Passover Lamb

And looking at Yahusha (Jesus) walking, he said "See the Lamb of Elohim!" - John 1:36. 

On the last night before Israel left Egypt, they had to offer a lamb at the first Passover to ensure that their first born were saved from been killed. 

This was the last plaque which ensured that Egypt would free the Israelites from slavery. 

The Passover feast was to be celebrated every year by the Israelites by offering a perfect lamb at Passover.

This feast was to be celebrated every year for all generations as instructed by Heavenly Father.  

This slightly changed when the Messiah came and died on the stake (cross).

No longer do we have to slaughter and offer a lamb every year but Messiah Yahusha was sent to be the lamb offering.

He took the place of the lamb, as John the Baptist said; "Messiah the lamb of Elohim."

 

How much more shall the blood of the Messiah, who through the everlasting Spirit offered Himself unblemished to Elohim (Almighty God), cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living Elohim?  

And because of this He is the Mediator of the renewed covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance - Hebrews 9:14-15. 

Messiah is the slaughtered lamb which happened once and never has to happen again, see Hebrews 9:24-28. 

So also the Messiah having been offered once to bear the sins of many.......... - Hebrews 9:28. 

The Passover feast is to be celebrated forever, every year, not with a slaughtered lamb but by just acknowledging and praising Elohim on this day for what He has done for us.

 

He saved us, through His son the Messiah. 

We Praise Heavenly Father for sending His son, Yahusha Messiah (Jesus) to be our Passover lamb.

Passover – Exodus 12

Exodus 12:2-27, is the instructions on how the Passover was done. “This month is the beginning of months for you, it is the first month of the year for you. “Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month each one of them is to take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. ‘And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next to his house take it according to the number of the beings, according to each man’s need you make your count for the lamb. ‘Let the lamb be a perfect one, a year old male. Take it from the sheep or from the goats. ‘And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then all the assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it between the evenings. 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 it. ‘And they shall eat the flesh on that night, roasted in fire – with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. ‘Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire, its head with its legs and its inward parts. ‘And do not leave of it until morning, and what remains of it until morning you are to burn with fire. ‘And this is how you eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Passover of Yahuah. ‘And I shall pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and shall smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt (Mitsrayim), both man and beast. And on all the mighty ones of Egypt I shall execute judgment. I am Yahuah. ‘And the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I shall pass over you, and let the plague not come on you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt. ‘And this day shall become to you a remembrance. And you shall observe it as a festival to Yahuah throughout your generations – observe it as a festival, an everlasting law. ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. Indeed on the first day you cause leaven to cease from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that being shall be cut off from Israel. ‘And on the first day is a set-apart gathering, and on the seventh day you have a set-apart gathering. No work at all is done on them, only that which is eaten by every being, that alone is prepared by you. ‘And you shall guard the Festival of Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. And you shall guard this day throughout your generations, an everlasting law. ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening. ‘For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, that same being shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether sojourner or native of the land. ‘Do not eat that which is leavened – in all your dwellings you are to eat unleavened bread.’ ” And Moses (Mosheh) called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go out and take lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and slaughter the Passover lamb. “And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin, and you, none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning. “And Yahuah shall pass on to smite the Egyptians, and shall see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Yahuah shall pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you. “And you shall guard this word as a law for you and your sons, forever. “And it shall be, when you come to the land which Yahuah gives you, as He promised, that you shall guard this service. And it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’ then you shall say, ‘It is the Passover slaughtering of Yahuah, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians and delivered our households.’ ” And the people bowed their heads and did obeisance.

Exodus 12:14 Father says that the Passover feast shall be celebrated throughout all generations, an EVERLASTING LAW.

In Exodus 12:17, again is said to be an everlasting law. In Leviticus 23:2 Father mentions His set-apart appointed feasts and in verse 5, the Passover is mention as the feast to be celebrated each year.

John 13:1 Messiah knows His hour has come, because the Passover feast is about to start.

We know from reading the 4 Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John that the Messiah was our offering Lamb which took place on Passover, the same Passover as described in Exodus 12.

Most of us, if not all agree that the death of our Messiah must still be celebrated each year as stated in Exodus 12:14 and 17.

This means that Passover is always 14 days from the new month, not 10 or 16 days but 14 days, an EVERLASTING LAW.

Christians celebrate this as Good Friday and Easter, which is not found anywhere in scripture.

Many may not know this but the main reason these names and dates were changed by our forefathers was because we could not be seen celebrating the Passover the same way/time as the Jews, we must act differently.

Whose authority is this?

Does man have the authority to change the Almighty Father's instructions, the answer is No.

What is more surprising is that the Jews and their Jewish calendar is also not celebrating the Passover according to scripture, they also are following man made traditions.

Who do we listen too; man or the Creator!

Do not know about you but me, and my house serve the Almighty Father, the Creator.

Passover, not Easter

The word "Easter" will not be found in most Bible versions but majority of Christians celebrate Easter Sunday.

People are celebrating a day called Easter Sunday which is not mentioned in scripture but was made by man and then subtly brought in a way to deceive many in believing them celebrating the death and resurrection of the Messiah.

Where from did this Easter Sunday originate?

An encyclopedia or dictionary will supply the answer: Easter had a pre-Christian origin, namely a festival in honor of Eostre (a dawn goddess).

This Eostre or Eastre, was also known to be the spring goddess and goddess of fertility.

This same goddess was also known as Homer, Eos, Ishtar, Astarte, Ashtaroth and classical mythology was an amorous deity and the idea of fertility with its fertility-symbols of eggs and rabbits was to be expected.

The origin of Easter eggs and the Easter bunny was not only goddess of dawn but also goddess of spring with all its fertility symbols and rites.

Astarte (Hebrew - Ashtaroth/Ashtoreth) is also known as the "queen of heaven".

Other spring festivals were celebrated, with the rites of Adonis or of Tammuz.

This "weeping for Tammuz" is exactly what Yahuah (Heavenly Father) included amongst His verdict of "wicked abominations", as we read in Ezekiel 8:9 & 14, And He said to me, “Go in, and see the evil abominations which they are doing there,” and He brought me to the door of the north gate of the House of Yahuah, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.

Easter buns (hot-cross buns) were used in the worship of the Queen of heaven 1500 years before the Christian Era.

The Heavenly Father warns His people against this "abomination", as He called it in Jeremiah 7:10, ‘See, the day! See, it has come! The turn has come, the rod has blossomed, pride has budded and as is described in Jeremiah 7:18, ‘and they shall gird on sackcloth, and be covered with trembling. And shame shall be on every face, and baldness on all their heads.

How did these things ever enter in worship?

The adoption of these pagan emblems of Easter eggs, Easter rabbits and Easter buns, are explained by The Catholic Encyclopedia, "a great many pagan customs celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter ...

The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility."

This is in direct contrast to the Word of Yahúah (Heavenly Father) in Jeremiah 10:2, "Do not learn the way of the Gentiles," and in Deut. 12:30, "do not inquire after their mighty ones, saying, 'How did these nations serve their mighty ones?

I also will do likewise.'"

Israel was commanded to keep the worship pure and undefiled by destroying everything pertaining to pagan worship, even to destroy the names of the pagan deities (Deut. 12:3), and not even to "mention the names of other mighty ones, nor let it be heard from your mouth," Exodus 23:13.

The whole subject of Easter, its Sun-day - emphasizing date, and its pagan emblems and rites, such as Easter sunrise services, is crowned by the general admission that the word "Easter" is derived from the name of a goddess, the dawn-goddess, the spring-deity, the goddess of fertility.

Let us rather commemorate Yahusha Messiah's Memorial Passover and the subsequent happenings according to the Scriptural calendar, starting on the evening of 14 Abib.

Read Exodus 12:1-12 which explains the true Passover feast and also the 4 books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John regarding the Messiah’s death on the stake (cross) as He became the Passover Lamb which was at the exact same time as the first Passover described in Exodus 12.

Worship the true Creator - Yah

Heart

In Scripture heart is used figuratively in most instances, being one of the richest terms for the totality of man's inner nature.

Whereas to Greek (and the English speaker) heart refers rather to emotions - to the Hebrew it refers rather to the centre of man's thoughts. 

We read in Jeremiah 17:9 that "The heart is crooked above all and very sick (wicked)" – who shall know it?

Messiah teaches us that the heart is the source from which come all forms of sin - Matthew 15:19, “For out of the heart come forth wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, whorings, thefts, false witnessings, slanders.

Mark 7:21-22, 21“For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasonings, adulteries, whorings, murders, thefts, greedy desires, wickednesses, deceit, indecency, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.  

Those who still live according to the flesh have uncircumcised hearts, they have callous hearts, hardened hearts, hearts of stone. 

Those who do not yield "all their heart" unto Elohim, through His Son, are those who keep their hearts far away from Him - Isaiah 29:13, And Yahuah says, “Because this people has drawn near with its mouth, and with its lips they have esteemed Me, and it has kept its heart far from Me, and their fear of Me has become a command of men that is taught!

Matthew 15:8, ‘This people draw near to Me with their mouth, and respect Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

Mark 7:6, And He answering, said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it has been written, ‘This people respect Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. 

But those who have surrendered "all their heart," those whose "hearts are steadfast with Him," are living a life of overcoming, for they "are true to His covenant" (Psalm 78:37), their "eyes watch My ways" (Proverbs 23:26), they no longer live according to the "teachings" which are but the "commands of men" (Isaiah 29:13,  Matthew 15:8, Mark 7:6).

 

 When the people of Israel live up to their calling as Israel (Overcomer's), their hearts are circumcised, (Deut 30) they keep the Torah (Law) as proof of their love towards Elohim (Almighty God)

Rom. 2:26-29, so, if an uncircumcised one watches over the righteousnesses of the Torah, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned as circumcision? And the uncircumcised by nature, who perfects the Torah, shall judge you who notwithstanding letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the Torah! For he is not a Yehudite (Jew) who is so outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. But a Yehudite (Jew) is he who is so inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in Spirit, not literally, whose praise is not from men but from Elohim.

1 John 5:2-3, by this we know that we love the children of Elohim, when we love Elohim and guard His commands. For this is the love for Elohim, that we guard His commands, and His commands are not heavy, …). 

Elohim demands "all your heart."  

Deut. 4:29-30, “But from there you shall seek Yahuah your Elohim, and shall find, when you search for Him with all your heart and with all your being. “In your distress, when all these words shall come upon you in the latter days, then you shall return to Yahuah your Elohim and shall obey His voice.

Deut. 6:4-9, “Hear, O Israel: Yahuah our Elohim, Yahuah is one! “And you shall love Yahuah your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might. “And these Words g which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart, and you shall impress them upon your children, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up, and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. “And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. 

Jeremiah 29:13, Joel 2:12, “Yet even now,” declares Yahuah, “turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”

Matthew 22:37, And Yahusha said to him, “ ‘You shall love Yahuah your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind.’  

Mark 12:29-30, And Yahusha answered him, “The first of all the commands is, ‘Hear, O Israel, Yahuah our Elohim, Yahuah is one. ‘And you shall love Yahuah your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first command.). 

Yahuah searches our heart – Jeremiah 17:10, “I, Yahuah, search the heart; I try the kidneys, and give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds. 

Give all your heart to Him that is the Creator of the Heavens and the earth, Yahuah.

 

 

 

Search my heart, O YAH

Father's Choice

Bahar in Hebrew means to try or to choose.

It may mean "to choose after testing." As a nation, Israel was, and still is, the chosen people.

Further, their Sovereign, the Messiah, is the Chosen Servant.

Elohim (Almighty) chooses His chosen ones for a certain task, for a High Calling, to comply with His conditions He laid down for them, namely to be "His treasured possession."

Above all the peoples on the face of the earth, He chose them forever.

Read in following texts: Exodus 19:5-6, and now, if you diligently obey My voice, and shall guard My covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession above all the peoples – for all the earth is Mine – ‘and you shall be to Me a reign of priests and a set-apart nation.’ Those are the words which you are to speak to the children of Israel.”

Deuteronomy 7:6-7, “For you are a set-apart people to Yahuah your Elohim. Yahuah your Elohim has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a treasured possession above all the peoples on the face of the earth. “Yahuah did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more numerous than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples.

Deut 10:15, “Yahuah delighted only in your fathers, to love them. And He chose their seed after them, you above all peoples, as it is today.

Deut 14:2, for you are a set-apart people to Yahuah your Elohim, and Yahuah has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a treasured possession above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deut 26:18, “And Yahuah has caused you to proclaim today to be His people, a treasured possession, as He has spoken to you, and to guard all His commands.

 Psalm 135:4, For Yah has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel for His treasured possession.

Isaiah 41:8 “But you, Israel, are My servant, Israel, whom I have chosen, the descendants of Abraham My friend, and Isaiah 44:1-2, “But now hear, O Israel My servant, and Israel whom I have chosen. Thus said Yahuah who made you and formed you from the womb, who helps you, ‘Do not fear, O Jacob My servant, and Yeshurun (straight one or the upright one), whom I have chosen.

In Isaiah 59:21; Yahuah said His covenant with Jacob (Israel) is for his descendants, to his descendants descendants, "from this time and FOREVER."

We find it more clearly in the New Testament, namely Ephesians 1:4, which says that He has chosen us in Messiah "to be set-apart & blameless" and 2 Thessalonians 2:13, but we ought to give thanks to Elohim always for you, brothers, beloved by the Master, because Elohim from the beginning chose you to be saved – in set-apartness of Spirit, and belief in the truth – Because of this High Calling we understand why "many are called, but few are chosen" Matthew 20:16, Matthew 22:14.

That is why there are few who find it - Matthew 7:14 & Luke 13:23-30.

Israel was "chosen in the furnace of affliction" (Isaiah 48:10), and it is no different for the Messianic believer today (Matthew 7:14).

Paul says in Romans 11:1; I say then, has Elohim rejected His people? Let it not be! For I also am of Israel and in verse 26; so all Israel shall be saved as it is been written (written in the Torah).

Thank you Yah for calling us!