GOOD FRIDAY
CHRISTIANITY OASIS
HAS PROVIDED YOU WITH THIS GOOD FRIDAY STUDY. MOST HAVE HEARD OF
GOOD FRIDAY BUT HAVE NO IDEA WHAT GOOD FRIDAY IS OR HOW GOOD FRIDAY
AFFECTS CHRISTIANS. GOOD FRIDAY IS A DAY THAT REPRESENTS THE DAY OUR LORD
JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS FOR OUR SINS. BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT IT WAS NT
REALLY ON A FRIDAY AND IT WAS CHANGED BY RELIGIOUS LEADERS LONG AGO TO
ACCOMMODATE THEIR SCHEDULES?
LET'S SEEK THE TRUTH OF GOOD FRIDAY TOGETHER, SHALL WE?
Let us discuss the week
of our Lord's Death and Resurrection ... I want to share a TRUTH with you
today. The feasts and celebrations which were holy days that the
Israelites were told by God to honor each year were in fact ... Shadows of
things to come
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COLOSSIANS 2:16-17
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or
in respect of an
holy day,
or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Which are a shadow of things to
come; but the body is of
Christ. |
You can find out more about the Feast Celebration Shadows Of Things To
Come in our End Times section in the
FEAST SHADOWS Study.
But be sure to return to this awesome study.
In other words, God
created these days of celebration or Holy days as a sign of future events
that would occur at that specific date and time of year. Many awesome
events have occurred on these Holy days just as these Feast shadows
reflect and there are more to come. There is one in particular that I want
to share with you today. It is the "Passover"
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LEVITICUS 23:5
In the fourteenth day of the
first month at evening is the
LORD's Passover |
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EXODUS
12:3-6
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:
And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his
neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of
the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your
count for the lamb. Your
lamb shall be without blemish,
a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep,
or from the goats: 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. |
PASSOVER
IN THIS CELEBRATION, THEY
WERE TO BRING IN AN UNBLEMISHED LAMB
ON THE 10TH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH
OF THE JEWISH CALENDAR
AND
KEEP THIS LAMB FOR
4 DAYS. THEN
ON THE 14TH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH
THE ISRAELITES
WOULD KILL THEIR LAMB
AND PLACE THE
BLOOD OF THE LAMB
ON THEIR HOMES TO
SAVE THEMSELVES.
THEY WERE TOLD TO DO THIS EVERY YEAR AND WAS CALLED
PASSOVER.
You've probably
heard of the story of the great Exodus from Egypt with Moses (BOOK OF
EXODUS) After God plagued the Egyptians many times for not allowing His
people to be set free, He had one more plague that would prove to do the
trick. Moses told the Jewish people that an angel of Death would come and
kill all the firstborn of Egypt. In order to
protect their children, they
were to place LAMB'S BLOOD on their homes and the angel of Death would
PASS OVER them. They were to bring an UNBLEMISHED LAMB on the 10th day of
the 1st month of the Jewish calendar and keep this LAMB for four days.
Then on the 14th day of the month, the Israelites would KILL THE LAMB and
place the blood on their HOMES to SAVE THEMSELVES. They were to do this
every year.
THIS CELEBRATION WAS A SHADOW OF AN EVENT
TO COME ... JESUS' DEATH. Jesus was the Lamb without sin and came into
Jerusalem on the 10th day of the 1st month (Palm Sunday) and was with the
people for four days. He was killed by the Jewish people's choice on the
14th day of the month just as the Jewish people were celebrating PASSOVER.
Little did they know that HIS BLOOD, like the lamb's was for them many
years ago, IS NOW THE SAVING GRACE.
There is another Jewish celebration called
"First Fruits" which is 3 days after Passover. The people would offer a HE
lamb without blemish as a sacrifice to God.
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LEVITICUS 23:10-14
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: 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.
And ye shall offer that day
when ye wave the sheaf an
he lamb without blemish of
the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
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THIS CELEBRATION WAS A SHADOW OF AN EVENT
TO COME ...
The day after the Sabbath
(In Israel, the Sabbath is Saturday) so that would make it Sunday, the
first day of the Jewish week and in TRUTH the first day on the American
calendar.
Jesus (the He Lamb without blemish) was
killed and He was resurrected on
Sunday
morning as our Sacrifice.
GOD USED JESUS AS THAT SACRIFICIAL HE LAMB BECAUSE THERE
WERE NOT ENOUGH SHEEP IN ALL THE WORLD TO ATONE FOR THE SINS.
THIS BRINGS US TO ANOTHER
INTERESTING FACT.
THE JEWISH CALENDAR DAY DOES NOT
START AT MIDNIGHT BUT RATHER SUNSET. THIS BEGINS THE 12 HOURS OF NIGHT HOURS AND
AT SUNRISE IT BEGINS THE 12 HOURS OF DAY HOURS.
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JOHN 11:9
Jesus answered,
Are there not twelve hours in the day? |
JESUS DIED AT THE
NINTH HOUR OF THE
DAY
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MARK 15:34-37
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? And some of them that
stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias. And one ran and
filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink,
saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down. And
Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the
ghost. |
MAKING IT ABOUT 3:00 PM ... A FEW
HOURS BEFORE SUNSET, WHEN OUR
PRECIOUS LORD DIED FOR OUR SINS.
WE ALSO
KNOW THAT JESUS WAS IN THE EARTH FOR 3 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTS.
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MATTHEW 12:40
For as Jonas (Jonah) was three days
and three
nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man (Jesus) be
three days
and three nights in the
heart of the earth. |
AND
RESURRECTED ON SUNDAY MORNING
AS THE FIRST DAY OF THE
JEWISH WEEK IS SUNDAY JUST AS THE AMERICAN CALENDAR BEGINS ON SUNDAY.
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MARK 16:2
And very early in the morning the
first day of the week, they came unto
the sepulchre at the rising of the sun …….. |
THE STONE
WAS FOUND ROLLED AWAY AND THE TOMB EMPTY ON SUNDAY MORNING.
DO THE MATH ON THESE FACTS AND THIS REVEALS THAT JESUS WAS KILLED ON
THURSDAY, NOT "GOOD FRIDAY.
SO WHERE DID THE "GOOD FRIDAY" COME FROM?
MANY BELIEVE THAT BECAUSE THE JEWISH PEOPLE
ASKED THAT JESUS' CRUCIFIED BODY BE TAKEN DOWN FROM THE CROSS BECAUSE IT WOULD
BE "SABBATH" AT SUNSET. (SABBATH IS FRIDAY SUNSET TO SATURDAY SUNSET)
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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.
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SO THE NEXT DAY WAS A SABBATH DAY. (DAY OF REST FROM
WORK)
HOWEVER ... DID YOU NOTICE THAT IT SAID THAT THIS PARTICULAR
SABBATH WAS A "HIGH" SABBATH DAY, MEANING IT WAS A SPECIAL
SABBATH. THE SABBATH BEING SPOKEN OF IS A SPECIAL SABBATH THAT OCCURRED THE
DAY AFTER PASSOVER.
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LEVITICUS 23:6-7
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. In
the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work
therein.
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THE
FIRST DAY (THE 15TH DAY OF THE MONTH) WAS THE FIRST DAY OF THE FEAST OF
UNLEAVENED BREAD AND WAS A SPECIAL SABBATH AND AT SUNSET IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
THIS SPECIAL SABBATH. NOT THE WEEKLY SABBATH.
THE MATH ON
PROVING THIS TRUTH IS SIMPLE ... MATTHEW REVEALS THAT JESUS WAS FOUND MISSING
THE DAY AFTER SABBATH.
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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 sepulcher. |
HOW CAN IT BE THEN
THAT THEY ASKED JESUS TO BE TAKEN DOWN FROM THE CROSS ON THE DAY BEFORE
SABBATH AND HIS BODY WAS FOUND MISSING THE DAY AFTER SABBATH WHEN WE KNOW
JESUS TOLD US HE WOULD BE IN THE EARTH 3 DAYS
AND 3 NIGHTS?
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MATTHEW 12:40
For as Jonas (Jonah) was three days
and three
nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man (Jesus) be
three days
and three nights in the
heart of the earth. |
IF
JESUS DIED ON FRIDAY AND WAS FOUND MISSING ON SUNDAY MORNING, HOW CAN ONE EVER
MAKE THAT ADD UP TO 3 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTS?
FRIDAY NIGHT
SATURDAY NIGHT
SUNDAY NIGHT
THE
PROBLEM IS THAT JESUS WAS FOUND MISSING SUNDAY
MORNING.
AS I SAID SIMPLE MATH ... JESUS DIED ON THE 14TH DAY OF THE FIRST
MONTH OF THE JEWISH CALENDAR JUST AS EVERY OTHER PASSOVER LAMB BEING
SACRIFICED TO KEEP HIS PEOPLE FROM DEATH WAS.
HERE IS A LIL CHART TO MAKE
DOING THE MATH ... EVEN EASIER
EVENTS OF PASSOVER ARE IN
BLUE
EVENTS OF JESUS ARE IN RED
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Palm Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
“Good”
Thursday
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Friday |
Saturday |
Easter Sunday |
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10th |
11th |
12th |
13th |
14th |
15th |
16th |
17th |
1st day |
2nd day |
3rd day |
4th day |
5th day |
6th day |
7th day |
8th day |
Lamb
Brought |
Lamb
Kept |
Lamb
Kept |
Lamb
Kept |
Lamb
Killed |
Silence |
Silence |
First
Fruits
Sacrifice to God |
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Jesus
Entered Jerusalem
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Jesus Taught
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Jesus Taught
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Jesus Taught
Last Supper
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Jesus was crucified at 9th hour
(3:00PM)
1st day and night |
2nd day and night |
3rd day and night |
Jesus
Resurrection
Tomb was empty at daylight |
Again ... You can find out more about the
Good Friday issue and the Feast Celebration Shadow Of Things To Come in
this Study
Take
care and have a SON-derful day
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