The traditional way to celebrate the Easter season is to celebrate Friday (Good Friday) as the day Jesus was crucified and Sunday morning as the time of His resurrection. However, this is inconsistent with how God commanded Christ’s death and resurrection to be observed.
First, we must decide who we will believe. Almighty God and His holy scriptures, or are we going to follow the traditions of man? Surely, if you seek the truth, your only source of information and inspiration can be from the Bible.
Pro 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
When you are seeking a matter, please do not forget the Old Testament. Too many people today regard this book as being old and irrelevant to our modern day and age. But what does the word of God have to say on this matter?
2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.
All scripture means exactly what it says. ALL SCRIPTURE, both the old and the new testaments.
One point I would like to make here is simply this. God the Father and Jesus Christ had all eternity before their creating the earth to work out how everything was going to happen and in what order. They have made no mistakes, and there is absolutely nothing left to chance or anything that was an afterthought. They carefully planned the entire creation to draw our attention to something enormous.
Therefore, surely, we can trust that the order of events at the time of Christ’s crucifixion, burial, and resurrection, as recorded in the scriptures, is exactly correct down to the hour. When Jesus kept the Passover meal in the early hours of the 14th of Abib, just after sunset, He did not get His timing wrong, and when He died on the cross in the late afternoon of that same day, again, He did not get the timing wrong.
Whenever Jesus speaks, we should pay very careful attention to what He is saying. God Himself has given this excellent advice.
Mar 9:7 Then a cloud appeared and covered them, and a voice came from the cloud: “This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!”
The first thing I will say in this brief introduction is this. The most important piece of scripture we need to unravel this mystery is in Mat 12:39.
Mat 12:39 He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.”