I had considered that approach many years ago; but as some might have been speaking of a different calendar than others; I'm not sure exactly how to present a proof that harmonizes all of scripture.
If I had that part figured out; I would not have created this study. I would have presented a logical argument with my conclusion.
We know that Yahshua could not have taken part in a Pesach seder on the first day of Hag Matzot, on the night of the 15th, then later be executed on Pesach, the day of the 14th.
You are very adept with calendar calculations. That is one reason why I was very excited when you joined us.
All right so I have copy and pasted my answer I gave to this concern from another thread we talked in
"First day of the Week" is actually Sabbaton (Introduction)
Continuing from where I left off in my bold claim...
As you all know Christ died on Passover and fulfilled it on the
14th Day of the
1st Month which is Abib (literally "
Spring"). By default this makes the Preparation Day/High Sabbath the
13th Day of the same month for the first day of the
Feast of Unleavened Bread/Passover is a Sabbath.
Naturally one must wrestle with the question: "
Is the Lord's Supper the same as Passover?" And the answer would be a resounding "No." For the gospel writers use the Greek
azymos for "unleavened [bread]" while the Greek
artos "bread" from the Greek
airos "raised" is used for the bread which Christ and His disciples ate, in short this is what Greeks say when they are eating leavened bread. Just search any Greek or Italian bakery or watch a celebration by the Greek Orthodox church and they always use
artos to mean leavened bread:
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As far as the Law of Moses is concerned the Israelites may have leaven in their houses anytime before the morning of the
14th of Abib.
When one considers the calendrical schema of
Genesis 1:1-2:3 7 Days = 1 Week and
vv. 14-19 inform us that because the Sun is the Greater Light the Day comes before the night, therefore the day is reckoned from morning to evening as God distinguishes between the day and the night. Therefore the
1st Day of the
1st Month begins on Wednesday. Proof of this is seen in the timing of Christ's death:
Feast of Unleavened Bread/Passover
14th Day of Abib (
Tuesday)
1st Day of Unleavened Bread/Passover (evening)
Christ is buried before evening.
Christ dies on cross at
9th Hour (i.e.
3 p.m.)
Christ crucified at
6th Hour (i.e.
12 p.m.)
Christ sentenced by Pilate (late morning)
Christ stands before Herod (mid morning)
Christ stands before Pilate (morning)
13th of Abib (
Monday)
Christ beaten (night)
Peter denies Christ three times (night)
Christ before Annas and Caiaphas (night)
Christ betrayed by Judas (night)
Christ eats Last Supper (evening)
Christ tells Apostles to prepare upper room (daytime)
12th of Abib (
Sunday)
Chief priests and elders plot the death of Christ (daytime)
8th of Abib (
Wednesday)
Christ raises Lazarus from the dead at Bethany (daytime)
The specific timing of Christ's death may be understood by the literal translation of the Hebrew
HaAReBaYiM "the evenings" or literally
"between the evenings", and the exact timing of this is revealed in
Jubilees 49:1-15:
- Remember the commandment which the Lord commanded thee concerning the passover, that thou shouldst celebrate it in its season on the fourteenth of the first month, that thou shouldst kill it before it is evening, and that they should eat it by night on the evening of the fifteenth from the time of the setting of the sun.
- For on this night the beginning of the festival and the beginning of the joy ye were eating the passover in Egypt, when all the powers of Mastêmâ had been let loose to slay all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh to the first-born of the captive maid-servant in the mill, and to the cattle.
- And this is the sign which the Lord gave them: Into every house on the lintels of which they saw the blood of a lamb of the first year, into (that) house they should not enter to slay, but should pass by (it), that all those should be saved that were in the house because the sign of the blood was on its lintels.
- And the powers of the Lord did everything according as the Lord commanded them, and they passed by all the children of Israel, and the plague came not upon them to destroy from amongst them any soul either of cattle, or man, or dog.
- And the plague was very grievous in Egypt, and there was no house in Egypt where there was not one dead, and weeping and lamentation.
- And all Israel was eating the flesh of the paschal lamb, and drinking the wine, and was lauding, and blessing, and giving thanks to the Lord God of their fathers, and was ready to go forth from under the yoke of Egypt, and from the evil bondage.
- And remember thou this day all the days of thy life, and observe it from year to year all the days of thy life, once a year, on its day, according to all the law thereof, and do not adjourn (it) from day to day, or from month to month.
- For it is an eternal ordinance, and engraven on the heavenly tablets regarding all the children of Israel that they should observe it every year on its day once a year, throughout all their generations; and there is no limit of days, for this is ordained for ever.
- And the man who is free from uncleanness, and does not come to observe it on occasion of its day, so as to bring an acceptable offering before the Lord, and to eat and to drink before the Lord on the day of its festival, that man who is clean and close at hand shall be cut off: because he offered not the oblation of the Lord in its appointed season, he shall take the guilt upon himself.
- Let the children of Israel come and observe the passover on the day of its fixed time, on the fourteenth day of the first month, between the evenings, from the third part of the day to the third part of the night, for two portions of the day are given to the light, and a third part to the evening.
- This is that which the Lord commanded thee that thou shouldst observe it between the evenings.
- And it is not permissible to slay it during any period of the light, but during the period bordering on the evening, and let them eat it at the time of the evening, until the third part of the night, and whatever is left over of all its flesh from the third part of the night and onwards, let them burn it with fire.
- And they shall not cook it with water, nor shall they eat it raw, but roast on the fire: they shall eat it with diligence, its head with the inwards thereof and its feet they shall roast with fire, and not break any bone thereof; for of the children of Israel no bone shall be crushed.
- For this reason the Lord commanded the children of Israel to observe the passover on the day of its fixed time, and they shall not break a bone thereof; for it is a festival day, and a day commanded, and there may be no passing over from day to day, and month to month, but on the day of its festival let it be observed.
- And do thou command the children of Israel to observe the passover throughout their days, every year, once a year on the day of its fixed time, and it shall come for a memorial well pleasing before the Lord, and no plague shall come upon them to slay or to smite in that year in which they celebrate the passover in its season in every respect according to His command.
This is why the Gospel writers bother to explain the exact timing of Christ's death to the very hour and day. With that out of the way there should be no doubt as to the timing of Christ's death on Passover or the Lord's Supper which Christ will not take until the Marriage Feast of the Lamb in
Revelation 19:9.
If that wasn't enough then consider how the meaning of the passages change when you alter their word order in English:
Matthew 26:17 (Uncorrected)
"Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, 'Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?'"
Matthew 26:17 (Corrected)
"The disciples came to Jesus, saying, 'Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?'"
Mark 14:12 (Uncorrected)
"And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, 'Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?'"
Mark 14:12 (Corrected)
"And His disciples said to him, 'On the first day of Unleavened Bread (when they sacrificed the Passover lamb) Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?'"
Luke 22:1 (Uncorrected)
"Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed."
Luke 22:1 (Corrected)
"The day of Unleavened Bread then drew near (engizen), on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed."
Of course this should come to no surprise as Satan twisted the Word of God when speaking to Eve, and again when He spoke to Christ in the wilderness when he quoted from
Psalms. Anyways the words of the apostles show that they truly didn't understand that Christ must die and rise on the third day, or else they wouldn't have asked such a silly question.
Concerning the
"first day of the week" the Greek reads
Sabbaton with the suffix
-on denoting when a thing is plural. Below is my reconstruction of how the Greek should be properly read:
Greek Interlinear
"Opse de Sabbaton te epiphoskouse eis mian Sabbaton[...]"
Literal Translation
"After then Sabbaths it being dawn
toward an Sabbaths[...]"
Literal Translation with Correct word order
"Then after Sabbaths it being dawn
toward an Sabbaths[...]"
As you can shockingly see where
"first day of the week" normally appears we read in the Greek as
"Sabbaths"! Why is Sabbath plural? Upon closer inspection we see that the translators and lexicon deceptively translate the Greek
mian as "first" when the true word for "first" is
proto as in
prototype "first type". Instead
mian is from the Greek
enas which is the indefinite article for "a, an". This means that the text is telling us that both Mary's appeared at the tomb with the spices between two Sabbaths! The first is observed on Passover which is also the first day for the Feast of Unleavened Bread; and the other is the
7th Day Sabbath. While the Hebrew
SHaBuA is literally
"week" it is not the same as
SHaBBaT "Sabbath" which denotes
HaSHaBuAH YoM "The Seventh Day". So while all three words share the root
SHB it is very deceitful to equate
SHaBBaT with
SHaBuA when it is well known that the former comes from
SHaVaT "cease, desist". Therefore I've been very adamant in saying that the Greek transliteration
Sabbaton is not
"week" but,
"Sabbaths".
What then do we make of the other instances of
"first day of the week"?:
"Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus. These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas, but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days. On the first day of the week (sabbaton plural), when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight."
Acts 20:4-7
Here we are told that Paul was attending the Feast of Unleavened Bread and set sail on the
16th Day of the
1st Month as traveling for
1 Day or longer is not lawful on the Sabbath. From here we are told he was in a rush to set sail so he could attend Pentecost/Feast of Weeks (see
Acts 20:13-16). Outside of this context the words of Luke become unintelligible.
"Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. On the first day of every week (sabbatou singular), each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come."
1 Corinthians 16:1-2
Here unlike the previous passage we are talking of the
7th Day Sabbath. The only reason why the English translations read the way they do is for Sunday keeping False Churches to justify partaking of the Lord's Supper and collecting unbiblical tithes every Sunday for
52 Weeks of every year...and the crux of these false doctrines rest upon the main false teaching that Christ rose on Sunday! The Law of Moses states that the Israelites were to lay up a tithe/tenth of what they earned or produced each year and in the third year they were to bring their tithes to God.
