Never forget Satan is a genius. He is a mastermind, having great and awesome intellect, though devoid of any hint of wisdom. Easter is another one of the masterstrokes of Satan’s genius. By it he, not God, nullified God’s eternal holy Sabbath replacing it with his own long cherished Sunday, the day of the ancient sun god.
Why do folks celebrate Easter? They claim Easter Sunday morning is when Jesus arose from the dead. WRONG! As I have clearly pointed out in previous articles, Jesus arose from the dead at sundown the previous evening. That is why when “Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, WHILE IT WAS STILL DARK, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb, then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved (John), and said to them, ‘They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.'” (See John 20:1-2). It is laudable, of course, that believers celebrate the resurrection of our Lord, but many unwittingly perpetuate an error yearly by their Easter sunrise services. They celebrate the change of God’s holy eternal Sabbath to Sunday thereby. And that never happened and never will happen. Even in the world to come, “it shall come to pass that from one Sabbath to another, ALL FLESH shall come to worship before Me, says the Lord” (See Isaiah 66:23). Yes, even all the Gentiles, all the Sunday-keeping Protestants, ALL FLESH shall then keep holy God’s eternal Sabbath. I have already started. I suggest you do the same.
Jesus said by the utterances we make, by the words we speak, we are either justified or condemned. If what we say is true, then we are justified in what we have said. If what we say proves false, we are condemned. Modern Christianity unwittingly teaches that Jesus Christ should be condemned for something He said to the scribes and Pharisees! For immediately after stating one is either justified or condemned by what he says, Jesus told these men He was giving that generation only ONE SIGN that He truly was the Messiah, the Son of the Living God. He said, “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so (likewise, in the same manner) will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth (the tomb)” (See Matthew 12:36-40).
Deceived believers say Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, being placed in the tomb as the sun was setting, and that He came out of the tomb at sunrise Easter Sunday morning. Count with me how many days are there between Good Friday sunset and Easter Sunday sunrise. ONE DAY – the daylight part of Saturday, right? And how many nights are there between sunset Good Friday and sunrise Easter Sunday? Two nights, right? Yet Jesus said the ONLY SIGN He was going to give the Jewish nation that He truly was their long awaited Messiah was that His dead body would lie in the tomb for three days and three nights! If not, he would be condemned by His words and could be rejected as a false Messiah
That’s the primary reason why the Jews reject Jesus as being their Messiah. They say, “Even you Christians teach He failed to fulfill the ONLY SIGN He gave us that He was our Messiah.”
The Sabbath that hastened on, preventing the women from anointing the body of Jesus before it was placed in the tomb was NOT the weekly Sabbath, but an annual Sabbath called a High Day Sabbath, the first day of Unleavened Bread that happened to fall on Thursday crucifixion week. See John 19:31 with Leviticus 23. The average Christian has little or no understanding of Israel’s seven annual Sabbaths. There were TWO Sabbaths crucifixion week, the High Day Sabbath, which was the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which fell on a Thursday crucifixion week, and then the weekly Sabbath! According to Mark 16:1, the women didn’t buy the burial spices to anoint the Lord’s body until the sabbath was past, yet in Luke 23, verses 54 through 56, we are told the women “prepared spices and ointments and rested the sabbath day, according to the commandment.” These passages show there were two sabbaths crucifixion week, else there is a blatant contradiction in scripture.
Jesus said He was “Lord of the Sabbath,” hence, the Sabbath is the Lord’s Day – NOT Sunday. NO scripture calls Sunday the Lord’s Day. (See Matthew 12:8; Mark 2:27-28 and Luke 6:5). NO SCRIPTURE sanctifies Sunday, calling it a holy day. And no scripture nullifies or de-sanctifies God’s holy, eternal Sabbath. (The holy days and sabbaths to which the apostle Paul refers in Colossians 2, verses 16 and 17 were the annual sabbaths – NOT God’s eternal weekly sabbath!) The seventh day was sanctified and made holy by Jesus creation week. It was still holy and sanctified when Jesus was born in a manger and took on human form. It was still holy time when Jesus hung on the cross. It was still holy time when He was resurrected. It was still holy time the day after that, a year after that, a century later, and the day I was born on November 30, 1942, and it will still be holy time when Jesus returns.
Few find their way through the narrow gateway into the castle of truth. I am one of the most blessed and fortunate humans who has ever been privileged to set foot on God’s good earth. You cannot possibly know how thankful and appreciative I am. I will deny myself sleep day after day until I draw my last breath in order to continue getting out the truth of God to those who walk in error – my brethren, innocently duped by a mastermind genius.
Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley