The Truth of Genesis: The Seven Feasts Of Yehovah, Part 5.
One thing that is often overlooked, is the fact that the priests of the Temple came to Pilate on Friday, April 30th, 28 AD, to ask him to seal the tomb of Jesus and post a guard, to prevent the disciples from stealing the body of Jesus and claiming that He rose from the dead.
A Roman seal was boring one or two holes through the stone, into the sides of the tomb, and pouring hot lead into the downward opening and inserting an iron rod. Once the hot lead cooled, it would take more than 90 tons of force to move the stone. At about 5:15 PM on Saturday, two hours before sunset, Jesus rose from the dead, folded His linen, and exited thru the walls of the sealed tomb. At about 7:30 PM Saturday, the High Priest and his associates had returned to the Kidron valley and cut the barley bundles after sunset, and took them to the Temple. After they left, the twenty-four graves that were disrupted had their occupants rise from the dead, and followed the priests into the city of Jerusalem. The next morning, before dawn at about 5:45 AM, an arc-angel came down and rolled the stone off to the side, shearing the iron rods, and scaring the Roman soldiers half to death.
Haaz Sleiman as Jesus of Nazareth in National Geographic Channel’s Killing Jesus. (photo credit: National Geographic Channels/Kent Eanes)
Reading from Matt 28:1-6
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.
2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
The 70 week ministry (490 days) of Yeshua began on the 20th day of the eleventh Hebrew month (Shevat), which was Saturday, February 16, 27 AD. This is when Jesus came to John to be baptized. After coming out of the water, and the “spirit speaking” in an audible voice, Jesus spent the next 40 days in the wilderness. He returned afterwards to the Jordan, on the first day of the new year, which was the “acceptable year of the Lord”. It was His 42nd day, on Saturday, March 29th, 27 AD. It is then that John saw Him approaching and proclaimed “Behold the (sacrificial) Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the world”! This was exactly 483 years after the commandment to “go forth and build Jerusalem (Ezra 7:1-22). The Messiah appeared, and was proclaimed, on the first day of the new “acceptable year of the Lord”.
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