Overwhelming Evidence That Proves The Date Of The Lord's Crucifixion - Daniel Study (30 of 54)

The Jubilee Calendar Part 6 - Daniel Study

With God, timing is everything. Why do you think his seventh day is such a big deal? Its time and timing is everything. The timing of Passover introduces an interesting problem. During the crucifixion week of Jesus there are two Passovers in the same week. The presence of two Passovers during the week of Christ’s death is well known by scholars, but why there was two Passovers has been a mystery for many centuries.

Luke 22 says, now the feast of unleavened bread called the Passover was approaching and the chief priests and teachers of the law were looking for some way to get rid of Jesus, for they were afraid of the People. Jesus sent Peter and John saying, go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover. Now, do you think Jesus is going to eat Passover at the appointed time required by the law? Of course! If he didn't he would be guilty of sin, and his sin would be upon his own head.

Jesus tells them to go into town and find a man with an upper room and make preparations there. And so they depart and find things just as Jesus tells them. Well, when the hour came to eat the Passover meal, which is midnight, Jesus says to the disciples, I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. This is a Passover that's going to occur before Jesus is crucified. In fact, it happens the day before he's arrested. This is Thursday night.

Now remember, Thursday night (dark part) happens before Thursday light (day part) in God's calendar. Jesus and his disciples ate the Passover on the fifteenth day of Nissan according to the law; otherwise if he didn't, Jesus sinned, and we know he didn't sin.

There is no provision for eating Passover on any other day except the fifteenth day of Nissan, unless there is a journey or a death in the family; and then Passover is to be celebrated on the fifteenth day of the second month, not the first. So now we find an interesting dilemma, Jesus and His disciples are eating the Passover on the fifteenth day of Nissan because that's exactly what God's law and God's clock requires.

Now, the nation of Israel did not celebrate Passover until two days later. Jesus ate the Passover with his disciples at the appointed time on Thursday night, Nissan 15; then Jesus spent the whole day Thursday on the Mount of Olives. As Friday night was arriving – Friday night comes before Friday light – he retired to the Garden of Gethsemane where he was arrested, and then on Friday morning taken to the high priest, then pilot, and later crucified around 9am.

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