Absolute Balderdash!
I am at a loss as to why this simple chronology gets so screwed up!
Midnight of the 14th would be approximately six hours after the 14th began (at the sundown of the 13th). The Hebrew, "Beyn ha Arbayim" indeed means, "Between the Evenings". But the evenings both occur on the same 24 hour "Hebrew" day!
The Hebrews observed two "evenings" everyday. The first at high noon when the sun was "Even" overhead and the second when the sun was "Even" on the horizon....just before it set. Let's read the biblical proof for this:
The phrase itself appears in more than a few locations in the Hebrew.....and here are the passages that pertain to the Passover: [Exodus 12:6][Leviticus 23:5][Numbers 9:3-5][Numbers 9:11]. The proof text is [Exodus 29:38-41]:
Young's Literal Translation:38‘And this [is] that which thou dost prepare on the altar; two lambs, sons of a year, daily continually; 39the one lamb thou dost prepare in the morning, and the second lamb thou dost prepare between the evenings; 40and a tenth [deal] of fine flour, mixed with beaten oil, a fourth part of a hin, and a libation, a fourth part of a hin, of wine, [is] for the one lamb. 41‘And the second lamb thou dost prepare between the evenings; according to the present of the morning, and according to its libation, thou dost prepare for it, for sweet fragrance, a fire-offering, to Jehovah: —
The daily sacrifices were done to honor Yahweh....and they were done daily. That means.....two sacrifices per day....not one in the morning and another after the sun went down because that then.....would not be occurring on the same day! Daily continually means both... the same day!
Josephus [Wars, Book VI, Chapter IX, Paragraph 3] Snip: So these high priests, upon the coming of that feast which is called the Passover, when they slay their sacrifices, from the ninth hour till the eleventh, but so that a company not less than ten (33) belong to every sacrifice, (for it is not lawful for them to feast singly by themselves,) and many of us are twenty in a company, found the number of sacrifices was two hundred and fifty-six thousand five hundred;
From the ninth hour to the eleventh hour would be 3:00 P.M. (afternoon) until 5:00 P.M. just before sunset! Scripture validates two sacrifices per day; Josephus validates the same thing and the Hebrew language itself verifies the concept of two separate evenings each day.
The observance of Passover began on the sunset of the 13th when the Hebrew day was now the 14th [Leviticus 23:5]. The preparation (the deleavening process began immediately) and by the next afternoon (still the 14th) the lambs were slaughtered for the Feast. I realize that it is difficult for many to understand that the following afternoon could still be the same day.....because they are so used to starting their days at midnight. Stop and think about how much better Yahweh's method really is.
He begins the day at sunset because that was what occurred first originally....darkness [Genesis 1:2]. The daylight came next. If you observe the Greco/Roman method you have 6 hours of darkness, 12 hours of daylight and 6 more hours of darkness to complete the cycle. Stupid!
The lambs were then eaten after the sunset of the 14th as the 15th began [Leviticus 23:6]. Here's how they were eaten:
[Exodus 12:8-11] 8And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. 10And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. 11And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
They were to eat it with Unleavened Bread and bitter herbs. That's why it's called the Feast of Unleavened Bread.....and it's eaten on the 15th (that night)! The destroyer (angel of death) [Exodus 12:29] came that night (the 15th) because we are told in [Numbers 33:3] that it was the morning after the Passover (this would be the 15th) that they left Egypt. Here's the passage:
3And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
Passover was the 14th (sundown to sundown). The Feast was the 15th (sundown to sundown)......and they left Egypt that very day of the Feast, the morning after they had eaten the lamb which was slaughtered between the evenings (noon and sunset of the 14th) and eaten after the sunset of Passover during the early hours of the 15th.....before midnight when the destroyer came and Pharaoh finally agreed to let them go [Exodus 12:31-32]! PHEW!
Exotic 12:6 and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month :for then all the multitude of the congregation of Israel shall kit at even...
Don’t open till christmas.. you don’t wait all day and then just before day ends you open up the gift!!! They waited till the 14th STARTED.. they had to consume in one night because by next night (15th) they were traveling... so the destroyer passed over on Nisan / abib 15?
Lev 23: 5 in the first month and in the fourteenth day of the month in the evening shall be the Passover of the Lord.
6: and on the fifteenth day of this month shall be the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days thou shall eat unleavened bread.
Great swamis - how do you reconcile Leviticus in the torah?
The reason why the Jews miss the Messiah and miss the Holy Spirit is because they miss the Passover and Pentecost... they celebrate the Passover a day late... the Lamb of God died on the 14th was placed (consumed) in the tomb that same day.scriptures tell us that.. unless you are not a believer than it all makes complete sense to me...
it was dark when He was slain(supernaturally so) at 3 PM (is that when the slaughter began with the lambs? How do I reconcile ‘in the even’ with 3 PM?)..
Scriptures tell us that. Gives no reason why it was supernaturally dark..(maybe because Nisan 14 darkness occured 12 hours earlier and the chief priests missed it)
He rose on Nisan 16 , the first day of the week as Scripture tells us...
maybe God was using the wrong calendar or off by one day or is it you are also still waiting for Elijah at your Passover meal?
See The Word became flesh and dwelt among us and fulfilled all of the spring feasts and will fulfill all the fall feasts too.that first Passover is rather important key... you miss that, you miss the blood of the Lamb and forgiveness of your sins...