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The story of Y’shua’s last days in Jerusalem concerning His arrest, death and resurrection are the very foundations of our faith in Messiah and the Renewed Covenant belief. All four Gospels devote much of their text to the circumstances and dialogue of the Passion events. However, the chronology of those events is in dispute by various factions, including some believers. The problem comes down to understanding how Y’shua could be in the tomb three days and three nights. Y’shua said that He would fulfill the sign of Jonah, who was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights. And YHVH appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights. [John 1:17] For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. [Mat 12:40]

The standard, traditional teaching of the church for the Passion week simply doesn’t add up to three days and three nights. Therefore, Y’shua did not appear to fulfill His own words. In its most simple review, many brethren have been told that Y’shua ate a Passover meal on one night, was arrested, tried, and crucified the next day. According to many teachers in the church, that day was Good Friday. Then, Y’shua was buried Friday afternoon, sometime after three o’clock and resurrected at dawn on Sunday morning. On Sunday morning, Mary and the other women saw him first. However, this chronology does not produce three days and three nights as Y’shua said. [Friday day, Friday Night, Saturday day, Saturday night, Sunday day] The best you can get is three days and two nights, and you are stretching to get two of those days to work. From a Gentile Believer reckoning, Y’shua died on Friday at about 3:00 pm and was seen Sunday morning at about 6:00 am. This means that He was only dead for a maximum of 39 hours. You cannot get three days out of that; it doesn’t even total two full days!

We are going to search the Scripture to get the events of Passover to confirm the Prophecies and to prove that Y’shua died on the Passover and was resurrected on the Feast of First Fruits and fulfilled these events as proof that He is the Messiah. If we can’t, then He is not the Messiah.