Teachinghearts	The First Coming of the Messiah (Messianic Prophecies Summary) "Explore the Word. Change the World"	Statistics: Time: 200 minutes Print: 40 pages

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The Law as Prophecy. While in many cases it appears that the law was a prophecy, it is equally true to also say that while He fulfilled prophecy He obeyed all laws. So to understand prophecy we must have a firm grasp of the law.
Fulfilling the Law and Prophecies. Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (Matthew 5: 17)
Evidence in the Old Testament. Then I said, "Behold I come. In the scroll of the book it is written of Me." (Psalm 40: 7)
... all things written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled. (Luke 24: 44)

Moses and the Prophets Testify about the Messiah. Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures. (Luke 24: 27)
The Scriptures Testify about the Messiah. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me.
For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. (John 5: 39, 46)
The Torah Testifies. Then I said, "Behold I come, in the scroll of the book it is written of Me. I delight to do your will, O my God; Your law is written in my heart". (Psalm 40: 7-8. Hebrews 10: 7)
The Messiah Would Suffer. But the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. (Acts 3: 18)
Laws About Christ. For Christ is the end [goal] of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. (Romans 10: 4)
The Old Testament testifies about the Messiah. We will show how Christ fulfilled all laws about making sinners righteous and how all laws pointed to Him as the way to righteousness. He did not abolish laws, but in Him is the purpose for which the laws were written. Consider the evidence of Exodus 22:24 - 23:19. It appears to be laws that were broken at the crucifixion, but the fact that elevates it to a prophecy is that it is part of the Torah readings scheduled for Passover. It is as if God was warning the people for 1600 years about specific laws that they would break at Passover.
We arranged this evidence mostly by the prophets, not the events.

Summary of the Messianic Prophecies
Old Testament		Prophecy	New Testament Fulfillment	Topic
	Lineage and Seed
	Isaiah 9:6-7	Born as a human male	Luke 2: 7. Historical fact	Miracle Seed is of Supernatural Origin
	Genesis 3:15	Born of a woman's seed	Matthew 1:20, Luke 1:35; 2: 4-11, Galatians 4:4
	Jeremiah 31: 22
	Isaiah 7:14	Born of a virgin (young maiden)	Matthew 1:18, 23; Luke 1: 35
	Jews believe a miracle or mystery is associated with His seed which is from another place
	Isaiah 9: 6-7; 8: 10	A seed from God. He is divine	John 10: 30-31
	Proverbs 30: 4	The Son of God	Matthew 3: 17; 27:43
	Isaiah 7:14	Named Immanuel "God with us"	Matthew 1:23
	Genesis 17:19, 12:3,7; 22:18; 26:4	Seed of Abraham	Acts 3:25,26; Galatians 3:16	Abraham's Seed
	Genesis 21:12	Seed of Isaac	Romans 9: 7, Hebrews 11:18, Galatians 3:16
	Genesis 26: 2-5; 17:19
	Numbers 24:17	Seed of Jacob	Matthew 1:2, Luke 3:34
	Genesis 49:10	From the Tribe of Judah	Matthew 1: 1-17 (Joseph); Luke 3:23,33 (Mary)
	Isaiah 11:1-5,10	Branch from the house of Jesse	Matthew 1:5-6; Romans 15:12
	Isaiah 16:5; 9:6-7	From the house of David	Matthew 1:1-2, 6, 16; 2:2-6; 22:44,45; Luke 1:32; 3: 23-31; John 7: 42; Revelation 22:16	King David's Seed
	David's Seed. Psalm 89:35-37; 132:11; 138:1-6; 110:1; 2 Samuel 7:12,16; 1 Chronicles 17:11, 12; Jeremiah 23:5-6; 33:14-15; Ezekiel 17:22-24; 34:23-24
	1 Chronicles 3: 24; Zechariah 4:7	Descendant of Zerubbabel	Luke 3:23-27
	Haggai 2: 23
	Birth, Life and Territory
	Micah 5:2	Born in Bethlehem	Matthew 2:1-6; Luke 2:1-20; 1:33	Israel
	Isaiah 11:1	From Nazareth (Netzer - Branch)	Matthew 2:22-23; 4:13-16
	Isaiah 9:1-2	Comes from Capernaum (region of Zebulun and Naphtali)	Matthew 4:15-16
	Genesis 49:13	Fishermen from Galilee	Mark 1: 16-20
	Amos 9: 11-12; Ezekiel 36: 5; Psalm 137: 7; Jeremiah 49: 17-18; Isaiah 63: 1-6	House of Herod (Edomites) has taken over and rules the fallen house of David	Matthew 2. House of Herod (Edomites) ruled Israel when Christ was crucified	Edom
	Hosea 11:1; Numbers 24:8	Come out of Egypt	Matthew 2:14-15	Egypt
	Daniel 11: 22	Ruling Power - the fourth kingdom	Rome was ruling. Luke 3: 1-2	Rome
	Numbers 24: 17 and an oral tradition	The star out of Jacob and king of Israel	Matthew 2: 2 They called Shimon Bar Kochba, a failed Messiah, "Son of the star"
	God, King, High Priest, Servant and Sacrifice
	Psalm 45:6; Zechariah 11:10-13; Jeremiah 23:5-6	God	Hebrews 1:8; John 1:36;19:14; Matthew 1:18-23, 11:20, 28:20	God
	Isaiah 40:9; 7:14; 8:8
	Psalm 2:7-9; 89:26-29	Son of God	Matthew 3:17, 11:27; Luke 1:32, 2:23; John 1:14, 3:13; Romans 1:2-4, 10:6-9, Hebrews 1:5; 2 Peter 1:17; 1 Timothy 1:17, 3:16, 6:15
	Psalm 102:25-27; 110:1; 2 Samuel 7:14
	Isaiah 33:22	He is lawgiver, judge, king, savior
	Exodus 13: 2	Firstborn son belongs to God
	1 Chronicles 17: 11-13	Son of God is King forever
	Zechariah 13:7 12:10	God and Man	John 14:9; John 10:30	God-Man
	Psalm 102:16; Isaiah 9:6	Son of Man	Luke 21:24; Revelation 12:5-10	Son of Man
	1 Samuel 2:10; Psalm 2:6, 89:27; Zechariah 9:9; Jeremiah 30:9	King Who is higher than earthly kings	Matthew 2:2; 28:18; Luke 1:32,33; John 12:15; Hebrews 7:2; Matthew 21:7	King and Ruler
	Genesis 14:18,Isaiah 62:11
	Psalm 22:27	Governor of the nations	Colossians 1:16
	Ezekiel 37: 19	Combined scepters of Judah and Joseph	Scepter departs from Judah
	Ezekiel 21: 25-27	Monarchy lost until the Messiah	No kings since Jehoiakim (597 BC)
	Zechariah 6:12-13	Priest and King	Hebrews 8:1; 9 :11-15	King and High Priest
	Zechariah 2:10-13	The Lord on the throne of Zion	Revelation 5:13,6:9, 21:24
	Genesis 14: 18	A King like Melchizedek	Hebrews 7: 2
	Genesis 14: 18	High Priest like Melchizedek	Hebrews 6: 20
	Psalm 110:4	High Priest like Melchizedek	Hebrews 6:20	High Priest
	Isaiah 53:11-12, 59:15-16	Intercessor	Romans 5:8-9; Luke 23:34; Matthew 10:32
	Zechariah 3: 1-4	The High Priest Joshua (Yeshua)	Matthew 1: 21; Luke 1: 31
	Exodus 33	God moves His camp far away and Moses goes there	Hebrews 9:11-15. High priest goes to heaven to minister before God	High Priest in Heaven
	Numbers 4:9	Priests carry burden	Jesus carries the cross	Burden Bearer
	Numbers 4:26	Priests carry cords, veil	Jesus was tied. Veil was His body
	Numbers 4:23,30,35,47	Priests must be 30 years old	Luke 3: 23	Age of Priest
	Isaiah 53:4-6, 11-12	Bears Sin	1 Peter 2:24; Luke 23:33; Hebrews 9:28; 1 John 4:10; Galatians 1:4	Sin Bearer
	Isaiah 61:1-2, Malachi 3:3; Daniel 9:24	Purges and ends sin	Luke 1:78, John 1:9; 8:31-32; 12:46, 2 Peter 1:19, Galatians 1:3-5, Revelation 2:28; 19:11-16; 22:16
	Isaiah 42:1-4; 52:13;53:11; Micah 5:2; Zechariah 3:8	Servant	Matthew 12:18-21, 17:5, 26:39; Philippians 2:5-8; Acts 1:8-11; Ephesians 1:19-22; Romans 5:18-19; John 15:10, 17:4	Servant
	Isaiah 50:4-5	Obedient servant
	Isaiah 49:1,5	Servant from the womb	Matthew 1:18; Luke 1:31; Philippians 2:7
	Genesis 22:8; Exodus 12:5,13	Lamb without blemish promised	John 1:29; 1 Peter 1:19; Romans 5:8	Sacrifice
	Leviticus 17:11; Isaiah 52:15	Blood makes atonement	Matthew 26;28; Mark 10:45; 1 John 3:14-18; Revelation 1:5
	Isaiah 53:7	A man is a sacrificial lamb	John 1:29
	Isaiah 53:10	A man is a guilt offering for sin	Matthew 20:28
	Numbers 1:50,53	Priests between people and God	Wrath stopped by priest
	Numbers 11: 15	Kill me instead if I have found favor but spare the people
	Numbers 18: 1	Priests bear guilt associated with the sanctuary and priesthood	Priests responsible for tearing down His sanctuary (death)
	Leviticus 6: 28	Earthenware vessel of sin offering broken	Human body shattered
	Torah (Moses) (Sanctuary, Offerings and Feasts and The Patriarchs) and Events in the Exodus (˜1500 BC)
	Deuteronomy 28:31	The ox is slaughtered	Christ is killed	The Ox as The Peace Offering
	Leviticus 26: 13	The ox with a yoke on his shoulder	Christ carries the cross
	Exodus 32: 20	The idol was crushed and eaten	Jesus was crushed and chewed up
	Deuteronomy 28:31	The sheep given to enemies	The Gentiles accept Christ	The Sheep as The Burnt Offering
	Leviticus 23: 4-8	Passover lamb	Christ is the Lamb of God
	Genesis 26: 14	Red ram skin tabernacle cover	Jesus covered in blood
	Leviticus 16; 23: 26-32	The Lord's Goat	Christ is sacrificed for our sins	The Goat as The Sin Offering
	Genesis 25:25-27; 27:11,16	Esau (red, hairy)	Jesus covered in blood and shame
	Genesis 26: 7	Hairy goat skin tabernacle cover	Jesus covered in shame
	Numbers 22: 23-28	Balaam's donkey beaten	Christ bears burden, is beaten	The Donkey Bears Burdens
	Deuteronomy 22:4; Exodus 23:5	Help the donkey that falls	Christ stumbles and falls. Simon of Cyrene helps. Luke 23: 26
	Deuteronomy 22:1; Exodus 23:4	Help the donkey that strays	The angel put him back on the path. Luke 22: 43, 48-50
	Deuteronomy 28:31	The donkey is torn away	Christ killed and taken away
	Exodus 13:12-13	The donkey is redeemed	Simon helps to carry the cross
	Genesis 49:14-15	Issachar, the donkey	Christ bears our burdens as a son
	Numbers 21: 8-9; Genesis 49:16-17; 3:12-13	Lifted up like a serpent, He cures the snake bite from Eden and defeats the dragon	Jesus becomes a curse for us. John 3: 14-15; Galatians 3: 13	Became Sin Like an Evil Snake
	2002 Teachinghearts' understanding of this prophecy is different from the traditional interpretation
	Exodus 29:23	One wafer from the basket	The bread among humans	Bread of Life (Meal Offering)
	Leviticus 6:14-23	Gain offering	The baked unleavened grain
	Leviticus 23:9-12	Sheaf of first fruit	The new grain (resurrection)
	Leviticus 10: 14-15; Numbers 6: 19-20	Breast and thigh offering Lifted up and Waving	John 3: 14-15	Offering Lifted Up (The Cross is Symbolized as early as 2150 BC)
	Genesis 22: 13	Abraham saw Mount Moriah	Mount Moriah is the same place as Golgotha where a badly beaten and bruised Jesus Who was "spotted and striped" was on the cross between two other men until about sunset. People would have to "lift up" or raise their eyes to see Him
	Genesis 18: 1-5	Abraham saw three men
	Genesis 28: 12-13, 19	Jesus is the ladder raised between heaven and earth
	Three Matzah lifted up	The Trinity at the crucifixion
	Genesis 31: 10; 30: 37-39, 41; Psalm 89: 32; Isaiah 53: 5	Jacob saw the spotted and striped rod and male goats
	Exodus 17: 15-16	The Lord is My Banner	Hands lifted up to the throne of God
	Exodus 17: 11-12, 15-16	Hands lifted up like a banner between two men until the enemies (Amalekites) were defeated at sunset	Crucified between two men
	Exodus 17: 11-12		Hands on the cross on the hill of Golgotha until Satan was defeated at sunset
	Psalm 22: 12-13,16, 20-21	Surrounded by dogs, lions, bulls, wild ox	Luke 23: 33-39	The Offering is Beseiged by Wild Animals
	Exodus 22: 31	Thrown to the dogs	Luke 23: 33-39
	Psalm 118: 10-12	Surrounded by bees	Luke 23: 33-39
	Psalm 40: 12; Psalm 118: 10-12	Caught by thorns and scorpions	Matthew 27: 29
	Psalm 35: 16; 37: 12	Surrounded by cannibals	Mark 10: 34
	Genesis 15: 11	Birds of prey came on the carcass	Mark 10: 34; Luke 23: 33-39
	Numbers 2; 1: 53	Surrounded by the twelve tribes	Mark 10: 34
	Justice
	Leviticus 23: 22	The Gentiles take the fallen gleanings	Simon of Cyrene carried the cross. Matthew 27: 32; Mark 15:21; Luke 23:26	Aliens Reaping the Harvest
	Leviticus 23: 22	Gentiles strip the fallen grain	Rome takes the clothes
	Leviticus 23: 22	Gentiles reap the four corners	Rome nailed his hands and feet
	Deuteronomy 21: 23	Die on a tree, cursed	Acts 2: 23; 5: 30; Galatians 3: 10-13	The Legal Disposition of the Offering
	Leviticus 4: 3, 11-12	Killed on wood	John 19: 17
	Leviticus 4: 7	Bleed on the ground while praying	Luke 22: 44
	Leviticus 6: 11	Change His clothing before taking ashes out	Matthew 27: 28-31; Mark 15: 17-19; John 19: 2
	Leviticus 6: 11	Body outside the city, north	John 19: 17
	Leviticus 6: 9	Roasting all night on trial	Matthew 27: 1-2; Mark 15: 1
	Many prophecies	Four holes in his body	Crucified. John 19: 17
	Numbers 4: 13	Dressed in purple	Matthew 27: 28-31; Mark 15: 17-19; John 19: 2
	Deuteronomy 33:25; Leviticus 12: 1-4	Lives 33 years	Luke 3: 23 and 3.5 year ministry. Acts 1: 2-3
	Exodus 23: 8	Do not accept bribes	Judas was bribed by the priests	Passover Torah Readings Justice Perverted
	Exodus 23: 1,7	Do not accept false testimony	Two false witnesses
	Exodus 23: 6	Defend your needy brother	Peter denied Him
	Exodus 23: 2	Do not follow a crowd	The crowd begged to crucify Him
	Exodus 22:31	Torn to pieces, thrown to the dogs	Given to the Romans and beaten
	Leviticus 14: 13	Priests cause His death	Luke 24: 20	Killed by the Leaders and the People
	Numbers 2,4,7,10	The final week of Jesus	Matthew 21-28; Mark 11-16, Luke 19-24; John 12-21
	Deuteronomy 33
	Genesis 29-30,35,48-49
	Numbers 20: 6-12	Moses strikes the Rock	Dies once. See the Sin of Moses
	Exodus 33: 18-23	The Rock is split (split hooves)	Pierced by crucifixion
	Exodus 17: 6-7	Massah [test], Meribah [quarrel]. They quarreled and tested God, saying "Is the Lord among us or not?"	Many trials and insults, saying "If He is God let Him come down". Matthew 27:42-43. Mark 15: 30-32
	Exodus 17: 4	They tried to stone Moses	Jesus stoned with insults and spit
	Numbers 21: 16	Leaders dig a well	Blood and water from a hole in His side John 19: 34
	Numbers 16	The leaders rebelled	The Sanhedrin turned against Him
	Numbers 16: 31-33	Earth opens its mouth	It swallows or spits out the dead	Earthquake
	Numbers 16:47-48;25:11	Plague checked	Plague of death stopped by priest	Plague
	The Law of Moses (The SHEMA and the Five Signs of Judaism) (˜1500-1460 BC)
	Circumcision	The Promised Seed cut off	Matthew 27: 35; Isaiah 53: 8; Jeremiah 11: 19	The Physical Appearance of Jesus at His Crucifixion
	Tzitzit	4 holes in His torn body	Crucified. John 19: 23
	Mezuzah	King of the Jews above His head	Matthew 27: 37; Mark 15: 26; Luke 23: 38; John 19: 19-20
	Tfellin on the Hand	Bound, nailed hands	Matthew 27: 2; Mark 15: 1; John 18: 12-24
	Tfellin on the Forehead	Crown of thorns	Matthew 27: 29
	The Law of Moses (The Covenant) (˜1500-1460 BC)
	Genesis 3: 3	Dies for us	Romans 5: 8	Covers our Sins and Punishments
	Genesis 3: 14-24	Suffered the wrath of God for us	Romans 5: 9
	Genesis 3: 21; Jeremiah 31: 33	Clothe us with Righteousness. Write the law in our hearts	Romans 6: 4; Hebrews 8: 10-12; 10: 16-17
	Genesis 15: 9-18	Christ split in two to make the covenant	Crucified
	Leviticus 6: 27	Consecrates anyone who touches it	We are made holy by His flesh and blood
	The Sanctuary of God is Destroyed and Rebuilt in Three Days
	All the parts of the sanctuary became death for Him and a curse for Him until it was torn down			The Sanctuary (Cursed)
	Exodus 38:1-7; 27:1-8	The sacrifice was being pounded and stoned and treated badly	Matthew 27: 2, 26,35
	Leviticus 26: 30	God hated the sacrifice	Hebrews 10: 8-9
	Isaiah 53: 4	The ox bears our griefs and sorrows but is seen as cursed	Matthew 27:41-43. The cursed burden bearer
	Exodus 38:8; 30:18	The laver was full of spit	Matthew 26:67; 27:30; Mark 14:65
	Leviticus 26: 29	The Bread was cannibalized	Matthew 26: 26
	Numbers 11: 6,13-15	The Manna is rejected for meat	Christ was rejected as they looked
	Numbers 11: 16-17	The Spirit taken from Moses and shared	Christ gives the Holy Spirit to disciples
	Exodus 25: 29	The wine turned to vinegar	Matthew 27:34, John 19:28-30
	Exodus 25: 37	The Menorah was not lit	Mark 15: 37; John 19: 30
	Leviticus 26: 30; Exodus 30: 8,23-32; 37: 29	The prayers were not being heard	Matthew 27: 46
	Exodus 36: 35	The veil (His flesh) was torn	Matthew 27: 51-52; Hebrews 10: 20
	Exodus 37:1-9; 25:10-22 The Ark of the Covenant	The throne of God is in darkness	Matthew 27:45
		The angels were cursing criminals	Matthew 27: 38-39, 44
		The river of life was flowing blood and water	John 19: 34
	Deuteronomy 21:23	The cursed man is hung on the Tree of Life	Galatians 3:10-13
	Genesis 3: 24	The tree of life was cut down when it was not guarded and unfruitful	Matthew 3: 10. No fruit in Israel
	Genesis 49:22. Jeremiah 23:5; 33:15. Zechariah 3:8; 6:12. Isaiah 4:2; 11:1	Messiah is the Branch on the Tree of Life	John 15:1-6
	Isaiah 18:5	When the bud blossoms Israel is pruned	Jesus is the bud that blossomed before Israel is cut off
	Psalm 22: 15	The earthenware pottery jar of manna was shattered	He was severely beaten, nailed, humiliated and broken and treated like a leper and an unclean thing
	Psalm 22: 6	The manna was treated like it was infested with worms
	Numbers 20: 22-29; Psalm 22: 17-18	The High Priest was stripped naked	Luke 23:34,35
	Leviticus 10: 6	His outer clothes were torn	John 19: 23-24
	Leviticus 26: 38	The High Priest was exiled	Consumed in the land of the dead
	Leviticus 26: 34-35	The High Priest keeps the Sabbath	Dead on Sabbath. John 19:31; 20:1
	Leviticus 14: 1-32	The High Priest is a leper	Jesus is rejected and thrown outside the city
	Isaiah 8:11	A sanctuary not recognized by His people	1 Peter 2: 7-8; 1 Corinthians 1: 23; Matthew 21: 43-44. Revelation 21:22	Sanctuary Stumbling Block
	Numbers 10: 17	It was torn down for the exodus	John 2: 19	The Sanctuary is Thrown Down
	Leviticus 26: 31	It was torn down by the curse	John 2: 19
	Leviticus 14: 33-57	The sanctuary was torn down because it is a leperous house	John 2: 19
	Exodus 23: 20	One angel came to guide Him	Luke 22: 43
	Numbers 10: 33	The covenant was moved	Jesus established the new covenant in Gethsemane
	Numbers 10: 5	The priests lead out	The priests took Jesus
	Numbers 10: 5	Judah moved with a war alarm	Jesus arrested by a loud mob
	Numbers 10: 17	Gershon moves ceiling and curtain	Heaven withdraws, body torn
	Numbers 10: 17	Merari moves building	Jesus carries the cross
	Numbers 10: 6,18	Reuben, the disgraced firstborn, moves with second alarm	Cock crows twice and Peter, the first disciple, leaves in disgrace. Mark 14: 72
	Numbers 10: 21	Kohath moves holy objects	Disciples desert Him
	Numbers 1:51	Strangers killed	The Gentiles, like the Roman army, who tear down the sanctuary will be killed
	Numbers 1:51-52; 4:1-33	Priests tear down and carry temple	Priests betrayed Christ to Romans
	Numbers 1:51; 9:15	Priests reassemble temple	Jews will spread the Gospel	The Sanctuary is Raised Up
	Numbers 10: 21	The sanctuary was raised again	John 14: 1-3. Resurrection
	Numbers 10: 21	Kohath arrives with holy objects	Disciples meet Jesus after the resurrection
	Numbers 10: 22	Joseph and Ephraim move	Jesus received in heaven as the Son of the Right hand
	Numbers 10: 25	Dan, Asher, Naphtali moves	Satan thrown out and Jesus receives keys of death and hell and power over the resurrection
	All the parts of the sanctuary became life for us and a blessing for us until we were built up			The Sanctuary (Blessing)
	Exodus 25: 29-30	The Bread of Life	John 6: 48, 51
	Exodus 16	The Bread of Life (Manna)	John 6: 48, 51
	Genesis 14: 18	Bread and wine offered	The Last Supper (body and blood) Matthew 26:26-29
	Exodus 17: 6	The water of life by striking a Rock	Jesus was struck. John 19: 34; 1 Corinthians 10:4
	Exodus 15: 23-25	Bitter waters of Marah sweetened by a tree	The cross gave us life when Jesus was hung on a tree
	Leviticus 23: 36-37	The drink offering	John 19:31-36
	Exodus 37:10; 25:23-28	Table of Shewbread	Bread of the Presence
	Exodus 36: 35	His Body is the Veil	Matthew 27: 51; Hebrews 10: 20
	Exodus 37:17-23; 25:31	Menorah: Light of the world	John 8: 12
	Exodus 38:8; 30:18	Laver	Wash away sins
	Exodus 38:1-7; 27:1-8	Altar of Sacrifice	Sacrificed on earth
	Exodus 37:25; 30:1	Altar of Incense	High Priest
	Exodus 37:1-9; 25:10-22	Ark of the covenant and Mercy Seat	Kept the covenant
	Deuteronomy 18: 15-19	A prophet like Moses	John 7:40. See summary below
	Numbers 10: 33	The temple was rebuilt in 3 days	3 days (Seder to Resurrection)	Sanctuary Rebuilt
	Nehemiah 2: 1-6; 6: 15	The walls were rebuilt in 52 days	52 days (Crucifixion to Pentecost)	Walls Rebuilt
	The Tree of Life is Chopped Down and the Bread of Life is Eaten and the Water of Life is Poured Out
	Leviticus 23: 4-8	The Passover Lamb of God	Luke 22: 8; John 1: 29, 36	The Feasts. God Comes to Conquer Death and Bring New Life
	Exodus 12: 21-27	Christ is our Passover	1 Corinthians 5:7
	Exodus 12: 7, 13	God passed by when He saw the blood on the door post (cross)	1 Corinthians 5:7
	Exodus 33: 18-23	God "passes by" in the dark and covers us in the cleft of the Rock	Cross. Luke 22:8; John 1: 29,36; Darkness: Matthew 27:45
	Leviticus 23: 15-16	Pentecost - 50 days later	Acts 2: 1-2. The Holy Spirit Comes
	Leviticus 16; 23: 26-32	Yom Kippur. The Lord's Goat	Substitute for our sins
	Leviticus 16; 23: 26-32	Yom Kippur. Scapegoat	Treated like Satan
	Leviticus 23: 27	Taken outside the camp	Matthew 27:33; Hebrews 13:11-12
	Leviticus 16: 8	Yom Kippur. Cast lots	Selection of Jesus or a sinner
	Leviticus 23: 34-39	Tabernacles (Succos)	God tabernacles in human flesh	Feast of Tabernacles
	Leviticus 23: 40-43	Lulav - in the right hand (Jews)	They were the green trees cut down
	Leviticus 23: 40-43	Etrog - in the left hand (Gentiles)	They were the one who bore fruit
	Beating the willow	Beating until the leaves fall off	He was beaten until His skin tore
	Water Ceremony	The Wind and the Water	Coming of the Holy Spirit
	The Pierced One	Leads the procession	Jesus is the pierced one who was the firstborn of the dead
	Illuminating the Temple	Turning to the Temple	Jesus is revealed in the end
	Exodus 15: 27	Camp at 12 Springs and 70 palms	Disciples, 12 tribes and 70 nations	People Rest
	Exodus 16: 14-27,32	Manna will not spoil on Sabbath	Body will not decay on Sabbath	Preservation and Resurrection
	Leviticus 2:13	Covenant of salt with grain	Grain will not decay when it dies
	Numbers 17: 8	Dead stick comes to life	Hebrews 9: 4
	Leviticus 23: 9-14	First fruits from the dead	Matthew 27: 52-53, John 5: 28. Resurrected with others as the wavesheaf
	Deuteronomy 23: 10-11	Spills His seed while He is asleep
	Leviticus 23:11; Jonah 1:17	Rise from the dead on the third day	1 Corinthians 15: 20, 26 Matthew 12:40, Matthew 28:1-20; Luke 24:46
	Genesis 22:4; Hosea 6:2
	The Law of Moses (Twelve Tribes of Israel (Last Week of His Life)) Sons are named Genesis 29-30, 35 (˜2000 BC). Jacob's Blessing. Genesis 48-49 (˜1915 BC). Moses' Blessing. Deuteronomy 33 (˜1460 BC)
	Judah (Gen. 49: 9-12)	Praised as King	Matthew 21: 5,9. King from the east	Jesus is Besieged and Captured by the Twelve Tribes
	Genesis 49:10	He is sent while Judah still exists	Judah and Benjamin: Last 2 tribes
	Issachar	Comes east on a donkey	Matthew 21: 5; John 12: 12-15
	Zebulun	Came with the disciples	Matthew 26: 17-19. Mark 1: 16-17
	Reuben	Afflicted in the Garden	Luke 22: 44
	Simeon	Hated, scattered, violence	Matthew 26: 31, 56
	Levi	Attached. A nation of priests	1 Peter 2: 5-9
	» Aaron (East)	The priests come from the east	Matthew 24: 27-28; Luke 17: 36-37
	» Kohath (South)	Carried the furniture (insides)	Gethsemane to the trials
	» Merari (North)	Carried the structure (outside)	John 19: 17; Mark 15: 20-21. Cross
	» Gershon (West)	Carried the fabric roof	Matthew 27: 51-52. Ascension
	Gad (Genesis 49: 19)	Arrested and tried. Raider	Matthew 26: 47-50; John 18: 3
	Dan (Genesis 49: 17)	Judged as a serpent	Luke 23: 33-39
	Asher	Dead but not decaying	Matthew 26: 7,12
	Napthali	Set loose. Resurrected	Matthew 27: 51-52
	Joseph (Deut 33: 17)	Reproach removed	Revelation 5: 12-14
	» Ephraim	Fruitful	Acts 26: 23
	» Manasseh	Forgives and forgets	Hebrews 8: 12
	Benjamin Deut 33: 12	Son of the Right Hand	Matthew 26: 64; 22: 44; Acts 2: 33
	The Law of Moses (Dietary Laws) Cooking Instructions (˜1500-1460 BC)
	Leviticus 11: 3; Deuteronomy 14: 6	Clean animal: Split hooves	The four wounds that split His hands and feet	The State of the Dead Offering
	Leviticus 11: 3; Deuteronomy 14: 6	Clean animal: Chews cud	He will be resurrected/ regurgitated from the bowels of the earth
	Exodus 23:19;34:26; Deuteronomy 14: 21	Goat meat and mother's milk separated before boiling	Jesus separated from His mother before He became the sin offering
	Leviticus 3: 17 Leviticus 2: 14	Fat not eaten Salt on the offering	His body would not decay in death but a sweet smelling offering
	Leviticus 3: 17; 7:26-27	Blood not eaten	Jesus would give His life as an atonement for sin in Gethsemane
	Leviticus 17:10-14
	Mishnah: Preparing the Offerings (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Tamid 30b-31b)
	Hole drilled in wrist	Christ was nailed in His hands and feet		Preparing the Offering
	Animal hung up	He was hung up on a cross
	Animal flayed, skinned	He was flayed Him with insults and beaten until it tore His skin
	Head cut off	Crucified in Golgotha "the place of the Skull"
	Animal cut up	He was torn apart to keep the covenant
	Animal disemboweled	He was emotionally destroyed
	Priest casts lots	They gambled for His clothes
	Blood at the base	He shed blood on the ground in Gethsemane and on Calvary
	Nine priests carry pieces	Nine tribes symbolized as cutting up the offering
	The Law of Moses (Passover Seder (Nisan 14, Day Time: The Last Hours of His Life)) (˜1500-1460 BC)
	Seder	Christ eaten in the bowels	Matthew 27; John 19	Jesus Makes the Atonement on the Cross
	Kadeish (Sanctification)	Sanctified in Gethsemane	Sweat blood. Luke 22: 44
	First Cup. Exodus 6: 6-7	I will bring out. Mob takes Him from Gethsemane. Pilate shows Him to the people	Matthew 27: 11, 17, 19, 24
	Urechatz	Pilate washes hands	Matthew 27: 11, 17, 19, 24
	Karpas	Given vinegar	Matthew 27: 34; Mark 15: 23; John 19: 28-30
	Maror, chazeret, bitter herbs, salt water, vinegar, hyssop	Tears	Crying bitter tears. Matthew 27: 46, Psalm 42:3
	Wine, grape, myrrh, sour wine	Blood	Luke 22:44; John 19:34
	Kissing the matzo	Judas kissed Jesus Mary kissed Jesus	Matthew 26:47-50; Mark 14:44; Luke 22:47-48; Luke 7:45
	Yachatz	Crucified, broken body	Matthew 27: 26; John 19
	Afikoman, wrap, hidden	Christ's divinity wrapped, hidden	Matthew 27; John 19
	Second Cup	I will Deliver (from sin)	Matthew 27; John 19
	Motzi Matzo	The Trinity. Three breads	Matthew 27: 50; John 19: 30
	Bottom Matzah	Bottom Matzah released. Spirit released	Matthew 27: 50; John 19: 30
	Deuteronomy 33:24-25, Genesis 37:25-26, Charoset	Wrapped in spices for burial	Matthew 26: 7-12; John 19: 39-40
	Third Cup	I will Redeem. Dies on the cross	Matthew 27; John 19
	Elijah's Cup	Call Elijah. Pour out wrath	Mark 15: 34-35
	Tzafun	Find Hidden Afikoman	Matthew 27; John 19
	Hallel	The resurrection	Matthew 27; John 19
	Fourth Cup	I will take (Resurrection)	Matthew 27; John 19
	Jesus is the Main Course Cannibalized at the Wedding Feast Held During the Passover Seder
	Psalm	God invites us to a feast	Matthew 22: 3,9; A Wedding Feast	The Unruly Dinner Guests at the Passover Feast
	Psalm	Jesus is the main course	John 1: 29, 36. The Lamb of God
	Psalm 17:9; 18:5; 40:12; 88:17; 22:12,16; 109:3; 118:10-12; Job 16: 9,13	The 12 tribes sit around the table as the tribes camped around the sanctuary	The people besieged Him
	Psalm 35: 16; 37:12; Job 16: 9	Bite, chew, spit and swallow Him	Eat My flesh. Matthew 26: 26.
	Deuteronomy 12: 27	Pour out His blood	Drink My blood. Mark 14: 24.
	Psalms (2, 8, 16, 18, 21-24, 35, 38, 40-45, 55, 68, 69, 72, 78, 89, 97, 102, 109, 110, 118) (˜1050 BC)
	Psalm 78:2	Teach in parables	Matthew 13:35	The Life and Destiny of Jesus
	Psalm 8:2	Children would praise Him	Matthew 21:16
	Psalm 69:9	Enters temple with authority	Matthew 21: 23, Mark 11: 15-17, 28
	Psalm 72:10	Given gifts by kings	Matthew 2:1,11
	Psalm 2:7-8	The begotten Son of God	Hebrews 10:5-9
	Psalm 2:9	Rules nations with a rod of iron	Revelation 19: 15; 2:27
	Psalm 40: 6-9	Became a human to do the will of God	Hebrews 10: 5-9
	Psalm 102:1-11; Psalm 22:14,15	The Suffering, agony and reproach of Calvary	John 21:16-30; Mark 15:34-37
	Leviticus 16:27	Suffered outside the Camp	Matthew 27:33; Hebrews 13:11-12
	Isaiah 53:11	God is satisfied with His suffering	John 12:27
	Ruth 4:4-9	Christ is our kinsman-redeemer	Ephesians 1:3-7	Family, Friends and Loved Ones
	Isaiah 53:1	His people would not believe Him	John 12:37-38
	Isaiah 53:2	He grew up in a poor family	Luke 2:7
	Psalm 69:8	Rejected by his brothers	Mark 3: 20-21, John 7:1-5, Luke 8:20,21
	Psalm 31:11	His friends fled from Him	Mark 14:50
	Psalm 38:11; 88:8, 18	His friends stood afar off and watched	Luke 23:49
	Psalm 2:1-2	Plot by rulers, Jews and Gentiles	Acts 4:25-28	Betrayed
	Psalm 41:9; 55:12-24;	Betrayed by close friend who eats His bread	Matthew 26:14-16, 26:21-25, 26:47-50, Luke 22:19-23, John 13: 18-21
	Nahum 1: 11-13; Obadiah 1: 7
	Psalm 41: 9; 55:15; Obadiah 1: 7	Only one will be lost	Matthew 27: 5; John 17: 12; 6: 70; Acts 1:18
	Psalm 41: 9; 55:12-14	Judas guides the arresting army	Acts 1: 16
	Psalm 69:25-28; 109:6-13	His betrayer is cut off	Acts 1: 18-20; Matthew 27: 5
	Genesis 49: 19; Psalm 22: 16	Arrested by a band of evil men	Matthew 26: 54; Mark 14:49; John 18: 3
	Psalm 35:19; 69:4; Psalm 109:3,5	Hated without cause. Repaid love with hatred	John 7:48-49, John 15:24-25	Hated and Forsaken
	Psalm 22:1	Forsaken by God because of sins	Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34
	Psalm 118: 22-23, Isaiah 28:16	The Cornerstone rejected	Matthew 21:42, Mark 12: 10, 1 Peter 2:5-7
	Psalm 31:13	They took counsel to put Him to death	John 11:53
	Psalm 118:22	Rejected by rulers	Matthew 21:42, John 7:48-49
	Psalm 88:14-17	Overcome by rejection	Matthew 27:31,39-44
	Psalm 89: 32,38-48	Christ suffers the wrath of God	Matthew 27. The last three days	Suffered
	Psalm 118: 27; 119: 61	Tied up	Mark 14: 44; Matthew 26: 47-50
	Psalm 118: 10-12	Besieged	Matthew 26: 47-50
	Psalm 22:18	Gamble for his clothes	Matthew 27:35, John 19:23-24
	Psalm 22:15	Thirst during crucifixion	John 19: 28
	Psalm 69:21;Ruth 2:14	Given vinegar to drink	Matthew 27:34, John 19:28-30
	Psalm 22:7-8	Despised, rejected, mocked and insulted all day	Matthew 27: 31,39-44; Luke 23:11,35-37	Insulted and Mocked
	Psalm 42: 3-11	Where is your God?	Matthew 27: 43
	Psalm 22:7; 109:25	They shoot out the lip and shake the head	Matthew 27:39
	Psalm 109:25; 8:5-6	Ridiculed and humiliated	Luke 24:50-53; 1 Corinthians 15:27
	Psalm 22:8; 31:14,15	He trusted in God, let Him deliver Him	Matthew 27:43
	Crucifixion was described by David in Psalm 22 around 1000 BC. Yet it was invented over 400 years later by the Phoenicians in 600 BC or the Persians in 300-400 BC			Pierced (Crucifixion) [1000 BC]
	Psalm 22:1,7,14-18	Die by crucifixion	Matthew 27:31 Mark 15:20,25
	Psalm 22:16	Hands and feet pierced (nailed)	John 20:25
	Zechariah 12:10; Isaiah 53:5	Body is pierced	John 19:34-37
	Psalm 22:14, 17	Bones and joints dislocated	John 19:31-36
	Psalm 34:20, Numbers 9:12, Exodus 12:46	No broken bones	John 19:31-36
	Psalm 22:15	Thirst, death and burial	Matthew 27:15	Death (Destruction)
	Psalm 88:4-7	Forgotten among the dead	Matthew 27:15
	Psalm 22:14	Died of a broken heart	John 19:34. Heart is ruptured, failed
	Psalm 72:16	The corn of wheat falls to the ground	John 12:24
	Leviticus 2: 13; 3:16-17; Ezekiel 43:24; Exodus 16: 23-24; Numbers 17:5-8	Body will not decay, or have worms, will be preserved, smells sweet and sprouts to life the next day	John 2: 22	Burial and Preservation
	Psalm 16:9-10	No corruption of His body	Matthew 28:1-10; Acts 2:22-32
	Isaiah 53:10; 55:3; 25:8; 26:19; Hosea 13:14	No corruption of His body
	Psalm 16:11; 17:15; 22: 22; 30:3,5; 40:2-5; 49-15; 118:17,18	Resurrected	John 20:9,17,20; 5:24-29; Luke 24:5-7; Mark 16:6; Acts 2:27; 13:35; 1 Corinthians 15:20, 55-57	Resurrection
	Psalm 18: 3-19	Resurrection earthquake	Matthew 28: 2	Earthquake
	Psalm 24: 7-10	Jesus is inaugurated in heaven	Revelation 5: 5-9	Ascension
	Psalm 68:18	Ascension. Gift of the Holy Spirit	Acts 1:9; Luke 24:51
	David flees from Absalom (˜1020 BC)
	2 Samuel 15: 31; 16:23	Wicked counselor was trusted	Matthew 27: 5	Judas Betrays Him
	2 Samuel 17: 23	Wicked counselor hangs himself	Matthew 27: 5
	2 Samuel 16: 7	Man of bloodshed	Luke 22: 44	Blood
	Exodus 4: 24-26	Bridegroom of blood	Luke 22: 44
	2 Samuel 17: 1-4. Micah 5: 1-2	A plot to attack and terrify one man when he is weary	John 18: 3. Arrested in Gethsemane	Raided
	2 Samuel 17: 13	City torn down	John 2: 19, 21; Matthew 26:31, 56	Rocks Torn Down
	2 Samuel 17: 13	No little stone remains	Matthew 26: 74 (Peter runs away)	Peter (Petros) "Little Pebble"
	2 Samuel 16: 6-7,13	Stones thrown at Him (hail stones)	Matthew 26: 74 (Peter threw insults)
	2 Samuel 16: 6-7,13	Cursed and stoned	Matthew 27: 38-44 (hurled abuse)	Insulted
	2 Samuel 16: 7, Judges 11: 3	Travels with a band of worthless fellows	Disciples	Disciples
	2 Samuel 16: 1	Gift of donkey	Matthew 21:1-6; Mark 11: 1-8	Gifts Prepared for Him
	2 Samuel 16: 1	Gift of bread and wine	Luke 22: 10-12
	2 Kings 4: 8-10	Gift of upper room	Luke 22: 10-12
	2 Samuel 15: 25	The ark returned to heaven	New Covenant	Returns to Heaven
	2 Samuel 15: 25	Sees ark and habitation	Raptured
	2 Samuel 15: 25	Resurrected if he finds favor	Luke 24: 1-3
	2 Samuel 17: 21-22	Resurrection	John 20: 12
	The Time Prophecies of Daniel (˜597-530 BC)
	Daniel 2	Christ is the Rock that will destroy the kingdoms	Hail stones destroy the earth. Revelation 16: 21; 11: 19; 6: 16-17	Second Coming
	Daniel 7	Wild animals attack the people of God	The people attack Christ like wild animals	Christ Suffers like His People
	Daniel 8	The sanctuary and people are attacked on the day of atonement	Christ, the ram is attacked by Satan, the goat on the day of atonement
	Daniel 9: 24-27 (25)	Year of anointing: 27 AD. (483 years after Jerusalem rebuilt)	Matthew 3, Luke 3: 1-3. Baptism	The Ruling Civil Government is the Fourth Kingdom (Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome)
	Daniel 9: 24-27 (27)	Kept the covenant 486.5 years after Jerusalem rebuilt	Year of death: 31 AD. Preached about 3.5 years
	Daniel 9: 24-27 (27)	The final 3.5 years	The disciples preached for another 3.5 years until year 490
	Daniel 11: 20	Live under the "raiser of taxes"	Luke 2: 1 (Augustus Caesar)
	Daniel 11: 21	The next ruler is a "vile person"	Luke 3: 1 (Tiberius Caesar)
	Daniel 11: 22	Ruling Power - the fourth kingdom	Rome was ruling. Luke 3: 1-2
	Daniel 9: 26	Died for the sins of the world before the destruction of the temple	Hebrews 2:9 Died in 31 AD. Temple destroyed in 70 AD	The Temple Exists Until 70 AD (Roman Empire)
	Psalm 118:2	Comes while temple is standing	Matthew 21:12-15
	Amos 9: 11-12	Temple is restored	Acts 14:16-18
	Haggai 2: 3-9; Malachi 3:1	Glory of the second temple will be greater than the first	The Messiah visited this temple. Mark 11:15-16; Luke 2: 27-32
	Psalm 74: 3,5-7; Zechariah 11: 1-3	Sanctuary destroyed	Jesus killed. John 2: 19. Sanctuary destroyed in 70 AD
	Major Prophets (˜725 BC)
	Isaiah 9: 6-7	A child is born to be king	Luke 2	The Life and Personality of Jesus
	Isaiah 6: 9-10	People will not understand	Matthew 13:14-15
	Isaiah 35:5-6; 29:18	Miraculous healings	Matthew 11:5; Matthew 9:35, Luke 7:20-22
	Isaiah 40:3	Another prophet will announce him	Matthew 3:1-3
	Isaiah 53:12	Pray for his enemies	Luke 23:32-34
	Isaiah 44:3, Joel 2:28	Sends the Holy Spirit	John 20:22, Acts 2:16-17
	Isaiah 42:4; 52:15	Nations hear the message	John 12:20-26; Romans 15:18-21	The Gospel Message
	Psalm 78:1-2	Teach in parables	Matthew 13:13-15
	Isaiah 6:9-12	Parables fall on deaf ears	Acts 28:23-29
	Deuteronomy 18:18; Isaiah 52:7; 61:1-2; Psalm 40:9; 45:2; 78:2	The Messiah preaches the good news of peace and righteousness with authority	Matthew 4:17; 7:29; Luke 4:17-22; John 8:28, 29
	Isaiah 35:4; 43:11; 49:6; Joel 2:32; Psalm 22:9	He is salvation for Israel and the world	Matthew 1:21; Luke 2:7, 29-32; Acts 4:12; 15:7-18; Romans 10:12-13	Salvation
	Psalm 69:26	The Savior is smitten by God	John 17:4; 18:11
	Isaiah 53:12; 59:15-16;	He gives his life to save mankind	Luke 23:46; John 6:40
	Isaiah 59: 20	Redeemer	-
	Psalm 2:2; 45:7-8; Isaiah 11:2; 61:1-2	He is the Christ (Messiah or Anointed)	Matthew 3:16-17; Acts 2:36; Hebrews 1:9	Anointed by the Holy Spirit
	Isaiah 44:3; Psalm 1:23; Joel 2:28-32	Promise to send the Spirit	Acts 2:17-21, Romans 10:13, John 16:7,13
	Isaiah 35:5; 53:4	A healing ministry	Matthew 11:4-6; Luke 6:17-19	Miracles
	Isaiah 42:7	Opens blind eyes	John 9: 25-38
	Isaiah 40:11; 42:3; Psalm 112:4	Tender and compassionate	Matthew 12:15-21; 9:36; Hebrews 4:15; John 10:10-18	Character
	Isaiah 42:2; Zechariah 9:9	Meek and humble	Matthew 12:15-21; 11:28-30
	Exodus 15:11; Psalm 2:6	Holy	Luke 1:35; John 8:46; Acts 4:27
	Exodus 33:19	Merciful	Luke 1:72
	Psalm 89:36-37; 100:5	Faithfulness and goodness	Matthew 19:16,17
	Isaiah 9:7; Zechariah 9:9	Just	John 5:30
	Isaiah 9:7; Zechariah 9:9	Truthful	John 14:6; 18:38
	Isaiah 11:2	Wisdom and understanding	John 4:4-26
	Isaiah 61:1-2	Deliver spiritual captives. The poor hear the gospel	Matthew 11:5; Luke 4:16-21	Ministers to the Gentiles
	Isaiah 49:6; 42:1-4,6	Light to the Gentiles	Matthew 12:14-21
	Isaiah 11:10; 49:1,12; 55:5; 66:18-19	Sought after by the Gentiles. Accepted by the Gentiles	Matthew 12:15-21, Romans 9:30, 10:20, 11:11, 15:10; Acts 10:45, 13:46-48; 15:7-18
	Isaiah 11:10; 60:1-3; Psalm 72:17; 2 Samuel 23:2-4	Gentiles accept Him
	Isaiah 49: 7	Kings would bow to him	Matthew 2: 11 and future fulfillment
	Isaiah 49:7	Hated without cause	John 7:48-49, John 15:24-25	Hated and Rejected
	Isaiah 50:6	Spit upon	Matthew 26:67; 27:30; Mark 14:65
	Isaiah 50:6	His back and cheeks beaten	Matthew 26:67 27:26,30; Mark 14:65
	Isaiah 53: 4	Rejected like a leper Messiah	Babylonian Talmud: Sanhedrin 98b
	Isaiah 53:1-4	Despised and rejected	Matthew 26:3-4; 27:20; John 12:37-43
	Isaiah 53:3; Psalm 102: 2	Men hide their faces from Him. Embarassed to know Him	Mark 14:50-52
	Isaiah 53:3	Despised, rejected, grief, sorrow. Features marred	Mark 15:14-24, John 10:31-33;7:1-5; Luke 18:31-34; Matthew 26:67,68
	Isaiah 52:14
	Isaiah 53:5; Psalm 89:32	Wounded, pierced, bruised, stripes, back whipped	Beaten with a rod. Matthew 27:26
	Isaiah 53:5-6	Crushed for our sins	1 Peter 2: 24,25; Romans 4:25; Hebrews 9:28; 1 Corinthians 15:3
	Isaiah 53:5,6,8,10-12, Psalm 69:4	Suffer for the sins of others	Romans 4: 25, 1 Corinthians 15:3
	Isaiah 53:7	Silent before his accusers. Oppressed, afflicted	Matthew 27:12-14; Mark 15:3-5; Luke 23:8-10	Justice Perverted
	Isaiah 53:8	Confined, tried and condemned	Matthew 27:1-2; Luke 23:1-25
	Isaiah 53: 10-12	Innocent man exchanged for a sinner	Matthew 27:17-20; Luke 23:18; John 18: 14; Barabbas exchanged
	Psalm 35:11,27:12;109:4	Accused by false witness	Matthew 26:59-61, Mark 14:57,58
	Psalm 119:86	Accused by false witness
	Isaiah 53:12	Numbered with sinners. Die with criminals	Matthew 27:38; Mark 15:27-28; Luke 23:32-34	Killed
	Isaiah 53:9	Assigned a grave with the wicked	Matthew 27:38
	Isaiah 53:5,6,8,10-12	Die as a sacrifice for sins by the will of God	John 1:29, 11:49-52; Acts 10:43; 13:38,39
	Isaiah 53:8	Brutally killed	Crucifixion Story
	Isaiah 53:9	Buried in a rich man's tomb	Matthew 27:57-60
	Isaiah 53:8-10	Would return from the dead	Matthew 28:1-10; Acts 2:22-32	Resurrected
	Jeremiah 31:15	Massacre of infants	Matthew 2: 16-18	-
	Minor Prophets (˜500 BC)
	Malachi 3:1; 4:5-6; Isaiah 40:3,4	Messenger prepares the way	Matthew 3:1-2; 11:10; Luke 1:16-17; John 1:23	The Glorious King
	Zechariah 9:9	Triumphant entry into Jerusalem on a donkey to bring salvation	Matthew 21:1-9, Luke 19:35-37, John 12:12-16; Luke 19:10
	Isaiah 62:11
	Genesis 49:14-15
	Zechariah 3: 1-4	Jesus the High Priest bears our sins and is accused by Satan	Galatians 3: 13; 2 Corinthians 5: 21	The Perfect King Keeps the Covenant
	Zechariah 11: 10	The End of the Old Covenant. The staff "Favor" was cut in pieces to break the covenant with Israel	Jesus was cut in pieces like the offering and the old covenant was broken
	Zechariah 11: 14	The New Covenant. The staff "Union" was cut in pieces to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel	Jesus, from the tribe of Judah, was cut in pieces and broke away from Israel and became the head of the new covenant with the Gentiles
	Zechariah 4: 2-3,6,12	The Holy Spirit is sent as fire	Acts 2 (Holy Spirit as tongues of fire)	The Holy Spirit Keeps the Covenant
	Deuteronomy 25: 5-6	The brother of the dead	Acts 2. The Holy Spirit comes to build the house of Christ
	Zechariah 13: 1	The two fountains opened
	Zechariah 4: 2-3,12	The two trees watered by oil from the lamp	Acts 2: 3. Tongues of fire from the lamp on the trees
	Zechariah 4: 1	Jesus is resurrected	Matthew 28:1-10; Acts 2:22-32	The Rock
	Zechariah 4: 7	The stone is rolled away	Luke 24: 2
	Zechariah 4: 11,14	Two angels sit beside Jesus	John 20: 12
	Zechariah 10:4; Isaiah 28:16	The Cornerstone	Messiah is the Rock who will receive the kingdom Matthew 21:42-43, Mark 12: 10, 1 Peter 2:5-8; Ephesians 2:20; Acts 4:10-12; 1 Corinthians 10:4
	2 Samuel 23:2-4; Daniel 2:34-35	Stone cut without hands
	Isaiah 8:14	A stone of stumbling, a Rock of offense
	Psalm 18:31	God is our Rock
	Psalm 118:22,23; Exodus 17:6	The precious rejected stone
	Deuteronomy 32: 4	The perfect Rock
	Zechariah 11:12; Exodus 21: 32	Betrayed for 30 shekels of silver	Matthew 26: 14-15	The People Break the Covenant
	Zechariah 11:12-13	Silver buys a potter's field	Matthew 27:3-10
	Zechariah 11:13	30 pieces of silver returned to God's house	Matthew 27:5
	Zechariah 12:10, Isaiah 53:5, Psalm 22:16	People look at the pierced Christ. Side pierced	John 19:33-34; 36-37; Revelation 1: 7
	Zechariah 13: 1	Blood and Water	John 19: 34, blood and water from His side
	Zechariah 13:7	Disciples would desert him	Matthew 26:31, 56
	Genesis 49: 5-7	Disciples scattered	Matthew 26: 31, 56
	Micah 5:1	Beaten with a Rod	Mark 15:19
	Zechariah 11: 1-3; Psalm 74: 3-7	Temple doomed	Jesus' body temple (John 2: 19). Temple destroyed in 70 AD	Doom
	Zechariah 11: 4-7	People doomed	1 million killed
	Zechariah 11: 8	Priests doomed	Earthly priesthood ends
	Amos 8:9	Darkness over the land. Heaven is clothed in black	Matthew 27:45 Matthew 24:29, Luke 23:44,45. Acts 2:20, Revelation 6:12
	Psalm 22:2
	Isaiah 50:3
	Job 16: 2, 7, 20; 17: 2. Psalm 69: 20	No comforters, Deserted, Broken	Everyone deserted Him	Afflicted by God and Abandoned by Friends. Job
	Job 19: 13-14,19	Abandoned by friends and relatives
	Job 16: 12; Psalm 22: 15	Shattered	Beaten severely and nailed
	Job 16: 9	Eaten up	Matthew 26: 26; Mark 14: 24; John 6: 50-54, 60,66. Cannibalized
	Job 16: 10	Cheeks slapped	Matthew 26:67 27:26,30; Mark 14:65
	Job 16: 11	Given to the wicked	Mark 10: 33-34; Mark 14:49
	Job 16: 17	Innocent	2 Corinthians 5: 21
	Job 17: 6	Spit on Him	Matthew 27: 30
	Job 17: 1, 13-16	Death. Spirit broken	Gave up the Spirit. Matthew 27: 50; John 19: 30
	Job 19: 7	Injustice	Matthew 27: 1-4
	Job 19: 8, 12	Besieged. An army	Matthew 26: 47-50, 54
	Job 19: 8	Darkness	Matthew 27: 45
	Job 19: 9	Stripped naked	Luke 23:34,35
	Job 19: 23-24	Words written in a book	Psalms, Isaiah, Job, Torah
	Job 19: 26	Resurrection in the flesh	Matthew 28:1-10
	The Suffering Messiah Predicted by the Prophets. (Acts 3: 18) (˜1500 BC)
	Job	Job	The reason for suffering as a bargain with Satan for us
	Job 16-17	Job	Unjust suffering without a comforting word from friends
	Genesis 12	Abraham	Called from home to wander a hostile land
	Genesis 22	Isaac	Bound like a sacrifice, crown of thorns
	Genesis 32	Jacob (Israel)	Jesus wrestled with death, the supplanter, until day break and became Israel, the heir of the promise
	Genesis 48-49	Jacob (Israel)	The blessings of the sons were His final week
	Genesis 26	Jacob (smooth), Esau (red, hairy)	The linen, red and hairy coverings of the tabernacle
	Genesis 29-30, 35	Rachel and Leah	The names of the sons
	Genesis 37: 11-36	Joseph	Betrayed by all his brothers, except Benjamin
	Genesis 40: 9-11,18-19	Joseph	Chief cup bearer lives and chief baker dies after 3 days
	Deuteronomy 33	Moses	The blessings for the 12 tribes
	Deuteronomy 18: 15	Moses	A prophet like Moses
	Judges 14-16	Samson	The man who takes an unsuitable wife
	Judges 11: 1-2	Jephthah	The illegitimate son of a prostitute
	Judges 11: 2	Jephthah	Estranged from his brothers and disinherited
	Judges 11: 3	Jephthah	Gathered a band of worthless fellows (disciples)
	1 Samuel 20: 5	Samuel	David hides himself for 3 days during the new moon
	2 Samuel 7: 14	Nathan	Son of God beaten with a rod and stripes of men
	Psalm 22, 69	David	Insulted, pierced, rejected, mocked, forsaken
	Song of Solomon	All references to Solomon	Messiah is a king in love with a woman
	Isaiah 10:27	Isaiah	Removes the burdens of Israel
	Isaiah 53	Isaiah	Wounded and despised
	Jeremiah 15: 10-18; 20:	Jeremiah	Cursed by everyone, mocked, alone, deserted
	Ezekiel	Ezekiel	The references to "son of man" also refer to Christ
	Ezekiel 12	Ezekiel	The captured Prince in the land of the north
	Ezekiel 28: 16	Ezekiel	He threw out the money changers from the temple with violence (Matthew 21: 12)
	Ezekiel 28: 16-19	Ezekiel	They treated Christ like Satan after He cleansed the temple (Matthew 21: 12)
	Ezekiel 43: 1-2,3. Isaiah 62: 10-11	Ezekiel	The prince with the glory of the LORD comes from the east bearing gifts and an offering
	Ezekiel 49: 19	Ezekiel	Jerusalem gave Christ as an offering to foreigners
	Daniel 9: 24-27; 11:22	Daniel	Cut off and swept away by the Roman army
	The Suffering Messiah Predicted by the Minor Prophets (˜700-500 BC)
	Hosea 1	Hosea	The faithful husband and the prostitute wife
	Hosea 4-5	Hosea	The legal case or trial against Israel. They offered Christ on the top of the mountain (verse 13)
	Hosea 6: 1-2,3	Hosea	He will be torn, wounded, killed and raised the third day
	Joel 1:7,12, 16; 2:17	Joel	Vine dries up, bread cut off before our eyes
	Amos 5: 10,12,13, 17	Amos	Hates righteous judges, accept bribes. Jesus was silent. Women weeping as He passed through
	Amos 8: 8,10	Amos	Earthquake. Women weeping for a son
	Amos 5: 18,20; 8: 9	Amos	Darkness
	Obadiah 1: 1-18	Obadiah	Deceived by a friend, cut off, imprisoned, cast lots, gloat
	Obadiah 1: 1,6,8, 18	Obadiah	Edom (house of Herod) will be destroyed because they allied with others to destroy Israel
	Jonah 1-4	Jonah	Suffers three days
	Micah 5: 1	Micah	Besieged by an army, beaten, rejected
	Nahum 1: 11-13	Nahum	Judas was the wicked counselor who placed a yoke and shackles on the Lord
	Habakuk 1: 1-4; 3: 17-19	Habakuk	Besieged by the wicked. No justice. No fruit of His labor
	Zephaniah 1: 7-8	Zephaniah	The Lord prepares a sacrifice
	Zephaniah 3: 8,9,11	Zephaniah	The wrath of God
	1 Chronicles 22: 7-9	Solomon	Jesus is the Prince of peace who builds God's temple. Solomon means peace and he built the first temple
	Haggai 1: 4, 8; 2: 3-9	Haggai	Jesus brings wood to rebuild the desolate temple and glorify God
	Zechariah 12: 10	Zechariah	Pierced, rejected. Stoned to death at the sanctuary
	Malachi 1-7	Malachi	Despised and rejected the Lord and His table
	Christ Suffers as the Greatest Sinner. Because He bears our sins He must suffer the punishment of all sinners
	Genesis 3: 15	Serpent bruises Christ's heel	Christ is killed. No omnipresence.	(˜4000 BC) Adam and Eve (Rebellion) (Idolatry and Divination) 1 Samuel 15: 23 Did not Consult the Name of the Lord
	Hosea 12: 2-4; Genesis 25: 26	Jacob grabs his brother's heel
	Genesis 49: 16-17	Dan, the serpent, bites the horse's heel, causing the rider to fall
	Genesis 3: 16	Painful childbirth	The crucifixion was a painful birth for the church
	Genesis 3: 16	Submit to her husband	Christ submitted to death. Church submits to Christ. Ephesians 5: 24
	Genesis 3: 17	Ground does not yield fruit	Israel did not respond to His labor
	Genesis 3: 18	Thorns and thistles	Crown of thorns
	Genesis 3: 17-19	Works by the sweat of his face	Sweat blood as He worked for our salvation
	Genesis 3: 17-19	Returns to dust	Buried in the ground
	Genesis 3: 21	Garments of skin	Romans 13: 14. Clothed with Christ
	Genesis 3: 12-13	Consulted the snake and woman	Became like a snake on a tree
	Genesis 4: 11-12	Earth does not yield its fruit	The Jews did not respond. The fig tree withered	Cain (Murderer)
	Genesis 4: 12	A vagrant and wanderer	Matthew 8: 20. He was a homeless vagrant wandering around Israel
	Genesis 4: 15	His killers will be punished seven times	The wicked are punished in the seven last plagues. Revelation 16
	Genesis 4: 15	A mark was placed on him so that he would not be killed	A wound was placed on Jesus so that we would not be killed
		A mark or seal of God is placed on the righteous so that they will live
	Daniel 4: 14; Isaiah 6:13	The tree cut down	The branch that was cut down	Nebuchadnezzar (King of Babylon) (Pride)
	Daniel 4: 14	Fruit scattered. Stump remains	Disciples fled. Christ remained
	Daniel 4: 16	Seven periods of time	He suffered the wrath of God 7 days
	Daniel 4: 17; Psalm 22: 6	The lowliest man	The lowliest man, a worm
	Isaiah 14: 3-8	Mocked on the day of rest	Jesus was mocked and taunted	Satan (Oppressor) No Sabbath Rest
	Isaiah 14: 10-11, 16-17	Cast down to sheol, the abyss	He was buried in the grave
	Isaiah 14: 3-8	The oppressor gave no rest	Jesus had no rest until He died
	Leviticus 16: 21-22; Ezekiel 28: 16-19	Satan was filled with violence	Jesus stopped the temple trade with violence. Matthew 21: 12-13	Satan (Violent King of Tyre) (The Goat) (The False God)
	Leviticus 16: 21-22; Revelation 20: 3	Satan, the scapegoat, will be blamed	The Lord's goat was traded for a murderer
		Led by a strong man	Simon of Cyrene. Revelation 20: 3
	Numbers 5: 15-17	Drinks bitter water of jealousy	Christ drinks the bitter vinegar and hyssop. John 19: 28-30	Israel (The Unfaithful Woman)
	Numbers 5: 27	Becomes a curse among the people	Suffered the curses and wrath of God and was rejected
	Numbers 5: 27	Abdomen swells	Blood and water pooled in His lower chest
	Numbers 5: 27; Psalm 31:10	Thigh wastes away. The thigh is connected to the covenant and making vows	The covenant fails. Jesus was unable to use His legs to support His breathing because of exhaustion
	2 Samual 18: 9, 14	Rebellious son Absalom. Died on a tree, speared in his heart, hair caught in tree	Obedient Son Jesus died on a tree, hair caught in thorns, sword through His heart	Absalom The Rebellious Son of the King
	2 Samual 18: 15	Ten young men kill Absalom	Ten tribes are symbolized as killing Christ
	2 Samual 18: 17	Thrown in a pit. Stones over him	Thrown in a grave. Stone rolled over
	2 Samual 18: 33	The king wished that he could die in the place of his son	King Jesus, the son of God, died in our place
	Abraham Sacrifices Isaac (˜2110 BC)
	Genesis 22: 2	The Unique Son	His miracle Son. His only Son	God Sends His Unique Son to be Killed Jesus Submits
	Genesis 22: 4	Place of the sacrifice	Golgotha may be the same place
	Genesis 22: 6	Isaac carries the wood	Jesus carries the wooden cross
	Genesis 22: 13	Lamb's head caught in a thorn thicket	John 19: 5. Jesus wore a crown of thorns on His head
	The Ancient Hebrew Script IVRI prophesies about Christ in the Feast of Tabernacles. Only a few letters are shown
	Aleph - Ox	He is the ox from heaven who came for the feast of Succos		The 22 Letters of the IVRI Script are the Days of the Feast of Tabernacles
	Beis - House, Tent	He came to tabernacle with humans in our flesh (Hebrews 10: 5)
	Dalet - Door	He is the door to heaven (John 10: 9)
	Vav - Nail	He was nailed to the cross
	Zayin - Cut off	He was cut off for sin
	Tet - Snake, Hidden good	He was treated as an evil snake but His righteousness was being hidden
	Yod - Closed hand	His closed hand hides a nail, showing His power of mercy
	Kaf-Open hand, wing	His arms were spread out on the cross like wings
	Samekh - Support	He was supported by the Father and the Holy Spirit
	Shin-Teeth, consume	He was chewed up and consumed as the broken bread and wine
	Tau - Sign, Covenant	He fulfilled the covenant with this shape. He died on a Tau cross
	Modern Science Prophecies about the Messiah
	Digestive System	Christ in the bowels		The Day of the Lord is Written in Nature Natural Laws Obey Spiritual Laws
	DNA Replication	Christ is torn apart and broken to repair our damaged genes
	Circadian Rhythms	The biological cycles of the world on the day of the crucifixion
	Photosynthesis	Christ is the light of the world Who makes the Bread of Life
	Krebs Cycle	Christ and the Holy Spirit are given to the world
	Cardio-Pulmonary	God gives life to the world
	Future Fulfillment
	Mitosis	The world is polarized and separated before the Second Coming
	Magnetism	Christ draws the world to Him
	Rib Cage	The configuration of the twelve tribes at the end of time
	Periodic Table	Christ creates and recreates the earth
	Particle Physics	Christ creates and recreates the people
	Rainbow	Light removes darkness
	The Biblical Prophecies of the Last Days
	Israel returns	Israel accepts the Messiah in the last days and is restored and regathered	John 18:37; 10:14,26; Romans 11:25-27	Israel Gathered
	Hosea 3: 4-5
	Micah 2:12-13
	Psalm 92:8,11,13. Isaiah 11:10-12; 32:14,15; 30		Restores and heals Israel
	Jeremiah 23, 30, 33; Isaiah 11		Israel gathered from the nations
	Jeremiah 48: 47; 49: 39		Restores other nations
	Isaiah 29:14	Israel's restoration is amazing	1 Corinthians 1:18-31
	Zephaniah 3:9	Hebrew language returned	Exiles learn Hebrew after 1948
	Genesis 1:2; 2:4; 4:25; 5:1; Leviticus 26:12,13. Psalm 95:7; 54:5		G-d of Israel, creator, G-d of the exodus and the covenant
	Hosea 5: 15; 12: 2-4; Genesis 32: 26-28	The Lord returns when Israel repents in his maturity	Matthew 23: 29
	Matthew 23: 29. They will see Him when they learn to say, "Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the Lord"
	Numbers 10: 11-21	The Jews and Christians have been on an exodus since the crucifixion.
	Numbers 9:15	The temple is erected by the Levites when the cloud rests	Jews will lead the world to Christ	The Living Temple Made of People
	Numbers 10:21	The temple is erected before the people and holy objects arrive	The final church arrives with the ancient, holy teachings
	Daniel 8: 13,14; 9: 24; 12: 3,11-12	Messiah will restore the temple	Revelation 22. The Lamb and people are the temple
	Numbers 10:35	The ark and cloud rise up	The Lord leaves in a cloud. Acts 1:9	Rapture
	Numbers 10:36	The ark and cloud come to rest	The Lord comes in a cloud to give us rest. Luke 21:27	Second Comimg
	Numbers 10:35	The wicked flee when the ark rises	The wicked flee at the Second Coming
	1 Chronicles 17:11-14; Isaiah 9:7	King. A son of David on the throne forever	Luke 1:32-33; Revelation 19: 16; 20: 6; 22: 3	The Conquering Messiah
	Psalm 2:6; 18:50; 21:1-7; 45: 2,3,6,7; 60:7; 61:6,8; 80:17; 110:1-7; 132:14,18. Isaiah 16: 1,5; 24:23 Zechariah 14: 9, Ezekiel 38: 16		King and conqueror. Defeats the enemies of Israel
	Isaiah 63: 1-3	His vesture dipped in blood	Revelation 19: 13
	Psalm 18: 37-50	Triumph. Jesus raids His enemies	Revelation 19: 9
	Psalm 45:1-17	Jesus raids His enemies and comes for His bride	Revelation 19
	Genesis 49: 19	Will come with an army	Revelation 19: 14-15
	Job 19: 25	Redeemer lives and returns	Acts 1: 11
	Psalm 110:1; Psalm 80:17	Enemies would see Him on the throne of God, on the right hand	Matthew 22:44
	Isaiah 42:13-25	The warrior at the second coming	Revelation 19
	Psalm 97:	Second Coming	Revelation 19-20
	Daniel 7: 9,13,27	Second Coming	Matthew 24:30
	Ezekiel 37:10-14	Saints resurrected	Matthew 24:31
	Isaiah 25:8,9; 26:19	Dead raised	Matthew 24:31; Revelation 20:4-6; 1 Thessalonians 4: 16-17
	Genesis 3: 15	Bruises the serpent's head	Satan is confined and killed 1000 years later. Revelation 20: 2,7
	Psalm 91: 13	He treads on the serpent
	Zechariah 14:1-9	Comes to the mount of Olives	Revelation 20 (Third Coming)
	Psalm 50: 2. Isaiah 42:1 Isaiah 42		Righteous judge
	Ezekiel 21:26,27; Daniel 7:13-14; Psalm 24:3, 97:9; Exodus 15:2; Isaiah 53:12	The humble exalted	Matthew 28:18; Luke 1:52; Acts 1:11; 7:55,56; Philippians 2:9; Ephesians 1:20-22	Highly Exalted
	Habakkuk 2:14; Daniel10:5-6	Earth filled with knowledge of the glory of the Lord	Romans 11:26, Revelation 1:13-16; 21:23-26
	Isaiah 9:7; Micah 4:1-8; Daniel 2:44,45; 7:13-14, 27	An everlasting kingdom for the saints	Matthew 2:1, Luke 1:31-33; 2:4,10,11; 1 Corinthians 15:24, Revelation 11:15	Everlasting Kingdom
	Psalm 68: 31; 72: 1,8,10,16,17. Isaiah 60: 22		Gentiles in the kingdom
	Zephaniah 3: 9; Micah 4; Isaiah 2, 11	All nations serve Him	Revelation 19; Acts 2:11,12,41
	Isaiah 65:9, 17-25	New heaven and earth inherited by the elect	2 Peter 3:13; Hebrews 7:14, Revelation 5:5; 21:1
These prophecies are directly quoted in the New Testament as fulfillments
	Key events over which Jesus had no control. They were controlled by nature or His enemies. The probability of only eight unrelated events occurring is astronomical (1 x 1017). Choose any eight that convinces you. We only show a few. How could so many unrelated events, performed by so many conflicting groups fit His life?			Over 333 Traditionally Accepted Texts with Prophecies
	Prophecies that He could have engineered to claim to be the Messiah
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	Dr. Alfred Edersheim claims that the rabbis writings listed about 456 prophecies as Messianic.			Jewish Messianic Prophecies
	77 references in the Targums (Aramaic scriptures written for Jews after the Babylonian exile)
	According to the website Judaism 101, these are the Messianic and last day prophecies
	I first heard this from Messianic Jews			Prophecies Known by Others
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	Somehow I learned these indirectly from the Holy Spirit because of my Adventist heritage.			Over 350 New Prophecies Revealed to Teachinghearts
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There are many more passages identified as Messianic by the Jews that are not in this list. Christians now understand the sacrificial system as Messianic. Jews do not.
So critics claim that we randomly take texts and apply it to Christ. Many of these links were made by the disciples and the literature from the rabbis show that they also did the same, applying a text to the Messiah.

The Patchwork Tapestry of Prophecy. However, in the new information presented by Teachinghearts we take a whole system of laws and an entire story to show how the Messiah fulfilled them. We even explain laws that the Jews never understood but obeyed. The seder, the offering rules, the blessings of Jacob and Moses, the journeys of the patriarchs and the twelve tribes are such a series of remarkable prophecies that as far as we know only the four cups of the seder have been recognized by others. One cannot deny the testimony of a related group of events and symbols that so clearly chronicle a specific event in His life.
In another lesson we prove that the Messiah must appear no earlier than 125 BC and no later than 110 AD.
What are the odds that Jesus Christ is this suffering Messiah?

Evidence of the Divinity of the Messiah and the Trinity

Jewish References to the Messiah
Jewish references to the Messiah include prophecy and history. There are predictions about what the Messiah will do, but it also includes references that identify what He has done in the Old Testament as a part of their history. Christians recognize this but tend to not emphasize it because we can demonstrate that the Messiah fulfilled prophecy but we cannot prove that He was their history. Jews tend to see what the Messiah will accomplish for them and not how to identify the Messiah when He comes other than the fact that He will conquer their enemies and establish them. So we have a history and expectation of two Messiahs.

• Nature. It required a dual nature to take up all the duties of the Messiah and make God do the impossible.
  • God. They identify the Messiah as the LORD G-d of the Old Testament who delivered them from Egypt and who created the world and the one who made the covenant with Abraham. Although Christians believe that Christ was also this person, yet we had no solid proof. But they had proof passed down from one generation to the other that certain passages refer to the Messiah. Since the Jews identify this G-d or His actions as Messianic, then their own testimony shows more clearly than we could that the coming Messiah preexisted as their God.
  • Human. As God it was impossible for Him to die, but as a human He could die for our sins.
    Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that He should be held by it. (Acts 2: 24)
• Mission (The Two Messiahs). It was to deliver Israel from all his enemies, including victory over the slavery of sin and power of death. The Dead Sea scrolls, the Passover Seder and the prophecies all have this image of two Messiahs which is also reflected in His two natures.
  • Conquering Messiah (The Messiah of David). Most of the Messianic passages are about the conqueror and king who will deliver Israel and make the nation prosperous.
    • The Messiah of David. He was a kingly figure who would lead the sons of light in a victorious war against the sons of darkness.
    • Broken Middle Matzah (Afikoman). He is the hidden Son Whose father paid a king's ransom for His return.
    • God. He was God hiding in human flesh Who could conquer death because He was life.
  • Suffering Messiah (The Messiah of Aaron). Some of their prophecies identify the suffering of the Messiah and that He would be rejected like a leper by His own people.
    The Jews need to come to terms with what it means for the Messiah to be their rejected Redeemer which is clearly defined in Isaiah 53: 7-12. He will bear our sins.
    • The Messiah of Aaron. He was a priestly figure who carried away our sins and stood before God as one Who loves us.
    • Broken Middle Matzah (Smaller Half). He is the Son Who was chewed up and spit on.
    • Human. He is God veiled in human flesh Who would be cut off like the foreskin.
    Isaiah 53 is identified as Messianic by the Jews. It clearly teaches that a human will be offered a sacrificial lamb (verse 7) and as a guilt offering (verse 11) and a sin bearer and intercessor (verses 11-12). Isaiah is identifying the Messiah, the servant of God, as both a priest and a sacrifice.
  So there were not two Messiahs, it was one God in two Persons fulfilling different but related roles to accomplish the Plan of Salvation.

So Jews believe in a set of prophecies that show that He would be divine and that they would reject and mock Him. They also believed that He would take their sins. Therefore, they should have seen the sacrificial system as Messianic.

The Plural Nature of God
Shema. Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is One! (Deuteronomy 6: 4)
This testimony in the Old Testament scriptures prove to Jews that there is no Trinity (Godhead) and that Jesus is not divine. How can this be explained and what other evidence exists of this triple nature or function of God in the scriptures?

• The Perfect Marriage. This is an example of two people becoming one. It is also the symbol God uses to demonstrate our relationship to Him. Our unfaithfulness to Him is prostitution and adultery.
  For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. (Genesis 2: 24)
  So when Jesus said He was one with the Father, it could mean that He was totally committed and faithful as humans should be, or that He was also God, or He was the Father in human form. In any case, the possibilities demonstrate how many can be "one". So the Shema, by itself is not proof of God being one single, physical being. It may only mean that unlike the warring, jealous Pagan gods, the God of Israel is totally united as in a perfect marriage.
• Elohim. In the scriptures, God has used a plural word to describe Himself.
  Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image; according to Our likeness ..." (Genesis 1: 26)
  In verse 27 He switches to the singular.
  God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (Genesis 1: 27)
  This could be a reflection of the fact that the angels and other creatures were there. But this also suggests that the plural God decided to create man and one of the plurality carried out the task.
  Notice that it also took both man and woman to reflect the image and likeness and oneness of God. It takes both to complete the creative process and create a child in their likeness. It probably takes the oneness of both to complete all tasks that reflect the power of God.
  The New Testament also alludes to this singularity and plurality and to the fact that God created by speaking or by sound waves.
  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.
  He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1: 1-4, 10, 14)
  Jesus Christ was the Creator. He was the singularity. He was sent by the plurality as the Word or the source of the sound that was spoken in the creation.

Cutting Up God. It is ironic that after they cut up the offering, they went to a chamber to recite the SHEMA. At the moment they were declaring that their God was One, they had symbolically finished cutting Him up into pieces!

The Divinity of Jesus
"I and the Father are one". The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him. (John 10: 30-31)
When Jesus said this they did not try to stone Him because He was claiming to be faithfully united to God. They were stoning Him because He seemed to indicate that He was God. There is no record that He ever tried to deny those claims.

• Mighty God. Speaking of the Messiah, Isaiah calls one who is born as a human child, "Mighty God" and the "Eternal Father".
  For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; and this government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9: 6)
  Creator God and Redeemer in the Exodus. Jewish rabbis link the Messiah to Isaiah 9: 6 and many other old Testament verses that refer to the God of creation and the Lord of the exodus who delivered them. If these are Messianic references then the Messiah is God. The list includes these passages that refer to God.
  The Messiah is the "I Am". You are My witnesses, declares the Lord, and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, and there will be none after Me. (Isaiah 43: 10)
  Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God and there is no other. (Isaiah 45: 22)
  The Messiah is God. For your husband is your Maker, whose name is the Lord of Hosts. And your redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, who is called the God of all the earth. (Isaiah 54: 5)
• God Has a Son. The One Who created the world has a Son.
  The Creator. Who has ascended into heaven and descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has wrapped the waters in the garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth?
  What is His name or His son's name? Surely you know! (Proverbs 30: 4)
• God Came to Earth. God humbled Himself and come from heaven to experience earth as a human.
  Humanity. Who is like the Lord our God Who dwells on high, Who humbles Himself to behold the things that are in heaven and earth. (Psalm 113: 5-6)
• Humanity Hiding Divinity. There are at least twelve symbols of Judaism that show a picture of divinity cloaked in humanity. The same symbols indicate death with four wounds in His body and the ability to spring back to life from a power within Himself.
• The Lord's Goat. This is a minor point. If the scapegoat Azazel is Satan, then the Lord's goat must be the Lord. Therefore, the Lord G-d offers Himself to die as the sin offering to atone for us.
  "He shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the doorway of the tent of meeting. "Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the scapegoat. "Then Aaron shall offer the goat on which the lot for the LORD fell, and make it a sin offering. (Leviticus 16: 7-9)
  I am not simply acknowledging that these were substitutes or symbols of ideas. I am saying that if you believe that the scapegoat is Satan then you must believe that the Lord's goat is the Lord. And if He is the Lord, then the Lord will die as an atonement for sin.

The Trinity (Godhead)

• Passover Matzo. Three Matzo are lifted up at the blessing (Motzi Matzo), signifying the moment Christ was lifted up on the cross. This also means that they were all suffering on the cross for the sins of the world.
  • Top Matzah ("Eternal Father"). This indicates that the Father was swallowed up with Christ.
  • Middle Matzah ("Jesus Christ"). This was broken in two before the smaller half was eaten.
  • Bottom Matzah ("Holy Spirit"). This bread was released before the top two were eaten. This is the moment the Holy Spirit was released or given up as He died. This bread was also eaten.
    Releasing the Spirit. and Jesus cried again with a loud voice and yielded up His Spirit. (Matthew 27: 50)
• The Samekh (Support). This old version of the Hebrew letter samek looks like a cross with three cross bars. Like the three matzo, it seems to suggest two supporting one as the meaning of the letter suggests.
• Grain Offering. Three breads were offered with the grain offering at the ordination or consecration of a priest.
  and one cake of bread and one cake of bread mixed with oil and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread which is set before the LORD. (Exodus 29: 23)
  • Cake of Bread ("Father"). He is the one cake of bread. He has His own will.
  • Cake of Bread with Oil ("Holy Spirit"). He is the one cake of bread mixed with oil. He also has His own will. The Holy Spirit is also symbolized by olive oil.
  • Wafer of Unleavened Bread ("Obedient Son"). He is the chosen wafer from the basket of unleavened bread. The whole basket are humans. On Passover, Israel is the basket of wafers that has removed all traces of leaven from their homes. Jesus is the one sinless human chosen from that basket who was without the leaven because He is totally submitted to the will of the Father so that He can be without sin.
• Three Pilgrimages of Israel. This represents the three times when each member of the Godhead comes to earth to accomplish a part of the Plan of Salvation to rescue us by destroying sin in the past, present and future.
  Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. Three times a year all your males should appear before the Lord. (Exodus 23: 14, 17)
  • Passover ("Jesus Christ"). He came to Jerusalem to die as the Passover Lamb.
  • Pentecost ("Holy Spirit"). He came in fire on Shavuot (Pentecost) to write the law of God on the tables of our heart, just as God came to Sinai on Shavuot in fire to write the ten commandments on tables of stone.
  • Tabernacles ("Eternal Father"). He will come on Tabernacles to take the righteous to live with Him.
• The Myrtle (Hadas). At Tabernacles the lulav included three myrtles on the right side of the bouquet. This is a plant with small oval leaves in the shape of eyes. The leaves from the correct species of holy myrtle also grow in a set of triplets from the same node.
  • Eyes ("Omniscient"). Many objects associated with the sight of God are covered with eyes.
    • ("Wheels"). The throne of God had wheels full of eyes. (Ezekiel 1: 18)
    • ("Lamb"). The Lamb by the throne of God had seven eyes. (Revelation 5: 6)
    • ("Menorah"). This source of light was decorated with almonds that were shaped like eyes. (Exodus 37: 17-24; Jeremiah 1: 11-12)
  • Right Hand ("Omnipotent"). The right hand is associated with power. Being on the right hand means that the object is the weapon of power. If you are on the right hand of power, then your are His instrument of judgment. When God is on your right hand, He is the source of your power. These two conditions can occur simultaneously when you are face to face with God in a hand shake or a kiss.
  • All Directions ("Omnipresent"). The myrtle was a part of the lulav which was waved in all six directions.
• The Lulav. This bouquet contains three different species of plants which were waved in all directions. Each is said to represent a part of the body, and three different personalities and the response of each personality to the torah and good deeds. The Christian meanings are explained by the Jewish understanding of the symbol.
  • 3 Myrtles on the Right ("Hadas") Eyes. This is the Father, the eyes of God, who represents the perfect will of the Trinity. The triple form represents the Trinity. The hadas represents the one who knows the Torah and who is devoted to the pursuit of wisdom so that he can know and follow God.
  • 1 Palm in the Center ("Lulav") Spine. This is the Holy Spirit sent to earth to be the companion of mankind, in His form as God. The spine is a symbol of one who bends his back to work without breaking and the one who stands straight against the wind. With the help of the Spirit, Jesus bent His back to bear our burdens and Satan could never break Him.
    According to the Jews, the palm represents the one who does good deeds. His duty is to make us do the work or good deeds of God that is the fruit of one who submits to the will and law of God.
  • 2 Willows on the Left ("Aravah") Mouth. This is Jesus, the mouth of God, in two forms. He is the creative power of God using sound. He is God and Man. As both He helps humanity. The willow is also said to represent the one who says, "I have nothing, I am nothing". This is what Jesus suffered for our sins. Although Jesus is the willow, He demonstrates all aspects of all the three species because perfection lies in being all three.
  In a way, Jesus is all three. He is full of wisdom. He is the spine that stood courageously on the cross. He is the mouth who was silenced during the trials and crucifixion.
  Etrog. Although the three branches of myrtle represents the perfect Trinity, yet the three species in the lulav represent the work of the different members of the Trinity as they try to bring perfection to the earth. Together, all three bear fruit in the etrog which represents the one who combines Torah and good deeds in perfection.

Jesus Fulfills All Time Requirements

Decree Birth Work Sat Sun Mon Tues Wed Thur Friday Saturday Sunday 457 BC 4 BC 27 AD 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - Night 6 Day 6 Night 7 Day 7 Night 8 Day 8 9 453 Years 30 Years 3½ Years Nisan 9 Nisan 10 Nisan 11 Nisan 12 Nisan 13 Nisan 14 Nisan 15 Nisan 16 17 Jesus in the Bowels 3 Days and Nights Seed Tree Fourth Year Fruit Harvest Fruit Offered to God and Eaten - 33½ Years Mary Anoints Final week of His Ministry (31 AD) Wash Feet Sabbath Nocturnal Emission Dead Raised Clean - Israel Strays From God Torn, Wounded Bandage, heal Revived Raised Woman Needs Cleansing Peace, Passover No Worms Wavesheaf Life Ministry Ordination (Seven Days) LORD Appears

Absolute Time. Jesus made every offering on time and disposed of them in the time required so that He could be clean and enter the camp in Heaven at sunset on Nisan 17 (Sunday evening).
The Holy Spirit was the Water that He bathed in to resurrect Himself and to become clean.

• Killed ("486.5 years"). He was killed in the middle of the last seven years of the 490 years given to the Jews after the last decree to leave Babylon and rebuild Jerusalem (457 BC).
• Mother Cleansed ("33 Days/Years"). He lived 33 years before He was killed. The church was cleansed after this.
• Fruit Harvest ("In the Fourth Year"). He ministers for 3.5 years before He was killed and given back to God.
• Ordination ("7 Days"). After Mary anointed Him on Nisan 9, He remained in Jerusalem for seven days.
  » LORD Appears ("Day 8"). On the eighth day of His inauguration He appeared to Mary (Nisan 16).
• In the Heart of the Earth ("3 Days and Nights"). Jesus was handed over to His enemies after sunset on Nisan 14 and was resurrected from the dead on Nisan 16 and left the earth at sunset that day.
  for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. (Matthew 12: 40)
• Peace Offering ("1 Day"). Leviticus 19: 6. It was eaten the same day and next but the remainder must be burned on the third day. Jesus was offered and eaten on Nisan 14 and swallowed on Nisan 15 with no leftovers. On the third day He stood before the eternal flames of the Father and He was not burned up.
• Passover ("Same Day to Midnight"). The sacrifice was not to be left over until morning (Exodus 34: 25). Jesus was buried on the same day He was killed, at the 3 PM evening sacrifice, before sunset on Nisan 14.
• Ordination Ram ("Same Day to Midnight"). Jesus was buried before sunset on the day He died.
• Cursed and Hung on a Tree ("Same Day"). Deuteronomy 21: 22-23. The man on death row who is hung on a tree because he is cursed by God must be buried the same day.
• No Worms on the Manna ("Sabbath"). The manna from heaven would have no worms during the Sabbath because His body would not decay (Exodus 16: 14-27,32).
  Two items in the Ark of the Covenant appear to prove that Christ would only be dead for one day.
  • Manna. Every day the people gathered about an omer of manna for each person.
    This is what the Lord has commanded, "Gather of it every man as much as he should eat; you shall take an omer a piece according to the number of persons each of you has in his tent." (Exodus 16: 16)
    On Friday they gathered two omers for Friday and Sabbath.
    Now on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. (Exodus 16: 22)
    However, they saved only one omer in the golden jar in the ark of the covenant.
    One Omer in the Ark of the Covenant. Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar and put an omerful of manna in it, and place it before the Lord to be kept throughout your generations." (Exodus 16: 33)
    This means that there was just enough manna for one person for one day. It appears to prove symbolically that Christ would only be dead for one day. Since the manna did not spoil it proves that this was the manna that was reserved for Sabbath. So He would be dead on the Sabbath.
  • Aaron's Rod. The choice of Aaron also proves that the dead High Priest would rise after one day.
    Rod Sprouted in One Day. Now on the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds. (Numbers 17: 8)
    Christ sprouted to life on the next day, proving that He was the High Priest chosen by God.
• Seminal Emission ("Evening"). Leviticus 15: 16. Asleep in death, His seed resurrected the dead during the night of Nisan 16, He was clean by the next evening (Nisan 17).
• Wave the Sheaf ("Day After the Sabbath"). He rose on the day after the Sabbath on the morning of Nisan 16.
• Injured Slave Survives After A Day or Two. As the slave of Israel, they were not accountable for His death because He was alive a day or two after His injury. So, under this rule, no vengeance is applied to the Jews because He was both a Son and a Slave.
  If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, he survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken for he is his property. (Exodus 21: 20-21)
• Torn, Wounded, Revived and Raised in 3 Days. He was torn and wounded after the trial and crucifixion on Nisan 14, wrapped and bandaged with the grave cloths and spices then healed with a Sabbath rest on Nisan 15, and revived and raised at dawn on Nisan 16, the third day.
  Three Days of Affliction. Come, let us return to the Lord. For He has torn us but He will heal us; He has wounded us but He will bandage us. He will revive us after two days; He will raise us up on the third day, that we may live before Him.
  Raised at Dawn. So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord. His going forth is as certain as the dawn; And He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth. (Hosea 6: 1-3)
• Touched by the Unclean ("Evening"). Numbers 19: 14,22. If Mary had touched Him after the resurrection, He would be clean by sunset when He went back to heaven. She was unclean for seven days because she had touched the dead when she embalmed Him on Friday.
• Rebuilding the Walls ("52 Days"). The walls represent the foundation of the church.

  Passover (Nisan 14) 14 15 16 17 ... 23 ... 5 6 Pentecost (Sivan 6) Crucifixion Feast of Weeks 3 Days (Sanctuary Rebuilt) 49 Days (Walls Rebuilt)

  
  Twelve Tribes. It had a great high wall with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names were written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel.
  Twelve Disciples. And the wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. (Revelation 21: 12, 14)
  Like, Nehemiah, Jesus rebuilds the walls of the city in 52 days. From the time the walls and sanctuary collapsed on Nisan 14, when He died and Israel turned against Him and the disciples deserted Him until Pentecost it was 52 days. It took three days to raise up or rebuild the sanctuary at the resurrection. He was the sanctuary. On Pentecost the walls were rebuilt after 52 days when the disciples received the Holy Spirit.

Relative Time. Jesus also fulfilled events in relative time that is based on two laws.

• Righteous Fruit. God expects fruit offering in the fourth year. (Leviticus 19: 23-25)
• Judgment of the Wicked. The wicked are judged between the third and fourth generation. (Deuteronomy 5: 8-10)

So all judgment of the righteous and the wicked is given between the third and the fourth period.

• Before Birth ("Between The Third and Fourth Month"). Mary's Fruit of the womb visited John in his fourth month in the womb. John leaped for joy.
• 27-31AD ("Between The Third and Fourth Year"). He was killed after three and a half years of ministry.
• Between The Third and Fourth Millennium. Jesus came in the fourth millennium after creation and sin.
• Rome ("The Fourth Kingdom"). He was killed by the Greco-Roman empire which was numbered as the fourth kingdom by the prophecies of Daniel. Rome absorbed elements of the third kingdom (Greece) in its culture.
• Levi and Judah ("The Third and Fourth Sons by Birth"). The first two sons, Reuben and Simeon, were not used to represent Christ. However Jesus was represented by a combination of the third and fourth sons. Levi was the priest and Judah was the monarchy.
• Reuben ("The Fourth Tribe to March"). The beginning of His intense agony was symbolized by Reuben, the fourth son to march on the exodus. He represented the phase of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.

The Comings of the Messiah

End of Sin 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ordination Period (Seven Times) LORD Appears

The law about the ordination of priests states that the LORD should appear in glory at the temple on the eighth day after the priests are ordained (Leviticus 9: 1-6). On several time scales we will demonstrate how Jesus Christ repeatedly follows this law in specific sets of eight periods of time.

• Birth (First Coming). On the eighth day after His birth Jesus appeared at the temple to be circumcised as a sign of joining the covenant.
  • Lamb. On the eighth day after He was anointed by Mary, He appeared to her first at His resurrection.
  • High Priest. On the eighth day after He was resurrected, He first appeared to the disciples again after the inauguration ceremony in heaven.
  • Holy Spirit. After seven sevens (weeks), at the beginning of the eighth week after His resurrection (Day 50), the Holy Spirit appeared to the disciples who were being anointed as priests of the new covenant.
  • The Glorious Temple. Seventy sevens after the temple permits to build, the Messiah would appear. That temple was destroyed about 70 years after His birth, within the eighty sevens.
• Warrior King (Second Coming). The LORD Jesus Christ will appear to gather the saints at the beginning of the eighth period of time after His anointing at the crucifixion. The actual time scale is uncertain. Will it be months or Jubilees or by task? He will appear at the end of the seventh church, the end of the seventh seal and the end of the seventh trumpet.
• Bridegroom (Third Coming). At the beginning of the eighth millennium after sin, God appears with the city of New Jerusalem and creates a new heaven and earth to distribute our inheritance.

Three Days and Nights. Several patriarchs and prophets suffered the same fate of Jesus as they were in the hands of their enemies for three days and nights. Peter and Paul both testify that the righteous are asked to suffer with Christ (1 Peter 4: 13 and Romans 8: 17-18).

• Leviathan: The Great Fish. Leviathan is pictured as a creature with the head of a fish. Jonah spent three nights and days in the great fish. This is supposed to represent the number of days that Jesus spent in the hands of His enemies. (Matthew 12: 38-41)
• Saul Tries to Murder David. David was with his friend Jonathan as he tried to avoid the wrath of King Saul.
  So David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I ought to sit down to eat with the king But let me go, that I may hide myself in the field until the third evening. (1 Samuel 20: 5)
  Although Jesus died during the full moon, there were conditions that could only occur during the new moon. The supernatural darkness could not have been created by a normal solar eclipse. The inauguration of the new church and the eclipsing of the light of God are all conditions that signified a new moon.
• Punished Like David. He endured all the possible punishments that David deserved (2 Samuel 24: 13-14).
  • God: Three Days of Plagues. Punished by God for three days. This is the option David chose.
  • Enemies: Three Months Running. The Jews tried to stone Him at Hannukah (John 10: 22-31) and He left Jerusalem and returned three months later to raise Lazarus and to be crucified.
  • Land: Seven Years of Famine. After seven years of ministry to the Jews He had to turn to the Gentiles.
• Balaam Strikes The Donkey Three Times. Christ is the donkey we struck and cursed for three days.
• Joseph in Prison. He interpreted dreams that pointed to Christ being in prison for three days and he imprisoned his ten brothers for three days. Ten priests (ten brothers) carried the cut up offerings at the feasts.

Three Days and Nights in the Bowels Confusion.

Three Days and Nights in the Bowels Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Night 1 Day 1 Night 2 Day 2 Night 3 Day 3 Passover Feast of Unleavened Bread Nissan 14 Nissan 15 Nissan 16 Lamb Killed Sabbath Wavesheaf Tortured, Killed Buried Resurrection Boil, Spit, Chew Swallow Vomit Jesus Eaten in the Bowels Jonah in the Belly of the Fish Jonah 1: 14-16 Jonah 1: 17 Jonah 2: 10

There has been a lot of confusion about when Jesus died if He was "in the bowels of the earth" for three days. Many assumed that this meant that He was buried for three days. If so, He must have been crucified on Wednesday. But the details about the crucifixion indicated that He died on Friday and rose on Sunday morning. So the assumption is that we do not fully understand the expression "in the bowels or heart of the earth". So here is the solution.

• Preparation Day. This is the day before which was used to prepare for a Sabbath.
  When evening had already come, because it was the preparation day, that is, the day before the Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea came, a prominent member of the council, who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God; and he gathered up courage and went in before Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. (Mark 15: 42)
  Jesus died and was buried on the day before the Sabbath, called the "preparation day".
• High Sabbath. Jesus died the day before a high Sabbath.
  Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. (John 19: 31)
  A feast Sabbath could occur on any day of the week. A high Sabbath is the merging of two Sabbaths when the Sabbath of a feast day occurs on the Weekly Sabbath.
  » The Passover Feast. Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread lasted from Nisan 14 to 21. The day after Passover was Nisan 15. It was the first Sabbath of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Nisan 21 was the second Sabbath of that feast
  In the first month on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the Lord's Passover. Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work. But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. On the seventh day is a holy convocation, you shall not do any laborious work. (Leviticus 23: 5-8)
  Jesus was arrested the same night He ate the Passover night and died several hours later during the day and was buried quickly because sunset was approaching and the Sabbath would begin. So He was in the grave on the first Sabbath of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. It could only have been a high Sabbath if Nisan 15 occurred on the weekly Sabbath.
• Resurrection on the First Day. He was ressurected by dawn on Sunday.
  Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb while it was still dark, and saw the stone already taken away from the tomb. (John 20: 1)

» A Wednesday or Thursday Crucifixion? Since the story is very clear that Jesus rose on the morning of the first day of the week (Sunday), some assume that He must have been buried since Wednesday or Thursday to be "in the bowels" three days and nights.

-	Wednesday			Thursday			Friday				Saturday				Sunday
-	Night	Day	Night		Day	Night 1		Day 1		Night 2		Day 2	Night 3				Day 3
	-					Three Days and Nights in The Bowels of the Earth
	Nissan 12		Nissan 13			Nissan 14				Nissan 15				Nissan 16
	Nissan 13		Nissan 14			Nissan 15				Nissan 16				Nissan 17
	Nissan 14		Nissan 15			Nissan 16				Nissan 17				Nissan 18
	-		Passover		Three Days And Nights Buried in A Tomb											Alive
Passover Sabbath: Occurs on Nisan 15							Weekly Sabbath: Occurs on Friday Sunset to Saturday
Jesus was embalmed in 75-100 lbs of spice before He was buried (John 19: 38-42; Luke 23: 50-56). Mary bought more spices and came to complete the job on Sunday (Mark 16: 1-2)

They do not account for the specific details. He was arrested, tried, nailed on the cross, died and buried quickly near sunset before a high Sabbath immediately after eating the Passover meal.

• No High Sabbath. The Passover Sabbath is on Nisan 15 and the weekly Sabbath on Nisan 16 or 17.
• Buried in the Morning. If He was buried in a tomb for three complete days and nights then He must have died and been buried at dawn on Thursday morning to be raised at dawn on Sunday morning. These are not the facts. He was buried quickly before sunset as a Sabbath was beginning.
• Dead on Sabbath. Below we show that the symbols, promises and laws indicate that He would be dead for only one day and that this day would be the Sabbath.

» In the Bowels of the Earth. So our misunderstanding must be with this phrase. The bowels could be any place between the mouth and the anus. Just as Jonah was not dead when he was in the belly of the whale, Jesus was not necessarily dead when He was "in the belly of the earth". This phrase means that at this point He was given over into the hand of His enemies. The wicked people made of clay had beseiged Him like a flood and devoured Him. Many prophecies show how their behavior mimicked the actions of eating and devouring Him. Those actions signify that He was literally and symbolically "in the bowels".

• Seder. When He went to Jerusalem, knowing what was going to happen, He was giving Himself over to the wicked people of earth.
• Condemned to Death. When they decided to have Him killed despite the real evidence, He was dead.
• Betrayed. When He was betrayed with a bribe the Lamb was being sold for food.
• Tied Up. When He was arrested and tied with ropes, He was being prepared for slaughter.
• Unjust Trial. When He was tried in an unjust trial with false witnesses and questioned all night while surrounded only by His enemies, He was being grilled and roasted.
  For my days have been consumed in smoke, and my bones have been scorched like a hearth. (Psalm 102: 3)
• Stripped Naked. He was being skinned alive when He was stripped naked.
• Beaten. When they beat Him they were tearing down the walls and pounding the meat for consumption.
• Chothes Torn. When they tore His outer garment they were tearing down the sanctuary walls.
• Disciples Scatered. When the disciples ran away, the stones of His city were being removed and thrown away.
• Via Dolorosa. When He was slapped and the crowd lined the road and reached out for Him on the road to Golgotha it was the finger-like structures of the bowels called the vilii which where pushing Him towards calvary.
• Nailed. When they nailed Him they were poking holes in the Passover Matzah.
• Spit. When they spit on Him, they were chewing Him in their mouth with saliva.
  Spit (Saliva). They spat in His face and beat Him with their fists; and others slapped Him. (Matthew 26: 67)
• Mocking. When they mocked Him they were gnashing at Him with their teeth and tearing Him to pieces.
  Chewed. Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed at me with their teeth. (Psalm 35: 16)
• Gall. When they gave Him gall, they were delivering the bile from the gall bladder.
• Vinegar. When He was given vinegar, it was the stomach acid. At this point He said, "It is finished".
• Water. When water poured out of His side, it was the phase where the large intestine removes water.
• Buried. When they buried Him, He was simply being passed through the intestines.
• Earthquake. This was the gastrocolic reflex which propels food through the bowels.
• Resurrection. He was being regurgitated out of the bowels.
• Ascension. When He went up to heaven near sunset, He was being vomited out of the earth to heaven.

Several texts describe how He would suffer for three days before He was resurrected. After examining all the evidence it is clear that the three days included all His suffering in captivity after Judas handed Him over. The counting of the time began with the first incidence of rejection and suffering, not after He was buried. Also notice how all the statements are not precise.
Three Days Later. Behold we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes and they will condemn Him to death and will hand Him over to the Gentiles. They will mock Him and spit on Him, and scourge Him and kill Him, and three days later He will rise again. (Mark 10: 33-34)
On The Third Day. From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day. (Matthew 16: 21 also Matthew 12:40; 17:22-23; 20:18-19; 27:63 and Luke 9: 22)
After Three Days. And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and after three days rise again. (Mark 8: 31)
In Three Days. Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up". (John 2: 19)
This statement was misquoted by witnesses at the trial (Matthew 27: 40; 26: 61; Mark 14: 58; 15:29).

The Suffering Messiah
The Jews reject Christ because He seemed to be a failure. He did not conquer their enemies, but suffered ridicule and death and was conquered. But Paul says that all the prophets predicted His suffering.
The Messiah Would Suffer. "But the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. (Acts 3: 18)
Many prophecies predict both His suffering and triumph and other details of the Plan of Salvation. A close examination of the major and minor prophets leads us to conclude that the specific predictions about His suffering lies in these forms:

• The Words and Visions of the Prophet. The predictions were expressed clearly in the words of the prophets.
  • Direct Prophecy. The clearest evidence is in the prophecy of Isaiah 53, Psalms 22 and 69. Some prophets even predicted His death.
    » Daniel. He said that the Messiah would be "cut off" (Daniel 9: 26).
    » Isaiah. He said that "the Branch", whom the Jews identify as the Messiah, would be despised, rejected, pierced, crushed, treated as a leper and "cut off out of the land of the living" (Isaiah 53: 8).
    » David. He said that the Messiah would be a reproach, despised, pierced hands and feet and "laid in the dust of death" (Psalm 22: 15).
    » Moses. The sacrificial system predicted His death. Like Moses, the rebellion of the people caused Him to strike out in anger so that He was cut off before entering the Promised Land.
    » Nathan. Although verses 12-13 are viewed as Messianic, the words in verse 14 were never seen as Messianic because it would say that the sinless Messiah committed sins.
    Rod and Stripes. I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me. When he commits iniquity I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men. (2 Samuel 7: 14)
    But now we know that they were referring to Jesus at the time He took up our sins and claimed responsibility for them. After this He was severely beaten by the Romans with a rod that created striped marks on His body.
  • Indirect Prophecy. Other prophecies appear as instructions to others. The blessings of Jacob and Moses to the twelve tribes were both a prediction about them, and also about the Messiah.
    The names of the chosen were an acknowledgment of the experience of their mothers, but it was also a prophecy about Christ.
• The Life of the Prophet. But many other prophets were asked to live out the experience of Christ. In that life that they lived and the strange tasks that God asked them to perform is a prediction of His suffering and His work.
  • Job. He demonstrates how the Messiah suffered because of His loved ones and Satan.
    • Satan. He made a deal to take and try to break Him with intense suffering and deprivation.
    • God. He handed Him over to suffering because He had confidence in His love.
    • Friends and Family. They were a source of distress rather than comfort.
  • Jonah. Jesus, Himself said that the three days and nights Jonah spent in the fish were a type of the three days and nights He would suffer in the hands of His enemies.
  • Jeremiah. The torment of Jeremiah written in chapters 10 and 15 are a blueprint of the suffering of Christ on the cross.
    • Alone (Jeremiah 1: 15; 15: 16-18). Jesus was unmarried and He died with nothing and no one.
    • Cursed and Hated (Jeremiah 15: 10). The people and his friends mocked and laughed at him.
    • Abandoned by God (Jeremiah 20: 7-10). He felt that God had deceived Him and abandoned Him.
  • Ezekiel. Chapter 12 may be a prophesy of His final week as Jesus lived as an exile destined to be captured by "Babylon". In this week, Jesus substituted Himself for us by being punished by "Babylon".
    • Baggage (Ezekiel 12: 7). The cross was the baggage on His shoulders. He was carrying the burden of our sins.
    • Exile (Ezekiel 12: 3). Jesus traveled between the temple and Bethany during that week. In the morning He came to the temple and in the evening He went back to Bethany with His disciples.
    • The Prince in the Dark (Ezekiel 12: 12). Jesus is the Prince of the Covenant who went out at night to the Garden of Gethsemane and was caught and arrested. He was rejected by God during three hours of darkness.
    • Caught in a Net (Ezekiel 12: 13). Jesus was caught in a snare, crafted by the evil plot of Judas and the Priests. They brought Him to Rome, a type of Babylon and He died there.
    • Scattered (Ezekiel 12: 14). His disciples were scattered.
    • Scapegoat (Ezekiel 28: 16-19). He was treated like Satan after he threw out the money changers with violence.
  • Isaiah. Isaiah was the only major prophet who had many direct prophecies about the Messiah. But his life also revealed the ordeal of Christ. He was naked and barefoot for three years. Christ also worked for three years. As a human, who put aside His divinity (naked) and omnipresence (barefoot). He was basically a naked and barefoot God who had to rely on the Father for strength and support.
  • Hosea. Marry an unfaithful prostitute. The names of the three children were a sign of their rejection. He would end Israel, and no longer have compassion and they would not be His people nor would He be their God. This is the scope of the rejection of Christ and it is what happened to the Jews when they were rejected for the Gentiles.
  • Abraham and Isaac. The son who submitted to death and the father who gave His only son.
  Perhaps God used the example of the lives of these chosen people to instruct Christ in lessons that He had to learn to prepare Him for the cross. So, just as the laws taught Him what was legally required, the lives of the chosen taught Him what to expect emotionally and how to overcome.
• The Experience of the People. The connection to a suffering Messiah was not as clear in the writings of five prophets. But taking Acts 3: 18 as a clue we looked at these stories. We concluded that just as the experience of the people in the exodus was a blueprint to the sufferings of Christ, so we can find the path of Christ in all the experiences of the people that God chose to memorialize as a prophecy. The implication is that all prophecy is about Christ. If it appears as a warning or comfort to the people, then it will also be an example of the life of Christ. He cannot be their Messiah if He does not walk in their shoes and suffer their sufferings and take their guilt.
  • Joel. In Acts 2: 17-21, the disciples applied Joel 2: 28-32 as a fulfillment of the day of Pentecost. So if we applied the previous verses to events before Pentecost we can see that Joel predicted that Jesus would be cut off. Jesus describes Himself as the vine and the bread of life. He also describes Israel as the fig tree that failed to bear fruit. Joel is the picture of the condition of the people at the crucifixion because those times were also "the Day of the Lord".
    It has made My vine a waste and My fig tree splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast them away; their branches have become white. Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth. (Joel 1: 7-8) Jesus was the bridegroom of the young virgin Israel whom she slaughtered. But God will restore her as a wife in her old age (Isaiah 54).
    The vine dries up, the fig tree fails ... Has not food been cut off from before your eyes ... (Joel 1: 12, 16)
  • Amos. The "Day of the Lord" brings earthquake, darkness and weeping for an only son.
    It will come about in that day, declares the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down at noon and make the earth dark in broad daylight ... And I will make it a time of mourning for an only son, and the end of it will be like a bitter day. (Amos 8: 9-10)
  • Obadiah. If you read this prophecy and substitute Edom for the people of Israel at the crucifixion, then the connection becomes clear. Edom is descended from Esau who was supposed to get the birthright of the firstborn. But he did not care for this inheritance and sold it to his twin brother for a pot of soup. Israel at the time of Christ is about to be rejected because they also despised their birthright by despising and rejecting their Messiah. So they sinned against Christ in the same way that Edom sinned against Jacob.
    • Deceived by a Friend. ... They who eat your bread will set an ambush for you ... (verse 7)
    • Israel and Foreigners Cast Lots and Looted His Possessions. On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem - You too were as one of them (verse 11)
    • Gloating at their Misfortune. Do not gloat over your brother's day, the day of his misfortune. And do not rejoice over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction. Yes, do not boast in the day of their distress. Do not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster. Yes do not gloat over their calamity in the day of their disaster and do not loot their wealth in the day of their disaster. (verse 12-13)
      They mocked Jesus and rejoiced at His demise and stole His clothes.
    • Survivors Imprisoned. Do not stand at the fork of the road to cut down their fugitives, and do not imprison their survivors in the day of their distress. (verse 14)
      The disciples were shut up in hiding because they were afraid of the Jews. (John 20: 19)
  • Zephaniah. Jesus was the Prince Who was punished. The soldiers placed foreign garments on Him. He also took off the garment of divinity and put on the garment of humanity to take our punishment.
    ... for the Lord has prepared a sacrifice, He has consecrated His guests. Then it will come about on the day of the Lord's sacrifice that I will punish the princes, the king's sons and all who clothe themselves with foreign garments. (Zephaniah 1: 7-8)
  • Haggai. At a time when the temple was desolate and the people only cared about their homes, God calls them to bring wood to build a house for Him. It would be a much simpler house than the one built by Solomon, but it would have more glory. In the future there would be a time when Israel would again be desolated and God called Christ to build Him a permanent house which would be more glorious.
    Go up to the mountains, bring wood and rebuild the temple, that I may be pleased with it and be glorified, says the Lord (Haggai 1: 8)
    Christ was the simple house of God Who carried the wood on His back to the top of a mountain called Calvary to build the permanent sanctuary of God.
• The Day of the Lord. This prophecy has a double application. It is the day God pours out His wrath on sinners.
  • Christ. This wrath of God was poured out on the day of His crucifixion. That was "the Day of the Lord" for the righteous when Christ suffered the wrath of God for them as God treated Him like one of the wicked.
  • Wicked. The "Day of the Lord" will occur at the end of time when God will pour out His wrath on the wicked in the seven last plagues and hell fire.
  
  Several prophets talk about this day of the Lord and the events that will occur and how we should prepare for it.
  • Elijah Comes. See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes. (Malachi 4: 5)
    » Christ. John the Baptist was the Elijah who came before the crucifixion. (Matthew 11: 14)
    » Wicked. Another like Elijah will come in the final days. Here is the lesson.
  • A Day of Preparation for Battle. You have not gone up to the breaks in the wall to repair it for the house of Israel so that it will stand firm in the battle on the day of the LORD. (Ezekiel 13: 5)
    » Christ. Christ maintained His perfection so that Satan could find nothing in Him. (John 14: 10)
    » Wicked. We must repair the walls to survive in the battle and turn the earth back from lawlessness. We must have the image of God reflected in us so that Satan does not find any of his image in us.
  • A Day of Decision. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. (Joel 3: 14)
    » Christ. Jesus decided to submit to death, even though He did not understand all the answers.
    » Wicked. It will be a day of decision, especially when the false Christ appears.
  • A Day of Destruction for Sinners. Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty. See, the day of the LORD is coming - a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it. (Isaiah 13: 6, 9)
    » Christ. Jesus was treated as a sinner and destroyed for our sins when He became sin.
    » Wicked. They will be destroyed during the plagues and at the Second and Third Coming.
  • Darkness at Noon. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. (Joel 2: 31) (also Amos 5: 18-20 and Amos 8: 9)
    » Christ. There was darkness at noon during the crucifixion.
    » Wicked. There will be darkness on the earth for 1000 years after the Second Coming.
  • Burn Like an Oven. Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire," says the LORD Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them. (Malachi 4: 1)
    » Christ. Jesus became the burnt offering on that day. He was reduced to ashes. Although the branch of Israel was cut off and Christ who was also known as the Branch which was cut off, His Seed survived the burning so that He became the Vine to which all the righteous will be attached.
    » Wicked. The wicked will be burnt up in the lake of fire and by fire and brimstone at the Second Coming.

Daniel and the Coming of the Messiah
The marvelous prophecy of Daniel 9 is discussed in more detail in the previous lesson about the 2300 days. But in Daniel we see the Messiah in all the prophecies.

• Daniel 2: 44 (The Rock). He is the Rock that smashes all earthly kingdoms and sets up His eternal kingdom.
• Daniel 7: 13-14 (The King). The King (the "Son of Man") who receives a kingdom from the "Ancient of Days".
• Daniel 8: 11 (High Priest). The High Priest and "Commander of the Host" who was usurped by the little horn.
• Daniel 9: 24-27 (The Messiah). The Messiah who came to earth and was killed
• Daniel 11: 22 (The Covenant Prince). The Prince of the covenant who was killed by the Romans and shattered in the reign of two kings:
  1. A Tax Collector who would die peacefully. Augustus Caesar ordered taxes to be raised in the kingdom. He died in his sleep.
  2. A vile person who had no right to be king. This was the pedophile named Tiberius Caeser who was the step son of Augustus.
• Daniel 12 (Michael). The great Prince who rescues and resurrects the people of God.

Daniel 9 - The Prophecy of the Messiah
Daniel 9 is such a remarkable prophecy that it is worth summarizing here. But it is discussed in The Messiah Comes.
The Jews would have 490 years after the decree to rebuild Jerusalem to fulfill the covenant. The final decree was issued by Artaxerxes in 457 BC. The Messiah would minister in the final seven years and be killed in the middle of those years.

2300 days (Daniel 8: 14)												Current Time
Daniel 9: 25, 26 (70 Weeks Cut Off) Daniel 9: 27							1810 days					Time of the End (Sanctuary Cleansed)
69 Prophetic Weeks			1 Prophetic Week
7 Weeks	62 Weeks		3½ days		3½ days		1810 years
49 years	434 years		3½ years		3½ years
457 BC decree to restore Jerusalem			27 AD Baptism	31 AD	Gospel preached to the Jews	34 AD	34 AD. Stephen is stoned	1844 AD				Judgment

The Work of the Messiah. The Messiah was to do several things according to Daniel 9: 24 and 27. He accomplished all these things when He died and became the substitute for sin. Up until this time we had only a promise and a sacrificial system that taught us about the work of the Messiah. As far as we were concerned there had been no remedy for sin.

First Coming	Second Coming	(Millennium) Time of peace	Third Coming	Eternity
Lamb (Suffering Messiah)	King (Conquering Messiah)		Judge (Executes Justice)

The Cleansing of the Woman
... when a woman gives birth and bears a male child then she shall be unclean for seven days, as in the days of her menstruation she shall be unclean. On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. Then she shall remain in the blood of her purification for thirty three days. She shall not touch any consecrated thing nor enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are completed. (Leviticus 12: 2-4)

The Sacrificial Lamb The same rules that applied to a son of the covenant, applied to the animal that is eligible for sacrifice. It must not be sacrificed until it is eight days old. When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be accepted as a sacrifice of an offering by fire to the Lord. (Leviticus 22: 27)

The laws in Leviticus seem very hard on the self-esteem of women but, as you will see, the rules for cleansing after a male child is born actually prophesied something about Christ and the church.
In Leviticus 12 we read the following procedure for the birth of a male child:

• The mother is unclean for seven days.
• On the eighth day the child was to be circumcised
• For thirty three days she was to remain unclean. She could not enter the sanctuary or touch anything that was holy.

The ritual suggests that the woman would be clean after seven days, yet it appeared to add another thirty three days. If God does not lie then the two moments of cleansing must be the same event and seven days must be the same period of time as thirty three days.
To understand this, remember two prophetic symbols. In the prophecies of Revelation and in the old testament, a woman represented the church (Israel). And a day is equal to a year of real time. It also seems that every time a feast or law declares a period of seven days, it signifies a covenant period or an appointed period of time.
This strange ritual actually outlined two prophecies. One about the male child and the other about the woman who gives birth to Him.

Unclean To be unclean means that one is in a state that will not exist in heaven. It does not necessarily indicate filth or deliberate sin. Sin caused the planet to be in a state of uncleanliness, sometimes out of necessity. A woman is clean during the greatest period of fertility and she is unclean when she is not fertile. In heaven we will be fruitful so that we can multiply at will.

1. The Child. Circumcision was the outward sign of participation in the covenant. It represented the death of the male seed. This was Jesus Christ, the seed that was cut off for sin so that God could keep His agreement to save us from sin.
2. The Woman. She was unclean until the seed was circumcised. But she was to remain unclean without access to the sanctuary for thirty three days.
   Christ was baptized when He was about thirty (Luke 3: 23), then He lived for another three and a half years. Therefore, He was thirty three when He died. It was only after this point in History that the church (the woman) was truly clean and could boldly gain access to the real sanctuary in heaven. For all the preceding four thousand years, this access was only a promise. But thirty three years after the male child who was the seed of the promise was born she had true access to heaven. The Child had made her clean before God.

Birth	Seven Days (The perfect time)	The Eighth Day		-
	The woman is unclean	Circumcised		Christ joins in the covenant
	Thirty Three Days	Clean		The woman is clean. She can enter the sancutary
	The woman is unclean. She remains in the blood of her purification. She cannot enter the sanctuary or touch the holy things
	Christ lived for thirty three years	Crucified		The church is clean. It can enter heaven.
	Animal stays with its mother for seven days	Sacrificed		Atonement is made
	66 Days from Nisan 1 to Pentecost			Pentecost	Law written in the heart

• Seven Days. Seven represents the complete amount of time. After the passage of the perfect time or designated amount of time. In the fullness of time.
• Thirty Three Days. Jesus died at thirty three years. This was the actual amount of time.
• Circumcision. Jesus fulfilled the covenant by becoming the sacrifice. The act of circumcision was to join in the covenant and to symbolize the cutting off of the promised male seed.
• Woman. Israel was the church who was not clean, who could not enter the heavenly sanctuary until the Seed was circumcised, thirty three years after He was born.
  We were not made right with God because of the birth. We were reconciled because of His death 33 years later.
• Blood of her Purification. After Jesus joined the covenant people eight days after His birth, the church can now anticipate the full cleansing. The real flesh and blood child who would purify her was actually alive. The living blood for her purification was with her. She was in the physical presence of the one whose blood would be used for her purification.
  » Niddah. The Jews refer to Jesus as a niddah and a bastard. A niddah is one who is conceived in the filth of menstruation when the woman is unclean. In a strange way this symbol of Israel being in the blood of purification, or unclean because of blood is a prophecy about how they would perceive him. He was a child who was living during the blood purification period of his mother. He was a niddah because Israel made Him unclean with her sins and He was conceived while the world was in sin. Even this insult is a prophecy, just as much as Caiaphas' statement in John 11: 50 (one dies for all).
  » Bastard. In Jewish thinking a bastard is not necessarily a child born out of wedlock, but a child who is born because of a prohibited relationship. Jesus became a bastard because His mother, Israel, was unfaithful to His Father so the question of His true father was in doubt.
  » Son of the Best Man. The claim also states that the man who fathered this bastard and niddah was the best man. Even in this they are not wrong. It was the Holy Spirit Who came to Mary and conceived Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is pictured as His brother and His best friend. As the brother, the law states that He should estalish His dead brother's house by bearing him a son and heir. The Holy Spirit did this by staying after Pentecost to establish the church. Now we can see that He also did this by planting the Seed in Mary, because Christ was essentially dead when He submitted to being born and fell into the earth or the womb of Mary.
• Sixty Six Days. From Nisan 1 to the day after Pentecost was 66 days. This was the first day in the life of the new church. So with the giving of the Holy Spirit in the new year of our salvation, the woman (church) is born and can begin another cleansing when the law is written in her heart.
  » The Girl Child. We also find an eerie similarity between the purification of the woman after the birth of a girl and the events of Revelation 13. In the ritual of the sanctuary, the priest could only serve until he was fifty. Sixty six was too old. Revelation 13 and 17 talk about a woman who tries to replace the role of the Son. Her number was six hundred and sixty six. The girl was too old and she was not circumcised. She could not be an effective substitute for this special cleansing. But she would be cleansed by her son after 33 days, then born again after 66 days and cleansed again.

The Cleansing Schedule

The Potential Messiah		Days of Separation		Unclean	Days of Purification		Total
Unfertilized Egg	Start	5 Days of Menstruation	End	7 Days	-		12 Days
Fertilized Egg (Female Child)		40 Weeks in the Womb		14 Days	Joins the Covenant	66 Days	360 Days
Fertilized Egg (Male Child)		40 Weeks in the Womb		7 Days		33 Days	320 Days
˜ 4000 Years waiting for the Messiah Seed of the Woman			Birth	He Lives on the Earth 33 Years

All people are unclean until they join the covenant. When a birth does not occur, then there are no people to purify except the woman (church). And only those who were part of the covenant could enter into the period of purification and be made eligible to approach the house of God (the sanctuary).

• Normal Gestation. The perfect time in the womb is 40 weeks, but the fetus can stay as long as 42 weeks. At 42 weeks the placenta begins to break down. So birth must occur at 40 to 42 weeks.
• Normal Menstruation. The total time is twelve days. It may be symbolic of twelve months or one prophetic year. This has the same seven and five split of time. In a period of twelve months, seven are dedicated to the feast schedule and there are five other months that are not dedicated to God.
• Birth of a Boy. The total time is forty weeks and forty days. Forty is the time of trial for the righteous.
• Birth of a Girl. The total time is forty weeks and eighty days. This is one prophetic year. Same as the woman.

The schedule seems to indicate that no matter what, God has fixed a maximum period of one year to complete all cleansing for the woman (church). But with the birth of the Messiah, He will reduce that time for the church because of the Son. The rest of His creation probably waits for the end of the year. We know that Satan, death and the wicked will be destroyed over one thousand years after the righteous are rescued.

The Unclean Male
The rules about offering show that the priest had to make an offering for himself first before he makes the offerings for the people. He must be clean and holy. However, like the woman, the law also shows that the male can be made unclean through his reproductive system.
If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he may not reenter the camp. But it shall be when evening approaches, he shall bathe himself with water; and at sundown he may enter the camp. (Deuteronomy 23: 10-11).
Nocturnal emission or a wet dream is an ejaculation of semen during sleep. This is a prophecy about what happens between the death (sleep) of Jesus and His rapture into heaven (the camp).

• Sleep. Jesus was in the sleep of death during the Sabbath after the crucifixion.
• The Seed of Life. While He was asleep in the grave, He symbolically had a nocturnal emission (He spilled His seed). This is similar to regurgitating the seed from the bowels of the earth.
  The penis is a sign of the covenant and circumcision is a sign of being cut off at the crucifixion. The testicles hold the seed of life. Although He was cut off, He still had life or seed within Him, so that even in death, while He was asleep He was able to show proof that He could give birth to the church.
  » The Resurrection of the First Fruits. The spilled Seed of Life caused the resurrection of the dead who became the first fruits with Him (Matthew 27: 52-53).
  » Out of the Bowels. Ejaculation is seed coming out of the bowels, just like vomiting in one who chews the cud.
  » Water for Impurity ("Holy Spirit"). He also has the water to cleanse those who had touched the dead.
• Bathe in Water. Jesus received the Holy Spirit which brought Him back to life. His atonement brought cleansing.
• The Camp. Like the leper, the camp is the place of the righteous. This is heaven. Christ went back to heaven at sunset on resurrection Sunday. Every law that says "unclean until the evening" is referring to this fact.

The Cleansing of the Sanctuary
Let us look at this time table on an even larger scale. Christ was carried in the womb for forty weeks, then He lived thirty three years before His death opened up the sanctuary to the woman. Israel wandered in the desert for forty years, then they entered the Promised Land. 3300 years later, the sanctuary in heaven was cleansed and the woman entered the time of her final judgment or vindication.
In the first case the church is cleansed of her sins at Passover by the death of Christ. In the second case, the sins of the church are cleansed from the sanctuary at the feast of Tabernacles.

Christ	40 weeks in the Womb	4BC	Enters Land of Israel	Lived 33 years		31AD	The church is clean.
Israel	40 Years in the Desert	˜1460BC		3300 Years		1844	The sanctuary in heaven is clean

The Birthday of Jesus

#	1				2				3				4					5				6				7				8					9				10				11				12
Month	Nisan				Iyar				Sivan				Tammuz					Ab				Elul				Tishri				Heshvan					Kislev				Tebeth				Shebat				Adar
Week	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1-4			5
Priest	1	2	All	3	4	5	6	7	All	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16-19				20-23				24	1	All	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16-19				20-24
John	39	40		-					All	Abijah	-	-		1	2	3	4	5 - 8				9 - 12				13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30-33				34-38
Jesus	14	15	16	17	18-21				22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31-34				35-38				39	40		-	-	Mary conceives								1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9-13
Birth. (Based on 360 days per year)																						The lunar month is 29.5 days so we inserted a week every four months
Week of conception. It takes 3-10 days to travel down the fallopian tube and be implanted. That time is not counted in the forty weeks

Jesus was born during the feast of Tabernacles because He came to tabernacle with humans. The evidence is based on following a timetable of events that began with the angel visiting the father of John the Baptist.

• Zecharias is Called ("Sivan 1- 14"). He was visited by the angel when it was his turn to do the priestly duties. David divided up the priests into 24 groups (1 Chronicles 24: 1-18). Each served the sanctuary for one week from one Sabbath to another (2 Chronicles 23: 8). All came to serve during the three great feasts (Deuteronomy 16:16). Zecharias was from the division of Abijah which was the eighth group. They served in the week after Pentecost (Shavuot). Since all priests had to serve at Pentecost it meant that He served those two weeks before going home.
  » Week 52. 48 assigned tours of duties and three feasts only accounts for 51 weeks. We assume that since the tours are from Sabbath to Sabbath and two feasts are a week long (one is 8 days long) that since the feasts do not start on a Sabbath that there is overlap which most likely occurs during Succos.
• Elizabeth Becomes Pregnant ("End of Sivan"). John comes home and Elizabeth becomes pregnant. In the worst case he could not touch her because she would be unclean for two weeks. In the best case she immediately became pregnant.
• Mary Becomes Pregnant ("Kislev 25"). This date is the first day of Hannukah (Feast of Dedication), the miracle of the festival of lights. It announces the One Who would be the Light of the world who was born by a miracle.
  The angel visited Mary when her cousin Elizabeth was six months pregnant (Luke 1: 24-27, 31). Then Mary went to visit her and stayed 3 months (Luke 1: 56-57). So she stayed until the birth of John and the Passover festival.
  » Assumptions. In this proof we have only made two assumptions.
  1. Abijah. He was serving the first course of his term in Sivan, not the second in Kislev.
  2. Pregnancy. Elizabeth became pregnant within one month after Zecharias came home.
  » Fruit in the Fourth Period. Mary stayed three months and she must have gone to the temple during John's circumcision in her fourth month. So the fruit of Mary's womb came to the temple during His fourth month in the womb to be presented to God as required (Leviticus 19: 23-25).
  Jesus also began His ministry in his fourth decade.
  Elizabeth's fourth month was in Tishri. Since all Jews were required to go to the temple, the fruit of her womb was also presented to God during His fourth month.
• John is Born on Passover ("Nisan 14"). John was born forty weeks after he was conceived. We placed the birth on the fourteenth because the Passover seder prophesied that Elijah would come during the Passover seder to introduce Israel to the Messiah. The scriptures identified John as the fulfillment of the coming Elijah. So he was born at Passover and thirty years later he baptized Jesus and introduced Him to Israel.
• Jesus is Born on Tabernacles ("Tishri 15"). Six months later Jesus was born. He was circumcized eight days later on Tishri 22. This was the day Jesus joined the covenant people. It is also the day the Hebrews officially began a new season and rejoiced in the Torah.

The Birth Year of Jesus (Tishri 15, 4 BC)
We concluded that He was born during the feast of Tabernacles, around Tishri 15. But we did not discuss the year. This prophecy of the cleansing of the woman gives us an indication of the year of His birth because it indicates His age at death. He was 33.
Because of a mistake by the monk Dionysius Exiguus, who created our current calendar, the year of His birth was first designated year one on our calendar instead of year 753 on the Roman calendar. He used Luke 3 verses 1 and 23 and concluded that Jesus was thirty years old in the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar. Augustus Caesar ruled from 27 BC and died on 19 August 14 AD and he was succeeded by Tiberius Caesar (14 to 37 AD) Power was actually transferred a year earlier in 13 AD. So his fifteenth year was 27/28 AD.
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrach of Galilee ...
When He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was about thirty years of age. (Luke 3: 23).

We know from the prophecy of Daniel 9 that Jesus died on Passover in 31 AD (Nisan 14) We know from the prophecy of the unclean woman that he must be thirty three years old at His death. He began His ministry at age 30, according to Luke 3: 23. Matthew also says that Herod killed all the boys under two years old in the region. So, before He died Herod thought that the maximum age of Christ must be around two years.
Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and all its vicinity, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the magi. (Matthew 2: 16).
According to the evidence in the scriptures and the requirement of the prophecy of Daniel 9, He died after three and a half years. The evidence of the written chronological events shows that He worked for three Passovers and died on the fourth.

30 Years		6 Months		Year 1	Year 2	Year 3
4 BC	(4 BC-27 AD)	(27/28 AD)		(29 AD)	(30 AD)	(31 AD)
Baby	30 Years	30½ Years Old (Luke 3: 23)		31½ Years Old	32½ Years Old	33½ Years Old
Tabernacles		Tabernacles	Passover	Passover?	Passover	Passover
Birth		Baptism	Temple Cleansed (John 2: 13-15)	Sabbath healing (John 5: 1)	Loaves and fishes (John 6: 4)	Crucifixion (John 11: 55)

Using the year for a day principle, Jesus prophesied that He would work for three years.
And He said to them, "Go tell that fox, look, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I reach My goal". (Luke 13: 32).

Summary: Birth Year.
So, remembering that there is no year zero, if Jesus was 33 years old in autumn in the feast of tabernacles on Tishri 15, 30 AD then He was born in 4 BC. And, if Herod died around Passover 1 BC, then Jesus was two and a half years old during Passover of that year.

Year	Tishri 15, 4 BC	Tishri 15, 3 BC	2 BC	1 BC	Herod Dies	Tishri 15, 1 BC	1 AD	9 AD	27 AD	Nisan 14, 31 AD
Age	Newborn	1	2	2½		3	4	12	30	33½
Birth		Herod kills children under 2				Unknown Years			Ministry

So we have met all the prophetic, mathematical and historical requirements for the age of Jesus

• Prophecy.
  • The Unclean Woman. Jesus was 33 when He died to fulfill the prophecy of the unclean woman.
  • Seventy Weeks. He died in 31 AD to fulfill the prophecy of the seventy weeks of Daniel 9.
• Age.
  • Age 2. Jesus was 2½ during the lunar eclipse of January 10, 1 BC, at a possible date of Herod's death.
  • Age 30. He was about thirty years old in the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar (27 AD).
  • Age 33. He was thirty three years old at his death (31 AD).
• History. Josephus claims that Herod died at the time of a winter eclipse, after Yom Kippur and before Passover. Jesus was 2½ at the lunar eclipse in the year 1 BC, so He was the age that Herod calculated before he died.
  Herod's Reign (37 BC to 1 BC). Josephus says that Herod's seventh year occurred during the battle of Actium (September 2, 31 BC.) So Herod began his rule in 37 BC. Josephus also says that Herod died 37 years after the Romans made him king and 34 years after he took Jerusalem. He died in 1 BC.

Who Killed Jesus?
Our sins caused Jesus to give His own life as a substitute. He chose the sons of Abraham to perform this act and they brought the false charges to the Romans who carried out the punishment. Everyone is responsible. And I am not just trying to be politically correct.

• Satan: (Initial Cause). He deliberately started the rebellion that caused sin on earth.
  "How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, You who have weakened the nations! (Isaiah 14: 12)
• God: (He Sent Jesus to Die to Fulfill A Covenant). In the picture of Abraham's sacrifice of his son, is God tying His only son to the altar of the earth by the nails of the law. Jesus obeyed the SHEMA on the cross.
  » Chastened by His Father. The Jews did what God did. God exchanged the innocent for the guilty. The Father abandoned Jesus on the cross. God put the nails in His hands and feet by law. By the law of the covenant and the promise, Jesus must stay on the cross by choice and fulfill the will of God, not His temporary need to end His agony. He was chastened by His Father who loved Him and us.
• Nobody: ( Life was a Gift). He gave His own life, because it is impossible to kill God.
  Good Shepherd. I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.
  My Gift to You. "No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father." John 10: 11, 17-18
  God Cannot Die Forever. But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power. (Acts 2: 24)
• Everybody: (We Sinned). In our weakened state we sinned. Our sins caused God to give His life as a substitute.
  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3: 23)
  For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6: 23)
  » The Wrath of Communion. Every time we eat the bread and drink the cup of communion we remember Christ by affirming that we are also responsible for chewing, spitting and swallowing Him. We cannibalized Him.
  For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: do this in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, after supper, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes. (1 Corinthians 11: 23-26)
• Jews: (Abandoned Him). Those in 31 AD were responsible for exchanging the innocent Jesus for Barabbas.
  When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this Man's blood; see to that yourselves."
  And all the people said, "His blood shall be on us and on our children!" Then he released Barabbas for them; but after having Jesus scourged, he handed Him over to be crucified. (Matthew 27: 24-26)
  » Judas: Betrayed Him. He sold Him for 30 pieces of silver.
  » Priests: Made the False Accusations. They slaughtered the Lamb or held the animal while the sinner killed it. They held the Lamb of God and gave Him to the Gentiles and bear some of the responsibility for His death.
  So the LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your father's household with you shall bear the guilt in connection with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear the guilt in connection with your priesthood. (Numbers 18: 1)
  Given to the Gentiles. Behold we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes and they will condemn Him to death and will hand Him over to the Gentiles. Mark 10: 33
  Sacrificed by the High Priest. nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish. (John 11: 50)
  The record is clear. He would die at the hands of the children of Abraham. Specifically, from the tribe of Levi, a son of Aaron who was the high priest. But as we learned, knowing that He would have to lay down His life, Jesus chose the descendants of His friend Abraham to do the task. Just as He asked Abraham to kill Isaac, He asked the children of Abraham to kill Him. Because it was better to fall into the hands of His friends than His enemies (2 Samuel 24: 14). However, it is more emotionally devastating to be betrayed by loved ones.
  » Rejecting The Serpent in the Tree. When Jesus appeared as an evil man on the wooden cross who was rejected by the woman Israel, He was actually recreating the great test of Eve. She also stood before a serpent lifted up on a tree, but she accepted Him and caused sin to begin.
  In a strange way, when Israel rejected Christ lifted up on the tree their actions caused sin to cease, because this serpent would bring the cure for sin. Israel passed the test that Eve failed by killing the snake! Satan's plot is turned against him.
• Gentile Romans: (Tortured Him and Hammered the Nails and Killed Him). Those in 31 AD shattered the Prince of the Covenant by nailing Him to a cross and beating Him to near death with a sharp whip and letting Him slowly suffocate to death.
  They will mock Him and spit on Him, and scourge Him and kill Him ... (Mark 10: 34)
  Speaking specifically about the despicable Tiberius Caesar and the forces of general Titus, Daniel said:
  Shattered by the Romans. In his place a despicable person will arise, on whom the honor of kingship has not been conferred, but he will come in a time of tranquility and seize the kingdom by intrigue. The overflowing forces will be flooded away before him and shattered, and also the prince of the covenant. (Daniel 11: 21-22)

Wounded By His Friends
Anyone can inflict severe physical wounds. But only your friends and family can inflict the most severe emotional wounds.
When David sinned by ordering a census God gave him three choices for his punishment. They were seven years of famine, three months fleeing from his enemies or three days pestilence. He chose his friend, God.
... I am in great distress. Let us now fall into the hand of the Lord for His mercies are great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man. 2 Samuel 24: 14
God had the same choice. He could give His blood for mankind through His own efforts. He did not need the contribution of an evil deed to pay the price for sin. He could sweat blood and He could lay down His own life. It was the blood that was taken into the altar as an atonement, not the dead animal. But the forces of evil were going to take the opportunity to murder Him. And He must submit. He probably had the choice of falling into the hands of Satan, the Gentiles, His enemies or His friends. He chose to be wounded by His friends.
And one will say to Him, what are these wounds between Your arms? Then He will say "those with which I was wounded in the house of My friends". (Zechariah 13: 6)

This is why the behavior of the tribes were listed as blessings even though it cost Him His life. Only the children of His friend Abraham could be entrusted with this task. So the test of Abraham takes on another symbolic meaning. Abraham was allowed to experience the agony of God who had to give up His only Son to death. He was also the one to hold the knife to kill his son.

The seed of Abraham also had to experience the agony of Abraham. They were the ones who would kill the favorite Son of their friend, God! What agony! It was also symbolic of what the atonement did. He would die for His friends because of His friends. Our sins killed Him, therefore we must hold the knife, not Satan or those who reject His atoning death.

He would die at the hands of the priests and sinners among His own chosen people.
Therefore, although Israel sinned, God chose them over anyone else to kill Him. It was also His will that the Jews would be separated from the Christians so that He could maintain an accurate knowledge of His covenant for the people at the end of time. Therefore, it is only fair that God should bring them back from this cloud of infamy. So, Paul says that they will be grafted back in. Isaiah says that their dignity would be restored and they will be a light to the Gentiles.

» The Punishment of the Jews. For 2000 years Christians have claimed that all the tragedy on the Jews are God's punishment for rejecting Christ. And that their statement, "his blood be upon us an on our children" are still being fulfilled. So every horrible persecution including the slaughter of six million by the German Nazis were their punishment from God. What does God say about punishment in the covenant?

• Legal Issues. 2000 years of punishments violates God's own legal covenant.
  • The Injured Slave. Since Jesus was alive two days after He was striken, God could not take vengeance (Exodus 21: 20-21). It was a brilliant act of God to spare them punishment by being dead for only one day.
  • Land Sabbaths (101 AD). Remembering that their Babylonian exile was the punishment for all previous years. If we assumed that they were punished for all previous years of violations since the captivity in Babylon, then at the most they have 490 years of unfaithfulness from the end of their Babylonian exile to Christ. Therefore, if they are to be thrown off the land again for Sabbath violation, then they only owe the land about seventy years of rest. This ended in 101 AD.
    However, if they were to be punished seven times, then their ordeal should last 490-560 years and their punishment should have ended by 524-594 AD.
  • Four Generations (312 AD). The second commandment promised that iniquities will be visited up to the third and fourth generation (Exodus 20: 5). This is a maximum of 120-160 years if a generation is forty years and 210-280 years for a generation every seventy years.
  • The Two Goats. In the end and in the law it is the scapegoat who is judged as being responsible for all the misery on the earth. The priests are partially responsible for killing the Lord's Goat. According to the law, this is the goat that must die at the hands of the priests, therefore they did not break the law when they caused His death. However, they broke the law when they presided over an unjust court with lying witnesses. The punishment for lying in court as a malicious witness was to receive the same punishment as he intended for the innocent. They received this punishment in 70 AD.
    Malicious Witness Punished. The judge shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is a false witness and he has accused his brother falsely, then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you. (Deuteronomy 19: 18-19)
  • The Covenant. The contract is in force until there are no more heavens. At the crucifixion the heavens did not disappear, so Israel still legally owns the land.
    Until The Heavens Disappear (Land Covenant). So that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them as long as the heavens remain above the earth. (Deuteronomy 11: 21)
    Even if Christians say that they have now been grafted in and are the new Israel, the record indicates that at the crucifixion Christ did not remove the heavens to formally end the old covenant with biological Israel. Instead, He performed a miracle to transfer the priesthood from Levi to Melchizedek.
    Until Day and Night Change (Kings and Priests Covenant). If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time; Then my covenant may also be broken with David my servant so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers. (Jeremiah 33: 20-21)
    You could legitimately say that when the supernatural darkness occurred at the cross, that it temporarily broke the covenant with the day and night. So there are no more kings from Judah and Levitical priests in Israel anymore. In fact, according to Ezekiel, the Levitical priesthood remains with the Jews, the Zadok priesthood went to the Gentiles and the kingdom belongs to Jesus. If they graft themselves to Christ, then Israel will be Zadok priests.
  Therefore, in the worst case, their punishment should have been over by 312 or 524 AD. So Jews are not suffering now for killing Christ because of any legal act or vengeful desire of God. 2000 years of punishment is unjust and illegal. At the end of time even the earth gets only 1000 years of punishment for sins since the creation.
• The Will of God. They were partially responsible for His death because they made bad choices. But if God wanted them to participate in His death, then how could He punish them for so long and so severely?
  Just Punishment. "For I am with you," declares the LORD, "to save you; For I will destroy completely all the nations where I have scattered you, Only I will not destroy you completely but I will chasten you justly and will by no means leave you unpunished". (Jeremiah 30 : 11)
  God's punishment is just. The only punishment that remained was the rejection that was part of the Plan of Salvation which would eventually trap Satan in the end..
  • Gentiles Chosen (34 AD). Their exalted status was taken away when God called the Gentiles.
  • Destruction of the Temple (70 AD). This legally put an end to animal sacrifices in His name.
  • Bar Kochba Revolution (132-135 AD). They were exiled after this revolt and received permission to go to the Mount of Olives to mourn the temple from afar in the middle of the third century.
• Forgiven. While He was on the cross, Jesus forgave them for that act.
  But Jesus was saying, "Father forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing ..." (Luke 23: 34).
  Therefore they should not be suffering because "they killed Christ" because of the will of God. In fact, Jesus specifically says that blasphemy against Him can be forgiven. So I believe that it is safe to say that since this separation and rejection was a part of the plan of God, this statement was also meant to cover their actions.
  Unbelief in Jesus. And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him. (Luke 12: 10).
• Our Behaviour. The source of their current punishment is our own desires. We have been punishing them for rejecting Christ or using it as an excuse for our hatred.
  We will be punished for trying to add to God's punishment. It is not our duty to be their judge and executioner.
  » Do Not Rejoice. God punished nations for rejoicing in the punishment of the Jews and for adding to their misery by mistreating them.
  Chaldea will become plunder, all who plunder her will have enough declares the Lord. Because you are glad, because you are jubilant, O you who pillage My heritage, because you skip about like a threshing heifer and neigh like stallions. (Jeremiah 50: 10-11)
  » Not Abandoned. At the fall of Babylon, God said that although they were punished they were not rejected.
  For neither Israel nor Judah has been forsaken by his God, the Lord of hosts, although their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel. (Jeremiah 51: 5)

What Did Jesus Know? And How Did He Know It?
Let us assume that God did not appear to Him and give Him a written schedule of events, then how did He know what to do and when events should occur? With the help of the Holy Spirit He learned them through the laws, the prophecies, the ceremonies, the twelve tribes and the life of His forefathers because they contained all the signs.

• My Time Has Not Come (John 2: 4). When His mother asked Him to turn water to wine, He knew that it was not yet time for Him to give His blood. From the scriptures He knew that He must be 33 when He died and that He must minister for about three and a half years. So He must begin His ministry at 30 years of age.
  • 33.5 Years (400 months). He would spend about 400 months in the land of sin, just as Israel spent 400 years in the land of Egypt. Then He would make His exodus from the land.
  • 30 Years. He could not be a priest until He was 30 years old.
  • 3.5 Years. He knew that the law of the fruit harvest required no harvest can be brought to God until the fourth year after planting. He was the firstfruit in the wavesheaf offering.
  So by simple mathematics He concluded that His 3.5 year mission begins at age thirty and ends at age 33.5.
• Passover Death. He must die during a Passover that was a high Sabbath, because the offering must be made during three days and this must include a day of rest.
• Anointed for Death. When Mary anointed Him, it confirmed His timetable that He would appear again to her in glory eight days later, after a high Sabbath. He was 33.5 years and this Passover was a high Sabbath. So He went to Jerusalem on the donkey.
• Donkey (Mark 11: 1-8). The role of Issachar, Balaam's donkey and the statement of Zechariah 9: 9 confirmed what He must do.
  » Passover Gift. He would receive a gift of a donkey, bread and wine when he was being pursued by His betrayer at Passover (2 Samuel 16: 1).
• Upper Room (Mark 14: 12-16). Similarly the haven of the upper room that signified the role of Zebulun was arranged for Him. God prepared a table for Him in the midst of His enemies.
  Now on the first day of Unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover"? And He said, Go to the city to a certain man, and say to him "the Teacher says, my time is near; I am to keep the Passover at your house with My disciples". (Matthew 26: 17-18)
  » Shunammite Woman. Perhaps the people who supplied the donkey and the upper room did an act of faith just as Mary had done and the Shunammite woman who prepared an upper chamber and food for Elisha (2 Kings 4: 8-10).
  This woman was separated from her son at noon, just as Mary was separated from Christ before the darkness at noon. Both women were informed of the miraculous birth of a son within one year and both received their son back from the dead. The story of the resurrection of the son shows that the revival and resurrection were separate actions. He was first revived or warmed before He was raised from the dead.
  » The Sukkah. The four days between Yom Kippur and Tabernacles (Tishri 11-14) was the time for building the sukkah. Since the offerings for all feasts were made on Nisan 14, Jesus realized that a room must be completed so that He could eat in it by Nisan 14.
• A Man Carrying Water (Luke 22: 10-12). Follow the man who will lead you to where the wine will be poured.
  And He said to them, "when you have entered the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water, follow him into the house that he enters". And you shall say to the owner of the house, the Teacher says to you, "where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples"? And he will show you a large, furnished upper room, prepare it there. (Luke 22: 10-12)
  On the feast of Tabernacles was a water libation ceremony in which the priest carried water in a gold pitcher and led a procession back to the sanctuary where it was poured out with the wine.
  » Draw out Abundant Water. The man carrying the pitcher of water could also fulfill Deuteronomy 33: 19.
  » Hospitality of the Water Carriers. This was the same sign used by Rachel and Rebekah. Their kindness in giving water to the stranger was proof that they were the wives chosen by God.
• His Betrayer (Mark 14: 18-20). He knew that one would betray Him but how did He know that it was the one who would eat with Him and dip into the bowl?
  And He answered, " He who dipped his hand with Me in the bowl is the one who will betray Me. (Matthew 26: 23)
  Psalm 41: 9 points to betrayal by a friend at a meal. The events could only indicate betrayal at the Passover meal. There were two bowls at the seder, one with salt water to represent the tears of sorrow and the other with nuts and spices to represent His burial. Judas must be the type of one who caused Him sorrow by dipping into the bowl of salt water.
  » Dipping Twice on Passover. On all other nights they dipped once, on Passover night the custom is to dip twice to represent the fact that they had to dip a leafy branch to smear lamb's blood on the doorpost. Judas was the second dipper who was responsible for spilling the blood of Jesus and smearing it on the door of the sanctuary.
  The responsibility of the priests for the death of Christ was encoded in their role as the priests who supervised the killing of the sacrifice. But the responsibility of Judas for His death was encoded as the leader of the family who smeared the blood on the door. In all aspects of His life Judas appears to be the thief who doubled dipped into treasures that were not his own.
  » Dipping Twice on Yom Kippur. The priest dipped with both hands in the bowl to retrieve the two lots. On one lot was the word, "For the Lord" and on the other was the words, "For Azazel". Jesus and Judas were the Lord's goat and the scape goat. They were also the priests who dipped two hands in the bowl.
• One Disciple Lost. He knew that one would be lost because of Dan, the serpent. This disciple would also be a son of Satan because he was a serpent like Satan.
  "While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled. (John 17: 12)
  » Azazel: The Son of Perdition. If Christ, the Lord's goat was the Son of God, then Judas the scapegoat was the son of Azazel or the son of perdition. The son of perdition was the serpent and the scapegoat, just like his father.
  » Eleven Stars Bow Down. Joseph's dream indicates that eleven would honor the Messiah (Genesis 37: 9).
  » The Wicked Counselor. A trusted advisor would betray him (2 Samuel 15: 31).
• Peter Denies Him Three Times Before Cockcrow. How did He know that it was Peter, or that it would be three times and before the second cockcrow (Mark 14: 72)?
  » The Firstborn Disciple. Simon Peter was the first disciple called (Mark 1: 16-20). The prophecies indicate that the firstborn would lose preeminence. So Jesus gave him a new name, which would symbolize his disgrace. He became the disgraced firstborn disciple who lost preeminence when He denied Jesus. Instead, a child of the last son gained the preeminence. Paul was from the line of Benjamin.
  » The Denial (Verbal Stones). Peter boasted that he would never abandon Christ even if the others did. Jesus knew that all of them would abandon Him and that He would be reduced to ashes before the cock crowed. His name was Simon, but Jesus named him Peter, which meant "little stone" (Matthew 16: 16-18). So Peter, the last one to abandon Him, would be the one to throw verbal stones at Him. There is also the prophecy from 2 Samuel 17: 13 which predicts that not even a "little stone" would remain when the city was torn down. The twelve disciple are foundation stones of the city (Revelation 21: 14). So he had to identify the last one who would be the "little stone". He identified him from the beginning, because he was the first who would also be the last.
  » The Succession of Popes. So the claim about the succession of popes from Peter is based on one who had lost the blessing. This claim is prophetic, because God rejects this son for a younger son.
  » The Cockcrow (Alarm). However, the prophecy of the disassembly of the sanctuary before moving shows that Reuben, the first born, will move when the second alarm sounds (Numbers 10: 6, 18). So Peter, the first disciple called, denied Jesus before the cock crowed two times.
  » Three Times. Judah, Issachar and Zebulun were three tribes who had symbolically denied Him before Reuben.
• Sequence of Events in the Last Seven Days (Mark 10: 33-34). The prophecy of the siege of the twelve tribes.
• Three Days and Nights in the Bowels (Matthew 12: 38-41). He knew that He would be in trouble for three days and be raised up on the third day. He probably knew about this mostly from this prophecy about the tribes. When He knew about the sequence of His suffering, by whom and for how long, then He saw the similarity to Jonah.
  » Swallowed. Jonah and the great fish showed that He would be vomited out after three days of despair.
  » Torn Down. A resting place was found for the sanctuary after three days of disassembly and wandering.
• Resurrection. He knew that He would be resurrected without seeing corruption of His body. The laws about the offering say that He must be buried quickly and the offering was unacceptable after the third day. The wavesheaf is presented before God after the Sabbath.

The Origin of The Concept of The Messiah (Moshiach)
Scholars always try to disparage the Jewish and Christian faiths. Now they claim that Zoroastrianism is the source of the concept of the Messiah. The Jews were captured by Cyrus and the Persians around 538 BC, so many scholars claim that the Jews and Christians stole this idea of a Messiah during their captivity.
Zoroaster lived between 660-583 BC or 1500 BC, scholars are not sure. The 900 year gap in time is so wide, this margin of error gives room for any conclusion. I suspect that they decided that Zoroaster was the source of the concept but their best proofs places Zoroaster's existance in 660-593 BC. However, Israel appeared as a nation in 1000-1500 BC. So they are trying to place his existance at the earliest point in Jewish history where they appeared as a nation at the exodus in 1500 BC when Moses wrote the Torah to enhance their claim that Zoroaster was the source.

4000 BC Creation 2147 1915 1100 1500 Exodus 1460 900 600 Babylon 539 Persia 423 BC Adam and Eve Abraham Jacob Slaves Moses and Balaam Elijah Daniel, Mordecai and Esther Malachi Deliverer-Son Jewish Messianic Prophecies Common Facts Jewish Knowledge ? Zoroastrianism

So it is very convenient that having decided that Zoroaster is the source that they will offer this wide range of dates for his life. It proves that they do not know when he first appeared and that they are not dating the appearance of a man, but the appearance of an idea. Having found the idea they are determined to place Zoroaster in that time period despite the evidence that he lived in the sixth century before Christ.

» Proof of Hebrew Origin (2200-1500 BC). This lesson demonstrates extremely detailed Messianic prophecies in the laws of Moses. It clearly shows that the concept of the Messiah must have originated with the Jews, hundreds of years before the Persians.

• Jewish Prophecies from Adam and Eve (4000 BC). The earliest reference to the work of the Messiah came when Eve was promised a Son who would deliver her by crushing the head of the serpent (Genesis 3).
  » Transfer of Knowledge: Common History. So at this point the ancestors of all people knew that the Messianic figure would be wounded but would kill the serpent, and retained the knowledge of a conquering Messiah.
  Other common religious practices such as animal sacrifices can be traced to the first parents, not as a result of stealing from another religion.
• Jewish Prophecies Since Abraham (2147 BC). Although Moses wrote the Torah in 1500 BC, he outlines 2000 years of history which shows that mature Messianic prophecies existed since Abraham who was called in 2147 BC, over 600 years before any claim of Zoroaster's earliest existance in 1500BC. We show the Messianic prophecies in other lessons on the early patriarchs who lived before Moses.
  » Transfer of Knowledge: Monotheism. Abraham taught monotheism and the Messiah, hundreds of years before Zoroaster.
  » Transfer of Knowledge: Chronology. Even the Zoroastrian chronology can be found in detail as a prophecy that unfolded between Jacob and Moses (2000-1460 BC). The details about what would happen is encoded and repeated in four sets of events that occurred before Zoroaster. See the lesson on the journey of the faithful.
• Jewish Prophecies During the Exodus (1500-1460 BC). Moses was 80 years old when He began the 40 year exodus around 1500 BC. He writes the most detailed information about the Messiah in the laws.
  » Transfer of Knowledge: The Suffering Messiah. So it is more likely that the incredible events of the exodus in 1500 BC spread the faith and fame of the Hebrews around the region.
  » Transfer of Knowledge: The Conquering Messiah. In fact, at the end of the exodus (1460 BC), a prophet named Balaam predicted that a star would accompany the birth of the Jewish Messiah. He worked for the Moabites and surrounding nations who tried to curse the Jews, but he could not. Instead He made this great prediction about the Jewish conquerer (Numbers 24: 17).
• Persian Exile (539-330 BC). Either the prophet Malachi or Elijah introduced the concept that Elijah would return to introduce the Jews to the Messiah. This knowledge was incorporated in the ritual of the Passover Seder. The Seder is an extremely detailed prophecy of the sequence of events in the last hours of the Messiah.
  » Transfer of Knowledge: Persian Jews. Although Zoraster lived before the Persian captivity, critics of the Jews and Christians believed that this was when the Jews stole these ideas which are reflected in the wrtings of the prophets after this period. I beg to differ. The most detailed Messianic Jewish writings were hundreds of years before the Persian exile. From Daniel to Esther, the wife of Ahasuerus, the Bible records are clear that the Persians were fearful of the Hebrew God and came to worship Him as a nation (Esther 9). The transfer of the monotheistic religion came from the Jews to the Persians!
• Mature Prophecies. A comparison of the Jewish prophecies and the Zoroastrian Soshyant (savior) shows such a detailed description of the Messiah by the Hebrews that it becomes very obvious that Zoroaster only had the bare outline of the works of this powerful figure. Basically, all they knew was that he was a powerful king who would fight evil and destroy the world at the end of time. Then perfection will be restored. This is the same knowledge since Adam and Eve. So Zoroaster did not introduce it to the world, he only repeated the stories that he and all people grew up with since Adam.
  » Transfer of Knowledge: Daniel. Daniel was the likely source of the transfer in this late period. He resurrected this important ancient knowledge and added more details for the Persians. This may be why there seems to be a new period of interest around 600 BC which is creating confusion about when Zoroaster was alive.
  There is even evidence that they may have thought that the Soshyant would be a Jewish king. In fact, when Jesus was born, it was the Persian Magi who followed ancient prophecies to look for an important Jewish king!
  The Conquering Jewish King. Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem saying, "Where is where is He that is born king of the Jew? For we have seen His star in the east and have come to worship Him". (Matthew 2: 1-2)
  Adam, Eve and Balaam could have been the source of some of this knowledge. But it is more likely that Daniel must have taught them this because He had detailed prophecies about the timing of the coming of the Messiah. Daniel must have been the one who convinced them that the conqueror announced since Eve would be Jewish.
  
  God blessed Daniel's faithfulness to Him, so that he became the head of the soothsayers and officials in Babylon and Persia because the Hebrew God proved that He was more powerful than the Babylonian (Daniel 2: 46-49) and Persian gods (Daniel 7: 25-28). The kings of these nations issued laws throughout their kingdom that they should worship the Hebrew God. So knowledge transferred from Daniel to the Babylonians and Persians about monotheism and the Messiah around 600 BC.

So I conclude from the evidence in the Messianic prophecies, that the concept of the Messiah-Redeemer existed from Eden, when Eve sinned and a Deliverer-Son was promised (˜4000 BC). It appeared in very concrete forms to Abraham and all His children after 2147 BC, then was formalized in the laws of Moses in 1500 BC, and preached by the rebellious prophet Balaam around 1460 BC, the earliest time in which they can place Zoroaster.
Therefore, it is more likely that the concept of the Messiah originated with the ancestors of the Jews and they spread this knowledge to the surrounding nations at the exodus and to their captors in Babylon, Persia and Greece.
By choosing to accept the story about a man whom may people have forgotten and ignoring the miraculous survival of a small group of people for 4000 years through many long periods of foreign oppression, genocide and attempts to stamp out their religion, these revisionist historians who hate Judaism and Christianity are ignoring the historical evidence that Zoroaster was probably Daniel.

Symbols of Paganism in Christianity
While the Jews did a very good job of protecting their religious heritage over 4000 years, the Christians were very careless in protecting this heritage. They stole from other religions to incorporate abominations in their rituals.
God was very meticulous and careful in establishing His symbols and signs. He made the righteous reenact the signs throughout their lives and repeated the same themes in many prophecies, dreams, visions and laws. With this knowledge of the importance of signs and symbols, try to justify our present actions. Why have God's original symbols been replaced by pagan abominations that honor pagan seasons, times and gods?

Feb March April May - September October - December - Easter - Halloween Christmas Purim Passover • Pentecost - Trumpets•Yom Kippur•Tabernacles Hannukah Persia Delivered from Egypt Delivered from Egypt and Babylon Delivered from Greeks

God's feasts are meant to commemmorate the great deliverances over the major powers that conquered them.

• Passover (Nisan 14-21). Deliverance from slavery in Egypt. Christ delivers us from slavery to sin.
• Shavuot or Pentecost "The Feast of Weeks" (Tishri-Shavout). God gave the law on Mount Sinai. Coming of the Holy Spirit to deliver us from sin and write the law in our hearts.
• Rosh Hashannah (Tishri 1). The beginning of the new year and the ten day preparation for Yom Kippur.
• Yom Kippur "The Day of Atonement" (Tishri 10). The day Israel is cleansed from all sin.
• Sukkot "Feast of Tabernacles" (Tishri 15-21). A feast that commemmorates the harvest and living with God. Babylon fell and Noah's ark came to rest during this feast.
• Other Great Feasts. Only Passover, Pentecost and the fall feasts were obligated by law because they were based on the deliverance from Egypt and the other deliverances had not occurred yet.
  • Hannukah or "The Feast of Lights" (Kislev 25). Delivery from the abominations and corruption by the Greeks and restoration of the sanctuary. It symbolized victory over the Antichrist figure. It occurs in the ninth month, around December.
  • Purim or "The Feast of Lots" (Adar 14-15). Delivery from total annhilation from the Persians and an Antichrist figure. This resembles the deliverance we will have at the Second Coming. It occurs in the twelfth month around the time of St. Valentine's day (February to March).

But Paganism has introduced festivals that compete with God's holy feasts.

Origin of Easter Symbols Eostre, a Saxon goddess was celebrated at the spring equinox. In ancient Babylon she is known as Astarte and Ishtar and as Venus or Isis in other cultures. » Easter Egg. One of her symbols was the egg which symbolized her fertility in the spring. Ishtar's son was Tammuz (Nimrod) who died violently. Her "weeping" caused his resurrection in the spring. » Easter Rabbit. The Pennsylvania Dutch introduced the easter rabbit who lays the easter egg. » Merged With Christianity. The schedule was changed from Passover to the Pagan calendar and the seder was replaced with just bread and wine.

• Easter. A spring festival that celebrates renewal and fertility. The Christian celebration has changed the observed time from Passover season to the Pagan method of dating and then made up the schedule according to their belief about what the celebration should include. Pentecost is calculated by counting fifty days but it rarely coincides with the true Pentecost.
  • Easter Symbols ("Bunny, Egg"). These are the most popular symbols of easter. What does the easter bunny and egg teach about the Plan of Salvation and the mission that Christ accomplished? How did they help Him to know the way He must walk and the cup that He must drink?
  • Easter ("Bread, Wine, Cross"). Why is the Eucharist or communion bread, one cup of wine and our modern rituals extremely inferior to the Passover ritual?
  • Easter Celebrations. Before the season begins, it is the tradition to throw a wild party that highlights all the excesses of sin. It is usually preceeded by carnival or Margi Gras (Fat Tuesday). Ash Wednesday begins the next day, marking the first day of lent.
  • Passover ("Seder, Lamb"). Read the lesson on the Passover Seder and look at what you have lost in not knowing the true meaning of the Passover Seder and see if this is not the hand of the enemy of God. Even observed as a purely Jewish ritual it is still a far superior ceremony that speaks about the day Christ died in a much more profound language than our Easter ceremonies.
  So Easter added nothing to our understanding but took away everything that we will need to give the Gospel to the Jews. What remains of the original Passover feast is eating unleavened bread and drinking one tiny cup of wine.
  Passover drinks four cups and eats other foods in a precise ritual that prophesied about the order of events at His death by reenacting the actions of Christ on the day He died 1500 years before He was born. What does the bunny and egg have to say about that!
  Pagan Customs. When the Lord your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land, take care to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them ... do not enquire after their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.' You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way ... Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it. (Deuteronomy 12: 29-32)

  Passover Recreation		Creation
  Full Moon	Sabbath Rest
  Light in the Dark	Sin	Work
  Any Day of the Week		Saturday

  
  
  » What is Wrong With Easter? It destroys the symbols of resting from sin.
  • Timing. The actual timing of the crucifixion was the convergence of the full moon on Passover and a Friday. Only at that time could He guarantee that He would be dead during the Sabbath day. So the symbolic significance in the convergence is the full moon and the Sabbath, not Friday and Sunday. Why?
    • Full Moon. So Easter elevated the importance of the day of the week over the date which always occurred on a full moon. In doing so, the holiday is only rarely celebrated during the full moon. The full moon points to Christ and the central role of His church in the Plan of Salvation. The full moon and the Sabbath will be celebrated in the new earth.
      » Rest from Darkness (A Light in the Dark). The full moon was most important because God would bring the greatest light when it was darkest. In the darkness of an eclipse, He would hide our sins and pass over us. If our fake Passover is not celebrated during the greatest light from heaven in the darkness, then it is a useless symbol of the works of God.
      » A Guaranteed Sabbath Rest. To ensure that the significance of a Sabbath rest was always celebrated with the full moon, God made a mandatory Sabbath for the day after the full moon, no matter which day of the week that occurred.
    • Friday. The Easter resurrection is always celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. So Easter is always on a Friday as it was on the day of the crucifixion.
      » Rest from Sin and Death. Friday is of secondary importance, but it shows that God rested from His works of recreation (salvation) just as He did at creation. He was dead during the Sabbath. Here, we rest from sin when we are recreated or born again.
      » No Guaranteed Light. While God can make a Sabbath rest for the day after the full moon, we can never make a full moon occur on the day after Good Friday. So the full moon is the key, not Friday.

      Passover Recreation
      Lamb Killed	Creation
      Full Moon	High Sabbath
      Friday	Saturday

    • High Sabbath. We have lost the concept of waiting for the high Sabbath when the symbols converged. Only about once every seven years a full moon would converge with a Friday. God merged the full moon and rest from sin with the rest from creation. The separation of the two symbols shows that in the timing of our salvation, Christ could only be sent when all conditions are perfect. He could not come at any time.
      » Resting from Creation. By forcing Easter on Friday, we are only celebrating rest from creation if we also keep the seventh day Sabbath. But we are not celebrating rest from sin and conquering the darkness which is the rebirth and recreation.
      During Christ's final week He must have followed the plan of creation in our recreation.
      1. Nisan 9 (Light). Christ came riding on a donkey as a light to the temple. (Ezekiel 43: 1-2,3)
      2. Nisan 10 (Waters Separated). He drove out the money changers, cleansing the temple.
      3. Nisan 11 (Trees and Earth). After cursing the fig tree the day before to signify His disappointment in the Jews, He became the Tree of Life by remaining the last faithful Jew. He became the Vine and the Branch who was cut down and buried in the earth for our sins.
      4. Nisan 12 (Sun, Moon and Stars). On the fourth day the signs were created. The Son who came from heaven tells about the signs of His Second Coming.
      5. Nisan 13 (Fish and Birds). Judas plots with the priests to swallow and kill Him.
      6. Nisan 14 (Animals and Man). Passover seder and crucifixion. On this day Christ recreated the human race and paid the price for our salvation by becoming the Lamb of God.
      7. Nisan 15 (Sabbath Rest). Dead and buried, He rested from His works of recreation.
    From a standpoint of conquering sin by conquering the darkness, the full moon speaks volumes to the church who can be a light to the world because of Christ's sacrifice.
    In instituting the Passover, God chose to highlight the significance of the full moon over the day of the week. For over 1500 years the Jews celebrated Passover on a full moon, not on Friday.
  • Pagan Contamination. It is full of Pagan symbols and God is extremely meticulous about His symbols.

  Origin of Halloween Symbols It involves Druid beliefs about the state of the dead. » Merged With Christianity. There is no equivalent Christian festival. The church simply took over a Pagan custom and made up a Christian reason to perform the same rituals. » Ignored Christian Feasts. The fall feasts are completely ignored by most Christians. They prophesy about what is happenning now and in the future.

• Halloween "All Hallows' Eve" (October 31). The Druids believed that witches, black cats, gnomes, demons, ghosts and spirits of the dead roamed the earth on October 31. To protect themselves from the mean tricks of these spirits the Druids did several things.
  • Bonfires. Bonfires were lit to drive away the bad spirits. On the bonfires, human or animal sacrifices were offered to the Lord of Death, Satan.
    » Fortune Telling. As they watched the writhing of the victims, they would foretell the future of the village.
  • Candy (Trick or Treat). They offered them good things to eat.
  • Costumes (Ghosts, Devils and Witches). They disguised themselves to look like the spirits, tricking them into thinking that they were one of them.
  • Jack-o-Lantern (Carved Pumpkin). They intimidated the demons by carring a pumpkin, turnip or potato with a fearful, demonic face carved into it.
  These customs are celebrated today as Halloween by dressing up in costumes, playing trick or treat, giving candy, wearing masks, and carrying jack-o-lanterns.
  » All Saints' Day or "All Hallowed Day" (November 1). The Roman Catholic Church set aside November 1, the day after the Druid festival, to honor all the saints who had no special days of their own and to pray for the souls of the dead in purgatory.
  Let no one be found among you who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft or casts spells, or who is a medium or a spiritist or a necromancer. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord". (Deuteronomy 18: 10-12)
• Christmas (December 25). Christmas is purely Pagan mixture of nature worship and Pagan deities. As various groups became Christian, they brought their customs and ancient gods and practiced the same rituals in the name of Christ. The only Christian symbols are those that reanact the story. These are angels, a star, the baby in the manger, shepherds and the wise men. But Christ was born on the feast of tabernacles, not Christmas day.
  • December 25 (Dies Natalis Invicti Solis or The Birthday of the Unconquered Sun). The birth of Mithra, the Iranian god of light from the cosmic egg on the winter solstice. The Romans celebrated the winter solstice on that day and Babylon celebrated the feast of the son of Isis with partying, gift giving and gluttony.
    » Saturnalia (December 17-23). The Roman winter holiday which honors Saturn, the god of agriculture.
  • Mummers. Costumed singers and dancers who went from house to house entertaining the neighbours in ancient Rome.
  • Christmas Tree. The Scandinavians worshipped trees and the Germans decorated them.
  • Yule Log. The Norse burned a huge log once year to Thor, the god of thunder.
  • Santa Claus. Saint Nicolas, Bishop of Myra in Lycia around 300 AD who entered homes through the chimney bringing gifts.
    » Enters Through The Chimney. The Norse believed the goddess, Hertha appeared in the fireplace and brought good luck to the house.
  
  » Merged With Christianity. Emperor Constantine declared December 25 to be the birthday of Christ. Then in 350, Pope Julius I declared that Christ's birth would be celebrated on December 25.
  » Mithraism (Antichrist). This religion was a copy of Christ in many ways. Judgment, an intercessor and redeemer figure who will return. But Sunday was the holy day dedicated to the sun.
  Christmas Tree. Do not learn the way of the Gentiles ... For the customs of the people are futile [vain]; for one cuts a tree from the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with an axe. They decorate it with silver and gold, they fasten it with nails and hammers so that it will not topple. (Jeremiah 10: 2-4)

God's Signs Replaced. Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place; They have set up their own standards for signs. We do not see our signs; There is no longer any prophet, nor is there any among us who knows how long. (Psalm 74: 4, 9)
Pagans and heathens base their signs and omens on random events like reading tea leaves, reading palms, animal behavior and personal feelings attached to experiences. But God bases His signs on laws and customs that He has established to explain a specific plan, removing any chance of private interpretation. This age old Plan of Salvation is being executed according to the schedule and events determined before the creation. So its signs, symbols and rituals are as important as any sign on a map and cannot be rearranged and reinterpreted like a set of Leggo toys.
Even if you could find any redeeming quality in the human customs, how do you justify ignoring the signs and symbols of God? When the enemies of God usurp His signs, we will lose our way. Future generations will not understand the meaning. We will not know where we are prophetically and we will not know where we are going and how long it will take.
Jesus knew what to do because the signs were being faithfully observed by the Jews. Let us look at this remarkable system.

Repetition and Enlargement
The prophecies about Christ are repeated in many ways. In the lives of the prophets, the sanctuary, feasts and rituals.

Person	Role	Life	Christ
Adam	One man who affected all people	The owner who sinned and passed the penalty to his children	Through his obedience He was able to have His righteousness applied to all who choose to be born again through Him
Noah	Rescued the world	Rescued a remnant from a depraved world so that they could build a nation for God	Rescued the righteous from death and built Israel for God
Abraham	Suffering Father	The father who was willing to sacrifice his child because he loved God and had faith that his child could be resurrected	God had to reluctantly watch His son die. He sacrificed His only son.
Isaac	Obedient son	The unique son who was born because of a promise. He was obedient when his father tried to offer him as a sacrifice.	He was obedient to the will of His father that He should die for the sins of the whole world
Jacob (Israel)	Israel	The father of the twelve sons who were the foundation of Israel.	He used twelve disciples to start the new church
Joseph	Exiled favorite son	The child who would rule and save his people from death after he was betrayed and sold for money. He was handed over to his enemies by his own family.	He was betrayed for thirty pieces of silver and wounded in the house of His friends. But His captivity and death would allow Him to save His friends.
Moses	Rescued Israel	The miracle child who was hidden as a baby because the government tried to kill him. He grew up as an Egyptian prince to lead Israel in an exodus from slavery so that they could live with God in the Promised Land. He offered himself as a substitute to shield the people from the wrath of God. Leads Israel over the Red Sea.	Miracle child who hid in Egypt after the king tried to kill Him. He led the world in an exodus from slavery to sin to live with God in the Promised Land. He offered himself as a substitute for sin and shields the people from the wrath of God. He will lead Israel over the Sea of Glass.
	A Prophet like Moses	The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him. (Deuteronomy 18: 15)
Samuel	High priest	A miracle child who was promised to God. He became the high priest called by God who would find a king after God's own heart.	High priest called by God who was a king after God's own heart.
David	King of Israel	A king after God's own heart. He was a king in exile. Persecuted for his throne by a king whom the people choose. He courageously acknowledged sin and confidently asked God for forgiveness.	First king of Israel chosen by God who was a man after God's own heart. Persecuted by Satan who ruled the earth because he was chosen by the people because of sin.
Solomon	Peace maker builds temple	The word Solomon means peace. The man of peace who built the first sanctuary.	Christ is the Prince of Peace who will build the final sanctuary