Comments by "Scented-leaf Pelargonium" (@scented-leafpelargonium3366) on "Fire of Learning" channel.

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When I lived and worked in Israel (as a non-Jew) in the 1990's I was told that the Christians got their idea for 25th December from the winter holiday that roughly falls on that month (varied by the invention of the later Gregorian calendar) on 25th of the Biblical month of Kislev, known as Hanukkah which means "DEDICATION" which recalls the re-dedication of the Temple on that date after its desecration by the Greeks under Antiochus Epiphanes (as found in I & II Macabbees in the Apocrypha), and which Yeshua, before His Name was changed by the Gentiles to "Jesus", celebrated in John 10, which connects the holiday to something that Yeshua celebrated and provides the date of "25th" that the Gentile Christians may have viewed as a possible festival for them too as it was a "Feast of Light" which would have had striking symbolism in the dark month (as the Jews light oil lamps or candles in the windows of their homes to recall the re-lighting of the Temple Menorah or 7-branched candelabrum that had been snuffed out by the Gentiles). Of course there are many hypotheses on the origins of the Mass of Christ "Christ-Mass," but we do know that its current name comes from the Roman Catholic Church and there is no mention of the early Jewish Church celebrating either the birth or the resurrection annually at that stage from what we can glean from the Bible, but they were instructed to remember His atoning death, which occurred on the "Appointed Time" (or "MOED") of Passover on the Biblical date Nisan 14th. The birth may not be commanded to be venerated and its exact date open to much debate, but His death has a clear Biblical date and from that we calculate 3 days later the resurrection. However, the Bible nowhere says "Friday" or "Sixth Day" ("YOM SHISHI") for the crucifixion day, but only the term "Preparation Day," which is the day before a Sabbath or a day off servile work. This has caused many to ASSUME that the day before the Sabbath before which Yeshua had to be taken down from the cross was a "Friday" as the weekly Sabbath falls on the 7th day of the week, now called "Saturday" in honour of the god Saturn by the Gentiles. However, as I learned while living in Israel among Christian or "Messianic" Jews, that there were actually TWO Sabbaths the week that Yeshua died, one the regular WEEKLY SABBATH, from "Friday" sunset to "Saturday" sunset (as all Biblical days begin and end at sunset according to the lights in the sky provided by God for "days" and "seasons" ["MOADIM"] and "years" with "New Moons" being "new months" or "moonths" according to the moon). Genesis 1:5 states that: "The evening and morning were the first DAY," not the other way around, and not in the MIDDLE of the dark portion or 'night' at "mid-night," which ignores God's dividing lights in the sky. The second Sabbath that took place that week was the ANNUAL PASSOVER SABBATH, known as the First Day of Unleavened Bread or "CHAG HA-MATZOT," and which can fall on ANY DAY, not tied to a "Saturday," just as December 25th is observed today by the denominational Gentile churches, as all of God's MOADIM or Feasts fall on FIXED DATES and do not MOVE, unlike the man-made "MOVEABLE FEAST" of "Easter" as the papal calendar does not match time-wise with the calendar God set in place, hence it has to "move" whereas God's Feast of Passover stays put. So the day Yeshua died was NOT on a "Friday," despite the ecclesiastical tradition of "Good Friday" promoted by the Gentile prelates and Church Fathers in defiance against the Jews as they wished to distance the Church from "their" calendar and any dates that were found in it, even if they were ordained by GOD and observed by YESHUA. So they opted at the Council of Nicea in 325 to ratify "Easter" in place of the Passover of the LORD once all the Jewish leadership had lost prominence, basing "Easter" and "Good Friday" on days of the week, rather than actual Biblical dates, and ignoring the fact of the ANNUAL PASSOVER SABBATH, and so we have the erroneous "Friday to 'Sun'-day" equation which now no one will ever question. 🤯 However Yeshua gave the prophetical "sign" of 3 days & 3 nights (72 hours) as His time in the tomb, which Friday to 'Sun'-day does not fulfil, only some 36 hours and ONE NIGHT MISSING!! 🤯 So who is right, the words of Yeshua or the ecclesiastical traditions of denominational prelates? If when the first visitors to the tomb very early before dawn while it was still dark found the tomb EMPTY then NO ONE actually SAW Yeshua RISE from the dead, but rather they were told that He had ALREADY RISEN! If Yeshua had to be put in the tomb just BEFORE SUNSET on the day of the crucifixion (Nisan 14th) before the onset of the ANNUAL PASSOVER SABBATH (not the WEEKLY Sabbath), then He would have risen just BEFORE SUNSET 72 hours later, which if it were just before the first visitors arrived, then the only prophesied time would be just BEFORE SUNSET at the end of the weekly Sabbath, just before the onset of the first day of the working week, after they had rested on the Sabbath, which means that Yeshua rose on the Sabbath and NOT on "Sun"-day as so many Gentile scholars have calculated from the "wrong" Sabbath day. This means that not only is Yeshua truly "Lord of the Sabbath," but that the True Resurrection Day is the weekly SABBATH and not the first day of the week or "Sun"-day at all! 🙃 If we count back from this point 72 hours we arrive at "WEDNESDAY" as the day of the crucifixion, and NOT "Friday." It makes not one iota difference to what Yeshua achieved in providing for us salvation, as it does not entirely matter on what days it occurred, but if God gives us the actual date of the crucifixion in the Scriptures and the date of the annual Sabbath it is easy to work out the BIBLICAL time-frame from that assumed and concocted by men who viewed the "Jewish" calendar with disdain. This means that the whole premise of "Sun"-day observance is false and unnecessary, and most importantly NOT BASED ON TRUTH. The Scriptures solve every riddle. People may be getting into a furore over the origins of uncommanded festivals like "Christ-Mass" when the whole myth of "Sun"-day, named after the "sun" but never the "Son," is the most glaring travesty being observed by millions of sincere Christians every week. 😦🙁😳😲😣 Some people avoid the word "Easter" by saying "Resurrection Day" for "Sun"-day, but if it happened on the SABBATH (which many Christians totally avoid and even teach against), then the RESURRECTION DAY must be held on the SABBATH, but thankfully Yeshua never commanded us to keep "holy days" for His birth or resurrection, although the Sabbath of itself is a holy day. However He did instruct to remember His sacrifial atoning DEATH "as often as ye do this," i.e. celebrate Passover on Nisan 14th, not "as often as you like" which is basically what happens in most Gentile deominational churches today, even having the "supper" at breakfast-time when it is illegal to drink or sell wine in most civilised nations! 🙃 Yeshua did warn that the TRADITIONS OF MEN make the Word of God of none-effect. "Christ-Mass" is one of those, and so is "Easter," and we now know that "Sun"-day observance is a fallacy. However we also know the date of the Lord's DEATH at Passover on Nisan 14th and that His resurrection took place on the WEEKLY SABBATH, not "Sun"-day. That is worth celebrating! 🥳
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