Jon Collins

And the Exodus version has a cosmic participation type of emphasis.

And just enjoy the good things that God's given me and not think that the universe rests on my labor.

within the Hebrew Bible and then in Jewish tradition, the seventh day takes its cue from the Genesis narrative that the markers from the day start evening to morning.

Day begins at sundown, which is crazy for modern Westerners because we think the day ends at sundown and begins at sunrise.

That's not the conception of time in the seven-day narrative.

So this is why Jewish communities, as far back as we can tell,

A seventh day begins on what today we call Friday at sundown.

So from Friday to Saturday.

And so this is still, you know, in the modern state of Israel, when the modern nation state of Israel was founded in 1948, that's how they created Israel.

and instituted their calendar.

And I'll never forget, when I lived there during the school year, it took me so long to get used to it.

Because Sunday was essentially what Monday is in Westernized or Christianized cultures.

Okay, so this is interesting.

In the earliest Jewish Messianic Jesus communities, so Israelite followers of Jesus as Messiah, Jesus rose from the dead on a Sunday.

So as the stories go, and there's some chronology issues you've got to work out between Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

But the basic shape of the story is such that he dies and he's in the tomb over the Sabbath.

So that resurrection in the empty tomb happens on Sunday.

which is in the day one of the new week.

So what happened then is you have Messianic Jewish followers of Jesus who are both observing Shabbat in the traditional way, but then all of a sudden they have Sunday, which is a hugely important day because it marks the dawn of new creation.

and the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.