Jesus died in the middle of two (presumably Jewish) thieves: one of them, the now honest and respectful one moved into the new covenant resurrection with Jesus. Notably, one of the reasons Jesus was killed was for driving the money changers out of the old covenant temple area. The money changers were the white collar thieves who were abusing the system. On the cross, Jesus forgave the Jewish thief who saw what was actually happening and said it out loud. From the cross Jesus asked His Father to even forgive the white collar thieves who hung Him there, because they didn’t know what they were doing. Whether they were drawn by the glory or the goods or just plain deceived, the Holy Spirit would be sent from heaven in just 53 days. Then Peter full of the Holy Spirit plainly told the Jews they crucified Jesus. Jesus was right in the middle of that too. He sent the Holy Spirit of truth from heaven to open the eyes of the Jerusalem Jews and the diaspora Jews who had gathered in Jerusalem for Pentecost.

Jesus died in the middle of the seven-day work week.

Jesus died in the middle of the last old covenant week of years.

He confirmed His covenant (or mastered His covenant) for 3 1/2 Holy Spirit filled years. That was half of the last 7 years, of the second 490 years in the land. Jesus old covenant ministry, along with the remaining 3 1/2 years of covenant confirmation, were both cut off in the middle of the last week, per Daniel 9:26. Did Jesus resume the 490 year countdown under law in the old covenant or in the Spirit of the new? Or both? We know it was sometime after He sent the Holy Spirit to His chosen people in Jerusalem because the Holy Spirit was sent to enable the Jews to fulfill their old covenant age in their living new covenant rather than in their dying old covenant? Fulfillment was prophesied to be 490 years. Whether or not Nicodemus asked this question, Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit informed him how to live to the age in the new covenant – John 3:16. The Holy Spirit informed all the chosen Jews in Jerusalem and in the diaspora. The Holy Spirit spoke through new covenant Jews. Knowing how to count wasn’t essential. Being born again was. If they weren’t being reformed they weren’t chosen. Daniel 9:24 and Hebrews 8:7. By AD 70 the 490 years was completed and the antichrist Jews were no longer forgiven for being ignorant. When the count that was cut off mid-week resumed only 3 1/2 years was left. The new covenant lived. The old covenant perished.

Jesus died between the evenings. High noon is when the sun begins to go down and 6PM is also when the sun begins to set. Jesus died at 3, right in the middle of the two settings. He died between the two evenings.

Though Yeshua did not call for a revolution or violence, He certainly did have a temple agenda. Nisan 10 was Jan 6 for the old covenant Jews in Jerusalem. Jesus made a whip of cords that day and cleansed His Father’s house of the money changers. He took things very personal, but so did the people who got rich from the temple. They loved their money making schemes associated with the temple complex. On the 10th of Nisan they decided they were going to kill Jesus; the same day they legally chose their passover lambs they were going to kill. The Jews would use dishonesty to falsely condemn their Messiah to die their old covenant death. The false witnesses were the real insurrectionists. Jesus was innocent of any insurrection against His Father’s government or His people.

When Jesus said destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up He was talking about the death and resurrection of His old covenant body. By mid week Jesus would be killed and their money making temple would still be standing. That would be reversed at the end of the old covenant. Jesus’ Holy Spirit resurrection formed a new covenant body of Christ before AD 70. Liability for all the martyrs since Able would come down on the typical temple and the typical insurrectionists who loved it. They inordinately loved the imitation temple and for the wrong reasons (and past its expiration date). The beloved body of Christ would stand. The imitation temple would be flattened in AD 70.

What is the abomination associated with the old covenant temple? Is it the inordinate love of the temple? Is it the continued killing of the born again Jews, being martyred (sacrificed) in the name of keeping the old covenant temple? Is the abomination a pig on the alter in the typical temple or is it the sacrifice of the born again Jews. The born again Jews were waiting for vengeance on the land, waiting under the alter in the heavenly temple? What filled up the old covenant guilt and ended with God’s wrath poured out on the imitation temple and the imitation people of God in Jerusalem? It is clearly stated that all the martyrs all the way back to Able would come down on Jerusalem in the end. Earthly Jerusalem became the desolate one, not heavenly Jerusalem. The old covenant hold outs killed or drove out any Jew who testified by way of the Holy Spirit in them. The old covenant Jerusalem did not have God or His chosen people in the end. They were desolate in the worst way: the absence of God led to the presence of demons Matthew 12:43-45, “So also will it be with this evil generation.” The new covenant regeneration did have God’s blessing and it didn’t end in AD 70. God’s wrath is never coming down on His chosen people who now inhabit the place He prepared for them. He reformed them in the name of His Son to inhabit His new covenant place.

Daniel 9:27

YLT ²⁷ And he hath strengthened a covenant with many—one week, and in the midst of the week he causeth sacrifice and present to cease, and by the wing of abominations he is making desolate, even till the consummation, and that which is determined is poured on the desolate one.’

Daniel 9:27

CLV ²⁷ Then he will be master of a covenant with many for one seven: At half of the seven, he will cause to cease the sacrifice and the approach present; on a wing of the sanctuary shall be desolating abominations. Till the conclusion of the era the decided conclusion will be poured forth on the desolation.”

Daniel 9:27

LXX Brenton ²⁷ And one week shall establish the covenant with many: and in the midst of the week my sacrifice and drink-offering shall be taken away: and on the temple shall be the abomination of desolations; and at the end of time an end shall be put to the desolation.

Daniel 9:27

LXX Thomson ²⁷ Now one week shall confirm a covenant for many and in the half of that week my sacrifice and libation shall be taken away. And upon the temple shall be an abomination of the desolations, and at the end of a time, an end shall be put to that desolation.

Jesus made it clear at His last supper with the Jews that He was the sacrifice and the drink offering about to be sacrificed for them. Jesus also made it clear that He would destroy the typical temple (imitation of the real one). The desolation and the abomination of old covenant Jews killing new covenant Jews was put to an end in AD70.

Daniel 9:27 says, on the single wing of many abominations, not the wing of one abomination. The very same Jews who rejected Christ and sacrificed Him just outside of Jerusalem continued to sacrifice His body again and again. What could be more abominable or cause more retribution in the end? Stephen was killed just outside the city because he was a vocal member of the new covenant body of Christ. In the name of their typical money making temple, the old covenant Jews kept killing the born again Jews. Jesus personally asked Paul why he was persecuting Him, as if persecuting His chosen people was the same as persecuting Jesus Himself. What is more abominable then killing the body of Christ in the name of keeping the covenant?

Jesus was in the middle of truly keeping the covenant for the last seven years of the 490 when He was crucified. The Jewish martyrs under the alter wanted to know why vengeance on the land was still waiting. 3 1/2 years after the cross has passed already. The recent millennial Jubilee was when all debts had to be paid. The great Jubilee was supposed to be the second 490. When would the countdown continue to complete the final week of the 490 with the last 3 1/2 years? The consummation was both: the mastery of the covenant by way of the Holy Spirit and the destruction of covenant keeping in the flesh. Two 3 1/2 year finales emerged from the cross. Two very different 3 1/2 year completions graciously waited. One in the new covenant and one in the old covenant.

Jesus was sacrificed as the Passover lamb mid-week in order to save the firstborn. Clearly Adam and Israel are the firstborns being permanently saved by the real Passover Lamb. He was sacrificed on the 14th of Nisan. Mark 14:12 says to or toward the first day of unleavened not on the first day of unleavened bread. We know Jesus was sacrificed on Passover prep day (14th) and buried before the first day of unleavened bread (15th). The last supper was toward the evening of the 13th which would be the start of the 14th. Jesus was put on trial the night of the 14th and killed in the day of the 14th when the passover lambs were killed. We know they ate bread and wine with Jesus on the eve of the 13th which was the start of the 14th. The Passover lamb was to be eaten after dark a day later, when the 15th day of the month started.

Mark 14:12

YLT ¹²  [at the end of the 13th] And [moving toward] the first day of the unleavened food[,] when they were [to be] killing the passover [the end of the 13th is the beginning of the 14th which is prep day for the 15th], his disciples say to him, `Where wilt thou, that, having gone, we may prepare, that thou mayest eat the passover [in the night of the 15th]?’

The 14th was prep day for both the Passover and for Unleavened bread. It came to be known as the first day for the activities associated with Passover and Unleavened bread, both of which are clearly on the 15th as recorded in the law. The 15th was the actual first day of unleavened bread and the actual passing over. Jesus ate the last old covenant supper with His chosen Jews on the evening of the 13th. It was that evening that was heading into the prep day, referred to here as preparation toward the first day of unleavened food. Houses were swept clean of yeast and lambs were slaughtered. Jesus did not eat the Passover with His disciples as He wanted to. He did not want to be the sacrifice. He asked His Father if there was another way. He was sacrificed on the 14th and was in the tomb during the actual midnight passing over commemoration. The following translation is even more difficult to make biblical sense out of.

Mark 14:12

CLV ¹² And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the passover, His disciples are saying to Him, “Where dost Thou want us to come away that we should be making ready, that Thou mayest eat the passover?

The passover was sacrificed on the 14th. The first day of unleavened bread was on the 15th. His disciples asked Him “where …” on the 13th.

Mark 14:1, 17, 18

YLT ¹ And the passover and the unleavened food were after two days, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by guile, having taken hold of him, they might kill him; ¹⁷ And evening having come, he cometh with the twelve, ¹⁸ and as they are reclining, and eating, Jesus said, `Verily I say to you—one of you, who is eating with me—shall deliver me up.’

There was only one mediator who could take His people to the age alive. Adam could not mediate for his wife after he joined her in a death he could not overcome. He died that day and stayed dead. Jesus did take Adam’s place in that death, now He lives in the new covenant and never dies another covenant death. Jesus died in the middle of the last seven years of Daniel’s 490. After the second 490 no more sacrifice for sins remained. So when did the second half of the last week of the 490 get completed? Is the 3 1/2 years still on hold? Is there still old covenant sacrifice for sins? When did Daniel say the end would come? Daniel was writing about the future of his Hebrew people. Daniel wrote concerning the fulfillment of the second 490 years of accountability. Jesus remained as the Hebrew high priest of the new covenant and saved all His chosen people from perishing in the old covenant in AD 70.

Hebrews 7:24-25

YLT ²⁴ and he, because of his remaining—to the age, hath the priesthood not transient, ²⁵ whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God—ever living to make intercession for them.

All God’s people needed saving from the demise of their old covenant, so the old covenant didn’t end until after the full creation of the new covenant. How else would anybody have been saved from perishing under the law of the old covenant? Maybe the Jews actually needed a new covenant where the Holy Spirit writes the law of God on their heart. The law saved nobody. Jesus told His chosen Jews that He was going to prepare another place for them so they could be where He is. Jesus is not in typical old covenant Jerusalem anymore and neither is anybody else. Hallelujah. Everyone in the old covenant died, including Jesus.

Bringing back old covenant death is the worst idea imaginable. Why subject people to perishing under old covenant law again? Didn’t the ones who chose to remain under law already perish? Are God’s chosen people taking Jesus’ name in vain today by claiming another Way? Just because God’s chosen people are secure in their new covenant that doesn’t mean they should carelessly promote the breaking of the second of the ten commandments. Second temple Judaism refused to say God’s name out loud thinking that would protect them from breaking the second commandment. That didn’t help them at all in AD 70. Refusing His only begotten Son and the Holy Spirit He sent to them in Jerusalem meant they really took God’s name in vain. Even with their last old covenant breath.

The old covenant has no breath left. It’s dead. Jesus sent God’s breath to the new covenant. He sent the Holy Spirit from heaven to the old covenant Jews in Jerusalem. It was the old covenant hold-outs specifically who had no hope of a redo according to Hebrews 6, even before the old covenant ended in second death. No matter how much God’s chosen people today support this man made illusion that we need the old covenant to come back to renew the planet, it ain’t coming back. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. The new covenant ain’t broke and never will be because the firstborn is forever Jesus. He will never take the place of the firstborn of the old covenant again. That happened on the cross. The new covenant save all the chosen Jews.

Hebrews 6:4-8

CLV ⁴ For it is impossible for those once enlightened, besides tasting the celestial gratuity and becoming partakers of holy spirit, ⁵ and tasting the ideal declaration of God, besides the powerful deeds of the impending eon, ⁶ and falling aside, to be renewing them again to repentance while crucifying for themselves the Son of God again and holding Him up to infamy.” ⁷ For land which is drinking the shower coming often on it, and bringing forth herbage fit for those because of whom it is being farmed also, is partaking of blessing from God;” ⁸ yet, bringing forth thorns and star thistles, it is disqualified and near a curse, whose consummation is burning.”