By Bob Barney
Christ warned us to be aware of false religion, customs and laws. These warnings have basically fell on deaf years but the most important “sign” that we can look for, as to the coming of Jesus again back to this world is the spread of false religion and religious practices that are contrary to God. Over the years, God’s Law (THE TEN COMMANDMENTS) has been replaced by man’s law. Our theologians call it “saved by grace” when truly nothing of the sort is biblically true.
Christmas, Easter, Sunday worship actually pre-date the earthly ministry of Jesus! Yes you read that correctly, these holidays have nothing to do with Christ and were being followed long before GOD became a man and walked among us. Even in the garden of Eden, the very first religious lie promulgated was the “immortal soul” doctrine. To this day, we believe the devil and that “we shall not die, but be like God” and live forever as some spirit in heaven or hell. That is Satan’s lie and almost every false religion has adopted it.
In Jesus’ time, the Jewish nation, after years of captivity, began to adopt Babylonian ways. They took on the Babylonian calendar and “lost” God’s true perfect one, and at the same time began the truly pagan observance of “evening days.” This simply means that, like the Babylonians, they began to start their day at sunset rather than sunrise. Like everything else, the theologians of the day twisted a few scriptures which may imply evening days and ignored hundreds of scriptures that proved that God’s day starts in the morning. Most Sabbath keeping churches to this day follow this pagan start of the day and continue the practice of those lawless religious leaders that killed Christ! The same ones he declared at his arrest were those who worshipped the DARKNESS, when evil reigns! Yes, the nighttime is darkness, and God IS NEVER in darkness. We read in Revelation that when Christ returns to Jerusalem, that where He is will always be in light! There will be no nighttime in the Holy City! Yes, it’s in the same Bible that we all read. Revelation 21:23 “And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the light thereof.”
In the very first chapter of the Bible we read “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”
Let’s read on! “And the evening and the morning were the first day.” Do you get that? After daytime of about twelve hours, evening time came, still part of day one, then came the next day IN THE MORNING!.
When did this happen, in the evening time? Is there light at night? Read on…“And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. “ So called the light DAY! So when GOD said “Let there be light” it became day! It was dawn! It should be noted here that the day is never called darkness by God, only by pagan man! God is light, there is no darkness in Him, the darkness of the 24 hour day represents EVIL- Satan’s Time. Read Luke 22:52 “Then Jesus told the high priests, the Temple police, and the elders, who had come for him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs as if I were a bandit? 53 While I was with you day after day in the Temple, you didn’t lay a hand on me. But this is your hour, when darkness reigns!” Darkness represents evil!
Let’s examine the first week:
Darkness over the earth……….. This may have been millions of years. There was an earth BEFORE our present day earth that was ruled by Lucifer (under God) and then destroyed by God when Lucifer became Satan. Look at any good Bible commentary and you will see that in Gen 1;2 “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep.” That the word “was” (formless and void) can be translated BECAME! This is important. There is a big difference between was and became! Why does the bible commentators put this in? The reason is that they understand the significance of Jeremiah 45:18. Notice Isaiah 45:18. “Thus saith the Eternal that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth and made it, He hath established it, He created it not in vain.” “In vain” is an incorrect translation. In your Bible, if you have the marginal references, you will find in the margin the proper translation “waste.”The original Hebrew word there is TOHU. This Hebrew word is the identical word used in Gen. 1:2, meaning confusion, or emptiness. or waste – a result of disorder, a result of violation of law. In Isaiah 45:18 we have the plain statement that God created the earth not “toho,” that is, not in confusion, not in disorder. But in Genesis 1:2, the earth was, or the earth BECAME – as it ought to he translated – chaotic and in confusion.
The next issue. How long did the rain fall during Noah’s flood?
How long did Moses stay on Mt Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments?
How long was Jonah in the belly of the fish, or Jesus in the tomb?
Answers:
40 days and nights
40 days and nights
3 days and 3 nights, and 3 days and 3 nights.
Question for you Sabbath Keeping Churches…
So the question is why wasn’t these time above rendered as 40 nights and days or 3 nights and days? Jesus was truly in the ground for 3 nights and days, but he used the term DAY and NIGHT! Think about that….
In Leviticus 22:29-30: “When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord … it shall be eaten on the same day, you shall leave none of it until morning.” The insistence of the eating of the sacrifice “on the same day” before the arrival of the “morning,” implies that the next morning marked the beginning of the next day. This suggests that the day began in the morning, because, as Roland de Vaux points out, “had the day begun in the evening the wording would have ordered the meat to be eaten before the evening.”
The Law says:“But if the sacrifice of his offering is a votive offering or a freewill offering it shall be eaten on the day he offers sacrifice, and on the morrow what remains of it shall be eaten” (Lev 7:16). In this case the flesh of the sacrifice could be eaten both on the day of the sacrifice and “on the morrow.” By virtue of the parallelism with the preceding law, the “morrow” must begin in the morning.
Quote below From: THE RECKONING OF THE DAY IN BIBLE TIMES
Samuele Bacchiocchi, Ph. D., Andrews University
“A second type of evidence supporting the sunrise reckoning seems implied also in the Passover legislation of Exodus 12. The law prescribes that the Paschal lamb must be slaughtered on the “fourteenth day of this month … in the evening” (v. 6) and must be eaten “that night” (v. 8) with “unleavened bread and bitter herbs” (v. 8), leaving none of it “until the morning” (v. 10). Later in the same chapter the night during which the Passover lamb was eaten with unleavened bread is explicitly designated as “the fourteenth day of the month” (v. 18).
“What this means is that in Exodus 12 both the slaying of the Passover lamb, which took place “between the two evenings” (Ex 12:6— that is to say, as Josephus explains, between three and five o’clock in the afternoon),18 and the eating of the lamb with unleavened bread, which took place on the following night, are placed on the same fourteenth day of the month.
“This time reference cannot be harmonized with the sunset reckoning, according to which the night following the sacrifice of the Passover was not the 14th but the 15th day of Nisan. In fact, in several passages which reflect the sunset reckoning, the beginning of the feast of unleavened bread is explicitly placed “on the fifteenth day” (Lev 23:5; Num 28:16).
“According to the sunrise reckoning, however, both the slaying of the lamb and the eating of it with unleavened bread would take place on the 14th day, because the night following the slaying of the lamb would still be the 14th day until sunrise. This method, then, seems to be implied in Exodus 12, because, speaking of “the fourteenth day of the month” it explicitly says: “And you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt” (v.17; cf. vv. 18, 42, 51).
“Jacob Z. Lauterbach rightly observes that “if they came out at night, that is the night following the fourteenth day, and it is said on the very same day, that is on the fourteenth day, they were brought out, it clearly indicates that the night following the fourteenth day is still part of that day.”19
“The foregoing considerations suggest that in Exodus 12 the sunrise reckoning is used, since the events of the night following the slaying of the Passover Lamb, namely, the eating of the lamb with unleavened bread and the departure from Egypt, are both placed on the same 14th day. Elsewhere these events are explicitly placed “on the fifteenth day of the first month” (Num 33:3; cf. 28:17; Lev 23:5), thus indicating the use of the sunset reckoning.
“The sunrise reckoning of the Passover found in Exodus 12 seems reflected also in Mark 14:12 (cf. Matt 26:16) where the slaying of the Passover lamb and the feast of Unleavened Bread are both placed on the same day: “On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb” (v. 12). This statement suggests a sunrise reckoning, according to which, as Jack Finegan explains, “the day when the Passover lamb was slain and the day when the unleavened bread was eaten were indeed the same day, as Mark 14:12 states.”20”
The Bible says the day starts in the morning!
Each day, at dawn, the world experiences the same beginning as it did on day six of creation. Dawn breaks, the birds sing and the day progresses until evening, when most work for the day is accomplished. Then evening comes, and nighttime, followed at sunrise by a new day. Isn’t that how your biological clock works? Does your body recognize midnight as a new day, or 6 PM? NO! You wake up refreshed for a new day in the morning!
In Matt. 26, We see proof that the Day of Passover starts BEFORE evening comes but is observed at Evening. Matt. 26:17 Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover? (Notice it was already Passover Day 14th) Before the Last Supper!!!)
:18 And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
:19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.
:20 Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.
The day symbolizes YOUR LIFE!
At sunrise, the day begins, which symbolizes your birth. As morning progresses, the earth warms and gets ready for the sun to work its way across the sky. We say, “the day is young.” In the morning, we look at the day ahead as a long time, just as we look at our life when we are teenagers or younger. As we age, the fear of death begins to creep in, as in the afternoon, the hint of nighttime fills the air. The birds start gathering for night, the day is now at its warmest and things begin to slow down, just as our bodies do. The twilight of our lives, represent the twilight of the day. At sunset, the day is old, and so are we in our mortal physical life. Evening comes and the day dies… In our evening we die too. We sleep that night until DAWN, just as when we die, we sleep in our graves until the LIGHT OF GOD awakes us from our death. For us a new day- our first day of immortal life!
Each 24 hour day, God reenacts the same symbolic signs of our entire life to remind us not to fear the BIG SLEEP but to understand that when we awake, our immortal new life begins!
As John says, “Come Jesus…”
In your opinion, how does the “sunrise” theory effect the Sabbath keeping churches?
The Sabbath STARTS on Saturday sunrise and goes thru and until Sunday sunrise. Friday evening starting Sabbath’s really are not what ancient Israel did, but was the norm by Jesus’ day because it was learned from Babylon. This is why John refers to them always as sons of darkness! They worshiped the night. However, although the Sabbath is a 24 hour period, the DAYTIME portion of it (which all Sabbathterian’s follow) is still they key to obeying the law on the Sabbath DAY!
Bob,
You are wrong to say Sabbath starts on Saturday. Saturday has never, is never and will NEVER be the SABBATH of the LORD. This day is derived from the Gregorian calendah which is totally different from the Jewish calendah.
MIKE, YOU ARE CLEARLY WRONG – The sabbath has not changed. It is what is called today Saturday. Jesus was Lord of the Sabbath, the same Sabbath that Jews followed in his day. They never used the Julian or Gregorian calendar. They follow today, the same day Jesus did then. Here is a link from another source:
http://www.bible-sabbath.com/Sabbath-Sunday/THE%20WEEKLY%20CYCLE%20HAS%20NEVER%20CHANGED.pdf
Bob in order to correct, please concord the following references…First the is no Jeremiah 45:18 that verse only goes up to 45:5.
In Isiah 45:18 the “tohew” H8414 means more so chaos and concord’s 20 more times in the Bible…
From genesis 1 on we read and the evening and morning were the first through seventh days, in that order…
Mark we read 4:27 and shall sleep night and day
Mark 5:5 and night and day…
Luke 2:37…but served GOD with fastings and prayers night and day
Luke 6:12 and it came to pass, in those days, that HE went out into a mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to GOD.
13…and when it was day, HE called unto him his disciples…
this too is showing that JESUS prayed night to day and not day to night, even the clock starts the new day at midnight, the only ones who believe that sunrise starts the day are those who worshiped sol invictus or the sun god…
The Bible clearly speaks of JESUS praying night till morning use an interlinear and search the word “night” and ye shall see…
Hope this helps in your understanding
Lliam
Bob: These verses calls for your investigation as well…
Matt 28:1 In the end of the Sabbath as it began to dawn…showing dusk till dawn for the Sabbath
This one may confuse some in 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…
This is where some think that Sunday is the Sabbath, we know the Sunday worship was given to the church by Constantine the sun god worshiper and NOT by the Eternal… The Jews could not handle a dead body per cleanliness law on the Sabbath and if they did they would have to go into the ritual washings, and be outside the town for some time…
John explains it in John 20:1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark…
if the first day starts at dawn then…
Like in the beginning when darkness was over the earth the Son who is our light came and conquered it…Darkness to Light are the first day of salvation, for out of darkness we came unto HIS eternal light…AMEN
To this day Orthodox and Messianic Hebrews keep the Sabbath and start it at dusk on Friday approx the viewing of 3 stars till dusk on the next day 24 hrs…
Your Understanding on this?
Be Bless Lliam
Lliam:
Respectively, you are not right. Night and day, means nothing. Did it not rain 40 days and nights? We use the term day and night, yet our day begins in the middle of the night. These are idioms, not doctrine. The Bible is very clear about both the time day begins, d the length of the calendar. The Hebrew calendar today simply is a Babylonian calendar. The evening day, is a Babylonian institution, and that, s I say is The Plain Truth.
Again, you are wrong.
Mat 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 sepulchre.
Luk 24:1 ¶ Now upon the first [day] of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain [others] with them.
Mar 16:1 ¶ And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the [mother] of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
Mar 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.
and the clincher:
Jhn 20:1 ¶ The first [day-Sunday] of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
Jhn 20:19 ¶ Then the same day at evening, being the first [day] of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace [be] unto you.
The same day at nightime. Sunday night, after sunset was still the 1st day of the week.
I do not agree with you 1oo% but 1000%. I went throught the bible and Numbers 11:32 is plain but what made me close the book was 2Samuel 24Verses13 through15.Notice verse 15 FROM THE MORNING TO THE TIME APPOINTED.I noticed it does not say from the evening to time appointed.There are so many verse on when a day starts at morning that it is sad people still go with evening.I guess Genesis 8:22 says it best Day and night shall not cease. thank you there is not to many of us we must be doing something right.
Thanks for the kind words!!!!
Bob
morning to morning. I have done such an extensive study on this topic for months and months. I can’t come to any other conclusion based on ALL scripture. Evening to evening never felt right physically.
Your research has led you to the plain truth. The day begins at dawn!
Hi,
How is “Saved by Grace biblically untrue”? Kindly explain in detail and biblically based.
You are saved by the grace of God. Just as a prisioner is saved by the grace of a governor when pardoned! Now as for saved by grace alone, then that would imply that everyone is saved, no matter what they do, believe or whomever they worship….
I agree with what your saying BUT there is one kink in this I can’t solve. Maybe you can help me out. I’m sure you had to run into this yourself.
Lev 23:32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
I have read it in the Hebrew as well. I think this may be the only verse in the Bible that may contradict the fact that the day begins at sunrise. Please Email me if you answer this as I am in need of this info. Thanks
My brother-in-law Joe Kovacs has a very good explanation of your question… I think when you read it, it will absolutely show the true meaning of Lev 23…. Read it carefully and I think everything will be clear.. Just remember What day of the Calendar year is Christmas Eve (The 24th?), yet Christmas is the Day of the 25th. Those that follow that day look at Christmas as the Eve and the Day as 1 event!
Joe Kovacs:
The Day of Atonement. Here’s what the Bible says about it:
“Also the TENTH DAY of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.
“And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God.
“For any person who is not afflicted in soul on that same day shall be cut off from his people.
“And any person who does any work on that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.
“You shall do no manner of work; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
“It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the NINTH DAY of the month AT EVENING, FROM EVENING TO EVENING, you shall celebrate your sabbath.” (Leviticus 23:27-32 NKJV, emphasis added)
God places the Day of Atonement on the tenth day of the month, but interestingly, it’s commanded to be observed from the ninth day of the month at sunset, to the following evening, the evening of the tenth. Many people think this is saying the ninth day of the month ends at sundown and that’s when the tenth day of the month begins. But those words are simply not on the page. Again, the very fact that two different calendar days – the ninth and the tenth – are mentioned instead of one calendar day is more proof that there’s a calendar-day change between the start and end of this Atonement festival.
To put this in modern perspective, if you’re renting a car for a 24-hour period, you actually rent it over two calendar days. Let’s say you need a rental car from 6 p.m. on the ninth day of the month until the following evening, 6 p.m. on the tenth day of the month. That’s a 24-hour period, but there is a change in the calendar day from the ninth to the tenth of the month in the midst of the rental. In our modern age, the day change takes place at midnight. But in ancient Israel, the calendar-day change for the Day of Atonement would have been at sunrise! Again, there are TWO calendar days mentioned for this holy day. The ninth and the tenth! If every single day truly started at sunset in the evening, there would be absolutely no need to tell us to observe the day from evening to evening, since everyone would already be aware that ALL days began at sundown. If such were the case, Scripture would just say to observe it on the tenth of the month, without having to give any extra language about observing it from evening to evening. The reason the evening is mentioned for Atonement and not for the Feast of Tabernacles, for instance, is because Tabernacles is following the general rule of days beginning at sunrise, and Atonement is something out of the norm.
Now, why might God be instructing the Day of Atonement to be observed from evening to evening instead of morning to morning? Let’s remember that God commands His people to afflict their souls, and this is understood to mean going without eating and drinking for 24 hours. It’s a full day’s worth of fasting. The New Testament even refers to this holy day as “the fast” in Acts 27:9. So, by having this holy day begin on the previous calendar day of the ninth day of the month at sundown, it means by the next morning, when people are awake, they would already be hungry. For this annual Sabbath, God actually wants people to have some sense of hunger, afflicting their souls, during the time they’re awake! By commanding them to stop eating at sunset from the previous day is a guarantee they’d be afflicted with hunger pangs all through their waking hours on the tenth day. Otherwise, if the festival started at sunrise, people could have eaten all through the night and then not be quite as famished throughout that tenth day.
Day One started while it was still dark, reread Genesis chapter 1 verses 2 and three.
You re-read. Day 1 started with the command “Let there be light!” And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
How can anything be more plain?
Straight on Maria, and with praying, listening to instruction of the SetApart Spirit of Truth, and testing, and having the heart of truth opened to receive the gifts of knowledge and understanding in the Sabbath SunRise to SunRise Revelation. If you are not testing all Truths, but sticking to your ego, pride, to follow the Broad path of 99% of all Sabbatians, then how can you be given gifts for your loyalty. You have to Walk the Way of the Truth in Sabbath by testing. The Chosen Few means very little found out the truth.
Hello, there is no contradiction here. It was only the designated days(sabbaths) that began at evening. Also note that it was the celebration that began at evening not the day itself. Clearly, Lev 23:32 says the celebration shall began at even of 9th day not even of 10th day. Otherwise, a day should begin at dawn and end at dawn. Our God is a God of light not darkness. He only wanted Israelite to be strict in observing the Sabbath and hence required it to be observed from even of the preceding day a culture which should be observed even today. However, we should not take this special case to infer that all days begin at even. Thank you
You have NOT read our comments very well. The day clearly starts in the morning. Your example quoted PROVES it! Christmas starts on the evening of Dec 24 (Christmas eve) and the day part of the 25th! Christmas day. It is simply a TWO DAY event! Read the words on the page!
What does and the evening and the morning were the “X” day mean ?
I don’t understand the question.
in genesis when it says “and the evening and the morning we’re the nth day” is the evening and morning used together to describe a literal 24 hour day?
No, it describes 12 hours! How many hours is it between evening time and morning? about 12 hours. So at 6 Am (about) the new day started, God did His work, then came evening time (about 6ish, then came morning time, when the day was ending and the new day was starting… When God said “Let there be light” was the start of the first day. Day starts at dawn.
So you are saying the day started at about 6 Am then god did his work then came evening time then came morning a second time?
Yes, exactly.
I know a man here who had the same argument. I went over all the scriptures. The Day of Atonement scripture is pretty definitive. The day starts at sunset. The man here just wanted to be able to work Friday night, I suspect.
You obviously did not read about the Day of Atonement part. The Day of ATONEMENT proves the morning Day. Read again
From Shocked by the Bible : Joe Kovacs:
Day of Atonement
Let’s look at the Day of Atonement to help you understand what I mean. Here’s what the Bible says about it in the Torah:
“Also the TENTH DAY of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.
“And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God.
“For any person who is not afflicted in soul on that same day shall be cut off from his people.
“And any person who does any work on that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.
“You shall do no manner of work; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
“It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the NINTH DAY of the month AT EVENING, FROM EVENING TO EVENING, you shall celebrate your sabbath.” (Leviticus 23:27-32 NKJV, emphasis added)
God places the Day of Atonement on the tenth day of the month, but interestingly, it’s commanded to be observed from the ninth day of the month at sunset, to the following evening, the evening of the tenth. Many people think this is saying the ninth day of the month ends at sundown and that’s when the tenth day of the month begins. But those words are simply not on the page. Again, the very fact that two different calendar days – the ninth and the tenth – are mentioned instead of one calendar day is more proof that there’s a calendar-day change between the start and end of this Atonement festival.
To put this in modern perspective, if you’re renting a car for a 24-hour period, you actually rent it over two calendar days. Let’s say you need a rental car from 6 p.m. on the ninth day of the month until the following evening, 6 p.m. on the tenth day of the month. That’s a 24-hour period, but there is a change in the calendar day from the ninth to the tenth of the month in the midst of the rental. In our modern age, the day change takes place at midnight. But in ancient Israel, the calendar-day change for the Day of Atonement would have been at sunrise! Again, there are TWO calendar days mentioned for this holy day. The ninth and the tenth! If every single day truly started at sunset in the evening, there would be absolutely no need to tell us to observe the day from evening to evening, since everyone would already be aware that ALL days began at sundown. If such were the case, Scripture would just say to observe it on the tenth of the month, without having to give any extra language about observing it from evening to evening. The reason the evening is mentioned for Atonement and not for the Feast of Tabernacles, for instance, is because Tabernacles is following the general rule of days beginning at sunrise, and Atonement is something out of the norm.
Now, why might God be instructing the Day of Atonement to be observed from evening to evening instead of morning to morning? Let’s remember that God commands His people to afflict their souls, and this is understood to mean going without eating and drinking for 24 hours. It’s a full day’s worth of fasting. The New Testament even refers to this holy day as “the fast” in Acts 27:9. So, by having this holy day begin on the previous calendar day of the ninth day of the month at sundown, it means by the next morning, when people are awake, they would already be hungry. For this annual Sabbath, God actually wants people to have some sense of hunger, afflicting their souls, during the time they’re awake! By commanding them to stop eating at sunset from the previous day is a guarantee they’d be afflicted with hunger pangs all through their waking hours on the tenth day. Otherwise, if the festival started at sunrise, people could have eaten all through the night and then not be quite as famished throughout that tenth day.
Dawn was used as a verb. ( become evident to the mind, be perceived or understood – the truth finally dawned on us) ( Webster ) Matthew 28:1, in the end of the Sabbath as it began to dawn. Jesus Christ came out of the tomb just at sunset on Saturday ( Sabbath)
Just as he said he would. a full 72 hour’s in the tomb.
Absolutely NOT the truth. Dawn is in the NOT the evening!
Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance
dayspring, early, light, morning, whence rises
From shachar; dawn (literal, figurative or adverbial) — day(-spring), early, light, morning, whence riseth.
see HEBREW shachar
GREEK: Vine’s Greek New Testament Dictionary . Dawn [Verb] diaugazo signifies “to shine through” (dia, “through,” auge, “brightness”); it describes the breaking of daylight upon the darkness of night,
Try as you may like, The DAY BEGINS IN THE MORNING! Christ rose at the nightime portion of the SABBATH!
Genesis is very clear.
“And the evening and the morning were the first day.”
Don’t you get that Bob? One whole day is composed of two parts:
1. The evening which is the dark part of the day
2. And the morning which is light part.
In one whole day or in one day, evening comes first.
Again, the same pattern on the succeeding days.
“And the evening and the morning were the second day”, and so on. . .
See? Just before the second day comes, the dark part (night) of the day comes first.
See? After sunset (the dark part or the night) is the beginning of a new day!
One day is composed of 24 hours divided into two parts, with 12 hours each.
Again The Day in the passage you just quoted was IN THE MORNING!!!! But we can disagree. There are those who follow the Babylonian day and calendar ( as do the modern Jews) and there are those who read the Bible and read the words on the page.
I’ve got 17 pages that show, within scripture day begins at morning, ends at evening and night begins at evening, ends at morning.. I have asked many, “within scripture, is there one yom that begins at morning and another yom that begins at evening?” And “Is YAH the author of confusion?” I would be happy to share my 17 pages of scripture.
Butch
I too have studied every scripture I can find on this topic and agree that the day begins in the morning. I would love to read your study if you wouldn’t mind sharing it to see if I have overlooked any. What is clear is that sometimes the Almighty starts a holy observance in one day and ends it in another. Only HE can sanctify a period of time has HOLY.
Thanks
Patty
my email is pansellfbr@gmail.com
1. Sundown to Sundown?
Genesis 1:5 should be read as following:
[1. God worked during the day – this is what many scholars seem to forget, that all the relevant part happened before the evening, on the same day]
And
[2. then]
there was evening and
[3. then]
there was morning,
[marking]
the
[end of the]
first day.
[Note – it does not say there was morning and there was evening, as commonly misread; it is crystal clear that the first day ended with a “morning” and that days were marked by a morning-morning rhythm]
2. The “day” of atonement
Lev 23:32 marks not a Weekly Sabbath, but an Extraordinary Sabbath (the 7 feast + 7th year + 50th year). It is not hard to imagine why God would want to start “atonement / repentance from sin” in dark hours.
3. Nehemiah 13:19
So when it became dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath [notice, it was already dark but the Sabbath hadn’t started!], I commanded that the doors be shut [it simply says that the gates were shut already the evening before the Sabbath what makes perfect sense; if he would have closed the doors in the morning, it would have taken hours to get all the merchants out that naturally came very early] …
So either the day starts at Sunrise and goes to the next sunrise or the day starts at sunset and goes to the next sunset. Which is it??
The day starts at sunrise… Read the article
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/jewish-calendar-10503
Evening does not come first–but part of the day- the mixing of ‘boquer” is when the light begins, and the dust “areb” is when dusk and light is ending-these are all part of the day. wwwstudythecalender.com
Both the Hebrew and the New Testament Gospels claim the same thing:
The Year contains only 12 months of 30 days with some sort of intracalacular days added (needed most likely after the flood)
The Day begins and ENDS in the dawn of the morning
The ninth hour for example is 3PM. The nighttime has watches