PASSOVER OR LAST SUPPER?

Today I need to address the issue of the Passover Seder and of the Last Supper of Yehoshua two thousand years ago. But before I speak about this, I need to speak briefly about the Person of Yehoshua. 

Yehoshua, who is also called Yeshua, died around 33 AD. He was born of a virgin, (Luqas/Luke 1:26-38). While alive He preached the Kingdom of Elohim/God. He revealed the Father to His followers, and gathered 12 disciples who later He called APOSTLES.  After His baptism He was taken into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil for 40 days. Mattithyahu/Matthew 4:1-16) He basically fulfilled the Scriptures concerning him that we find written in the book called “’Bible.”

Mattithyahu/Matthew 4:17 “From that time Yeshua[i] began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

 He became well known for His preaching, His many miracles, and for healing on the Sabbath, (Matt. 12:9-14).  

 The Pharisees they did not appreciate Him because He rebuked them for keeping traditions of men, instead of the pure Torah given them from Yehovah, His Father, and our Creator: Yehovah. Eventually He was crucified. But this was not accidental. He was born for this purpose. He had to die, to pay the penalty for our sins, which is physical and spiritual death. Our sin had separated us from our Heavenly Father. We needed to be reconciled and saved through His life. 

Romiyim/Romans 5:10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to Elohim through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

 He accomplished this work for us, by taking our place on the cross. He is our Atonement and our Redeemer.  His blood had to be shed and applied to our lives to be accepted by the Father.  Through believing in Him, we become reunited with our Heavenly Father. Please read the following verses.  

Yechezqel/Ezekiel 18:4 “See, all beings are Mine, the being of the father as well as the being of the son is Mine. The being that is sinning shall die” (HS)

Yechezqel/Ezekiel 18:4 “Behold, all souls are Mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is Mine; the soul who sins shall die.”(NKJV)

Romiyim/Romans 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of Elohim. (NKJV)

Yeshayahu/Isaiah 59:1-2,3 “Behold, Yehovah’s[ii] Hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear, 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your Elohim[iii]; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perversity.

Yehoshua is our Redeemer.  

Romiyim/’Romans 3:24 Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Mashiach Yehoshua, 25 whom Elohim set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith , to demonstrate His righteousness.

Eph’siyim/Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence.

He was rejected by His own, but He became the only Savior.

 Ma’aseh/Acts 4:11-12 This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone. 12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

This was a brief introduction to our Savior Yehoshua HaMashiach.

Now I must add that He was the perfect sacrifice, for He did not sin. He kept the Torah or I Commandments perfectly all the time till His death on the cross.

Qorin’tiyim 2/2 Corinthians 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of Elohim in Him. (See also Yeshayahu/Isaiah 53)

Because He was born of Elohim, He did not inherit of the fallen Adam as we did. He only did what the Father said for Him to do. He was perfect in every way.

Yehovah blessed the Sabbath day after He created the universe I six days.

Bereshith/Genesis 2:1-3 Thus the Heaven and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day Elohim ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 then Elohim blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which Elohim had created and made.

Yehoshua kept the Sabbath, and because He only did what the Father was doing, He healed on the Sabbath, and because he is the master of the Sabbath (Matt.12:8).  But He never broke the Commandment to keep the Sabbath day Holy, (Shemoth 20:8-11). He kept all the Feasts, such as Pesach/Passover, Shavuot/Pentecost, Trumpets, or Day of Shouting, Yom ha’Kippurim/Day of Atonement, and Succoth, (Wayyiqra/Leviticus 23).

Then the day He knew was arrived to be given as our Atonement He told the apostles to prepare a dinner. Some bibles say Passover, however, it could not have been a Passover meal for He would be sacrificed the following day as our Lamb who takes away the sins of the world.

Yochanan/John 1:29 The next day Yochanan saw Yehoshua coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of Elohim who takes away the sin of the world!”

Yochanan was a type of Elijah that whose mission was to prepare the way of Yehoshua, our Mashiach. He said of himself, “I am ‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness; “Make straight the way of Yehovah.” (Yochanan I:23)

Shemoth/Exodus12:1-28 tells us the details of preparing the Pesach. We learned that it had to be in the first month. Yehovah declared the month they came out of Egypt to be the first month of the year. He then gave instruction to take the lamb on the tenth day of that month, and kill it on the fourteenth day of the same month. He gave instructions how to roast the lamb and it had to be a perfect animal. They had to consume it completely the same night. That night Yehovah sent the last plague, the death of the first born.

I say all this to clarify something very important.  All the feasts teach us about the life and death of Mashiach. Yehoshua had to fulfill completely and perfectly the feast that are also Historical and prophetic shadow pictures of our Mashiach. Yeshua died at the age of 33 years. He gave a temporary supper to the twelve apostles. At the dinner He broke the bread and told them to eat it because it was His body. He was still alive. But the bread had to be eaten from that day on, remembering Him. and His sacrifice that soon was to be offered to the Father on our behalf. He had to die not only for them, but for each one of us, in order for all of us to be reconciled to the Father.  He was about to become the lamb that takes away all the sin from the world. We do not think they understood yet the importance of eating that particular bread, and after the bread also drinking the wine, which represented His shed blood. However, later, after His resurrection they understood.

Some well intentioned brethren teach that He had a seder! However, the seder ceremony was invented in the year 1200 according to the scholars I heard teaching on this subject. The seder purpose was done to fill a spiritual need because on the Year 70 AD the Temple was destroyed and they could not longer use the Lamb on Pesach for there was no altar to pour the blood.

Besides this fact, Yehovah could not have had a Pesach/Passover dinner for that year He was to become the Pesach Lamb! He died the fourteenth day of  the first biblical month at the same time the Cohen ha’Gadol offered the yearly Sacrifice at 3PM, or between the evenings. He had to die the same day and  at the same time, the lamb was offered to be our Passover Lamb. not the day before or day after! He kept the Feasts perfectly. He had to keep  the Pesach perfectly or He would have sinned against the Word of Yehovah and He would have been disqualified to be our perfect Sacrificial Lamb.

Yehoshua said, “Do think that I came to destroy the Law (Torah) or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.” Mattithyahu/Matthew 5:17

We may keep the Seder now, but with the understanding that our Lamb of Yehovah fulfilled the Word perfectly until the end.  Let us not  say that He did a seder  as fact, for there is no evidence. To state something as fact we need evidence, and in this case we do not have it. By saying that He kept the seder without any verse of scripture to prove it is a lie.

We cannot add nor take away from the word. Let us be very careful to not add anything at all.

Devarim/Deuteronomy 4:2 “You shall not add to the word which I command you, not take from it, that you may keep eh commandments of Yehovah your Elohim which I command you.

Devarim 12:32 Whatever I command you be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it not take away from it.”

Mattithyahu 5:17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law of the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.”

Conclusion: Yehoshua is our Pesach Lamb who died and rose again. He is alive today and we will be with Him for eternity. If you believe in Him and are baptized,  I will see you in Heaven! I will speak on this  subject later on.

Shalom!

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[i] Yehoshua, the Ben/Son of Yehovah, who’s Name in English is Joshua, (not Jesus). But many still cherish the Name Jesus, and He will reveal His Name to them shortly.

[ii] The LORD

[iii] God

DO YOU CELEBRATE PASSOVER OR EASTER?

Which one are you celebrating? I am speaking about this feast once again in order for those who still do not know the facts will learn them now. Please read all of this message, and be blessed.

 Easter is fast approaching; mothers are buying their babies all the best clothes for this day. No doubt many of you have picked out your Easter lilies already. You have bought extra eggs, dye’s, stickers, and shrink wrap, in an attempt to not be outdone by all the other mothers and families that will be sharing in your festivities. This one day a year you will convince family members that have not gone through the church door all year to attend the service. Many of you will gather at a specific location at sunrise for a symbolic reference to the messiah raised from the grave.

You will hear the preacher teach that on Good Friday they crucified Yehoshua ( the Lord)  and laid him in a borrowed tomb. And then early on Easter Sunday morning he was raised from the dead. I could give you the whole message that will be preached around the world on this day because I myself delivered it for several years. But I don’t think you need me to do that because no doubt you have heard it before as well. Now this message while moving and very emotional in the hands of a skilled orator can bring even the strongest of sinners to tears. But let’s take a look at this message and all the traditions that surrounds the day referred to as Easter. I realize right here many of you will quit reading because you have closed your mind and no one is going to mess with this sacred cow. But for those of you that are still reading I will now tell you the Easter story you where never told. And you will begin to see why you are doing all the things that surround this day, and have been doing just because that is what everyone else is doing and some man told you it was the proper thing to do.

Now I'm going to play your mother for a minute. If everyone was going to jump off a bridge would you do it to, even if the president of the United States told you it was the right thing to do? Of course you wouldn’t. Would you put a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger just because everyone in your family decided to do it? Again of course you wouldn’t. Now I know those are extreme analogies but I think you will see that they are no more extreme then some of the things we have been convinced are the right things to do.

 I will give you some scripture throughout this but first I just want to tell you the TRUE Easter Story. Now most of you have heard about some of the key players in the True Eater Story. People like Nimrod, you will remember him from the tower of Babel in the Bible, he is the one that shot the Arrow into the heavens. There are two other key players though, that while they are a little less known than Nimrod, are very key players in this Easter Story.

The first would be the wife of Nimrod named Semiramis the queen of Babylon. There is one more key player but we will get to him in just a bit for now let us focus on these two.

 Now we all know the Story Nimrod was a great hunter, and he became the king of Babylon where they built the tower of Babel. This is where Yehovah  confused the language of the people. But the Story of Semiramis was not told in Scripture before becoming the wife of Nimrod, and she is actually referred to as Semiramis the second to whom the hanging gardens of Babylon where built.  This character is a little hard to trace but we know that she was later called the Queen of heaven. And this is the only clue we have of her in the Scriptures. 

Yirmeyahu/Jeremiah 44:15-19 “Then all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to other gods, with all the women who stood by, a great multitude, and all the people who dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying: “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yehovah,  we will certainly do whatever has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and saw no trouble. But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouri8ng out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.” The women also said, ‘And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes for her, to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her without our husbands’ permission?

 Now the story says that when Shem killed Nimrod and sent his body parts to the lands in the religion that he had formed with Semiramis it is said that he ascended into the sky and became the Sun god.  Later on a religion was formed and was called Mithraism. This is the religion (Pope) Constantine the great was involved in. I say Pope, for he is regarded as one in the Catholic Church.* Constantine is the one who is referred to as the first Christian emperor. In fact he was said to have been praying to this Sun god on Sun-day, when he saw the sign of a cross and formed the religion now known as Catholicism, from which all protestant religions where birthed. This message it is not about him though, so I will leave it at that.

After Nimrod died years later Semiramis was said to have been magically impregnated by the rays of the sun, and bore a male child which she named Tammuz. You can find him in scripture as well Ezekiel 8:14 which states, “So He brought me to the door of the north gate of Yehovah’s house; and to my dismay, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.”

 Now for the really sick part , Semiramis married her son Tammuz. Tammuz like his father was a great hunter but at the age of forty while on a hunt he was gored to death by a wild boar. This is why we have 40 days of lent and also why Christians eat ham on Easter Sunday. It was this abomination that is being referred to in By the way, the fourth month of the Biblical month is now called Tammuz, after Yahweh specifically said not to even speak the names of false gods.

Shemoth/Exodus 23:13 “And in all that I have said to you take heed. And make no mention of the name of other elohim, let it not be heard from your mouth.”

But let us get back to our Key player Semiramis the queen of heaven. After Tammuz’ death Semiramis is said to have grieved herself to death. But at her death she is said to have also ascended into the sky to become the moon elohim/god and earn the tile “The Queen of Heaven”. Now we know Nimrod proved his divinity by impregnating his wife years after his ascension, as the story goes… So how ever would they know that Semiramis had really become “The Queen of Heaven”?

 Semiramis not to be out done, it is said to have descended from heaven in a giant Egg, landing in the Euphrates river and bursting out as the bare breasted goddess ISHTAR, later known as Easter.

To prove her divinity she turned a bird into an egg laying rabbit, and promised that anyone who found one of these eggs would bare male children in the coming year.

 Now that’s pretty sick but you have not heard the sick part yet. A religion was formed, complete with priest and sacrifices. Every year on the first Sun-day after the vernal equinox they would have a day of worship and celebration which they called it Easter.

 On this day at Sun-rise, the cultic Priest would take Virgins and rape them on the altar of ISHTAR. This is not very cute, is it? But again this is not the worst part of it. Now by the sheer number of women being raped there would be children born from those rapes. These priests would take the now three month old babies, born from the previous years' rape, cut their throat and drain their blood into a bowl. They would then take Eggs and dip them in the blood of these sacrificed babies and hide them about the city. This atrocious act was done almost as a down payment… which promised that if a person would find one of those eggs that person would bare male children. Could anyone be more deceived? Yet they did it.

 And that is the true Easter Story it has nothing to do with the resurrection of our messiah Yehoshua, or better known today with the name Jesus.  

 So now that we have shown why you are preparing buying cloths, Lilies, Eggs, die, and hiding eggs, and coming to gather at Sun-rise on Sun-day, let’s go to Scripture and see what it has to say about the resurrection of our messiah Yehoshua.

 We all know that Yehoshua was our Passover Lamb, and being so, He was crucified on Passover. Without quoting too much Scripture verses, I will give you some references at the end of this message. Now I will just tell you the Passover Story. On the Erev (when the sun starts it descent in the sky around 3pm) on the 14th day of the first month of the biblical calendar, the priest at the temple would start sacrificing the Passover Lamb. The exact same time Yehoshua was being hung on the Cross. When the Sacrifice and ritual was complete the priest would come out and declare with a loud voice “IT IS FINISHED” at the exact same time Yehoshua Declared “IT IS FINISHED”, and redeemed all who would believe in him.

At every Passover the Jews could receive the freedom of one person which had been convicted to die. Pilate wanted to release a murderer, Barabbas, but they refused the offer, and asked for their King Yehoshua to be crucified.

Yochanan/John 18:39-40 “But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Do you therefore want me to release to you the King of the Jews?’ Then they all cried out again, saying, “Not this Man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.

John 19:1-7, So then Pilate took Yehoshua and scourged Him. And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. Then they said, ‘Hail, King of the Jews.’ And they struck Him with their hands. Pilate then went out again, and said to them, ‘Behold, I am bringing Him out to you, that you may know that I find no fault in Him.’ Then Yehoshua came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, “Behold the Man!’ Therefore, when the chief priests and officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, ‘Crucify Him,’ crucify Him!’ Pilate said to them, “You take Him and crucify Him, for I find no fault in Him.’ The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to your law He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of Elohim.”

You need to continue to read this whole chapter. Yochanan/John 19:30 ‘So when Yehoshua had received the sour wine, He said, “IT IS FINISHED!’And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.’

 Yehoshua was chosen to be sacrificed, and Barabbas was released. Yehoshua was sacrificed in order for you and me not to have to die and be lost for eternity. He literally died so that you and I can live.

Yehoshua fulfilled every prophecy concerning His first coming.  He fulfilled every detail of becoming our Pesach (Passover Lamb) but I want to show you how Easter has nothing to do with his resurrection.

 Now the Church says he was crucified on Friday and they call this day good Friday because scripture declares they had to get him in the grave because the Sabbath was coming. They did not even have time to clean the body and anoint it. Yet we see in scripture that early on the first day of the week after the Sabbath Mary came to anoint his body and perform the burial ritual He was already raised.

Yochanan/John 20:1-9 “Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Yehoshua loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.” Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple, and were going to the tomb. So they both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first. And He, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying there; yet he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying there, and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who came to the tomb first, went in also; and he saw and believed. For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.”

 So ask yourself if they had to put him in the grave because the Sabbath was coming, and the morning after the Sabbath he was already raised how was he in the grave for 3 days and 3 nights. He had to fulfill the prophecy he had spoken while alive. He would die, and be in the grave three days and three nights. This was the only sign He gave the religious leaders concerning Himself.  I have written a blog about this, and you can read it at this site, or ask me for it. But for now let continue with the facts.

If he was crucified on Friday and laid in the grave at sunset, then arisen from the grave on Sunday morning, remembering that he said he would be in the Grave 3 days and 3 nights. Let’s count.

OK, let us say they are counting Friday as the first day that is day one. Friday night would have been night one. Saturday would have been day 2 and Saturday night would have been night 2. Now when Mary came at the dawning of the day on Sunday he was already raised. So where is day 3 and night 3. Where is the third day and night? Besides, you cannot count Friday, for He died about 3:00 pm, and was in the grave before Sundown.

So now let us do the Real math and solve this equation. Remember Passover is on Unleavened Bread, and the Scriptures declare that the first day of Unleavened Bread is a Sabbath (not a weekly Sabbath, a feast day Sabbath). This is the Sabbath that was coming and the reason they had to get him in the grave.  On the Sabbath Yahweh forbids any kind of work. The only work allowed on the Sabbath is “REST” which is NO WORK.

Leviticus 23:6-7, “And on the fifteenth day of this month is the Festival of Matstsoth (Unleavened Bread) to Yehovah- seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you have a qodesh gathering, you do not servile work.”

Because of this Feast they could not take care of the Body of Yehoshua. They could cook, but not shop or do any work at all.

The year he was killed this would have been a Wednesday. So let us count from there.

 He was laid in the tomb before sunset so Wednesday night would have been night 1. Thursday would have been day 1. Thursday night would have been night 2.

 Friday would have been day 2. Friday night would have been night 3 (Beginning the Sabbath).

And Saturday, (the Sabbath), would have been Day 3. We know by scripture at some point that evening that the tomb was opened and the guards fell down as though they were dead. And this is the reason when Mary came to the tomb at sunrise on the first day of the week He was already raised because he had arisen exactly 3 days and 3 nights from when he was laid in the tomb just as he said.

Matthew 12:40, “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

Mark 8:31, “And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.”

Now you know the Truth, and does Easter even remotely resemble the events of his resurrection or his crucifixion for that matter?  If it doesn’t, then why are you participating in pagan rituals, just because everyone else is doing it? Because some man who claims to be a spiritual leader has told you it was right to do so?

Remember the bridge scenario lay out earlier. I know all the arguments, “well that’s not what it means to me” and “I'm doing it in remembrance of his resurrection not paganism”. Well I have one more story to tell you then you can make up your own mind if this is something you should ever participate in again.

 Remember after the children of Israel crossed the red sea and Moses had gone upon the mountain for forty days. The people became restless and asked Aaron to make them an Idol, the golden calf. They immediately went back to what they were familiar: idolatry.

However, they were deceived and thought they were worshiping Yahweh!

Aaron agreed but then he told them tomorrow we are going to have a feast day to Yehovah. Moses comes down in the middle of their wickedness and breaks the Ten Commandments. At that point Yehovah said he was going to kill them all and rise up a nation to Moses. The people had made this Calf as a representation of their Elohim Yehovah and where going to have a feast day to Him the next day.

However, Yehovah was going to kill them all for doing so. The moral of this story is. It does not matter what Easter means to you, it only matters what it means to our Creator Yehovah. He said we could not have any other god before him and everything about an Easter celebration originated in the false worship of a false god. We are called to be holy, as He is holy. He does not need idolatry to please, rather, He condemns it. On which side are you one? Tradition of men, or truth?

 I hope you have enjoyed and learned something here, because now that you know, you are held responsible.

You will not be able to stand before him on Judgment Day and blame someone else. If you continue to celebrate Easter from this point on, you are free willingly participating in the false worship of a false Elohim and he will have no other Elohim before him.

Please note that this is a message that I have taken from a brother, and added my personal understanding. I hope you find this message helpful, and if you are in some form of idolatry: REPENT now, and not wait for another time, for it may never come. Hell is real, and many are going there. Yehovah, nor I, desire for you to be lost for eternity. Therefore take heed, and go back to the beginning. His Torah id the set of rules of the kingdom, and it will help you. And also Yehoshua’s blood will cleanse you from all sin, if you repent of your sin, and received Yehoshua now. Next, continue to love and obey our Creator, and wait until He calls you to come up.  Be saved today.

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*The apostles were all equal, and no one took a position above another. There was no church formed until Constantine, which evolved with time. Yehoshua did not create a new religion called “Church.” Church is not the correct word written in the Greek bible, the word is Ekklesia, which means congregation, assembly. The original Hebrew word is Qahal, which means congregation, assembly. Church has its roots in sun god worship.

Please also know that every time you read “The LORD,” in your Bible, it is hiding the true name of Elohim, our Creator, “Yehovah,” which is  pronounced Yehovah.  

 Scripture references: Mathew chapters 26-28, Mark chapters 14-16, Luke 22-24, John 18-20, Exodus Chapter 32

In Him always

Deborah