Instructive Graphics (Torah Pictures)
1. The devolution to "believe only"
*How faithfulness mutated into believe only, and
then believe only once. In both Hebrew and Greek, the relevent terms
mean more than just to believe some important facts. They connotate
loyalty and fidelity, and even obedience. Messiah is looking for
trusting faithfulness, and not just a few doctrines dropped into your
shopping basket as salvation insurance.
2. Daniel 9:24-26 Explained With Sabbatical Years
Daniel 9:24-26 predicts Messiah Yeshua's first
coming almost 500 years before it happened. The prophecy has often been
explained in terms of 483 years. This chart shows how the prophecy is
actually to be explained in terms of Israel's seven year Sabbatical
year cycle. Seventy "weeks" are really "seventy sevens" or
Sabbatical years. (A Sabbath year is every seventh year). The
prophecy says to count up 7 cycles and then 62 cycles, and then Messiah
came after that.
3. Shabbat Resurrection of Messiah
Passion timeline, original graphic
3.1 Shabbat Resurrection (headline emphasis).
* Is it possible that Messiah died on a Wednesday and rose on the Sabbath?
**What if the texts are translated literally? What
if the instruction in Lev. 23:15 to count seven Sabbaths is taken
seriously? What if it looks like Messiah could have died on the 4th day
of the week and rose on the seventh? Is it possible that Messiah died
on a Wednesday and rose on the Sabbath?
***When was Messiah raised from the dead? About dawn on
the Shabbat. According to all the texts the resurrection was on the
"first of the Sabbaths" (Matthew 28:1, Luke 24:1, Mark 16:2, John 20:1)
and not on the "first day of the week", which is a
mistranslation. Leviticus 23:15 says to count "seven Sabbaths"
after Passover, and this fact confirms that the resurrection passages
4. Aviv AD 34 11x17 PDF Version with Notes
Wall Calendar of Yeshua's Passion Month.
5. The Exodus Month
Wall Calendar of the Exodus Month with Passover.
6. Birth of Messiah 0002BC
This calendar shows the month for the birth of
Messiah on Aug 31/Sept 1, 2 B.C. according to the sign on Revelation
12:1-3. The calendar is just an intro to this important chronological subject.
7. Matthew 28:1
Mathew 28:1, "On the later of the Sabbaths, at the
dawning on the first of the Sabbaths..." The later Sabbath is the
weekly Sabbath in Passion week, as there was an annual Sabbath earlier
in the week. The Messiah died the day before the Annual Sabbath, the
preparation of the Passover, and rose again on the later Sabbath, i.e.
the weekly Sabbath. Also the weekly Sabbath is called "the first
of the Sabbaths" because Lev. 23:11-15 instructed Israel to count
"seven Sabbaths" following the annual Passover rest day.
Therefore, the "first of the Sabbaths" is #1 in this counting to the
feast of Pentecost.
8. The wave offering
Showing the day for the wave offering
9. Genesis Day
The "day" is defined in Genesis 1:3-5 as "the
light", which is dawn to dusk or 12 hours. The calendar day is also
implied in the same passage to be from daybreak to daybreak (or dawn to
dawn). This view is logical and sequential and is held by top Hebrew
Scholars (Franz Delitzsch and Jacob Milgrom), who both made quite a
point of the day starting at dawn and ending at dawn in their Torah
commentaries.
10. Genesis 1:31 and Sabbath
Showing when the Sabbath begins
11. Yom Kippur
Showing how the day is defined two ways.
12. Babylon (Babylon Resource)
Babylon to be rebuilt before the End of Days.
13. 2013_2014 Sabbatic Year
What about the Red Moon Tetrad and included Solar
eclipse? Fast Facts..1. None of these five events will be visible in
Israel, 2. The solar eclipse does NOT fall on the new moon day of
either the Biblical calendar or the Rabbinic Calendar. 3. Only two of
the lunar eclipses agree with biblical feast dates, and 3 of the events
with Rabbinic dates. Therefore, the events favor neither calendar. If
the events mean anything, then close will have to do. We do know this:
the Sabbatical Cycle Shows that 2013-2016 will not be the End of Days
14. How Luke 24:21 falsifies Sunday Resurrection Doctrine Technical Paper
This chart shows in particular why a Saturday
afternoon or shortly after sunset on Saturday resurrection is not
possible (assuming he died on Wed). For this would imply that the women
came to the tomb sunday morning and that the men going to Emmaus had
counted wrong in Luke 24:21. For Sunday would be the 5th day.
Therefore, the resurrection was at dawn on the Sabbath, and the women
came to the tomb just after dawn on the Sabbath, and the men going to
Emmaus in Luke 24:21 made their comment on Sabbath afternoon--when the
third day had just passed.
15. How to explain "heart of the earth" (Mat. 12:40)
This chart shows that "heart of the earth" derives
from two idioms in Jonah, and that the combined idiom was not meant to
exclude Messiah's "affliction" before he actually died (Jonah 2:2).
David in the Psalms also used "grave" for the threat of death, and not
just actual death. "Heart of the earth" also refers to suffering in
Jerusalem. So the "three days and three nights" cover 72 hours from
dawn on a WED to dawn on the Sabbath. "Heart of the earth" also refers
to the physical grave. Both senses of "heart of the earth" put together
make 72 hours. Taken as only in the physical grave, it was only
part of the first day. Even so, in the Hebrew language a part of a day
may be simply counted as a day.
16. Matthew 28:1 Step by Step (Technical Note)
This diagram shows the logic behind the translation
"later of the Sabbaths" so that non-Greek scholars can appreciate that
there is a well reasoned argument, and so that believing Greek scholars
will be able to prove for themselves that it is well justified.
17. Third Day Prophecies Always Inclusive
Proving that the resurrection cannot take place after dawn on the Sabbath.
18. The origin of Ἰησοῦς. (further reading)
Graphic showing that this common Greek name is not pagan.
19. How the Apostolic Writings represent Messiah's name (further reading)
Showing the nomina sacra usages.
20. The Continual Offering and Messiah
*Prophetic connections with the Tamid offering. The
continual offering shows that the day as used by the priests started at
daybreak and lasted to the next daybreak. So there are two types of day
in scripture, one for Sabbaths, and another for sacrificial offerings.
Guess which one should be used in counting the days of Messiah's death
and resurrection?
** The Olah offering (ascending or burnt
offering) is very relevant to Messiah's resurrection on the Sabbath day
near dawn. For Messiah was raised as the "firstfruits" offering. The
instructions for the timing of the daily offering establish the timing
of the firstfruits offering, which is also called the wave offering.
The wave offering included a burnt offering, and therefore it was
completed at dawn when the priest removed the ashes from the altar. In
the case of Messiah, the wave offering was put on the altar on the 16th
of Nisan after the annual Shabbat (which would be Friday morning), and
it burned all night until the time of his resurrection at dawn on the
Shabbat. The wave offering's final ascending (a type of resurrection)
was just before dawn on the Shabbat. So what we must understand here is
that a wave offering that might in some years begin on Sunday morning
and end at dawn on Monday morning certainly does not qualify as a
"match" to being fulfilled by any theory except the correct one wherein
the resurrection is at dawn on the Sabbath, and the wave offering is
made with its burnt offering about 22 hours earlier right after the
daily offering on Friday at daybreak. For if the resurrection is at any
time before 8 a.m. Sunday morning, then a wave offering on that day
would completely miss the time of the resurrection, and John 20:1
assures us it was before that time, saying it was "still dark."
This graphic also shows that offerings in general are reckoned from
daybreak to daybreak, and likewise implies that Messiah's fulfiment of
the Passover offering, the chag offering on Nisan 15, and the wave
offering also, are all counted on the basis of a daybreak to daybreak
day.
21. Acts 20:7 Calendar Printable 11x17 PDF
*Answer the the anti-Sabbath Christian this way...in
Acts 20:7 they met on the Sabbath, and then Paul kept teaching into the
next night, then the next day he continued his journey. This calendar
shows the way it really was...
**
22. David Flees from Shaul Printable 11x17 PDF
The dating of David's flight from Saul took him to
Nob on the Sabbath, were he obtained the showbread that was removed
from the Sanctuary. We know the year of this event, the month,
and the day of the month. The result shows that the Sabbath is an
unbroken seven day cycle from the present back to then.
23. First day of unleavened bread
This chart shows the basis of understanding Matthew,
Mark, and Luke to be speaking of Nisan 14 when they introduce the Last
Supper. Also the use of the root SH-B-T (from which we get Shabbat) is
highlighted in the text. The first use of ראשׁוֹן
in Exo. 12:15a means "headmost" and refers to Nisan 14, and the second
use in 12:15b means "first" and refers to Nisan 15. The first day
(Nisan 15) is the sabbathing day for leaven that begins the feast. On
the 14th day Yisrael "causes to cease," or "makes [the house] to take a
Sabbath" from leaven. This makes the 15th day the first day of
cessation...resting from leaven, and the day after it the 16th--if you
get my hint.
24. Messiah, the First Fruit
This chart shows Messiah Yeshua as the firstfruit of
the Resurrection (1Cor. 15:20, 23). Yeshua fulfilled the prophetic type
of the firstfruits offering when he rose from the dead at the exact
same time the offering finished ascending (burning) on the altar in the
Temple. Of every wave offering there was a portion for Yahweh put on
the altar just after the daily offering, along with a male lamb (Lev.
23:12), a grain offering, and a drink offering (Lev. 23:13). This
portion burned (an-Olah ascending offering) for a day and a night (Lev.
6:9-10). Messiah ascended with the offering fulfilling Judges 13:20,
Genesis 32:24 and Hosea 6:3. He ascended at the going up of the deep
dawn.
25. Calendar for 9th month. Alternate Calendars and Calendar Index
This calendar is the provisional projection for the
new moon day. There is a significant chance the moon will not bee seen
as projected (It is probable that it will be seen as projected). Stay
tuned for when the confirmed calendar for the 9th month is posted on my
page.
26. Solving the Shavuot counting Mystery.
This slide shows that counting the days to Shavuot
starting after the annual Shabbat (Passover) is consistent with Lev.
23:11-16, and the reckoning of the Pharisees. The counting starts on
Aviv 16 with the waving of the sheaf, which is termed the "tomorrow of
the Shabbat"; then seven Sabbaths are to be counted in the tomorrow of
the Shabbat, showing that "tomorrow" is used in the Semitic sense of
"time to come" or "hereafter." Likewise, the 50th day is counted in the
tomorrow of the seventh Sabbath, which need not be just one day after
the Sabbath, but in the Hebrew sense of "tomorrow" it may be up to a
week later. The widely cited Karaite argument from Lev. 23:16 is
therefore shown to presuppose an error of omission. They omit that in
Hebrew "tomorrow" also means "hereafter"because it makes their "proof"
a non-proof. The sense they omit in vs. 16 is required to make sense
out of vs. 15. Seven Sabbaths cannot be counted in the day after the
Sabbath UNLESS day after = the hereafter of the Sabbath. Since the
immediate context requires "hereafter", it follows that this sense
should also have been considered in vs. 16.
27. John 20:1
28. Luke 23:54 to 24:1 Technical Pages
This slide shows that Luke 23:54-24:1 is speaking of
two Sabbaths in Passion week. A textual problem in 23:54 is corrected
(the word "dawn" does not go with the beginning of the Sabbath)
following the reading of Codex Bezae (a very ancient Greek MSS and the
basis of the Western Text) and several Latin MSS. A mistranslated
sentence structure problem is corrrected with 23:56b-24:1. The
mistranslation of "Sabbaths" (plural) as "week" (singular) in 24:1 is
corrected. When all these structural problems are corrected, then the
interpretation of the text can be corrected. The text is speaking about
the Passover Shabbat from Lev. 23:11, 15a, and then the weekly Shabbat
from Lev. 23:15b, which is the first of seven Sabbaths Israel was
supposed to count after Passover.
29. Time Table of Nisan 14 Third_hour_vs._sixth_hour Peter's Denials When is Cockcrowing?
This chart shows the timetable from the time that
Peter and John went to prepare for Passover till sunset opening the
Annual Sabbath and the first day of unleavened bread. There are several
things to note here. 1. the times 3rd hour, 6th hour, and 9th hour are
"Quarter times", which is to say the way people divided up the day into
approximate quarters when they could not note the 12 hour time from an
official sundial. This explains the 3rd hour 6th hour discrepancy
between Mark and John, i.e. we must not impose modern reckoning. See
attached article. A second article explains the cockcrowings.
30. The Aramaic Deception and Matthew 28:1 Article
This chart shows that the Aramaic Peshitta was translated from Greek,
why we cannot trust the Peshitta's translation of Matthew 28:1, and
finally how Matthew 28:1 should really be rendered in Hebrew. The
acompanying article takes Aramaic Primacy Advocates to task for
claiming that their Aramaic versions are the Original Hebrew, when in
fact the Greek texts are the Orginal Hebrew in so far as only by
translating them into accurate Hebrew will we have an original Hebrew.
31. The Resurrection on the Sabbath Simplified
I produced this chart because I have a bad habit of telling people way
more than they need to know to understand the issue. The first quote is
from Young's Literal Translation, wherein "week" is corrected to say
what the original Greek actually says, "Sabbaths." The second
quote is from the King James Version, and explains just what the "first
of the Sabbaths" is, and where it is counted.
32. How to count the third day, Slide #1.
Scripture always counts the third day inclusively
from whatever event it is counting from. This means that the number 1,
or the "first day" is the counting that is applied to the events with
which the counting starts. There is a Hebrew idiom in Scripture that in
Gen. 31:2, 5; Exo. 4:10; 5:7, 8, 14; 21:29, 36; Deut. 4:42; 19:4, 6;
Jos. 3:4; 4:18; 20:5; Ruth 2:11; 1Sam. 4:7; 10:11; 14:21; 19:7; 21:6;
2Sam. 3:17; 5:2; 2Kings 13:5; 1Chron. 11:2. This idiom always
counts from today: "tomorrow", "the third day" or backwards from
today: "yesterday" "the third day." This idiom is plain in the LXX
(Greek version) and Hebrew Text. It is mistranslated or covered
up in every English version that Christians customarily use. Not even
Young's Literal Translation has it right (YLT). This suppressed idiom
is ABSOLUTE PROOF about how the third day is to be counted.
33. Counting the third day, Slide #2.
There are those who think that Scriptural Hebrew
counting of the third day can exclude the event being counted from. It
cannot. Such thinking is not "Hebraic." It is often sold as Hebraic by
those teaching Messiah's resurrection was near sunset on Saturday, and
accused of being "Greek" thinking, but it is Western English thinking.
Most of the Hebraic roots people are guilty of ignoring the Scriptural
teaching of the "third day." The reason they have done this is that
they do not really know Hebrew. The reason they are deceived by this is
because all English translations that they depend on suppress the third
day idiom. This idiom is essential to understanding the Messianic type
and prophecy pattern of the "third day"! It's removal from English
versions should make you angry and cry at the same time.
34. Lesson in Hypocrisy (no click here unless you are a really sharp cookie).
This chart is an illustration of what happens when
the enemy invents new meanings for biblical words so that he can change
what God said. If one invents too many meanings, then eventually you
can use the corrupt meanings to prove anything including the original
truth that the the deceivers were trying to remove. So start out by
accepting the mistranslation that "sabbaths" = "week". Then if this is
so, because the Greek is plural, it may mean "weeks" as many wrong
translations of Lev. 23:15 have it. Then we say that the Sabbath in
Lev. 23:15 from which the counting begins is the Annual Sabbath (based
on John 19:31 or Lev. 23:32 --take your pick). Matthew 12:40 then
dictates that this Annual Sabbath will be on a weekday. From this
I conclude that the counting started on the day after the Annual
Sabbath, which was on a weekday, just as the Rabbis interpret Lev.
23:11-16. In this case the "first day of the weeks" will be Nisan
16, which would be the Friday of Passion week, and since the wave
offering lasts all night, it laps the first part of the weekly Sabbath,
where we put the resurrection at the end of the 3rd night, on the third
calendar day--according to Temple offerings.
My oppenents claim that "first of the Sabbaths" is not
possible for the resurrection day. They render it "first day of the
week," but then this implies that the word "sabbath" means "week"; when
they get to Lev. 23:15, they promptly condemn the Rabbis for
translating "weeks" and taking the sabbath in Lev. 23:11 and 23:15a to
mean the Annual Sabbath, while they themselves think that in John 19:31
an annual Sabbath is named OR they deny this and retreat to a Friday to
Sunday chronology wherein they contradict Matthew 12:40.
So, I say this. When an error is introduced into
chronology, if it be pursued far enough, then it will expose the
hypocrisy in the thinking of those who hold it.
35. Who Messiah is I
This is rather advanced, but necessary. The Torah's answer about the
divinity and humanity of Messiah Yeshua is Open Theism and Kenosis
(emptying). We can only understand Messiah's deity when we rid
ourselves of Greek Philosophy...Augustinian theology which false
theology essentially prevents Yahweh from becoming man. Their answer is
the hypostatic union (two natures doctrine in one person). The
Kenosis theology correctly addresses this: Yahweh became a man, and as
the man Yeshua retained his identify as Elohim, yet his divine power
and glory were largely left behind to remain with the Father until he
resumed it. The self limitation of the Almighty one was taught from the
beginning:
36. Who Messiah is II For your viewing.
37. Cornelius and four days.