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Christ Did Not Rise on Sunday
Posted : 15 Sep, 2007 05:36 PM
Christ did rise however and it was in the end of the Sabbath
{Scriptures quoted from KJV unless otherwise noted.}
Many Sunday keepers use Mark 16: 9 to say that Christ rose the first day of the week. However this is contrary to sound doctrine. If you understand the greek at all you'll also know that there is no punctuation and any punctuation found in our Bible is arbitrary, placed there by the translators.
Let's take a closer look at Mark 16:9 Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.
Notice the comma after the word "week." This makes it look like Christ rose on the first day of the week. But in consideration of all other scriptureBible scholars know this isn't the truth. Since the comma is arbitrary, let's move it, put it after the word "risen" and see what this verse looks like now.
Mark 16:9 Now when Jesus was risen, early the first day of the week he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.
You see, Sunday is NOT the day Christ rose. In this verse, the first day of the week is simply when Jesus appeared to the first person after his resurrection, Mary Magdalene.
If you have read scripture closely enough you will remember that Christ said he would be in the heart of the earth 3 days and 3 nights.
Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Those who believe that Christ was crucified on friday and rose sunday morning are way off in their thinking about the death, burial and resurrection of Christ. I'll continue to show you why and what the scripture reveals about this time element.
Many take a light reading of scripture and think that because it shows the next day is the Sabbath, immediately they think that Christ was crucified on friday. But this is far from the truth since it was not the weekly Sabbath, it was a high day Sabbath. Now here is the mind that has understanding, the death burial and resurrection of Christ lines up exactly with the passover! Think on this if you know anything about the passover as you read on.
Even if Christ did rise on the first day of the week, there is no instruction in scripture that is a change of the Sabbath. God never changed it! The Catholic church changed it and even admits to it. I could go into some depth on this but I won't at this time.
Any day preceding the Sabbath is a day of preparation, a time to prepare for the next day since it was a day of rest. Just as in the case in the day that Christ was crucified. John 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Luke 23:54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
If you study the passover and the Hebrew calendar, you will see clearly that this day was the 4th day of the week, Wednesday! Not friday. We can even know the approximate time of day Christ was crucified by reading the other gospels. I remember back in my mid twenties carrying on a discussion with a pentecostal pastor who refuted what I was teaching and I asked him when Christ was crucified, he said, "Wednesday afternoon around 2 or3 oclock." He was right on! But he was fuzzy on the rest of the details and mentioned he would have to get back to me on the rest of it. He never did!
Mark 15:24-25 And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take. And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.
Mark 15:33-34 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Mark 15:37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.
Now think on this, considering the fact that they used sun dials back then to tell time, the sun more than likely arose around 6:00am at that time. It's easy enough to add 9 to that and realize it was about 3:00pm
We know that the synoptic Gospels (the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke — exclusive of John), though basically repetitious, each have certain details included in one account that are not in another. This proof, based on that premise, puts the pieces together in an easy to understand order. The Gospel of John is also used for supporting evidence.
Note: The buying and preparing of the spices and oils by the women occurred between two Sabbaths. Therefore, these two Sabbaths could not have been concurrent, as is popularly believed. And, as John 19:31 explains, the first Sabbath, the one immediately after Jesus' death, was a High Day, that is, an annual Holy Day, the First Day of Unleavened Bread, not the weekly Sabbath.
"Now late on the sabbath day, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre." (Matt 28:1 3 , Luke 24:1, Mark 16:2, John 20:1)
Matthew 28:1 gives the most accurate account of the resurrection. Notice that it was "late on the Sabbath" prior to it "dawning toward the first day of the week" (or sundown) when Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the sepulchre. Now notice this, Jesus was already risen at this time!
It is also noteworthy that A. T. Robertson, in A Harmony of the Gospels, declares that the women visited the tomb at dusk at the end of the Sabbath (sunset on Saturday), not at dawn on the first day of the week (Sunday) as is popularly believed
Jesus Christ, our Passover lamb, was sacrificed and died at the time of the Passover sacrifice of the lambs in the evening at the end of the 14th of Abib (Nisan) — which occurred on a Wednesday in 31 AD, the year of his crucifixion. He was buried just before sunset that day, and he remained in the grave, "the belly of the earth," for exactly three days and three nights, as he had said, until he rose from the dead and his grave just before sunset on that week's Sabbath — NOT on Sunday morning, as is popularly believed.
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