Yeshua HaDerekh
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I believe Yeshua followed and fulfilled the feasts even in his death and resurrection.
I Corinthians 15:20 - “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.”
Colossians 1:18 - “And He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.”
Understanding the details of the Festival of Fruit Fruits leads one to suspect that the resurrection of Yeshua was actually just after the evening sunset of the weekly seventh-day Sabbath. The great energizing power of the Divine quickened the body of Yeshua and brought him forth from the grave in his glorified body. Many tombs were opened at the time of the earthquake at Yeshua’s death, and
Matthew 27:52-53 – “Many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared too many people.
So the evidence of the harvesting of the first fruits for the Festival of First Fruits very well gives us clues as to the timing of the resurrection of Yeshua and those saints which arose with him, the latter as the “first fruits of they that slept.”
Matthew 28:1-8 Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the grave. And behold, a severe earthquake had occurred, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it. And his appearance was like lightening, and his clothing as white as snow. The guards shook for fear of him and became like dead men. The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid; for I know that you are looking for Yeshua who has been crucified. He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said. Come, see the place where He was lying. Go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead; and behold, He is going ahead of you into Galilee, there you will see Him; behold, I have told you." And they left the tomb quickly with fear and great joy and ran to report it to His disciples.
John 20:1 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. The disciples who walked with Yeshua on the road to Emmaus did so on the “same day” of His resurrection.
Luke 24:13-22 the disciples who didn’t recognize Yeshua, told Him about His resurrection “it is now the third day since these things happened.”
We agree on many things but disagree on the timeline. That weekly Shabbat was also a feast day, the 15th. The "last supper" was a Pesakh Seudah HaMephsekhet...literally, the last meal before the fast of the firstborn (the fast was from sunrise to sunset on the 14th). The death of Yeshua could not have happened on a Wednesday because we have witnesses on the road to Emmaus that say Sunday was the 3rd day since those events occurred. So if Sunday was the 3rd Day, Shabbat was the 2nd day and Friday (the day of preparation) was the day those events occurred. Sunday was Yom HaBikkurim, the 16th. Josephus documents this:
"But on the second day of unleavened bread, which is the sixteenth day of the month, they first partake of the fruits of the earth, for before that day they do not touch them” (Antiquities of the Jews 3.10.15)
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