10 days that ended in the Resurrection
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The week of the crucifixion, which started with Palm Sunday, has to be analyzed very carefully.
- A cross-over effect forgives sin
- Passover began with cleaning out any leaven
- They ate the roasted lamb on the Feast of the Passover
- Six days before Passover
- Five days before Passover
- Four days before Passover is Palm Sunday
- The next day is Monday, three days before Passover
- Tuesday was two days before Passover
- Within three days
- On the third day
- The third day since these things were done
- After three days
A cross-over effect forgives sin
The crucifixion is based on the killing of the Passover lamb.
I CORINTHIANS 5:7 For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
The lamb was publicly chosen on the tenth day and killed on the 14th day.
A sinner offered up an innocent lamb to pay the price of his sins. The priest examined the lamb, not the sinner. If the lamb was perfect, the sinner was forgiven.
Then a crossover effect happened. The guilt of the sinner flowed onto the lamb and the innocence of the lamb flowed onto the sinner. But the nature of the lamb could not change the nature of the sinner. Thus, the sacrifice kept on being repeated to cover the on-going sins of the sinner.
EXODUS 12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
EXODUS 12:6 And 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.
Jesus was chosen publicly on Palm Sunday which was the 10th day.
ZECHARIAH 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
As the Passover Lamb, He had to die late on the 14th day, which is a Thursday afternoon.
We must examine Christ until we are convinced that He is the perfect Scriptural Sacrifice.
We must believe that Jesus is perfect. He is the Word of God. Thus, there must be a perfect Bible. The only candidate is the King James Bible. This translation was checked for about 158 years before being published in 1769 and became the foundation of the great missionary age as it spread around the world. Producing the correct Bible after the missionary age, which was intended to spread the Bible amongst the nations, would be pointless. Modern Bible translations do not profess to be perfect and are continually revised. Jesus as the Word is our perfect Sacrifice, and thus, we must believe that the King James Bible is perfect.
When we repent, our sins cross over onto Jesus, and His innocence crosses over onto us. But the nature of Jesus is able to change our natures and take away from us the desire to sin.
Passover began with cleaning out any leaven
A quick summary of events during the last 10 days of Jesus’ human ministry. Daniel interpreted a dream of Gentile history as Gentiles tried to rule the world. Babylonians produced brilliant pagan ideas like trinity, Pontiff, and 25 December. Medes and Persians used force and cunning to establish a worldwide empire. Greek philosophy captured Western thinking. Rome produced dictatorship, brute power, and the birth of the pagan sun god on 25 December. These pagan ideas then entered the Gentile Roman Catholic church to oppose the truth during the seven church ages that took 2000 years. In the end, the Gentile churches will be corrupted by Roman Catholic beliefs. The pagan trinity, using Greek philosophy terms like one-God-in-three-Persons, Father-and-Son-are-of-the-same-essence, Eternal Sonship, and Father-and-Son-are-of-the-same-substance was established as the Roman Catholic Trinity. The Protestants were fooled into accepting this. The final Pope or Pontiff will rule the world using the military power of ten dictators, represented by ten toes. Ten speaks of the end. The end of Gentile history, the battle of Armageddon, in Daniel’s image, will occur at the time of the dictatorial ten toes. Thaat is when the Stone strikes the image in the feet.
World events today see the rising power of dictatorship with Putin in Russia and dictators in China, Iran, North Korea, and Turkey dominating news headlines.
In Matthew 25, the ten sleeping virgins represent the state of the saved church at the end of time. A woman is a symbol of the church.
MATTHEW 25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
:2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
Foolish means they were fooled by their church preachers. Because of modern-day preachers, churchgoers are all fast asleep, even the wise virgins.
MATTHEW 25:5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
In the end, the enemy is in the church, doing the preaching and teaching.
The Jewish day began around supper time.
GENESIS 1:5 And the evening and the morning were the first day.
The Bible day began at evening. It went through the night, the next morning, and the afternoon.
The Passover had various names. Passover. Day of preparation. First day of unleavened bread.
Passover, the 14th day, began with a supper that included gravy and unleavened bread (the sop that Jesus gave to Judas). They began to clean all the leaven out of the home. The next morning, they continued to clean out all the leaven, and in the afternoon, they killed and roasted the Passover lamb.
Leaven is a symbol of sin and unbelief. Anything that is bad and puffs up our human egos.
After the supper, Jesus cleaned out the rottenness from the disciples by getting rid of Judas. Judas walked away from the Word because of his love for money.
JOHN 13:21 When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
JOHN 13:26 Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
:27 And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
That is Satan’s function. He removes the make-believers by getting them to reject the King James Bible as the Absolute truth. They walk away from the truth in the same way that Judas walked away from Jesus.
The unleavened bread on this Passover day symbolized the perfection of Jesus's life while He was on earth.
They ate the roasted lamb on the Feast of the Passover
The next day after Passover, the 15th, was the "Feast of the Passover" when they ate the roasted lamb.
MATTHEW 26:2 Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
The Feast of the Passover was Friday. The two days before that were Wednesday and Thursday.
So, this was Tuesday as they plotted their evil plan to kill Jesus.
MATTHEW 26:3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
MATTHEW 26:4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
MATTHEW 26:5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
Friday was the Feast of the Passover. They were not allowed to do any work like having a trial or killing a man on the Friday.
This 15th day, was a special Sabbath, known as a High Day, because it was not a Saturday.
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.
This 15th day was also called the "Feast of unleavened bread".
It represents the first church age which was the only church age that had the truth from the apostles.
EXODUS 12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
This was followed by six days of unleavened bread, representing the next six church ages that would only be correct insofar as they copied the first church age.
Only the first church age was called the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
We can only feast on the New Testament that the first church-age apostles wrote in order to clean up our lives and our beliefs. All the other church traditions that have emerged, like Trinity, Christmas, 25 December, Good Friday, Easter eggs, hot cross buns; the pastor is the head of the church, etc., are all non-nutritious paganism that starve our souls.
The seventh day of unleavened bread (the 7th church age) has to be identical to the first church age, the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
If the Feast of Unleavened Bread is a special Sabbath or High Day, then the seventh day (the seventh church age) must also be a special Sabbath or High Day.
LUKE 22:7 Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.
MARK 14:12 And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover,
The 14th was the first day that they ate unleavened bread as they cleaned the leaven out of their houses. This day represented Jesus dying on the cross as His shed blood cleaned up all of our sins.
The next seven days represent Jesus walking through the seven church ages as He helped the church to overcome the different sinful conditions of each age.
Our main enemy is deception. Our only safety zone is getting back to the New Testament beliefs of the first church age, which are represented by the "Feast of the Passover". Good, healthy New Testament food is full of vitamins and life, not modern-day fast-food, feel-good church traditions, which are so often junk food.
Charismatic Christians praise God using all His Old Testament names like Jehovah, Adonai, Elohim, and Yahweh. But they cannot explain why none of these names are in the New Testament. They also cannot explain why the expression "God the Father" does not appear in the Old Testament.
ACTS 20:6 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread,
ACTS 12:3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
They ate unleavened bread for eight days. Seven is the number of completion, like seven days makes one week. Eight is then the number of a new system. The New Testament.
LEVITICUS 23:6 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.
LUKE 22:1 Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
The Passover lamb was killed on the 14th day, but it was eaten on the 15th day. So, the 15th day was also called the Passover. But strictly speaking, the 15th day should be called the Feast of the Passover.
Six days before Passover
JOHN 12:1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
For His last ten days, Jesus started in Bethany where Lazarus has been raised from the dead. But Lazarus had been dead long enough for his body to corrupt.
The resurrection of Lazarus in Bethany was symbolic of the resurrection of Jesus Himself. Bethany means house of God. Jesus is the House of God because the fullness of the Godhead dwells in Him bodily.
COLOSSIANS 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Jesus was an improvement on Lazarus because His body would never corrupt.
Five days before Passover
JOHN 12:2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
A deep point. Jesus had arrived six days before the Passover.
But the next day started in the evening at suppertime, which was sunset. So, this verse refers to events that occurred five days before Passover.
Supper time was the start of the next Jewish day.
JOHN 12:2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
Martha represents the foolish virgins. They are saved and serve Jesus with a zeal of good works. But they have no clue about the deeper mysteries of Scripture. That is why they talk about unscriptural things like Trinity, Good Friday, Christmas, God the Son, Eternal Sonship, divorce and remarry, William Branham is infallible as the Voice of God, the pastor is the head of the church, etc.
JOHN 12:3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Mary represented the wise virgins. She did not seem to be doing much work but she was listening to the words of Jesus, the Word of God, which is the true Voice of God. Only Jesus is the Voice of God. No man can stand in that place. William Branham is the voice of the seventh angel who is to restore us to the first church-age apostles who wrote the Voice of God as the New Testament. The feet of the Gentile image that Daniel saw represent the seven church ages. By anointing His feet, Mary was showing how the resurrected Christ would walk through the seven church ages to guide and protect the church. Her long hair was a symbol of submission to the Word of God, Jesus. She believed that His anointed feet would walk out of the grave at His resurrection.
The ointment was expensive. The wise virgins have to pay a price for following the revealed mysteries of the Word, as they have to oppose the churches. Judas objected to this waste of money spent on Jesus. Judas was a church leader as an apostle but he was a thief who sold out for money. Pastors today deceive the people by claiming unscripturally to be the head of their church. That was never done in the first church age. Pastors make that claim so that they can also claim, unscripturally, to receive all the tithes.
Four days before Passover is Palm Sunday
This was Palm Sunday, the 10th day.
JOHN 12:12 On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
:13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.
:14 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written,
:15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.
This scene is also mentioned in Matthew.
MATTHEW 21:7
And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon.
:8 And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.
:9 And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
:10 And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?
:11 And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
But the religious leaders, just like church leaders today, ignored the Prophet in their lust for Profit.
MATTHEW 21:12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
Making money out of God’s Word made Jesus very angry.
By threatening the income of the religious leaders, Jesus was making dangerous enemies. (Never threaten a church leader’s money).
MARK 11:8 And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.
This was Day 4 before the Passover, with all the Palm branches being cut off. This was Sunday.
That symbolized the Jews being cut off from God so that the Gentiles could be later grafted in who would worship on a Sunday.
The next day is Monday, three days before Passover
The next day, the morrow, or the tomorrow after Sunday, is Monday.
MARK 11:12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
:13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
:14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
For ever means to the vanishing point. The Jews would fade out for almost two thousand years. But then they would finally be restored.
Jesus condemned the fig tree and and then He drove the moneymakers out of the Temple. The religious leaders wanted a Profit, not a Prophet.
:15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that so.ld and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
:16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
Spiritually, the Jews had dried up. They had had no fruits of the Spirit, just a love of money.
In the churches today, collection plates are passed through the churches.
Scanning QR codes with mobile phones in the churches is the modern way of money making by carrying a hand-held phone through the church. The square shape with the vertical and horizontal black and white lines are stuck onto the back of the seats in front of you and form a distracting scenario. But who cares, it is a quick and easy way to build up the church finances.
Mark also describes Palm Sunday.
MARK 11:9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
:10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
:11 And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.
Eventide. Evening time. The day changes from Sunday to Monday.
MARK 11:12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
The morrow or tomorrow after Sunday is Monday.
Jesus condemns a fig tree that represents Israel having no fruit of truth. God would thus condemn Jerusalem and the Temple to destruction and the Jews to almost 2000 years of exile.
MARK 11:13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
:14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
This fig tree represented that the Jews were spiritually dried up and were of no use to God in that state.
So, God was planning to cut off the Jews and turn to the Gentiles.
This is still Monday.
MARK 11:15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
Consequently, Jesus cast out the money lenders both on Palm Sunday and on Monday.
MARK 11:18 And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.
Having interfered with their money-making twice in two days, the religious leaders were incensed and wanted to kill Him on the Monday. But they needed some kind of legal excuse for their atrocious actions.
Tuesday was two days before Passover
By the next day, Tuesday, they were planning and plotting their monstrous scheme.
MARK 11:19 And when even was come, he went out of the city.
At evening time the day changed to Tuesday 12th.
MARK 11:20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
This was still Tuesday.
MARK 11:21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.
MARK 14:1 After 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.
This was Tuesday.
The next two days were Wednesday and Thursday.
After those two days would be Friday which is the feast of the Passover when they eat the roasted lamb.
The religious leaders only had Tuesday and Wednesday to plot against Jesus. On Thursday He had to be falsely accused as they prepared to kill Him as that was the "Day of Preparation" for killing the Passover.
MARK 14:2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
Jesus interfered with the money of the religious leaders, so He had to die.
The feast of the Passover was Friday. So, they had to kill Him before Friday.
Wednesday is a silent day. Nothing is said. That shows the cunning secrecy of their murderous plot. Nobody knew what was happening.
That is a warning to us today. The plot to get rid of the influence of the King James Bible as the Absolute Truth is done in secret at the highest levels until the pastors ridicule, criticize, change, and deny what is written in the King James Bible. Churchgoers then believe all sorts of unscriptural words and ideas and become increasingly Bible-illiterate. With modern Bibles being upgraded and revised, churchgoers no longer believe that it is possible to haave aa perfect Bible.
As the Passover Lamb Jesus was chosen on Palm Sunday , the 10th day of the month. He had to be killed on the 14th day which would be Thursday.
Three nights in the tomb.
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.
Jesus had to be three nights in the tomb before He resurrected on Sunday morning.
Thursday night. Friday night. Saturday night.
Thus He had to die on Thursday.
Within three days
MARK 14:58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
Our day is 0.00 hours at midnight. Midday is 12.00 and midnight is 24.00 (or 0.00 for the next day)
If you start measuring from when He died round 3 o’clock (or 15.00 hours) then His resurrection was within three 24-hour-days.
He rose early on Sunday when it was sill dark, thus before 6 o’clock in the morning.
JOHN 20:1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
On the third day
MATTHEW 20:19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
Measure time from when He died about 15.00 (or 3 o’clock).
It would be on the third day that he arose.
The third day since these things were done
LUKE 24:1 Now upon the first day of the week,
This was Sunday.
Now, measure a day from midnight which we say is 0.00 hours.
Sunday is the third day after the crucifixion.
LUKE 24:21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
He died on Thursday. That is when “these things were done”.
Friday was the first day since His death. Saturday was the second day since His death. Sunday was the third day since His death.
After three days
MATTHEW 27:63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
Measure each day starting at midnight.
MARK 8:31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
If the crucifixion is regarded as the first day of the death, burial, and resurrection then Sunday is after the third day.
Measure each day from midnight, 0.00 hours.