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Friday, April 3 2015

Nisan 14: The Day That The Messiah Was Crucified

The LORD God was and is Jesus Christ (see By Him Were All Things Created and The Christian Universe). The LORD's calendar was created before any humans existed (Genesis 1:14-19). Nisan is the first month of the LORD's calendar. It was declared at the first Passover (Exodus 12:2).

Nisan 14 began with the "Last Supper," which was actually "the Last Passover" (see Nisan 14: How Did The Messiah Observe His Last Passover?). The Messiah then went out to the nearby Mount of Olives where He was seized by agents of the religious council and abused through the night. In the morning, they turned Him over to the Roman occupation forces with false charges of sedition ("an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government"). The Messiah was Crucified in the afternoon of Nisan 14. The Body was placed in the Tomb just before sunset as Nisan 15 was about to begin.

The Holy Scriptures provide a detailed documentation of the events of Nisan 14.

The Kidron Valley






26:63 But Jesus held his peace.




They answered and said, He is guilty of death.


In the early morning, after they sadistically tortured and abused Him through the night, they sent the Messiah to Pontius Pilate, the local Roman governor. At that same time occurred the only justice of that day - the hanging of the traitor Judas (see Did Judas Iscariot Repent?).

Judas Iscariot









The Romans then continued the torture - again, cowards abusing and beating a bound prisoner. In their mockery of the King (see The Patriotism Prophecy), they inflicted the infamous "crown of thorns" upon Him.


19:2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, 19:3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands." (John 19:1-3 KJV)

Pontius Pilate knew without doubt that Jesus of Nazareth was innocent (everyone did - see Innocent Blood) - and publicly declared Him so, as he presented the Messiah before the frenzied mob.







False Witnesses

"19:8 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;


But Jesus gave him no answer.



Pilate then frantically tried to get the mob's permission to release Jesus. Their reply however was as despicable as their actions: "We have no king but Caesar" (see also The Caesar Questions). Pilate then relented and ordered the Messiah crucified (see also Why Did They Want A Murderer Released Instead Of Jesus?).





Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King?

The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.








While waiting for Him to die, the soldiers further mocked Him, and looted His clothing - exactly as prophesied long before (see also David's View From The Cross).





The Crucifixion





Joseph of Arimathaea and a Pharisee, Nicodemus (to whom was given the famous "born again" and "John 3:16" teachings; see What Was The Lesson Of John 3:16? and Joseph and Nicodemus: Making A Stand) hurriedly prepared the Body for burial and got it into the Tomb just before sunset - where He would remain for three days and three nights.


Fact Finder: When were the actual "three days and three nights" of the Messiah in the Tomb? According to the Holy Bible, was it actually just before sunset on a Wednesday to just before sunset on the weekly Sabbath?
See Why Observe The True Sabbath?




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This Day In History, April 3

503 BC: As stated on the Fasti Triumphales (stone tablets that were once erected in the Roman Forum), Roman consul Publius Postumius Tubertus celebrated a military victory over the Sabines (see The Politics Of Rome and A History Of Jerusalem: Pompey And The Caesars).

Roman Ruins 686: Maya king of the Kaan kingdom Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumed the throne of Calakmul.

1043: Edward the Confessor was crowned the King of England.

1189: Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and Pope Clement III resolved their disagreements and signed the Peace of Strasbourg (see The Holy Roman Empire Of The German Nation and Emperors and Popes).

1531: Martin Luther was excommunicated by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (Luther was condemned by the Emperor, not the Pope; see The Holy Roman Empire Of The German Nation) at the Diet (the term for a legislative assembly in some countries) of Worms ("Worms" is the English rendering of Vorms, a city in Germany).

1559: Philip II of Spain and Henry II of France signed the Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis in France, ending nearly 60 years of war.

1721: Sir Robert Walpole was appointed first lord of the treasury and chancellor of the exchequer, effectively Britain's first Prime Minister.

1756: The Marquis de Montcalm sailed from France for Canada, where he would later die at the Battle of The Plains of Abraham (a battle that decided Canada's political future, which up to that time had been contested between Britain and France). The British commander, General James Wolfe, was also killed in the battle, near Quebec City on September 13 1759.

1882: The U.S. frontier criminal (gang leader, bank and train robber, murderer) Jesse James was killed by a member of his own outlaw gang, Robert Ford.

1885: Gottlieb Daimler was granted a German patent for his engine design.

1922: Joseph Stalin was appointed as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1930: Ras Tafari was proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.

1933: Royal Air Force Lt. David McIntyre and the Scottish Marquess of Clydesdale, flying 2 open-cockpit Westland aircraft, completed the first overflight and aerial photographic survey of Mount Everest.

1936: Bruno Hauptmann, convicted kidnapper and killer of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh's infant son, was executed.

1949: Transjordan signed an armistice with Israel (which was actually the return of the southern kingdom of Judah; see The Southern Kingdom and The Gathering of Israel and Judah) that had become an independent nation (again) the year before (see A History Of Jerusalem: The British Mandate).

1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. It was his last; King was assassinated the next day by James Earl Ray, a U.S. Army veteran and escaped felon with convictions for burglary, armed robbery and mail fraud.

1969: U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announced that the U.S. would start to "Vietnamize" the war effort (the Vietnam War was actually a civil war of the Vietnamese people whose nation had been divided into South and South by imperial France and the U.S. in the 1940s and 1950s).

1996: Theodore Kaczynski was arrested in Montana as the terrorist "Unabomber."

1996: Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and all 29 passengers and 6 crew were killed when a U.S. government aircraft crashed in Croatia.

2000: Microsoft was ruled to have violated U.S. antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.






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