Sunday, Not The Commanded Day of Worship

Picking up where I left off about the Sabbath I looked into the other popular reason for Sunday worship which is that is the day Christ rose from the dead. The first delemma I ran into was Christ's own words Mat 12:40 For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Now there is no way I can get three days and three nights out of a Good Friday crucifiction and a Sunday resurrection.

Upon closer examination of scripture I saw that there were two sabbaths that week. One was an annual Holy day, a high day, and the other was the regular weekly seventh day sabbath.
Joh 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was a high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
The high day that this verse is referring to is the First Day of Unleaven Bread which fell on a Thursday that year AD31.

Biblically a new day starts at sunset. Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

So Christ's body was placed in the tomb just before sunset on Wednesday where according to His own words it was to be there 3 days and 3 nights. Wednesday evening was the first night, Thursday evening the second night and Friday evening the third night. That takes care of 3 nights now Thursday day was the first day, Friday day the second day and Saturday day the third day. In keeping with Christ's own words He would have been resurrected just before sunset on Saturday evening exactly 3 days 3 nights later. So when Mary Magdalene came to the grave site before sunrise on Sunday morning Christ was already gone.

Joh 20:1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulcher.
Joh 20:2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulcher, and we know not where they have laid him.

There was no Good Friday crucifiction and Easter Sunday resurrection which leaves the only authorization for Sunday worship coming from the Roman Catholic Church.