The Palm Sunday is in Reality a Palm Sabbath!

When you hear the words "Palm Sunday," "Easter Sunday," and "Pentecost Sunday," do you notice anything? Yes, it's always called Sunday. The churches have deliberately designed their calendar so that every year the annual festivals fall on a Sunday. In doing so, they have dared to invalidate the law of God and the feast days in God's calendar (Dan 7:25), to change them and replace them with their own new human feast days. 

The evil ruler "shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand" (Dan 7:25)

There are very many years when the 10th Nisan (the day when the Passover lamb was to be taken out) falls on a Sabbath. This is the case in about every third year. Whenever the 14th Nisan falls on a Wednesday, then of course the 10th Nisan must fall on a Sabbath. Some current examples according to the Jewish calendar:

The same sequence of days existed in the year Jesus was crucified. The date given in many sources mostly corresponds to the Julian (=Roman) calendar, which was replaced by the Gregorian (=Catholic) calendar in 1582:

Even in the year 2020, the 10th Nisan fell on a weekly Sabbath (April 4). The preparation day 14th Nisan was on April 8, the High Sabbath (15th Nisan) on April 9, and the First Sabbath (17th Nisan) of the series of seven weekly Sabbaths between Passover and Pentecost fell on April 11, 2020. In 2023, the 10th Nisan also fell on the Palm Sabbath, and since God's biblical calendar and the Jewish calendar again fell on the same weekdays, this Palm Sabbath can be named in both calendars with the exact date: April 1, 2023. This special Sabbath is called "the great Sabbath" (Shabbat Ha-Gadol; also in TorahCalendar).

The Nisan is the first month of the year. Whenever the 10th Nisan falls on a Sabbath, the 14th Nisan falls on a Wednesday. Then the "first Sabbath" is always on the 17th Nisan and the "second Sabbath" on the 24th Nisan. The seven Sabbaths are counted without exception every year until Pentecost:

The first month (Nisan, Aviv) of the year began in the calendar of God (= calendar of the Bible) whenever the first crescent of the moon could be seen over Jerusalem. Thus the High Sabbath (15th Nisan) always falls on a full moon night (FM) every year:

There is also a proof of this in the New Testament itself:

"Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead... 12 The next day [i.e. the 5 day before Passover] the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 13 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!" (Jn 12:1-13).

This day is called "Palm Sunday" by many churches. But this is completely impossible, because the "next day" mentioned in verse 12 was the 5th day before Passover (= High Sabbath on the 15th Nisan). The 14th Nisan cannot be meant, because this was not a holiday, but only the preparation day for the Passover (15th Nisan). Jesus entered Jerusalem on the 10th of Nisan as the Lamb of God who was cast out. With this, the Bible was again fulfilled in a perfect way, because on a 10th Nisan the blameless lamb was to be chosen and kept "between evenings" (3 p.m.) until the slaughter on the 14th Nisan (Ex 12:2-6):

Most churches want nothing to do with the Sabbath. That is why they calculate Palm Sunday differently than God. They interpret John 12:1-13 as if Jesus had walked the difficult and long way to Bethany on a Sabbath, then spent the night there, and on the following Sunday (after a short journey) went to Jerusalem on a donkey. Here several inconsistencies become obvious at once, because if Jesus had been crucified on Friday the 14th Nisan, it would mean that Palm Sunday would not have to fall on the 10th but on the 9th Nisan. Thus, Christians would be celebrating Jesus' separation (on Nisan 9) one day too early and would rather have to speak of Palm Monday, since Monday would fall on Nisan 10. This is an embarrassing mistake, because the Passover lamb should be sorted out on the 10th of Nisan (Ex 12:2-6) and not a day earlier. Theologians simply postpone the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem to the 9th Nisan and the crucifixion of Jesus to the 6th day of the week. The numbers 9 and 6 stand for Satan and have nothing to do with the biblical numbers 10 (sorting out), 4 (crucifixion on the 4th day, middle of the week) and 7 (resurrection, Sabbath). Thus it becomes clear that Palm Sunday has always been only a religious desired day of another power and has nothing to do with the Bible:

The Catholic (Gregorian) days of the week today do not begin at 6 p.m., but rather in the middle of the darkness of the night (24 and 0:00), but the light-day (the bright part of a calendar day) is identical in the case of the Biblical and Catholic days (see definition Day). It is obvious that the above table cannot possibly be correct, because the Bible emphasizes the 10th Nisan and not the 9th Nisan. The segregation began when Jesus entered Jerusalem and not a day later, when Jesus was already there for a long time anyway.

Some theologians calculate the days in such a way that the phrase "six days before Passover" (Jn 12:1) supposedly does not refer to the 15th Nisan (High Sabbath) but to the 14th Nisan, because on the 14th Nisan the Passover lamb was slaughtered. But this theory cannot be correct for several reasons:

1. "Passover" was usually used to refer to the High Sabbath (15th Nisan) and not to the preparation day before it. The High Sabbath was much more important than the normal working day before, when all leaven had to be removed from the house. This meant careful and stressful work and no celebrating. In addition, the lamb had to be slaughtered and prepared from 3 pm. The Passover Feast was celebrated from the 15th (High Sabbath) to the 21st Nisan (High Sabbath). What does the word "Passover" mean? It means "pass over", "skip", "leave", "protect" or "omit." And when was the first birth of Israel saved (passed over, skipped) after the blood of the lamb was put on the doorposts? This was not on the 14th Nisan, but at midnight of the 15th Nisan, when the angel of death spared the houses of the Israelites. Therefore the 15th Nisan means: Passing over = Passover, because nothing happened on the 14th Nisan, no one was spared, but only at midnight on the 15th Nisan (Ex 12:29-33). Immediately thereafter the Israelites left Egypt into freedom (Exodus). This was on the same night of the 15th Nisan at full moon. That was the Passover feast on the night of the Passover.
2. The Bible reports that there were in fact two Sabbaths, the "High Sabbath" (annual Sabbath) and the "First Sabbath" (weekly Sabbath). So there cannot have been a "double Sabbath" (when the annual Sabbath falls on a weekly Sabbath) in the year of Jesus' crucifixion.
3. The Bible emphasizes that the preparation day of Nisan the 14th is a special day, because it was the preparation day for the High Sabbath (see No Friday). If it were the day before a double Sabbath, the distinction would not be necessary because the 14th Nisan is before the High Sabbath every year.
4. If the 14th of Nisan was considered to fall on a Friday, then the one weekday between the Sabbaths on which the women prepared the ointments would be missing (see Intermediate day). 
5. If Jesus had been crucified on a Friday, He could never fulfill the important sign of the Messiah (three days and three nights), since He would be in the tomb for only half of the announced time. He would resurrect much too early (see proof).
6. The tomb should be guarded by the soldiers "until the third day" and not "until tomorrow".
7. The literal translation of the Gospels proves beyond doubt that the women came to the tomb "on a Sabbath" morning (see Interlinear). The corresponding Greek expressions for "after the Sabbath", "on the first day of the week", "on a Sunday" have not been found in the basic Greek text for 2,000 years (see examples). And nobody will find these words in the future either, because God calls the Sabbath day by name seven times (in singular and plural). Mark even stresses that it was "early on the first Sabbath" (and not early on the "first Sunday"). 
8. Many Bibles, correctly translated from Greek and Latin, confirm that the women came to the tomb "on a Sabbath" morning (or "on a Saturday" morning) (see Mt 28:1 and Mark 16:9). There are not two different days of resurrection, where everyone can choose any one of them, depending on the Bible translation he uses. There is only the biblical Resurrection Sabbath and the unbiblical desired theological Resurrection Sunday.  

Therefore, the 14th Nisan cannot possibly have fallen on a Friday for many reasons.

Because the Hebrews know that Nisan 10 fell on a weekly Sabbath in the year of the Exodus, they celebrate this special weekly Sabbath before Passover each year and call it the "Great Sabbath" (Shabbat ha-Gadol) to commemorate the first setting apart of the Lamb. See Shabbat ha-Gadol  on Nisan 10.

Every Jewish calendar 2020 and 2023 shows Shabbat ha-Gadol, which Christians also call the Palm Sabbath. In the year of Jesus' crucifixion there was no „Palm Sunday,“ but rather a „Palm Sabbath“.

In defense of Sunday, some theologians have made the claim that on a Sabbath the Passover lamb was allegedly not allowed to be separated. This is completely wrong, because according to the Jewish calendar the 10th Nisan very often falls on a Sabbath (Palm Sabbath), namely statistically even every third year. If you don't believe it, you can quickly check this on the many websites in the Jewish calendar. The separation of the lamb is no great work and takes only a few minutes. Most people had prepared everything beforehand. But the supposed long walk of Jesus to Bethany on a Sabbath would be much more against the Sabbath commandment. Many pastors simply overlook how long and exhausting the way to Bethany was. Therefore, according to John 12:1, Jesus came to Bethany "on the 6th day [= Nisan 9] before Passover [= Nisan 15]", so that He would have a short way on the Sabbath (Nisan 10; 5th day before Passover). The first Passover lamb at the time of Moses was also sorted out on a Sabbath (Nisan 10).

On the Day of Atonement, the great annual Sabbath of Yom Kippur, two goats had to be sorted out and the scapegoat had to be sent into the desert. Now if such great works may be done on a yearly Sabbath, why should the simple and brief sorting out on a small Sabbath be forbidden? With the entry on the 10th of Nisan, Jesus fulfilled the prophecies.

Jesus said that you can even care for animals on the Sabbath, feed them and even take them out of a dirty pit, so why not a short separation?

• "He [Jesus] said to them, “Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? 12 Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath” (Mt 12:11-12).
• "Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox [or cow] or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it? 16 And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” 17 As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him" (Lk 13:15-17).
• "Which of you, having a son or an ox [or cow] that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” 6 And they could not reply to these things" (Lk 14:55-6). 

Important: Even if the lamb had been separated on the 9th Nisan (the day before the weekly Sabbath), it does not change the fact that Jesus entered Jerusalem on the 5th day before the Passover (15th Nisan). The 5th day before the Passover is the 10th Nisan, the Palm Sabbath.

Peter knew that Jesus fulfilled the sign of the Messiah and rose from death after "three days and three nights". Therefore, he spoke with frankness: 

Acts 4:10-12: "Let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead by him this [sick] man is standing before you well. 11 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. 12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Again, the 14th Nisan very often falls on a Wednesday, so the 10th Nisan (the day of the separation of the lamb) must also very often fall on a weekly Sabbath. Jesus was seperated on the 10th Nisan (Palm Sabbath), died on the 14th Nisan (Preparation day) and was raised on the 17th Nisan on the "first Sabbath", the first Sabbath of a series of seven Sabbaths that are counted every year from Passover and Pentecost to the present day. The Bible is easy to understand when complicated distortions of the Word of God are avoided. 

Under the keyword "Shabbat haGadol" there is a lot of literature on the Internet. Again and again, the Torah and numerous old and new Jewish sources confirm that the very first 10th of Nisan fell on a Sabbath, the 14th of Nisan fell on a Wednesday, and the 15th of Nisan (the day of the Exodus) fell on a Thursday. Thus, the Jews confirm the Palm Sabbath. So the supposed Palm Sunday was in reality a Palm Sabbath. But the word "Palm Sabbath" comes from Christianity, because the Hebrews called this Sabbath the Great Sabbath (Shabbat ha-Gadol). It was the day when Israel took the Lamb to Himself and it was the day when the Lord came to the people in Jerusalem. The Lamb (Jesus) was among the people for 4 days before he had to die innocently. See the important chapter: Shabbat ha-Gadol on Nisan 10.

There is another unexpected proof that the 14th Nisan must have fallen on a Wednesday in the year Jesus was crucified. So the 10th Nisan must have been a Palm Sabbath as well. It was on this very day that the first lambs of the time of Moses were separated. The biblical details of the introduction of the manna week (Exodus 16) make it possible to calculate the days back exactly to the day of the Exodus from Egypt (more information).

Jesus fulfilled the Passover lamb sacrifice in a perfect way. He died on the exact same day (14 Nisan, Wednesday) and at the exact same time (3 p.m.) that the first Passover lamb was killed. Thus, Jesus was symbolically the last Passover lamb, and any further slaughtering of the lambs from that time on was pointless.

Jesus has fulfilled the Passover lamb sacrifice in a perfect way. He was separated on the 10th Nisan (Palm Sabbath). He died on the exact same day (Nisan 14, Wednesday) and at the exact time (3:00 p.m.) when the first passover lamb was killed. Thus Jesus was symbolically the last Passover lamb, and any further slaughtering of the lambs from that time on was pointless. Jesus rose from the dead after "3 days and 3 nights" on the "first Sabbath" (17th Nisan, Mk 16:9) and thus also fulfilled the sign of the Messiah in a perfect way. There is no better and more exact way.

None of this has anything to do with a Sunday fairy tale for lukewarm Christians whose lives consist only of misinterpretations and distortions of the Word of God. They all look for the Resurrection Sunday in the Bible and they all find the Resurrection Sabbath written seven times in it. God made no mistake. He is the creator of the earth and of the language, He knows which words to use in the basic Greek text and which words he definitely does not use (see Interlinear).

 "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil"

(1Thess 5:21-22)

"Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them"

(Epheser 5:11)