06/05/2023
DID THE SABBATH END WITH THE DEATH OF JESUS?
Jesus’ mother and the women who had come to annoint Jesus on the ‘good’ Friday after his death would have been the first to know. They kept the Sabbath after Jesus’ death as we will see below. Notice also Jesus dies on a Friday, just as the Sabbath is about to begin for a reason.
The story as stated in the BIBLE goes like this, around 3pm (on what is commonly known today as Good Friday), Jesus dies (the Sabbath starts at sunset on Friday which would have been around 6pm).
“It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.” Luke 23:44-46.
There is 3 hours to sunset - enough time for Jesus’ body to be taken down and buried before the Sabbath in observance of the commandment which states no work should be carried out. How do we know?
“It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was about to begin. The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it.” Luke 23:54-55.
We can clearly see JESUS observes the Sabbath even in his death - dies on Friday before the Sabbath, resurrects on Sunday after the Sabbath…
Jesus has died, there is no need to keep the Sabbath now right - since the law was fulfilled at the cross? You would think so. The women and Jesus’ mother would have definitely known but seems the memo missed them? The bible says they rested and kept the Sabbath AFTER HIS DEATH according to the commandment…
“Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.” Luke 23:56
Did Jesus forget to tell his own mother that this SABBATH thing ends with my death and somehow Museyamwa knows?
Will end it here this week…the question we often get a
