All over the world the Jewish people have it reinforced in their minds again and again that Jesus was a false Messiah, in fact, once a year every year – each Good Friday! And, of course, this error is reinforced in the Jewish mind every week by the observance of Sunday and spurning of God’s eternal sabbath day by multitudes of professing Christians! Jesus Christ gave the Jewish people ONLY ONE SIGN that He was their true Messiah? The scribes and Pharisees had demanded of Him that He give them a sign that He was the Messiah. He said, “no sign will be given to (you) except the sign of the prophet Jonah, for as Jonah was THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of man be THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS in the heart of the earth (the tomb)” (See Matthew 12:39-40). Jesus Christ had just said to these scribes and Pharisees “by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned”? (See verse 37 of Matthew 12)..If Jesus remained dead in the tomb for three full days and three full nights only arising from the dead after passage of that much time, then he would be justified by His words and shown to be a true prophet and the Jewish Messiah. Any other period of time would reveal Him to be a false prophet, a deceiver, and, thus, a son of Satan. And the chief priests and Pharisees DID REMEMBER that Jesus made such a prediction, for they “gathered together to Pilate, saying, ‘Sir, WE REMEMBER, while He was still alive, how THAT DECEIVER said, “AFTER THREE DAYS I WILL ARISE.'” (Matthew 27:62-63).
A deceived Christianity teaches that Jesus Christ was placed in the tomb as the sun set on “Good Friday” and that He arose from the tomb at sunrise “Easter Sunday!” I urge you to count how many days and how many nights elapse between sunset Friday and sunrise Sunday. TWO NIGHTS AND ONE DAY! This satanically inspired tradition portrays Jesus as a false Messiah to the Jews. It clearly points up as fact that Jesus failed to fulfill THE ONLY SIGN He gave His beloved people that He was truly their long awaited Messiah!!!!.
Those who do not know their Bibles as they should fail to realize that the sabbath that drew on as Jesus died on the cross was NOT the weekly sabbath, but an annual sabbath, the First Day of Unleavened Bread, an annual sabbath that immediately followed Passover! Jesus was crucified on Passover day. The very next day was an annual sabbath. The Jews had SEVEN annual sabbaths, sabbaths that fell on various days of the week, sometimes overlapping with a weekly sabbath and some years occurring on a weekday. (See Leviticus chapter 23)..
Crucifixion week the annual sabbath called the First Day of Unleavened Bread fell on Thursday. Jesus was crucified on Wednesday of that year, NOT on Friday. Crucifixion week HAD TWO SABBATHS, the annual sabbath of unleavened bread and the normal weekly sabbath. Preachers who do not see this plain, unarguable truth in the scriptures are not fit for the office they hold as they teach and propagate A LIE that yearly reinforces in the minds of unsuspecting Jews that Jesus was a deceiver and a false Messiah!!!! And those Christians that follow this tradition likewise cause the unsuspecting Jews that Jesus was a false Messiah!. Thinking Jesus was resurrected on Sunday, they justify this error to teach Sunday observance as a day of rest while ignoring God’s sacred, eternal sabbath.
Jesus body was placed in the tomb as the sun was going down on Wednesday. Remaining in the tomb for a full three days and three nights would necessitate His coming out of the tomb as the sun was setting the following Saturday. That is WHY the women found Him missing from the tomb early Sunday morning when arriving there while it was yet dark. He had arisen hours before as the sun was setting Saturday evening! The Easter Sunday tradition is a myth and propagates a satanic lie to this day, a lie believed by the overwhelming majority of professed Christians!
The average Christian, even the average minister has no inkling of how clever Satan is and how successful he is in planting his deceptions in the human mind, yes, even the minds of unsuspecting Christians. Such ministers will have to stand before Jesus Christ face-to-face someday and give account to Him as to why they depicted Him as a false Messiah to the Jewish people of their time and locale.
Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley