Join God Honest Truth as we dive deep into the Feast of Passover, one of the most significant appointed times in Scripture. In this teaching, we will unveil Passover’s foundation in Exodus where Yahweh’s mighty hand delivered His people from bondage. We will discover the importance of keeping this feast today. You will understand how Yahushua, our Messiah, is the Lamb of God, fulfilling Passover in His sacrificial death and resurrection. And finally we will cover practical steps to keep Passover in a way that honors Scripture, from the Passover meal (Seder) to removing leaven and embracing the deeper spiritual meaning.
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Passover isn’t just an ancient tradition that was done back in the day and is done away with now. No. Passover was instituted back in the Old Testament or Tanakh by Yahweh himself and was instituted as everlasting ordinance. Then we see in the New Testament or Brit Chadashah that Messiah Jesus Yeshua was our Passover lamb. So how does all this connect?
How do we celebrate Passover today? All that’s coming up in this teaching on Passover. So this teaching is going to be all about the festival or the Moedim known as Pesach or Passover in the English speaking world. It’s going to be all about where it comes from, how to celebrate it, all that good stuff, symbols and customs. So make sure to definitely have your notes ready.
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Now, Passover in Hebrew is known as Pesach, and that comes from the Strong’s word h six four five three, if you’re a nerd like me, as Pesach Pesach. And Strong’s definition defines it as usually only technically of the Passover or the Passover offering. Brown Driver Briggs, pretty much the same thing, festival of the Passover, animal victim of the Passover, sacrifice of Passover. Jacenius’ Hebrew Lexicon defines Pesach as sparing immunity from penalty and calamity, hence a sacrifice offered on account of the sparing the day of the Passover or, in other words, the fourteenth day of the month of Nisan. Pretty straightforward.
Pretty simple. You know what that means. Something that you may not know what means, may not have heard before, especially if you, like me, come from a mainstream Baptist background is the word Haska, and that is Strong’s g three nine five seven. Pascha. Pascha.
And that is the Greek word for, you guessed it, Passover. According to Strong’s definition for Pascha, it’s of Chaldee origin, the Passover, defined as the Passover, festival, or the special sacrifices connected with it. According to Thayer’s Greek lexicon, Pascha means to pass over, to pass over by sparing, a passing over, a Paschal sacrifice, Paschal lamb, Paschal suffer, paschal festival. Pretty much just like the word Pesach in Hebrew, Pascha means Passover. And finally, your Greek English lexicon for the Greek word Pascha, It says it has three different meanings which refer to three different aspects of the Passover.
The meaning is the festival. The term means the Passover meal. The meaning is the Passover lamb or a lamb that passes over. A lamb that someone has passed over. So So it can have all these different connotations, but generally, it means the Passover meal.
However, it can be extended to include the entire week of unleavened bread. And a lot of times, it really is used like that. When we’re talking about the Moedim or the feast of Passover, a lot of people generally include not only the meal, the for Passover, but also the days of unleavened bread that come right after that. So once again, as with all things that were studied from scripture, context is king. So take context into account when you’re trying to think about how someone’s using that word Passover.
Now let’s look at how Passover is proclaimed and instituted from scripture because Passover is one of those, one of those holidays, if you will, that comes directly from the scriptures. We start out when we look in Exodus chapter 11. We see the pronouncement of the death of the firstborn. Then in Exodus chapter 12, this is when the first Passover is instructed. We see in verse two that the first month of the year is described, the first month of Nisan as it later became known.
Then you take a lamb on the tenth day of the month. Remember, keep this in mind. Take a lamb on the tenth day of the month. You slay the slay the lamb on the 14 the month between the evenings. Then you apply the blood on the doorpost of the house.
Remember, this is the original Passover back in Egypt. Then in verse eight, it says to eat the lamb roasted and not leave any of it till morning and burn the remains whatever is left over with fire and then eat it while you’re ready. Like your clothes are on your shoes are tied. You got your staff in your hand and you’re ready to go. That’s how you’re supposed to eat that sacrifice that Passover meal.
And in verse 14, it says Passover or Pesach is foretold to be an everlasting ordinance. What does everlasting mean? Does it mean just until messiah comes? No. Does it mean just for a few years, maybe a couple decades?
No. Everlasting means forever. So it was going on back then in the times of the Tanakh or AKA Old Testament. It was going on back during the times of the Brechatashah or the Messianic writings or AKA the New Testament. And it’s still an everlasting ordinance today.
So keep that in mind. We are told multiple times, not just in Exodus twelve fourteen, but multiple times throughout scripture that Passover or Pesach is an everlasting ordinance. In verse 15, we’re told to eat unleavened bread for seven days. This unleavened bread is what’s referred to as matzah. Keep that in mind.
We’re gonna be examining that more in detail in just a moment. In verse 16, we’re told that the first and the seventh days are Shabbatons. What are Shabbatons? Well, this is something that really means, like, a minor Sabbath. Means you don’t do any servile work on these days, but you can prepare food.
Unlike a regular weekly Sabbath, where you don’t prepare any food, you don’t do any work, or anything like that, On these Shabbatons, as they’re known, you don’t do any Serval work, but you can prepare food. So that’s the difference between a Shabbaton or a minor Sabbath and the regular weekly Sabbath. In verse 19, we’re told that no leaven is to be found in your homes. Now, keep this in mind too. The word here in Hebrew for leaven is the word seor.
Keep that word seor in mind because we’re gonna be going to examine that more here in just a moment as well. Now speaking of all these things, like matzah and seor, There’s some kind of confusion that comes out of tradition with these words. This word unleavened bread, matzah. This is pretty self explanatory and the tradition gets it right. Matza is unleavened bread, bread that hasn’t risen due to adding leavening agents, such as yeast or baking soda or what have you.
Anything that would make it puff up, that’s a leavening agent. So matzah is unleavened bread, bread that has not been leavened. So that’s pretty good. The confusion and the misunderstanding that comes in a lot of times is with this word seor, where it says in verse 19, to have no leaven that is to be found in your house or anywhere within your borders, actually. It’s say or.
A lot of people understand that to be yeast, but not so. It could be more than yeast, and it’s not just yeast, actually. Let’s look at Exodus chapter 12 verse 19 in its entirety. For seven days, no leaven, seor, is to be found in your houses. For if anyone eats what is leavened, that same being shall be cut off from the congregation of Yisrael, whether sojourner or native of the land.
When we learned just a moment ago that matzah means unleavened bread, The word for leavened bread is hametz. But this word seor is what we’re really gonna be focusing on here, where it says, seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. So what is Saor if it’s not East or if it’s not just East? Well, this word Saor is Strong’s h seven six zero three if you’d like to go all nerdy like I do sometimes. It’s h seven six zero three saur.
And according to Strong’s definition, saur means a barm or a yeast cake leaven. It says swelling by fermentation. And the best way to describe this is if you’ve ever made sourdough bread, that sourdough starter that you see in, like, the little, I don’t know, what do you call it, ceramic crock. Right? Or even in, like, a mason jar or something like that.
And you see it all bubbly, gooey, pasty, and whatever, and it’s all bubbling up and whatnot. That is what a barm is. This barm can come from a lot of places. Breadmakers keep this around. They keep it fed.
They keep it going in order to make their sourdough bread with. Brewers keep some barm around because they want the a specific kind of yeast strain a lot of times if you’re getting really into this whole brewing thing. You find a good yeast strain and you wanna keep that yeast strain. So you keep it going just like some of the bakers do. But that’s what a borm is.
It’s like a bubbly activated yeast kind of thing like you would see with sourdough. So if you have a like I do when I make bread, I have a jar of dry, unactivated yeast for making bread with. And that’s fine. That’s not what scripture is referring to because it is just dormant. It’s not doing anything.
It’s not leavening anything. But that borm, if I had one of those, that would be leavening. So when it talks about no leaven being found in your house, it’s talking about active activated yeast, actively leavening, things like that. Not just dry, unactivated yeast or baking soda or baking powder rather, actually. But that’s what say or is and that’s what a lot of times when they translate this into English, they translate it as the word leaven.
So now you know. And anyone out there who’s got any questions about this, write to us and we can hopefully help you out and explain further if need be. But the the word that kind of goes along with this that we saw in verse 19 is the word chametz. Remember, we talked about matzah being unleavened bread and the flip side of that would be hametz, which is leavened bread. And hametz is the Strong’s word h two five five seven.
Hametz. Hametz. And Strong’s definition for hametz is just like we said, leavened or leavened bread. Brown Driver Briggs, that which is leavened. Obviously, Gesenius is Hebrew lesskan.
Again, that which is leavened. So, chametz means anything that is leavened. Here’s standard pizza dough, bread, hamburger buns, crackers, a lot of crackers a lot of times. Things like that. Even some alcoholic beverages as well.
There are certain alcoholic beverages that are not able to be used on Passover because it still has that active leavening in it. Like I said, a lot of times in brewing, they use yeast to ferment it, to get it going, to produce it. Because when I make wine, we use yeast to make the wine with, and I know beer brewers do the same thing. So sometimes you can’t there’s certain alcoholic drinks that you should not have around your house during the period of Pesach. So going on and going back to that first word we looked at, this unleavened bread, the word matzah, and that comes from h four six eight two.
Matzah. Matzah. Strong’s definition defines matzah as an unfermented cake or loaf, unleavened bread or cake without leaven. Ron Driver Briggs, unleavened bread or cakes, and Jacines’ Hebrew Lexicon entry has unfermented bread such as is used at the Passover, an unleavened cake or unleavened bread. Now a lot of you might be thinking, no.
Unleavened cake, that would be kinda nasty. Be kinda dull. Right? Be kinda flat, but not really. Let’s think about it.
If you ever had a sponge cake, like an angel food cake, those are made from taking a meringue and you whip it. There’s no leavening in it whatsoever. It’s not leavened. It’s unleavened, but it’s still fluffy and airy and things like that. So an angel food cake or some kind of sponge cake would be acceptable for the period of Passover because it is unleavened and it will be an unleavened cake.
And still, it wouldn’t be a brick, so to say, as you might think an unleavened cake would be if you didn’t have any leavening in it. Anyways, moving on, going back and looking at Exodus chapter 12 verse nineteen one more time. For seven days, no leaven or seor no seor is to be found in your houses for if anyone eats what is leavened or hametz, if anyone eats what is hametz, that same bean shall be cut off from the congregation of Yisrael, whether sojourner or native of the land. Then going on with the institution of Passover and the scriptures, Exodus chapter 12 and verse 22. They’re supposed to use hyssop to apply the blood of the lamb to the doorpost and not to go out of their houses after they do so.
Then Yahweh shall pass over the homes where the blood is applied to the doorpost, hence the name Passover. Verse 24, and you shall guard this word as a law for you and your sons forever. A while ago, we talked about Pesach or Passover being an everlasting ordinance, And here, we’re again getting that this is going to be a celebration, something that we should be doing forever. Verse 28. The Israelites did as they were commanded.
At midnight, the firstborn of Egypt was killed. Pharaoh sends out the Israelites. The Egyptians hurried the Israelites out actually, and they ended up going out a lot better than the way they came in or the way they were living. The Israelites took the silver and the gold from the Egyptians. The Israelites left Egypt being about 600,000 men besides the women, children, and livestock.
So in my estimation, it’d probably be well over a million that went out of Egypt. That’s a big crowd moving out and practically walking out of Egypt. And we’re also told in the book of Exodus that it was a mixed multitude that left Egypt, not just Hebrews. It was a mixed multitude and that there would be was to be one Torah or one law or one set of instructions for both the native born and the sojourner. Not two.
Not a Torah and a Noahide law. Not a Torah and a New Testament. No. One set of instructions for both the native born and those who are grafted in or the sojourner. Then moving on, we see that they celebrated Passover even in the wilderness.
We look at numbers chapter nine verses one through four. And Yahweh spoke to Moshe in the wilderness of Sinai in the first new moon of the second year after they had come out of the land of Mizrahiim, saying, now let the children of Israel perform the Pesach at its appointed time. On the fourteenth day of this new moon between the evenings, perform it at its appointed time. According to all its laws and right rulings, you perform it. And Moshe spoke to the children of Israel to perform the Pesach.
So here, they weren’t even in the promised land yet. They did not have a temple, but they were still performing Passover. And this celebration of Passover every year was so important that they actually instituted a makeup date, if you want to call it that, in case for some reason you were away during Passover or if you were near a dead body and you were unclean ceremonially and you could not partake in the first Passover, look at this in Numbers chapter nine verses six through 12. But there were men who were defiled for a being of a man, so that they were not able to perform the Pesach on that day. So they came before Moshe and Aaron that day, and those men said to him, we are defiled for the being of a man.
We why are we withheld from bringing near the offering of Yahweh at its appointed time among the children of Israel? And Moshe said to them, wait, let me hear what Yahweh commands concerning you. And Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, saying, When any male of you or your generations is unclean for a being or is far away on a journey, he shall still perform the Pesach of Yahweh. On the fourteenth day of the second new moon, between the evenings, they perform it. With unleavened bread and bitter herbs, they eat it.
They do not leave of it until morning, and they do not break a bone of it. According to all the laws of the Pesach, they perform it. So that’s how important it was that the people, us, the believers, those who belong to Yahweh, that’s how important it is for us to celebrate it that there’s even a makeup date a month later. Still on the fourteenth between the evenings, just like it was in the first month, but the makeup date, the second Passover of the year, is to be in the second month. And you can see here, right before this, we saw that they were celebrating Passover while they were still in the wilderness.
There is a concession here for a makeup date if you missed it. And when they got into the promised land, even before they had the temple, they were still celebrating Passover. This wasn’t just a one and done kind of thing. Joshua chapter five verse 10. And the children of Israel camped in Gilgal and performed the Pesach on the fourteenth day of the new moon at evening on the desert plains of Yereho.
And again in second Kings chapter 23 verse 21. And the sovereign, Yoshiyahu, commanded all the people saying, prepare the Pesach to Yahweh your Elohim as it is written in this book of the covenant. Once again, Ezekiel chapter 45 verse 21. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the new moon, you have the Pesach, a festival of seven days unleavened bread is eaten. And finally, in Ezra chapter six verse 19, and the sons of the exile performed the Pesach on the fourteenth day of the first New Moon.
So, again and again, all throughout the Tanakh, we see the people celebrating Passover or Pesach as it’s known in Hebrew. This wasn’t something they just did when they were coming out of Egypt. This wasn’t something they did when they were just going through the wilderness or when they first got into the promised land to celebrate. No. This is something they continuously did all throughout the Tanakh, but like we saw, Pesach is to be celebrated as an everlasting ordinance throughout your generations forever.
We saw that. Right? So do we actually get to see that when we get into the Brit Chadashah? Well, yeah, we do. Looking at Luke chapter two verses forty and forty one.
And the child, meaning Yeshua, grew and became strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the favor of Elohim was upon him, and his parents went to Yerushalayim every year at the festival of the Pesach. So Yeshua’s parents specifically referring to Joseph and Mary went every single year as an everlasting ordinance. They went every year and celebrated Pesach. Luke chapter 22 verse one And the festival of Matzot drew near, which is called Pesach. Again, they’re celebrating Pesach.
John chapter two verse 13. And the Pesach of the Yehudim was near, and Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim. Acts chapter 12 verses one through four. And about that time, Herod, the sovereign, put forth his hands to do evil to some from the assembly. And he killed Ya’akov, the brother of Yohanan, with the sword.
And seeing that it was pleasing to the Yehudim, he proceeded further to arrest Kepha as well, and they were the Days of Unleavened Bread. So when he had seized him, he put him in prison and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to watch over him, intending to bring him before the people after Pesach. Now, unfortunately, this is a spot where the King James and a couple of others make an error. And instead of that last verse right there in verse four where it says, before the people after Pesach, they unfortunately translate that word Pesach to be Easter. Sad as it is, but it actually did happen.
You can see it here in the King James version, that first translation there at the top of your screen. And, also, in the Tyndale, it has the word Easter there as well. But Easter is not something that actually came about until about eight hundred years or so after the time of the apostles and Yeshua. So it could have been Easter during the time of the apostles. No.
The word here that you find in Greek is the Greek word, Pascha. And what did we cover in the beginning that Pascha means? Pascha means Passover. So the correct translation here is not Easter. The correct translation is Passover, such as what the scriptures 2,009 that we use has it translated, such as the ESV, LSB, the Wycliffe, the Geneva, all of these have it as Passover.
In fact, the Wycliffe and the Geneva, which predate the King James, actually have the word, pass, there, which is the Greek word for Passover. And here’s your strongest definition for Pascha one more time. Just to get the point across, Pascha does not mean Easter. It means Passover. You can actually kind of get that from the sound of the word.
Pascha. Pascha. Passover. It makes sense. It’s not Easter.
It’s Passover. First Corinthians chapter five verses six through eight. Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the entire lump? Therefore, cleanse out the old leaven so that you are a new lump, as you are unleavened.
For also, Messiah, our Pesach, was slaughtered for us. So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. So when it says, let us celebrate the festival, what festival are they referring to? Obviously, you can again, context is king. It’s talking about leaven and unleavened.
And then Messiah our Pesach, Messiah our sacrificed lamb, What could that be referring to taking all that into context when it says, let us celebrate the festival. The festival of Passover or the festival of Pesach. So here again, we can see the Apostles and the believers during the time of the apostles celebrating Passover. Now there’s a couple of things that people don’t understand or get incorrect and for good reason about Passover. And this is a lot of times because of tradition.
And we covered one of those earlier when we covered the misunderstanding between just plain old unactivated yeast and what scripture actually is talking about. I’m just talking about, say, or or leavening, stuff like that. So here’s some more misunderstandings or some misnomers. And the number one thing that I hear a lot of times, at least as I come across it, is that Passover is a Jewish holiday. And well, it’s not making decisions just yet.
Let’s look at scripture and what does scripture say about this holiday? Is it the Jewish holiday or is it something else? Let’s look Exodus chapter 12 verse 11. And this is how you eat it your loins girded your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand and you shall eat it in haste. It is the Pesach of Yahweh.
Exodus chapter 12 verses twenty six and twenty seven. And it shall be when your children say to you, what does this service mean to you? Then you shall say it is the Pesach slaughtering of Yahweh. Numbers chapter nine verse 10. Speak to the children of Israel saying, when any male of you or your generations is unclean for a bean or is far away on a journey, he shall still perform the Pesach of Yahweh.
Numbers chapter nine verse 14. And when a stranger sojourns among you, then he shall perform the Pesach of Yahweh. Numbers chapter 28 verse 16. And in the first new moon on the fourteenth day is the Pesach of Yahweh. So over and over and over and over again, scripture tells us that Passover is not a Jewish holiday.
Passover is the Passover of Yahweh. It belongs to Yahweh. Yahweh instituted it. He set it up. He commanded us to perform it and celebrate it annually every year as an everlasting ordinance to do it forever.
It is the Passover of Yahweh. That’s what scripture calls it. So if you’re calling it the Jewish holiday or the Jewish Passover, that’s incorrect. Now you know the truth. You know it is the Passover of Yahweh.
However, one caveat I want to bring up real quick just so you know about it and just in case it is brought up in your travels or your speaking with other people. In the book of John, in the gospel of John well, let me just read it to you. John chapter two verse 13. And the Pesach of the Yehudim was near, and Yeshua went up to your Yerushalayim. And again, in John chapter six verse four.
And the Pesach was near, the festival of the Yerushalayim. John chapter 11 verse 55. Now the Pesach of the Yerushalayim was near, and many went from the country up to Yerushalayim before the Pesach who set themselves apart. So a couple of things to point out here. It is actually called the Pesach of the Yehudim.
A lot of times and a lot of translations, you’ll actually see it called the Passover of the Jews. So in certain translations, that’s actually how it comes across. Couple of things. Number one, this is only referred to it this way in the gospel of John. No other place in all of scripture.
This is the only place. So take into account who John was writing to. He’s writing to a Greek audience. So that could have something to do with it when John is referring to Passover as the Passover of the Jews. Number two, Yehudim here.
Well, this is getting nitpicky, but Yehudim doesn’t always mean Jews. It could also mean Judeans. We think about Jews without think about well, some people conflate it to mean all of Israel, all of the Hebrews, but that’s incorrect. Jew means a descendant of the tribe of Judah, one of the 12 tribes. Jew can also mean a descendant of the Southern Kingdom Of Judea.
That would be Benjamin Judah, Benjamin, and Levi. There we go. So Jew could mean a descendant of the Southern Kingdom Of Judea. And Jew in his third sense could also mean someone who is a member or a practicer of the religion of Judaism. Take all that into account, but number one thing is to always remember that when the scriptures call the Passover, the Passover of the Jews, it’s only in one book in scripture and it’s only in the gospel of John, nowhere else.
And remember also that John was writing to a Greek or Hellenized audience, which could have something to do with why he’s referring to it this way instead of the Passover of the Lord or Passover of God or Passover of Yahweh even. But another misnomer or misunderstanding is that Jesus or Yeshua died on Good Friday. Is this true? Well, let’s think about this and let’s read some scripture to find out if this is actually so. Matthew chapter 12 verse 40.
For as Yonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so shall the son of Adam be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Matthew chapter 16 verse 21. From that time, Yeshua began to show to his taught ones that it was necessary for him to go to Jerusalem and to suffer much from the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed and to be raised again the third day. Luke chapter nine verse 22. Saying, the son of Adam has to suffer much and to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be killed and to be raised the third day.
Acts chapter 10 verses thirty nine and forty. And we are witnesses of all he did, both in the country of the Yehudim and and in Yerushalayim, whom they even killed by hanging on a timber. Elohim raised up this one on the third day and let him be seen. We can get from scripture, from the book of Acts and the retelling of the story from Yeshua himself saying that he would have to be in the ground in the earth for three days and three nights. We do have a clue that comes to us from scripture itself in John chapter 20 verse one.
We do know the day that he was seen after he was crucified and buried. John chapter 20 verse one. And on day one of the week, Miriam from Magdala came early to the tomb while it was still dark and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So here, Mary Magdalene saw Yeshua, or she saw him later on, but it was on the first day of the week, so he had already risen. So what does that mean?
How can we calculate all this? We know that he would have been buried in for three days and three nights before the first day of the week. So let’s look at this in a visual aspect because, personally, I’m a visual learner. I understand things more visually. So remember, scripture tells us that Jesus or Yeshua is to be in the earth for three days and three nights.
Now according to standard traditional Catholic teaching, Jesus died on Friday. So that would give us Friday evening, Saturday day, Sunday or I’m sorry, Saturday day, and Saturday evening. So that’s two nights and one day. And then a scene on first day of the week, early in that morning, as people know it nowadays as Sunday. So that’s one day and two evenings.
That doesn’t jive with scripture where it says they used to be in there for three days and three nights. However, if we start from the known point, and we know he was first seen on first day of the week, then we can count backwards from there. It’s gonna be three days and three nights, and we also know from other places in scripture that he was crucified or killed in the evening on the day that he was killed. So if we start from the first day of the week and we count backwards and we get all the way back to Wednesday evening of that week, then if he dies on Wednesday evening, then he’s got Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night. So that’s three nights.
And then Thursday day, Friday day, Saturday day, that’s three days. So three days and three nights. So at the end of Saturday day, if he then rose, that would line up perfectly and make everything jive with scripture. But this tradition from Catholicism that Good Friday is when Jesus was crucified, that’s false. We know that’s a lie because you can’t get three days and three nights from Friday evening, Sunday morning.
It just does not work. It’s bad math even for public education. Can’t do it. That’s a misnomer. It’s a misunderstanding.
No. Our Messiah Yeshua was not could not have been crucified or died on Friday evening on a Good Friday. So now how does this our Messiah, Yeshua, and Passover relate to one another? We’ve already went over a couple of things, and we saw one clue from scripture, but there’s a lot more that goes into it. For instance, the Last Supper, the final meal that Yeshua and his disciples shared together included the eating of unleavened bread and the drinking of wine, which are both representative of his body and his blood as the last supper.
He even tells them in Luke chapter 22 verse eight and other places, he tells them to go and prepare the Passover for us to eat. And the next thing you know, they’re eating what’s called the Last Supper, but he’s already told them to go and prepare the Passover. Then we look at the aspect of the sacrificial lamb. Yeshua is often referred to as the lamb of God in more than one place, and his sacrificial death atones for the sins of humanity. His crucifixion is fulfilling the symbolism of the sacrificial lamb in the Passover narrative.
The symbolism of freedom because the truth will make you free or he will set you free. All that good stuff. Right? That all comes from Passover, and it also connects with Yeshua. For instance, we got the freedom from the bondage in Egypt when the original Passover, when Passover was first instituted.
And then we get the Passover and the freedom with Yeshua. We get the spiritual liberation and freedom from the bondage of sin, from the curse of the law of the sin and death. So we’ve got that freedom from Yeshua, our Passover lamb. And then the timing. Timing is uncanny.
The things that line up with Yeshua’s life and the Passover and we can see from scripture clearly that the crucifixion occurred during the Passover festival. We are saved from death just like those Hebrews back in Egypt in the original Passover. Yeshua’s sacrifice saves us from the second death like the Hebrews were saved from the Angel of Death back in Egypt. And finally, the fulfillment. Yeshua fulfilled and transcended the symbolism and requirements of the Passover festival.
This whole festival and the Moedim Passover was a type and shadow of something to come and that thing that was to come was Yeshua. But remember, we’re told in scripture by Yahweh himself that this Pesach, this Passover is to be a continual everlasting ordinance is to go on forever throughout your generations. So even though they had the original Passover back in Egypt, even though Yeshua fulfilled the Passover and the symbolism there, we are still celebrated now in our day. Unlike back in scripture, we have dual purpose to celebrate Passover. Those of us who actually have the Messiah.
For instance, we have, number one, the freedom that Yahweh gave the Hebrews in Egypt that Passover. We celebrated for that reason. And also number two, for the Passover lamb, Yeshua, who was sacrificed for our sins. So we have even more reason to celebrate and be grateful for Passover than people who do not have Messiah. So going on, if you would like to celebrate it today, while you’re thinking to yourself, okay, well, how could I celebrate it?
When I do it in my home with my family, how would I do this? Well, starting from a scriptural foundation, the things you would actually need is number one, lamb or goat because there is concession made for a goat or using a goat in scripture, but most people use a lamb. We always use lamb because it’s easy to find, and goat is good too. You’ve never had goat. Tastes a lot like venison in my opinion, so it’s fairly good.
Second thing that you would need for a purely scriptural celebration of Passover is unleavened bread. Remember, we talked about that before. Is that you were to eat unleavened bread from the time of the Passover meal and then for seven days after that. So as long as it’s not leavened, then you’re good to eat it. So that’s thin crust pizza with no leavening, unleavened bread, very, very easy to make.
You can make it all different flavors, all different styles. It’s not as torturous as one might think when they first get into it. But, yeah, eat lamb or goat, unleavened bread, and one more thing as it comes directly from scripture, and that is bitter herbs. We’re told along with these other two that we are to eat bitter herbs when we celebrate Passover. And these are the three things that you would need for a Passover meal if you’re coming just bare basics from scripture directly.
That will be a lamb or a goat, unleavened bread, and bitter herbs. Now bitter herbs can be more than one thing. A lot of people use horseradish. That’s traditional from all the Passover Seders I’ve been to. But there’s other bitter herbs as well.
These, bitter herbs represent the harshness of the Israelites in the time or during the time that they were in slavery in Egypt. And all this food has various symbolic things or at least the way that we’ve interpreted them traditionally. For instance, the lamb or goat, of course, signifies the blood that was put on the doorpost and what we know now, looking in hindsight, foreshadowing Yeshua. The unleavened bread is symbolic of getting the sin out of your life. Now originally, it was because they were in such a hurry that they didn’t have time to make leavened bread like normal.
But we now know that this leavening symbolizes sin and stuff and getting that out of our lives today. Haroset. This is something that is traditionally made for a lot of Seders, but isn’t doesn’t come from scripture. But we know that scripture doesn’t prohibit it, so it’s neutral. And therefore, if you wanna do it, it’s okay.
You know, it’s okay too. But harissa is a salad, I guess you could say, of, like, apples, nuts, raisins, honey, etcetera, etcetera. I think the recipe I’ve got even has a little dash of red wine that goes into it. It’s very, very good. And make sure that you don’t make the same mistake I made one time.
And I got peanuts for the hero set I was gonna make, and I didn’t look when I got out of the store, and it was uncooked peanuts. If you’ve never had an uncooked peanut, it’ll change your life and you’ll never buy them again. You’ll look and make sure they’re roasted peanuts before you bring them home. But, yeah, Haroset is very good and there’s all the different kinds of recipes out there for it. Just go look it up or you can write to us, and we’ll give you our recipe for harrow set.
But this harrow set is symbolic of the mortar that was used by the Israelites in slavery to build the structures with during their time in captivity. Other food that is traditionally used, and this is things that doesn’t come from scripture, but you can use it all the same. Like the hero said, it’s neutral. It’s not prohibited by scripture nor is it commanded by scripture. So use it.
You’re okay. Don’t use it. You’re okay too. Something like parsley stalks. This is to represent the hyssop that is used for putting the blood on the doorpost, the wine or the grape juice.
This is something that a lot of people nowadays do for their Passover Seder and something we also saw Yeshua and his the apostles or disciples doing during the last supper as well. But this wine or grape juice is symbolic of the blood that was put on the doorpost of the house or the houses during their time in Egypt and nowadays as the blood of Yeshua. A lot of people, especially in Judaism, use an egg. Now this is not something that comes from scripture. And, in fact, an egg more than likely comes from the Easter or spring fertility celebrations out of paganism.
We don’t see anywhere where that’s coming from a scriptural standpoint. So as far as me and mine and those I know, we do not use eggs for that reason. We eat eggs any other day. But in a religious celebration religious context, nope. No eggs.
And finally, salt water. This is something a lot of people use, and this is symbolic of the tears of the Israelites in bondage. Not something you actually eat or drink. It’s just a part of the Passover Seder once you’re going through the Haggadah. Something else to keep in mind is that when you’re shopping for food, you can look for food that is certified kosher for Passover.
As you can see here, this grape juice is certified as kosher lepisach or as it is in Hebrew. Anyways, that means Kosher for Passover in English. You have the certified seal there, the circle with the u and the p there, saying that it has been certified by a Jewish authority as Kosher for Passover. So So you can look for this certification, and a lot of these come up, especially for Passover, where it says Kosher for Passover, but you’ll see Kosher certification all throughout the year. Make sure it is Kosher if you look for those various symbols.
There’s also a star with a k in the middle that is kosher certification as well. But make sure that you’re getting the right stuff for the Passover season when you go to the store or you purchase stuff online. For instance, any bread or dessert that’s not leavened. Make sure it’s like matzo bread, the cracker cardboard things you get at the store or you can make your own. Things like unleavened cake I’m sorry, angel food cake, stuff like that.
But any bread or dessert that does not have leavening in it. Once again, leavening is the activated yeast or the baking soda or I’m sorry, baking powder. Anything that can cause the food to rise. Secondly, you can also eat matzah balls, which we do. We always love matzah balls throughout the year, but especially at Passover.
You can have matzah balls at your Passover meal or Seder. Dairy. Feel free to have dairy because this doesn’t do doesn’t have leavening. Right? You have, like, yogurt, cream cheese, regular cheese, etcetera, etcetera.
So have dairy at your Passover Seder. Have meat. Meat, at least as we understand the term nowadays, doesn’t have leavening in it. Quinoa. I have zeradeh what quinoa is, but quinoa is okay for Passover.
Then, of course, you can eat nuts because nuts doesn’t have leavening in it. You can eat almonds, peanuts, cashews, etcetera, etcetera. Fruit. Something else. See, look at all this stuff you can have at Passover.
It’s not as bad as you might initially think. And then, of course, rice. And, of course, rice, you don’t wanna, you know, let it set out and leaven itself up after you’ve cooked it and whatnot because it can do that at times. But you can have rice, just boiled rice, fried rice, stuff like that. And beans.
Beans. Everything or beans goes with everything. Right? Sort of like potatoes. Now throw some beans in there with your Passover meal.
Have a big to do. I love a big spread on Passover. This is a celebratory thing. You might have three or four things during every other night during the year. But on Passover, I have, like, these two or three options of desserts.
I have this whole buffet of various foods, and it takes you three or four days to eat it all up before it goes to waste. But, yeah, just make a big celebration. Now you can have a lot of different things here. I mean, look at this list on your screen here. It’s not nearly as restrictive as you might originally think.
So, basically, when you’re thinking about preparing a Passover meal or Passover Seder, just keep in mind pretty much anything that is Kosher, meaning approved and okayed by scripture, and anything that is unleavened. Something else you can do that you don’t have to do is you can use a seder plate. Now one you see here on your screen is quite fancy, but you can also get disposable ones, plastic ones that you can stow away after one use. All different kinds of seder plates, but you don’t have to have that. But some people enjoy it.
Adds to the atmosphere, I guess it is, and can sometimes, I guess, help with the Seder meal. So in summary, Passover commemorates the powerful and delivering hand of Yahweh redeeming the Israelites out of slavery back in Egypt. We saw that from the scriptures, we saw that from the overview, and this is pretty much just a well known fact at this point. The Passover also commemorates the sacrifice of our Messiah, Yeshua, who is the Passover Lamb. The Hebrews kept the Passover throughout the Tanakh.
Yeshua kept the Passover and was the Passover. The Apostles and the Faithful kept the Passover and the Brit Chadashah. The early Christians kept the Passover. And I’ve got a whole bunch of quotes in the notes that I didn’t get time to put in the slides tonight or during the Strash. But go check out the notes on godhonesttruth.com.
You’ll see a whole bunch of quotes talking about Passover or as it was or as they were writing in Greek, Pascha, but the early Christians did keep Passover and there was a whole controversy that even developed over when they should be keeping the Passover. That’s called the Quartodeciman controversy. You can go look it up for yourself. But, anyways, go back. Go look in our notes that we took.
You’ll see a whole bunch of quotes from early Christians about keeping the Passover. Passover is an everlasting ordinance to be kept forever throughout your generations. We should keep Passover. And why should we keep Passover? Because of the miraculous deliverance that Yahweh gave the people of Israel or the Hebrews back in Israel.
I’m sorry, back in Egypt. And also number two, because of our Passover lamb, Yeshua Messiah. And that’s just the God honest truth.
