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Ref: Another Time Of Shedding Tears For Easter Celebrants Just Passed!!—A Letter To A Reader In Ghana (Part 1 Of 2)

Feature Article Ref: Another Time Of Shedding Tears For Easter Celebrants Just Passed!!—A Letter To A Reader In Ghana Part 1 Of 2
MAY 29, 2015 LISTEN

Dear Reader: Thank you for the lovely correspondences via e-mail which you have been engaging me in after reading my article of the above title that was published through this very medium. You display such an admirable, untiring resolve in your search for Truth while taking me on regarding some things I said in my article! Your display of energy to get hold of Truth is simply amazing.

By the stance you have taken concerning the date on which Yahushua was sacrificed, I feel in my spirit that you may not be the only person with the same view. And so, I hope that by addressing your concerns as I have done in this open letter, not only you, but also all my readers may be blessed.

In this letter, I will attempt to deal particularly with your question about the actual date on which Yahushua was sacrificed, vis a vis your reference to Shemot (Exodus) 12:6; Whether Yahushua was sacrificed on Nisan 13, as I said in my article under reference or if he was killed on Nisan 14, as you strongly believe it must have been.

Dear Reader, I hope, in my article under reference, that you do not read me as saying the feast of Pesach is on Nisan 13! Everyone of Yisroel, for all the many centuries unto the coming of Yahushua, celebrated this feast on Nisan 14. Otherwise, one would be in violation of the Torah!

Yahushua himself celebrated every Pesach on Nisan 14 up until the year of his death when he himself became the Pesach lamb of Yahuwah Elohiym, and so, obviously, could not be physically present to participate in the Pesach feast that year! He died before Pesach, though he died for Pesach!

This was because no Pesach lamb remains alive in the evening that commences Nisan 14 and so Yahushua, as the choice Pesach lamb of Yahuwah Elohiym, was not alive on Nisan 14 in the year of his sacrificial death; he was already dead by the time this date was born!

Obviously, only the cadaver of the Pesach lamb remains visible and available at the start of, and for, the feast of Pesach, but not the live Pesach lamb itself; and this was also the case with Yahushua in the year of his sacrificial death!!

So then, what I stated in my article was that Yahushua was hanged on Nisan 13 as the Pesach lamb, at a point in time in this day when Yisroel was still preparing for their scheduled Pesach feast of Nisan 14. I also emphatically said that Nisan 13, in every year, is the preparation day to the feast of Pesach.

This preparation involves everything that must be done to enable the Pesach feast commence at the strike of the clock at the sunset which begins Nisan 14; and this preparation also includes the killing and flaying of the Pesach lamb, though not at just any hour but at an evening hour set and appointed by Yahuwah Elohiym!

As things played out according to the will of Yahuwah, the lifeless body of Yahushua was laid in a tomb at the evening hour that commenced Nisan 14, signaling the take-off of the Pesach feast of Nisan 14 in the like manner that the cadaver of every Pesach lamb, for more than one and a half millennia before the advent of Yahushua, found its way behind locked doors in the home of every Pesach celebrant at, and for, the start of Pesach. Note that no Pesach starts without the cadaver of the killed lamb being in the home of its celebrants.

If Pesach is on Nisan 14, and it is celebrated from “even to even” of this day, then, I am hearing it for my first time from one of the many e-mails you sent to me that Pesach or “The Passover is eaten in the night of the 14th which is the beginning of day 15th with unleavened bread!!!” and thereby supposing Pesach to be on Nisan 15!!

What a confused statement!! Obviously, somebody is very confused about Pesach by this statement and is also trying to confuse others by spreading this confusion since Nisan 15, like every day, starts in the evening and never at night!

From Bamidbar (Numbers) 9:2-5, it is very clear that under the supervision of Moshe, the first celebration of Pesach during the wilderness journey was on Nisan 14, from the evening and, possibly, run throughout an entire night, unto the following daylight hours and finally coming to an end at the next evening sunset.

It must be clear to us that any night found in between one evening and another evening does not introduce a new day, but is within the one same day in which it appears, that is, if we will take Yahuwah Elohiym at His Word that each day spans from one evening to another evening.

The Fourth Beast in Dani-El (Daniel): 7:25 would want us to depart from this norm and Wisdom of Yahuwah Elohiym and to think in the manner of the confused statement referred to in the quote above, but we must be wise in this!

Now, let us go for the irrefutable evidence that Yahushua, the ultimate Pesach lamb, was killed on Nisan 13, just as I stated in my article. To get this evidence, we would have to answer some questions, all of which relate to the last day itinerary of Yahushua on earth.

Firstly, what date in the month of Nisan did Yahushua eat his “Last Supper” with his talmidim? Is it correct to think that since this meal was a supper, then this day of the “Last Supper” had just started in the evening not too long before this supper?

If yes, then, on just what date was this “Last Supper” eaten? Can we even suppose that this “Last Supper” was the Pesach or Passover meal??? Of course, not! The question is: Was the Pesach meal that was meant to be eaten at the same hour by all in Yisroel to come later on after the “Last Supper”? My answer is: Yes!

You see, it was after this supper that Yahushua got arrested in the night of this same day of the supper in his prayer groove, put on trial in the daylight hours of this same “Last Supper” day, and finally taken to Gulgotha where he was hanged in the afternoon of this same day. What was the date in which all these events happened? Was it Nisan 13 or 14?

Note that Yahushua was hanged by being suspended on a pole by his wrists that were crossed over his head and left dangling to bleed slowly to an asphyxiated death, in sharp contrast to the normal way of slitting the throats of Pesach lambs which always ensured their fast and speedy death.

Yahushua was left hanging in this state from the afternoon of this day of the “Last Supper” as this day wore on toward the coming evening when the ordinary Pesach lambs, ordinary because they were always the normal one-year-old lambs or goats chosen by heads of homes or Zekenim of families in Yisroel would be killed.

So then, the day on which Yahushua was hanged could not have been Nisan 14, as you feel so strongly convinced about. There are many other reasons also confirming this and I state some of them here. You see, the leaders of Yisroel were resolved in killing Yahushua before they celebrated the feast of Pesach in the year Yahushua was killed. So then, Yahushua was not killed on Nisan 14, Pesach day, but before Nisan 14 ever began.

Also, just before Yahushua was hanged to his death, the leaders of Yisroel sought to have Pilate release from prison one Bar-Abba, a murderer, as his Pesach gift to Yisroel that year! These leaders and their children cried out to Pilate to have Yahushua quickly killed while Bar-Abba is released to them to kick-start a joyous celebration of the longest holyday period in Yisroel—the continuous eight-day long feast of Pesach and Khag HaMatzot (Feast of Unleavened Bread).

Note also that the feast of Pesach is in commemoration of the liberation of Yisroel from their bondage to Mitzrayim by Yahuwah Elohiym, and so nobody in Yisroel would have wanted to kill a fellow member of the house of Yisroel, their most hated Yahushua inclusive, on Nisan 14, a holy day which is fixed for the celebration of their own ancestors’ liberation and freedom from bondage to Mitzrayim.

Don’t also forget that during the trial of Yahushua, the elders of Yisroel would not even enter Pilate’s residence, so as not to pollute and thus render themselves unclean before the coming feast of Pesach, eternally scheduled to always begin at the start of Nisan 14, which was to be the coming sunset just after the evening of the day Yahushua was given a phony trial and sentenced to death!

Everything the leaders of Yisroel did to Yahushua was before the feast of Pesach and so he could not have been killed on Nisan 14. They were rushing to get rid of him before the Nisan 14 day of the feast of Pesach ever even began, so they could thoroughly enjoy themselves at this feast with Yahushua out of their way!! All these facts go to confirm that Yahushua was sacrificed on Nisan 13, and deemed the Pesach lamb of Yahuwah Elohiym according to the wisdom of Yahuwah Elohiym. (—concluding part to this letter is in Part 2 of 2: soon to be published).

NngmingBongle Bapuohyele is an author. Website: http://sbprabooks.com/BongleBapuohyele

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