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Keeping The Sabbaths Holy
Part Three
How to keep Passover and Unleavened Bread
by D. J. Love, Minister, TSN, SBC
Refined 4-7-2004
Refined 4-7-2007
Directly below are the proof verses, at the
end of the Proof Verses is the summation, and I think you will be surprised at the
conclusion. Additionally, a graphic "Timeline" is available
for viewing on the "Sacred
Calendar" page.
Please make yourself aware, if you are not already aware,
that all of The Eternal's "Annual Sabbaths" are designed
by Him to teach those of us with "Ears to Hear" and "Eyes
to See" about the True "Plan of Salvation." All
Annual Sabbaths are physical examples of Spiritual Truths and are not to
be followed as legalistic rules and regulations, but are to be used
as a tool to teach Spiritual Truths.
Unleavened Bread and Passover
Using The Physical to Spiritual Parallel Principle
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The
Physical or Tangible Example |
The
Spiritual or Intangible Lesson |
Four Days prior to the first Passover event.
Note: Exodus teaches
us how the First Passover as an event originally occurred, but
it does not necessarily teach us how to observe Passover, as
it has been instituted, as a "Remembrance;" Leviticus teaches
us how to remember Passover according to Torah (Law).
Exodus 12:2-3 (as
it originally occurred)
2 "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall
be the first month of the year to you.
3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth
day of this month, they shall take to them
every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a
household;
Deuteronomy 16:6
But at the place which the Eternal Elohiym (YHWH) shall
choose to place his name in(Spiritually
speaking this is His Children, but physically speaking it was the Temple
in Jerusalem), there thou shalt sacrifice
the passover at even (evening),
at the going down of the sun (prior
to SUNSET), at the season that thou
camest forth out of Egypt.
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During the Four Day period prior to the instituted Passover.
Luke 22:1-2
Now the feast of unleavened bread drew near, which is
called the Passover.
2 The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him (Messiah
Yahshua, The Human Passover Lamb) to death,
...
Matthew 26:2,5
2 "You know that after two days the Passover is
coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."
5 But they said, "Not
during the Feast, lest
a riot occur among the people."
Note: The
Instituted "Passover" is not a scriptural part of
The (seven day) Feast
of Unleavened Bread, but it does occur during the preceeding minutes
just prior to sunset and may even continue into the night hours of
The First Day of Unleavened Bread, but must be completed prior to dawn.
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Exodus 12:5-6 (as
it originally occurred)
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old.
You shall take it from 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 in the evening(Strong's H6153
- tereb, pronounced eh'-reb, which is dusk, evening, even
tide, night. Taken from H6150 tarab,
aw-rab', the idea of covering or growing dusky near sundown; toward
evening).
Note: Traditionally,
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).
Note: The
lamb (or goat) was
sacrificed near the end of the 14th day, prior to sunset. However, the
first actual day of "Unleavened
Bread" (as
Instituted) does not occur
until after twilight is over and darkness is upon the land at the beginning
of the 15th day of Abib. At
the beginning of this period of time, "The Chosen" must remove
all leavening agents from their property.
Exodus 12:15
15 Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the
first day you shall put away yeast
out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened
bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be
cut off from Israel.
Exodus 29:2
2 unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened
wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine wheat flour.
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Luke 22:7 (the
Preparation Day for The Passover Meal came)
The days (Strong's
#G2250,
hemera or The Season) of Unleavened Bread (as
instituted) came, during
which the Passover (Lamb) must
be sacrificed.
Note: Since
Messiah was
to be sacrificed on the Instituted "Preparation Day," (Prior to
the Feast of UB; See Mark 14:2; Lest there be an uproar) he
was forced to have a "Remembrance" meal
with his disciples near the end of the day on the 13th of Abib (Nisan);
This seasonal meal is known as a "Chagigah" and
it was strictly a peace- offering, that might be twofold.
This first Chagigah was traditionally offered on the 14th of
Nisan (at the end of the day
near a Nisan 13th sunset),
the day of the Passover sacrifice (Nisan
14th), and afterwards became
part of the Passover Meal. The Mishnah rule is that it was only to
be offered if the Passover day fell on a week-day, not on a Shabat,
and if the Passover lamb alone would not have been sufficient to give
a satisfying supper to the company which gathered around it (Pes. vi.
4).
The second Chagigah was offered on the 15th of Nisan (after
sunset on Nisan 14th) or
the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. It is
this second Chagigah which the Jews were afraid they might be unable
to eat, if they contracted defilement in the judgment-hall of Pilate (John
18:28).
As in the case of all other peace-offerings, part
of this Chagigah might be kept,
though not for longer than one night and two days from its sacrifice. Being
a voluntary offering (A voluntary SELF-Sacrifice
in Messiah's case), it was
lawful to bring it from sacred things (such
as tithes of the flock).
But the Chagigah for the 15th of Nisan was obligatory.
Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of YHWH, that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto YHWH,
which is your reasonable service.
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Leviticus 23:5-6 (as
a "Remembrance")
5 In the first month, on the
fourteenth day of the month at even (twilight),
is Yahweh's Passover.
6 On the fifteenth day
of the same month (less
than an hour later) is the "Feast
of Unleavened Bread" to Yahweh: seven
days you shall eat unleavened (wheat) bread.
Note: The
Passover Meal (as a Remembrance) occurs
or begins on the fourteenth day during twilight, just
before the 14th day ends and the 15th day begins. However, the
fourteenth day during the daylight hours is, also, the "Preparation
Day," when
the Passover meal is prepared.
Leviticus 2:4-7, 11, 13 (the
standard method of "Preparation" of Unleavened Bread)
4 When you offer an offering of a meal-offering
baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened
cakes of fine (wheat) flour
mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
5 If your offering is a meal-offering of the baking-pan,
it shall be of unleavened fine (wheat) flour,
mingled with oil.
6 You shall cut it in pieces (will
be broken prior to eating), and
pour oil on it. It is a meal-offering.
7 If your offering be a meal-offering of the frying-pan,
it shall be made of fine (wheat) flour
with oil.
11 No meal-offering, which
you shall offer to Yahweh, shall
be made with yeast; for
you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as
an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
13 Every offering of
your meal-offering shall you season with salt; neither
shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your Yahweh to be lacking
from your meal-offering: with all your offerings
you shall offer salt (not
lacking, but abundant).
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Luke 22:11-16 (the
day before the Preparation Day on Abib 13th.)
11 Tell the master of the house, 'The
Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest
room, where I MAY(
or MAY not ) eat the Passover (Chagigah) with
my disciples?"
12 He will show you a large, furnished
upper room. Make
preparations(for a PASSOVER Chagigah PEACE
OFFERING Meal) there."
13 They went (while
daylight on Nisan 13th), found
things as he had told them, and they prepared (for) the Passover (Chagigah PEACE
OFFERING Meal).
14 When the hour (dusk) had
come, he sat down with the twelve apostles ("The
Instituted Passover" meal was still a day away).
15 "And he said to them (while
observing The Chagigah Meal): 'I have longingly
desired to eat this (COMING) Passover with
you before My suffering;
16 however, I tell you that I shall not eat of
it, until it can be administered (made
replete) in the Coming Kingdom of Yahweh'" (on
Earth).
Note: Therefore,
he did not eat the "Passover Meal", and will not eat
of it until it can be administered in the Kingdom
of Yahweh (on Earth).
Note: The
word "Replete" stresses "Abundance" and not completeness, unless abundance is the
fullness of it! Even
so, completeness would merely indicate the end of the FILLING or GROWTH of
it, and not the end of its observance. In other words, the "Culmination
of the Perfection of Passover" in
Yahweh's Kingdom on Earth! The True Passover appears to incorporate The
Shema into it.
John 19:31-33
31 Therefore the Jews, because it was the (Instituted) Preparation (Day), so
that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for
that Sabbath was a special (HIGH) one), asked
of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken
away.
32 Therefore the soldiers came, and
broke the legs of the first, and
of the other who was crucified with him;
33 but when they came to Yahshua, and
saw that he was already dead (or
they thought he
was dead; either way), they
didn't break his legs.
Note: Couldn't
Messiah have shed blood, and still not died? Was physical death
a requirement of Messiah's sacrifice OR was it death unto SELF that
was the requirement?
Did Jonah die in the belly of the "Great Fish" or was he
merely incapacitated for 3 nights and three daylight period of time.
SEE: The
Sacrifice of Messiah
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Numbers 9:10-13 (If
unable to keep the Passover at its appointed time due to "Uncleanness,
sickness, travel.")
10 Speak to the children of Israel, saying,
If any man of you or of your generations shall
be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be
on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the Passover to Yahweh.
11 In the second month on
the fourteenth day at even (twilight) they
shall keep it; they
shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs:
12 they shall leave none of it to the morning, nor
break a bone of it: according
to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.
13 But the
man who is clean, and
is not on a journey, and
forbears to keep the Passover, that
soul shall be cut off from his people; because
he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that
man shall bear his sin.
Note: An
Appointed Season is a Moed (H4150). This
will be explained in more detail a following message.
Note: The "Blood
of Yahshua" (symbolic
of personal sacrifice) makes "True
Believers", whose lives have become
a "Living Sacrifice," after the example of Messiah, "Clean" in
Yahweh's eyes for the purpose of observing Yahweh's Holy Days.
See "Sacrifice
of Messiah."
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Luke 22:17-21 (Nisan
14 begins in darkness or dusk)
17 He (Messiah) received
a cup, and when
he had given thanks, he
said, "Take
this, and share
it among yourselves,
18 for I tell you, I
will not drink at all again from the fruit
of the vine, until the kingdom of Yahweh (on
Earth) comes." (A Nazarite
Vow?)
19 He took bread (G740,
Artos, raised bread or leavened bread), and
when he had given thanks, he
broke it, and
gave to them, saying, "This
is my body which is given for you. Do
this in memory (Remembrance) of
me."
Note: The
Greek word "Artos" used for bread here indicates
that the bread of the Chagigah or "Last Supper" was leavened,
thereby indicating that The
Feast of UB had not
yet begun. It, also, indicates that Messiah
was neither perfect nor could he be GOD.
20 He took the cup in like manner after supper, saying, "This
cup is the new covenant (New
Marriage, but Original Vows) in my blood, that
which is (to be) poured
out for you.
21 But behold, the
hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table.
(See also, Matthew 26:19-23).
Note: It
is not The Covenant (Marriage
Vow) that is new, it is The People, with
whom Yahweh has made His covenant "In Blood" (Living
Sacrifice of "Self"), that are
new. Both Covenants require us to Love and Obey Torah (The
Covenant).
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Physical Purification for
the Ancient Israelite was a "Copy" or "Physical Parallel" to
a "Spiritual Truth."
This "Purification" was
absolutely required prior to
the "Observance of Passover."
John 11:55-57
55 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many
went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover,
to purify themselves (to
become "Clean").
56 Then they sought for Yahshua (Messiah) and
spoke one with another, as
they stood in the temple, "What do you think? Isn't
he coming to the feast?"
57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had
commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he
should report it, that
they might seize him.
2 Chronicles 30:15-20
15 Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth
day of the second month: and the
priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified
themselves, and
brought burnt offerings into the house of Yahweh.
16 They stood in their place after their order, according
to the law of Moses the man of Yahweh: the priests
sprinkled the blood which
they received of the hand of the Levites.
17 For there
were many in the assembly who
had not sanctified themselves: therefore
the Levites had the charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who
was not clean,
to sanctify them to Yahweh.
18 For a multitude of
the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh,
Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet
did they eat the Passover otherwise than it
is written. For Hezekiah (The
High Priest & Foreshadow of Yahshua) had
prayed for them, saying, The good Yahweh pardon everyone
19 who
sets his heart (through Love) to
seek Yahweh, Yahweh, the Yahweh of his fathers, though
not cleansed according to
the purification of the sanctuary.
20 Yahweh listened to
Hezekiah (Messiah
Yahshúa), and healed the people.
See also Ezra 6:20, Nehemiah
12:30 .
Daniel 12:9-10
9 He said, Go
your way, Daniel; for the
words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
10 Many
shall purify themselves (In Yahshua Messiah),
and make themselves white, and be refined; but
the wicked shall do wickedly; and none
of the wicked shall understand; but those
who are wise shall understand.
Note: The Fullness
of Passover will not be truly appreciated
until the beginning of the Sabbath Millennium, when our High Priest (Yahshua) shall
make "Atonement" for the sins of those who "Love Yahweh" and "Follow
in Yahshua Footsteps" by living as best that they are able a life
of Obedience through Love to Yahweh and His Commandments and Statutes.
The following verses should be
in the right column, but were inserted here to save space.
Hebrews 10:16-29
16 "This is the covenant (marriage) that
I will make with them: 'After those days,' says the Lord, 'I
will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;'" then,
17 "I will remember their sins and their
iniquities no more."
18 Now where remission of these is, there is
no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter
into the holy place by the blood (Living
Sacrifice) of Yahshua,
20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new
and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 and having a great (High) priest (Yahshúa) over
the house of Yahweh;
22 let us draw near with a true
heart in fullness of faith (replete), having
our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed
with pure water (Spiritual
Cleansing),
23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope
unyieldingly. For he who promised is faithful.
24 Let us consider how to provoke
one another to love and good
works,
25 not forsaking our own assembling together,
as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the
more, as you see the Day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after we have received
the knowledge of the truth,
there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment,
and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
28 A man who has set at nothing Moses' law dies
without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will
he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of Yahweh,
and has counted the blood
of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has
insulted the Spirit of grace?
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John 13:2-20
Note:The
Washing of one anothers Feet is not only the Symbolic Purification
of those who Follow in the Footsteps of Yahshua, and
a tool to teach a message of humility; but
also, teaches
us in a subtile way that we are our Brother's Keeper through the tedious process of
purification (1 John 5:16).
2 After supper, the
devil (human nature) having
already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray
him (Messiah),
3 Messiah Yahshua, knowing
that the Father had given all things into his hands (authority), and
that he came forth from (was
Spiritually appointed by) Yahweh, and
was (Spiritually) going
to Yahweh,
4 arose from supper, and
laid aside his outer garments. He
took a towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist.
5 Then he (Messiah) poured
water into the basin, and
began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel
that was wrapped around him.
6 Then he came to Simon Peter. He
said to him, "Lord (Messiah), do
you wash my feet?"
7 Messiah Yahshúa answered him, "You
don't know what I am doing now, but you will understand later."
8 Peter said to him, "You
will never wash my feet!" Yahshúa
answered him, "If
I don't wash you, you have no part with me."
9 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not
my feet only, but
also my hands and my head!"
10 Messiah Yahshúa said to him, "Someone
who has bathed (a
True Believer) only
needs to have their feet washed, but is completely
clean. You (Peter)
are clean, but not all
of you (referring to Judas)."
11 For he knew him who would betray him, therefore
he said, "You
are not all clean."
12 So when he had washed their feet, put his
outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, "Do
you know what I have done to you?
13 You call me, 'Teacher'
and 'Lord (Master).'
You say so correctly, for
so I am.
14 If I then, the
Lord and the Teacher, have
washed your feet, you also ought to wash one
another's feet.
15 For I have given
you an example, that you
also should do as I have done to you.
16 Most assuredly I tell you,
a servant is not greater than his lord, neither
is one who is sent (Messiah
Yahshúa) greater than He (Yahweh) who
sent him.
17 If you know these things, blessed are you
if you do them.
18 I speak not of
you all (not Judas). I
know whom I have chosen. But
that the scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with me has
lifted up his heel against me.'
19 From now on, I
tell you before it
happens, that when
it happens, you may believe that I
AM ("As One" with
Yahweh or I will become the "Image of Yahweh.")
20 Most assuredly I tell you, he
who receives whoever I send (my
servants), receives
me; and he who receives
me (Messiah Yahshúa), receives
Him (Yahweh) who
sent me (In other words, distinctly
separate persons, but united "As One" in the "Image
of Yahweh"). See Holy
Spirit.
John 15:1-3
"I am the true vine, and
my Father is the farmer.
2 Every branch in me that doesn't
bear fruit, He takes away. Every
branch that bears fruit, He
prunes, that it
may bear more fruit.
3 You are already pruned clean because
of the word which I have spoken to you.
Note: See
Acts 10:14-20 And
understand that it is not food that has been cleansed, but those "True
Believers" who have been cleansed by
their Love and Spiritual Understanding imparted by the Holy Spirit, which
in this case are the Gentiles.
Acts 18:4-6 (Paul
is clean and
decides to be the Apostle to the Gentiles)
Hebrew 9:10-23
18 Therefore even the first covenant (marriage) has not
been dedicated without blood (Note: The
sheading of blood does
not automatically require death, only blood).
19 For when every commandment had been spoken
by Moses to all the people according to the law, he
took the blood of
the calves and the goats, with
water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled
both the book itself and all the people,
20 saying, "This
is the blood of
the covenant which Yahweh commanded toward you."
21 Moreover he sprinkled the tent and all the
vessels of the ministry in like manner with the blood.
22 According to the
law (Torah),
nearly everything is cleansed with blood,
and apart from shedding of blood there
is no remission.
23 It was necessary therefore that the
copies (tangible
physical parallels) of the
things in the heavens (intangible
Spiritual Truths) should
be cleansed with these; but
the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices (Living
Sacrifices) than these.
Note: In
other words, Messiah's sacrifice of blood and water satisfied
the physical requirement of Torah for "Purification", while
his Spiritual Sacrifice through Love cleanses the "True
Believer." Therefore, Being "Washed
in the Blood" does not mean
we are no longer sinners, but
that we are merely purified or
made clean for the
purpose of observing the Holy Days in
a worthy manner. Again,
I reiterate, death is not an automatic requirement for
losing blood.
Atonement for Sin will not occur
until Messiah Yahshua returns in the clouds of the sky and the True
Believers meet with him there after the Resurrection. This
event is symbolized by the Day of Atonement, and
is a future event.
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Leviticus 23:6-8 (NOT
a part of the "Remembrance")
6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the
feast of unleavened (wheat) bread
to Yahweh: seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
7 In the first day you
shall have a holy convocation: you
shall do no servile work.
8 But you shall offer
an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days: in
the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work.
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1 Corinthians 11:23-27 (as
a "Remembrance")
23 For I received from the Lord that which also
I delivered to you, that the master Messiah Yahshúa on the night
in which he was betrayed took ("Artos," raised
or leavened barley) bread.
24 When he had given thanks, he broke it, and
said, "Take, eat. This (leavened
barley bread) is my body, which is broken
for you. Do this in memory of me" (a "Remembrance").
25 In the same way he also took the cup, after
supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant (marriage) in
my blood. Do
this, as often as you drink, in
memory of me" (a "Remembrance").
26 For as often as you eat this (leavened
barley) bread, and
drink this cup, you
proclaim the Master's death (at
some future date) until he comes.
27 Therefore whoever eats this (leavened
barley) bread or drinks the Master's cup
in an unworthy manner, will
be guilty of the body and the blood of the Master.
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Fact One: Yahshua knowingly spoke in parables and
anthropomorphisms so that only The Eternal's
Chosen Few would understand. For example, "Destroy This
Temple and I will raise it up in three days. In this example
he refers to H_I_M_S_E_L_F
; So that in hearing they would not hear, and in seeing
they would not see. Thus some of the confusion was from
a lack of Spiritual Discernment and too much legality (this
we can blame on Satan).
Fact Two: Yahshua IS our PASSOVER LAMB (Spiritually
Speaking).
So here is what I Spiritually propose to you: Yahshua was Spiritually
referring to H_I_M_S_E_L_F
when he told his disciples that they should go into the upper chamber
to prepare THE PASSOVER Chagigah meal (I
believe the disciples knew and understood this); And this
is also why Paul said(1Corinthians
11) that whosoever eats THIS PASSOVER (koinonia
or communion) unworthily will be GUILTY
of eating and drinking JUDGEMENT unto himself not discerningTHE
MASTERS BODY !!!! (KUDOS
to PAUL)
Conclusion: Messiah was not referring to The Traditional
Passover meal, but HIMSELF (at
The Chagigah - Peace Offering) !!!!
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"The Remembrance"
and
"The Holy Convocations"
"In Summation" Keep
all "Annual Holy Days", but without an
additional Sacrifice, because Messiah Yahshua is our Passover; and
Messiah gave himself on the Instituted Passover as per
Leviticus chapter 23. Yahshua was not sacrificed
on the 13th of Abib, but was crucified approximately 12
noon, and was close to death by approximately 3PM near the end
of the 14th of Nisan (Abib); which is the Preparation
Day on or about the traditional ninth "work" hour.
Celebrate this joyous occasion with other True Believers,
not as a Holy Convocation, but as a gathering
of close friends and/or Family. Remember . . .
Matthew 18:20
20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there I am in the midst of them."
As for those that cannot observe "The Remembrance" (Chagigah "Peace
Offering") at
the appointed time, due to travel or sickness; it
is important for "True Believers" to remember
that they are not "unclean" for observance purposes, but
if you are legitimately prevented from the First Observance, then
you must attempt your observance one Sacred Calendar month later
on the same numbered days, in the exact same manner, even
if you are alone. Yahweh and Yahshua honor the "Intents
of the Heart."
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13th Day of Abib of the Sacred
New Year:
(One Day Prior to The Instituted
Preparation Day and Prior to
Twilight)
- Prepare the Special "Koinonia" Remembrance Meal (Chagigah),
as per Leviticus 2:4-7, 11, 13. Do not use
honey, do not prepare or eat food made with grain
other than fine Barley flour, but be sure to
use kosher salt.
Note: If
this day falls on a weekly Sabbath, then prepare this meal
and the weekly Sabbath meals on the 12th Day of Abib.
Note: Just
as barley is the first to produce fruit (before
wheat) Barley symbolizes Messiah (The
First of The First Fruits), but Wheat has
always symbolized the rest of "The First Fruits" of
The Spring harvest. See the Parable of the Tares or Darnel
in Matthew 13:24-30.
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14th Day of Abib of the Sacred
New Year:
(After
Dusk at the end of the 13th of Nisan (Abib),
which will be the nighttime beginning of Nisan 14th)
- Eat the Chagigah Passover "Remembrance" Meal (with
Raised Barley Bread) with your
family and/or with other True Believers (in
either your home or theirs) in Remembrance of
Messiah. This
is not to
be a Holy Convocation!
- Drink a "cup" of
wine (Red
Wine to symbolize Yahshua's blood).
- Immediately after the Chagigah Passover "Remembrance" meal (even
if darkness has come), wash
one anothers feet. This
is symbolic of the purification of True Believers, as
being "Clean" in
Yahweh's eyes. It
is, also, a
statement of being humble, and brotherly love.
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14th Day of Abib of the Sacred
New Year:
The Preparation Day (between
12 Noon and 3PM),
when Messiah Yahshua was Crucified.
This cannot be performed
on a weekly Sabbath.
- Prepare the Passover Meal, as
per Leviticus 2:4-7, 11, 13 and Exodus 12:8-9
Do not use honey, do not prepare or eat
food made with grain other than fine Barley flour, but
be sure to use kosher salt. You need not have lamb, but
if you do it should be roasted.
- Be sure to prepare twice as much if the
15th falls on a weekly Sabbath.
Deuteronomy 16:6
But at the place which the Eternal Elohiym (YHWH) shall
choose to place his name in(Spiritually
speaking, that is His Children),
there thou shalt sacrifice
the Passover at even (evening),
at the going down of the sun (prior
to SUNSET), at the season
that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
Note: Sunset
occurs prior to Twilight; and I am sure this varies with
the latitude of the Earth. Just remember that the word "Even" (evening) refers
to the period of time where light and dark are in a near
state of balance. The actual order is "Sunset" followed
by "Evening" followed by "Twilight" or "Dusk" followed
by "Night."
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14th Day of Abib of the Sacred New
Year:
(During Twilight - when
the Rooster Crows at the END of this day)
- Begin the "Passover Meal" with
your family or other True Believers (in
either your home or theirs) in Remembrance of
the Exodus from Egypt (Sin). This
is not to be a Holy Convocation!
- Eat Leavened Barley Bread with a
regular "Passover Meal," but immediately following The
Passover Meal all leavening in the home must be sought
out and burned (destroyed).
Do not begin eating "Unleavened Bread" prior
to the eating of "The Passover" (sacrifice
for sin).
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15th Day of Abib of the
Sacred New Year:
The First Day of Unleavened Bread
(Begins after Twilight
of the 14th. day, when Darkness has begun)
- Immediately after "The Passover meal" remove
ALL Leavening Agents from Home (Living
Quarters - Property). Such as, yeast,
and baking soda. Do not give this to someone
else to keep for you! The implications of such is
that you put your sins on another to keep for you. This
would not show True Faith and Understanding. Additionally, removing
leavening agents prior to Yahshua's sacrifice would symbolize
that we were already sinless and did not need a sacrifice
for sin. Therefore do not remove ALL leavening
agents from your house prior to the beginning of The First
Day of Unleavened Bread. However, it would be
wise to not purchase leavened food or leavening
agents for a couple of months prior to Passover so
that there would be time to consume what already exists.
Exodus 12:15
15 Seven days shall you eat unleavened (wheat) bread; even the
first day you shall put
away leaven out of your houses.
- Keep all leavening agents from the inside
of your home until after the Last Day of Unleavened Bread. If
you discover any after the First Day, discard it
immediately; this is symbolic of discarding hidden sins
in our lives.
- This Day is a Holy Convocation; where
two or three (or
more) are gathered.
If this day is, also, a weekly Sabbath, you
may not prepare food this day. Food must be
prepared in advance if this day is a weekly Sabbath. Remember: You
are forbidden to kindle a fire on a weekly Sabbath, but you
may keep one going if kindled prior to The Sabbath.
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21st Day of Abib of the
Sacred New Year:
The Last Day of Unleavened Bread
(Begins after Twilight
of the 20th. day, when Darkness has begun)
- This Day is a Holy Convocation; where
two or three (or
more) are gathered.
If this day is, also, a weekly Sabbath, you
may not prepare food this day. Food must be
prepared in advance if this day is a weekly Sabbath.
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Who are the "First
Fruits," and how are they symbolized
in Yahweh's Holy Scripture?
Leviticus 23:10-17 (Spiritual
Parallels are in parenthesis)
10 Speak to the children of Israel (The
True Seed of Abraham or the "Inward Jew"),
and tell them, When you are come into the land which I give to
you (The Coming Kingdom
on Earth), and shall reap the (human) harvest of
it, then you shall bring the sheaf of the First-Fruits (The
Chosen Few - of mankind) of your (human) harvest (of
True Worshippers) to the priest (Yahshua,
our High Priest):
11 and he shall wave the sheaf of wheat (present
them as if pure wheat) before Yahweh,
to be accepted for you: on the next day after the (annual) Sabbath the
priest shall wave it (this
occurs on the morrow of The First Day of Unleavened Bread).
Note: The
Symbolism of the First-Fruits only
begins here; the complete symbolism continues through Pentecost, which
culminates with the First-Fruits having
received the 'Full Measure' of Yahweh's Holy Spirit. This
is the Full Measure of Yahweh's Holy Character, Mind, Power
that is imparted after the First Resurrection. The First-Fruits (other
than Messiah) are not only symbolized
by wheat, but by all the First-Fruits of
all the various harvests that occur during the Seven Weeks
that lead up to and culminate with Pentecost. These
various varieties of First-Fruits, also, symbolize
the various Gentile peoples who have become "Inward
Jews" (Spiritual
Jews or 'Wheat').
12 In the day when you wave the sheaf (of
wheat), you shall offer a he-lamb without
blemish (This is symbolic
of a living "SELF-sacrifice") a
year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
Note: It
should be noted that this burnt offering is a personal sacrifice
that symbolizes death to SELF. However, it is a "Living
Sacrifice" in as much as it is a personal sacrifice by
the owner of the lamb; and even though the lamb dies, it is
still not the lambs sacrifice.
This sacrifice, also, symbolizes our willingness to follow
the example of Messiah.
13 The meal-offering of it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah
of fine (wheat) flour
mingled with oil, an offering made by fire (physically
baked or fried, and Spiritually refined by fire) to
Yahweh for a sweet savor; and the drink-offering of it shall
be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.
14 You shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor fresh
ears (barley corn),
until this same day, until you have brought the offering
of Yahweh: it
is a statute forever throughout your
generations in all your dwellings.
15 You shall count to you from the next
day after the (7th
day) Sabbath, from the day (following
The First Day of Unleavened Bread) that
you brought the sheaf of the wave-offering; seven (weekly)
Sabbaths shall there be complete (forty-nine
days):
16 even to the next day (forty-nine
days plus one is fifty days) after the
seventh (weekly) Sabbath shall you number fifty days; and
you shall offer a new meal-offering to Yahweh.
17 You shall bring out of your habitations two wave-loaves (no
longer sheaves, but fully prepared) of
two tenth parts of an ephah: they shall be of fine (Wheat) flour,
they shall be baked with yeast (symbolizing
those who have come out of sin and have found Favor or Grace in
Yahweh's eyes), for first-fruits (the
small harvest of the Chosen Few) to Yahweh.
Feast of Weeks, Shavuot, First Fruits
Part 4
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