The Original Ekklesia · Book 4
The Only Sign
The Count Tradition Missed
47 chapters · about 60,000 words · free
About this book
When He was asked for a sign, Jesus gave only one: three days and three nights in the heart of the earth (Matthew 12:39–40). He said “three days” before “three nights.” Was He buried while it was still day? Christians have puzzled over the count since the early church, and it has rarely been worked out in full. This book walks through every passage that sets the timeline. On a flight or a long drive, count the hours yourself, passage by passage.
“For just as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights” (Matthew 12:40).
• Jonah 2:1 and Genesis 1:5: how the Bible counts a day and a night
• Why the bread at the Last Supper is artos, not azumos, and what John means by “before the Feast of the Passover”
• Exodus 12:6 and the word shachat: why the Passover is offered, not killed
• The preparation day, the ninth hour, and a burial finished in the latter part of the day
• Three sabbatons in a row, and the dawn when the first sheaf was waved before the LORD
• The name Yeshua, letter by letter, from Isaiah 12:2 to Genesis 49:18
Every Scripture passage is quoted in full from the Yeshua Literal Version (YLV), with the key Hebrew and Greek words explained in plain English.
The Original Ekklesia, Book 4.
Chapters
Every chapter is on this site in full. Where a chapter has slides, an infographic or a video, it is marked.
01A Sign Measured in Time7 min · Slides · Infographic02Jonah 2:1, Read as Written5 min03Where a Biblical Day Begins6 min04Two Ways of Counting a Day6 min05A Name Chosen in Heaven6 min06The Four Letters of His Name6 min07Shua in Judah’s and Saul’s Families5 min08Yehoshua and the Shorter Form7 min09Isaiah’s Song of Salvation6 min10Heh in Yah and Eloah6 min11Exodus 15, Psalm 118, and Hosanna6 min12Three Spellings with an Extra Heh7 min13John’s Prologue and the Name7 min14Genesis 3:15 and the Promised He6 min15Eve’s Words at Cain’s Birth6 min16Jacob’s Last Words to His Sons7 min17What Jacob Waited For7 min18When Unleavened Bread Begins6 min19A Deadline for Leaven6 min20Using Up the Leavened Bread6 min21John’s First Time Markers6 min22Artos and Azumos7 min23Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Paul Agree7 min24Paraskeue, the Day Named5 min25The Bread He Broke at the Threshold5 min26From the Upper Room to the Council10 min27Morning Trials and the Road to Golgotha7 min28The Lamb Kept from the Tenth7 min29When the Evening Opens the Fourteenth7 min30Shachat and the Passover Offering8 min31The Hours on the Cross6 min32Joseph of Arimathea’s Tomb7 min33Three Appointed Times Fulfilled in Order6 min34John’s High Day6 min35Eleven Places of Complete Rest7 min36Passover, Unleavened Bread, and the First Sheaf7 min37What Luke, John, and Mark Wrote6 min38Mia Ton in the New Testament7 min39Matthew 28:1, Word by Word7 min40Opse, Opsia, and Hespera8 min41The Day of the First Sheaf7 min42The Order of the Resurrection6 min43The Timetable from Cross to Dawn7 min44A Rendering Given Its Due5 min45The Quartodecimans6 min46Leavened and Unleavened, East and West5 min47Time and Name Together6 min