Welcome to Prophecy Q & A with Jimmy DeYoung!
Yes. It could be on Thursday, which is also the preparation day for a special Jewish day as well. When I talk about the fact that Jesus Christ was crucified on Thursday afternoon at three o’clock, it goes along with many passages of Scripture. It is not only dealing with preparation for the Sabbath day, and that is important, but in Leviticus 23, the first day of Unleavened Bread has to do with the fact that it is a holy convocation. It would be considered a Sabbath day by the Jewish people as well. The time of the crucifixion, the first day of Unleavened Bread, was a Sabbath, and Saturday was a Sabbath. Sunday was the morrow after the Sabbath and was when Jesus Christ resurrected from the dead.
According to Leviticus 23, that is a description of the time for the Feast of Firstfruits. I Corinthians 15 says that Jesus Christ is our firstfruits. I Corinthians 5:7 says that He is our Passover. Matthew 12:40 “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
In John 11, Jesus defines a day as twelve hours. This is key to understanding a day with twenty-four hours … day and night. In Jewish and Middle East tradition, any portion of a day would be considered a day. The Bible says that He was crucified at three o’clock on Passover, Thursday afternoon. The evening before, he had the Passover seder. A Jewish day starts at sundown and goes to the next day at sundown. In Matthew, it says that He was buried in the evening when Joseph of Arimathea came for the body (Matthew 27:57 – “When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple.”) He went to Pilate and begged for the body of Christ, and he buried it in the evening. Christ was buried the next evening which starts after sundown. That puts Him in the grave on the first day of Unleavened Bread on the morrow and resurrected on the Sabbath. In order to have the three days and three nights, He was buried on Thursday and in the grave on Friday and Saturday (that is three days).
Jimmy DeYoung was a prophecy teacher and journalist who travelled the country and the world educating the Body of Christ of the future events foretold in God’s prophetic Word. His goal was to equip Christians with the knowledge and understanding of what God’s Word says will happen someday soon, so that they can make better decisions today. Dr. DeYoung went home to be with his Savior on August 15, 2021.
