Jesus Christ must’ve been crucified on the fourth day of the week in order for the sign of Jonah to be perfect.
We call the fourth day of the week ‘Wednesday’, although Torah days starts ~6 hrs. prior to midnight.
Jesus Christ was put in His grave at twilight, just as the fifth day of the week was beginning. Exactly 3 full nights and 3 full daylight portions later, at the very beginning of the first day of the week, He rose. To fulfill the sign of Jonah, Jesus must have been resurrected between sunset and darkness, when the first day of the week began.
A unique method of finding the day of the cross:
Here’s the reference passage:
“The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. . . .2In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. 3The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.” 4Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. 5On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days.” …” 22And so it was, on the sixth day, that they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. 23Then he said to them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.’ ” 24So they laid it up till morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it. 25Then Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field. 26Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.” (Exodus 16: 1-5, 22-26)
Notice how the ‘groaning’ of the Israelites could only have taken place on the seventh day of the week. We count, starting from Saturday the 15th day of the second month, backwards by 45 days, back to the very day God gave Moses the calendar, Abib/Nisan 1 (assuming Abib/Nisan was a 30 day month) which was a Thursday. Abib/Nisan 10, the day the unblemished lambs were selected was a Saturday. Then, four days later, on Wednesday Abib/Nisan 14 as evening was approaching, the lambs were slaughtered and their blood was painted on the doorposts and the lintel of the abodes of the Israelites, who had confined themselves inside. They ate the Passover meal. As they slept, they were ‘passed over’ by the death angel on Abib/Nisan 15, under the full moon.
Starting from Wednesday, Abib/Nisan 14, we count inclusively by weeks until the third decade of the first century, and in those years, the most likely ones in which Jesus Christ may have been crucified, we examine the months that correlate with the beginning of Spring, to see if the 14th day of any of them landed on a Wednesday. April 26 31 AD or May 24 31 AD both land on a Wednesday by this method. The May date is if 31 AD followed a leap year.
April 26 31 AD or May 24 31 AD
31 AD fits the year of the cross There was leeway because we can’t know whether the first or second sliver was the one actually sighted by two naked eye witnesses. There’s no way to know the exact day for sure, but 31 AD is very likely and it fits the entire timeline so exactly that it seems to be a Godsend. Halleluyah!
Which is it? I prefer the April 26, 31 AD date because the sun was in the constellation Aries at the time. Back in 1440 BC on Passover, the sun was also in Aries. See calculations and the references I used, as the precession of the Earth’s axis had changed over the 1,700 years: https://alephtav.blog/moon/
In the 1st century, Pharisees were still using leap years for their Torah calendar while Sadducees used a solar civil calendar. Although the mathematical Metonic calendar was known to both groups it didn’t become completely reliable, in their eyes, until around the fourth century.
The following is a totally awesome resource!
The Hebrew Calendar of the Second Temple Era https://biblearchaeology.org/abr-projects/the-daniel-9-24-27-project-2/5035-the-hebrew-calendar-of-the-secon
Of course we should wonder if there was a blood lunar eclipse.
Although it’s not mentioned in the synoptic Gospels, Peter appears to have implied it on Pentecost by quoting Joel 2:28-32. But, that prophesy is mainly for the time of the very end, surrounding the great or greatest tribulations. Many prophesies have dual fulfillments, with the first one being smaller and incomplete in some way, while pointing to its ultimate fulfillment, kind of like birth pangs. But since Peter quoted it we should take a close look!
Joel 2:28-32 .“And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. .Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. .I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. .The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. .And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the Lord has said, even among the survivors whom the Lord calls.”
What we know:
The sun was darkened for three hours during the Christ’s Crucifixion. That’s unquestioned. I’ll address more about how it can happen. But, on the scientific side, large parts of the sun can be darkened, even for days when it looses plasma with giant corona mass ejections, but normally it’s not total, or even enough for people to be sure what is going on. God could have sent dark clouds to cover the sun; Simultaneous earthquakes were reported in the Gospels, meaning fire, dust and smoke may’ve contributed. It could’ve been a combination of all three; But I don’t see any mention of a blood moon in the Gospels.
Luke 23:44-45 KJV, And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
Matt. 27:35 BLB, And from the sixth hour, darkness was over all the land, until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” That is, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?”
Mark 15:33 NASB, When the sixth hour came, darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour. At the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “ELOI, ELOI, LEMA SABAKTANEI?” which is translated, “MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?”
Noon was called the sixth hour so the sun’s darkness lasted until what we call 3 PM:
And this part followed:
50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.
51 Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, 52 and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
54 So when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God!”
Still no blood mentioned in conjunction with the crucifixion not in a witness format.
A 3 hour solar eclipse isn’t possible naturally.
Most solar eclipses only last seconds. Some last minutes, but longest solar eclipse that will ever be seen from one place, over the span of 12,000 yrs, is 7 minutes 29 seconds according to NASA!
How else could the sun have stayed dark for so long? The three hours of darkness that Matthew, Mark and Luke reported, may’ve had a supernatural cause.
After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendor. (Rev. 18:1)
The verse above shows that a single angel can illuminate Earth, so perhaps a single or a group of angels blocked out the sun for 3 long hours. Also, compare to Rev. 9:1-2 when the abyss is opened, smoke (containing hoards of locusts) will pour out and darken the sun. Also, just as God made the sun stand still for Joshua at Jericho, perhaps God simply spoke the sun to not shine in a way that we can not fathom.
I Didn’t Base the Year of Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion on a Blood Moon
To me, it’s more important to get the year and the day of the week right. In this paragraph, I’m just reporting some information that I looked at: According to AstroPixels, there was a partial blood moon on April 25 ’31 AD. NASA says it’s a 1/3rd partial and that it occurred at 23:00 TT (terrestrial time). No need to convert it to UTC because it’s only seconds different. Israel would’ve seen the moon at about 11pm if they were using the clock as we use it, but what ever clock they used it would be about 6 hours after sunset, not when Jesus was on the cross; I’m not implying that showing up late invalidates it as a sign. Wisely, AstroPixels doesn’t provide week days and nor does NASA, but I have a chart from a prominent Bible expositor that says April 25 ’31 AD is a Wednesday. Using my Exodus 16 method of determining the days of the week (thoroughly explained above) April 25 ’31 AD lands on a Tuesday. If I’m somehow a day off in 31 AD, then April 25 could’ve been the day. But, even if April 26 was the day of the cross, someone who has a strong conviction that there must’ve been a blood moon in order for the crucifixion to have occurred in 31AD, could still apply the blood moon by accepting that it simply occurred in the middle of the night, about 9 hours BEFORE the processes, including the trials, the beatings the whipping, carrying His cross and His crucifixion. And also of interest, is that there were apparently two other blood moons on the Passover days in the years that followed, both in 32 &33.
Calendricals
Documents and charts written by people who study the Bible hard and with great sincerity can still be incorrect when it comes to days of the week in the long past. If we’re honest, it’s not as easy as any of us first expect when choosing to tackle it. The available digital tools don’t clearly reveal if or how they account for the corruption of the days of the week that occurred when the Julian Calendar was replaced, at least on the British Gregorian calendar; But in fact, there were different Gregorian calendars set up at different times and the digital tools don’t normally bother to mention which one they’re using. If we become aware and make the extra effort to seek out digital tools that give full disclosure about their methods and adjustments, we must first learn how to judge such things; And in seeking to find the disclosure, anyone will discover that it’s either sorely lacking or at best, it’s in small print, hidden down a long un-mapped click trail. Sites want to make their products seem simple so people will enjoy using them; Most people don’t care what day of the week a date fell on 2,000 years ago. I deduce that the ‘proleptic’ Gregorian calendar is the most likely one to be accurate, since it’s been designed to extend backward in time to before the Gregorian, and even before the Julian. But, even the Julian calendar went through changes before the first century AD. Finally, the digital proleptic calendar tool wasn’t specially designed to match with the days of the week according to the Torah calendar, so even if they do get it right according to any calendar, should we assume the days of the week for the Israelites were synchronized with it?
Experts?
So about those who people who present themselves as experts – Can we trust them? It can get messy; The more you study it the bigger the puzzle seems to get, especially if you want to get out of the rabbit hole and back to studying the Bible. That’s why I used the forward counting method from the day God gave the calendar to Moses. Please check it for yourself. It’s easy. If I’ve truly made a mistake by using this counting method, please show me – my email address is at the bottom of every post.
So about those who people who present themselves as experts – Can we trust them? It can get messy; The more you study it the bigger the puzzle seems to get, especially if you want to get out of the rabbit hole and back to studying the Bible. That’s why I used the forward counting method from the day God gave the calendar to Moses. Please check it for yourself. It’s easy. If I’ve truly made a mistake by using this counting method, please show me – my email address is at the bottom of every post.
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