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00:00:01If you think Passover was nailed to the cross and been done away with, then you've been

00:00:06misled.

00:00:07You claim to follow the Messiah, yet you deny and neglect the very feast day that exemplifies

00:00:15and symbolizes and foreshadows His sacrifice.

00:00:20This isn't about a dusty ritual, it's about the blood on the doorpost of your soul.

00:00:24Most of what you've been told about Passover in church is nothing more than watered down

00:00:30tradition.

00:00:31In this teaching, we're getting to the heart of the Passover Lamb's Day, and I challenge

00:00:36you to stay with me until the very end.

00:00:39If you're brave enough to have your assumptions questioned, then keep watching.

00:00:43Your understanding of Passover is about to level up.

00:01:06All right, so this teaching is going to be all about Passover, or Pesach, as it's known

00:01:11in Hebrew, and we're going to be telling you all about it, where it comes from, how to

00:01:14celebrate it, the various symbols and customs that go along with it, the food, obviously,

00:01:19because it is a feast day, as well as being a Moedim.

00:01:23So stay tuned, we're going to get into all that, and there's going to be a lot of information

00:01:27coming your way.

00:01:28But like always, we have a lot more information than what we can put reasonably into one particular

00:01:34one teaching in one night.

00:01:36So if you'd like more information to go further in your studies, go to our website at www.godhonesttruth.com,

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00:01:54well as the notes that we took for this particular subject and episode, and also the transcript

00:02:00when that becomes available, if that is of any benefit to you.

00:02:03It's all there on our website at www.godhonesttruth.com.

00:02:06And to make it easier for you, we have actually placed a link down there in the description.

00:02:12So if you just click on that link, it'll take you directly to the article post on our website,

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00:02:24platform to still be down there all the same.

00:02:32So let's start out and go over just real quick, especially for those of you who are just learning

00:02:37about Passover.

00:02:38Now, if you're just like me and you come from a mainstream churchianity background myself,

00:02:43I came from a Baptist background and I live down here in the south of the United States.

00:02:47So you got, I guess you could call it Southern Baptist.

00:02:49I'm not really sure if they're a part of the conference or not.

00:02:52But anyways, I was born and raised in a Baptist church.

00:02:54So I didn't really know that much about Passover until I really started studying the scriptures

00:02:59for myself.

00:03:00So this is for those of you who were sort of like me and you're just coming into this

00:03:05from a more of like a lack of understanding about what Passover is.

00:03:10You may have heard it before, but this is going to be a lot more in detail.

00:03:14And we're about to get really nerdy starting right now.

00:03:19The Hebrew word for Passover, I'm sorry, Passover is the Hebrew word Pesach.

00:03:24And that is Strong's H6453.

00:03:27That's Strong's H6453.

00:03:30Pesach.

00:03:31Pesach.

00:03:33And the outline of biblical usage has it defined as Passover, the sacrifice of Passover, the

00:03:38animal victim of the Passover or the festival of the Passover.

00:03:42Now, this is something that all these entries are pretty much going to say the exact same

00:03:46thing.

00:03:46Either a is going to be the festival of Passover regarding the entire week, or it could be the

00:03:53actual lamb is called the Passover as well.

00:03:56And our Messiah Yeshua is called the Passover lamb.

00:03:59But we'll get into that as we go into this teaching.

00:04:02So there's a different context in which this word can be used.

00:04:06And it could be one of three different things.

00:04:09Generally, the Passover itself on the Passover lamb, the festival of Passover or, you know,

00:04:15the people who passed over into the promised land.

00:04:20Technically, the Passover is just that meal or that food you eat that first night.

00:04:28The rest of the week is technically referred to as the feast of unleavened bread.

00:04:33It gets conflated a lot of times and it's all right.

00:04:37I guess as long as you know that what's going on there.

00:04:40But just want to let you know, technically and specifically, Passover is that meal that you have that first night

00:04:46through.

00:04:47Remember when the Hebrews and the mixed multitude came out of Egypt and rest of the week is technically called

00:04:53piece of unleavened bread.

00:04:54But anyways, going on with the word Passover, here is your Strong's definition.

00:04:58Define it pretty much the same thing as the outline of biblical usage.

00:05:01It means something like Passover, the festival or the victim, or also be the offering.

00:05:07There's your Brown Driver Briggs entry.

00:05:10Here's your Jacinus' Hebrew lexicon entry.

00:05:13Jastral's Dictionary of the Targums entry.

00:05:15Klein Dictionary entry.

00:05:16And finally, your Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament entry for Strong's H6453 Esach.

00:05:24Now we cut all these entries down just so they would fit on the slide conveniently.

00:05:28So if you want to see the full entry and know even more about this particular word or look at

00:05:33the entry there that's not cut out,

00:05:36make sure to go to our website and check out the notes because we have the entire entry right there

00:05:40for you on our notes.

00:05:41You don't have to go look it up yourself.

00:05:43Moving on to the Greek word for Passover, and that is Strong's G3957.

00:05:50That's Strong's G3957.

00:05:52And the Greek word is Pascha, Pascha.

00:05:56Here is your outline of biblical usage entry for Pascha, meaning the Paschal sacrifice, the Paschal lamb, the Paschal supper,

00:06:05the Paschal feast.

00:06:06Pretty much the same thing that the Hebrew word Pesach meant as well.

00:06:11And here's your Strong's definition for Pascha.

00:06:15Now make sure you remember this Greek word Pascha because that's going to come into a big point later on

00:06:22in this particular draw.

00:06:24So remember that word Pascha and remember that it means Passover.

00:06:29Here is your Thayer's Greek lexicon for Pascha as well as your Greek English lexicon entry for Pascha.

00:06:35And finally, looking at History.com regarding what is Passover, just to give you a definition of what Passover is.

00:06:44From History.com, quote,

00:06:45Passover commemorates the Israelites' departure from ancient Egypt, which appears in the Hebrew Bible's books of Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy,

00:06:53among other texts.

00:06:54Jews observe the week-long festival with a number of important rituals, including a traditional Passover meal known as a

00:07:01Seder.

00:07:02The removal of leavened products from their home, the substitution of matzo for bread, and the retelling of the Exodus

00:07:08tale, end quote.

00:07:10And most of that is pretty accurate.

00:07:12However, there's one part I would take issue with.

00:07:14And right there at the end, it says the substitution of matzo for bread.

00:07:18That almost makes it sound like matzo is something different than bread.

00:07:23And it's not actually. Matzo is just unleavened bread.

00:07:26It's usually, if you get it from the store, it's like crispy cardboard.

00:07:32I like to make a lot of my own and I put spices and stuff in it so it doesn't

00:07:36taste like cardboard.

00:07:37But yeah, matzo is just unleavened bread.

00:07:41So don't think it's different than bread.

00:07:43Anyways, looking at the Scriptures 2009 translation and explanatory notes for Passover.

00:07:48Quote,

00:07:48The Hebrew word is Pesach as a verb meaning to jump, skip, or pass over.

00:07:53As a noun referring primarily to the animal victim that was slaughtered,

00:07:57but secondarily to the period of time connected with the slaughter of the victim.

00:08:03End quote.

00:08:04So yeah, the explanatory notes from the Scriptures 2009, which is the main one we use here at God Honest

00:08:09Truth.

00:08:10It says pretty much the same thing as the dictionary entries that we just saw.

00:08:14It could refer to the lamb, the sacrifice, the festival of Passover, et cetera, et cetera.

00:08:20So that's what Passover is, especially for my fellow nerds out there.

00:08:25When we look at stuff, we know and we say this repeatedly.

00:08:29It's like beating a dead horse anymore.

00:08:32But we say this repeatedly.

00:08:33Whenever we look at something, we want to develop doctrine or understand what doctrine is.

00:08:37We need to base it solely, I'm sorry, first of all, on Scripture.

00:08:43So let's look at Passover now in Scripture and where it comes from in Scripture.

00:08:48Now, if you already know this, it's not meant to insult your intelligence.

00:08:51This is for a lot of those who are just coming in or who, you know, are looking to learn

00:08:59even more than what they already know.

00:09:01So in a nutshell, Passover really commemorates the generally the last plague.

00:09:09Even though there were 10 plagues, it really revolves around that last plague, the death of the firstborn.

00:09:14And then that's what really kickstarts their exodus from Egypt.

00:09:19That's what gets Pharaoh finally motivated to send them out.

00:09:24This is where we're going to start in our position in Scripture.

00:09:28We're going to be starting in Exodus 11.

00:09:31Here we've got the pronouncement of the death of the firstborn.

00:09:35And then it actually happens.

00:09:37And then we look at Exodus 12.

00:09:39And this is where the first Passover is actually observed and instructed.

00:09:44And Passover here definitely connects with the death of the firstborn.

00:09:49But in the part where the angel of death passes over the Hebrews or anyone else who has painted their

00:09:56lentils and their doorposts with the blood of the lamb.

00:09:59That's where the first Passover came from.

00:10:02They also had that first Passover meal as well.

00:10:05Here we see in verse 2 of Exodus 12 that the first month of the year is described.

00:10:10That's the first month of Aviv or now referred to as Nisan.

00:10:15On verse 3 it says to take a lamb on the 10th day of the month and then slay the

00:10:21lamb on the 14th of the month between the evenings.

00:10:24That's right after it gets dark or sunsets.

00:10:28Then in verse 7 it says to apply the blood on the doorpost of the house.

00:10:32And that was when they were back there in Egypt that we just discussed.

00:10:35Verse 8 it says to eat the lamb roasted with fire.

00:10:40And then in verse 10 it says if anything remains to burn it up with fire.

00:10:45Don't have leftovers the next day in other words.

00:10:48Verse 11 it says eat it with your clothes ready to go.

00:10:53Your sandals on your feet your staff in your hand all that stuff like you could be leaving at any

00:10:58moment.

00:10:59And literally they had no idea when they were going to be sent out in the middle of the night.

00:11:04So they had to eat this in a hurry all dressed up as if they were ready to go and

00:11:09they needed to be ready to go back then.

00:11:11Verse 14 it says Pesach was foretold to be an everlasting ordinance.

00:11:16Now for those of you my brothers and sisters who are from the Baptist tradition.

00:11:21You may have a hard time understanding what the word forever means.

00:11:25Because you've been taught through tradition that forever just means until Jesus comes.

00:11:30But that's not it.

00:11:31No.

00:11:32Forever means forever.

00:11:34Verse 14 says that Pesach is foretold to be an everlasting ordinance.

00:11:38It means forever.

00:11:39Verse 15 it says to eat unleavened bread or matzah for seven days.

00:11:47It says there to be no leaven found in your household in all your borders.

00:11:52Verse 16 it says the first and the seventh days of Passover week or the week of unleavened bread.

00:11:59The first and seventh days are Shabbatons.

00:12:01And what a Shabbaton is is what they call like a minor Sabbath or a high Sabbath or something like

00:12:09that.

00:12:09It's something in addition to the regular weekly Sabbath.

00:12:14And it's not exactly the same because on a Shabbaton you're to rest and do no work, do no servile

00:12:21work.

00:12:21But on a Shabbaton you can prepare food unlike with the weekly Sabbath where you're not even supposed to prepare

00:12:28food.

00:12:29That's the difference and the week of unleavened bread, the first and seventh days are these Shabbatons.

00:12:36And then in verse 19 it says that no leaven is to be found in your home.

00:12:41Now right here in verse 19 the word for leaven is the Hebrew word seor.

00:12:46So let's look at that a little bit more in depth before we continue.

00:12:50Verse, I'm sorry, Exodus chapter 12 verse 19.

00:12:53For seven days no leaven, seor, is to be found in your houses.

00:12:58For if anyone eats what is leavened, ametz, that same bean shall be cut off from the congregation of Yisrael,

00:13:06whether sojourner or native of the land.

00:13:09So what is this word seor?

00:13:11Well, in common thought, in common tradition, a lot of people think of it as yeast.

00:13:17I thought that for a long time, until maybe a year, two years ago.

00:13:23It finally got my eyes open to what seor actually is, and it's not exactly yeast.

00:13:30Let's get a little bit nerdy one more time.

00:13:32Let's look at Strong's H7603.

00:13:35That's Strong's H7603, the Hebrew word seor.

00:13:40From the outline of biblical usage, it has it defined as leaven.

00:13:43Strong's definition has it defined as barm or yeast cake leaven.

00:13:49Now, for those of you who don't know what barm is, if you've ever seen a cooking show,

00:13:55or if you've ever had a grandmother who made sourdough bread or something like that,

00:13:58they'll use what's referred to as a starter.

00:14:01The starter is this thick, bubbly, liquid, sour-smelling stuff.

00:14:09And what they do with the starter is they take it and they put it in their mix when they're

00:14:14making their bread,

00:14:15and that causes the bread to rise.

00:14:20Well, what we refer to now as a starter is actually nothing more than a barm.

00:14:26So that's what's referring to when it says seor.

00:14:29It means a starter or a barm, something that has yeast and it's activated and it's bubbling,

00:14:35it's fermenting, it's doing all this stuff it's supposed to do naturally.

00:14:40But there's also this thing called a yeast cake that can be defined as seor too.

00:14:45And back in the day when they couldn't go to the store just to buy a packet, or like with

00:14:49us, a jar of yeast,

00:14:52they would have to use other things.

00:14:54In the Victorian age, a lot of times the bakers would go to the brewers and get their leftover yeast

00:14:59they use with the beer

00:15:01and use that as the yeast for rising their bread.

00:15:06In the biblical days, they would take a piece of bread that had already been baked and it's got yeast

00:15:12in it.

00:15:13It's got wild yeast that's been attracted to it, et cetera, et cetera.

00:15:15And they would mix it in with their new bread and that would cause it to rise.

00:15:18But a yeast cake is something like that.

00:15:22So they would just break off a piece of it, crumble it up, put it in their new batch, and

00:15:27that would make it rise.

00:15:28And that's what a yeast cake is.

00:15:29So seor, when it says leaven in scripture, that seor means something like a barm or a yeast cake.

00:15:36It does not mean yeast.

00:15:39Now, it can contain yeast, but what I've got when I make bread is a jar of dry, granulated yeast.

00:15:47That's not what scripture is talking about with seor.

00:15:50It's unactivated.

00:15:51It's not active.

00:15:53So there you go.

00:15:55And the reason I say that is just to correct the tradition and the conventional way of thinking that leaven

00:16:02is yeast.

00:16:03And it's not.

00:16:04There is a nuance there.

00:16:06And it makes it a lot easier once you know this, because if you're like me and you've got those

00:16:10packets of yeast or you've got that jar of yeast, you don't have to get rid of that.

00:16:14That's not what scripture is saying to get rid of.

00:16:16It's saying to get rid of your starter.

00:16:19That's not to be found in your household.

00:16:23You're also not to have anything leavened, things like that.

00:16:27But yeast, the way I read it and the way I've studied it and stuff like that, just the dry,

00:16:31unactivated yeast is absolutely fine.

00:16:34Anyways, here is your Brown Driver Briggs entry for seor, as well as your Jesenius' Hebrew lexicon entry and your

00:16:40Jastral's Dictionary of the Targums entry.

00:16:42Here is your Klein Dictionary entry and your Hebrew Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament entry.

00:16:48And the places in scripture where you can find this Hebrew word seor used.

00:16:53Now, another word that we saw in Exodus 12, 19 was the word hametz.

00:16:59And that is Strong's H2557.

00:17:01That's H2557, hametz, hametz.

00:17:05According to the outline of biblical usage from blueletterbible.org, hametz means the thing leavened or leavened.

00:17:12From Strong's definition, it means extortion, leavened, or leavened, meaning leavened bread.

00:17:18Brown Driver Briggs, that which is leavened, forbidden at Passover.

00:17:22Jesenius' Hebrew lexicon, that which is leavened, probably that which is gained by violence or wrong, meaning metaphorically or symbolically.

00:17:29But hametz, when it's talking about that in Exodus 12, 19, that means bread that's already been risen, bread that's

00:17:36already been leavened.

00:17:38That is what hametz is.

00:17:40And that's what you're not supposed to be eating the entire week of the week of unleavened bread.

00:17:47So no hametz, no leavened product.

00:17:50And there's a lot of leavening and a lot of things.

00:17:53So when you're cleaning out your pantry for Passover, you're going through your house.

00:17:59Make sure that you look on the ingredients list because there's a lot of things that can make a product

00:18:05be leavened.

00:18:06Things like baking soda or baking powder, et cetera, et cetera.

00:18:11So check that out.

00:18:12And finally, here is your the rest of the entries for that word hametz.

00:18:17Here's Jastral's dictionary, the Targum's entry, Klein's dictionary entry, Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament entry.

00:18:24And the places where you can find this word hametz in scripture.

00:18:28Now, another word that we have already looked at and probably pretty familiar with when it comes to the feast

00:18:34of Passover is the word matzah.

00:18:36And that is Strong's number H4682.

00:18:40That's H4682 matzah.

00:18:43And what matzah is, according to Strong's definition, an unfermented cake or loaf, unleavened bread or cake without leaven.

00:18:52Brown Driver Briggs defined it as unleavened bread or cakes.

00:18:56It just seems this Hebrew lexicon defines it as unfermented bread, such as is used at the Passover, an unleavened

00:19:02cake, unleavened bread, et cetera, et cetera.

00:19:05Well, we know of it now as the boxes of Manischewitz matzah that you buy at the store that's hard

00:19:14and crumbly and tasteless.

00:19:17Like I said, it does come across as cardboard a lot of times.

00:19:21The way we make it here, we make it with various different recipes.

00:19:26As long as it's unleavened, it doesn't matter what the recipe is.

00:19:29We even have a batter that we make an unleavened bread with.

00:19:33It's kind of soft.

00:19:35And so, yeah, there's all kinds.

00:19:38But matzah is the opposite of hametz, where hametz is a bread or product that is leavened.

00:19:45Matzah is something that is unleavened.

00:19:48That can be a unleavened bread or even an unleavened cake.

00:19:51And we'll get to a little bit later on when we start talking about food for the Passover celebration, if

00:19:56you're wanting to do that.

00:19:59Finally, here is your Jastriles Dictionary of the Targums entry for H4682 matzah and your Klein Dictionary entry,

00:20:06as well as your Hebrew Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament entry for matzah.

00:20:11So now when we look back at Exodus 12, verse 19, you know what we're talking about or what Scripture

00:20:17is talking about when it mentions these particular words.

00:20:20Let's read it one more time.

00:20:21Exodus 12, verse 19.

00:20:41See, now that you know what those words are, it makes a whole lot more sense and is a lot

00:20:45clearer, especially in contrast to the tradition that we're mostly taught when it comes to this word leavened.

00:20:52So earlier we were talking about the first institution of Passover and how they did it back in the Exodus

00:20:59from Egypt.

00:21:01So now we're going to continue with that same storyline and that same institution, continuing with Exodus chapter 12.

00:21:08In verse 22, it says to use hyssop to apply the blood to the doorpost and do not go out

00:21:13of your homes back when they were in Israel.

00:21:16I'm sorry, back in Egypt.

00:21:18In verse 23, it says that Yahweh shall pass over the homes where the blood is applied to the doorpost.

00:21:24And this is the main thing about Passover is when the angel of death passed over these homes where the

00:21:30blood was applied.

00:21:32In verse 24, it says, and you shall guard this word as a law for you and your sons forever.

00:21:39Once again, for those of you who are in mainstream churchianity, you people who come from a Baptist background or

00:21:46a Methodist, Catholic, Presbyterian, Church of God, Church of Christ, et cetera, et cetera.

00:21:51Forever doesn't mean just until Jesus comes.

00:21:54Forever means forever.

00:21:56And this here in scripture, the Bible says that Passover is to be forever.

00:22:04In verse 28, it says the Israelites did as they were commanded.

00:22:08Verse 29, it says at midnight, the firstborn of Egypt was killed.

00:22:12All the firstborn died.

00:22:15So keep that particular event in mind because that's going to come into play here near the end as well.

00:22:21In verse 31, Pharaoh sends out the Israelites.

00:22:24Verse 33, the Egyptians themselves wanted them gone.

00:22:28They hurried the Israelites out, gave them gold and silver to go out with as well.

00:22:33In fact, the Israelites went out a whole lot wealthier than they had ever been in their lives.

00:22:39Verse 36, the Israelites took the silver and the gold from the Egyptians.

00:22:43Then verse 37, the Israelites left Egypt.

00:22:46And the number is absolutely staggering when you try to think about this.

00:22:50But the ones that came out of Egypt, it says here specifically in scripture that there were six, about 600

00:22:57,000 men, about 600,000 men besides the women, children and livestock.

00:23:09That gives a whole new perspective to what Moses was trying to do when he came out of Egypt and

00:23:14all the people he had to try to keep up with and get them through the wilderness to the promised

00:23:19land.

00:23:20That's a lot of people.

00:23:21I mean, trying to get 50 people to cooperate and do things nowadays is like chasing cats.

00:23:27So you can kind of feel for Moses here.

00:23:29But yeah, 600,000 men besides the women, children and livestock is probably well over a million when you add

00:23:37everything together.

00:23:38And then in verse 38, it says that a mixed multitude went with the Israelites.

00:23:44So in addition to the over probably over a million Israelites that left Egypt, there was a mixed multitude that

00:23:52joined them and went out with them as well.

00:23:56Yeah.

00:23:57Yeah.

00:23:57So you thought 600,000 was a lot.

00:23:59Yeah.

00:24:00It's jumped up even more now.

00:24:02In verse 49, it says there is to be one Torah or the native born Israelite and the sojourner.

00:24:11Once again, we just went over this the other week with the Noahide laws.

00:24:16There is not a double standard in scripture.

00:24:19And this is just further proof that there is no such thing as double standard in scripture.

00:24:24There's will be one Torah and this applies to all the Torah.

00:24:28But here specifically talking about the Passover and the instructions for Passover.

00:24:33So once they get out of Egypt, you would think, OK, well, they've already had the Passover.

00:24:40They ate their meal.

00:24:41They followed the instructions.

00:24:43They painted the doors with blood and the angel of death passed over them.

00:24:47So no more Passover, right?

00:24:49No, there was to be a Passover to be remembered forever.

00:24:54Remember, we read that word forever.

00:24:56However, there are some nowadays who say that we cannot and should not celebrate Passover because we are not in

00:25:02the land of Israel, not in the promised land.

00:25:05There is no temple standing.

00:25:06But is that the example we get from scripture?

00:25:09No, because we look in numbers, chapter nine, verses one through four.

00:25:14This is where the people are still in the wilderness and they're celebrating Passover.

00:25:20Numbers, chapter nine, verses one through four.

00:25:22And Yahweh spoke to Moshe in the wilderness of Sinai in the first new moon of the second year after

00:25:27they had come out of the land of Mitzrayim, saying,

00:25:30Now let the children of Israel perform the Pesach at its appointed time on the 14th day of this new

00:25:37moon between the evenings before perform it at its appointed time.

00:25:41According to all its laws and right rulings, you perform it.

00:25:45And Moshe spoke to the children of Israel to perform the Pesach.

00:25:50So did they wait until they got into the promised land?

00:25:53Nope.

00:25:54They were celebrating Passover even in the wilderness, even without the temple.

00:25:58This is long before the temple.

00:26:00Even not being in the temple, even not being in the promised land, they were still celebrating and performing the

00:26:06Pesach.

00:26:06Now, this is something that's important and scripture actually places a lot of importance on Passover.

00:26:13So much importance that, A, it says to do it forever.

00:26:17Again, forever means forever, not just until Jesus comes, but perform the Passover forever.

00:26:23Also, this is so important to scripture that you're actually given a second chance to do the Passover in case

00:26:33you could not for the first time around.

00:26:36If you are away and you couldn't get back.

00:26:38If you were somehow unclean due to menstruation or childbirth or touching a dead body or et cetera, et cetera.

00:26:46For whatever reason, if you could not do Passover when you're supposed to, they give you a second chance.

00:26:52Numbers chapter nine, verses six to 12.

00:26:56But there were men who were defiled for a being of a man so that they were not able to

00:27:01perform the Pesach on that day.

00:27:02So they came before Moshe and Aaron that day.

00:27:05And those men said to him, we are defiled for the being of a man.

00:27:09Why are we withheld from bringing near the offering of Yahweh at his appointed time among the children of Israel?

00:27:16And Moshe said to them, wait, let me hear what Yahweh commands concerning you.

00:27:20And Yahweh spoke to Moshe saying, speak to the children of Israel saying,

00:27:25when any male of your generations is unclean for a being or as far away on a journey, he shall

00:27:31still perform the Pesach of Yahweh on the 14th day of the second new moon.

00:27:37Between the evenings, they perform it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

00:27:41They eat it.

00:27:41They do not leave of it until morning and they do not break a bone of it.

00:27:46According to all the laws of the Pesach, they are to perform it.

00:27:51So here there were some guys who says they were defiled for the being of a man.

00:27:56That means they got around or touched a dead body.

00:28:00Sometimes you got to do that to take for hygienic purposes, right?

00:28:03You got to bury the dead, take care of them, whatnot.

00:28:05So they could not perform the Pesach when it was told to perform it.

00:28:10And they're asking Moses and Yahweh himself says to come back on the second new moon a month later,

00:28:16do all the exact same stuff just a month later.

00:28:20So the Pesach or Passover is so important that you get a second chance and it says do this.

00:28:27And once again, they were doing it in the wilderness without a temple and not being in the promised land.

00:28:32So then we go on and we see that when they do get into the promised land,

00:28:36they continue to celebrate Passover.

00:28:41And the children of Israel camped at Gilgal and performed Pesach on the 14th day of the new moon at

00:28:47evening on the desert plains of Jericho.

00:28:50And then again, second Kings chapter 23 verse 21.

00:28:54And the sovereign Yosiah who commanded all the people saying prepare the Pesach to Yahweh your Elohim as it is

00:29:01written in this book of the covenant.

00:29:03Again, in Ezekiel chapter 45 verse 21.

00:29:06In the first month on the 14th day of the new moon, you have the Pesach, a festival of seven

00:29:13days.

00:29:13Unleavened bread is eaten.

00:29:16So they continued on all the way out through the Tanakh because they read that word forever and they knew

00:29:22what forever meant.

00:29:24And they understood it and remember that so much so that even when they came back from exile, they still

00:29:30perform the Passover.

00:29:31Ezra chapter 6 verse 19.

00:29:34And the sons of the exile performed the Pesach on the 14th day of the first new moon.

00:29:40So this should be pretty obvious.

00:29:42That's where Passover comes from.

00:29:44Why is celebrated to remember and commemorate the angel of death passing over the Hebrews in Egypt and right before

00:29:51they went out of Egypt.

00:29:55They're heading toward the promised land and they continued celebrating Passover when they were in the wilderness, when they got

00:30:01to the promised land, when they came back from exile, et cetera, et cetera.

00:30:05All throughout the Tanakh, the people of Israel, the people of Yahweh celebrated the Passover.

00:30:11So now you're thinking, well, what about the AKA New Testament, which is called the Brit Hadashah?

00:30:17What does that have to say about the Passover now with our Messiah?

00:30:20Well, if you haven't read your Bible, let me break it to you.

00:30:27Yeshua, Jesus, he kept Passover.

00:30:30Luke chapter 2 verses 40 through 41.

00:30:34And the child Yeshua grew and became strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom.

00:30:39And the favor of Elohim was upon him.

00:30:41And his parents went to Yerushalayim every year at the festival of the Pesach.

00:30:46So Passover or Pesach was something that Yeshua was raised with and continued with throughout his life.

00:30:54We see the continued observance in the Brit Hadashah.

00:30:58We look at Luke chapter 22 verse 1.

00:31:02And the festival of Matzo drew near, which is called Pesach.

00:31:06So they kept on doing it.

00:31:07Even the righteous, the faithful, the followers of Yeshua celebrated Pesach or Passover.

00:31:16Then we look at, well, maybe thinking, OK, well, isn't Passover actually a Jewish festival?

00:31:22We'll get into some misnomers here in just a little bit.

00:31:25But just to let you know, it is called the Passover of the Jews in one particular book.

00:31:30And that's the book of John.

00:31:32Here is one example from the book of John.

00:31:35John chapter 2 verse 13.

00:31:36And the Pesach of the Yehudim was near and Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim.

00:31:42But once again, Yeshua is going up to the temple to celebrate the Passover.

00:31:48And here in the book of John is calling it the Passover of the Jews.

00:31:53Or I'm sorry, the Passover of the Judeans, et cetera, et cetera.

00:31:57However, John is the only place in Scripture where it's ever called the Passover of the Jews.

00:32:04And we'll get into more details on that coming up in just a minute.

00:32:08So you may be thinking, OK, yeah, Yeshua celebrated Passover and so did his disciples.

00:32:13But then he was crucified and buried and resurrected.

00:32:16And everyone knows that the law was nailed to the cross when he died on the cross.

00:32:24Once again, I come from Baptist background.

00:32:26I've heard this throughout my life.

00:32:28This is the kind of thing that's preached and taught in mainstream churchianity.

00:32:33But is that true?

00:32:35Is there any evidence to show that the Torah and the Passover and the feast days were done away with

00:32:43on the cross?

00:32:45Let's look at the scriptural evidence real quick.

00:32:48Acts chapter 12, verses 1 through 4.

00:32:50And about that time, Herodes or Herod, the sovereign, put forth his hands to do evil to some from the

00:32:57assembly.

00:32:58That means some from the followers of Yeshua.

00:33:02And he killed Yaakov, the brother of Yohanan, with the sword.

00:33:05And seeing that it was pleasing to the Yehudim, he proceeded further to arrest Kepha as well.

00:33:10And they were the days of unleavened bread.

00:33:13So when he had seized him, he put him in prison and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to

00:33:19watch over him, intending to bring him before the people after Pesach.

00:33:25So here's something that's really interesting as well.

00:33:27We went over the technicalities of what Passover is and also the unleavened bread, the week of unleavened bread.

00:33:34But here in this passage, it starts out by saying that these were the days of unleavened bread.

00:33:38And then it goes on to refer to that as Passover or Pesach.

00:33:43In Greek, that would be Pascha.

00:33:46So here they're kind of using that interchangeably, the days of unleavened bread and Pesach too, like we do still

00:33:53nowadays a lot of times.

00:33:56However, you can see here they were still celebrating and still concerned with Passover, even after the death, burial and

00:34:03resurrection of Yeshua.

00:34:05Now, one interesting thing, if you've ever read a King James Bible and you've read this particular passage, you'll go

00:34:11look it up as we read this in a minute.

00:34:12You can. But here is one of the several places where the King James has an error.

00:34:18And the error in the King James is that it actually calls this Easter instead of Passover.

00:34:27Let's look at that in the King James Version, Acts chapter 12, verse four.

00:34:32And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to

00:34:38keep him intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

00:34:44So.

00:34:46If you don't know, Easter did not come about until.

00:34:51Wow.

00:34:52Eight hundreds, nine hundreds, something like that.

00:34:54It was a long time in coming, much longer than the Feast of Nativity we know of as Christmas nowadays.

00:35:02But let it be known.

00:35:03The fact is that back in the first century, they knew nothing about Easter.

00:35:08So calling this Easter is anachronistic.

00:35:13There we go.

00:35:15It's taking a modern concept, trying to read it back into past events.

00:35:18And it's it's false.

00:35:19It's it leads people astray.

00:35:22And it has for many, many years.

00:35:25Anyways, the Tyndale, which came before the King James, also mistranslates it.

00:35:30But that's kind of par for course because the King James is pretty much like 75, 80% Tyndale anyways.

00:35:38Other translations correct this particular passage and they get it right, especially the modern translations like the ESV, the LSB,

00:35:46even the Wycliffe, which came long before the King James and the Geneva, which came before the King James.

00:35:53They got it right as well.

00:35:55Modern translations accurately translate this word Pascha in Greek as Passover.

00:36:03That's what the scripture is talking about.

00:36:05There is talking about Passover, not Easter here in the Wycliffe and the Geneva.

00:36:10It doesn't even translate it into a word that we know today.

00:36:12They simply cause it past and little known or little unknown fact.

00:36:18If you look at various celebrations around the world.

00:36:23And what I'm talking about here is the celebrations of Easter.

00:36:27Okay. Just let the cat out of the bag.

00:36:30You look at these various celebrations around the world of Easter.

00:36:33A lot of people still call it by some derivative of Pascha.

00:36:38They call it Pascha, Pasch, Paschal, something like that.

00:36:42They don't call it Easter.

00:36:44Very few cultures actually use that word Easter.

00:36:49A lot of people, but we compare culture to culture.

00:36:53It's very few.

00:36:54They call it some derivative of Pascha.

00:36:57Just like the word Saturday we have here in America.

00:37:01A lot of places around the world, they call it some derivative of Shabbat or Sabbath, Sabado, things like that.

00:37:08So very nerdy tangent there.

00:37:11But anyways.

00:37:11Yeah.

00:37:12King James translates this as Easter incorrectly, but modern translations correctly translate it as Passover.

00:37:17And the word we looked at earlier, that word Pascha, actually does mean Passover.

00:37:23It does not mean Easter.

00:37:26And you can look this up in the lexicons and the dictionaries that we have provided and other dictionaries and

00:37:32lexicons as well.

00:37:33It'll say the exact same thing.

00:37:35Pascha means Passover, not Easter.

00:37:39So as they continue on in the Brit Hadashah, they use this festival of Passover or Pesach or Pascha for

00:37:48teaching metaphorical and symbolic things.

00:37:51We look in 1 Corinthians 5, verses 6-8.

00:37:55It says here,

00:38:20Now when it says let us celebrate the festival, which festival is talking about?

00:38:25Well, it doesn't use the actual word Pascha here, but from all the references, it's obvious what it's talking about.

00:38:31It's talking about Passover.

00:38:33It's talking about getting rid of the leaven, calling us unleavened, et cetera, et cetera.

00:38:40So we know it's referencing Passover.

00:38:42Well, this would not mean squat to people who didn't know anything about Passover.

00:38:48So as we already established, the people were still continuing to celebrate Passover.

00:38:53They would have known this imagery already being associated with Passover.

00:38:57And now when Paul writes to the church at Corinth, he uses that imagery from this festival to teach them

00:39:04the point he's trying to get across.

00:39:06But they wouldn't have known that if they did not know about Passover or celebrating Passover.

00:39:12So now let's get into some Passover myths.

00:39:15And we hinted at this earlier, but let's start out at looking at the whole concept and the tradition of

00:39:22myth that's going around that Passover is one of those, quote unquote, Jewish holidays.

00:39:29Well, is that what scripture calls it?

00:39:31The scripture call it a quote unquote Jewish holiday.

00:39:34We look at Exodus chapter 12, verse 11, and this is how you eat it.

00:39:39Your loins girded, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it in

00:39:43haste.

00:39:44It is the Pesach of Yahweh.

00:39:48Exodus chapter 12, verses 26 through 27.

00:39:51And it shall be when your children say to you, what does this service mean to you?

00:39:55Then you shall say, it is the Pesach slaughtering of Yahweh, who passed over the houses of children of the

00:40:02children of Israel in Misrayim, when he smote the mitzvites and delivered your households.

00:40:07Numbers chapter 9, verse 10.

00:40:09Speak to the children of Israel, saying, when any male of you or your generations is unclean for a being

00:40:14or is far away on a journey, he shall still perform the Pesach of Yahweh.

00:40:21Numbers chapter 9, verse 14.

00:40:23And when a stranger sojourns among you, then he shall perform the Pesach of Yahweh.

00:40:30He shall do so according to the law of the Pesach and according to its right ruling.

00:40:34You have one law, both for the stranger and the native of the land.

00:40:39Numbers chapter 28, verse 16.

00:40:41And then the first new moon on the 14th day is the Pesach of Yahweh, etc., etc., etc.

00:40:49So what does scripture call Pesach?

00:40:51It says it is Yahweh's Pesach.

00:40:54Yahweh is the one who instituted it, who told us to do it.

00:40:57It wasn't given just to the tribe of Judah.

00:40:59It wasn't the tribe of Judah who instituted it.

00:41:02No.

00:41:03It was instituted by Yahweh himself, and it's given to all of us, all of his people, not just the

00:41:11tribe of Judah or the southern kingdom of Judea, given to all of us.

00:41:15And it's the Pesach of Yahweh.

00:41:17However, in the spirit of full disclosure, we've already hinted to this already.

00:41:23But in the spirit of full disclosure, scripture does in one particular book refer to Pesach as the Jewish Passover,

00:41:32for lack of a better term.

00:41:34And like we said earlier, that is in the book of John.

00:41:37Let's look at some examples real quick.

00:41:38In John 2, verse 13.

00:41:41And the Pesach of the Yehudim was near, and Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim.

00:41:46John 6, verse 4.

00:41:48And the Pesach was near, the festival of the Yehudim.

00:41:52John 11, verse 55.

00:41:54Now the Pesach of the Yehudim was near, and many went from the country up to Yerushalayim before the Pesach

00:42:01to set themselves apart.

00:42:04Now, like I said, everywhere else except for the book of John, it always calls it the Pesach of Yahweh,

00:42:11not the Jewish Passover.

00:42:13Only in the book of John does it call it the Jewish Passover, or the Passover of the Jews, or

00:42:18something like that.

00:42:20I haven't been able to track down fully why that is, why it's only John.

00:42:25Some things I've come across that I haven't fully verified yet, so take this with a grain of salt.

00:42:31But some things I've come across says that John was actually writing to a Greek audience, and he was calling

00:42:37it that just for clarity and specificity.

00:42:41So, take that for what you will.

00:42:44If you have any more research, by all means, send it our way so we can look at it.

00:42:48But, yeah, it's only in the book of John is it ever in Scripture referred to as a Jewish Passover

00:42:54or Passover of the Jews.

00:42:56So now another myth or misnomer about Passover is that Yeshua, Jesus, died on Good Friday.

00:43:05Is that actually true?

00:43:07Let's examine the Scriptures to find out.

00:43:10Matthew 12, verse 40.

00:43:12For as Yonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish,

00:43:16so shall the son of Adam be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

00:43:21Remember that.

00:43:22Yeshua foretold and prophesied, because he was a prophet.

00:43:26He prophesied that he would be in the tomb in the heart of the earth for three days and three

00:43:33nights.

00:43:35So, let's stop real quick and add this up.

00:43:37If it's like tradition says, and he was crucified on Friday, Friday evening, that gives Friday night one night, Saturday

00:43:46one day.

00:43:50For the benefit of the doubt, we'll say Saturday night.

00:43:53So that's two nights and one day.

00:43:54And then we'll get to here in a moment.

00:43:56But it says that he was seen on the first day of the week.

00:43:59That's not three days and three nights.

00:44:01Matthew 16, verse 21.

00:44:04From that time, Yeshua began to show to his taught ones that it was necessary for him to go to

00:44:09Yerushalayim,

00:44:10and to suffer much from the elders and chief priests and scribes,

00:44:13and be killed and to be raised again the third day.

00:44:18The third day.

00:44:22Put that in your memory bank.

00:44:24We're going to be applying that here in just a moment.

00:44:27Luke 9, verse 22.

00:44:29Saying,

00:44:30The son of Adam has to suffer much and to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes,

00:44:34and to be killed and to be raised the third day.

00:44:38Acts 10, verse 39-40.

00:44:41And we are witnesses of all he did, both in the country of the Yehudim and in Yerushalayim,

00:44:46whom they even killed by hanging on a timber.

00:44:48Elohim raised up this one on the third day and let him be seen.

00:44:54Again, three days and three nights.

00:44:56You can say, well, maybe that's just a Hebrew idiom instead of actually being literal.

00:45:02But then we go on and we read that he was raised on the third day.

00:45:13That's not an idiom.

00:45:14That is specific.

00:45:15So we know that when Yeshua said that he was to be in the tomb for three days and three

00:45:19nights,

00:45:20he was being literal.

00:45:22And when we look at the timing of stuff, there's a lot of pieces that go into it.

00:45:28One of the things that we can know for sure is that he was seen after being killed and buried.

00:45:36He was seen on the first day of the week.

00:45:39That can be our anchor point.

00:45:40Look at John chapter 20, verse one.

00:45:42And on day one of the week, Miriam from Magdala came early to the tomb while it was still dark

00:45:48and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

00:45:52So some things to note from this particular verse is the first day of the week.

00:45:56What is the first day of the week?

00:45:57Well, we know that as Sunday nowadays.

00:46:02And mainstream churchianity says that Sunday is now the Sabbath because it was on Sunday that Jesus rose from the

00:46:09dead.

00:46:10Well, that's not exactly true.

00:46:12It doesn't say he rose from the dead on the first day.

00:46:14It says that he was first seen on the first day.

00:46:18There's that's an important distinction there.

00:46:20He had already risen.

00:46:22And then he was seen on the first day.

00:46:25Yeah.

00:46:26And when the when Mary Magdala sees him on the first day of the week, he's already risen.

00:46:33And it's my contention that he actually rose after sunset on the seventh day.

00:46:40So take that for what you will.

00:46:42So let's look at this visually.

00:46:44Now, according to standard Catholic tradition, it says that Jesus dies on Good Friday.

00:46:52And then if you follow scripture, it says he'll be in the tomb for three days and three nights.

00:46:56And then he is first seen on Sunday, the first day of the week.

00:47:00That's not three days and three nights.

00:47:03Like I said, we know he was seen on the first day of the week.

00:47:06So we can use that as an anchor point and count backwards three days and three nights.

00:47:10And that leads us to Wednesday evening as to when he was actually crucified.

00:47:16There's a lot more information from scripture that actually feeds into this and lines up with a Wednesday crucifixion, not

00:47:25a Friday crucifixion.

00:47:29First of all, the first day is considered a Sabbath or a Shabbaton.

00:47:33And we already went over that when we read back in the Tanakh.

00:47:37This is going to be important to remember.

00:47:39Let's look at Leviticus chapter 23, verses five through seven.

00:47:42And the first new moon on the 14th day of the new moon between the evenings is the Pesach to

00:47:48Yahweh.

00:47:49And on the 15th day of this new moon is the festival of Matzo to Yahweh.

00:47:53Seven days you eat unleavened bread.

00:47:56On the first day you have a set apart gathering.

00:47:59You do no servile work.

00:48:02So the first day of unleavened bread is a Shabbaton.

00:48:07It's a Sabbath.

00:48:08It's considered a Sabbath because there's no work.

00:48:10So yeah, the first day of unleavened bread and the last day is a Shabbaton, a Sabbath, a day of

00:48:17rest.

00:48:18So remember that the first day is going to come into play here in just a minute.

00:48:22This is here in the Hadesha that the day after the crucifixion was referred to as a Sabbath.

00:48:28John chapter 19, verse 31.

00:48:30Therefore, since it was the preparation day that the bodies should not remain on the stake on the Sabbath or

00:48:36that Sabbath was a high one.

00:48:38The Yehudim asked Pilate to have their legs broken and that they be taken away.

00:48:43So here is calling the day after Yeshua was crucified a Sabbath and is actually referring to it as a

00:48:50high Sabbath.

00:48:51I tried to look this up, and this is the only time I could find that this Sabbath was called

00:48:57a high Sabbath.

00:48:59Nowhere else in Scripture, nowhere else in the Talmud, nowhere else in the Mishnah, in the writings of Josephus, in

00:49:07the writings of Philo, is this term high Sabbath ever used.

00:49:12So that was a non-starter to begin with, but it does give it an adjective, and that sets it

00:49:20apart, I think, from the regular weekly Sabbath because it's called a high one.

00:49:26It's something distinct from the regular Sabbath.

00:49:29Otherwise, it is referred to it as the Sabbath.

00:49:32So it's definitely referring to it as something different than the weekly Sabbath.

00:49:37So again, it's fitting in with what we saw from the timeline that we just put forth, that he was

00:49:43crucified on a Wednesday evening.

00:49:47The next day was a Sabbath, so he had to be buried on that Wednesday evening.

00:49:51And why was it a Sabbath on a Thursday?

00:49:53Well, because it was the beginning of the Week of Unleavened Bread.

00:49:56And it's ordered that you do no servile work on the first day.

00:50:00That's why it's called a Sabbath.

00:50:02But there's two Sabbaths in that week, and we'll get to that in just a minute.

00:50:07It gets complicated if you're not taking notes, so just try to remember this if you can.

00:50:11Anyways, moving on.

00:50:12It says that the women buy spices after the Sabbath.

00:50:17We look in Mark 16, verses 1 through 2.

00:50:20And when the Sabbath was passed, Miriam from Magdala, and Miriam the mother of Yaacob, and Shaloma bought spices to

00:50:27go and anoint him.

00:50:28And very early on day one of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

00:50:34But take note of this, because it gets confusing here in just a minute.

00:50:37But it all makes sense at the end.

00:50:39Here it says that the women buy spices after the Sabbath, because on the Sabbath, buying and selling is not

00:50:46to be done.

00:50:47So they had to wait until after the Sabbath to buy the spices to anoint his body with.

00:50:53Then it goes on to say that the women prepare the spices and then rest on the Sabbath.

00:50:58Luke 23, verses 53 and 56.

00:51:01And the women who had come with him from Galil followed after and saw the tomb and how his body

00:51:07was laid.

00:51:08And having returned, they prepared spices and perfumes, and they rested on the Sabbath according to the command.

00:51:16So is the Bible getting things confused?

00:51:19Is it contradicting itself?

00:51:20It just said that they bought spices after the Sabbath.

00:51:23Now it says that they took the spices, prepared them, and then rested on the Sabbath.

00:51:27How does that make any sense?

00:51:29Remember, we'll clear it up for you in just a minute.

00:51:31Because it all fits on that timeline that we just proposed.

00:51:34And then finally it says that the women see the risen Yeshua on the first day of the week.

00:51:40Mark chapter 16, verse 2.

00:51:42And very early on day one of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

00:51:47Mark chapter 16, verse 9.

00:51:49And having risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Miriam from Magdala, from whom

00:51:55he had cast out seven demons.

00:51:58So we know that's an anchor point that we can count backwards from.

00:52:01And everything we just read and looked at, it all fits with that timeline we're going to show you in

00:52:05just a moment.

00:52:06But if you will indulge me just a second to go on a tangent here.

00:52:09It says here in Mark chapter 16, verse 9, that Yeshua rose early on the first day of the week.

00:52:18So does that confirm that he rose on Sunday?

00:52:21Nope.

00:52:23Not if you know what a biblical day is.

00:52:25Remember, according to scripture, the day starts at sunset.

00:52:31So if you go with the timeline that we just put forth, he was crucified on a Wednesday.

00:52:36He spent Wednesday night, Thursday day, Thursday.

00:52:41I'm sorry.

00:52:42Let me get back to that.

00:52:44Wednesday night, Thursday day, Thursday night, Friday day, Friday night, Saturday day.

00:52:50That's three days and three nights.

00:52:52So that means sunset on Saturday would have been the start of the first day, according to scripture.

00:53:00That's when I put forth that he was actually rose because that would have completed three days and three nights.

00:53:06He was done at that point.

00:53:07Then he could have rose.

00:53:09And it says here, confirming what I just put forth, I think, in my opinion, that he rose early on

00:53:16the first day of the week.

00:53:17So take that for what you will.

00:53:18That's my tangent.

00:53:19I'm done now.

00:53:20Anyways, so taking out everything we just looked at in scripture, all these little pieces of information about the women

00:53:25waiting till after the Sabbath to buy spices and then buying spices and resting on the Sabbath.

00:53:30How does that all put together?

00:53:32Let's look at the visual representation here real quick.

00:53:34That goes along with everything that we just looked at.

00:53:39On Wednesday, this is what we're putting forth that on Wednesday, Yeshua dies and is laid in the tomb.

00:53:44That is when the Passover is celebrated.

00:53:47They eat the lamb, all that stuff.

00:53:50Then on Thursday, that would have been the first day of unleavened bread.

00:53:53That would have been a Sabbath that is referenced as far as the women waiting till after the Sabbath to

00:53:59buy spices.

00:54:00Then on Friday, the women are able to go out, go buy and sell.

00:54:06They buy the spices.

00:54:07They come back.

00:54:08They prepare the spices.

00:54:10And I don't know what's involved.

00:54:12I tried to look this up, but I didn't have time.

00:54:14I don't know what's involved with preparing spices for anointing a dead body, but apparently it doesn't seem like they

00:54:20were able to do that all in one day.

00:54:21So they go buy the spices, come back, prepare them, and then rest for the Sabbath.

00:54:26And that Sabbath would have been the recurring weekly Sabbath.

00:54:30Then they take those spices early on the first day of the week.

00:54:35They go to the tomb to anoint the Messiah, but he's not there.

00:54:40He's already gone.

00:54:43So everything we just looked at lines up perfectly with the timeline that we're putting forth here.

00:54:49The bigger picture, the bigger point is it's not about what day of the week that he was crucified on

00:54:56and rose on.

00:54:57That's just what happened to be at that time.

00:55:01The biggest thing is that he was crucified on Passover, the 14th day of the first month.

00:55:09That's it.

00:55:10And that's going to come into play as we look at next week's teaching on Easter.

00:55:14So remember that particular tidbit.

00:55:17Yeah.

00:55:17The timeline we put forth lines up with everything we found in scripture.

00:55:22Take it as you will.

00:55:23If you disagree and you still hold to good Friday, that's fine.

00:55:27We can still fellowship.

00:55:30No, you know, no fights, nothing like that.

00:55:32We disagree, but that's okay.

00:55:34We still break bread, still fellowship.

00:55:36But it is the good Friday scenario just does not line up with scripture.

00:55:42But when you're Catholic, it doesn't matter.

00:55:45It's the teaching of the church, not scripture.

00:55:47That's most important.

00:55:49Unfortunately, those traditions from Catholicism has continued down into Protestantism.

00:55:54And it's just stuck around and should be getting rid of.

00:55:58But then fortunately they haven't.

00:56:01Anyways, let's start winding down and look at some things for further study.

00:56:05Some things I got into trying to flesh out for this particular teaching, but didn't have time.

00:56:10So I'm going to mention them to you in case you want to go on in your own studies.

00:56:15There's been over the years, some things put forth saying that the last supper that Yeshua

00:56:22had with his disciples before he was crucified was actually a Passover meal.

00:56:27Well, is that true or not?

00:56:28Because they had the last supper one night and then he's crucified on Passover the next day.

00:56:35So how is that a Passover meal?

00:56:38Well, when we look in scripture, the disciples actually refer to it as the Pesach, the Passover meal,

00:56:46even though he's crucified a day later on Passover.

00:56:51So how does all that make sense?

00:56:52And here's the references I put up there for you, where the disciples actually refer to

00:56:57the last supper as a Passover meal.

00:57:00Another thing that I got to look at, but I didn't get into a lot of detail or research

00:57:04on was different customs.

00:57:06Because when you look at even nowadays within Christianity, if you look at people who celebrate

00:57:12Easter, depending on which culture or custom you come up with, depends on how you would celebrate

00:57:17Easter or Christmas or stuff like that.

00:57:20And the northern part of America, they would celebrate it one way, whereas it's a little

00:57:25bit different in the south and a little bit different in the west, a little bit different

00:57:29in Europe, et cetera, et cetera.

00:57:32But it's all regarding the same holiday.

00:57:35And the same thing goes with Passover, even back in Yeshua's day.

00:57:39What I came to find out is that in Galilee, that, you know, Jesus is from Nazareth, which

00:57:45is in the territory of Galilee in Israel.

00:57:48So Yeshua was a Galilean.

00:57:52Well, a Galilean custom is to have what's called a meal of cessation.

00:57:58And what they do is they have a fast on the 14th day of Passover, and it's called the

00:58:05fast of the firstborn to remember the death of the firstborn back in Egypt.

00:58:10Now, once that fast is over on the 14th, then they have the Seder that's commanded by

00:58:16scripture at the evening.

00:58:18And that's their Passover meal.

00:58:20But before the fast, they have a final meal to eat before they fast the next day.

00:58:28And that meal is called the meal of cessation.

00:58:30And that was a Galilean custom that Yeshua probably would have at least known about because

00:58:36he was from Galilee.

00:58:38So take that for what you will.

00:58:40I didn't have time to flesh it out.

00:58:42If you want to go further with that and run with it, by all means, do some research.

00:58:46Let me know what you find out.

00:58:48Yeah, it's called the meal of cessation.

00:58:50And some people actually point to that as being what is referred to nowadays as the last

00:58:56supper.

00:58:57Passover.

00:58:57It's connected with Passover, but there's a lot of nuances and stuff there.

00:59:02So, yeah, you go further with that and you find anything out.

00:59:06By all means, please send it my way so I can learn as well and put it in our notes

00:59:11to get

00:59:11out to everybody.

00:59:12So now you've learned about Passover, where it comes from, how to celebrate it according

00:59:16to scripture.

00:59:17But if you want to celebrate it today, what are some various customs and practices that

00:59:21you could implement in your own life in order to celebrate Passover?

00:59:26Well, number one, the food, obviously, because we read in scripture, there's a lot of food

00:59:31associated with Passover.

00:59:34Three specifically mentioned in the scriptures.

00:59:38Number one is lamb.

00:59:39A lot of people know that on Passover, you roast the lamb and you eat the lamb.

00:59:46This is something I learned a couple of years ago, but anyways, that you can actually substitute

00:59:51a goat if you don't have a lamb.

00:59:54So if you're trying to celebrate Passover and you can't get hold of lamb, go for goat.

01:00:00That is scripturally accurate and mentioned in scripture here in Exodus chapter 12, verse

01:00:065.

01:00:07Let the lamb be a perfect one, a year old male.

01:00:10Take it from the sheep or from the goats.

01:00:15So a young lamb or a young goat, you can eat for Passover.

01:00:21So there is your protein, your meat that you're going to be eating for Passover.

01:00:27As directed by scripture, another thing directed by scripture is unleavened bread.

01:00:32And we went into some detail on that.

01:00:34So you know what unleavened bread is.

01:00:36You can go and buy that at the store.

01:00:39Again, it's edible.

01:00:41It's not the most tastiest thing in the world, but it's edible.

01:00:44And it's called matzah.

01:00:46You can buy it.

01:00:47I think I'm not, we're not sponsored and I'm not promoting a particular brand, but

01:00:51Manischewitz is a company that produces matzah crackers or matzah bread.

01:00:56You can make your own as well.

01:00:58And if you want some recipes, I got four or five recipes for different matzah that you

01:01:03can make.

01:01:04So there's two things mentioned by scripture to eat on Passover.

01:01:08And that is the lamb or the goat and the matzah, the unleavened bread.

01:01:12And the third thing that scripture tells us to eat is bitter herbs.

01:01:16It doesn't give anything specific, but most of the time when I celebrate Passover, we

01:01:22have horseradish.

01:01:23The kids despise it and that's fine.

01:01:28I mean, it's not meant to be enjoyable.

01:01:30It's meant to remember what's going on with Passover.

01:01:34So yeah, it's supposed to be better.

01:01:36It's supposed to invoke a reaction and memory of what is going on.

01:01:41So those are the three things commanded by scripture.

01:01:43When you celebrate Passover, eat lamb or goat, unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

01:01:50And again, it doesn't have to be horseradish.

01:01:53You can use something else, but horseradish is fairly common.

01:01:57Now, some other things that are commonly eaten at Passover is something called haroset.

01:02:05Haroset is very, very good if you make it correctly.

01:02:10Now, a couple of years ago, I did not make it correctly and it was very off.

01:02:16And I realized that when I went to, oh, first of all, those of you who don't know, haroset

01:02:21is a mixture of things like apples, nuts, raisins, honey, things like that.

01:02:26And they're put in and mixed all together.

01:02:30It's very sweet.

01:02:32It's very good.

01:02:34And it's meant to represent the mortar that was used by the Israelites when they were making bricks

01:02:39and stuff like that in Egypt.

01:02:41But what I did a couple of years ago is when I went to the store to buy the peanuts

01:02:45to go

01:02:45in the haroset.

01:02:46I just grabbed a can of peanuts off the shelf at the store, not looking, and made my haroset.

01:02:54I did not know that you could buy raw peanuts already shelled at the store.

01:02:59I thought they were all cooked and roasted.

01:03:01But I found out that year that, yeah, you can find raw peanuts and raw peanuts are absolutely nasty.

01:03:08So if you're going to make haroset, look at the label before you buy that can or jar of peanuts.

01:03:15Going on, some other food that is nowadays commonly associated with Passover but not required by scripture

01:03:21is something called parsley stalks.

01:03:24You know what that is.

01:03:25And that symbolizes the tears, or I'm sorry, it's used to symbolize the putting on the blood on the doorpost.

01:03:34We'll get to the tears in just a minute.

01:03:36Anyways, also wine or grape juice is used in Passover celebrations.

01:03:40We see this from where Yeshua drank wine at the last meal, referring to it as his blood.

01:03:47And as we went over with our alcohol episode, wine was commonplace back then.

01:03:53They had it for just about every meal.

01:03:55So wine or grape juice is commonly used at Passover Seder.

01:04:01Some Jews, I'd say probably a lot of Jews anyways, use what's called a bezza.

01:04:07We know it better as an egg.

01:04:09This is something I would advise you not to do.

01:04:12There's nothing wrong with eating eggs.

01:04:14I get it.

01:04:14They're not poisonous.

01:04:15They're not unclean, what not.

01:04:17But when used in a religious context, that's usually something that comes from paganism.

01:04:22Think Easter that we'll get into next week.

01:04:26And Judaism is not immune from bringing in or syncretizing pagan practices.

01:04:31And bringing in the egg is one of those.

01:04:33It's another thing that's not commanded by scripture.

01:04:36And as far as I can tell, it was only put in there when it was brought in from paganism.

01:04:42So a lot of people do use an egg, but I would highly advise against that.

01:04:47And the last thing that I see a lot of times with a Seder meal in the celebration of Passover

01:04:54is salt water.

01:04:55And that's to remind us of the tears of the Israelites when they were in bondage and slavery in Egypt.

01:05:01Now, when you start looking at buying things for Passover, some things are not considered kosher for Passover.

01:05:09But some things are.

01:05:10And a lot of things are actually labeled as kosher for Passover.

01:05:15If you're watching the video here, you can see this orange juice here.

01:05:19And it's got in Hebrew kosher le Pesach.

01:05:22And that means kosher for Passover.

01:05:25Other orange juice or other things that aren't labeled like that are not kosher for Passover.

01:05:31According to Jewish tradition, let me put that way.

01:05:34If it's kosher, according to scripture, go for it.

01:05:38That's always been my attitude.

01:05:40It doesn't have to be labeled.

01:05:41If I know it's kosher, I'll look at the ingredients.

01:05:43There's nothing unclean in there.

01:05:44I'm good to go for Passover.

01:05:46There's another criteria to look at.

01:05:49And that would be leavening.

01:05:51If it doesn't have leaven in it, then it's good.

01:05:53It doesn't have to be certified by Jewish authority.

01:05:55If it's not got leaven and it's kosher, it's good for Passover, in my opinion.

01:05:59Anyways, look at any bread or dessert that you have and make sure it's not leavened when you include it

01:06:06with your Passover meal or anything you eat during the week of Passover or the week of unleavened bread.

01:06:13You can eat things like matzo that we've already looked at and already covered, but some other things that you

01:06:20can eat as well.

01:06:21Some people who probably don't know this, but there's a type of cake called a sponge cake.

01:06:27And I love making sponge cakes.

01:06:29They're so good.

01:06:30It's called angel food cake a lot of times.

01:06:32But these cakes are not made with a leavening agent.

01:06:36They are soft and they're puffy, but they're not leavened.

01:06:40And the reason is that it uses a meringue egg whites and it's air that gets beaten into them.

01:06:46And if you have ever cooked angel food cake or sponge cake and, you know, if you let it set

01:06:52out too long, it'll eventually deflate without ever coming back up.

01:06:56And that's because it doesn't have leavening in it.

01:06:59You have to whip the air into it.

01:07:00And while it's still got that air whipped in it, you have to bake it.

01:07:04So it sets the angel food cake sponge cake does not have leavening.

01:07:09And as far as I can tell, if I'm wrong, let me know and let me know your reasoning.

01:07:14But angel food cake, as far as I can tell, is perfectly OK for Passover because it does not contain

01:07:20leavening.

01:07:21Matzo balls.

01:07:22Those are good to eat any time of the year, but matzo balls are not leavened.

01:07:26So they're especially good for Passover.

01:07:28Anything dairy.

01:07:29Obviously, you can eat yogurt, cream cheese, regular cheese, et cetera, et cetera.

01:07:35Meat like salmon, gefilte fish, if you can stand gefilte fish, beef, poultry, things like that.

01:07:43You can have in addition to the lamb or goat.

01:07:47But scripture tells us to have lamb or goat.

01:07:49So make sure you definitely have that first.

01:07:51And then you have other meat in addition to it if you'd like.

01:07:54Quinoa, if you like quinoa.

01:07:57Nuts like almonds, peanuts, cashews, et cetera, et cetera.

01:08:01But once again, make sure you're looking at the label before you buy it.

01:08:04Fruits.

01:08:05Obviously, fruits are not leavened and fruits are kosher.

01:08:08So fruits are good to go for Passover.

01:08:12Rice.

01:08:12Rice is good for Passover.

01:08:14It's kosher.

01:08:15It's unleavened.

01:08:16Just regular old boiled rice, fried rice, even brown rice, whatever.

01:08:22Rice is good for Passover.

01:08:24Beans.

01:08:24Beans are also good.

01:08:25It doesn't contain leavening either.

01:08:27So basically the rule of thumb when you're looking at what to eat for Passover to include

01:08:32in your Passover meal is anything that is both kosher and unleavened.

01:08:39Another thing that you could use, but you don't have to, is something called a Seder plate.

01:08:44If you've ever seen a Seder plate, it's got different places for the different items that we just went over.

01:08:49Things like the parsley, the salt water, the, some people include a bone in their, the bitter herbs and stuff

01:08:58like that too.

01:08:59But you don't have to have this.

01:09:01It just, it's a little bit more fancy, a little bit more formal.

01:09:04So if you want to do it, do it.

01:09:06It's okay.

01:09:07If you don't want to do it, that's fine.

01:09:08It's not commanded.

01:09:10We have, we have a lot of presence on the internet as far as files and networks, stuff like that.

01:09:15One place we have a presence is a place called archive.org.

01:09:19And we've actually put up our own version of a Messianic Seder, Passover Seder on archive.org that you can

01:09:27go and download for yourself and feel free to use it.

01:09:30We've got two versions, a regular version for a general gathering of a group of people and also a light

01:09:38version.

01:09:38If you're doing it at home, the way it doesn't just take forever.

01:09:41If it's just you and a few family members.

01:09:44So go look for that on our archive.org account, or you can go to our website and we should

01:09:50have it linked there as well.

01:09:51If you still can't find it, let us know.

01:09:53And we will actually send you that link through email or what have you.

01:09:58And like I said, feel free to download it and use it yourself, even print it off for your guests.

01:10:03If you like, it's all for you guys.

01:10:06That's why we're here.

01:10:07That's our God honest truth, Passover Haggadah free for use.

01:10:12If you need one.

01:10:13So finally in summary, Passover is referred to as Pesach in Hebrew and Pascha in Greek.

01:10:20Passover commemorates the powerful hand of Yahweh redeeming the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt.

01:10:26Passover commemorates the sacrifice of our Messiah Yeshua as well, who is referred to as the Passover lamb.

01:10:32The Hebrews kept the Passover outside of the promised land, inside of the promised land, and all throughout the Tanakh.

01:10:40Yeshua kept the Passover and is our Passover lamb.

01:10:44Yeshua was crucified on a Wednesday afternoon, not on Good Friday.

01:10:49The apostles and the faithful kept the Passover in the Brit Hadashah.

01:10:54The early Christians also kept the Passover.

01:10:56Now, we didn't get into the history of the early church.

01:10:59Maybe this is something else we need to turn into a series.

01:11:02But even the early Christians kept the Passover.

01:11:06And this led to what was eventually became known as the Port of Deciman controversy.

01:11:10If you want to do some more research on your own there.

01:11:15But yeah, the early Christians also kept the Passover.

01:11:18Look at Polycarp, who was a disciple of John and when it was that he kept the Passover.

01:11:23And then Passover is an everlasting ordinance, a.k.a. forever.

01:11:28Not just until the time Jesus comes, but forever.

01:11:32And finally, we should keep Passover.

01:11:36Because once again, it is forever.

01:11:38It's a commemoration of the power and majesty of Yahweh.

01:11:42It's also a commemoration of the sacrifice of our Messiah, Yeshua.

01:11:47Therefore, we, nowadays, should also keep the Passover.

01:11:52And that is just the God honest truth.

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Passover: More Than a Meal – Discover God’s Redemptive Feast 2026

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