WHEN WAS YAHSHUA CRUCIFIED?

To be able to understand the timeline of Yahweh we also need to look at the Biblical evidence and Scripture clues that He gave us to follow HIS correct calendar and timeline and not those of Judaism or any other Gregorian or Roman’s Calendar. A true covenant watchman must be awake and aware of the true timeline of Yahweh to be navigated in the correct direction so that we can be alert and informed about the correct seasons and discernment about Biblical Prophecies.

THE THIRD DAY

In the New Testament, Yahshua clearly gave us the only sign that we would know that He was the Messiah. “But answering, He said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the SIGN OF JONAH the prophet. And even as “Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish THREE days and THREE nights,” so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth THREE days and three nights.” (Matt 12:39-40)

That sign is the resurrection; that He would die, but that Yahweh would raise Him up according to Scripture. “So my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; my flesh shall also rest in hope. For You will not leave My soul in Sheol; You will not give Your Holy One to see corruption. You will make Me know the way of life. In Your presence is fullness of joys; at Your right hand are pleasures forever.” Psalm 16:9-11)

99% of professing Christianity celebrates the death and resurrection of Yahshua each year from Good Friday (day 6) to “Easter” Sunday (first day of the week). And yet a child can see that you cannot get 3 days and 3 nights from late afternoon Friday to early Sunday morning, clearly showing that the Good Friday crucifixion and Easter Sunday morning resurrection cannot be supported by Scripture and is merely a tradition of the Catholic Church.

From the scriptures that I will provide it seems to indicate most dogmatically that a Thursday crucifixion is the only day that fits the Scriptural mandate. Scripture states that “on the third day” He (Yahshua) will rise instead of after it.

Mark 9:31 “For He taught His disciples, and said to them,
The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of men, and
they will kill Him. And being killed, He will rise up on the
THIRD day.“

Mat 16:21 “From that time, Yahshua began to show to His disciples that it was necessary for Him to go away to Jerusalem, and to suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and to be killed, and to be raised on the THIRD day.“

Mat 17:23 “And they will kill Him, and on the THIRD day He will be raised. And they grieved exceedingly.”

Mat 20:19 “And they will deliver Him up to the nations to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify. And on the THIRD day He will rise again.“

Luk 18:33 “And flogging Him, they will kill Him. And on the THIRD day He will rise again.”

Luk 9:22 “saying, The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised on the THIRD day.“

So it appears pretty clear from Scripture that Yahshua would be raised ON the THIRD day and NOT after the third day on the fourth day. This is because the body would rot by the fourth day and would be corroded. That is why Psalm 16:10 states “you have not left my soul in Sheol, you have not let your Holy one see corruption.” The indication is that the Messiah would not be left in the grave until the 4th day when the body would have started to corrode. Look at the following scripture to also confirm this from the death of Lazarus or Eliazar in the Hebrew.

In Joh 11:17 we read: “Then coming, Yahshua found him already being
held in the tomb four days.” and in Joh 11:38 – 39 also: “Then groaning again within Himself, Yahshua came to the tomb. And it was a cave, and a stone was placed upon its entrance. And Yahshua said, Take this stone away! Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, My Master, it is the fourth day. He stinks already!” So there is no doubt in Scripture that Yahshua plainly prophesied that He would be resurrected out of the tomb on the third day and NOT after it.

Now the next question is the third day from when?

I believe Luke 24 gives us our answer. Yahshua met 2 disciples, one whose name was Cleopas and they did not recognize him, and He asked why they were so sad. They continued to explain to him about the things that have happened to Yahshua and they tell him plainly; Luk 24:21b “But then with all these things, this third day comes today since these things happened.” We know this encounter happened on a Sunday, the first day of the week!

Cleopas told Yahshua exactly what it was the third day from Luke 24:19-20: “And He said to them, What things? And they said to Him, The things concerning Yahshua the Nazarene, who was a man, a prophet mighty in deed and word before Elohim and all the people; and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to the judgment of death, and crucified Him.”

So right out of Scripture we see that it was the crucifixion that was 3 days back from that Sunday afternoon, when Yahshua met these two disciples. You can still count 3 days and 3 nights from Thursday afternoon to early Sunday morning, while still dark, when the resurrection would have happened. As a matter of fact every historical record does show that Yahshua was resurrected after sunset Saturday evening right before dawn on the first day of the week and not before.

This was what the Quartodeciman controversy in the early second century was all about, whether to keep Passover on the 14th of Aviv, according to Scripture, or according to the Catholic Easter on the first day of the week, due to the resurrection being Saturday evening on the Day of First Fruits, on the beginning of the first of the week.

Yahshua was the Wave Sheaf and would have had to be resurrected on the Day of First Fruits, which was the first day of the week during Passover week. Yahshua was the Passover lamb (1Cor 5:7) and the Holy Days are only there as markers and shadows of His great redemptive work that He is doing with mankind. We celebrate these days each year as a memorial to Him and in commemoration of the redemptive work that He has accomplished, and will continue to accomplish, in His disciples until He returns.

So since these days are benchmarks to that redemptive work, it only stands to reason that He would have, and will, literally, fulfill the exact meaning of each Holy Day. As the true Passover lamb of Yahweh, it is inconceivable that He could die on any other day than the actual Passover (Aviv14).

FIRST FRUITS

The Feast of First Fruits, which is also called the Feast of the Resurrection, fully pictures Yahshua as the true Wave-Sheaf of Yahweh, and the first of the first fruits could be the only day He would be resurrected, as that was the purpose of the day itself. “But now Messiah has been raised from the dead; He became the first-fruit of those having fallen asleep. For since death is through man, also through a Man is a resurrection of the dead; for as in Adam all die, so also in Messiah all will be made alive. But each in his own order: Messiah, the first fruit; afterward those of Messiah at His coming.” (1 Corinthians 15:20-23)

So, if He was the Living Wave-Sheaf and the actual First Fruit of the resurrection, then it only stands to reason He would be resurrected on the day that represents that.

THE OMER AND THE WAVE-SHEAVE

The way that was used to get the firstfruit omer ready was to beat the sheaf. Each person had to cut his own sheaf, as each one of us needs to have the wave sheaf (a type of Messiah’s sacrifice for our sins) accepted by Yahweh, and the people could not bring the offering themselves, only the priest (type of Yahshua) could bring the sacrifice on behalf of the people and then, wave the sheaf up to heaven.

Also, the beating of the sheaf by each person represents the beating that Yahshua had to take, for each one of our sins to be forgiven. Then on Shavuot the wave-sheave was ground into flour and made into two leavened loaves, one for the house of Ephraim, and one for the House of Judah.

Since the loaves represented people, they were leavened, as only Yahshua, the true wave-sheaf was without sin. You will notice that the “wave-sheaf” was to be lifted up and waved toward heaven, as a symbol of something actually being transferred (ascend) to heaven, to be presented and accepted by the One who sits on the throne of the universe.

When you understand the true meaning behind the barley and wave-sheaf ceremony, it is crystal clear that the wave sheaf could not be issued on behalf of one or two fields, or even one area, of only one tribe, because He is the wavesheaf of “all 12 tribes of Israel”.

“Yahshua said to her, Mariam! Turning around, she said to Him, Rabboni! (that is to say, My Great One). Yahshua said to her, Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father. But go to My brothers and say to them, I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and My Elohim, and your Elohim.” (Joh 20:16-17)

These scriptures clearly show that the whole wave-sheaf ceremony was only instituted as a fore-shadow of the perfect one to come, as the perfect offering to Yahweh, as the forgiveness of our sins, and by His sacrifice being perfect and accepted, then at the resurrection, so will we be accepted into the family of Yahweh and accepted as His brethren.

“For both the One sanctifying and the ones being sanctified are all of one nature; for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren.” (Heb 2:11)

Also, if Yahshua was crucified on the 14th day of Aviv on Thursday, then that would mean that the day traditionally called Palm Sunday where Yahshua triumphantly entered Jerusalem would also have been the 10th day of Aviv, the very day that the Passover lamb was set apart and chosen to be the Passover sacrifice (Ex 12:3-6). This was also the fulfillment of the prophecy in Zechariah 9:9 – “Rejoice greatly, Daughters of Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble, and riding ON A DONKEY, on a cult, the foal of a donkey.”

It is most striking that as He entered Jerusalem the people shouted in Matthew 21:9 – “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He coming in the name of Yahweh. Hosanna in the Highest”. The word ‘hosanna’ is in command form and literally means SAVE NOW! As the lamb was being set apart for the Passover ceremony, the true lamb of YHWH was being selected for the true Passover and sacrifice of Himself for the penalty of the sins of His people.

Then just a few chapters forward, Yahshua Himself said in Matthew 23:29 “For I say to you, In no way will you see Me from now on, unless you say, “BLESSED IS HE WOH COMES IN THE NAME OF YAHWEH!”

Wow, this is so profound for me that these two verses connect with the 5995 Israel Ascend commission! The Israelites welcomed Yahshua on a donkey while entering in Jerusalem in Matthew 21 and just after that He said in Matthew 23 that we will not see Him again unless we repeat those words: “Blessed is He who comes in the Name of Yahweh!” The same people that waved the palms and ushering in the King of kings in Matthew 21 was the same people that wanted Yahshua dead in Matthew 27, so they must be the people that repeat those words again to usher in the King of kings in the end time before He will appear on the clouds!

THE CRUCIFIXION

THE CROSS BEAM

First of all, I want to start with the false image of the cross. Yahshua did not die on a cross, He did not pull a cross to a hill like so many translations wants us to believe and Simon did not carry His cross for Him. I want to highlight the fact that HE DID DIE FOR US, that will never change, but He did not die on a cross like the Roman Catholics made us believe. Does it matter if He died on a cross of or not? Yes it does! Because there is a difference between the truth and lies and I want to walk in Spirit and in truth! Let’s see what Yahweh reveals through the Hebraic Root Study Bible.

“And going out, they found a man, a Cyrenean, named Simon. They compelled this one, that he carry His CROSS BEAM.” (Matt 27:32 & Mark 15:21 & Luke 23:26 – HRB)

“And also those who were passing by were blaspheming against Him and nodding their heads and saying, “He will tear down the temple and build it in three days. Indeed! Save Yourself from the TORTURE STAKE.” (Mark 15:29-30 HRB)

“For it they so these things in a live green tree, what may take place in the dry?” (Luke 23:31 HRB)

“The Elohim of our fathers raised up Yahshua, whom you seized, hanging Him on a tree.” (Acts 5:30 HRB) This verse typifies the Garden of Eden with the tree of life compared to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Yahshua was crucified on a living tree, not on a dead piece of wood. The wood He carried to the crucifixion was the cross beam in which the sentence of the criminal was written and hung above him.

Crucifixions on crosses were done in Rome, but Jerusalem had no hard wood forests for such death sentences as Josephus tells us at times there were up to 500 Jews a day being crucified during that time. The crucifixions took place on trees an actually several trees were found in Israel that were used for ancient crucifixions as that time period. So, all they needed was the cross beam with their sentence reason written on it that would be nailed above their heads.

“And Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the cross beam. And having been written was: Yahshua H‘nazerene Wmelek (and King of) Hyehudeim (the Jews).” (John 19:19)

Do you see what they spelled on His cross beam? YHWH – The first letters of each line spell the tetragrammaton or name of YHWH.

Here I’m standing in the Garden of Gethsemane with the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem in the background. Look at the size of this olive tree. In the time of Yahshua big old trees like these were everywhere and they were used to hang people on them. That is why we can understand why Yahshua was crucified on a tree and not on a cross. Here is another Scripture to prove it.

“Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the FIRST, and of the OTHER crucified with Him. But on coming to Yahshua, when they saw He was dead already, they did not break His legs.” (John 19:32-33 HRB)

If you read the verses in John 19 about the soldiers who came to break their legs, you will find that they went to the first one and then to the next one hanging with Yahshua on the same tree. Because if they would have hanged on crosses the soldiers needed to pass Yahshua to break the legs of the other two and then come back to see He is dead. No, they hanged on a tree and the soldiers came to the first and then to the next man around the tree and then thirdly to Yahshua and saw He was already dead on the other side of the tree. They walked around the tree, not from cross to cross, because that would not make sense why they will pass Yahshua and come back later to see He is already died.

What I also sensed during this revelation is that Yahshua is the Lining Water and the Living Bread and He is called the Tree of Live or the Olive Tree (Rom 11:17), so why would He hang on a dead piece of wood? It makes more sense that because He is known as the Living Messiah, Living Water, Living Bread, that He would die for our sins on a LIVING TREE and not on a cross made of dead wood.

Another thing Yahweh showed me was that sin started with the Living Tree of Good and Evil and sin also had to be dismantled on a living tree through the crucifixion of Yahshua.

CRUCIFIXION TIMELINE

The crucifixion took place on Thursday afternoon (day 5) and starting at sunset Thursday (beginning of day 6) was the first Holy Day of unleavened bread and then, the weekly Sabbath would have followed the next day. Look at the following scripture in John 19:31 compared to Mathew 28:1 to prove that there was two Sabbath Days between the crucifixion and the resurrection; one being a Holy Day Sabbath and one the weekly Sabbath.

Joh 19:31a “The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the stake upon the Sabbath (for the day of that Sabbath was a Holy Day).”
Mat 28:1 “Now after the Sabbaths (plural), at the dawning into the first of the Sabbaths Mariam of Magdalene and the other Mariam came to look upon the grave.”

The first Sabbath mentioned in John 19:31 was the High day or Holy day of Unleavened Bread, and then in Mathew 28 in the original manuscripts it says clearly that there was a second Sabbath, which would have been the weekly Sabbath. Unmistakably, there were 2 Sabbaths, which totally rejects the Friday crucifixion and Sunday resurrection, but also nowhere does it state that there is a mysterious day in between these two Sabbaths.

FIRST FRUITS

The crucifixion clearly fell on Thursday, the Holy day of unleavened bread on Friday and the weekly Sabbath on Saturday, and as it was dawning into what Scripture calls the first of the Sabbaths, this is clearly the “Feast of First Fruits” which started the 7 Sabbath count to Shavuot, which is why it is referred to as the first of the Sabbaths or better yet the first of the Sabbath count to Shavuot.

The fact that it is clearly shown about the importance of Yahshua being resurrected on this Feast of First Fruits is because He is the first of the first fruits, and the fulfillment of the wave sheaf ceremony, which would tell us that whenever He was resurrected, it would have to be after sunset Saturday on the day of first fruits, which His resurrection represents.

Now look at the next verse at what happened exactly at this time that Mariam Magdalene was coming to the tomb while it was still dark just before sunrise on the first day of the week.

Mat 28:2 “And, behold! A great earthquake occurred! For descending from Heaven and coming near, a cherub of YAHWEH rolled away the stone from the door and was sitting on it.” Compare this scripture to what happened right before Yahshua died. Mat 27:50-51 “And crying again with a loud voice, Yahshua released His spirit. And, behold! The veil of the sanctuary was torn into two from above as far as below. And the earth quaked, and the rocks were sheared!“

So we see a great earthquake occurring right after His death and also right after His resurrection. This clearly puts the resurrection early morning on Yom Rishon (the first day of the week) during the latter part of the night, while it was still dark before sunrise that morning. With this fact in mind, let’s look at another scripture that will prove that this can only put the crucifixion on a Thursday or day five of the 7-day weekly cycle. Remember after Yahshua died the Pharisees asked Pilate for a guard at the tomb because they knew Yahshua had prophesied that He would rise up on the third day. Let’s look at what
happened then.

Mat 27:64-66 “Therefore, command that the grave be secured until the third day, that His disciples may not come by night and steal Him away, and may say to the people, He is raised from the dead. And the last deception will be worse than the first. And Pilate said to them, You have the guards. Go and take precautions as you know. And they departed and took precautions by the grave and set a seal upon that stone together with the guards.”

So it was commanded that a guard would be placed at the tomb of Yahshua UNTIL the third day from His crucifixion according to Scripture. And was the guard still present when the great earthquake happened right after His resurrection?

Mat 28:11-15 And they, having gone, behold, some of the guard coming into the city reported to the chief priests all things that occurred. And being assembled with the elders, and taking counsel, they gave enough silver to the soldiers, saying, Say that his disciples came and stole Him by night, while we slept. And if this is heard by the governor, we will persuade him and he will not make trouble for you. And taking the silver, they did as they were instructed. And this report was spread by the Jews until today.“

Most undoubtedly, the guards were there when the great earthquake happened right after Yahshua’s resurrection, so it stands to reason since they were only stationed UNTIL the third day that Yahshua had to rise within three days of early morning while it was still dark on the first day of the week, which can only put the crucifixion on Thursday afternoon, or day 5 of the weekly cycle.

In looking at the above biblical timeframe let us not forget the scripture in Luke 24:21 where the two disciples meet Yahshua in the afternoon of the first day of the week just hours after His resurrection and clearly tell Him that day is “the third day since the crucifixion”. Luk 24:21b “But then with all these things, this third day comes today since these things happened.” So again most dogmatically from Scripture we can see counting back three days from Sunday afternoon (the first day of the week) can only bring you to a Thursday (day 5) crucifixion.

However, if He was placed in the tomb before sunset as Scripture states (Luk 23:51-55) and then, He was resurrected Saturday evening but before Sunday morning, as Scripture states “when Mary came to the tomb while it was still dark”, and if He died on a Wednesday as some falsely believe, then He actually would have been in the tomb a fourth day, as from Wednesday afternoon before sunset to Saturday night or early Sunday morning would have been into the fourth day, which would not fit Scripture as we have seen that it clearly stated He would rise ‘ON’ the third day Not after it, as Ps 16:10-11 has shown; He had to be resurrected before the 4th day for His physical body not to be corrupted.

That is the reason that some churches have tried to say that Yahshua was resurrected late Sabbath afternoon, to fit the three days’ timeframe, however, it just does not fit Scripture, as that would not have Yahshua being resurrected on the Feast of Firstfruits, as Scripture plainly shows, He was the wave sheaf; and again starting from Sunday afternoon (the first day of the week) when Yahshua met the two disciples on the road to Emmaus and counting back three days, no matter how you count it will not bring you to Wednesday afternoon. Counting back one day from Sunday, will bring you to Saturday, counting back two days from Sunday will bring you to Friday and counting back three days from Sunday will bring you to Thursday.

In addition, if He died on a Wednesday and was resurrected Saturday evening, then that would have Him being resurrected on the 4th day not on the third day as Scripture states. As we have seen from Scripture there was a great earthquake directly after His death on Thursday afternoon, and another great earthquake directly after His resurrection early morning while still dark the first day of the week.

Let me also say that I fully believe that Yahshua fulfilled His promise to be 3 days and 3 nights in the tomb (Mat12:38-40), but let me also say that in the Hebrew language NO WHERE does it state that time frame has to be exactly 72 hours. It is not being honest with the Scriptures to say that Jonah, according to Scripture, was exactly 72 hours in the fish’s belly.

If you look up the word “day” in Hebrew which is “Yom” it can refer to the whole 24 hour period from one sunset to another, it can refer to just the daylight portion of a day, which will vary according to the time of year, it can refer to a portion of a day and it could also refer to an extended time period such as “the Day of Yahweh”. This is not subjective but simply the biblical meaning of the word “Yom”. It is similar in English, as if you stated that Mattaniah was in Miami for a day, no one would take it to mean that I stayed in Miami exactly 24 hours. Look at the following scripture to prove this point.

Deu 21:22-23 “And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree; but surely, you shall bury him the same day. For he that is hanged is a reproach to Elohim.”

According to the Torah, a person crucified around 3:00pm must be taken down and buried THE SAME DAY! The day he dies is inclusive in the count of his death. This is exactly what happened to Yahshua. He was hung on a tree from 12:00 noon to between 2:00 and 3:00pm. Yet Deuteronomy clearly states that the day of the person being crucified is inclusive of being day one of the count of his death. People who use a Wednesday crucifixion never take this into account and start their count from sunset Wednesday missing a whole daylight portion according to the reckoning of time in Scripture.

So from the daylight portion of the 5th day of the week, which the Romans named Thursday, to the night portion of the first day of the week, which the Romans called Saturday evening is 3 days and 3 nights. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are 3 days and Thursday night, Friday night, and Saturday night are 3 nights.

I truly hoped that you enjoyed this teaching, because I know I did.

Shabbat Shalom,