1 Corinthians 1
19For it is written, "I WILL DESTROY THE
WISDOM OF THE WISE, AND THE CLEVERNESS OF THE CLEVER I WILL SET ASIDE." 20
Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age?
Has not Yahuah made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21For since in the wisdom
of Yahuah the world through its wisdom did not come to know Yahuah, Yahuah was
well-pleased through the foolishness of the Passover message preached to save those
who believe.…
Above Sha’ul was amazed how little knowledge the so-called
“teachers” demonstrated, they simply were fools when it came to understanding
The Yahushaic Covenant, and specifically the meaning of Passover.
Within The Yahushaic Covenant, living at the end of the
training of the sons of Yahuah through a physical life on Earth (end of
6,000 years), we should be teachers of the true spiritual meaning of the
physical examples found in The Torah. Instead, the vast majority of us are
still “children” addicted to the milk of the Word of Righteousness (physical
examples), and we have not yet been properly trained by them to understand
the meat of His Word (spiritual truths). The Apostle Sha’ul addressed
the issue directly 2000 years ago and not much has changed since:
Hebrews 5
7 During
the days of Yahusha’s life on Earth (while he
offered himself as a LIVING sacrifice), he offered up prayers and
petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one (Yahuah)
who could save him from death (on Passover),
and he (Yahusha) was heard (by Yahuah) because of his reverent
submission (to the will of Yahuah which
is true sacrifice). 8 Son
though he was, he learned obedience (Yahusha
wasn’t born perfect or obedient he learned
it) from what he suffered (ultimately
death to “self” on Passover) 9 and,
once made perfect (after his final Passover suffering on the torture stake),
he (his sinful flesh) became (after his suffering on the stake) the source of
eternal salvation (The fulfillment of the Passover
Lamb) for all who obey him (and follow his example and offer themselves as living sacrificial
lambs on Passover) 10 and
was designated by Yahuah to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek (the eternal High Priest who would rip the veil and
provide us all access “once for all the sons of Yahuah”).
11 We have
much to say about this (Messiah/Passover), but it is hard to make it
clear to you because you no longer try to understand (we are determined to stick to the physical example and
human tradition and fail to see the Spiritual truth of Passover).
12 In fact, though by this time (in The Yahushaic Covenant) you ought to be
teachers (of the physical to spiritual parallels
in The Torah), you need someone to teach you the elementary (spiritual) truths of Yahuah’s word all over
again. You need milk (the physical letter of the
law and physical rituals), not solid food (the Spiritual Truths the physical shadows were designed
to teach us)! 13 Anyone who
lives on milk (continues in the never ending
physical rituals not learning the spiritual meaning of them), being
still an infant (in spiritual maturity),
is not acquainted with the (spiritual)
teaching about righteousness. 14 But
solid (spiritual) food is for the
mature (in Yahuah), who by constant
use (of physical to spiritual parallels)
have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil (defined in the physical examples in the Torah which teach
us of spiritual attitudes we must have).
We see above in verse 8 that Yahusha had to learn obedience
by dying (to his own will not to go to the torture stake and reverently
submitting to Yahuah’s will that he suffer on Passover) and he was
perfected by his suffering! We see that it was Yahusha’s reverent submission to
the Will of Yahuah that moved Yahuah to save Yahusha from death. What made Yahusha
“perfect” was the same thing that makes US perfect, our reverent submission
to the Will of Yahuah and His Commandments… not living a perfect life. Yahuah
did not save Yahusha because Yahusha was perfect and certainly not because he
was a god (he could not have died if that were the case). We see in Zachariah
Chapter 3 that Yahusha’s “sin was forgiven” through Mikveh, just like
our sin is forgiven. Perfection (both for Yahusha and all the sons of Yahuah)
is found in our willingness to obey, and our love for Yahuah combined with
physical sacrifice and suffering, as we give our lives as living sacrifices to
Him (symbolized by the Passover).
Zechariah
3
3 Now Yahusha
was dressed in filthy clothes (a metaphor for
sin Isaiah 64:6) as he stood before the angel. 4 The angel said to those who were standing before
him, “Take off his filthy clothes (forgive his sin Isaiah
64:6).” Then Yahuah said to Yahusha, “See, I have taken away
your sin, and I will put fine garments (of the
High Priest) on you.”
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It is quite clear that Yahusha was not without sin his
entire life, but only from the point of his Mikveh as High Priest (when he
was anointed High Priest by John the Baptist) and then consecrated High
Priest by Yahuah in the desert after that. This is what Sha’ul actually said
below:
Hebrews 4:15
For we do not have a high priest
who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who (as High Priest) has been tempted in every way,
just as we are--yet he did not sin (in the office
of High Priest, any sin prior to that was forgiven through Mikveh).
Above, Sha’ul did not say Yahusha lived his entire life
without sin, he said as HIGH PRIEST Yahusha was tempted in every way without
sin! Big difference. Yahusha was anointed High Priest upon his Mikveh to John
the Baptist, the outgoing High Priest. It was from that point forward as High
Priest he was without sin.
I am getting a little off topic here; I cover all this in My
book series. The point I am making here, is that Yahusha’s ‘broken body’ was
his sinful flesh, and he became the spotless lamb after his
obedience, self-denial, and suffering on Passover!
Romans 12:1
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters,
in view of Yahuah’s mercy (to save you from death
like Yahusha), to offer your (sinful
human) bodies as a living sacrifice (Spiritual
Spotless Lambs of Yahuah on Passover),
holy and pleasing to Yahuah--this is your true and proper worship (on Passover).
We have a tendency to leave the Passover out of The New
Testament when we, in fact, should put the entire NT in context of Passover.
That is what Yahusha came the first time to fulfill and that is the central
message of the NT. You see, Yahusha is THE Good Shepherd who laid down his life
(as an example) on Passover for all of us who are “sheep” or “lambs of Yahuah”
too! We must “enter into the sheep pen by the GATE”, or rather The NARROW GATE (which
is The Way or example set by Yahusha). His example on Passover is The Way we
are to enter ourselves. We see Yahusha speaking (in The Mystery Language) below
concerning Passover and the rest of the spotless lambs of Yahuah (who follow
his example). Yahusha tore the veil, providing us all access to the Altar of
Yahuah to offer our own lives as living sacrificial lambs:
John 10:11 - The Good Shepherd and His Sheep who
enter through the Passover
1 “Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep
pen by the gate (Passover), but
climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 The
one who enters by the gate (Passover)
is the Shepherd of the (rest of the) sheep.
3 The gatekeeper (Yahuah)
opens the gate for him (the Shepherd Yahusha),
and the sheep (we too our lambs of Yahuah)
listen to his (Yahusha’s) voice (example). He calls his own sheep
by name and leads them out (of this physical
world and into The Kingdom of Yahuah through Passover). 4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes on
ahead of them (offering his life as a living
sacrifice and suffering at the stake on Passover), and his
sheep follow him (in the Passover
example he set) because they know his voice. 5 But
they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because
they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.” 6 Yahusha
used this figure of speech (Mystery
Language Alert!), but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling
them.
7 Therefore
Yahusha said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the
gate (the Passover Lamb and true and living way
to follow) for the (rest of the)
sheep (lambs of Yahuah). 8 All who have come before me (claiming to be the Messiah) are thieves and
robbers, but the (true) sheep have
not listened to them. 9 I am the gate (the Passover Lamb and the
way the example to follow); whoever enters through me (follows My reverent submissive example on Passover)
will be saved (from death by Yahuah as Yahusha
was). They will come in (by following
Yahusha’s example of living sacrifice) and go out (into The Kingdom of Yahuah), and find pasture.
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and
destroy; I have come (to set the example and
show the way i.e. Shepherd) that they may have (eternal) life (by
following My example), and have it to the full.
11 “I am
the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down his life (as a living sacrifice on
Passover) for the sheep (to follow as
an example as he Shepherds us through the gate. We are all Passover Lambs).
..
14 “I am the Good
Shepherd; I know My sheep and My sheep know me— 15 just
as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down My life (deny My own will and do the will of Yahuah) for
the sheep (on Passover as an example).
The bottom line is that WE are living sacrifices i.e.
sacrificial Passover Lambs, just like Yahusha who was THE PASSOVER LAMB.
Just like in the physical example found in The Torah, each man had to bring his
own Passover Lamb to be slaughtered on Passover. Just like the physical shadow
in The Torah Yahusha is THE Passover Lamb slaughtered for the nation of Israel.
We are to purify our bodies from sin (remove leaven) and present ourselves on
Passover as “spotless lambs of Yahuah”, and give our lives as a living
sacrifice to Him. It is through Yahusha’s living sacrifice, that we too
have the boldness to approach the altar of Yahuah, and offer ourselves as
living sacrificial lambs without blemish to our Father.
Hebrews 4
14 Therefore,
since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven (to read The Heavenly Scroll Revelation Chapter 5),
Yahusha the Son of Yahuah (not Yahuah, the
first born from the dead not human birth Rev. 1:5, the first fruits of the resurrection), let us
hold firmly to the faith we profess (that Yahusha
came in the flesh 1 John 4). 15 For
we do not have a high priest (not a demi-god)
who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses (because
he too was human), but we have a High Priest who has been
tempted in every way (Yahuah cannot be tempted James
1:13), just as we are—yet he did not sin (in the office of High Priest Zachariah Chapter 3).
16 Let us then approach Yahuah’s Throne of grace (the veil has been ripped in two ON PASSOVER Matthew 27:51) with confidence
(offering our lives as a living sacrifice Colossians
1:22), so that we may receive mercy (at the Mercy Seat of Yahuah Hebrews 9) and
find grace (the covering of the death decree in The
Law Colossians 2:14) to help us in our time of need.
The Israelites were instructed each to bring their OWN Passover
Lamb and sacrifice it on the altar at the temple. This was a physical to
spiritual parallel that WE too are to follow Yahusha’s example and offer our
own lives as Passover Sacrifices on the altar in the temple annually on
Passover. Keeping in mind that now WE are the Temple of Yahuah and our hearts
are His Altar!
Exodus
12 - the Passover and the Festival of
Unleavened Bread
1 Yahuah said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 “This
month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of
this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each
household. 4 If any household is too small for a
whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, You are to determine
the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. 5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect,
and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6 Take
care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the
community of Israel must slaughter them (there
were many Passover Lambs) at twilight.
The Law requires each and every one of His children are to
bring their own lives (lambs) and offer them as living sacrifices on the 14th
of Abib. Yahusha set the example and offered his “sinful body” and became The
Spotless Lamb (example). We will establish later in this book that the “bread”
that represents Yahusha’s body broken on the cross was LEAVENED bread (sinful).
This is the bread that was eaten on the beginning of Passover (the night
before the beginning of The Feast of Unleavened Bread). The bread eaten
AFTER his suffering was unleavened on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened
Bread representing Yahusha’s resurrected body. We are to follow his example! Just
as he offered himself as a living sacrifice on Passover so are we! Yahusha’s
physical sacrifice was a physical to spiritual parallel that we all are
required to “follow” just as each man in Israel was to sacrifice his own Passover
Lamb as a personal sacrifice.
We see, that Yahuah spoke through His prophet Ezekiel that
in the final covenant, we would be Mikveh’d, Circumcised, and bring our own
lives as an Offering:
Ezekiel 36:26
– Mikveh, Circumcision, Offering
…25 "Then I will sprinkle clean water on
you (MIKVEH), and you will be
clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26
"Moreover, I will give you a new (CIRCUMCISION)
heart and put a new (loving) spirit
within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a
heart of flesh. 27 "I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk
in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances (to bring your own Passover Lamb, OFFERING, to the
Altar Exodus 12:1-3).…
We see the Apostle Sha’ul encourage us to keep The Feast of
Unleavened Bread (when the Passover Lamb was eaten) in keeping with the
physical to spiritual parallels it was intended. Sha’ul too speaks of “leaven” being sin and uses unleavened
bread as a physical to spiritual parallel of how we are to set aside our own
bodies as Passover Lambs, and examine ourselves for “blemishes” like the
Israelites did their physical lambs before offering them on Passover:
1
Corinthians 5
7 Get rid of
the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch (after offering yourselves as living sacrifices on Passover)
—as you really are (destined to become. The 7-day
Feast of Unleavened Bread is a shadow of the Millennial Kingdom). For
Yahusha, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed (as
our example and to tear the veil that we may enter and make our own Passover
offerings of our lives as living sacrificial lambs). 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival (of Unleavened Bread), not with the old bread (eaten on the eve of the 14th of Abib during the
Chagigah meal representing the old body of flesh) leavened with
malice and wickedness, but with the (hope of the
heavenly resurrected body of) unleavened bread of sincerity and
truth.
We see below, again clear reference to the
fact that we all are to be living sacrificial lambs of Yahuah without “spot or
blemish” offering ourselves in the example Yahusha set on Passover each year
just as Yahuah commanded:
Romans 12:1
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of Yahuah’
mercy (through Yahusha’s sacrifice on Passover which
tore the veil open to the mercy seat), to offer your (own) bodies (Exodus 12:1-6, not
just Yahusha, we too must follow in his footsteps) as a living
sacrifice (living sacrificial lamb on the Altar of Yahuah each Passover as commanded),
holy and pleasing to Yahuah (as Passover Lambs
without spot or blemish 2 Peter 3:14)—this is your true and
proper worship (symbolized on Passover as commanded by Yahuah that each man should
bring his own Passover Lamb to the altar Exodus 12:1-6).
2 Peter 3
14 Therefore,
beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found (faithful to the Spiritual Truth of Passover) by
Him in peace, without spot and blameless (removing the leaven and giving
your lives as living sacrificial lambs Romans
12:1); 15 and
consider that the longsuffering (on Passover)
of our King is salvation (through THE Passover Lamb
who has granted us access to the Altar by tearing the veil Matthew 27:51)
—as also our beloved brother Sha’ul, according to the wisdom given to him, has
written to you, 16 as also in all
his letters, speaking in them of these things (specifically
Passover see 1 Corinthians 1:23), in which are some
things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to
their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
What was this Mystery message that Sha’ul brought that no
one understood and twisted to their own destruction? It was the Spiritual
Truth of Passover, the narrow gate, that I am explaining here. No one
understood that Yahusha was THE Passover Lamb that provides access to
the Altar of Yahuah. No one understood that “once and for all for the sons of
Yahuah, Heb. 5:10” the veil has been torn, and we all are to
bring our own lives as living sacrificial lambs to the altar of Yahuah each
Passover as Yahuah commanded in Exodus. Below, we see that this is the entire
message Sha’ul was communicating; that what no one understood was the
Spiritual Truth of Passover:
1 Corinthians 1
20 Where is the wise? Where is
the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not Yahuah made foolish the
wisdom of this world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of Yahuah, the
world (the Roman Empire) through wisdom
did not know Yahuah, it pleased Yahuah through the foolishness of the message
preached to save those who believe. 22 For Jews request a sign, and
Greeks seek after wisdom (through philosophy);
23 but we preach the Passover sacrifice of Yahusha,
to the Jews a stumbling block and to the
Greeks foolishness, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and
Greeks, the Messiah is the power of Yahuah (to
forgive those who follow Yahusha’s example on Passover and offer themselves as
living sacrificial lambs without spot or blemish on the Altar each Passover as
commanded) and the wisdom of Yahuah (to
understand the physical to spiritual parallel of Passover).
Let us take a deeper look at the example Yahusha set on
Passover. We will walk through the example Yahusha set for us to follow:
·
The sinful body broken - The
Chagigah (Hebrew) at the end of the 13th day of Abib to begin the
Preparation Day on the 14th of Abib with a meal of “remembrance”. Yahusha
established that during that meal the LEAVENED bread represented his sinful
body that would be broken on the stake on Passover to perfect him through
suffering.
·
The sinful body offered as a
living sacrifice - the Passover or Preparation Day on the 14th
day of Abib when the lambs were slaughtered Yahusha set the example we are
to follow by reverently submitting to the Will of Yahuah and offering his
sinful broken body to Yahuah as a living sacrifice.
·
The resurrected perfect body
- The Feast of Unleavened Bread Abib 15-21 - 7 Days. At the close of the
Passover at the end the 14th of Abib and beginning of the 15th
day of Abib when the Passover Dinner is eaten and the Passover Lamb is served. Now
upon resurrection, Yahusha is “perfect” and the unleavened bread represents his
spiritual body.
