Jesus died in the 3 hours of supernatural darkness that came over the land in the middle of the day. Where did He go when He exhaled His last breath and left His body on the cross? Jesus stopped suffering on the cross when He died and the light returned to finish the day. His body wasn’t taken down and placed into the tomb until it was almost dark.

All the time indicators should line up: 3 days and 3 nights, after 2 days, to the third day and while it was still dark. All the time indicators result in an empty tomb sometime before the morning light. Jesus left Hades (the heart of the land) and returned to the body He left on the cross in order for the tomb to be found empty when the 3 women arrive to anoint the body. The body was taken down from the cross and placed into the tomb before it got dark. Jesus got back into His miraculously preserved flesh and blood body and walked out of the tomb before it was daylight.

Hosea 6:2

CLV ² He will make us alive after two days: In the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live before Him.”

Matthew 12:40

YLT ⁴⁰ for, as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth [land] three days and three nights.

The word “day” obviously doesn’t refer to a 24-hour day in Matthew 12:40. It refers to the daylight in contrast to the dark night. When the Bible says, “after two days” or “in the third day”, it is referring to 24-hour days.

Mark 16:1-6

CLV ¹ And, at the elapsing of the [high] sabbath [the first day of the 7 days of Unleavened Bread], Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, buy spices, that, coming, they should be rubbing Him.” ² And, very early in the morning on one of the [weekly] sabbaths [the first day in the 50 day count to Pentecost], they are coming to the tomb at the rising of the sun.” ³ And they said to themselves, “Who will be rolling away the stone for us out of the door of the tomb? ⁴ And, looking up, they behold that the stone has been rolled back, for it was tremendously great.” ⁵ And, entering into the tomb, they perceived a youth sitting at the right, clothed with a white robe, and they were overawed.” ⁶ Now he is saying to them, “Be not overawed! Jesus are you seeking, the Nazarene, the Crucified. He was roused! He is not here! Perceive the place where they place Him!”

Luke 24:1

CLV ¹ Now in the early depths of one of the sabbaths, they, and certain others together with them, came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they make ready.”

John 20:1

CLV ¹ Now, on one of the sabbaths, Miriam Magdalene is coming to the tomb in the morning, there being still darkness, and is observing the stone taken away from the door of the tomb.”

Luke 24:44-46

ECB ⁴⁴ And he says to them, These are the words I spoke to you while yet with you, that all must fulfill/shalam which are scribed in the torah of Mosheh and in the prophets and in the psalms concerning me. ⁴⁵ Then he opens their mind to comprehend the scriptures: ⁴⁶ and he says to them, Thus it is scribed, and thus it is necessary for the Messiah to suffer, and to rise [out] from the dead [ones] the third day:

1 Corinthians 15:3-6

CLV ³ For I give over to you among the first what also I accepted, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, ⁴ and that He was entombed, and that He has been roused [to] the third day according to the scriptures, ⁵ and that He was seen by Cephas, thereupon by the twelve.” ⁶ Thereupon He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the majority are remaining hitherto, yet some were put to repose also.”

Genesis 8:4 – Nisan 17th was the seventh month to Noah

LITV ⁴ And in the seventh month [Nisan], on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat.

Exodus 12:1-15 : The typical birth of the first born nation of God was commemorated by changing the new year to Nisan

YLT ¹ And Jehovah [Yahweh] speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, in the land of Egypt, saying, ² `This month [Nisan] is to you the chief of months—it is the first to you of the months of the year; ³ speak ye unto all the company of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month—they take to them each man a lamb for the house of the fathers, a lamb for a house. ⁴ `(And if the household be too few for a lamb, then hath he taken, he and his neighbor who is near unto his house, for the number of persons, each according to his eating ye do count for the lamb,) ⁵ a lamb, a perfect one, a male, a son of a year, let be to you; from the sheep or from the goats ye do take it . ⁶ `And it hath become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the company of Israel have slaughtered it between the evenings; [Jesus (Yeshua) was nailed to the cross mid-morning. He died about 6 hours later, mid-afternoon, between the evenings, between high noon and sunset] ⁷ and they have taken of the blood, and have put on the two side-posts, and on the lintel over the houses in which they eat it. ⁸ `And they have eaten the flesh in this night, roast with fire; with unleavened things and bitters they do eat it; ⁹ ye do not eat of it raw, or boiled at all in water, but roast with fire, its head with its legs, and with its inwards; ¹⁰ and ye do not leave of it till morning, and that which is remaining of it till morning with fire ye do burn. ¹¹ `And thus ye do eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and ye have eaten it in haste; it is Jehovah’s [Yahweh’s] passover, ¹² and I have passed over through the land of Egypt during this night, and have smitten every first-born in the land of Egypt, from man even unto beast, and on all the gods of Egypt I do judgments; I am Jehovah [Yahweh]. ¹³ `And the blood hath become a sign for you on the houses where ye are, and I have seen the blood, and have passed over you, and a plague is not on you for destruction in My smiting in the land of Egypt. ¹⁴ `And this day hath become to you a memorial, and ye have kept it a feast to Jehovah [Yahweh] to your generations; —a statute age-during; ye keep it a feast. ¹⁵ Seven days ye eat unleavened things; only—in the first day ye cause leaven to cease out of your houses; for any one eating anything fermented from the first day till the seventh day, even that person hath been cut off from Israel.

In the reversal of the curses, the plagues on ‘Egypt’ and the final judgement on all the first born who were not covered by the blood of the lamb, was near the end of the 40 years. The final judgement on all the gods of ‘Egypt’ was also at the ending of the 40 years rather than the beginning. The types were all being fulfilled during the transition of covenants time frame, culminating at the end of the overlap of covenants, in AD 70. The 40 years is most symbolically from Jesus’ circumcision which represented new birth to His marriage to the new land which represented sabbatism. That day is most represented by Tishri 21st.

Exodus 12:12-13

KJV ¹² For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. ¹³ And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses [post and lintel] where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

Matthew 16:24-26

ECB ²⁴ Then Yah Shua says to his disciples, If anyone wills to come after me, he is to utterly deny himself, and take his stake [post] and follow me. ²⁵
LOSE THE SOUL TO FIND THE SOUL
For whoever wills to save his soul, loses it: and whoever loses his soul for my sake, finds it: ²⁶ for what is a human benefited whenever he gains the whole cosmos and loses his own soul? Or what gives a human in exchange for his soul?

The vertical relationship to Yahweh was covered by the blood. The horizontal relationship to the old covenant humanity was not covered. The new creation itself would unify humanity. The new firstborn would Himself reunify the body of humanity with His Holy Spirit. The first exodus and the giving of the 10 commandments established the vertical relationship with Yahweh first and then dealt with fellow humanity relationships. They were to apply the blood to the post and lintel. The firstborn was responsible for the household inheritance. The made new humanity actually recovers the firstborn with His own blood before writing His law on their heart. The Word fleshed out takes the place of the fallen firstborn before being raised into the new creation of humanity. The new covenant inheritance from the firstborn was secure It was un-fallen life to the age in the integrated body of Christ. Jesus disintegrated the old covenant house to unite His people in the new covenant house. Everyone was called to pick up their own post covered in the blood of The Lamb (vertical relationship with God) and leave the disunity of the firstborn soul. Jesus broke up the body of Adam and Israel so all His true people would unit in Him alone. They were to follow Him out of the cosmos of the typical Adam and the typical Israel: both individually and nationally.

John 3:16

¹⁶ For Elohim loved the cosmos thus: that he gave his only birthed Son; that whoever trusts in him destructs not but has life to the age.

Jesus is glorified after He ascends to the former glory He had before taking on flesh and blood. Ten days after His ascension He sends the Holy Spirit to resurrect those He called that day, from the 12 tribes gathered in Jerusalem. It was 50 days after Jesus’ singular resurrection of humanity that life was granted to the dead and dying humanity that had gathered in Jerusalem. They were resurrected by the same Holy Spirit who raised Jesus out of the dead ones. The new covenant body of Christ corporate began forming on Pentecost.

John 7:39

LITV ³⁹ But He said this concerning the Spirit, whom the ones believing into Him were about to receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Acts 2

YLT ¹ And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, ² and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting, ³ and there appeared to them divided tongues, as it were of fire; it sat also upon each one of them, ⁴ and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare. ⁵ And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation of those under the heaven, ⁶ and the rumor of this having come, the multitude came together, and was confounded, because they were each one hearing them speaking in his proper dialect, ⁷ and they were all amazed, and did wonder, saying one unto another, `Lo, are not all these who are speaking Galileans? ⁸ and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born? ⁹ Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, in Judea also, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia, ¹⁰ Phrygia also, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya, that are along Cyrene, and the strangers of Rome, both Jews and proselytes, ¹¹ Cretes and Arabians, we did hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.’ ¹² And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one unto another, `What would this wish to be?’ ¹³ and others mocking said, —`They are full of sweet wine;’ ¹⁴ and Peter having stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them, `Men, Jews! and all those dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and harken to my sayings, ¹⁵ for these are not drunken, as ye take it up, for it is the third hour of the day. ¹⁶ `But this is that which hath been spoken through the prophet Joel: ¹⁷ And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; ¹⁸ and also upon My men-servants, and upon My maid-servants, in those days, I will pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy; ¹⁹ and I will give wonders in the heaven above, and signs upon the earth beneath—blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke, ²⁰ the sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the day of the Lord—the great and illustrious; ²¹ and it shall be, every one—whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved. ²² `Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known; ²³ this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified—ye did slay; ²⁴ whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it, ²⁵ for David saith in regard to him: I foresaw the Lord always before me—because He is on my right hand—that I may not be moved; ²⁶ because of this was my heart cheered, and my tongue was glad, and yet—my flesh also shall rest on hope, ²⁷ because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption; ²⁸ Thou didst make known to me ways of life, Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance. ²⁹ `Men, brethren! it is permitted to speak with freedom unto you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us unto this day; ³⁰ a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne, ³¹ having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. ³² `This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses; ³³ at the right hand then of God having been exalted—also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father—he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear; ³⁴ for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand, ³⁵ till I make thy foes thy footstool; ³⁶ assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him—this Jesus whom ye did crucify.‘ ³⁷ And having heard, they were pricked to the heart; they say also to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, `What shall we do, men, brethren?’ ³⁸ and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, ³⁹ for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.’ ⁴⁰ Also with many more other words he was testifying and exhorting, saying, `Be saved from this perverse generation;’ ⁴¹ then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls, ⁴² and they were continuing steadfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers. ⁴³ And fear came on every soul, many wonders also and signs were being done through the apostles, ⁴⁴ and all those believing were at the same place, and had all things common, ⁴⁵ and the possessions and the goods they were selling, and were parting them to all, according as any one had need. ⁴⁶ Daily also continuing with one accord in the temple, breaking also at every house bread, they were partaking of food in gladness and simplicity of heart, ⁴⁷ praising God, and having favor with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.

The chosen Jews were being saved daily. 3000 from Israel was the second group saved on that day of Pentecost. Peter and others were already born from above before Peter’s first new covenant church sermon to Israel. The sabbatized humanity of the true Jew Jesus went dark on the cross in Jewish Jerusalem during the full light of day, in order to take their day of first born death upon Himself. He redeemed them from the mid-night death angel when mid-day became night. It was a de-creation/re-creation event for old covenant humanity. The juxtaposition of the cross event renewed fallen humanity out of their day of darkness. The Messiah specifically went into their dark death to pick them up where they fell. Jewish creation days started in the dark. So their re-creation day did too. Jesus sacrificed His full light of day to the dark death they insisted on, in order to overcome their love of darkness and take them to His never-ending 7th day. He rescued His own people. He did it by entering into and overcoming the place of the dead old covenant ones. He sacrificed His un-fallen and fully matured old covenant humanity for them. He took the place of the dead first born. The heart of the nation in the land was in darkness and death.

John 1:5

ECB ⁵ the light manifested in darkness; and the darkness overtook it not.

1 John 4:19

ECB ¹⁹ We love him because he first loved us.

1 John 4:19

JMNT ¹⁹ We ourselves are [some MSS add: now] habitually loving (or, as a subjunctive: can and should be constantly loving) because He Himself first loved (or: urges to reunion with) us.

After He was resurrected from their place of death, He sent the Holy Spirit to call them out of their place of the death. The first born man and the first born nation were both dead and dying. Their second death was impending. Their Messiah went into the place of the fallen ones and opened the gates of Hades for them. The gates of Hades could no longer hold His called out people after He came out. He called them to join Him in the resurrected body of the now living firstborn human. He summoned His chosen people to join His church. Church (ecclesia) means summoned or called out or called out by naming.

ἐκκλησία, ekklēsia, ek-klay-see’-ah
From a compound of G1537 and a derivative of G2564; a calling out …

Dodson: G1537 ἐκ, ek, ex – from out, out from among, from

Dodson: G2564 καλέω, kaleō, kal-eh’-o – I call, invite, name

Matthew 16:18

LITV ¹⁸ And I also say to you that you are [Jewish] Peter, and on this rock I will build My church [the called out], and the gates of Hades will not prevail against her.

Ephesians 4:9

ECB ⁹ Now that he ascended, what is it except that he also first descended into the substrata parts of the earth?

κατώτερος, katōteros, kat-o’-ter-os

Dodson: κατώτερος lower.

Strong’s: κατώτερος inferior (locally, of Hades)

The Genesis days could and should be seen as 24-hour days. They are presented as dark nights coming into the light of creation. There is no analogy to make if there is no corresponding earthly reality. Every day comes out of the dark into the very good works of God’s 6 days of creation. St Augustine saw the days of creation as prophetic eras. He believed he was born into the 6th day of works along with the rest of humanity. Evidently Augustine was still waiting for God’s final sabbatism to be given to His people through the very good work of the messiah.

God already approved of His Son’s old covenant humanity at His sabbath day baptism. Nobody else but God could do “very good” work in the original creation. Jesus’ second baptism was for the dead ones (His death and resurrection into a new creation). It was another very good work of God, so His people could finally finish the 6th day and enter His sabbath rest. But first “the night comes when no one can work“. While Jesus was in the grave the work of the church came to a halt. Jesus came out of the old covenant night into a new covenant sabbath day made for His people to enter. The seventh day of the original creation has no “evening and morning the 7th day”. Jesus’ sabbatism for His people was a new creation indeed. The Hebrews, who were given the Word of God, were then instructed to leave their old covenant works and work in the new covenant that was about to enter God’s final 7th day in Christ. The 7th day Pentecost betrothal culminated in the second 7th day of Tabernacles. The 8 days of tabernacles started and rested on a sabbath day – Leviticus 23:33-36.

Hebrews 4:9-12

ECB ⁹ So a shabbatism remains to the people of Elohim. ¹⁰ For whoever enters his shabbath also shabbathizes from his own works – exactly as Elohim from his. ¹¹ So be diligent to enter that shabbath, lest anyone fall in the same example of trustlessness. ¹² For the word of Elohim is living and energized and sharper than any double-mouthed sword, thoroughly penetrating to the parting of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow: and is a discerner of the deliberation and mind of the heart. ^{Isaiah 49:2}

John 9

ECB ¹
YAH SHUA HEALS ONE BIRTHED BLIND
And passing by, he sees a human who is blind from birth: ² and his disciples ask him, wording, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he is birthed blind? ³ Yah Shua answers, Neither this man sinned, nor his parents: but to manifest the works of Elohim in him. ⁴ I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day: the night comes when no one can work. ⁵ Whenever I am in the cosmos, I am the light of the cosmos. ⁶ Saying these, he spits on the ground and makes clay from the spit; and he supplies the eyes of the blind with the clay; ⁷ and says to him, Go, wash in the pool of Shiloach, – which translates, Apostolized. So he goes his way and washes and comes seeing: ⁸ So the neighbors and whoever had previously seen that he was blind, word, Is not this he who sat and begged? ⁹ Some word, This is he! Others, He is like him! But he words, I am! ¹⁰ So they word to him, How were your eyes opened? ¹¹ He answers, saying, A human, worded Yah Shua, made clay, and supplied my eyes, and said to me, Go to the pool of Shiloach, and wash: and I went and washed and I see. ¹² So they say to him, Where is he? He words, I know not. ¹³ They bring him who once was blind to the Pharisees: ¹⁴ and it is shabbath when Yah Shua makes the clay, and opens his eyes. ¹⁵ So again the Pharisees also ask him how he sees. He says to them, He put clay on my eyes and I washed and see. ¹⁶ So some of the Pharisees word, This human is not of Elohim, because he guards not the shabbath. Others word, How can a human – a sinner do such signs? – and there is a schism among them. ¹⁷ They word to the blind man again, What word you concerning him who opened your eyes? He says, He is a prophet. ¹⁸ But the Yah Hudiym trust not concerning him that he was blind, and sees; until they voice out to the parents of him who sees: ¹⁹ and they ask them, wording, Is this your son, of whom you speak, who was birthed blind? so how sees he now? ²⁰ His parents answer them, saying, We know this is our son; and that he was birthed blind: ²¹ but how he now sees, we know not; or who opened his eyes, we know not; he is mature; ask him: he speaks concerning himself. ²² – his parents say these words because they awe the Yah Hudiym: for the Yah Hudiym had already covenanted that whenever anyone professes Messiah, to ex-synagogue him. ²³ So his parents say, He is mature; ask him. ²⁴ They voice out a second time to the human who is blind, and say to him, Give Elohim the glory: we know this human is a sinner. ²⁵ He answers, saying, Whether he is a sinner or not, I know not: one I know, whereas I was blind, I now see. ²⁶ And they say to him again, What did he to you? How opened he your eyes? ²⁷ He answers them, I already said to you, and you heard not: Why will you to hear it again? Will you also to become his disciples? ²⁸ So they abuse him and say, You are his disciple; but we are disciples of Mosheh: ²⁹ we know Elohim spoke to Mosheh: as for this, we know not whence he is. ³⁰ The human answers them, saying, Indeed herein is a marvel, that you know not whence he is, and yet he opened my eyes: ³¹ now we know that Elohim hears not sinners: but whenever any is reverent of Elohim and does his will, him he hears. ³² From the first eon it was not heard that anyone opens the eyes of one birthed blind. ³³ Unless this one were of Elohim, he can do naught. ³⁴ They answer him, saying, You are altogether birthed in sins! And you doctrinate us? – and they eject him. ³⁵
YAH SHUA, THE SON OF ELOHIM
Yah Shua hears they ejected him; and when he finds him, he says to him, Trust you in the Son of Elohim? ³⁶ He answers, saying, Who is he, Adoni, so that I trust in him? ³⁷ And Yah Shua says to him, You have both seen him, and he who speaks with you is he. ³⁸ And he says, Adonay, I trust. – and he worships him. ³⁹ And Yah Shua says, I come to this cosmos in judgment, that whoever sees not, sees; and whoever sees, becomes blind. ⁴⁰ And some of the Pharisees with him hear these words, and say to him, Are we also blind? ⁴¹ Yah Shua says to them, If you had been blind, you had no sin: but now you word, We see! so your sin abides.

Jesus added His humanity to the clay to reform the human so he could see clearly. The Pharisees of verses 40-41 were obviously still blind and in need of reformation.

Genesis chapter 2 reverses the 6th day of creation, as far as Adam is concerned. It has the Adam formed first and then the animals come into the story. This reversal of the creative order of events on the 6th day of humanity chapter two is fulfilled in the creative reordering of humanity in the last days of the old covenant. The fully realized humanity of Jesus was actually put to death as the eschatos Adam, in full obedience on the tree, because He could not find a fully woke proper bride to face Himself, not among the old covenant humans anyway. Eve was released from the side of the eschatos Adam while He was dead (in a ‘deep sleep’) on the tree. Jesus died to rescue His bride rather than join her disobedience. The Holy spirit brought the old covenant death on the tree to the new covenant life, so Jesus could give His life to the hopelessly dead ones. The old covenant tree that Christ died on released the bride from the already dead man’s side. The Holy Spirit gave life to His bride on Pentecost. She joined Him in the resurrection of the old covenant humanity He had sacrificed for her. The tree of good and evil that ‘woke’ and killed the first Adam, killed the already woke under law eschatos Adam. Jesus took the place of Adam in his/His death. He was fully aware of what He was being asked to do for the bride, hence He did sweat it in the garden. He did not desire to die the death of Adam by taking on his curse. Jesus sweat before He did the hardest old covenant work ever done.

When a teenager’s manhood wakes, he desires to find a wife suitable to himself so he can cover his naked little animal man and start a new creation with the help of his wife. In the recreation, the first born human was resurrected, in order to save the widowed bride. Then the nations that the 12 tribes had tamed via old creation humanity in diaspora came into the picture. This is your mission should you choose to accept it: work the promised land and be a light to the nations. At Sinai the nation of Yahweh accepted God’s proposal to make them the greatest nation on earth. And if you choose to rebel, God will use your rebellion to work His plan of salvation anyway; to the Jew first and then to the Gentile. Salvation is of the Jews. After the first Gentile was brought into the resurrected nation, the Hebrews were still waiting for the final sabbatism of the people of God, according to Hebrews 4:9. In the mean time the Gentiles (represented as animals in the vision God gave to Peter in Acts 10:1-11:18 and to the 12 tribes addressed by Jacob in James 3:7-10) were being added to the one human body, as per the mystery of the gospel revealed.

The 12 hours of the daily light were the hours specifically counted by the Jews for their old covenant work days. The nights went by more vaguely as 3 or 4 watches of the night. The Genesis chapter one formula: “It was evening [the 1st night] and morning the 1st day … 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th day” does not extend to the 7th day, because the 7th day was already the never-ending sabbath rest of God. God already did very good work for 6 days. Jesus Himself worked in God’s full light of day in the old covenant. He worked as He saw the Father work. Only He could bring God’s sabbatism to His people.

Jesus was never stuck in their darkness. He entered and overcame their dark work day for their sake. He entered their darkest work day on the cross and then rose out of their dark sabbath night into a new-creation sabbath day. Jesus did very good work like His Father, every day of their typical week. God sent His Son to rescue His people from the imminent arrival of their final black sabbath, so His chosen people could reign in the never-ending seventh day with Him.

Jesus chose to enter their darkness in the middle of their typical work week. There was no evening and morning intended for the 7th day. God’s creation was all very good already. Yet Jesus came out of the dark old covenant sabbath night to make a new 7th day creation, before the old creation ended its 6th day in never-ending darkness. The unbelievers remained in the dark as their prophetic 6th day of works ended badly. After the 6th day works mode ended, there was no coming out into the 7th day dawning. It all ended in the dark. Only Jesus could overcome the unintended sabbath night of the old covenant. He did it preemptively for the sake of His doomed people. Everyone who chose to stay in the old covenant died a dark sabbath death.

After His sabbath night resurrection, Jesus went on to fulfill Adam’s and Israel’s millennial sabbath with His 70 very good years. It was the final sabbatism they were waiting for. The status quo Jews had tried to put their perceived threat to rest in the dark. They had tried to condemn the Lord of the sabbath for doing His very good works for them on their typical sabbath day, but Jesus overcame their dark day and put the old covenant hold-outs to rest in their final sabbath night, but not before He took His called out ones into the day of His sabbath rest. It was evening [the 7th night] and morning [the 7th day] of the resurrection. The tomb was found empty as the new covenant sabbath day of the messiah dawned.

But the seventh day was originally left uncounted because it didn’t come out of the dark or end in the dark like the other days. But 49 is not gold until His originally uncounted day is brought forward. God’s 6 days of works were already very good. Jesus submitted His very good completion of the 6th day of humanity back to the night for their recreation. Jesus’ day went dark when Jesus took His old covenant sabbath rest into their typical darkness at high noon in the middle of His last old covenant work week (also represented in Daniel’s vision as breaking covenant after 3 1/2 years of ministry). His people, who were stuck in dead works, were on hold in Hades (another gracious addition to the original creation). He brought them out of the imminent ending of their 6th day of dead works into His 7th day of rest. His new creation sabbatism (the sabbaths of First Fruit, Pentecost and Tabernacles) regenerated the most evil generation, so they could fulfill their final Jubilee with Him. He retroactively reigned in their otherwise failed millennium, with His called out ones. The old covenant antichrists went into the never ending darkness of annihilation as their 6th day ended in failure. They failed to join the very good works of the the day of the messiah. They lost their salvation, which was the sabbatism that remained for the Hebrews.

Jesus was much more patient and forgiving than Peter imagined. Yet most people don’t take 70 x 7 in its most basic sense. They see it as a metaphor for limitless forgiveness for all believing Christians forever, rather than actually for Peter’s offensive brethren who lived in the first century old covenant land. To a first century Jew in the land, the fulfillment of their second 490 was about to usher in their final sabbatical Jubilee. No more sacrifice for old covenant sins remained after their second 490 years in the land Matthew 18:21-22. Peter couldn’t forgive his old covenant brethren even if he wanted to. Old covenant brethren no longer existed after the wrath of God came upon the antichrist people who chose enmity with God.

Matthew 18:21-22

YLT ²¹ Then Peter having come near to him, said, `Sir, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him—till seven times?’ ²² Jesus saith to him, `I do not say to thee till seven times, but till seventy times seven.