Sunday Worship has a deeper meaning

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The Passover

The first four feasts are the Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and Pentecost.

Passover covered two days. The day of Preparation to kill and roast the lamb. The Feast of Passover to eat the lamb.

Jesus was killed on the cross on the Day of Preparation.

Passover started at 1800 or 6 o’clock in the evening on Wednesday evening. It was the Day of Preparation which meant that the only bread in the house was unleavened bread.  The Lamb was killed on Thursday afternoon and roasted on a fire.

Jesus had the Last Supper on Wednesday night which ended with unleavened bread and wine and feet washing. Thus, He prepared the disciples for the way in which He wanted His death remembered. He died on Thursday afternoon just after 3 o'clock. (The 9th hour measured from 0600 or 6 o'clock in the morning)

MATTHEW 27:46 “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”

MATTHEW 27:50   “Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.”

Thursday evening and Friday were the Feast of the Passover. The roasted lamb was eaten.

The Jewish Friday started on Thursday evening. We feast our souls on the death of Jesus when He paid for our sins on the cross and then His Holy Ghost carried our sins down to hell to dump them on the Devil. He died and we are freed from our sins. That is something to feast on. Undeserved grace and mercy.

This Friday was an annual High Day. A special day of rest (sabbath) where we could do nothing for ourselves to save ourselves.

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.”

The Feast of the Passover was Friday. Also called the Feast of Unleavened Bread. A special annual rest day or High Day. A special Sabbath. They ate the Lamb.

LEVITICUS 23:4   “These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.”

:5     “In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.”

(This was the Day of Preparation, Thursday, when the lamb was killed. When Jesus died).

: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.”

:7     “In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.”

(This was Friday, the High Day or special annual Sabbath when the lamb was eaten)

Then came Saturday, the usual weekly Sabbath.

That made two Sabbaths in a row. Friday and Saturday.

That means Jesus was in the tomb for three nights. Thursday night, Friday night, and Saturday night.

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”

There is no such thing in the Bible as Good Friday or Easter Monday.

Jesus died on Thursday afternoon and rose on Sunday morning.

We were totally dependent on what Jesus was doing in hell as He defeated Satan.

Friday evening and Saturday were the weekly Sabbath or Rest.

HEBREWS 4:10   “For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.”

We rest from our works as God did from His in Hebrews 4:10.

God worked, rested, and never went back to His works again.

This applies to our sins and unbelief which are our sinful works.

We repent and then rest from our sins because we stop sinning.

We do not go back to our sinful works again. The thief stops stealing. The liar stops lying.

This is the fruit of the Holy Ghost baptism that makes us die to self, just like Jesus was dead in the tomb.

Sunday resurrection was represented by the Firstfruits

The firstfruits are the first handful of barley or wheat that got ripe. The seed had died in the ground and then germinated back to life as a new plant. The first handful that got ripe was proof that the rest of the harvest would follow later.

I CORINTHIANS 15:23   “But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits;”

‘Firstfruits’ represents the resurrection, the First One to rise from the dead.

Christ, as the first Person to resurrect in an immortal Body, is the proof or 'down payment' to show that all believers will resurrect from the dead one day.

LEVITICUS 23:10  “Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:

:11   And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you:

on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.” 

The morrow or tomorrow after the Saturday Sabbath is Sunday.

So, on a Sunday the priest waves the firstfruits that represent Christ. The priest is the preacher. He waves Christ in front of the people. Christ is the Word of God. The preacher must only preach what is written in the King James Bible. Early on Sunday morning Christ waved goodbye to death, hell, and the grave.

This represents a Sunday meeting. The priest represents the preacher who is bragging about Christ. Jesus is the first Man to resurrect from the dead. The only religious leader who died and came back from the dead. Because He came back from the dead, the rest of the harvest that believes in Him will also resurrect from the dead one day.

MATTHEW 28:1    “In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.”

The resurrection happened on a Sunday, the day after the Saturday Sabbath.

As a result, the disciples began meeting on a Sunday.

ACTS 20:7    “And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.”

"Break bread" has three meanings. First, it can refer to eating. Break a piece of bread off the loaf so that you can chew it and then digest it.

Secondly, it can also mean taking one or more verses out of the Bible and explaining what the spiritual meaning of the verse or verses is. Then the listeners can digest or understand the Scripture and see where they fit into the bigger picture or pattern of God's Will. For example,

Matthew Chapter 13 fits into the seven church ages that have occupied the last 2000 years. We are the seventh age that rely on the net, the internet, to communicate with each other. Only the internet can take the Gospel to the ends of the earth as it sweeps through the restless sea of nations and crowds of people.

MATTHEW 13:47   “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:”

Thirdly, it can refer to what people call the Communion service. Where the death of Christ is discussed and then the unleavened bread is broken and given to the people to eat.

The breaking of bread was done on a Sunday.

When a seed is first planted, the harvest or reaping only happens when the last or final seed is the same as the seed that was planted. So, we have to be the same as the early church and do what they did. They met on Sundays.

I CORINTHIANS 16:2   “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.”

On a Sunday, the early church collected their tithes and offerings. That was obviously because it was the day that they held their meeting.

The Day of Pentecost was on a Sunday

Sunday was linked to the Day of Pentecost which is when the first church age was born.

LEVITICUS 23:15    “And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:”

They started counting from the Sunday of the wave offering, the day of the resurrection.

They had to count 50 days. Seven weeks would be 7 x 7 = 49 days.

49 days would be the seventh sabbath. So, 50 days would be one more day, which would be Sunday again.

Thus, the church was born on a Sunday.

LEVITICUS 23:16   “Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.”

The morrow or tomorrow after the 7th Saturday sabbath is a Sunday.

Pentecost means fifty.

LEVITICUS 23:17    “Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.”

Two wave loaves baked with leaven.

Only the first and the last church ages would have the truth.  But there would also be human error (the leaven) that we have to discern and stay away from.

Sunday is thus linked to the resurrection of Jesus and the birth of the seven church ages on the Day of Pentecost.

In Genesis Chapter 1, on the first day (Sunday), God said 'Let there be light.'

Symbolizing the Light of the Gospel, the true Word of God that began spreading to the pagan Gentiles from Jerusalem, thanks to the apostles.

As a result, Sunday is the most appropriate day to link to church worship.

But Sunday is not a holy day.

COLOSSIANS 2:16    “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
:17   Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.”

The early church met on Sundays. Thus the end-time church must do the same.