The Preparation Day for Passover
(Abib 14th)
The sinful broken body offered as a living sacrifice.
As we have discussed already, at the end of the 13th
Day and beginning of the 14th Day, is the Chagigah or “remembrance
meal” eaten with leavened bread that represents Yahusha’s sinful broken body. Then,
after the Chagigah remembrance fellowship meal, the Passover begins with The
Preparation Day, which ends with the Passover Meal. After the Chagigah meal, as
the day turned from the 13th to the 14th of Abib, and The
Preparation Day began; we see Yahusha go through the Mikveh ritual to prepare
himself and his disciples. Then the lambs are slaughtered on the altar and
prepared for dinner by roasting over an open flame.
However, the Passover Meal begins just prior to dusk on the
14th of Abib after The Day of Preparation; usually near sunset at
the end of the day, which (in Jerusalem) is approximately thirty to
forty minutes prior the beginning of the 15th of Abib.
Leviticus 23:4-8 a commanded observance
4 These [are] the feasts of Yahuah, [even]
holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their seasons. 5 In (during) the fourteenth [day] of the first month (Abib 14th) at evening (dusk) [is] (the beginning of)
Yahuah’s Passover (Preparation Day, and then the
Passover Meal is eaten at sunset to begin The Feast of Unleavened Bread).
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month (Abib
15th) [is] the Feast of Unleavened bread unto Yahuah: seven days you
must eat unleavened bread. 7 In (during)
the first day (of Unleavened Bread) you
shall have a holy convocation (after dawn): you shall do no servile work on that day. 8 But you
shall offer an offering made by fire (grilled)
unto Yahuah [for] seven days: in (during)
the seventh day [is] a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work [on that
day].
Traditionally, the preparation of the Passover Meal begins
after dawn during the fourteenth day of the first month (Abib 14th). Josephus
records that during the first century, the Passover Lambs were slaughtered
"from the ninth hour (since Dawn) till the eleventh" (Book 6,
chapter 9, section 3), which corresponds closely to our 3:00-5:00 pm, which
still allowed time for roasting over fire at the TEMPLE in Jerusalem (See Luke
23:44 below).
Exodus 12:5-6 as it originally commanded
5 Your (own Spiritually
symbolic) lamb shall be without blemish (a
symbolic Righteousness Seeker), a male a year old (as a child or children). You shall take it from (among) the sheep or from the goats: 6 and you shall
keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly
of the congregation of Israel shall kill it during (not
at, but during) the evening tide (Strong's
H6153 - ereb, pronounced eh'-reb, which is a period of time for dusk, evening,
even tide, and night).
Luke 23:44-45 Darkness on the Preparation Day
44 And it was about the sixth hour (3 hours before the slaughter started), and there was
a darkness over all the Earth (Jerusalem area)
until the ninth hour. 45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple
was rent (ripped) in the midst (in two).
From Earth, a solar eclipse can only occur when the New Moon
passes between the Sun and the Earth, and the New Moon fully or partially
covers the Sun. This could never naturally occur during a "Full Moon"
Feast Day. Therefore, this is not a "Solar Eclipse". Probably heavy
cloud cover and or even heavy smoke from a multitude (thousands) of
roasting fires that were just being kindled to ultimately provide hot coals for
roasting. Messiah was nailed on the torture stake, during "The Preparation
Day"; literally "In Like Manner" as the "Sacrificial
Lambs" were, also, being "Prepared"; as a perfect "Physical
to Spiritual Parallel" for Sacrifice.
Yahuah commanded that each man bring his own Passover Lamb
without spot or blemish. That individual lamb was to be sacrifice in the Temple
on the 14th in preparation for the upcoming High Sabbath of The
Feast of Unleavened Bread. Each household was to take the lamb they offered (on
the Altar in the Temple, then cooked on an open fire) home to eat it to
celebrate the beginning of The Feast of Unleavened Bread.
In The Yahushaic Covenant, we are to understand the spiritual
application of this physical rehearsal, and apply it to the beginning of
Passover (with The Chagigah and then the Preparation Day). On the beginning of the 14th (dusk on the 13th)
we are to gather together for a “remembrance meal” to honor Yahusha’s example
and remember his sacrifice on Passover. We are to discuss the upcoming events
and what they mean and our role in fulfilling theses moedim.
1 Corinthians 11:23-26
23 For I received
from the Messiah what I also passed on to you: The Messiah Yahusha, on the
night (as 13th turns to 14th
of Abib that begins the Day of Preparation/ Passover Day) he was
betrayed, took (leavened) bread (Artos), 24 and when he had
given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is My body (sinful flesh/leavened bread), which is (given as an example) for you (as THE Passover Lamb to rip the veil and provide YOU access
to the Altar so that you too can make your own living sacrifice); do
this in remembrance (Chagigah meal as we
offer our own broken sinful bodies looking back remembering Yahusha’s example) of me (each year before Passover).”
25 In the same way,
after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the
new covenant (consummated) in My blood;
do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance (Chagigah meal where we re-affirm our belief in and
commitment to The Yahushaic Covenant) of me.” 26 For whenever you eat this
bread and drink this cup, you proclaim (Chagigah
or remembrance) the Messiah’s death (of his sinful flesh) until he comes (you proclaim his resurrected sinless life the next night
using unleavened bread!).
Then we are to “prepare ourselves” on the 14th
for the coming High Sabbath on the Feast of Unleavened Bread. We are to prepare
our body through the ritual of Mikveh and self-examination, to ensure we are
without spot or blemish. We are to follow Yahusha’s example on Passover as we
each are “lambs” and Yahusha is the Shepherd whom we follow:
1 John 2:6
Whoever says he abides in (covenant with) him (Yahusha) ought to walk in the same way in which he walked (follow Yahusha’s example).
John 10:1-6
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 (to the Altar whereby the Passover
Lamb has granted us access), 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 are lambs of Yahuah)
listen to his (Yahusha’s) voice (follow his 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.
We do this by examining ourselves as Passover Lambs to be
offered to Yahuah on His Altar. We are to examine our “Passover Lambs” for spots
and blemishes just like Yahuah commanded (Exodus 12:3):
2 Peter 3:14-15
14 Therefore,
beloved, looking forward to these things (Passover),
be diligent to be found (faithful to the Spiritual
Truth of Passover) by Him in peace, without spot and blameless
(giving your lives as living sacrificial lambs Romans
12:1);
15 and
consider that the longsuffering of our King is salvation (through THE Passover
Lamb who has granted us access to the Altar (Hebrews 10:20)
Offering “physical lambs” was a shadow, a teaching tool that
has passed away, we missed the point:
Isaiah 1:11
"The multitude of your sacrifices--what
are they to me?" says Yahuah. "I have more than enough of burnt
offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the
blood of bulls and lambs and goats
True sacrifice in a Spiritual Kingdom within The Yahushaic
Covenant is giving our lives in humble submission and loving obedience to the
Will of Yahuah:
Psalm 51:16-17
16 For
thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt
offering. 17 The (true spiritual)
sacrifices of Yahuah are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O Yahuah,
thou wilt not despise.
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 sacrifice is “symbolized” each year on Passover.
We are to offer our lives as sacrificial lambs on Passover as Yahusha did. Yahusha’s
example was not his physical death, but rather his reverent submission to
the Will of Yahuah and we are to obey that example:
Hebrews 5:7-10
7 During
the days of Yahusha’s (human) 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 (Future) Son (of the Resurrection) though he was (not a god), he learned obedience (again it was Yahusha’s submission and obedience that was the
TRUE sacrifice that got Yahuah’s attention. Yahusha wasn’t born perfect or
obedient he learned it) from what
he suffered (at the stake 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 and resurrection)
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
sacrifices and lambs on Passover) 10 and was
designated by Yahuah to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek (the eternal High Priest who ripped the veil and provided
once for all the sons of Yahuah access to His Altar Hebrews 10:20).
Hebrews 10:20
20 by the way which
he dedicated for us (to offer our own
sacrifice of) a new and living (sacrificial) way (living sacrifices),
through the veil (he tore the veil so we can
approach the Altar with our own offering),
that is to say, his flesh (his sacrifice
gives us direct access to the Altar of Yahuah); Our “sacrifice” each year on Passover is that we offer our
lives as living sacrifices
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 bodies (Spotless Lambs of Yahuah) as a living
sacrifice (to Yahuah on Passover),
holy and pleasing to Yahuah--this is (symbolic of)
your true and proper worship (all year long as we
reverently submit to Yahuah’s will).
Once we have honored Yahusha’s role and the meaning of
Passover at the Chagigah (at the end of the 13th of Abib to begin
the 14th of Abib), we then prepare our bodies through Mikveh and
washing of feet. We look inwardly at our lives to identify sin (leaven/spot/blemish),
then we offer that “broken sinful body” to Yahuah on His Altar on the
preparation day (Passover day). Then at the close of the 14th of Abib…we eat the
Passover dinner (symbolized by eating lamb) to begin The Feast of
Unleavened Bread. This is done at home with our families to celebrate the
Millennial Kingdom. We eat the lamb (which symbolize the death of our flesh)
and unleavened bread (to symbolize our resurrected bodies in that kingdom).
(late Abib 14th & early Abib 15th) The resurrected perfect body
The Passover occurs (at or near sunset) immediately
prior to the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (UB occurs at Dusk),
and which (UB) is a both a High Holy Annual Sabbath and a Holy
Convocation because it symbolizes the “rest” in the Millennial Kingdom.
1
Corinthians 5:7-8
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. The number 7
symbolizes perfection). 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 - 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 14thof
Abib during the Chagigah meal the night before 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.
It should be remembered that prior to dusk (prior to UB)
"Leavened Bread" (Artos) may be eaten, however, once the
"Sacrificial Lamb symbolic of each or our own bodies offered as living
sacrifices without spot or blemish" is served, then the Passover Meal (evening
of or close of Abib 14th) is eaten with unleavened bread then once dusk
occurs all leavened bread not already consumed must be burned right away. This
is to symbolize that during the Kingdom Reign there will be no sin.
The "Passover" meal (now without leavened bread)
may continue well into the night (after Dusk), but the meal must end prior to
dawn and in plenty of time to burn any leftover lamb and or discovered uneaten
leaven (crumbs, etc.). This act of purging “leaven” is symbolic of the
purging of all “sinners” from Earth prior to the establishment The Kingdom of
Yahuah on Earth.
Matthew 13:41 - English Standard Version
The Son of Man will send his angels, and they
will gather out of His Kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers
No leavened bread must be eaten once dusk has occurred until
after the Feast of Unleavened Bread is complete (seven full nights and seven
full daylight periods later). Under no circumstances must the Passover
Preparation Day ever be allowed to occur on a Seventh Day Shabbat. Any food or
sacrifice that would normally be prepared during the Preparation Days (the
daylight hours prior to Passover and UB) that occasionally falls on a
weekly Shabbat must be moved up one day earlier. Moreover, whenever a fire will
be needed for burning leavening or left over sacrifice (IF UB begins on a
7th day Shabbat), then that fire must be kindled prior to the beginning of
Shabbat, and that fire must be maintained for as long as it is needed to burn
the uneaten sacrifice and leaven. This burning (fire) must never extend
into the dawn (morning twilight) of Abib 15th because it is
symbolic of Yahuah’s wrath. This burning fire is symbolic of The Word of Yahuah
which consumes all those who are disobedient i.e. sinners PRIOR to the
Millennial Kingdom:
Jeremiah 5:14
"Because you have spoken this word,
Behold, I am making My words in your mouth fire And this people wood, and it
will consume them.
This consuming wrath of Yahuah ends as we enter His Kingdom
and all sinners (leaven) has been purged. Therefore, the restriction on
“kindling a fire” on Sabbath which are weekly rehearsals of the coming Kingdom.
Dan Love, author of The Spiritual Jew:
The Physical Passover Sacrifice
of the lamb itself (symbolically represented by Leavened Bread) is not without
sin, but is without Spiritual Blemish (symbolically represented by a Lamb
without spots), because of "Repentance" (Rejection of Self); in fact Yahuah
does not seek the sinless at all (no such thing anyway). Yahuah seeks those
that seek after His Righteousness (Spiritual Perfection) through reverent
submission and obedience to His Commandments and Will; there is no such thing
as sinless people, and that includes Messiah. However, Messiah was ultimately
without Spiritual Blemish (Perfected through suffering and Mikveh to fulfill
the righteous requirements of the Law Matthew 3:15).
Again, a look at the
Apostle Sha’ul’s teaching in Hebrews;
Hebrews 5:7-10
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 (not a god), he learned obedience (again it was Yahusha’s submission and obedience that was the
TRUE sacrifice that got Yahuah’s attention. Yahusha wasn’t born perfect or
obedient, he learned it) from
what he suffered (ultimately death 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 through resurrection)
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
sacrifices and lambs on Passover) 10 and was
designated by Yahuah to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek (the eternal High Priest).
Dan Love,
author of The Spiritual Jew:
We too can be without Spiritual
Blemish by making YAHUAH's Righteousness our greatest desire in life through
Mikveh and obedience. Remember, those that seek Salvation do so for
"Self" (Self is Sin), but those that seek YAHUAH's Righteousness do
so to become "Like YAHUAH” (a Spiritually procreated IMAGE of YAHUAH), and
YAHUAH recognizes His own; just the same as Messiah recognizes his own
(imitators or followers).
John 10:11 - The
Good Shepherd and His Sheep who enter through the Passover
John 10:3-4
3 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 death at the stake on Passover),
and his sheep follow him (in the
Passover example he set) because they know his voice.
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).
1 Peter 2
20 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).
Dan Love,
author of The Spiritual Jew:
It is not The Covenant (Marriage
Vow) that is new, it is The People, with whom YAHUAH has made His covenant
"In Blood" (symbolic personal sacrifice), that are new. Both
Covenants require man to Love and Obey Torah (The Marriage Covenant).
Therefore, he (Messiah) did not
eat "the Passover Meal" (but chose personal sacrifice instead and
Made HIMSELF The Symbolic Passover), and he will not eat of it until it can be
administered in the Kingdom of YAHUAH on Earth.
Okay, again "We" see
that even Luke is speaking in generalities (verse seven), however, it is plain
to see that verse seven is still not speaking of the actual First (Holy) Day of
Unleavened Bread, because "Unleavened Bread" is commanded by YAHUAH
to follow "Passover" and "The preparation Day". "Passover"
actually occurs at the end of "The Preparation Day" (Abib 14th), and
"The First day of Unleavened Bread" immediately follows it as soon as
"Dusk" occurs (beginning of Abib 15th). Therefore, the majority of
the rhetoric concerning Passover and Unleavened Bread is just that . . .
"Rhetoric".
rhetoric
|ˈretərik|
noun
the art of
effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of
speech and other compositional techniques.
• informal
language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience,
but may not be accurate in content.
Therefore, "We" are
forced to assume that, while the people in general were all caught up in the
festivities, the Levitical priests were following the commanded observance.
There appears to be an awful lot
of Mystery and confusion concerning the Scriptural accounts of the Passover,
Unleavened Bread, and Messiah's crucifixion. Is there a deliberate cover up of
the events on that day? Quite possibly, but the lack of strict Scriptural
obedience doesn't help matters either.
For example; symbolically
speaking an obedient follower should not become unleavened a day prior to the
symbolic sacrifice of the "Passover Meal" and the seven days of
"Unleavened Bread". These occurrences should symbolically demonstrate
the point in time when Righteousness Seeking men and women become a "New
Person" and "Self” is sacrificed for "Righteousness Sake". Therefore,
symbolically becoming "Unleavened" prior to Messiah's sacrifice is
nonsense that makes of "No Effect" the symbolism used to teach YAHUAH's
"Plan of Salvation".
Additionally, a "Full White
Moon" symbolizes "Pure Righteous Perfection". While "The
Feast of Unleavened Bread" itself symbolizes "The Sabbath
Millennium" in which Satan (human nature) will be bound and no unrighteousness
will even exist, except in theory. Even so, some removal of excess leaven (sin
of human nature) prior to the beginning of the fifteenth day (Full Moon) of the
first month (Abib 15th) is symbolically permissible, as long as some symbolic
sin (leaven) is still available to be burned immediately after the end of
"the Passover Meal". However, do not consume any of “the Passover
Meal" with leavened bread once dusk (Twilight with the Full Moon) has
begun.
The symbolism is that it is
after Passover at twilight with the "Full Moon", that "We"
become (symbolically) unleavened (perfected); then "We" burn all
remaining leaven (throw it into the existing fire)! This same fire will later
be used to burn any and or all remaining (uneaten) lamb prior to dawn.
Now that we have kept the
Chagigah in remembrance of what it is all about and then eaten the Passover
Dinner we begin the celebration of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
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 2:20-21
20 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 body as an offering on
Passover to the Altar of Yahuah).
What is that example? There is a very specific “way” that we
become members of the family of Yahuah. It is through “The Narrow Gate” of
Passover and it has never changed. It has simply been transposed in The
Yahushaic Covenant just like the Altar, the Temple, The Law, the Priesthood, etc.
It is the spiritual equivalent of the Torah requirements in
which you make the transition from a pagan gentile to a member of the
commonwealth of Israel. The requirements for a pagan gentile to become a full
member of the commonwealth of Israel was that they had to be circumcised,
Mikveh’d, and bring a lamb to sacrifice on the altar. Nothing changed, you
still must be circumcised Mikveh’d, and bring an offering to Yahuah and
sacrifice it on His Altar. Yahusha elevated the physical requirements to become
a member of the family of Yahuah to their true meaning in The Yahushaic
Covenant and gave us the example that we are to follow each year on Passover:
John 13:2-5 – the Mikveh on
the Chagigah in preparation for the beginning of Passover
2 And (the
Chagigah) supper (on the eve of the 13th
of Abib with leavened bread) being ended (and
the 14th of Abib began which is Day of Preparation or Passover Day)
… 4 He (Yahusha) arose from supper, and laid aside his garments (took off his clothes and Mikveh’d himself); and (then) took a towel (to
dry himself off), and girded himself (wrapped
the towel around his waist). 5 After that (he cleansed himself through Mikveh, dried himself off, and
wrapped a towel around his waist) he poured water into a basin, and
began to wash the disciples' feet (Mikveh his
disciple’s feet they had already been immersed), and to wipe [them] with the towel he was girded with.
Yahusha demonstrate a contrite heart and reverent submission
to the Will of Yahuah which is true circumcision of heart:
Luke 22:41-42
…41 And He withdrew from them about a stone's
throw, and He knelt down and began to pray, 42 saying, "Father, if You are
willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done."
Yahusha brought an offering of a lamb on Passover. He
offered his own broken body as a living sacrifice to Yahuah. This is the way
and example that Yahusha set that we are to follow each Passover. We are all
to:
1.
Mikveh our bodies ritually clean with Living Water
2.
Be circumcised of heart or “have a heart for His
Laws” and do His will not our own
3.
We are to offer our lives as living sacrifices on
the Altar of Yahuah with our hearts
In Ephesians we see Sha’ul use the spiritual truth of
Passover, circumcision, and the Mikveh to prepare the Bride to meet her husband
for the “appointed time” as spotless Passover Lambs. We see below, the 3
requirements again which are Mikveh, circumcision, and offering (the same
ancient requirements to being joined to the commonwealth of Israel):
Ephesians 5:25-27 – Mikveh, Circumcision, and Offering
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 to present her (with a circumcised heart) to himself as a radiant
assembly, without spot or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless
(as a spotless Passover Lamb of Yahuah).
Romans 12:1 Mikveh, Circumcision, and Offering
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 giving us all access 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 2 Peter 3:14),
holy (set apart and prepared through Mikveh)
and pleasing to Yahuah (with a circumcised heart for His
Law)—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).
Hebrews 10:16-23 Mikveh, Circumcision, and Offering
16 "This is the covenant (marriage vow) that I will make with them: 'After
those days,' says Yahuah, 'I will put My laws on their heart, I will also write
them on their mind; '"(circumcision of heart)
then, 17 "I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more." (Because they will be Spiritually Perfected and purified
through Mikveh) 18 Now where there is remission of sin (through Mikveh), there is no more offering for sin. 19
Having therefore, brothers, (being Mikveh’d clean we
have) boldness to enter into the holy place (and
offer your life as a living sacrifice on the Altar of Yahuah) by the
blood (Living Sacrifice) of Yahusha, 20 by the
way (example) which he dedicated for us (to follow), a new and living (sacrificial) way (a living sacrifice),
through the veil, that is to say, (the veil was torn
in two by the offering of) his flesh (providing
us bold access to the mercy seat of Yahuah); 21 and having a great (High) priest (Yahusha)
over the house of Yahuah; 22 let us draw near (to
the mercy seat of Yahuah to offer our lives as living sacrifices)
with a true (circumcised) heart in
fullness of faith (that we have been granted access
to the Altar of Yahuah through Yahusha’s sacrifice which tore the veil to the
Holy of Holies), having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience
(sanctified), and having our body washed
with pure water (Spiritual Cleansing through Mikveh),
23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope (that
Yahuah will accept our living sacrifice). For He Who promised is
faithful.
Our sin is forgiven in covenant with Yahusha the same way it
has always been forgiven, through the ritual cleansing of Living Water or
Mikveh. We look forward to the fulfillment of Mikveh when Yahusha returns and
fulfills the pictograph of Aquarius the Water Bearer in The Heavenly Scroll,
more on that later in this book.
Zechariah 14:4
On that day his (Yahusha the Messiah’s) feet shall stand on the
Mount of Olives
Zechariah 14: 8
On that day Living Waters shall flow out
from Jerusalem (to Mikveh the land),
half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall
continue in summer as in winter.
Zechariah 13:1
“In that day there shall be a fountain (of Living Water) opened to the house of David and
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem (to Mikveh)
for sin and for uncleanness.”
So, Each Passover we are all to follow Yahusha’s example:
1.
Present ourselves to our King properly through Mikveh
2.
Demonstrate a circumcised heart for His Law
3.
Present our own bodies as living sacrificial lambs on the Altar of
Yahuah (our hearts).
This is the “Narrow Gate” that leads us out of our life of
sin (broken body/leavened bread) and into a new and living way (our new
bodies with sin forgiven represented by unleavened bread). So once we have
walked through the Passover Gate, we then inter into The Kingdom of Yahuah,
which is a High Holy Sabbath that begins with The Feast of Unleavened Bread.
I want to provide a quick easy to understand overview of the
Passover (the Chagigah, preparation day, and meal) before we get into the Feast
of Unleavened Bread.
This is a remembrance meal (“do this in remembrance of
me”) also known as the Last Supper. We eat leavened bread symbolizing each
of us offering our own sinful bodies as living sacrifices. We discuss the
meaning of the Spring Feasts and how they are training aids. We discuss our
role as the Bride in the engagement celebration that is the Spring Feasts.
We prepare our bodies through Mikveh and our minds by
inwardly inspecting our lives for spot or blemish. We reverently submit to the
Will of our Father demonstrating a circumcised heart.
We eat the Passover Lamb to symbolize the death of our
sinful flesh and unleavened bread to symbolize our risen bodies during the
Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Was there an Eclipse on the
day Yahusha was executed?
Let me clear up this "tall tale"
told by ancient witnesses. They did not say the moon turned to blood and
the sun was blotted out or anything like that. They simply said darkness
covered "the Earth" or rather as far as they could see. The smoke was
from roasting all the Passover Lambs brought for each household...
From:
https://www.ravshaul.com/The%20Narrow%20Gate/Chapter%207.htm
Traditionally, the preparation
of the Passover Meal begins after dawn during the fourteenth day of the
first month (Abib 14th). Josephus records that during the first century,
the Passover Lambs were slaughtered "from the ninth hour (since Dawn)
till the eleventh" (Book 6, chapter 9, section 3), which corresponds
closely to our 3:00-5:00 pm, which still allowed time for roasting over
fire at the TEMPLE in Jerusalem (See Luke 23:44 below).
-----𝙀𝙭𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙨
12:5-6 as it originally commanded-----
5 Yᴏᴜʀ
ʟᴀᴍʙ sʜᴀʟʟ
ʙᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜᴏᴜᴛ
ʙʟᴇᴍɪsʜ, ᴀ
ᴍᴀʟᴇ ᴀ
ʏᴇᴀʀ ᴏʟᴅ.
Yᴏᴜ sʜᴀʟʟ ᴛᴀᴋᴇ
ɪᴛ ꜰʀᴏᴍ
(ᴀᴍᴏɴɢ) ᴛʜᴇ sʜᴇᴇᴘ ᴏʀ
ꜰʀᴏᴍ ᴛʜᴇ
ɢᴏᴀᴛs: 6 ᴀɴᴅ
ʏᴏᴜ sʜᴀʟʟ
ᴋᴇᴇᴘ ɪᴛ
ᴜᴘ ᴜɴᴛɪʟ
ᴛʜᴇ
ꜰᴏᴜʀᴛᴇᴇɴᴛʜ ᴅᴀʏ
ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ sᴀᴍᴇ
ᴍᴏɴᴛʜ; ᴀɴᴅ
ᴛʜᴇ ᴡʜᴏʟᴇ
ᴀssᴇᴍʙʟʏ ᴏꜰ
ᴛʜᴇ
ᴄᴏɴɢʀᴇɢᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ Isʀᴀᴇʟ sʜᴀʟʟ
ᴋɪʟʟ ɪᴛ
ᴅᴜʀɪɴɢ (𝑛𝑜𝑡
𝑎𝑡,
𝑏𝑢𝑡
𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔) ᴛʜᴇ
ᴇᴠᴇɴɪɴɢ
ᴛɪᴅᴇ (𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔'𝑠
𝐻6153 -
𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑏,
𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑
𝑒ℎ'-𝑟𝑒𝑏,
𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ
𝑖𝑠
𝑎
𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑑
𝑜𝑓
𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒
𝑓𝑜𝑟
𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑘,
𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔,
𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛
𝑡𝑖𝑑𝑒,
𝑎𝑛𝑑
𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡).
-----𝙇𝙪𝙠𝙚
23:44-45 Darkness o the Preparation Day-----
44 Aɴᴅ
ɪᴛ ᴡᴀs
ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ sɪxᴛʜ
ʜᴏᴜʀ (3
ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠
𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒
𝑡ℎ𝑒
𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑟
𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑), ᴀɴᴅ
ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ᴡᴀs ᴀ
ᴅᴀʀᴋɴᴇss ᴏᴠᴇʀ
ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ
Eᴀʀᴛʜ (𝐽𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑚
𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎) ᴜɴᴛɪʟ
ᴛʜᴇ ɴɪɴᴛʜ
ʜᴏᴜʀ. 45 Aɴᴅ
ᴛʜᴇ sᴜɴ ᴡᴀs
ᴅᴀʀᴋᴇɴᴇᴅ (ʙʏ ᴛʜᴇ sᴍᴏᴋᴇ
ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ
sᴀᴄʀɪꜰɪᴄɪᴀʟ ᴏꜰꜰᴇʀɪɴɢs), ᴀɴᴅ
ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴇɪʟ
ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ
ᴛᴇᴍᴘʟᴇ ᴡᴀs
ʀᴇɴᴛ (ʀɪᴘᴘᴇᴅ) ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ
ᴍɪᴅsᴛ (ɪɴ
ᴛᴡᴏ).
-----2
𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙨 35-----
7 Jᴏsɪᴀʜ
ᴘʀᴏᴠɪᴅᴇᴅ
ꜰᴏʀ
ᴀʟʟ
ᴛʜᴇ
ʟᴀʏ
ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ
ᴡʜᴏ
ᴡᴇʀᴇ
ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ
𝗮
𝘁𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹
𝗼𝗳
𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘆
𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱
𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗯𝘀
𝗮𝗻𝗱
𝗴𝗼𝗮𝘁𝘀
𝗳𝗼𝗿
𝘁𝗵𝗲
𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿
𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀,
𝗮𝗻𝗱
𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼
𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲
𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱
𝗰𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲—ᴀʟʟ
ꜰʀᴏᴍ
ᴛʜᴇ
ᴋɪɴɢ’s
ᴏᴡɴ
ᴘᴏssᴇssɪᴏɴs.
Just try and imagine the smoke
from the hot coals then the roasting of tens of thousands of lambs
and thousands of bulls. One might just say darkness over the land as
the smoke billowed up and obscured the light of the Sun.
This is how a total eclipse
of the Sun is described in Scripture.
-----𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙨
2:20-----
Tʜᴇ sᴜɴ ᴡɪʟʟ ʙᴇ ᴛᴜʀɴᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴀʀᴋɴᴇss ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴏɴ ᴛᴏ
ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ʙᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏᴍɪɴɢ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ɢʀᴇᴀᴛ ᴀɴᴅ ɢʟᴏʀɪᴏᴜs ᴅᴀʏ ᴏꜰ Yᴀʜᴜᴀʜ.
From Earth, a solar
eclipse can only occur when the New Moon passes between the Sun and
the Earth, and the New Moon fully or partially covers the Sun. This
could never naturally occur during a "Full Moon" Feast Day.
Therefore, this is not a "Solar Eclipse".
Probably heavy cloud cover and
or even heavy smoke from a multitude (thousands) of roasting fires
that were just being kindled to ultimately provide hot coals for
roasting. Messiah was nailed on the torture stake, during "The
Preparation Day"; literally "In Like Manner" as the "Sacrificial
Lambs" were, also, being "Prepared"; as a perfect "Physical to
Spiritual Parallel" for Sacrifice.
Yahuah commanded that each man
bring his own Passover Lamb without spot or blemish. That individual
lamb was to be sacrifice in the Temple on the 14th in preparation
for the upcoming High Sabbath of The Feast of Unleavened Bread. Each
household was to take the lamb they offered (on the Altar in the
Temple, then cooked on an open fire) home to eat it to celebrate the
beginning of The Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Exodus 12 - the
Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread
12 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, having taken into account the number of
people there are. 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. 7
The word translated "Earth"
does not really mean the Earth it means "land" or "region".
So the true meaning and intent and translation is how almost
every other translation team handled it and they used "the land"
instead of "the Earth":
Matthew 27:45
ESV
Now from the
sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth
hour.
NIV
From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came
over all the land.
NASB
Now from the sixth hour darkness fell
upon all the land until the ninth hour.
CSB
From noon until
three in the afternoon, darkness came over the whole land.
NLT
At noon, darkness fell across the whole land until three o’clock.
KJV
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land
unto the ninth hour.
