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When our Heavenly Father said He loathed their sacrifices concerning the feasts/appointed Times/moedim, and the other requirements, it was not that He despised the ordinances themselves. Why would He? He set them in as the seasons of the annual cycle of life and the prophetic representation of Messiah who would fulfill all the feasts and meanings of them. If Yeshua/Jesus is God the Father in the flesh, He would not, as the Son, change the Fathers ordinances. God, our Heavenly Father does not change His mind, He is not a human; He is Spirit. He perceived that they were performing the sacrifices as an expression of self-righteousness, showing their indifference to the claim that God was in their hearts; and heart motivation is extremely important. Proverbs 21:2,3,4,27.
All His ordinances are good and Holy/ set apart/ in harmony with Himself, but they are to be entered into with deep sincerity and with an honest awareness of their true significance. To sacrifice in carelessness and ignorance will cause damage to our own souls, so we must never allow our spirit to become callous and hardhearted.
Now, is always a good time to check just what is our heart attitude?
The Pharisees and Sadducees were full of themselves, they added laws and ordinances to those given by the Lord. They saw themselves as better than the people, not equal to them; they did not keep a servant hearted attitude and much of what they did was just for show. Look at Yeshua/Jesus’ statement in Luke 11:37 – 44 …Woe to you Pharisees… . it was the same in His day just as at the time referred to in our title, the loathing… pride, arrogance and holier than thou attitude.
They had changed the truth of God to their religious standard for the people, but didn’t keep it themselves. Yeshua/Jesus was hard on this behavior because He knew what He had come to do, as he said in John 17:4. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.
His purpose was the Father’s purpose in the process of being fulfilled for 4000 years; which was the redemption of mankind in the fullness of time. No one killed Yeshua/Jesus, no one murdered Him by their choice. The death of Messiah is the fulfillment in history of the very mind and intent of our Heavenly Father. There is no place for seeing Yeshua/Jesus as a martyr. His death was not something that happened to Him, something that might have been prevented. His death was the very specific reason He came, it was His determined purpose.
We must never build our case for forgiveness simply on the thought that God is our Father and He will forgive us just because He loves us; that contradicts the revealed truth of God in Jesus Christ/Yeshua haMashiach; and it makes the cross unnecessary and the redemptive work as nothing.
Our Father God forgives sin only because of the death of Messiah.
A life for a life, because the life is in the blood (Lev 17:11), and He cannot forgive people in any other way than by the death of His Son because of the established covenant. (Abraham and the willingness to offer his son Isaac.)
Hence all of the animal sacrifices and the appointed times which followed until Messiah came. Yeshua/Jesus is exalted as Savior because of His death. We see Jesus/Yeshua in Hebrews 2:9 for the suffering and death crowned with glory and honor. The greatest cry of triumph ever heard in the ears of a shocked universe was that which was released from the cross – it is finished. That is the final word in the redemption of humankind and the fulfillment of the promise in Genesis 1. If the devil had known the fullness of the Fathers plan he wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of Glory. 1Cor. 2:8. This was the hidden mystery of the gospel revealed in His death and resurrection – a whole new being, eternal in nature, unknown until that process was completed/ finished. He was the first born from the dead, both physical and spiritual, no longer separated from the Father.
Anything that lessens, detracts from or completely obliterates the holiness of our Heavenly Father through a false view of His love, contradicts the truth of Him as revealed by Jesus/Yeshua. We view love from a standpoint of a human emotion, a feeling; it’s not the same as the love of our Heavenly Father, His Love is truth. We must never allow ourselves to believe that Jesus/Yeshua stands with us and against the Father out of pity and compassion, or that He became a curse for us out of sympathy for us. Jesus Christ/Yeshua haMashiach, became a curse for us by divine degree, something we often do not fully comprehend. Our part in realizing and understanding the tremendous meaning of the curse which He became is the conviction of sin. Galatians 3:13. Conviction is given to us as a gift, to stir up shame and godly sorrow which leads us to repentance; it’s the great mercy of our Heavenly Father. Jesus/Yeshua hates the sin in people and Calvary’s cross is the measure and extent of His hatred. Ephesians 1:7 in Him we have the forgiveness of sin.
We must be aware of having a too cozy view of the father-hood of God, and our human thinking of Him as ‘daddy’ that we can twist around our little finger; that He is so kind and loving that of course He will forgive us. That thought based solely on emotion, can’t be found anywhere in the New Testament. The only basis on which our Heavenly Father can forgive us, is the incalculable work of what was accomplished on the cross by Messiah. To base our forgiveness on any other ground is unconscious blasphemy and unconscious blasphemy is actually denying Messiah and His victory over sin and death. The only ground on which He can forgive our sin and reinstate us to His presence and favor, is through the cross of Messiah.
There is no other Way, He alone is the Way.
Forgiveness, which is so easy for us to accept, cost the horrendous agony on that cross at Calvary. We should never take the forgiveness of sin, the gift of His Holy Spirit and our sanctification in simple faith, and then forget the enormous cost to Him that made all of this ours for free.
Forgiveness is the divine miracle of His free grace towards us. The cost to the Father was the cross of Messiah. To forgive sin while remaining a Holy God, this is the price that had to be paid. We must never accept a view of the fatherhood of God if it blocks out the atonement because the revealed truth of God is that without the atonement He cannot forgive; He would contradict His nature if He did. The only way we can be forgiven is by being brought back to Him through the atonement of the cross, and His forgiveness is possible only in the supernatural realm. Compared with the miracle of the forgiveness of sin, the experience of sanctification is small, sanctification is simply the wonderful expression or evidence of the forgiveness of sins in a human life. However what awakens the pouring forth of the deepest gratitude in an individual, is that our Heavenly Father has forgiven his or her sin. Paul never got away from this and neither should we. Once we realize all that it costs the Father to forgive each of us, we will be held tight, constrained by the love of God. Luke 11:37 – 44, 45.
Pesach/Passover week may be over but it is the crowning moment in time and eternity and we must not let our remembrance of it be for only once a year. Above all else, we must continue to preach Messiah/Christ and Him crucified, it is the power of God unto salvation....and in His resurrection we can live the new life He died to give us.
Shalom, shalom mishpachah/family
and cheverim/friends!
It’s all about Life and Relationship,
NOT Religion.
You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.
NOT SURE?
YOU CAN BE..
SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen
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Once again we are entering the wonderful season of Pesach/Passover. The remembrance of the Exodus from Egyptian bondage when the children of Israel left slavery behind; and the blood of an innocent lamb was smeared on the lintel and dalet/door posts, so the angel of death would see it and Pass-over that home. The firstborn of every household that had no blood applied died that night. The first Passover was a prophetic picture of the Messiah Yeshua haMashiach/Jesus Christ, Who came and was Himself the Passover Lamb and became the firstborn from the dead. He called Himself the Door/Dalet and His blood was shed so that when we apply it to our lives we have passed over from spiritual death to life.
There is so much prophetic symbolism and deep meaning in these events, much of which has been covered over the years in previous posts. However there are always pearls hidden for us to discover and as we often call the weekend prior to Passover Palm Sunday, let’s take a look at some things we may have missed.
Why do we call it Palm Sunday?
No doubt it is in reference to John 12:13: “Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed [is] the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.”
Some call this day the Triumphal Entry.
The people cried Hosanna which is really a Greek transliteration of the
Aramaic word Hoshanna,
which means:
to save, rescue or help
and in this form it can be easily translated as
Salvation has come.
So when we read in the gospels that Messiah Yeshua/Jesus entered Yerushalayim/Jerusalem a week before His crucifixion, He was greeted with a crowd who were joyfully shouting:
Salvation has come.
Picture this, that they were shouting salvation has come, as the road to Yerushalayim /Jerusalem was lined with thousands of the pilgrims who were commanded to present themselves every year at one of the 3 Shalosh Regalim, required Appointed Times/moedim. This moed was rehearsed annually by the Israelites believing that one day Messiah would come and this year He did!
In order to fulfill the prophecy in Zechariah 9:9, He purposely entered riding a donkey, and not only that but also to show that He was coming in peace/shalom. In those days when someone rode into a city on a horse it was usually to announce the presence of royalty and it could also indicate an intention to make war; so when the people saw Yeshua/Jesus ride in on a donkey everyone immediately understood that He was not there to set Himself up as a king nor to declare His intention to overthrow the existing government. Again we miss so much when we are unaware of cultural symbolism and their significance, often misinterpreting the picture presented to us in scripture. Most of us have probably heard sermons which criticize the Jews of that time, saying that one week they were cheering Yeshua/Jesus and then the next week they were shouting demanding for his death; claiming that this change in attitude by the Jews is due to their disappointment when He didn’t lead the overthrow of the Roman government.
Here we should look at the situation where the crowd called for Barabbas to be set free and for Messiah to be crucified. There is no evidence, other than church tradition, that supports that all the people were wanting Messiah dead. In fact the court that Jesus/Yeshua was tried in when people cried out for His crucifixion could only hold 30-50 people. In the film The Passion of the Christ we are shown the most accurate scene where only a select few were allowed to be in the inner court and there was a small crowd of supporters pushing to gain access but were forced out. In Matthew 27:25 the scene before Pilate is known as the Pavement of Judgment and was part of the famous Antonio Fortress complex which served as a military barracks for the Roman soldiers guarding the Temple Mount and was large enough for only 300 people.
These were individuals gathered by and stirred up by the Cohen haGadol/High Priest, Sanhedrin and religious hierarchy. The Role Of The Sanhedrin Mark 15:11 notes, “the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas instead.” The Sanhedrin had already convicted Yeshua/Jesus of blasphemy (Luke 22:67-71) but lacked authority to enforce capital punishment (John 18:31).So it was not the thousands who had lined the road to Yerushalayim/Jerusalem but approx. between 50 – 300 people who demanded His death and declared his blood be upon us and our children, accepting guilt for His death. This means that it was confined only to those present and not to all of Israel; and further, Messiah Himself forgave them from the cross in Luke 23:34 and therefore it should not be viewed or used as a reason to fuel flames of anti-Semitism.
Sadly in some cases the church has portrayed the Jews as blood thirsty killers of the Messiah who demanded that He be put to death. It should be remembered that the average Israelite had no desire for anyones execution, they had lived through wars and captivity and with the government of Rome using crucifixion the last thing they wanted was to see an execution of a holy man, a prophet and miracle worker. The sages had so many rules and regulations and appeals that had to be made recorded in their Oral Tradition, that it was almost impossible to execute someone because execution was hated so much. Even today Israel has outlawed capital punishment and apparently the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichman was the only person ever executed in Israel.
Another explanation of their rejection of Yeshua/Jesus as Messiah is that they turned on Him when he failed to set Himself up as King and yet, culturally and historically, the very fact that He rode in on a donkey and not a horse was clearly a signal of His true intentions. As Mary’s firstborn child He would be redeemed according to Torah requirements, Luke 2:22-24 (Numbers 3:47-48, 18:15-16.) and it is interesting that the Torah Exodus 13:13 further states that in firstborn livestock, a lamb would be sacrificed in place of the male donkey. A firstborn donkey may be purchased back from the Lord in exchange for a lamb or baby goat;
The Lamb rode a donkey,
the significance of Messiah Yeshua/Jesus riding on a firstborn donkey colt highlights Him as being the firstborn for humanity.
It is important to see that the people still cheered Him even though they realized He was coming in peace/shalom, and it was very likely that this display of love and adoration was what panicked the power held by the religious order of Orthodox Judaism and made them decide on a course of action resulting in their determination to put Yeshua/Jesus to death.
But why specifically branches of the Palm tree?
In Hebrew the word for Palm Branches is
Lulav – לוּלָב
spelled: Lamed Vav Lamed Vav
In Europe and the Middle East, palm branches symbolize many things, for example in ancient Greece, a palm branch was awarded to the victorious athlete because the palm leaf or even the tree itself was the most common symbol in Rome for Victory.
To many it symbolized peace.
To the Assyrians it represented a connection between earth and heaven and it was associated with the goddess Ishtar (Easter) and the Mesopotamian goddess Inanna.
To the ancient Egyptians it symbolizes eternal life. It was the sacred symbol for Apollo.
So why were the crowds cheering?
Is it possible that the people were not looking for a king or someone to overthrow the Roman Empire? They were well versed in the scripture of the TaNaKH and of the prophecy of a Messiah who would save them from their sins; One Who would bring them eternal salvation and they recognized Jesus/Yeshua as their Messiah.
The words they cried out: Hoshanna “Salvation has come” is exactly the same cry we have today as we declare our love and devotion to our Savior, Lord and King.
As for the palm branches? They mean a lot of things to different people in the Middle East, but to the Jews, the Hebrew word itself explains what it meant to them, Lulav. (Also used in the celebrations of the moed Sukkot/Feast of Tabernacles.)
The Hebrew word Lulav:
Lu means: to or unto, and
Lav means: heart.
What they were showing by waving the palms was in other words…
We give you our hearts.
By the crowds greeting Him with Palm leaves was a clear sign that they accepted Him as their Messiah.
This year, when we celebrate during Passover/Pesach week, we may not have a palm branch to wave, but we can cry out with great joy and thanksgiving… Hoshanna/ Hosanna – to you we give our hearts, Yeshua/Jesus our Messiah.
The Day of the Lulav – the Day of our heart cry!
Shalom, shalom mishpachah/family
and cheverim/friends!
It’s all about Life and Relationship,
NOT Religion.
You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.
NOT SURE?
YOU CAN BE..
SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen
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As this year the Hebrew and Gregorian calendars are not in sync., we are between the two calendar dates for Passover/Unleavened Bread and First Fruits.
This gap in the dates, gives us an opportunity to focus on the single most miraculous event in time and eternity.
It is an event that we should remember all year, not just as the seasons make their turn.
Gethsemane and Calvary are in truth
the Gateways to Life /Chaim
and why Messiah said
I am the Way the Truth and the Life.
Derek, Emet and Chaim.
It is impossible for us who are bound in human flesh, to understand Messiahs agony, however, we don’t have to misunderstand it.
Matthew 26:36 – 38
It was the agony of God and man in the person Yeshua/Jesus as He came to face to face with sin; and on the cross He experienced total separation from His Father because as He became sin – as the sin offering – the Holiness of God could not look upon that sin.
It is not possible for us to experience Gethsemane and Calvary. We cannot learn about them through personal experience because they represent something totally unique.
They are the gateway,
the door, the dalet
into life for us.
It was not death on the cross that He was facing, that caused Yeshua/Jesus to agonize over when He was in Gethsemane; because He stated that His purpose was to die. He knew that was why He came.
It was not a shock to Him, He was completely aware of His Heavenly Fathers’ plan and the process He was to complete. Most likely His concern was that He might not get through this struggle as a Son of Man. He was confident at getting through it as the Son of God because Satan couldn’t not touch him there; the previous temptations had proved that. The pressure was the adversary’s assault against Him, with the focus that our Lord would come through for us on His own; solely as the Son of Man.
If Messiah had done that He could not have been our Savior. Hebrews 9:11–15
And we should read the account of Gethsemane and His agony in the light of His earlier temptations in the wilderness. The devil departed from Him until an opportune time. Luke 4:13. In Gethsemane was an opportune time, but satans attack was overthrown once again. The adversarys’ final assault against our Savior was in the garden of Gethsemane as the Son of Man.
The agony in Gethsemane was the agony of the Son of God in fulfilling His destiny as the Savior of the world. The veil is pulled back here, to reveal all that it cost Him to make it possible for us to become Sons and Daughters of God; HIs children, His Family. We should also remember that the Jews have a priority over the Gentiles, in that the Messiah Himself, Jesus Christ/Yeshua Hamashiach, came first as a Jew to the Jews. We are told in Romans 9:5, of whom are the fathers, and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
and reminded again in Romans 1:16-17 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek/heathen/gentiles.
HIs agony was the basis for the simplicity of our salvation.
The cross of Yeshua/Jesus was a triumph for the Son of man, and not only a sign that our Lord triumphed; but that He had triumphed to save the human race.
Because of what the Son of Man went through, every human being has been provided with a way of access into the very presence of God.
Our gateway to God, our Heavenly Father.
1 Peter 2:24.
It cost him everything.
The cross of Calvary is the revealed truth of God’s judgment on sin. It was not a martyrs death, it was the ultimate triumph and shook the very foundations of hell.
There is nothing in time or eternity more absolutely certain and undeniable, than what He accomplished on the cross. It changed everything for ever.
He made it possible for the entire human race to be brought back into a right standing relationship with the Father. He made redemption the foundation of human life, that is, He made a way for every person to have fellowship, communion and an intimate relationship with the creator of the universe.
That cross was not something that happened
TO Jesus/Yeshua, He came to die.
The cross was His purpose in coming.
The great divide was restored by a great collide.
He is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Revelation 13:8.
The incarnation of Yeshua Messiah would have no meaning without the cross.
We must be sure not to separate –
God was manifested in the flesh –
from
He made Him to be sin for us.
1Timothy 3:16; 2Corinthians 5:21.
The purpose of the incarnation was redemption.
The Most High God came in the flesh to take sin away, not to accomplish something for Himself.
Not only is the cross the central event
in time and eternity…
it is the answer to all the problems in both.
The cross is not a cross of a man, but the cross of the only creator God, King of Kings and Lord of Lords; and it can never be fully understood through the human experience.
The cross is our Heavenly Father God, Adonai Elohim Melech haOlam, displaying His nature. It’s the Gate through which any and every individual can enter into oneness with Him. However it is not a gate we pass right through, it’s the one where we enter His presence and where we abide – in the life/chaim that exists and is found there.
The heart of salvation is Messiahs cross and the reason it’s so easy for us to obtain, is that it cost the Father so much!
It was the place where a Holy God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision.
It is why the Way to life was opened, and we must remember, all the cost and pain of that collision was absorbed by the heart of our loving Father God.
The great division was restored by a great collision…. and the result was NOT
chaos, devastation and total destruction
but peace, healing and total restoration.
Colossians 1:20 and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.
Let our prayer this week be for the eyes of our understanding to be enlightened, that we may know Him and power of His cross and resurrection…
Phil 3: 10-17 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;
Ephesians 1:18-23 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,
SAY IT RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.
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Many may question why on this years calendars,
the Gregorian and the Hebrew,
have different dates for the Passover/Pesach week.
The Hebrew Calendar and Gods Appointed Times/Feasts, are always on the exact same date every year, whereas on the Gregorian calendar the months in which they fall are different.
This year, Sunday 24th March is/was Palm Sunday with Good Friday on March 29th followed by Resurrection Sunday on 31st of March. However Passover/Pesach according to the scriptures is always in the month of Nisan on the 14th day which is 22nd of April on the Gregorian calendar that is used today.
In Leviticus 23:1–2, the Lord told Moses, “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘The Lord’s appointed times which you shall proclaim as holy convocations—My appointed times are these:’”
Pope Gregory influenced the changes to the biblical dates in an effort to remove everything Jewish from Christianity and the roman catholic churches initiated new doctrines out of which every western denomination evolved.
Gregory XIII was the pope from 1572 to 1585, who promulgated the Gregorian calendar and founded a system of seminaries for Roman Catholic priests. The Gregorian calendar, a solar dating system now in general use. It was proclaimed by Pope Gregory XIII as a reform of the Julian calendar. He issued a papal bull, “Inter Gravissimus” and decreed that 10 days be skipped when switching to the Gregorian calendar on February 24, 1582 that established it as the new and official calendar of the Catholic world. The original goal of the Gregorian calendar was to change the date of Passover and called it Easter. It also gave us the leap year.
The Pesach/Passover, Appointed Time, set in by the Father is always in the month of Nisan which begins on 9th April.
4These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times. 5The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteentha day of the first month. 6On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Breadb to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. 7On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.8For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.’ ”
Pesach/Passover according to scripture begins with the feast of the firstborn on nisan 14 (Monday 22 April)
The feast of unleavened bread begins 15th Nisan (23rd april) and
feast of first fruits which is also 1st day of counting the Omer to Pentecost/Shavuot on Nisan 16th (wed 24thapril )
Passover continues through the week and ends 22Nisan (tues 30th Apr).
Passover/Pesach is the remembrance of the children of Israels exodus and deliverance from Egyptian bondage as slaves, freed from cruel servitude. The Lord came down and delivered His people and by the sacrificial blood of a perfect lamb placed on their dwellings. The death angel passed over them and their deliverance was assured.
This was a type and shadow of the sacrificial death of Messiah, the perfect Lamb of God, whose blood has been applied to our house/our very being, and we are delivered from the devil/the cruel taskmaster of this world/ redeemed from sin and death and set free into newness of life. This is mainly what christians celebrate today not realizing the original passover is significant.
There will also be a greater exodus to come when Messiah returns and executes judgment over the sin in this worlds systems; and the demonic realm that inspires it. We will be delivered finally from the sin and death that is rampant in this world as He comes to take those of us still here to be together with Him.
The Passover/Pesach, did not begin with Messiahs death just 2000 years ago, and is not the only thing we are to remember at this appointed season. For those unfamiliar with the Pesach/Passover, according to the directions in the Torah, we must begin with reading
Exodus 6:2,3 I am the Lord I appeared to Abraham and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself fully known to them.
Moses and Aaron were commissioned by YHVH to go before Pharaoh and deliver the message to let my people go.
Note the divine name
YHVH יְהוָ֔ה
was already known in a cognitive sense by the pre Moses fathers. But this passage and the accompanying revelation of YHVH’s
4 verbs of redemption YOD HEY VAV HEY
is intended to indicate the direct experience of the power and glory not seen by the forefathers.
The 4 verbs/action words of redemption are in the Exodus itself and are the 4 cups of Passover/pesach.
1 I will free
2 deliver
3 redeem
4 take you
That is the basis of the annual remembrance of His redeeming power; the action which was ultimately fulfilled with Yeshua Messiahs sacrificial death as the Passover lamb whose blood secured their salvation from death (angel). Followed by the:
free, deliver, redeem, take you out of bondage
as slaves to Egypt -(a type of the world)
and Pharaoh/type of the devil/adversary.
The combined destiny of sin and death, without the sacrificial blood,
(the wages of sin is death); Romans 6:23
(the life is in the blood) – Leviticus 17:11
(a life for a life) Deut. 19:21.
We lose the fullness of meaning in what we call communion, because we only have 1 cup – the cup of redemption which is the third cup.
So when Messiah references the cup. I shall drink, and the cup Messiah Yeshua took during the meal are far more significant than we realize.
Our exodus will be complete when we exit this earth, either when we transition as He calls us home, or when He returns and He will drink the cup with us in the kingdom to come.
God waits to judge, until the iniquity of sin is full; and these are judgments against
the kingdom of darkness,
the adversary and
the fallen angels.
I will take them out from under the burdens
I shall rescue you from their service
I shall redeem you with an outstretched arm and great judgments
I shall take you to me for a people
I shall be an Elohim to you and you’ll know that I am Yahweh
I shall bring you to the land and give it to you as a heritage.
The arm is Yeshua/Messiah and great judgments will come in the end days.
2 God also said to Moses, “I am the LORD.
3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty,but by my name the LORD I did not make myself fully known to them.
4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners.
5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.
6 “Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
7 I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
8 And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.’ ”
The four I wills in vs 6-8
I will take you out 1st cup of sanctification
I will rescue you 2nd cup of judgment
I will redeem you 3rd cup of redemption
I will take you 4th cup of praise
This is the cup He will drink with us anew in the kingdom on His return.
Exodus 3:15
God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers–the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob–has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.
It is here that Yahweh tells Abraham His name is YHVH.
And God speaks to Moses and says to him, “I [am] YHWH, יְהוָ֔ה
We are now at the 4th I will of Exodus 6:6-8.
I will take you as My people.
He is bringing us out from under the worlds/Egypts burdens.
Our Heavenly Father/Yahweh is bringing everything together as He did at Mt Sinai, where He personally came down to make covenant with the sons of Israel; and He will personally come down to complete His plan of the ages.
The Nail Pierced Hands of Messiah
Reveal The Love-Filled Heart Of Our Heavenly Father.
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Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,
SAY IT RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.
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