The One-Year Ministry of Christ vs the Three-and-a-Half Year Tradition

The One Year Ministry of Christ Vs the 3 1/2 years given to us by Orthodox Christianity. 00:00 I'm recording this right before Halloween in 2025. And of course, this is the season of everything scary. But there is something that is very scary that I begin to think about during this season of scary things. And it's how easily the Christian church has believed information that they've never questioned throughout the years. That's scary. And it happens to the best of us. But there is one thing I want to show you as an example. Something we've never questioned. We just believed it. And it is the fact that Yesua, which is Jesus, had a three and a half year ministry. And the problem with that is it's nowhere in the Bible. Nowhere. And we're going to talk about that today. I'm going to prove to you in the next hopefully 10 minutes that Jesus Yesua only had a oneyear ministry, not three and a half. Now, if you don't understand this, it brings in a lot of problems that that we have to deal with. I wrote a book, small booklet called the one-year ministry of Christ. It has all the details. I prove it. I promise you, if you read this little booklet, you will never again believe in a three and a half year ministry of Christ. You can get this booklet free of charge. You can download it in PDF form on my website hiscomingkingdom.com his hcomingkingdom.com and go to the ebook section and download two booklets. One is called the yearling lamb. And then the addendum to the yearling lamb is this little booket booklet, the one-year ministry of Christ. First Harvest Ministries is in the business of restoring original apostolic truth. What do we mean by apostolic? The apostles when the when the gospel was pure. And you're going to find out in this booklet that when the gospel was pure, there was they only believed in a one-year ministry of Christ. You're going to read quotes in here from early church fathers that attest there was only one year ministry of Christ. And that would make perfect sense, would it not? Because if Yesua is the lamb of God, and we know he is, there were two requirements that the lamb had to meet to be the sacrifice for your sin. Number one, he had to be spotless. Well, we know Yesua fulfilled that one. But he also could only be one year old. That's why the book is titled the yearling lamb. He had to be a lamb of the first year. That means from the moment he was baptized. When his ministry began till the day he died, he could not be over a year old. If he was, he's not. He did not meet the Torah requirement. So, I recommend this book. Um, it is filled with great information that you need to be aware of. Okay. Um, also the video of me teaching on the yearling lamb is available on our YouTube channel. Just search for yearling lamb and you can watch me teach it. Now, those of you that have watched this far and you don't have time to go any further, that's okay. I'm done for you. You know where to go to get your resources. For the rest of you that's like, "No, no, no. I need to hear about this. I'm going to teach it to you real, it won't be real quick, but I will teach it. I'm going to go through this booklet and just give you some of the highlights and uh. But for the rest of you, you can go to the website and download it.". 04:48 Okay. Now, at First Harvest Ministries, which I am the founder of, we teach that the public ministry of Yeshua lasted one year from his baptism by John in the Jordan River. That was the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar around 28 or 29 AD to his crucifixion on the 14th of Nissan. AD30. Now, this is not speculation. This is not just some new theory. This is the recovery of apostolic truth obscured by the Catholic Church many years later. Let's just start off with one verse of scripture that I wonder if you've ever thought about. Yesua, Jesus quotes Isaiah in the book of Luke. Chapter 4 18-19. And here's what he says. The spirit of Yahweh is upon me. And he goes on and says many things, but I'd like to go to the focus of this lesson to proclaim the acceptable year of Yahweh. One year. He said, "The spirit of the Lord is now upon me.". This is right after his baptism to fulfill the year of Yahweh. And then he said, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.". He tells us right. Then, his ministry will last one single year. So, of course, the immediate question that comes up to me. Anytime. I bring these kinds of truths is, how did the church miss it all these years? Do you think that you're smarter than everybody? No, I don't. But I do know that according to the book of Daniel that much revelation was sealed up and Daniel was told to seal it up and that the truth would not come out until the end of days which is where we are now. We're told that knowledge of his word would be increased just before the coming of the Lord. I'm so sorry that I happen to be living in that time where a prophecy of more understanding is being revealed. So where did the church get it wrong all of these years? Very simple. 07:31 Um they believe that in the book of John that there are three Passovers that Jesus kept. And therefore, if he kept three Passovers, well, Passover only happens once a year. So, one, two, three. His ministry was at least three years because we have Bible proof of three Passovers. That's where all of the error comes from is John chapter 2. Verse 13, John chapter 6 verse 4, John 11. Verse 55. Three Passovers in the ministry of Christ. Okay. So, you know, I don't really blame anybody. Uh if you read that, then that's very easy to surmise. Okay. Now, here's the problem. The gospels that we call the um. What is the word I'm looking for? Help. My uh the synoptic gospels which are supposed to line up perfectly. Well, they were not all written simultaneously. The dates of the gospels are as follows. Mark was written about 35 to 40 years after the life of Christ. Think about that. Okay. Matthew 40. To 55 years after the life of Christ. Luke 45 to 55 years after the life of Christ. John, where all the confusion comes from, was written almost 70 years after these events happened. And here's the conundrum that we face. Three of those four gospels that I just mentioned, three of them only have one Passover in the life of or the ministry of Christ. Not the life but the ministry. Okay? Matthew, Mark, and Luke only list one Passover in the life or the ministry of Christ. So, how can that be when John mentions three Passovers? So, here's the problem. 10:12 In every other field of historical inquiry, earlier sources always carry more weight than later ones. That's just called historical evidence. The older something is, it carries more weight. So when uh Tacatus for example, a historian writes about events, historians check his account against earlier witnesses. When Plutarch writes about Julius Caesar 150 years after Caesar died, scholars prioritize Ceero's historical documents. Why? It's the older documents and we give more weight to those older documents. So, Matthew, Mark, and Luke are older documents closer to the event than John is. Okay. Now, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, three independent witnesses, all record the same chrono chronological structure. Number one, Yesua's baptism by John in the River Jordan. Luke 3:1. Puts that at the 15th year of Tiberius. The temptation in the wilderness. 40 days later, the ministry in Galilee and Judea, and then a journey from Jerusalem or to Jerusalem for Passover. One Passover is mentioned in those three books. Only one. None of them talk about a second Passover or a third Passover. None of them. So if Yoshua's ministry lasted three years with three Passovers, why would three independent older. Gospel writers, Matthew was an eyewitness, Mark was Peter's interpreter, and Luke was an investigator with eyewitnesses. They all failed to mention these three Passovers. Well, the reason they did not mention additional Passovers because there were no additional Passovers. They recorded what happened a oneyear ministry that Yesua said, "I'm here to proclaim the one-year year of the Lord.". And it all culminated in one Passover sacrifice. 12:57 Let's talk about the uh the method or the uh the contradiction of these methods. Scholars routinely acknowledge that John's gospel is the most theologically developed. It's the most stylistically distinct. It's the most reflective and interpretive. And it was written last 30 plus years after Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Now what does this mean? John was a deep, deep teacher. Matthew, Mark, and Luke were simply reporters. They wrote down exactly what happened. Okay. But John, on the other hand, be was the most theological. His book was not written for chronology sake. It was written for theology sake. He does much theological. He was much more reflective theologically and therefore he was less chronologically rigid. Now, I understand that the people of my church will tell you that I drive them crazy because I am not a person that keeps up with chronology. My mind thinks in a deeper different way. I'm always looking for the mystery of it, the insight of it, the theology. And that's the way my mind operates. I will get dates wrong. I will get uh timing wrong in my mind because that's not my focus. And I believe that I can understand why John was not focused on chronology. He was making points. He was teaching in his writing. And uh so how do we deal with that? When a single John late source which is John's writing contradicts multiple earlier sources. The earlier sources prevail unless extraordinary evidence compels us otherwise. But there is no extraordinary evidence. What exists is one verse in the book of John 6 and4 one verse. That's it. That disrupts the flow of four gospels. Now, let's think about that. We have three previous gospels that do not mention a third Passover. And here we come to John 6 and 4. And let's read that together. Now, the Passover, the feast of the Jews was near. Now without that verse, John's gospel report records. Two Passovers. One is found in John 21:13. That's the cleaning of the temple. Okay? And then one at the crucifixion, John 11:55. So we have two Passovers in John without John 6 and4 without or or with John 6 and4 a third Passover appears. So without 6 and4 we only have two Passovers. I quoted them to you. John 11:55 and John 21:13. So John 6 and4 is where we need to focus. That presents a third Passover. So the question that becomes critical now is John 6 and4 original to the text or was it inserted at a later date? That's a pivotal question. Let's read John 6 1-5. 17:17 After this, Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberius. A large crowd was following him because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. Jesus went on the mountain and there he sat down with the disciples. Are you following the flow? This is a story about miracles. This is a story about healing the sick. And then suddenly out of nowhere in verse four it says, "Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews was near. Lifting up his eyes, then he saw the large crowd was coming towards him. And Jesus said to Philillip, "Where are we to buy bread so that these people may eat?". Did you notice anything? Did anything stick out to you in verse four? It doesn't fit. It doesn't fit the flow. Nobody's talking about Passover. Nobody there. This is not a chronological treatise. This is a story about buying bread for thousands of people that are watching Jesus work miracles. But verse four, parenthetically, almost out of nowhere, now the Passover, the feast of the Jews was near. It totally interrupts the story, the narrative. It has no connection to verse three or verse five. If you remove that verse, then you have a beautiful flow of a story. The Passover reference is never mentioned again in the feeding of the 5000. None of the synoptic writers when they tell the story of the 5000 in Matthew 14, Mark 6, and Luke 9, they never throw in there, "Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews was near.". Yet John's gospel contains parenthetical remarks. Almost out of the blue remarks all through the book of John that serves no chronological purposes. Now here is what many fail to realize. We have no this is important. We have no first century manuscripts of the Gospel of John. I don't know if you realize that or not. The earliest manuscript containing John 6 and4 is a Papria scroll that was found in AD 200. That's 170 years after the events. That's the first manuscript we ever found. The next one was found in um AD 225, almost 200 years after the event. That's the earliest scrolls we have. That's an enormous gap from the events. Let me help it make sense to you. The United States in 1855. Versus 2025. That's a big. Gap. 1885. To 2025. 20:54 That much time passed before we find the first copy of the book of John. Now. In that 170 years, all the eyewitnesses are dead and then oral traditions are beginning to take root. Manuscripts have been copied, edited, and harmonized by scribes, some with theological agendas. Now, I want to stop here and make something very, very plain. When people hear me talk like this, there is something within them that fears because they think we're saying. The word of God is not inspired by the Holy Ghost, that there's mistakes in it. Perish the thought of such tom foolery and poppyccock. Okay, we believe no such thing. We are so adamant that the word of Yahweh is perfect that we do we come against any scribal error that happened much later away from the original manuscripts. So mark this down. The word of God is perfect. However, the translation in your hand, the translations are not perfect. None of them are. None. Not one. The only thing that's perfect is the original handwritten gospels. And the way we study them and find out is we have to obey the scripture. Study to show yourself approved unto God. So you won't be ashamed. Let me show you what ashamed looks like. Believing in a three and a half year ministry because you didn't study. Our duty is to find the original, study it, and disprove anything that was added or taken away. If John 6 and4 was inserted between AD 100 and AD 150, it would appear in every manuscript that we possess today. We would have no evidence of the earlier version. Now I would like to take you to Titan Ti Tan. A harmony of the four gospels. It is earlier than any other major manuscript. And interestingly enough, it totally omits John 6 and4. Let me give you that for your own study. Let's spell it. T A T I A dissertation. Tatian's dissertation, but in Latin it's spelled D I A T SS A N. And it's all right here in the booklet that I'm reading to you. So, it's all right there. That's it. That's how you spell it. Okay? So, if you don't want to hear me talk, just go read the book. But according to him, John 6 and4 is not there. Titan wrote 70 years after John's composition, closer to the original. Now, let's break this down. The earliest manuscript we have of John is 150 years of time. But Tatan's dissertation which is only 70 years of time there is no John 6 and 4. Okay. Now we know certain passages. We know this is undisputable. You cannot argue with me on this. Just do your research. We know that certain passages were added to the New Testament because the manuscript evidence reveals that. I'll give you an example. The woman caught in adultery, John 7:53 through John 8:11. It's missing from the earliest manuscripts. It was a later insertion. Mark 16. 9-20. Well, not in the original. We got the original. It's not in there. First John. 7-8. Not in the original scriptures. Same thing with John. And4. 26:01 Now let's go to the early church fathers. Clement of Alexandria. In his book Stramatada, he discusses the chronology of Yosua's ministry. His language says it was one year long. Let's look at Irenaeus. He said that Yesua ministry was one year long. Let's look at Tertullan and Julius Africanis. Both talk about a 1year ministry of Christ. But around 8,200, multiple views begin to circulate. The three-year model became dominant after Ucius and the Constantine councils declared. His ministry was three and a half years. So, I'm not going to continue to read the book for you, but I just wanted to give you those few highlights. And um but boy, I mean, look, just simply go and read the book. You'll see the timelines. They have to line up and they do not line up. But if you'll make it a one-year ministry, everything will line up for you. So that's all I want to talk about today is uh. The scariest thing of the scarier than Halloween is how we can believe something without truly studying it making us ashamed. So thank you for watching. Have a great day. You can find so many wonderful truths at hisk kingdom.com. Summary for: https://youtu.be/7LznLCfFRGI by Noiz — Transcript From YouTube Video