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.