Yeshua came to save us and in so doing fulfilled the Jewish law and prophecies. Yeshua did this so there would be no doubt he was Yeshua Hamaschiach, our Messiah!
The notion of a Wednesday crucifixion
has been around for several years and is promoted by people who claim 3 days
and 3 nights has to equal 72 hours. I believe this is an incorrect assumption.
In the first place a full 72 hours is not required to meet the 3 day 3 night
requirement, because in eastern or Jewish thinking a part of a day was often thought of
as a full day.
Second, there were several events that
required set intervals of time according to the Passover account of Exodus 12. In order for Jesus to be
our Passover lamb He had to meet these requirements. Let's begin the sequence.
On the 10th day of the
month the Jews selected a lamb. Jesus fulfilled this on Palm Sunday, the only day
He encouraged the people to hail Him as Israel’s King.
Then they had to take
care of the lamb until the 14th before slaughtering him. Since the 10th was on
a Sunday, the 14th would have been on a Thursday. In the Lord’s time the 14th
was known as Preparation Day because the 15th was the first day of the Feast of
Unleavened Bread when no work was allowed. They had to have His body off the
cross before the feast began (John
19:31). All four gospels agree that Preparation day was the day on which
Jesus was crucified.
Jesus also fulfilled the Feast of
First Fruits, which always occurred on the Sunday following Passover. Since the
10th was a Sunday that day would have been the 17th, one week later. Therefore
in order to fulfill the Feast of First Fruits, the Resurrection had to occur on
a Sunday.
Two disciples confirmed this for us
in Luke 24:13-35. They were
walking to Emmaus, a town 7 miles from Jerusalem on the same day the women
discovered the empty tomb. The Lord met them on the road and began talking with
them, but they were kept from recognizing Him. He asked why they appeared to be
so sad and they related the story of the crucifixion and said it was the 3rd
day since it had happened (Luke 24:21).
So if Sunday the 17th was the 3rd day since the crucifixion, Saturday the 16th
would have been the 2nd day since, Friday the 15th would have been the 1st day
since and Thursday the 14th would have been the day of the crucifixion.
The only way to make a Wednesday
crucifixion work would be if Palm Sunday was actually a Saturday, and the
disciples were walking to Emmaus on the following Saturday. In both cases all
the people involved would have been violating the Sabbath travel restrictions,
which limited them to 1,000 paces.
Thursday is the only day of the week that could have fulfilled all the
prophetic requirements of Passover, Preparation Day, Unleavened bread, and First Fruits
without violating the Law and thus fulfilling Bible Prophecy. What a great Savior we have and I thank Him, His Father and the Holy Spirit for my salvation!
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