This explains how Yayshua rose
on the third day. In this case, the days are reckoned from sunrise
to sunrise, as they do in Egypt. The children of Israel spent
much time in Egypt, and our Lord himself was there in childhood.
The common day is actually the default reckoning method in the Torah, which
is why scholars sometimes say that it is the older way of computing the
day. It owes its recognition to the fact that our people became familiar
with it in Egypt.
The blue curve shows the
path of the sun and the moon. The yellow (or high point of the curve)
represents daytime, and the black (or low point of the curve) represents
night. A small mennorah represents the death of Messiah, and a tomb
with the stone rolled away represents His resurrection on the Sabbath day.
Remember that the Greek texts read "first of the Sabbaths" (mia
[hmera] twn sabbatwn) for the resurrection day, and that this means
the first sabbath day after Passover. The legal basis for counting
Sabbaths after Passover is in Lev. 23:15-16 --- seven Sabbaths "complete"
there shall be.
