How's it going everyone, Ben Naim here from the Ben the Baptist YouTube channel and I
wanted to talk about the timing of the Passover.
The Passover occurred in the Hebrew calendar year on the 14th day of the first month.
That's when the Passover lamb was to be killed.
It was the 15th day of the month when it was actually eaten and that kickstarted
seven days of unleavened bread, that eight day period often referred to as the Passover.
But this is significant when it comes to the death of the Lord Jesus Christ because I believe
Jesus died on the Passover and there's contention over what that day was.
Obviously the Catholics would hold to the Good Friday position.
I used to believe in the Wednesday view that Jesus actually died on a Wednesday.
But that's until 2020 when I was listening to a sermon by Pastor Shelley and he brought
forward some evidence that provoked me to reconsider my view.
Now I was never dogmatic on this by any means and there were several issues with
the Wednesday position that I couldn't quite solve so there were some things that didn't
sit well with me for sure on that.
But I changed my mind to a Thursday view.
I do believe Jesus Christ died on a Thursday at 3 p.m. on the Passover, the 14th day of
the month, the Passover.
And there are a few reasons why I switched my view from Wednesday to Thursday.
The big one is Luke chapter 24, the walk to Emmaus.
When you consider what the Bible says in verse 21 it presents a problem for the Wednesday
view.
It says, but we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel and beside
all this today is the third day since these things were done.
The third day the Bible says since these things were done.
Since Jesus is condemned to death and crucified since he died.
Obviously the Bible says over and over that Jesus would rise again the third day.
But here you have very clear language telling you the third day since these things were
done.
So what I'm going to do is for the Wednesday position that this simply just isn't true
then because it would technically have been the fourth day since these things were
done.
If Jesus died on a Wednesday you'd have Thursday, Friday, Saturday and then Sunday
the first day of the week which is when this is occurring here in Luke chapter 24
in verse 21 the walk to Emmaus happening on Sunday the first day of the week.
So that's I think for me that was the first major domino to fall that made me reconsider
the Wednesday view.
Another one is in John chapter 12 when you follow the timeline given to us here in John
chapter 12 it prevents another I should say presents another problem.
It says then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany.
Then in verse 12 it says on the next day much people that were come to the feast
when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem took branches of palm trees and
went forth to meet him and cried Hosanna blessed is the king of Israel that cometh
in the name of the Lord.
So six days before the Passover the Bible says Jesus goes into Bethany the next
day you have the triumphal entry.
Well if you believe in a Wednesday death and you count backwards you would have the
triumphal entry occurring on a Sabbath day.
So you'd have a violation of the Sabbath here.
You have Jesus riding on an ass.
You have people taking palm trees the branches of palm trees and basically violating the
Sabbath which I just don't think is plausible whatsoever and you know I do believe it was
Palm Sunday not Palm Saturday with a Wednesday death when you take into account in light
of these scriptures here you know it's a difficulty because you have to believe in Palm Saturday
just again I don't think it's possible.
Additionally you have Mark chapter number 11 and when you follow the Palm Sunday as
your base there and you follow the timeline you have the fig tree being withered on one
day or I should say you have it being cursed on one day you have it withering away the
day after that taking you to Tuesday Mark 14 tells you hey after two days is the feast
of unleavened bread that fits perfectly fine with the Thursday death not so much with
other positions.
But when it comes to Good Friday this is completely irreconcilable in light of Matthew
chapter 12 Matthew chapter 12 and verse 40 which says for as Jonas was three days
and three nights in the whale's belly so shall the son of man be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth.
I don't care how hard you try to twist things and wiggle your way out of this you
simply cannot come up with three days and three nights with a Friday position the Good
Friday Catholic doctrine they are dead wrong on that which should surprise no one who believes
the Bible considering Catholics are wrong on virtually everything and hold to positions
that are often the complete opposite of what the Bible says now there's bigger fish
to fry I understand than this doctrine but hey they're wrong on this too so when it
comes to the timing of the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ I would
say Jesus died on a Thursday at 3 p.m. the next day the 15th day of the month the
first day of unleavened bread if you want to go by Leviticus 23 that was a Sabbath
day so that would be Friday a Sabbath day Saturday is your normal weekly Sabbath Sunday
the first day of the week he rose again from the dead so this creates a awesome
picture really because as Jesus is working to pay for our salvation well those days
were Sabbath days a wonderful picture of salvation so if you want more detail on this
doctrine I highly recommend that you check out this past Friday's edition of the Baptist
Bias with Pastor Anderson and Pastor Shelley where they leave no stone unturned really when
it comes to this and they go over the scriptures they go over the evidence and they
talk about why it is a Thursday view Pastor Anderson himself actually switched his position
on this as well from Wednesday to Thursday and he actually brings forth some intriguing
evidence from you know astronomy from that point of view looking at the stars to provide
even more evidence for a Thursday death Pastor Shelley has done a lot of research on
this you could tell just from listening to him talk about it on the podcast and
he provides his expertise on the subject as well so check out that podcast I'll link
to it below and I think you'll learn something I know I did for sure so thanks for watching
God bless you guys and I'll talk to you guys again soon