
†. John 11:9 . . Jesus answered: are there not twelve hours in the day? A
man who walks by day will not stumble, for he sees by this world's light.
There are times of the year at Jerusalem's latitude when days on earth
consist of less than 12 hours of daylight, and sometimes more; but when
Jesus was here; the official length was always 12 regardless. The point is:
when calculating a chronology of the Lord's burial and resurrection; it's best
to comply with God's decrees and let days be daytime and nights be
nighttime; viz: days are when the sun is up, and nights are when the sun is
not up.
†. Matt 12:40-41 . . Just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the
belly of the sea monster, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth.
Buen Camino
/
The safest, way to calculate the correct day of the civil week during which
Jesus was crucified is to go by the rules that God established very early-on
in the book of Genesis.
†. Gen 1:3-5 . . And God said: Let there be light-- and there was light. God
saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.
God called the light Day and the darkness He called Night.
Day and Night simply label two physical conditions-- the absence of light,
and/or the absence of darkness. Labeling those physical conditions may
seem like a superfluous detail, but when analyzing crucifixion week in the
New Testament, it's essential to keep those physical conditions separate in
regards to the Lord's burial and resurrection if one is to have any hope of
deducing the correct chronology of Easter week.
†. Gen 1:14-18 . . God said: Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to
separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark
seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the
sky to give light on the earth. And it was so. God made two great lights--
the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night.
He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light
on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from
darkness.
On the first day; God decreed Day as a condition of light; and Night as a
condition of darkness. Then in Gen 1:14-18, He further decreed that days on
the earth are when the sun is up; and nights on the earth are when the sun
is down. These rules occur so early in the Bible that they easily escape the
memories of Bible students as they slip into the reflexive habit of always
thinking of days as periods of one earth rotation of 24 hours. That's okay for
calendars but can lead to gross misunderstandings when interpreting biblical
schedules, predictions, and/or chronologies.
†. John 11:9 . . Jesus answered: are there not twelve hours in the day? A
man who walks by day will not stumble, for he sees by this world's light.
There are times of the year at Jerusalem's latitude when days on earth
consist of less than 12 hours of daylight, and sometimes more; but when
Jesus was here; the official length was always 12 regardless. The point is:
when calculating a chronology of the Lord's burial and resurrection; it's best
to comply with God's decrees and let days be daytime and nights be
nighttime; viz: days are when the sun is up, and nights are when the sun is
not up.
†. Matt 12:40-41 . . Just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the
belly of the sea monster, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth.
Buen Camino
/