I've been gone part of the day and have a lot to catch up in here. This is what I have been studying the last couple of days.
StoveBolts you will be interested in this.
stevemorse.org – calculating Easter using the Jewish calendar
Resurrection Day (Easter) falls on the first Sunday following the Paschal full moon. The Paschal full moon is the first full moon on or after the 21st of Abib (March). The days would change, but to keep Passover to the original date of the 14th of Nisan found in Exodus Chapter 12.
In Exodus Chapter 12 it wasn’t until the middle of the 2nd month, Nisan (April), in the land of Sin (Sinai) that God instructed Israel on the 7th day Sabbath cycle. The New Testament describes Jesus death and resurrection as a shadow picture of the Exodus events. Even John the Baptist testified that Jesus was the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world.
The Exodus Day – William Struse
www.the13thenumeration.com
Here is the chronological of Exodus Chapter 12.
Israel killed their Passover lambs on the 14th of Nisan (day of preparation) at evening just before sunset which began the 15th of Nisan. The night beginning the 15th of Nisan they ate the Passover leaving nothing of it until the morning as they were commanded. When the morning of the 15th came Israel fully dressed, shod, and with much treasures from their Egyptian neighbor’s, departed Rameses. Numbers 33:3-8.
Exodus 16 established a basis for the weekly Sabbath cycle.
After arriving in the land of Sin (Sinai) one month after the exodus Israel was fully aware of the reality of their new life. The certainty of servitude had been replaced with the uncertainty of a life that would require faith.
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness because in Egypt they were in servitude to Rameses who fed them as they never went hungry. Now in the wilderness they thought they would starve to death. So God sent them the “bread from heaven”, but the gift came with conditions. They were only allowed to gather the “manna” for six days. On the seventh day they were required to rest.
In summary, Israel came into the land of Sin (Sinai) on the 15th day of the second month (Nisan). The following morning God gave them “manna”. For six days they gathered this bread of heaven and rested on the 7th day. So the 16th day of Nisan was the first day of the week.
Now turning back to the Exodus chronology we can count the days backwards to the first month of Abib. By this reckoning the Passover lambs were killed just before sundown on the 5th day of the week (14th Nisan) A few hours later on the 15th of Nisan the Feast of the Unleavened Bread began with the Passover supper beginning the 6th day of the week.
Yes, finally somebody that understands the story!
Just a couple of things to note, if you visit Patterns of Evidence and pillage through their site, perhaps purchase their videos, you will find out that Rameses was not the Pharoh and that timeline does not fit any archeological evidence. The archeology supports a much earlier timeframe.
Second, I'm not sure how you came up with the 16th being the first day of the week in Sinia. How did that come about?
One more thought, which is a repeat of what I said earlier. God told them to eat the lamb the day it was slaughtered. If you run a hard cold line in the sand between the 14th and the 15th, it would be impossible for them to keep the commandment.
What most people don't understand, mostly because we don't live under the Mosiac law and because we don't live under it, we don't know most of them, let alone how to navigate each day under them. What I have learned is that the law not only taught what sin is, but it also taught discernment and often, lines get blurred. David and his men eating the shewbread reserved for the priest is a prime example.
Coming full circle, the Angel of Death came at midnight, so, although they are the meal on the 15th, that night is also considered the night of the 14th, otherwise, there is no way they could have eaten it according to Gods command.
This is foreign thinking to us, and it goes against our rational minds. Our culture likes to draw hard lines that don't move. We are a people who enjoy knowing fixed ideas and stable maxims.
But this isn't about how we rationalize or see things. It's about getting out of ourselves and truly understanding how another culture outside of our own operated to shape their thinking.
In other words, its not about us imposing our thinking upon them to meet our satisfaction of understanding things our way, but it's about us surrendering our way of thinking to better understand theirs.
In conclusion, a Jewish day looks like this.
Night, Day
On the 14th it looks like this
Night, Day, Night
In short, because the night of the 15th also becomes the night of the 14th in Jewish thought, it satisfies Jesus words when he said 3 days and 3 nights.
I am not trying to prove I am right, but I am bringing new information to the discussion that can be verified as accurate.
