HOUR OF DARKNESS

CHAPTER I Page 6

G-D'S CALENDAR

SUFFERING THE SENTENCE OF OUR PUNISHMENT

Each act fulfilled Scripture. Each stroke of the hand or fist, the whipping, the spitting, Yeshua quietly bore it in our stead - our punishment was upon HimY.
Nothing was left out by the unsuspecting “actors”. Even the Roman soldiers unwittingly fulfilled what Moses in a moment of anger inadvertently enacted, the reason for which he was not permitted to enter the promised land.
Instead of beating Yeshua but once they beat Him a second time! ⁶⁹
It was not again the 39 whip lashes, but their hands and fists and the reed. The bamboo reed is very hard, cracking bones and splitting skin and flesh wide open.
During Israel’s sojourn in the wilderness of Zin they thirsted greatly at a place called Massah/ ” Test” and Meribah/ ”Quarrel ”. G-d commanded Moses to smite a certain rock and streams of clear water came gushing out. Like a river these waters flowed⁷⁰. Towards the end of their forty year sojourn they came once again to that place and again there was no water, and again they quarreled with Moses. Once more G-d commanded Moses to take his staff and assemble everyone before the rock. But this time he was to speak to the rock to yield its water⁷¹. Instead, angered by their constant complaining and lack of faith, Moses struck the rock twice. Water came out, providing abundant drink for all. But Moses had disobeyed and therefore could not bring Israel into the land, after having guided and borne them for forty years⁷².
This Rock of living waters prefigured Messiah, the Rock of our salvation. G-d ordained Him to be smitten once, not twice. Moses altered this and it went ill with him because of it. And Yeshua had to endure a second smiting. What is written must be fulfilled. The Scriptures cannot be broken.

e)xYeshua was crucified, died and was buried on
Thursday/yom chamishi /fifth day
John 19:28, 14, 17, 31, 42; Leviticus 23:7
It was the Day of Preparation for the Passover, not only for Shabbat / Saturday. It was a Shabbath HaGadol⁷³, since the day of Passover, a day of solemn rest, was followed immediately by Shabbath / 7th day, which is also a day of solemn rest; hence two days in which absolutely no work was permitted nor the dead to be buried. Much preparation and care is required for such a double high holiday.
Immediately at sundown, yom chamishi / 5th day ended and yom shishi / 6th day began, and with it the Passover. All of Israel ceased work and prepared to sit down at lavishly set tables to celebrate and eat the Seder, usually deep into the night. There would be temple and synagogue services the next morning, and at sundown of yom shishi / 6th day, Passover would end and the Festival of Unleavened Bread begin as well as Shabbath / 7th day. It was a most holy and solemn Shabbath.
A day was reckoned “one day” as long as the sun was up, even if only one hour was left until sundown. This is very important to know in order to understand correctly the 3-day count of Yeshua’s entombment. Furthermore, we need to know the day and night hours in Israel at that time in order to know which hours the Gospel writers refer to.

Roman night hours:
divided by four watches from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. [18:00 - 06:00]
They were simply called first, second, third and fourth watch⁷⁴,
each watch lasting 3 hours.

Jewish night hours:
also divided by four watches of 3hours each and were called:
Evening, midnight, cockcrow and dawn ⁷⁵.
These watches were apparently named for the third hour of the watch,
when each watch ended, rather than for the first hour, when each watch began. I.e., “evening” begins at 6:00 p.m., but ends at 9:00 p.m.; while “midnight” begins at 9:00 p.m. and ends at midnight.
The day time hours began with 6:00 a.m., calling the hour from
6:00 to 7:00 a.m. the first hour.
The last hour of the day was 6:00 p.m., calling the hour from
5:00 to 6:00 p.m. the twelfth hour.

⁶⁹After Pilate had delivered Yeshua up to be crucified, the soldiers did not proceed immediately with the crucifixion, but as shown above, first led Yeshua back into the praetorium a second time, where they called the whole cohort together to amuse themselves with torturing and mocking the Lord. As stated afterwards, this second beating was not another whipping with 39 lashes, but was a beating with fists, the hard bambus reed and being struck with the flat hand. YIsa. 53:5

⁷⁰Exodus 17:1-7; Psalm 78:15-16, 20; 105:41; ⁷³John 19:31; see Promise of a New Creation, b) 1-6, pp. 9-10

⁷¹Numbers 20:1-8 ⁷⁴Luke 12:38; Matthew 14:25; Mark 6:48

⁷²Numbers 20:9-13; Psalm 106:32-33 ⁷⁵Mark 13:35

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