I Lewis, is not trying to sway anyone, but I want to hear what many of you has to say about this. It has been years since I talked about this on this forum. But you can read the whole thing at this link. So who here is fully convinced that Jesus rose on Sunday ? And who here is fully convinced that Jesus rose on a Saturday ? This site is to fellowship and learn so let's learn.
http://therefinersfire.org/resurrection1.htm
On what day was our Savior resurrected?
Most believers seem to think that Yeshua (Jesus) was resurrected on a Sunday and attempt to use Luke 24:1-10 as proof and justification to change God's seventh day Sabbath to the first day. But is this a huge mistake! Where and when did God ever tell us that Sunday is now HIS Sabbath? The answer lies indisputably in the Bible which, when viewed from a "Hebrew perspective", tells us that Yeshua was resurrected at the end of the Sabbath; not early on a Sunday morning (the first day).
A thorough study of the Bible reveals that Yeshua was in the grave three days and three nights, and it tells us that He died on Passover which was during the High Holy Days (14 Nisan [see Leviticus 23:5]). This article will show that He was in the grave just before sunset on Wednesday night, according to Scripture (John 19:31); all day Thursday and Thursday night; all day Friday and Friday night, and all day Saturday (as Jonah was in the whale three days and three nights) until just before sunset on Saturday when He was resurrected.
To begin with, in order to discern exactly when our Savior rose, it is important recognize a few things - beginning with the fact that
the "dawning of a new day" according to YHWH is at twilight as it is getting dark; not first light in the morning!
(NOTE: According to Aramaic scholar and author Andrew Gabriel Roth, Aramaic literally reads "b'ramsha din b'shabata", or "in the evening of the Shabbat". The literal meaning of ramsha is "evening" or erev, but here it is used idiomatically. The dawn and set of the sun is not the only use; there is the "dawn of a new era" or as John 19:31 reads "mitil d'shabata negha", "the Shabbat was dawning." When we compare other verses that record this event, the time of the day being referred to is clearly more than half a day before literal dawn. In John chapter 19, when they put Y'shua into the tomb, they still refer to it as being "day", both in Aramaic and Greek. The "dawn" metaphor "to begin" is confirmed in John 19:42. A more literal form, "mitil d'shabata aiala", would be read as "the Sabbath was beginning/ entering/ coming about". What is true for "dawning" is also true of "setting" in the sense of "conclusion", as is meant here. This agrees with Greek version, Aramaic information in Matthew, and with other writers in the NT.)
Genesis 1: 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning-the first day.
We also need to note the
time that Yeshua was placed into the grave, which was at sunset - or approximately 5 p.m. (March-April timeframe). No matter what the days are called on our modern calendars, there is no way that 72 hours beginning sometime in the
evening can end early on the
morning three days later - which is what most Christian scholars are trying to insist.
The Bible tells us that Yeshua died at 3 p.m. (the ninth hour - John 19:14); that He was buried later that day (John 19:31); and that He was in the grave "three days and three nights" (72 hours).
Matthew 27: 45 From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
Matthew 27: 46 And about the ninth hour, Y'shua cried out with a loud voice and said, My El! My El! Why have you spared me?* (See also Mark 15:33-34 and Luke 23:44)
http://therefinersfire.org/resurrection1.htm
