The Crucifixion & Resurrection Of Christ

The Lord Jesus was crucified on Passover on the 6th day of the week, (Friday) 14 Nisan in 33 AD.

According to the Byzantine Christians it, would be called Good or Great Friday, celebrated as a day on which the people would fast and pay penance before celebrating Easter (Eostre-German goddess).

Passover was also known as Pascha.

True believers in Christ do not celebrate Easter because of its connection to idol worship. It's called Passover. Most believers opt to call it "Resurrection Sunday" as our Lord was raised from the dead on the 1st day of the weeks called "Feast of Firstfruits."

So according to the Jewish Torah or OT, it's called Passover because of the Lord killing the firstborn of Egypt as judgment on Egypt for idol worship and freeing the Jews from the house of bondage (Egypt). This is found in the book of Exodus chapter 12.

The Passover would be observed as a day when Israel would select a lamb from the sheep and it must be without blemish.

They must kill it and then place its blood on the door posts and lentil, roast and eat the lamb, burn its head and entrails, eat unleavened bread and herbs, and so forth.

The death angel would "passover" the house that had blood on the door posts and lentil.

The doorposts and lentil is made of wood. Hint hint. The cross is made of wood.

Where a house had no blood on the doorposts, whoever was the firstborn in that house, regardless of age, they would be killed.

When Christ came to the earth, and the time of His ministry would start (age 30), John the Baptist saw Him coming and said in John 1:29, "Behold! The Lamb of God Who take away the sin of the world."

Paul would later tell us that Jesus is our "...Passover"

1 Corinthians 5:7 (NKJV)

"Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us."

In Leviticus 23, the Father commanded the Jews to observe His feasts.

The Sabbath.

The Unleavened Bread/Passover.

The Feast Of First Fruits.

The Feast of Weeks (Pentecost).

The Day Of Atonement.

The Feast of Trumpets.

The Feast of Tabernacles.

So far, the Lord Jesus fulfilled the first 3 Feasts.

One- Unleavened Bread. Two- Passover. And Three- Firstfruits.

So what do you think the chances are that the Lord would fulfill the final four feasts on the very day that it's celebrated?

Each feast is a revelation of the Godhead (Divinity).

The Father. The Son. The Holy Spirit.

When the Lord died, He was removed from the cross before sunset on Friday because the Jews came to Pilate to have their bodies removed. It's amazing that the Jews only cared about the law when it suited their preferences.

Here's the Jewish law.

Deuteronomy 21:22-23 (NKJV)

“If a man has committed a sin deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance; for he who is hanged is accursed of God."

This ties in with Paul's teaching in Galatians 3:13-14 (NKJV).

"Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Here's what they did to remedy the dilemma of Christ on the cross before the Sabbath started.

John 19:31 (NKJV)

"Therefore, because it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away."

John 19:38-42 (NKJV)

(see Matt. 27:57–61; Mark 15:42–47; Luke 23:50–56)

"After this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took the body of Jesus.

And Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. Then they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in strips of linen with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.

Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. So there they laid Jesus, because of the Jews’ Preparation Day, for the tomb was nearby."

Christ's burial was a short distance from Golgotha (The place of a skull) where Christ was crucified.

Lord was raised from the dead just as the Lord said.

Mark 10:33-34 (NKJV)

“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death and deliver Him to the Gentiles; and they will mock Him, and scourge Him, and spit on Him, and kill Him. And the third day He will rise again.”

Afterwards, the disciples would preach the gospel as a witness to the nations.

Acts 10:36-39 (NKJV)

"The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ—He is Lord of all— that word you know, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee after the baptism which John preached:

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

And we are witnesses of all things which He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they killed by hanging on a tree."

This lines up with Paul's teaching in Galatians 3:13.

As Paul taught in 1 Corinthians 15, if Christ was never raised from the dead, then when we die, we die in our sins, and the remedy of redemption for our sin is null and void.

This one act of God raising Jesus from the dead is the foundation of Christianity.

Without Christ become our substitutionary sacrifice for sin and then being raised from the dead, Christianity is just a mere religion.

It's not just Christ being raised from the dead as important as it is, but the fact that He paid the eternal debt of sin for every man, is equally important.