The Crucifixion Was Not On Friday PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

18 The Crucifixion Was Not on FridayJews in Possession of God's CalendarIt is the Jews to whorn God cornrnitted His revelations ororacles. Paul declared: "What advantage then hath the Jew?... chiefiy, because that unto them were committed the oraclesof God" (Rornans 3: 1-2).The oracles of God included the Old Testarnent Scriptures,the knowledge of the week and the knowledge of the SacredCalendar. The Jew preserved for the world the knowledge ofwhich day the seventh day of the week is. Without a knowledgeof when a week begins and ends we could neuer have told fromthe Bible alone which day the seuenth day actually is. No nationpreserved the week properly until they learned it frorn the Jews!That is the record of history.And in the sarne way only the J ews ha ve preserved God'scalendar. "But," you ask, "what if sorne Jews did not believein the oracles of God - including the Sacred Calendar -which were cornrnitted to thern? Did they lose thern or corruptthern?"The Bible gives us the answer plainly in Rornans 3: 3-4:"For what if sorne did not believe? shall their unbelief rnake thefaith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true,but every rnan a liar."If the Jews did not believe in what God cornrnitted tothern, even if they lie about God's truth, THEY MUST PRESERVE'l'HEM or God has failed to be God! Notice: "The secret thingsbelong unto the Lord our God: but those things which arerevealed belong unto us and to our children FOREVER" (Deut.29: 29). The J ews ha ve had to preserve these things. God purposedit!Jews Forbidden to Determine Calendarfor ThemselvesNow consider what God says of those Jews who decidednot to follow the calendar God gave thern and decided, instead,to observe their own new rnoons for thernselves. Did God saythat was perrnissible? Was that all right with Hirn?Turn to God's answer in Isaiah 1: 14: "YOUR new rnoonsand YOUR appointed feasts My soul hateth . . ." The sarne con-