Introduction
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John 13:15
For I have given you
an example (Spiritual Path), that you should do as I have done
(offer our own lives as
living sacrificial lambs on Passover).
1 Peter 2:21
21 But if you
suffer for doing good and you endure it (you will
be perfected just like Yahusha was perfected through suffering ultimately
perfected on Passover), this is commendable before Yahuah. 21 To this (giving your own lives as living sacrificial lambs on
Passover) you were called, because the Messiah suffered (on Passover) for you (and
tore the veil giving you access to the Altar of Yahuah), leaving
you an example (of what to do as he
fulfilled the spiritual meaning of Passover), that you should
follow in his steps (and bring your own
offering on Passover to the Altar of Yahuah).
The Passover is far more than
just a retelling of the Exodus out of Egypt. It is more than just Yahusha
suffering to pay the penalty of our transgression on the torture stake on
Passover. The blood of the Passover Lamb and the foreshadowing of the Messiah’s
role is The Scarlet Thread of Redemption that runs throughout the
entire Word of Yahuah. It is His Plan of Salvation!
This Scarlet Thread of
Redemption runs
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from the prophecy in Genesis that the seed of a woman will
crush the enemy and then a lamb slaughtered to “cover” the sinful parts of the
bodies of Adam and Eve
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through Abraham sacrificing his first born son Isaac who was
saved by a the sacrifice of a lamb
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leading to the Exodus where the blood of the lamb covered the
first born and the angel of death passed over the homes who entered into that
covenant, that is where we get the name Passover
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culminating with Yahusha transposing these prophecies and
physical metaphors and rehearsals to their spiritual truths. Showing us “The
Way” unto salvation and leading us through The Narrow Gate as The Shepherd of
all the lambs of Yahuah to…
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being expressed
in faith each year by offering our own lives as living
sacrifices on Passover following in the footsteps of the Messiah to…
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finding completion with the return of Yahusha and the GREATER Exodus
into the Millennial Kingdom. When Yahusha gathers all the spotless lambs of Yahuah
who have followed his example on Passover and offered themselves as spotless
lambs and living sacrifices on the altar to Yahuah! Then the fulfillment of
Mikveh is realized and the land and people cleansed of their sin!
Yahuah gave us His
instruction and laid out a “moedim” or rehearsal for us to learn this vital
Spiritual Truth. This rehearsal was to illustrate physically the
concept of personal sacrifice. In this rehearsal, defined in the Torah, Yahuah
had the children of Israel take one of their most prized lambs and slaughter it.
We have to understand the personal sacrifice this was to them. They relied on
their flocks for milk, and meat and for trade. This was a HUGE personal
sacrifice each family had to make in terms of their personal resources. Yahuah
was teaching us, as who are spiritually immature children, the value of
personal sacrifice that was to come in The Yahushaic Covenant. That “lamb”
would be our own bodies!
Below is the definition of
the physical rehearsal, notice that each man had to offer his own Passover
Lamb:
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.
John 14:1-10
1 “Do not let your heart be troubled;
believe in Yahuah (your God and Father),
believe also in Me (your King and brother). 2 In My Father’s house are
many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to
prepare a place for you (in the Kingdom of
Yahuah). 3 If I go and prepare
a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there
you may be also. 4 And you know the way where
I am going (the way to be begotten into the
Kingdom of Yahuah).” 5 Thomas
said to Him, “King, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the
way?” 6 Yahusha said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the
Father but through my example. (my example
is the true way that leads to everlasting life) 7
If you had
known Me (kept my example), you would
have known My Father also; from now on (as you keep
my example) you know Yahuah, and have (spiritually)
seen Yahuah (Yahusha is the perfect human
image of the invisible God).” 8 Philip said to Yahusha, “King, show us the Father, and
it is enough for us.” 9 Yahusha said to him, “Have
I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip?
He who has seen Me has (spiritually)
seen the (perfect human image, the reflection of
the invisible) Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10 Do you not believe that I am in (covenant with) the Father, and the Father is in (covenant with) Me (making
us one through marriage)?
Revelation 19
9 And the angel said
to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage
supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of
God.”
Continuing with John 14…
The
words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father
abiding in Me (through His Spirit of Truth as the
Law was written in his heart) does His works. 11 Believe Me that I am in
(covenant with) the Father and the
Father is in (covenant with) Me;
otherwise believe because of the works (of
obedience to the Law) themselves (knowing
and loving Yahuah is keeping His commandments). 12 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in (enters into The Yahushaic Covenant) Me, the works
that I do, he will do also (by keeping my example);
and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.
13 Whatever you ask in covenant with me, that will I
do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14
If you ask Me anything in covenant with me, I will do it.
15
“If you love
Me, you will keep My commandments (Yahusha said to
keep the commandments of Yahuah, not one jot or tittle will be abolished).
16
I will ask
the Father, and He will give you another helper, that Yahuah may be with you
forever; 17 that
is the Spirit of truth (not a ghost, it
is the Spirit that teaches us to keep His Law and writes it on our hearts Ezekiel 36:27 and Jeremiah 31),
Ezekiel 36: 26, 27
I will give you a new heart (for my Law and write my Law on it)
and put a new spirit (of loving obedience) in you; I will remove from
you your heart of stone (legalistic observance of the Law without love) and
give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you
to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
Continuing with John 14…
whom
the world cannot receive, because it does not (have
spiritual eyes to) see Yahuah or know Him (through keeping His commandments), but you
know Yahuah because He abides with you (the spirit
in Ezekiel above that moves on your heart to keep the Law of Yahuah)
and (His Law) will be in you (written on your heart Ezekiel above and Jeremiah 31).
18
“I will not
leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 After a little while the world will no
longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also.
20 In that day you will know that I am in (covenant with) My Father, and you in (covenant with) Me, and I in (covenant with) you. 21
He who has My commandments and keeps them (obedience
to the Law of Yahuah) is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me (by keeping my example and obeying my command to keep the Law
of Yahuah) will be loved by My Father (“this
is the love of Yahuah, you keep His commandments” 1 John 5:3), and I will love him
and will disclose Myself to him.” 22 Judas
(not Iscariot) said to Yahusha, “King, what then has happened that You are
going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?” 23 Yahusha answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love
him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. 24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the
word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me (Yahusha clears up what “his commands and word” are, they are
the Laws of Yahuah).
25
“These
things I have spoken to you while abiding with you. 26 But the helper, the
Spirit of Holiness, whom the Father will send in My name (to those in The Yahushaic Covenant), Yahuah will
teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
27 Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you;
not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor
let it be fearful. 28 You heard that I said
to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have
rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the
Father is greater than I (they
are neither the same being, nor are they equal) 29 Now I have told you before it happens, so that when it
happens, you may believe. 30 I will not speak
much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in
Me; 31 but so that the world may know that I
love the Father (Yahusha kept the Law of Yahuah
perfectly, the love of Yahuah is expressed through obedience to His Law),
I do exactly as the Father commanded Me (in His Law).
Get up, let us go from here.
What does Yahusha mean when
he declared he is the truth and the way? He is saying that his example he set
on earth is the True Way that leads to eternal life. We are to walk as he
walked, do as he did, and keep his righteous example of loving obedience to the
Law of Yahuah.
1 John 2
3 We know that we have come to
know Yahuah if we keep His commands. 4 Whoever says, “I know Yahuah,”
but does not do what Yahuah commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that
person. 5 But if anyone obeys Yahuah’s
word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This
is how we know we are in The Yahushaic Covenant: 6 Whoever claims to live in covenant with Yahusha
must live as Yahusha did (keeping the Law
of Yahuah in loving obedience)
Sha’ul addresses the reality
of keeping the Law of Yahuah below by living the example set by Yahusha:Colossians 2
6 So then, just as you received Yahusha
the Messiah as King, continue to live your lives in (covenant with) him (by keeping his
example of obedience to the Law), 7 rooted and built
up in his example, strengthened in the faith as you were taught,
and overflowing with thankfulness. 8 See
to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy (such as the Law was abolished and pagan rituals replaced
the Holy Days of Yahuah), which depends on human tradition
and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Yahusha’s
example (Yahusha kept the Law and the Holy Days)…
16 Therefore do not let anyone judge
you by what you eat or drink (as you in obedience
to the Law keep Kosher), or with regard to a religious festival (as you keep the Spring and Fall Festivals of Yahuah),
a New Moon celebration (as you keep Yahuah’s annual
calendar) or a Sabbath day (as you set
yourself apart by keeping Yahuah’s Sabbaths). 17 These (physical
rehearsals I have taught you to keep) are a (physical) shadow of the (spiritual) things that were to come (physical to spiritual parallels); the (spiritual) reality, however, is found in The
Yahushaic Covenant (which is the transposition of
all previous 6 covenants into the Spiritual Kingdom of Yahuah). 18 Do
not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels
disqualify you (for your obedience to the Law).
Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are
puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind (that is set on the flesh and has enmity toward Yahuah’s Law).
19 They have lost connection (those who teach the Law was abolished show a total
disconnect) with the head (The
Yahushaic Covenant), from whom the whole body, supported and
held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as Yahuah causes it to grow (into The Temple of Yahuah).
I am going to cover what it
means to keep the Law of Yahuah in The Yahushaic Covenant later
in this book. One thing should be obvious
by now:
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Yahusha did not set the example of
disobedience to the Law by abolishing it
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Yahusha never once kept Sunday as
his day of worship to Yahuah
·
Yahusha never once claimed he was Yahuah
incarnate
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Yahusha never celebrated
Christmas, Easter, Good Friday, or any other pagan ritual.
The Christian Church is
another gospel than we were given by Yahuah and Yahusha and a different gospel
than the one taught by his disciples and apostles.
Matthew 7
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For
wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many
enter through it. 14 But
small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few
find it.
The “gate” that leads us out
of bondage of sin and into the promised land of eternal life is and always has
been the Passover. Yahusha speaks of this very same narrow
gate as he illustrates, through use of The Mystery Language, that he is the
Passover Lamb (we all must follow his example on Passover). The Narrow Gate is
literally “how” we keep Passover and all the Feasts of Yahuah.
Yahusha is the shepherd of
all the Passover Lambs of Yahuah and he led the way through the Gate on
Passover:John 10:11 - The Good Shepherd and His Sheep who
enter through the Passover
10 “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
who leads us out of a life of bondage into a new life of freedom from sin by
his Passover sacrifice), and the sheep (we
too our lambs of Yahuah) listen to his (Yahusha’s)
voice (example). He calls his own sheep
(Passover Lambs) 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 (1 Cor. 1:23).
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 or 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 Hebrews 5:7-11 the entire meaning of Passover). They will
come in (by following Yahusha’s example of a
living sacrifice on Passover) and go out (into the Kingdom of Yahuah), and find pasture. 10 The thief (Jesus
Christ) comes only to steal and kill and destroy (by abolishing Passover for Easter); 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 (life) to the fullest measure.
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). ..
1 Corinthians 1 – the
Passover is the Gate and it is VERY NARROW
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 (THAT is the Gospel Message that leads to the
Kingdom of Yahuah), to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks
foolishness,
We see Sha’ul do just what he
claimed; TEACH the Passover sacrifice of Yahusha below:Hebrews 5 – The meaning of Passover
7 During the days of Yahusha’s life
on earth (while he offered himself as a LIVING
sacrifice), he offered up prayers and petitions (in the garden of Gethsemane) with fervent cries
and tears to the one God (Yahuah) who
could save him from death (that evening on Passover), and he (Yahusha) was heard (by Yahuah and saved from death) because
of his reverent submission (to the will
of Yahuah which is true sacrifice).
1 Samuel 15:22
But Samuel
replied: "Does Yahuah delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as
in obeying Yahuah (obedience is the spiritual attitude of our hearts)? To obey
(spiritual sacrifice) is better than (physical) sacrifice, and to heed is
better than the fat of rams (this type of dying to self and living an obedient
submissive life is the example Yahusha set).
Psalm 51
16 For you do not desire sacrifice; else would
I give it: you do not delight in burnt offering. 17 The
(true spiritual) sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite
heart, O God, you will not despise.
8 Son though he was (he was
not God), he learned obedience (to
Yahuah the same way we all do) from what he suffered (ultimately death to “self” and suffering 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 “once for all the sons of Yahuah” access to the mercy seat to come near
and offer themselves as living sacrificial lambs Romans 12:1). 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
(1 Cor. 1:23)
Sha’ul goes on teaching the
Passover sacrifice of Yahusha and the physical to spiritual parallel of “leaven”
being sin. He uses unleavened bread as a physical to spiritual parallel of how
we are to set aside our own bodies as Passover Lambs. We are to
examine ourselves for “spots and blemishes” like the Israelites did their
physical lambs before offering them on Passover.
We see below
again clear reference to the fact that we all are to be living Passover 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 (who offered His
first born son Yahusha as a sacrifice on Passover which tore the veil open to
the mercy seat), to offer your (own)
bodies (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 (set apart and prepared through Mikveh) and
pleasing to Yahuah (as Passover lambs without spot
or blemish 2 Peter 3:14)—this is your true and proper worship
(on Passover as commanded by Yahuah that each man
should bring his own Passover lamb to the altar Exodus 12:3).
2 Peter 3
14
Therefore,
beloved, looking forward to these things (the
Appointed Times of Yahuah specifically Passover), be diligent to be
found (faithful to the Spiritual Truth of Passover)
by Him in peace, without spot and blameless (referring to our bodies as living sacrificial lambs 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) —as also our beloved brother Sha’ul, according
to the wisdom given to him, has written to you (about Passover 1 Cor.
1:23), 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. (1 Cor. 1:23)
Again, above, Peter is telling
us the Passover (that Sha’ul said he preached) was a stumbling block to the Jew,s
and foolishness to the Greeks, being TWISTED by both the Jews and Greeks. This
is why it is the NARROW GATE. 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.
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 rip
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 that the Passover is
far more than just a “Jewish” ritual given to Moses who by the way was not even
Jewish. It is a fundamental principle in the plan of salvation i.e. The
Scarlet Thread of Redemption in every covenant:
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The Edenic Covenant
– lamb that was slain before the foundation of the
world, written in the stars
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The Adamic Covenant – lamb slaughtered to make clothing to cover sin
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The Noahic Covenant – Genesis 8:20, the first thing Noah did after the
flood is… make an altar and sacrifice a “clean animal” i.e. a Lamb on the
altar.
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The Abrahamic Covenant – lamb slaughtered to provide salvation from death of
the promised son Isaac and his descendants
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Coming out of bondage – Israelites slaughtered a personal lamb and put on
doorpost to save the firstborn leading them out of bondage through the Passover
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The Mosaic Covenant – each family brought their own sacrificial Passover
lamb as a sacrifice on Passover
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The Yahushaic Covenant – each son of Yahuah follows Yahusha’s footsteps in
examining their own lives for spot or blemish and offering their lives as
living sacrifices on Passover
Below, Sha’ul is explaining
that the physical rehearsal of sacrificing your own Passover Lamb each year was
nothing more than a teaching tool to help us understand our role in The
Yahushaic Covenant.Hebrews 10
1 The law is
only a shadow (physical example/rehearsal)
of the good things that are coming (The Spiritual
Kingdom of Yahuah)—not the (spiritual)
realities themselves. For this reason it (the
physical examples/rehearsals in the Law) can never, by the
same (physical) sacrifices (of a lamb) repeated endlessly year after year,
make perfect those who draw near to worship (perfection
is found in personal sacrifice and the spiritual attitude of the heart not
outward physical rituals). 2 Otherwise, would they (physical sacrifices) not have stopped being
offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no
longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3 But
those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. 4 It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats
to take away sins (forgiveness of sin comes from
repentance of heart i.e. is spiritually offered not physically. Reverent
submission as Yahusha demonstrated in The Garden of Gethsemane).
5 Therefore, when the Messiah came into the world (to fulfill Passover), Yahusha said:
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a (sinful) body you prepared for me; 6 with
(physical) burnt offerings and sin
offerings you were not pleased. 7 Then I said, ‘Here I am (offering my sinful body broken as a living sacrifice to deny
my sinful will and reverently submit to Your Will)—it is written
about me in the scroll (Torah/Prophets)
— I have come (to deny my selfish sinful flesh and) to do your
will (not my own Luke 22:42), my
God.’”
8 First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt
offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with
them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law (Yahuah’s rehearsals became a burdensome ritual Micah 6). 9 Then he said,
“Here I am, I have come to do your will (Yahusha
made this clear on Passover when he prayed in the garden Luke 22:42).”
(In doing so, dying to his selfish will in
obedience to Yahuah’s Will) He (Yahusha)
sets aside (transposes) the first (physical ritual example) to establish the second
(Spiritual Truth of reverent submission of will).
10 And by (following)
that (same) will (of our own obedient submission), we
(too) have been made holy (set apart) through (Mikveh
and by following the example of) the
(living) sacrifice of the body of Yahusha
the Messiah (who) once for all (the sons of Yahuah tore the veil and provided access to the
altar of Yahuah. Revealing the meaning and
spiritual truth of Passover. We no longer go through the same ritual physical
example of killing an animal year after year Hebrews 5:1 above, now we offer
ourselves as lambs of Yahuah on Passover as we are to be living sacrifices
and follow in the example set by Yahusha).
Sha’ul continues teaching how
to keep Passover, instructing the ritual of Mikveh. Sha’ul is explaining that,
in the tradition of Israel, where in order to become a member of the commonwealth
of Israel, you had to be circumcised, Mikveh’d, and bring a sacrifice to burn
on the altar. Now those physical training tools have been realized in their
spiritual truths in The Yahushaic Covenant:Hebrews 10:22
Let us draw near to Yahuah (properly presenting ourselves) with a sincere
heart (true circumcision)
and with the full assurance that faith (in the
example set by Yahusha) brings (…
that we can offer our own lives as living sacrifices
because Yahusha has ripped the veil in two giving us access to the mercy seat
of Yahuah), having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty
conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water (Mikveh).
In Ephesians we again see Sha’ul
use the spiritual truth of Passover and the Mikveh to prepare the bride to meet
her husband for the “appointed time” as spotless Passover Lambs:Ephesians 5
25 Husbands, love your wives,
just as the Messiah loved the body and gave himself up for her (as the Passover Lamb) 26 to make her holy, (ritually) cleansing her by the washing with water
through the commandments (Mikveh), 27
and to present her (properly) to himself
as a radiant assembly, without spot or wrinkle or any other blemish (as spotless Passover Lambs of Yahuah), but holy
and blameless.
Yahusha will receive all
those who follow his example:
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Prepare themselves properly to
receive him through Mikveh
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Inwardly reflecting on their own
Passover offering (their own lives as living sacrifices) purifying that offering
from spot or blemish
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Circumcising their hearts in
reverent submission to the Law of Yahuah
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Offering themselves as living
Passover sacrifices on the altar of Yahuah each year as a reminder of their sin
in remembrance of Yahusha’s broken body on Passover that covers their sin
