Another time of shedding tears for Easter celebrants just passed!! (Part 1 )

The actual or genuine burial and resurrection accounts of the Hebrew-promised, Hebrew-born, Hebrew-named, and Hebrew-sacrificed Savior—Yahushua HaMashakhYahu—do not resemble, in any way, what Christians hold as their faith in the Savior of the world!!

Christianity first came onto the world scene around the year 320 CE, long after the demise of the last shliakh (apostle?) of the Savior. And so, none of the shlikhim (apostles?) of the Savior knew about Christianity to have exercised faith in it to become Christians!! No one shliakh was a Christian all because their Rabbi-savior was called by the Hebrew name Yahushua and the title HaMashakhYahu, but NEVER the Jesus Christ of latter day Christianity!

This is the very reason why the word “Christianity” cannot be found, even once, in any English Bible! If the English Bible is the infallible and complete Word of Yahuwah Elohiym, the Creator, as many think it is (though it is not), then, He has no instruction or teaching in it that can be termed “Christianity” for mankind to subscribe to for salvation!!

Sad to say that, with the advent of Christianity, many facts concerning the true Savior have been, and are being, recounted in a manner such that they have become distorted to such an extent as to have done great damage to the Truth.

In particular, Christian theologians, Bible translators and scholars, and Christian clergymen, have held, for the almost 1,700 years Christianity has been around, that their Savior, who they call JESUS CHRIST, was killed on a Friday and buried later in the evening of that same Friday.

Now, from this claim of a Friday evening burial for this Jesus Christ, they have also professed for all these years that he resurrected on an early Sunday morning!! For all Christians of their many denominations of diverse beliefs, this is a cardinal truth that cannot be debated!!

However, the impossibility that any being—divine, angelic, or human—can make a correct count of the “three days and three nights” between any Friday evening and the following early morning Sunday, as is required for the true Savior to be in his grave and resurrect to life again, as proof of he being a messenger from Yahuwah Elohiym, makes the Jesus Christ of Christians, who they claim resurrected on a Sunday, an imposter, never the true Savior, and thus, not of Yuhuwah Elohyim!

You see, the litmus test to determine the true Savior is that he must in his burial and resurrection fulfill the sign of the navi (prophet?) Yonah—cf. MattitYahu (Matthew) 12:38-40, 16:4, Lukas (Luke) 11:29-30 and YahuChanan (John) 2:18-22.

So then, if this Jesus Christ of Christianity stayed in his grave for only one and a half days—from a Friday evening burial to an early Sunday morning resurrection, as his followers proclaim—then he failed this test and therefore, was not the Savior sent by Yahuwah Elohiym to save mankind from sin and the devil. This is plain truth; period and simplicita!!

In the year the true Savior was sacrificed, ca. 30 CE, it was done on Nisan 13 in fulfillment of prophecy that He was to be the flawless Pesach Lamb to be eaten on Nisan 14—the eternally fixed date for every Pesach till the world comes to an end. Note that I say a “fixed date” and not a fixed day as is the “Good Fri-Day” arbitrarily fixed by Christians as the perpetual day their Jesus Christ was killed. Note also that Nisan is the first month in the Hebrew calendar.

Highly credible deductions made from the bible record of YahuChanan (John) 12:1—20:1 prove that Nisan 13, in the year of the Savior’s sacrifice, was a Tuesday! As all must also know, Nisan 13, like every day of Yahuwah Elohiym, ends in the evening at the very point in time that Nisan 14 also begins; for every day of Yahuwah Elohiym begins and ends in the evening and all His Shabbats are observed “from even unto even”—cf. Vayikra (Leviticus) 23:32!

The evening hour that commences Nisan 14 is the perfectly set hour by Yahuwah Elohiym, in which all children of Yisroel must have the cadavers of their Pesach lambs within their homes, all their front doors locked, and begin to grill the Pesach meat on open fire for the feast mandated by Yahuwah Elohiym. This is a feast to be observed by all true children of Yisroel who descend either biologically or spiritually, or in both ways, from Avraham! And so, for about 1,500 years prior to the coming of the Savior and afterwards, this was and is the timing for Pesach!

As said earlier, the true Savior was sacrificed on Nisan 13. Since Nisan 14 is the feast of Pesach, every Nisan 13 naturally becomes the “preparation day” for the feast of Pesach. Remember that, besides the 53 fixed-day (Saturday) Shabbats in every year, there are many other fixed-date Shabbats, one of which is Nisan 14 the feast of Pesach—cf. Vayikra (Leviticus) 23:4-44.

And so, not every mention of the word Shabbat in the scriptures should mislead Gentile seekers of salvation to think only of it as being a Saturday and neither should the mention of any “preparation day” stand only for Friday! The ignorance of Gentile Christians of this truth about Shabbat and “preparation day” has greatly polluted their understanding of the Word of Yahuwah Elohiym about His Shabbats and has put them into confusion concerning the burial accounts of the Savior as recorded in the English Bible!

You see, the rushed burial activities for the Savior by his two secret talmidim (disciples)—Yosef of Ramatayim and good old Nakdimon, cf. YahuChanan (John) 19:38-42—mentioned in reference to a “preparation day” were not done within a time of preparation for an on-coming normal weekly Shabbat of Saturday, but, that of the feast of Pesach, one of nine fixed date feasts of Yahuwah Elohiym determined by Him as His Shabbats which we read of in Vayikra (Leviticus) 23:4-44!

As the Savior’s lifeless body was laid to rest in a clean brand new tomb, exemplifying the clean and pure leaven-free Hebrew homes the cadavers of Pesach lambs must be carried into for the celebration of Pesach, the Great Time-Setter and Keeper, Yahuwah Elohiym, had His clock strike on the dot for the commencement of Nisan 14. At that very time, all children of Yisroel were carrying into their homes, the cadavers of lamb or goat they had killed outdoors, and quickly locking up their front doors for the commencement of the cooking for the Pesach feast.

And so, at the very time that Yosef and Nakdimon ensured a stone was rolled over the entrance of the tomb in which the Savior lay, was the very time when zekenim (elders or fathers in Yisroel) also ensured that the front doors to their homes were locked and never to be opened until daybreak.

Of course, for Yosef, Nakdimon and those who assisted them to lay the body of Yahushua HaMashakhYahu in the tomb, they would afterwards, in a marathon race to their homes, have arrived at a time that seemed like they had broken the law regarding when every Shabbat must commence! But then, did they sin? No; for it is righteous and holy to do works of kindness even on Shabbat!

The body of the true Savior, Yahushua HaMashakhYahu, therefore entered his tomb at the commencement of Wednesday, Nisan 14. And so, resurrection day of the true Savior, Yahushua HaMashakhYahu was determined by Yahuwah Elohiym to take place right at the sunset hour that commenced Nisan 17, 30 CE.

This sunset hour was right at the commencement of the fixed weekly seventh day Shabbat (Saturday)—the very seventh day of the week rest day determined by Yahuwah Elohiym for Himself and all His obedient children. As you know, this seventh day, ever since Creation, has been known as the Day of the Lord and so was the same day determined for His Son to rest from his work of salvation for mankind in!!

According to Vayikra (Leviticus) 23:4-8, the period commencing from Nisan 14 and ending on Nisan 21, constituted the longest holydays period of Yisroel! From Nisan 15—21 is the seven day long Chag HaMatzot (Feast of Unleavened Bread) within which Nisan 15 and 21 are mandated for observance as Shabbat days. (---concluding part to this article is in Part 2 of 2; soon to be published)

The writer is an author. His website address is http://sbpra.com/ChrisBapuohyele