April 1, 2026 • 56 mins
The Porch provides a comprehensive exploration of the origins, historical development, and theological significance of Passover and Easter within both Jewish and Christian traditions. Passover is a reminder of what God did for Israel in setting them free from the bondage of Egypt. We, too, need to be reminded of what the Lord has done for us in setting us free by the Blood of the Lamb, or we become lax and take it for granted.
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out with praise. Of course, I praise Him for my salvation,
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the furry kids. Everything we have I praise him for
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the provision and the protection, for the dreams and the visions,
for divine health and healing, for his divine abiding favor,
for the continued revelation of the Holy Spirit, and for
making me and all of us a new creation, and
allowing us to live in these prophetic times. Someone twenty two,
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verse six ays, pray for the peace of Jerusalem and
they prosper who love you. I pray for our Jewish
brothers and sisters. I pray for them for their protection.
I pray for them to find Hamashiah the Messiah. I
pray for America. Oh boy do I pray for America,
that God would forgive us for our sins and shed
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his grace upon us, protect us from all evil and
the evil One. Pray for the people of Iran right
now and the soldiers fighting to free them and to
shut down what's going on there. There's a lot of
it we don't stand. Of course, politics is involved whenever
people get involved, but ultimately this is good against evil,
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and I'm praying that God would answer all of our prayers.
I pray for the fatherless, the widows, the persecuted, and
the martyrd the innocence and those who are victims of injustice.
Our heavenly Father hates injustice. I pray against the slaughter
of the innocence, the missing and exploited children, the victims
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of human sex trafficking, a diabolical satanic endeavor, if ever
there was one. I pray for our brothers and sisters
around the world being persecuted and slaughtered for their faith,
their homes and places of worship being destroyed. I pray
against the growing religious persecution and the anti Semitism and
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everything that we're seeing on the news, which is the
efforts of the spirit of the Antichrist. We're seeing it again.
We've seen it throughout history, but I think this time
will be worse than ever before. I'm praying for divine wholeness,
health and healing and me and you and all those
who need it, that we would not only get back
to our divine design, but we would be a living
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witness to the fact that He answers prayer. I pray
for his protection that Psalm ninety one covering upon us,
that the inspiration and the fire the Holy Spirit would
be with us, which would wake up the remnant to
answer the call that all the doors would be open
for all the projects and plans he has ordained, and
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that Kingdom finances would flow for Kingdom business in twenty
twenty six. So Father Abbah Papa, thank you. Thank you
for your love, thank you for your grace, thank you
for your mercy, thank you for your shoe. And Lord,
we thank you for what you did for us. You
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set us free from a debt and an eternity without
the Father, and you did it by shedding eavy drop
of blood on the cross. But thankfully the cross is bear,
the tomb is empty. You are alive, and you sit
at the right hand of the Father in fullness and power,
and allow us to sit with you in the heavenly places.
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Thank you for sending back the Holy Spirit to walk
with us, to teach us, to guide us, and to
empower us. So do that today. Lord, we ask for
your spirit to be upon this Bible study, protect the technology,
touch each and every one of us in our homes,
and let your will be done this day on the porch,
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and I pray all these things, and you show his
name if you agree with me, say amen.
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of the following information. So today is the first day
of Passover, and for some it's the beginning of the
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Easter weekend, all the celebrations, all the things that they do.
So I figured let's talk about that. The International Standard
Bible Encyclopedia says the English word for Easter comes from
Star Estera, which is a Teutonic goddess of the Spring
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and the Dawn, whom sacrifice was offered in April for
the renewal and fertility. So the name was transferred to
the Pascal that Passover feast, which is something throughout history
we've done. We've assimilated the world and the things of
the world to make it more acceptable to people. But
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the Jewish believers in the early Church, they celebrated Passover,
and they regarded Messiah as the true passover lamp. And
this naturally passed over into a commemoration of the death
and the resurrection of our Lord. It was preceded by
a fast, which was considered by one party is ending
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the hour of the Crucifixion at three o'clock on Friday,
by another continuing to the hour of the Resurrection before
dawn up until the Nicean Council. In the year three
twenty five, the Church observed Easter on the Jewish Passover,
but thereafter it took precautions to separate the two. So
the New Testament does not give any account of a
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special observance of Easter, and evidence before two hundred eighty
is scarce. So to the first century church, Resurrection Day
was the most important day of the year, and that's
what we call it. In our house, we call it
Resurrection Sunday. In the second century, however, a debate arose
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when to celebrate the resurrection. Most of the churches held
the festival on the Sunday closest to the Jewish Passover.
Sometimes there was a doubt as to which of the
two nearest Sundays should be observed. The churches in age
of Minor frequently observed the Resurrection of the date of
the Jewish Passover, even if it wasn't on a Sunday.
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In Rome, different congregations observed different days. So during the
first three centuries of Church, when it was under constant persecution,
there was no attempt to standardize festivals for the Church. However,
when Constantine became emperor and Christianity was no longer illegal,
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it was possible to consider more carefully the date of
their Easter celebration, and one of the purposes of the
Council of Nicea in three twenty five was to settle
that date, and Constantine specifically did not want their Easter
celebration to coincide with the Jewish Passover because he felt
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it was the Christian duty quote to have nothing.
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In common with the murderers of our Lord. See if
he'd only opened a Bible and realized that the crucifixion
was a joint effort between Jews and Gentiles. So the
Council of Nicea required the Feast of the Resurrection to
be celebrated on a Sunday, and never the same day
as the Jewish paths Over. But they never established which Sunday,
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so there was all this confusion. And because it tied
into the first full moon following the spring equinox, it
would fall between March twenty second and April twenty fifth.
So here you have them prohibition against celebrating the Lord's Supper,
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which is what Passover was on the Jewish Passover, and
it began to make that break between Christianity and Judaic tradition.
From the solar based Julian calendar, which was given precedence
over the lunar so Hebrew calendar that combined lunar cycles
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with the solar year, and among the churches of the
Roman Empire. But this ruling was not immediately accepted everywhere.
Didn't sit well with those who had been celebrating the
resurrection non Passover to suddenly learn they were being called heretics.
And so the confusion between Rome and Alexandria, which fixed
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the spring equinox the day in the spring, when the
day and night are equaled by different methods, you have
all this confusion. And that's what happens when man puts
his hands on what God is doing. There were some
that fought for the Passover date to be the fourteenth
of Nissan, and no matter what day of the week
it fell on, they were attacked and ostracized, in some
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cases excommunicated, but eventually the power and the ruling council
of Nicea was accepted by all the Western Church. So
before seventy a d Christianity, as it came to be called,
was regarded by the Roman government by the people at
large as a branch or a sect of the Jewish religion.
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If you look at the Messianic symbol that they found
on certain and things about one twenty five one thirty
five AD, they found some artifacts. It was a minora
starred David and the fish in one long symbol. It's
known as the Messianic symbol of the early Church. But
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you have the Christians, and you have the Jews, and
you got all this stuff going on. But there were
two Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire in sixty four
to seventy and in one thirty two to one thirty five.
That's when widespread persecution of the Jews and suppression of
Jewish religious practices began. Jews were driven from Jerusalem, forbidden
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a return on the pain of death, and the pressure mounted,
and Christians began to abandon beliefs and practices quote perceived
as being too Jewish. I wonder how long it's going
to take that that happens, that those of us who
acknowledge and celebrate the feast and the festivals will be
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treated the same. So the Lord and his disciples were Jewish.
Even Luke, who was Greek, was an acolyte. They never
celebrated Easter. Passover and the conjoined celebration of the Resurrection
was what they celebrated. So let's look at the foundation
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of the celebration, which is Passover. According to the Home
and Illustrated Bible Dictionary, the first of the three annual
festivals was the Passover. It commemorated the final plague on Egypt,
when the firstborn of the Egyptians died and the Israelites
was spared because of the blood smeared on the doorposts.
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And we see that Nextodus twelve. We'll actually read from
that section, really small part of it. Otherwise we pee
here a while the lex and Bible dictionaries said Passover
a passag pe sac H was a sacred observance in
Judaism that commemorates the climactic tenth plague in the Book
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of Exodus, when Yahweh punishes Egypt by killing all the firstborn,
but passes over the firstborn of Israel, resulting in the
Israelites deliverance from slavery in Egypt. The International Standard Bible
Encyclopedias is. The Passover was the annual Hebrew festival on
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the evening of the fourteenth day of the month of Nissan,
as it was called. It was followed by and closely
connected with a seven day festival of the unleaven bread,
to which the name Passover was also applied by extension
in Leviticus twenty three five. So that's what today is.
It's the first day of that celebration. Both were distinctly
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connected with the Exodus, which, according to tradition, they commemorate.
The Passover being in of the last meal in Egypt
eaten in preparation of the journey, while the Lord God
passed over the houses of the Hebrews and was slaying
the first born of Egypt, the first being done in
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memory of the first days of the journey, during which
this bread of haste was eaten. Let's just read a
part of Exodus twelve that refers to the starting verse one.
Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the
land of Egypt, saying, this month shall be, which is
started out as Albi became Nissan, shall be your beginning
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of the month. It shall be the first month of
the year to you. So January was not the first
month of their year. It was more than March April
time period. Verse three speak to all the Congregation of Israel, saying,
on the tenth of this month, every man shall take
for himself a lamb according to the house of his father,
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a lamb for a house salt. And if the household
is too small for the lamb, let him in a
neighbor next to his house take it according to the
number of the persons, according to each man's needs. You
shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall
be without blemish, a male of the first year. You
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may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of
the same month. Then the whole assembly of the Congregation
of Israel shall kill it at twilight, and they shall
take some of the blood and put it on the
two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where
they eat. Then they shall eat the flesh on that night,
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roasted in fire, with unleaved bread and with bitter herbs.
They shall eat it. Do not eat it raw, nor
boiled at all with water, but roast it in fire,
its head, with its legs, and its entrails. You shall
let none of it remain until morning. And what remains
of it until morning, you shall burn with the fire.
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And thus you shall eat it with the belt on
your waist, with your sandals on your feet, and your
staff in your hand. So shall you eat it in haste.
It is the Lord's passover. A lot of symbolism, there,
a lot of imagery. Hope you can grasp it all
Verse twelve. For I will pass through the land of Egypt,
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and on that night and will strike all the first
born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast,
and against all the gods of Egypt. I will execute judgment.
I am the Lord. Quick little note there. If these
were imaginary gods, why would he do that? No, there
were fallen angels and remnants of their firstborn of the Benephlum.
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These gods were real, and he judge them. I will
extan judgment. I am the Lord. Now the blood shall
be assigned for you on the houses where you are.
And when I see the blood, I will pass over you,
and the plague shall not be on you to destroy
you when I strike the land of Egypt. So this
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day shall be to you a memorial and you shall
keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations.
Verse fourteen. Very important. You shall keep it as a
feast by an everlasting ordinance. Seven days you shall eat
unleaven bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven
from your houses, which represents the sin in case you
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don't know. For whoever he eats leaven bread from the
first day until the seventh day, that person shall be
cut off from Israel. And on the first day there
shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day
there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner
of work shall be done on them, but that which
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everyone must eat, that they may be prepared by you.
So you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread, For
on this same day I will have brought your armies
out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe
this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance. In
that first month, on the fourteenth day of the month,
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at evening, you shall eat unleaven bread until the twenty
first day of the month at evening. For seven days,
no leaven shall be found in your houses. Since whoever
eats what is leaven means with yeast, the same person
shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether
he's a stranger or a native of the land. You
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shall eat nothing leavened in all your dwellings. You shall
eat unleaven bread. It's pretty pretty dogmatic about leaven, no yeast,
no sin in the camp, no sin in the house.
Mentioned again Eleviticus twenty five. On the fourteenth day of
the first month, at twilight is the Lord's passover. He
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reminds them in Deuteronomy sixteen, observe the month of Abib,
keep the passover to the Lord for this month of Abib.
The Lord your God brought you out of Egypt at night,
on and on and on. This is something you will
do perpetually. It was an important memorial. It was established
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to remind the children of Israel what God had done
for them, because if you read the Old Testament, you
see they had a little problem with remembering all that
He had done for them. But are they any different
from the Church today? Are they any different from people
that God can perform miracles and answer their prayers, and
then they still question and wonder and forget what He
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has done for them. They needed to be reminded of
what the Lord God had done for them, or become
lax and take it for granted. And that's human nature
to take God for granted. The other aspect of human
nature is to turn what was special into a ritual,
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a ceremonial habit without the heart behind it. The First
Day and the seventh Day, Holy convocations begins, Holy ends
holy No work could be done except what was necessary
to prepare the food. It was all about the Lord.
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This being the first festival, first of the three pilgrimage
festivals where they had to travel to Jerusalem. That would
have occurred on the first day. It's mentioned throughout the
Old Testament it was important. Two of the greatest reforming
kings in Judah, Hezekiah and Josiah, each held great passovers
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to mark the return of Israel to face worship and
the recognition of their Lord and God Second Chronicles thirty
verse one. And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah
and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manassah that they
should come to the house of the Lord of Jerusalem
to keep the passover of the Lord God of Israel.
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Second Chronicles thirty five verses one and two. Now Josiah
kept a passover to the Lord in Jerusalem, and they
slaughtered the passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the
first month, and he set the priests in their duties
and encouraged them for the service of the House of
the Lord. Throughout history, this great festival continued to be
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remembered as a memorial to this salvation event as a
foreshadowing for us of what would come. They even held
the passover in the plains of Jericho after the Israelites
return from Babylonian exile. You see that in Joshua chapter five,
when starting verse ten, the children of Visueal camped in
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Gilgal and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of
the month at twilight the plains of Jericho. So they
weren't hindered, they weren't interfered with. They were uncomfortable. It
wasn't oh, you know, we can't do it, We'll have
to wait. No, because when they celebrated that passover in
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the plains of Jericho, the mana stopped falling, and they
began to eat the produce of the land, and they
no longer needed the manna from heaven. So that passover
signified the end of the journey. So it's impossible for
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Israel to identify herself without this passover memorial depicting her
salvation and deliverance from Egypt. And that word pisach, it
comes from the root meaning to spare or to pass over,
but it illustrates the physical passing over by the Lord
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by the destroying Angel on the first night of Passover
in Egypt. As it said, they used a lamb or
a goat if the lamb was unavailable. The bitter herbs
meant that you're not supposed to enjoy this meal and
the unleavened bread. You need to eat it while you're moving.
You needs to eat it in haste. You don't have
time to sit down and relax and have a good meal. See,
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it's not about comfort. Whenever we get comfortable, bad things
happen to us. And then they would spread the blood
on the lentils the side and over the top of
the door, and that would signify that the age would
pass over would not take the first born in that house.
The passover is mentioned in the New Testament twenty nine
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times in twenty seven verses, and it's mentioned in the
Bible ninety one times overall, and the wisdom and the
mercy and the plan of God gave us a foreshadowing
and then gave us the completion when Jesus the Messiah
became the human passover Lamb of God slain on the
cross for both jew and Gentile. Revelation five, starting verse eleven,
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John the Revelator says, then I looked and I heard
the voice of many angels around the throne, the living
creatures and the elders, and the number of them was
ten thousand times ten thousands and thousands of the thousands,
saying with a loud voice, worthy is the Lamb who
was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength,
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and honor and glory and blessing. John Chapter one, verse
twenty nine. When John the Baptist saw yashe coming toward him,
what did he say, Behold the Lamb of God who
takes away the sin of the world. Anybody who told
you that Jesus didn't come from that to take away
our sins to set us free doesn't know what they're
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talking about. Hand them of the Bible, tell them to
look it up. The prophet Isaiah prophesied of what would
happen Isaiah fifty three. I'll just read two verses from that,
verses five and six. But he was wounded for our transgressions.
He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our
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peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed.
All we, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned
everyone to his own way. And the Lord has laid
on him the iniquity of us. All but the Lord,
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the Lord God, has caused the wickedness of us, all
our sin, our injustice, our wrong doing, to fall on him,
to fall on Yashuah instead of us. That phrase laid
on him is a causative verb meaning to strike violently,
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which I believe ties into the scourging, the striking, the
over and over whipping, tearing him apart, shedding his blood. Therefore, Messiah,
our Savior, appeases the violent wrath of God, the judgment
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of God for us. But yet we are still wandering sheep,
We still go astray, and that is the desperate condition
of humanity. Matthew nine thirty six. When the Lord saw
the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because
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they were weary, and that word means harassed and scattered,
like sheep having no shepherd. That's a condition in the church,
sheep having no shepherd, having hirelings, people that won't stand
between the wolves and the flock. And so what do
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they do? They run here, they run there. They go
to this place looking for spiritual food, or this place
looking for comfort one Peter two twenty five. For you
were continually wandering like so many sheep. But now you
have come back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.
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The shepherd and.
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The guardian of your souls, the lamb of God, the
one God ordained, God gifted sacrificial offering. I can't even
imagine what that day was like in Jerusalem, not just
because of was going on on Calvary, but the blood
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that was flowing from the temple of each of the
lambs that had been brought, that had been slaughtered for
each family. And they created a little a drainage ditch
that took it outside the city two Corinthians five, starting
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verse seventeen. Therefore, if anyone is in Messiah, he or
she is the new creational things that passed away. Behold,
all things become new Now all things are of God,
who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus the Messiah
Ishuah Hamashiak, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
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that is that God was in Messiah reconciling the world
to himself, not imputing their trespassors to them, and has
committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now that we
are ambassadors for Messiah, as though God were pleading through us.
We employ you on Messiah's behalf, be reconciled to God,
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for he made him who knew no sin, to be
sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of
God in him. The purpose of passover is the transference
of our sins upon Him to accept and to pay
for them. Look what it says in one Corinthians five seven. Therefore,
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purge out the old leaven that you may be a
new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed, Messiah,
our passover was sacrificed for us Hebrews eleven twenty eight.
By faith, he the he being Moses, kept the passover
and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the
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firstborn should touch them by faith, Moses kept the first Passover,
and the firstborn of Israel were preserved from death. I
don't know looking at this and the fulfill fulfillment of
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the ceremonies and all the visuals, I don't know. I
just don't see candy bunnies and little chickens and candy baskets.
I don't see that. I don't see any of the
things that gets done this weekend. I know why they
do it, I know why they think it's right to do.
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I'm not seeing that in this. I'm not seeing it
in the word. I'm not seeing it in what was said.
I'm not seeing in what Passover and resurrection Sunday represents.
And the Passover ceremony was fulfilled through Yeshua because not
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a bone in his body was broken. It looked at
Exodus twelve forty six. In one house, it shall be eaten.
You shall not carry in the flesh any of the
flesh outside the house, nor shall you break one of
its bones numbers nine twelve. They shall leave none of
it till morning, nor break one of its bones. According
to all the ordinances of the Passover, they shall keep it.
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After the destruction of the temple a lot of things changed.
The man got involved and changed rules, and it became
a home service. The passover lamb was no longer included,
and they took a roasted bone and placed it on
the table in memory of the ceremony. But prophecy promotes prophecy,
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and it must be done as he said John nineteen,
starting verse thirty one. Therefore, because it was the preparation day,
that the bodies should not remain on the cross the sabbath,
for that Sabbath was a high day. The Jews asked
Pilot that their legs might be broken, that they might
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be taken away. Then the soldiers came and broke the
legs of the first and of the other who was
crucified with him. If you don't know why, they did that,
so they would suffocate. They could not use their legs
to push up on their arms to catch your breath,
and if they were still alive, they suffocated to death
verse thirty four. But one of the soldiers verse thirty three,
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I'm sorry, But when they came to Yeshua and saw
that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear,
and immediately blood and water came out. The percardial sacked.
There was no blood left. Once they saw the water,
there was nothing pumping. And he who has seen has testified,
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and his testimony is true. What John was there, He
saw it, and he knows that he is telling the truth.
You may believe, for these things were done that scriptures
should be fulfilled. Not one of his bones shall be broken.
And again another scripture says they shall look on him
who they pierced. Passover was important enough to the Lord
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that he he observed it. We see it in Matthew
twenty six, Luke twenty two, John two, first day of
the Feast of unleavened Bread Matthew twenty six seventeen. The
disciples came to you show us, saying to him where
do you want us to prepare for you to eat
the Passover? And he said, go into the city of
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a certain man and say to him. The teacher says,
my time is at hand. I will keep the Passover
at your house with my disciples. Basically, Rabbi says, it's
the Passover time and he's going to eat at your
house with the disciples. And so they did as they
directed them, and they prepared the passover. He picks it
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up in verse twenty six. And they were eating, and
your shoe it took the bread, blessed it and broke
it and gave it to the disciples, and said, take eat.
This is my body. Then he took the cup and
gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, drink from
it all of you, for this is my blood of
the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the
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remission of sins. But I say to you, I will
not drink of this fruit of the vine from now
on until the day when I drink it new with
you in my father's kingdom. Luke twenty two clarifies that
they went to the upper room starting verse seven, day
unlevened bread, when the passover must be sacrificed, same thing,
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Go prepare the passover for us that we may eat.
Where do you want us to prepare? And to the
city a man will meet you carrying a picture of water.
Follow him into the house in which he enters. You
shall say to the master of the house, the teacher
Rabbi says to you, whereas the guest room, where I
may eat the passover with my disciples, and then he
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will show you a large furnished upper room. There you
make ready. They went found it, did as he said,
and prepared the passover. Same upper room they were hiding.
Legend says it was the home of the father of
John Mark in the upper room where they had celebrations.
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Look twenty two again, verse fourteen. The hour had come.
He sat down at what hour is that sundown? And
the twelve apostles with him, and he said, with fervent desire,
I have desired to eat this passover with you before
I suffer. For I say to you will no longer
eat of it until it's fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.
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To mc down verse nineteen. He took the bread, gave thanks,
broke it and gave it to them, saying, this is
my body which is given for you. Do this in
remembrance of me. Then he took the cup. This is
the cup of the New Covenant in my blood which
is shed for you. Now there's no clarification there of
doing this in remembrance for him. Was to be weekly
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or yearly along with the Passover, but the Early Church
turned it into a weekly celebration. To the last Supper
was a passover meal, and we must understand it in
the light of this particular context. An elaborate ritual full
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of symbolism and redemptive history. It is a part of
who we are. It's a part of the foundation of
the Church. Now, one of the interesting things is that
there's a passover parallel here. During the Passover meal, someone
usually the youngest son, was designated to ask the question,
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why is this night different from other knights, And at
that point the host would retell the story of Israel's
deliverance out of Egypt and the meaning of the various
elements of the meal. Passover Satyr, if you've never seen one,
the very powerful, especially if the person doing it is
good at it, like Pastor Shelley was. As the host
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of the Last Supper, Yeshua would have been the one
who retold the story. So the correlation between the Passover
and the Last Supper had been established by the Lord
for the early Church as an example, and then to think,
two hundred and fifty years later, it gets banished from
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being celebrated that way by a bunch of men who
decided they know better than God. One Corinthians eleven, starting
verse twenty three, for I received from the Lord that
which I also delivered to you. That the Lord Jesus
I doternawy Shore, on the same night which he was betrayed,
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took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke
it and said, take eat. This is my body which
is broken. For you do this in remembrance of me.
In the same manner, he also took the cup after supper, saying,
this cup is the new covenant in my blood. This
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do as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.
For as often as you eat this bread and drink
this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
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You and I.
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When we do that, we proclaim the Lord's death as
Messiah until he returns. And we got to do it
without shedding blood, because he did it for us. Later,
the church, the Ecclesia of the Gathering, the Assembly, those
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who were called to him by faith and relationship, they
understood more fully what this meant, and they realized that
the bread represents the incarnation, when the Word became flesh,
who bore our sins on his body in order to
achieve the redemption of the world. And that bread that
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they ate that night was unleavened bread. So of course
we eat matza and we use it. It's unleavened, it's
got holes in it's pierced, not a little man made wafer.
So the practice of the Early Church, the Foundational Church,
they celebrated the Lord's Supper, and they celebrated the Passover
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in regards to the resurrection of the Lord. Do this
my remembrance, Do this as a memorial. Do this so
that you can never forget what was done for you,
very similar to what Israel was told that you would
never forget that you were set free from bondage, the
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bondage of Egypt, because what God had done, not what
man had done. Yeshue is intercessory death, and his inauguration
of the New Covenant was supposed to be remembered in
similar manner. Now quoted Isaiah fifty three. It's a powerful,
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moving chapter in the Old Testament, widely recognized for its
prophetic portrayal of the suffering Messiah. Often called the Suffering
Servant chapter, it gives us a detailed picture of a
servant who suffers, is rejected by his people, yet ultimately
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redeems them Isaiah fifty three, starting verse one, who has.
I'm sorry, I've been visualizing everything I'm saying. The cross
the blood, who has believed our report? To whom has
the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he as
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capital achiars shall grow up before him, as a tender plant,
as a root out of dry ground. He has no
form or comeliness, that when we see him, there is
no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised
and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted
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with grief, and we hid, as we were our faces
from him. He was despised, and we did not esteem him.
Surely he has borne our griefs and has carried our sorrows.
Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgrestions. He was bruised
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for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him.
And by his stripes we are healed. All we, like sheep,
have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way,
and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us. All.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, Yet he opened
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not his mouth. He was led as a lamb to
the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shears is silent,
so he opened not his mouth. The prophet Isaiah saw
that many many years before it actually happened, and the
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disciples and the Foundational Book of Axe ters they never forgot.
Peter quotes this in One Peter, Chapter two, starting verse
twenty three. And when he was reviled, he did not
revile in return. When he suffered, he did not threaten,
but committed himself to him who judges righteously, who himself
bore us sins and his own body on that tree,
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that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness,
by whose stripes you were healed, for you were like
sheep going astray, and have now returned to the shepherd
and overseers of your soul. All four gospel accounts of
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the Last Supper contain a reference to the future. Luke's
wording varies and is exceptional in its placement before the bread,
and the synoptics of the Gospels bear witness to issue
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his words. I say to you that I shall not
in any way drink any longer the fruit of the
vine until that day when I drink it new in
the Kingdom of God. Until the Kingdom of God. I
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believe that's the marriage Supper of the Lamb. Something we
long for, something we visualize, something we think about. But
until then, the Passover celebration, it involved the anticipation and
the longing for the final day when not just the
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Church but Israel would share in the Messianic banquet. And
I know that, I know that. I know from now
until then, Jewish believers are coming in every day. You
don't believe me, go on YouTube. There are hundreds of
videos about it, powerful testimonies. So this passion of his
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is not a tragedy or an error. He knows what
he's doing. It's the crowning act of his ministry. It's
what he came here to do. It wasn't an afterthought.
He didn't let it happen to him. He participated in
it because the Father ordained it. Where he pours out
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his blood as the once and for all sacrifice which
secures redemption for many and ensures a glorious consummation in
the future. Do you think that's worth remembering. Do you
think that's worth being diligent about. Do you think that's
worth being passionate about the integrity of it? Those spirits
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grabbed my tongue a couple of times because I find
this Easters celebrations and what people do they think they're
doing in his name. I find it offensive that you
don't have to I'm not telling you too, I'm just
telling you I do. The ignorance of it. There's nothing
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innocent about it. The Lord's Supper, that passover meal as
an example of what's the word I'm looking for, the advancement,
the magnification of it. It has grown, it has become
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what it was intended to be, a passover for the church,
in which Jesus as the Messiah is honored. And we
take the word and we apply it to the celebration.
Maybe maybe, like I said, you see the passover sata,
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maybe you participate in one the experience of it. Them
sitting in the triclinium, the three sections to a table,
one long section, two short ones on the end, kind
of laying on their side, on their elbow, dunking the
unleaven bread into the wine into the oil, singing the
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psalms and celebrating. But it's leading to something, it's leading
to the cross. So why do we need to remember
passover or resurrection? Sunday, as the Bible shows us, because
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we need to be reminded of what the Lord has
done for us. Otherwise we become spirtually lazy, spiritually compromised,
and we take what was done for us for granted.
One of the things I enjoyed during our time at
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Christian Heritage is bringing the elements of this and reenacting
it on Resurrection Sunday so that people could see and
experience it, so that they could get just even a
microcosm of the glimpse of what he looked like in person.
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It's one thing to see it on the screen. It's
another thing to see somebody come walking down an aisle,
carrying across with blood dripping from him and pieces of
flesh hanging from him and realize that he did that
for you. But then it's another thing to see the
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stone roll away and realize that he is alive. He
sits at the right hand of the Father Jesus. He's
sure is alive. He has risen, and that's the greeting
of Sunday morning. He has risen. He has risen. Indeed,
he's not a dead prophet, He's a risen savior. He
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is Messiah. So when you do. Whatever you do this weekend,
if you celebrate it, remember this, Remember what it means,
Remember where it came from. Remember what it took to
get to hear. If you do that, you'll have a
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passion and a zeal for him that can't be described,
that can't be excused away, because you'll remember what he
did for you, the cross. But then you remember the
empty tomb. And if you can remember the cross and
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the empty tomb, it only leads you to one place,
to the upper Room. And I personally believe that we
are in a time with a body of your sure
needs to plug back into that power, that grace, that purpose,
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so that we can share with others what he did
for them, that they can accept what he did without
the rituals and the performances and the smoke and the mirrors.
The simplicity of it all was that God so loved
the world that he gave his only begotten son as
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the passover for lamb.
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So that.
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Whoever believed in him would have life and be reconciled
to the heavenly Father, and their sins would be imputed,
their debts paid for, and they would get to spend
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eternity with him. Father Abbah, let us never forget what
you did for Israel for us. Let us never forget
what it took to make it happen. Let us never
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get comfortable, and let us never take you for granted.
That applies to you as well. You did it. You suffered.
You endured the scourging and the embarrassment, and the beatings
and the ripping out of your beard and slamming a
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crown of thorns that were like nails into your skull.
Everything you did well, you never would have been able
to do. And you did it for us. So Holy Spirit,
I ask right now, speak to everyone listening. Give them
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a revelation, give them a vision, give them a word
from the throne room. Stir them up, inspire them so
that over the next couple of days they can remind
people of Hey, this is what this is really all about.
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He loved you, loves you. Accept what he did for you,
and come home. Thank you Lord, Thank you Father, Thank
your Holy Spirit. I pray all these things from my
heart and your shoe his name. If you agree with me,
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say amen. May the Lord bless you and keep you.
May the Lord make his face to shine upon you,
and be gracious to you may the Lord. I don't
know your Suhammaiah Jesus the Messiah, lift up his countenance
upon you and give you peace. Give you shall oam.
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the martyrd the innocence and those who are victims of injustice.
Our heavenly Father hates injustice. I pray against the slaughter
of the innocence, the missing and exploited children, the victims
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there was one. I pray for our brothers and sisters
around the world being persecuted and slaughtered for their faith,
their homes and places of worship being destroyed. I pray
against the growing religious persecution and the anti Semitism and
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efforts of the spirit of the Antichrist. We're seeing it again.
We've seen it throughout history, but I think this time
will be worse than ever before. I'm praying for divine wholeness,
health and healing and me and you and all those
who need it, that we would not only get back
to our divine design, but we would be a living
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that the inspiration and the fire the Holy Spirit would
be with us, which would wake up the remnant to
answer the call that all the doors would be open
for all the projects and plans he has ordained, and
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that Kingdom finances would flow for Kingdom business in twenty
twenty six. So Father Abbah Papa, thank you. Thank you
for your love, thank you for your grace, thank you
for your mercy, thank you for your shoe. And Lord,
we thank you for what you did for us. You
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set us free from a debt and an eternity without
the Father, and you did it by shedding eavy drop
of blood on the cross. But thankfully the cross is bear,
the tomb is empty. You are alive, and you sit
at the right hand of the Father in fullness and power,
and allow us to sit with you in the heavenly places.
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Thank you for sending back the Holy Spirit to walk
with us, to teach us, to guide us, and to
empower us. So do that today. Lord, we ask for
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of the following information. So today is the first day
of Passover, and for some it's the beginning of the
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Easter weekend, all the celebrations, all the things that they do.
So I figured let's talk about that. The International Standard
Bible Encyclopedia says the English word for Easter comes from
Star Estera, which is a Teutonic goddess of the Spring
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and the Dawn, whom sacrifice was offered in April for
the renewal and fertility. So the name was transferred to
the Pascal that Passover feast, which is something throughout history
we've done. We've assimilated the world and the things of
the world to make it more acceptable to people. But
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the Jewish believers in the early Church, they celebrated Passover,
and they regarded Messiah as the true passover lamp. And
this naturally passed over into a commemoration of the death
and the resurrection of our Lord. It was preceded by
a fast, which was considered by one party is ending
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the hour of the Crucifixion at three o'clock on Friday,
by another continuing to the hour of the Resurrection before
dawn up until the Nicean Council. In the year three
twenty five, the Church observed Easter on the Jewish Passover,
but thereafter it took precautions to separate the two. So
the New Testament does not give any account of a
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special observance of Easter, and evidence before two hundred eighty
is scarce. So to the first century church, Resurrection Day
was the most important day of the year, and that's
what we call it. In our house, we call it
Resurrection Sunday. In the second century, however, a debate arose
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when to celebrate the resurrection. Most of the churches held
the festival on the Sunday closest to the Jewish Passover.
Sometimes there was a doubt as to which of the
two nearest Sundays should be observed. The churches in age
of Minor frequently observed the Resurrection of the date of
the Jewish Passover, even if it wasn't on a Sunday.
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In Rome, different congregations observed different days. So during the
first three centuries of Church, when it was under constant persecution,
there was no attempt to standardize festivals for the Church. However,
when Constantine became emperor and Christianity was no longer illegal,
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it was possible to consider more carefully the date of
their Easter celebration, and one of the purposes of the
Council of Nicea in three twenty five was to settle
that date, and Constantine specifically did not want their Easter
celebration to coincide with the Jewish Passover because he felt
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it was the Christian duty quote to have nothing.
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In common with the murderers of our Lord. See if
he'd only opened a Bible and realized that the crucifixion
was a joint effort between Jews and Gentiles. So the
Council of Nicea required the Feast of the Resurrection to
be celebrated on a Sunday, and never the same day
as the Jewish paths Over. But they never established which Sunday,
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so there was all this confusion. And because it tied
into the first full moon following the spring equinox, it
would fall between March twenty second and April twenty fifth.
So here you have them prohibition against celebrating the Lord's Supper,
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which is what Passover was on the Jewish Passover, and
it began to make that break between Christianity and Judaic tradition.
From the solar based Julian calendar, which was given precedence
over the lunar so Hebrew calendar that combined lunar cycles
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with the solar year, and among the churches of the
Roman Empire. But this ruling was not immediately accepted everywhere.
Didn't sit well with those who had been celebrating the
resurrection non Passover to suddenly learn they were being called heretics.
And so the confusion between Rome and Alexandria, which fixed
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the spring equinox the day in the spring, when the
day and night are equaled by different methods, you have
all this confusion. And that's what happens when man puts
his hands on what God is doing. There were some
that fought for the Passover date to be the fourteenth
of Nissan, and no matter what day of the week
it fell on, they were attacked and ostracized, in some
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cases excommunicated, but eventually the power and the ruling council
of Nicea was accepted by all the Western Church. So
before seventy a d Christianity, as it came to be called,
was regarded by the Roman government by the people at
large as a branch or a sect of the Jewish religion.
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If you look at the Messianic symbol that they found
on certain and things about one twenty five one thirty
five AD, they found some artifacts. It was a minora
starred David and the fish in one long symbol. It's
known as the Messianic symbol of the early Church. But
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you have the Christians, and you have the Jews, and
you got all this stuff going on. But there were
two Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire in sixty four
to seventy and in one thirty two to one thirty five.
That's when widespread persecution of the Jews and suppression of
Jewish religious practices began. Jews were driven from Jerusalem, forbidden
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a return on the pain of death, and the pressure mounted,
and Christians began to abandon beliefs and practices quote perceived
as being too Jewish. I wonder how long it's going
to take that that happens, that those of us who
acknowledge and celebrate the feast and the festivals will be
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treated the same. So the Lord and his disciples were Jewish.
Even Luke, who was Greek, was an acolyte. They never
celebrated Easter. Passover and the conjoined celebration of the Resurrection
was what they celebrated. So let's look at the foundation
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of the celebration, which is Passover. According to the Home
and Illustrated Bible Dictionary, the first of the three annual
festivals was the Passover. It commemorated the final plague on Egypt,
when the firstborn of the Egyptians died and the Israelites
was spared because of the blood smeared on the doorposts.
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And we see that Nextodus twelve. We'll actually read from
that section, really small part of it. Otherwise we pee
here a while the lex and Bible dictionaries said Passover
a passag pe sac H was a sacred observance in
Judaism that commemorates the climactic tenth plague in the Book
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of Exodus, when Yahweh punishes Egypt by killing all the firstborn,
but passes over the firstborn of Israel, resulting in the
Israelites deliverance from slavery in Egypt. The International Standard Bible
Encyclopedias is. The Passover was the annual Hebrew festival on
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the evening of the fourteenth day of the month of Nissan,
as it was called. It was followed by and closely
connected with a seven day festival of the unleaven bread,
to which the name Passover was also applied by extension
in Leviticus twenty three five. So that's what today is.
It's the first day of that celebration. Both were distinctly
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connected with the Exodus, which, according to tradition, they commemorate.
The Passover being in of the last meal in Egypt
eaten in preparation of the journey, while the Lord God
passed over the houses of the Hebrews and was slaying
the first born of Egypt, the first being done in
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memory of the first days of the journey, during which
this bread of haste was eaten. Let's just read a
part of Exodus twelve that refers to the starting verse one.
Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the
land of Egypt, saying, this month shall be, which is
started out as Albi became Nissan, shall be your beginning
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of the month. It shall be the first month of
the year to you. So January was not the first
month of their year. It was more than March April
time period. Verse three speak to all the Congregation of Israel, saying,
on the tenth of this month, every man shall take
for himself a lamb according to the house of his father,
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a lamb for a house salt. And if the household
is too small for the lamb, let him in a
neighbor next to his house take it according to the
number of the persons, according to each man's needs. You
shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall
be without blemish, a male of the first year. You
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may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of
the same month. Then the whole assembly of the Congregation
of Israel shall kill it at twilight, and they shall
take some of the blood and put it on the
two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where
they eat. Then they shall eat the flesh on that night,
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roasted in fire, with unleaved bread and with bitter herbs.
They shall eat it. Do not eat it raw, nor
boiled at all with water, but roast it in fire,
its head, with its legs, and its entrails. You shall
let none of it remain until morning. And what remains
of it until morning, you shall burn with the fire.
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And thus you shall eat it with the belt on
your waist, with your sandals on your feet, and your
staff in your hand. So shall you eat it in haste.
It is the Lord's passover. A lot of symbolism, there,
a lot of imagery. Hope you can grasp it all
Verse twelve. For I will pass through the land of Egypt,
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and on that night and will strike all the first
born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast,
and against all the gods of Egypt. I will execute judgment.
I am the Lord. Quick little note there. If these
were imaginary gods, why would he do that? No, there
were fallen angels and remnants of their firstborn of the Benephlum.
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These gods were real, and he judge them. I will
extan judgment. I am the Lord. Now the blood shall
be assigned for you on the houses where you are.
And when I see the blood, I will pass over you,
and the plague shall not be on you to destroy
you when I strike the land of Egypt. So this
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day shall be to you a memorial and you shall
keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations.
Verse fourteen. Very important. You shall keep it as a
feast by an everlasting ordinance. Seven days you shall eat
unleaven bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven
from your houses, which represents the sin in case you
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don't know. For whoever he eats leaven bread from the
first day until the seventh day, that person shall be
cut off from Israel. And on the first day there
shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day
there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner
of work shall be done on them, but that which
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everyone must eat, that they may be prepared by you.
So you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread, For
on this same day I will have brought your armies
out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe
this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance. In
that first month, on the fourteenth day of the month,
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at evening, you shall eat unleaven bread until the twenty
first day of the month at evening. For seven days,
no leaven shall be found in your houses. Since whoever
eats what is leaven means with yeast, the same person
shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether
he's a stranger or a native of the land. You
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shall eat nothing leavened in all your dwellings. You shall
eat unleaven bread. It's pretty pretty dogmatic about leaven, no yeast,
no sin in the camp, no sin in the house.
Mentioned again Eleviticus twenty five. On the fourteenth day of
the first month, at twilight is the Lord's passover. He
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reminds them in Deuteronomy sixteen, observe the month of Abib,
keep the passover to the Lord for this month of Abib.
The Lord your God brought you out of Egypt at night,
on and on and on. This is something you will
do perpetually. It was an important memorial. It was established
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to remind the children of Israel what God had done
for them, because if you read the Old Testament, you
see they had a little problem with remembering all that
He had done for them. But are they any different
from the Church today? Are they any different from people
that God can perform miracles and answer their prayers, and
then they still question and wonder and forget what He
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has done for them. They needed to be reminded of
what the Lord God had done for them, or become
lax and take it for granted. And that's human nature
to take God for granted. The other aspect of human
nature is to turn what was special into a ritual,
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a ceremonial habit without the heart behind it. The First
Day and the seventh Day, Holy convocations begins, Holy ends
holy No work could be done except what was necessary
to prepare the food. It was all about the Lord.
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This being the first festival, first of the three pilgrimage
festivals where they had to travel to Jerusalem. That would
have occurred on the first day. It's mentioned throughout the
Old Testament it was important. Two of the greatest reforming
kings in Judah, Hezekiah and Josiah, each held great passovers
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to mark the return of Israel to face worship and
the recognition of their Lord and God Second Chronicles thirty
verse one. And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah
and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manassah that they
should come to the house of the Lord of Jerusalem
to keep the passover of the Lord God of Israel.
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Second Chronicles thirty five verses one and two. Now Josiah
kept a passover to the Lord in Jerusalem, and they
slaughtered the passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the
first month, and he set the priests in their duties
and encouraged them for the service of the House of
the Lord. Throughout history, this great festival continued to be
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remembered as a memorial to this salvation event as a
foreshadowing for us of what would come. They even held
the passover in the plains of Jericho after the Israelites
return from Babylonian exile. You see that in Joshua chapter five,
when starting verse ten, the children of Visueal camped in
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Gilgal and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of
the month at twilight the plains of Jericho. So they
weren't hindered, they weren't interfered with. They were uncomfortable. It
wasn't oh, you know, we can't do it, We'll have
to wait. No, because when they celebrated that passover in
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the plains of Jericho, the mana stopped falling, and they
began to eat the produce of the land, and they
no longer needed the manna from heaven. So that passover
signified the end of the journey. So it's impossible for
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Israel to identify herself without this passover memorial depicting her
salvation and deliverance from Egypt. And that word pisach, it
comes from the root meaning to spare or to pass over,
but it illustrates the physical passing over by the Lord
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by the destroying Angel on the first night of Passover
in Egypt. As it said, they used a lamb or
a goat if the lamb was unavailable. The bitter herbs
meant that you're not supposed to enjoy this meal and
the unleavened bread. You need to eat it while you're moving.
You needs to eat it in haste. You don't have
time to sit down and relax and have a good meal. See,
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it's not about comfort. Whenever we get comfortable, bad things
happen to us. And then they would spread the blood
on the lentils the side and over the top of
the door, and that would signify that the age would
pass over would not take the first born in that house.
The passover is mentioned in the New Testament twenty nine
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times in twenty seven verses, and it's mentioned in the
Bible ninety one times overall, and the wisdom and the
mercy and the plan of God gave us a foreshadowing
and then gave us the completion when Jesus the Messiah
became the human passover Lamb of God slain on the
cross for both jew and Gentile. Revelation five, starting verse eleven,
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John the Revelator says, then I looked and I heard
the voice of many angels around the throne, the living
creatures and the elders, and the number of them was
ten thousand times ten thousands and thousands of the thousands,
saying with a loud voice, worthy is the Lamb who
was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength,
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and honor and glory and blessing. John Chapter one, verse
twenty nine. When John the Baptist saw yashe coming toward him,
what did he say, Behold the Lamb of God who
takes away the sin of the world. Anybody who told
you that Jesus didn't come from that to take away
our sins to set us free doesn't know what they're
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talking about. Hand them of the Bible, tell them to
look it up. The prophet Isaiah prophesied of what would
happen Isaiah fifty three. I'll just read two verses from that,
verses five and six. But he was wounded for our transgressions.
He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our
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peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed.
All we, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned
everyone to his own way. And the Lord has laid
on him the iniquity of us. All but the Lord,
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the Lord God, has caused the wickedness of us, all
our sin, our injustice, our wrong doing, to fall on him,
to fall on Yashuah instead of us. That phrase laid
on him is a causative verb meaning to strike violently,
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which I believe ties into the scourging, the striking, the
over and over whipping, tearing him apart, shedding his blood. Therefore, Messiah,
our Savior, appeases the violent wrath of God, the judgment
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of God for us. But yet we are still wandering sheep,
We still go astray, and that is the desperate condition
of humanity. Matthew nine thirty six. When the Lord saw
the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because
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they were weary, and that word means harassed and scattered,
like sheep having no shepherd. That's a condition in the church,
sheep having no shepherd, having hirelings, people that won't stand
between the wolves and the flock. And so what do
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they do? They run here, they run there. They go
to this place looking for spiritual food, or this place
looking for comfort one Peter two twenty five. For you
were continually wandering like so many sheep. But now you
have come back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
The shepherd and.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
The guardian of your souls, the lamb of God, the
one God ordained, God gifted sacrificial offering. I can't even
imagine what that day was like in Jerusalem, not just
because of was going on on Calvary, but the blood
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that was flowing from the temple of each of the
lambs that had been brought, that had been slaughtered for
each family. And they created a little a drainage ditch
that took it outside the city two Corinthians five, starting
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verse seventeen. Therefore, if anyone is in Messiah, he or
she is the new creational things that passed away. Behold,
all things become new Now all things are of God,
who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus the Messiah
Ishuah Hamashiak, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
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that is that God was in Messiah reconciling the world
to himself, not imputing their trespassors to them, and has
committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now that we
are ambassadors for Messiah, as though God were pleading through us.
We employ you on Messiah's behalf, be reconciled to God,
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for he made him who knew no sin, to be
sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of
God in him. The purpose of passover is the transference
of our sins upon Him to accept and to pay
for them. Look what it says in one Corinthians five seven. Therefore,
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purge out the old leaven that you may be a
new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed, Messiah,
our passover was sacrificed for us Hebrews eleven twenty eight.
By faith, he the he being Moses, kept the passover
and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the
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firstborn should touch them by faith, Moses kept the first Passover,
and the firstborn of Israel were preserved from death. I
don't know looking at this and the fulfill fulfillment of
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the ceremonies and all the visuals, I don't know. I
just don't see candy bunnies and little chickens and candy baskets.
I don't see that. I don't see any of the
things that gets done this weekend. I know why they
do it, I know why they think it's right to do.
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I'm not seeing that in this. I'm not seeing it
in the word. I'm not seeing it in what was said.
I'm not seeing in what Passover and resurrection Sunday represents.
And the Passover ceremony was fulfilled through Yeshua because not
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a bone in his body was broken. It looked at
Exodus twelve forty six. In one house, it shall be eaten.
You shall not carry in the flesh any of the
flesh outside the house, nor shall you break one of
its bones numbers nine twelve. They shall leave none of
it till morning, nor break one of its bones. According
to all the ordinances of the Passover, they shall keep it.
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After the destruction of the temple a lot of things changed.
The man got involved and changed rules, and it became
a home service. The passover lamb was no longer included,
and they took a roasted bone and placed it on
the table in memory of the ceremony. But prophecy promotes prophecy,
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and it must be done as he said John nineteen,
starting verse thirty one. Therefore, because it was the preparation day,
that the bodies should not remain on the cross the sabbath,
for that Sabbath was a high day. The Jews asked
Pilot that their legs might be broken, that they might
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be taken away. Then the soldiers came and broke the
legs of the first and of the other who was
crucified with him. If you don't know why, they did that,
so they would suffocate. They could not use their legs
to push up on their arms to catch your breath,
and if they were still alive, they suffocated to death
verse thirty four. But one of the soldiers verse thirty three,
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I'm sorry, But when they came to Yeshua and saw
that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear,
and immediately blood and water came out. The percardial sacked.
There was no blood left. Once they saw the water,
there was nothing pumping. And he who has seen has testified,
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and his testimony is true. What John was there, He
saw it, and he knows that he is telling the truth.
You may believe, for these things were done that scriptures
should be fulfilled. Not one of his bones shall be broken.
And again another scripture says they shall look on him
who they pierced. Passover was important enough to the Lord
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that he he observed it. We see it in Matthew
twenty six, Luke twenty two, John two, first day of
the Feast of unleavened Bread Matthew twenty six seventeen. The
disciples came to you show us, saying to him where
do you want us to prepare for you to eat
the Passover? And he said, go into the city of
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a certain man and say to him. The teacher says,
my time is at hand. I will keep the Passover
at your house with my disciples. Basically, Rabbi says, it's
the Passover time and he's going to eat at your
house with the disciples. And so they did as they
directed them, and they prepared the passover. He picks it
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up in verse twenty six. And they were eating, and
your shoe it took the bread, blessed it and broke
it and gave it to the disciples, and said, take eat.
This is my body. Then he took the cup and
gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, drink from
it all of you, for this is my blood of
the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the
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remission of sins. But I say to you, I will
not drink of this fruit of the vine from now
on until the day when I drink it new with
you in my father's kingdom. Luke twenty two clarifies that
they went to the upper room starting verse seven, day
unlevened bread, when the passover must be sacrificed, same thing,
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Go prepare the passover for us that we may eat.
Where do you want us to prepare? And to the
city a man will meet you carrying a picture of water.
Follow him into the house in which he enters. You
shall say to the master of the house, the teacher
Rabbi says to you, whereas the guest room, where I
may eat the passover with my disciples, and then he
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will show you a large furnished upper room. There you
make ready. They went found it, did as he said,
and prepared the passover. Same upper room they were hiding.
Legend says it was the home of the father of
John Mark in the upper room where they had celebrations.
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Look twenty two again, verse fourteen. The hour had come.
He sat down at what hour is that sundown? And
the twelve apostles with him, and he said, with fervent desire,
I have desired to eat this passover with you before
I suffer. For I say to you will no longer
eat of it until it's fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.
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To mc down verse nineteen. He took the bread, gave thanks,
broke it and gave it to them, saying, this is
my body which is given for you. Do this in
remembrance of me. Then he took the cup. This is
the cup of the New Covenant in my blood which
is shed for you. Now there's no clarification there of
doing this in remembrance for him. Was to be weekly
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or yearly along with the Passover, but the Early Church
turned it into a weekly celebration. To the last Supper
was a passover meal, and we must understand it in
the light of this particular context. An elaborate ritual full
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of symbolism and redemptive history. It is a part of
who we are. It's a part of the foundation of
the Church. Now, one of the interesting things is that
there's a passover parallel here. During the Passover meal, someone
usually the youngest son, was designated to ask the question,
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why is this night different from other knights, And at
that point the host would retell the story of Israel's
deliverance out of Egypt and the meaning of the various
elements of the meal. Passover Satyr, if you've never seen one,
the very powerful, especially if the person doing it is
good at it, like Pastor Shelley was. As the host
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of the Last Supper, Yeshua would have been the one
who retold the story. So the correlation between the Passover
and the Last Supper had been established by the Lord
for the early Church as an example, and then to think,
two hundred and fifty years later, it gets banished from
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being celebrated that way by a bunch of men who
decided they know better than God. One Corinthians eleven, starting
verse twenty three, for I received from the Lord that
which I also delivered to you. That the Lord Jesus
I doternawy Shore, on the same night which he was betrayed,
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took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke
it and said, take eat. This is my body which
is broken. For you do this in remembrance of me.
In the same manner, he also took the cup after supper, saying,
this cup is the new covenant in my blood. This
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do as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.
For as often as you eat this bread and drink
this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
You and I.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
When we do that, we proclaim the Lord's death as
Messiah until he returns. And we got to do it
without shedding blood, because he did it for us. Later,
the church, the Ecclesia of the Gathering, the Assembly, those
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who were called to him by faith and relationship, they
understood more fully what this meant, and they realized that
the bread represents the incarnation, when the Word became flesh,
who bore our sins on his body in order to
achieve the redemption of the world. And that bread that
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they ate that night was unleavened bread. So of course
we eat matza and we use it. It's unleavened, it's
got holes in it's pierced, not a little man made wafer.
So the practice of the Early Church, the Foundational Church,
they celebrated the Lord's Supper, and they celebrated the Passover
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in regards to the resurrection of the Lord. Do this
my remembrance, Do this as a memorial. Do this so
that you can never forget what was done for you,
very similar to what Israel was told that you would
never forget that you were set free from bondage, the
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bondage of Egypt, because what God had done, not what
man had done. Yeshue is intercessory death, and his inauguration
of the New Covenant was supposed to be remembered in
similar manner. Now quoted Isaiah fifty three. It's a powerful,
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moving chapter in the Old Testament, widely recognized for its
prophetic portrayal of the suffering Messiah. Often called the Suffering
Servant chapter, it gives us a detailed picture of a
servant who suffers, is rejected by his people, yet ultimately
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redeems them Isaiah fifty three, starting verse one, who has.
I'm sorry, I've been visualizing everything I'm saying. The cross
the blood, who has believed our report? To whom has
the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he as
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capital achiars shall grow up before him, as a tender plant,
as a root out of dry ground. He has no
form or comeliness, that when we see him, there is
no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised
and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted
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with grief, and we hid, as we were our faces
from him. He was despised, and we did not esteem him.
Surely he has borne our griefs and has carried our sorrows.
Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgrestions. He was bruised
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for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him.
And by his stripes we are healed. All we, like sheep,
have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way,
and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us. All.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, Yet he opened
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not his mouth. He was led as a lamb to
the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shears is silent,
so he opened not his mouth. The prophet Isaiah saw
that many many years before it actually happened, and the
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disciples and the Foundational Book of Axe ters they never forgot.
Peter quotes this in One Peter, Chapter two, starting verse
twenty three. And when he was reviled, he did not
revile in return. When he suffered, he did not threaten,
but committed himself to him who judges righteously, who himself
bore us sins and his own body on that tree,
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that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness,
by whose stripes you were healed, for you were like
sheep going astray, and have now returned to the shepherd
and overseers of your soul. All four gospel accounts of
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the Last Supper contain a reference to the future. Luke's
wording varies and is exceptional in its placement before the bread,
and the synoptics of the Gospels bear witness to issue
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his words. I say to you that I shall not
in any way drink any longer the fruit of the
vine until that day when I drink it new in
the Kingdom of God. Until the Kingdom of God. I
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believe that's the marriage Supper of the Lamb. Something we
long for, something we visualize, something we think about. But
until then, the Passover celebration, it involved the anticipation and
the longing for the final day when not just the
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Church but Israel would share in the Messianic banquet. And
I know that, I know that. I know from now
until then, Jewish believers are coming in every day. You
don't believe me, go on YouTube. There are hundreds of
videos about it, powerful testimonies. So this passion of his
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is not a tragedy or an error. He knows what
he's doing. It's the crowning act of his ministry. It's
what he came here to do. It wasn't an afterthought.
He didn't let it happen to him. He participated in
it because the Father ordained it. Where he pours out
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his blood as the once and for all sacrifice which
secures redemption for many and ensures a glorious consummation in
the future. Do you think that's worth remembering. Do you
think that's worth being diligent about. Do you think that's
worth being passionate about the integrity of it? Those spirits
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grabbed my tongue a couple of times because I find
this Easters celebrations and what people do they think they're
doing in his name. I find it offensive that you
don't have to I'm not telling you too, I'm just
telling you I do. The ignorance of it. There's nothing
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innocent about it. The Lord's Supper, that passover meal as
an example of what's the word I'm looking for, the advancement,
the magnification of it. It has grown, it has become
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what it was intended to be, a passover for the church,
in which Jesus as the Messiah is honored. And we
take the word and we apply it to the celebration.
Maybe maybe, like I said, you see the passover sata,
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maybe you participate in one the experience of it. Them
sitting in the triclinium, the three sections to a table,
one long section, two short ones on the end, kind
of laying on their side, on their elbow, dunking the
unleaven bread into the wine into the oil, singing the
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psalms and celebrating. But it's leading to something, it's leading
to the cross. So why do we need to remember
passover or resurrection? Sunday, as the Bible shows us, because
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we need to be reminded of what the Lord has
done for us. Otherwise we become spirtually lazy, spiritually compromised,
and we take what was done for us for granted.
One of the things I enjoyed during our time at
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Christian Heritage is bringing the elements of this and reenacting
it on Resurrection Sunday so that people could see and
experience it, so that they could get just even a
microcosm of the glimpse of what he looked like in person.
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It's one thing to see it on the screen. It's
another thing to see somebody come walking down an aisle,
carrying across with blood dripping from him and pieces of
flesh hanging from him and realize that he did that
for you. But then it's another thing to see the
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stone roll away and realize that he is alive. He
sits at the right hand of the Father Jesus. He's
sure is alive. He has risen, and that's the greeting
of Sunday morning. He has risen. He has risen. Indeed,
he's not a dead prophet, He's a risen savior. He
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is Messiah. So when you do. Whatever you do this weekend,
if you celebrate it, remember this, Remember what it means,
Remember where it came from. Remember what it took to
get to hear. If you do that, you'll have a
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passion and a zeal for him that can't be described,
that can't be excused away, because you'll remember what he
did for you, the cross. But then you remember the
empty tomb. And if you can remember the cross and
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the empty tomb, it only leads you to one place,
to the upper Room. And I personally believe that we
are in a time with a body of your sure
needs to plug back into that power, that grace, that purpose,
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so that we can share with others what he did
for them, that they can accept what he did without
the rituals and the performances and the smoke and the mirrors.
The simplicity of it all was that God so loved
the world that he gave his only begotten son as
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the passover for lamb.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
So that.
Speaker 1 (53:04):
Whoever believed in him would have life and be reconciled
to the heavenly Father, and their sins would be imputed,
their debts paid for, and they would get to spend
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eternity with him. Father Abbah, let us never forget what
you did for Israel for us. Let us never forget
what it took to make it happen. Let us never
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get comfortable, and let us never take you for granted.
That applies to you as well. You did it. You suffered.
You endured the scourging and the embarrassment, and the beatings
and the ripping out of your beard and slamming a
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crown of thorns that were like nails into your skull.
Everything you did well, you never would have been able
to do. And you did it for us. So Holy Spirit,
I ask right now, speak to everyone listening. Give them
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a revelation, give them a vision, give them a word
from the throne room. Stir them up, inspire them so
that over the next couple of days they can remind
people of Hey, this is what this is really all about.
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He loved you, loves you. Accept what he did for you,
and come home. Thank you Lord, Thank you Father, Thank
your Holy Spirit. I pray all these things from my
heart and your shoe his name. If you agree with me,
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say amen. May the Lord bless you and keep you.
May the Lord make his face to shine upon you,
and be gracious to you may the Lord. I don't
know your Suhammaiah Jesus the Messiah, lift up his countenance
upon you and give you peace. Give you shall oam.
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UConn basketball star Azzi Fudd brings her championship swag to iHeart Women’s Sports with Fudd Around and Find Out, a weekly podcast that takes fans along for the ride as Azzi spends her final year of college trying to reclaim the National Championship and prepare to be a first round WNBA draft pick. Ever wonder what it’s like to be a world-class athlete in the public spotlight while still managing schoolwork, friendships and family time? It’s time to Fudd Around and Find Out!