Are you ready to experience Passover like never before? This eye-opening teaching uncovers the deep meaning hidden in the Passover Seder, transforming what many incorrectly see as an ancient Jewish tradition into a life-changing revelation of God’s redemptive plan for you.
Passover is far more than a historical event—it is a powerful biblical lesson about deliverance, obedience, redemption, and the faithfulness of Yahweh. In this teaching, we walk you through the biblical foundation of Passover, the story of Israel’s deliverance from Egypt, and the deeper significance behind the Passover lamb, the blood on the doorposts, and Yahweh’s command to remember this night for generations.
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Teaching Introduction
If you think Passover was nailed to the cross and been done away with, then you’ve been misled. You claim to follow the Messiah, yet you deny and neglect the very feast day that exemplifies and symbolizes his and foreshadows his sacrifice. This isn’t about a dusty ritual. It’s about the blood on the doorpost of your soul. Most of what you’ve been told about Passover in church is nothing more than watered down tradition.
In this teaching, we’re getting to the heart of the Passover lamb’s day. And I’m challenging you to stay with me until the very end. If you’re brave enough to have your assumptions questioned, then keep watching. Your understanding of Passover is about to level up.
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All right. So, this teaching is going to be all about Passover or Pesach as it’s known in Hebrew. And we’re going to be telling you all about it, where it comes from, how to celebrate it, the various symbols and customs go along with it, the uh food obviously because it is a feast day as well as being a moadeem. So stay tuned. We’re get into all that and there’s going to be a lot of information coming your way.
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What is Passover?
So, let’s start out and go over just real quick, especially for those of you who are just learning about Passover. Now, if you’re just like me and you come from a mainstream churchianity background, myself, I came from a Baptist background and I live down here in the south of the United States. So, you got I guess you could call it Southern Baptist. I’m not really sure if they’re a part of the conference or not, but anyways, I was born and raised in a Baptist church.
So, I didn’t really know that much about Passover until I really started studying the scriptures for myself. So, this is for those of you who were sort of like me and you’re just coming to this from a more of like a lack of understanding about what Passover is. You may have heard it before, but this is going to be a lot more in detail. And we’re about to get really nerdy starting right now.
The Hebrew word for Passover is the Hebrew word pesach. And that is Strong’s H6453. Pesach. And outline biblical usage has it defined as Passover. The sacrifice of Passover, the animal victim of the Passover, or the festival of the Passover.
This is something that all these entries are pretty much going to say the exact same thing. Either it’s going to be the festival of Passover regarding the entire week or it could be the actual lamb is called the Passover as well and our Messiah Yeshua is called the Passover lamb but we’ll get into that as we go into this teaching. So there’s a different context in which this word can be used and it can be one of three different things generally. The Passover itself or the Passover lamb, the festival of Passover or you know the people who passed over into the promised land.
Technically the Passover is just that meal or that food you eat that first night. The rest of the week is technically referred to as the feast of unleavened bread. It gets conflated a lot of times and it’s all right, I guess, as long as you know what’s going on there. But just want to let you know technically and specifically Passover is that meal that you have that first night through remember when the Hebrews and the mixed multitude came out of Egypt and the rest of the week is technically called feast of unleavened bread.
Here is your Strong’s definition. Define it pretty much the same thing as the outline of biblical usage. It means something like Passover, the festival or the victim or also could be the offering. There’s your Brown Driver Briggs entry. Here’s your Gesenius’ Hebrew lexicon entry. Jastrow’s dictionary of the Targums entry. Klein dictionary entry. And finally, your Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament entry for Strong’s H6453 pesach.
Now, we cut all these entries down just so they would fit on the slide conveniently. So, if you want to see the full entry and know even more about this particular word or look at the entry there that’s not cut out, make sure to go to our website and check out the notes because we have the entire entry right there for you on our notes. You don’t have to go look it up yourself.
Moving on to the Greek word for Passover and that is Strong’s G3957. That’s Strong’s G3957 and the Greek word is pascha. Pascha. Here is your outline of biblical usage entry for pascha, meaning the paschal sacrifice, the paschal lamb, the paschal supper, the paschal feast. Pretty much the same thing that the Hebrew word pesach meant as well.
And here’s your Strong’s definition for pascha. Now, make sure you remember this Greek word pascha because that’s going to come into a big point later on in this particular draw. So remember that word pascha and remember that it means Passover.
Here is your Thayer’s Greek lexicon for pascha as well as your Greek English lexicon entry for pascha. And finally looking at history.com regarding what is Passover just to give you a definition of what Passover is from history.com.
“Passover commemorates the Israelites departure from ancient Egypt, which appears in the Hebrew Bible’s books of Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, among other texts. Jews observe the weeklong festival with a number of important rituals, including a traditional Passover meal known as a seder, the removal of leaven products from their home, the substitution of matzo for bread, and the retelling of the Exodus tale.”
Now, most of that is pretty accurate. However, there’s one part I would take issue with. And right there at the end, it says the substitution of matzo for bread. That almost makes it sound like matzo is something different than bread. And it’s not actually. Matzah is just unleavened bread.
It’s usually if you get it from the store, it’s like crispy cardboard. It’s I like to make a lot of my own and I put spices and stuff in it so it doesn’t taste like cardboard. But yeah, matzah is just unleavened bread. So don’t think it’s different than bread.
Anyways, looking at the Scriptures 2009 translation explanatory notes for Passover. “The Hebrew word is pesach as a verb meaning to jump, skip, or pass over as a noun referring primarily to the animal victim that was slaughtered, but secondarily to the period of time connected with the slaughter of the victim.”
So yeah, the explanatory notes from the Scriptures 2009, which is the main one we use here at God Honest Truth. It says pretty much the same thing as the dictionary entries that we just saw. It could refer to the lamb, the sacrifice, the festival of Passover, etc., etc.
So that’s what Passover is, especially for my fellow nerds out there. When we look at stuff, we know and we say this repeatedly. It’s like beating a dead horse anymore, but we say this repeatedly. Whenever we look at something, we want to develop doctrine or understand what doctrine is. We need to base it solely, first of all, on scripture.
Passover in Scripture
So, let’s look at Passover now in scripture and where it comes from in scripture. Now, if you already know this, it’s not meant to insult your intelligence. This is for a lot of those who are just coming in or who, you know, are looking to learn even more than what they already know.
So, in a nutshell, Passover really commemorates generally the last plague. Even though there were 10 plagues, it really revolves around that last plague, the death of the firstborn. And then that’s what really kickstarts their exodus from Egypt. That’s what gets Pharaoh finally motivated to send them out.
This is where we’re going to start in our position in scripture. We’re going to be starting in Exodus 11. Here we’ve got the pronouncement of the death of the firstborn and then it actually happens. And then we look at Exodus 12. And this is where the first Passover is actually observed and instructed.
Passover here definitely connects with the death of the firstborn, but in the part where the angel of death passes over the Hebrews or anyone else who has painted their lintels and their doorpost with the blood of the lamb. That’s where the first Passover came from. They also had that first Passover meal as well.
Here we see in verse two of Exodus 12 that the first month of the year is described as the first month of Aviv or now referred to as Nissan. On verse three, it says to take a lamb on the 10th day of the month and then slay the lamb on the 14th of the month between the evenings. That’s right after it gets dark or sun sets.
Then verse 7, it says to apply the blood on the doorpost of the house. And that was when they were back there in Egypt that we just discussed. Verse eight, it says to eat the lamb roasted with fire. And then in verse 10 it says, “If anything remains to burn it up with fire. Don’t have leftovers the next day.”
In other words, verse 11, it says, “Eat it with your clothes ready to go, your sandals on your feet, your staff in your hand, all that stuff.” Like you could be leaving at any moment. And literally, they had no idea when they were going to be sent out in the middle of the night. So they had to eat this in a hurry, all dressed up as if they were ready to go. And they needed to be ready to go back then.
Verse 14, it says, “Pesach was foretold to be an everlasting ordinance.” Now, for those of you, my brothers and sisters, who are from the Baptist tradition, you may have a hard time understanding what the word forever means because you’ve been taught through tradition that forever just means until Jesus comes. But that’s not it. No, forever means forever.
Verse 14 says that Pesach is foretold to be an everlasting ordinance. It means forever. Verse 15 it says to eat unleavened bread or matzah for seven days. Says there to be no leaven found in your household in all your borders.
Verse 16 it says the first and the seventh days of Passover week or the week of unleavened bread. The first and seventh days are shabbatones. And what a shabbaton is is what they call like a minor Sabbath or a high Sabbath or something like that. It’s something in addition to the regular weekly Sabbath.
And it’s not exactly the same because on a Shabbaton you’re to rest and do no work, do no servile work. But on a Shabbaton, you can prepare food unlike with the weekly Sabbath where you’re not even supposed to prepare food. That’s the difference. And the week of unleavened bread, the first and seventh days are these shabbatones.
And then in verse 19, it says that no leaven is to be found in your home. Now, right here in verse 19, the word for leaven is the Hebrew word se’or. So let’s look at that a little bit more in depth before we continue.
Exodus 12 verse 19 for seven days no leaven se’or is to be found in your houses for if anyone eats what is leavened chametz that same being shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel whether sojourner or native of the land. So what does this word se’or well in common thought in common tradition a lot of people think of it as yeast. I thought that for a long time until maybe a year, two years ago, I finally got my eyes open to what se’or actually is. And it’s not exactly yeast.
Let’s get a little bit nerdy one more time. Let’s look at Strong’s H7603. That’s Strong’s H7603. The Hebrew word se’or. Se’or from the outline biblical usage. It has it defined as leaven. Strong’s definition has it defined as barm or yeast cake. Leaven.
Now, for those of you who don’t know what barm is, if you’ve ever seen a cooking show or if you’ve ever had a grandmother who made sourdough bread or something like that, they’ll use what’s referred to as a starter. This starter is this thick, bubbly, liquid, sour smelling stuff. And what they do with the starter is they take it and they put it in their mix when they’re making their bread. And that causes the bread to rise.
Well, what we refer to now as a starter is actually nothing more than a barm. So that’s what’s referring to when it says se’or it means a starter or a barm. Something that has yeast and it’s activated and it’s bubbling, it’s fermenting, it’s doing all its stuff it’s supposed to do naturally.
But there’s also this thing called a yeast cake that can be defined as se’or too. And back in the day when they couldn’t go to the store just to buy a packet or like with us a jar of yeast, they would have to use other things. In the Victorian age, a lot of times the bakers would go to the brewers and get their leftover yeast they use with the beer and use that as the yeast for rising their bread.
In the biblical days, they would take a piece of bread that would already been baked and it’s got yeast in it. It’s got wild yeast that’s been attracted to it, etc., etc., and they would mix it in with their new bread, and that would cause it to rise. But a yeast cake is something like that. So, they would just break off a piece of it, crumble it up, put it in their new batch, and that would make it rise. And that’s what a yeast cake is.
So, se’or when it says leaven in scripture, that se’or means something like a barm or a yeast cake. It does not mean yeast. Now, it can contain yeast, but what I’ve got when I make bread is a jar of dry granulated yeast. That’s not what scripture is talking about with se’or. It’s unactivated, is not active.
So, there you go. And the reason I say that is just to correct the tradition and the conventional way of thinking that leaven is yeast and it’s not. There is a nuance there and it makes a lot easier once you know this because if you’re like me and you got those packets of yeast or you’ve got that jar of yeast, you don’t have to get rid of that. That’s not what scripture is saying to get rid of. It’s saying to get rid of your starter that’s not to be found in your household. You’re also not to have anything leavened, things like that.
But yeast, the way I read it and the way I’ve studied it and stuff like that, just the dry unactivated yeast is absolutely fine. Anyways, here is your Brown Driver Briggs entry for se’or as well as your Gesenius Hebrew lexicon entry and your Jastrow’s dictionary of the Targums entry. Here is your Klein dictionary entry and your Hebrew Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament entry and the places in scripture where you can find this Hebrew word se’or used.
Now, another word that we saw in Exodus 12:19 was the word chametz. And that is Strong’s H2557. That’s H2557, chametz. Chametz. According to the outline of biblical usage from blueletterbible.org, chametz means the thing leavened or leaven. From Strong’s definition, it means leavened or leavened bread.
Brown Driver Briggs that which is leavened forbidden at Passover is seen as his Hebrew lexicon that which is leavened probably that which is gained by violence or wrong meaning metaphorically or symbolically. But chametz when it’s talking about that in Exodus 12:19 that means bread that’s already been risen. Bread that’s already been leavened. That is what chametz is.
And that’s what you’re not supposed to be eating the entire week of the week of unleavened bread. So, no chametz, no leavened products. And there’s a lot of leavening in a lot of things. So, when you’re cleaning out your pantry for Passover, you’re going through your house, make sure that you look on the ingredients list because there’s a lot of things that can make a product be leavened things like baking soda or baking powder, etc., etc. So, check that out.
And finally, here is the rest of the entries for that word chametz. Here’s Jastrow’s dictionary, the Targums entry, Klein dictionary entry, Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament entry and the places where you can find this word chametz in scripture.
Now, another word that we have already looked at and probably pretty familiar with when it comes to the feast of Passover is the word matzah. And that is Strong’s number H4682. That’s H4682 matzah. And what matzah is according to Strong’s definition? An unfermented cake or loaf, unleavened bread or cake without leaven.
Brown Driver Briggs defined it as unleavened bread or cakes. Gesenius’s Hebrew lexicon defines it as unfermented bread such as is used at the Passover, unleavened cake, unleavened bread, etc., etc.
Well, we know of it now as the boxes of Manischewitz matzah that you buy at the store that’s hard and crumbly and tasteless. Like I said, it does come across as cardboard a lot of times. The way we make it here, we make it with various different recipes. As long as it’s unleavened, it doesn’t matter the recipe you use. We even have a batter that we make an unleavened bread with. It’s kind of soft and so yeah there’s all kinds but matzah is the opposite of chametz where chametz is a bread or product that is leavened matzah is something that is unleavened that can be a unleavened bread or even an unleavened cake that we’ll get to a little bit later on when we start talking about food for the Passover celebration if you want to do that.
Finally, here is your Jastrow’s dictionary of the Targums entry for H4682 matzah and your Klein dictionary entry as well as your Hebrew Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament entry for matzah.
So now when we look back at Exodus 12:19, you know what we’re talking about or what scripture is talking about when it mentions these particular words. Let’s read it one more time. Exodus 12:19. For seven days no leaven se’or is to be found in your homes or your houses. For if anyone eats what is leavened chametz that same being shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel whether sojourner or native of the land.
See now that you know what those words are it makes a whole lot more sense and is a lot clearer especially in contrast to the tradition that we’re mostly taught when it comes to this word leavened.
So earlier we were talking about the first institution of Passover and how they did it back in the Exodus from Egypt. So now we’re going to continue with that same storyline in that same institution. Continuing with Exodus 12 in verse 22 it says to use hyssop to apply the blood to the doorpost and do not go out of your homes back when they were in Egypt.
Then verse 23, it says that Yahweh shall pass over the homes where the blood is applied to the doorpost. And this is the main thing about Passover when the angel of death passed over these homes where the blood was applied.
Then in verse 24, it says, “And you shall guard this word as a law for you and your sons forever.” Once again, for those of you who are in mainstream churchianity, you people who come from a Baptist background or a Methodist, Catholic, Presbyterian, Church of God, Church of Christ, etc., etc., forever doesn’t mean just until Jesus comes. Forever means forever. And this here in scripture, the Bible says that Passover is to be forever.
Then verse 28, it says, “The Israelites did as they were commanded.” Verse 29, it says, “At midnight, the firstborn of Egypt was killed. All the firstborn died.” So keep that particular event in mind because that’s going to come into play here near the end as well.
Then verse 31, Pharaoh sends out the Israelites. Verse 33, the Egyptians themselves wanted them gone. They hurried the Israelites out, gave them gold and silver to go out with as well. In fact, the Israelites went out a whole lot wealthier than they had ever been in their lives.
Verse 36, the Israelites took the silver and the gold from the Egyptians. Then verse 37, the Israelites left Egypt. And the number is absolutely staggering when you try to think about this, but the ones that came out of Egypt, it says here specifically in scripture that there were about 600,000 men. About 600,000 men besides the women, children, and livestock.
That gives a whole new perspective to what Moses was trying to do when he came out of Egypt and all the people he had to try to keep up with and get them through the wilderness to the promised land. That’s a lot of people. I mean, trying to get 50 people to cooperate and do things nowadays is like chasing cats. So you can kind of feel for Moses here. But yeah, 600,000 men besides the women, children, and livestock is probably well over a million when you add everything together.
And then in verse 38, it says that a mixed multitude went with the Israelites. So in addition to the probably over a million Israelites that left Egypt, there was a mixed multitude that joined them and went out with them as well. Yeah. So, you thought 600,000 was a lot. Yeah. It’s jumped up even more now.
Then in verse 49, it says, “There is to be one Torah for the native-born Israelite and the sojourner.” Once again, we just went over this the other week with the Noahide laws. There is not a double standard in scripture. And this is just further proof that there is no such thing as double standard in scripture. There would be one Torah and this applies to all the Torah, but here specifically talking about the Passover and the instructions for Passover.
So once they get out of Egypt, you would think, okay, well, they’ve already had the Passover. They ate their meal. They followed the instructions. They painted the doors with blood, and the angel of death passed over them, so no more Passover, right? No, there was to be a Passover to be remembered forever. Remember, we read that word forever.
However, there are some nowadays who say that we cannot and should not celebrate Passover because we are not in the land of Israel, not in the promised land. There is no temple standing. But is that the example we get from scripture? No.
Because if we look in Numbers 9:1-4, this is where the people are still in the wilderness and they’re celebrating Passover. Numbers chapter 9:1-4. 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 Mitzrayim, saying, “Now let the children of Israel perform the Pesach at its appointed time. On the 14th 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, did they wait until they got into the promised land? Nope. They were celebrating Passover. Even in the wilderness, even without the temple, this is long before the temple. Even not being in the temple, even not being in the promised land, they were still celebrating and performing the Pesach.
Now, this is something that’s important and scripture actually places a lot of importance on Passover. So much importance that it says to do it forever. Again, forever means forever, not just until Jesus comes, but perform the Passover forever.
Also, this is so important to scripture that you’re actually given a second chance to do the Passover in case you could not for the first time around. If you were away and you couldn’t get back, if you were somehow unclean due to menstruation or childbirth or touching a dead body or etc, etc. For whatever reason, if you could not do Passover when you’re supposed to, they give you a second chance.
Numbers chapter 9 6-12. 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. Why are we withheld from bringing near the offering of Yahweh at his 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 your generations is unclean for a being or is far away on a journey, he shall still perform the Pesach of Yahweh. On the 14th 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 are to perform it.”
So here there were some guys who said they were defiled for the being of a man. That means they got around or touched a dead body. Sometimes you got to do that to take for hygienic purposes, right? You got to bury the dead, take care of them and whatnot. So, they could not perform the Pesach when it was told to perform it. And they’re asking Moses and Yahweh himself says to come back on the second new moon, a month later, do all the exact same stuff just a month later.
So, Pesach or Passover is so important that you get a second chance. And it says do this. And once again, they were doing it in the wilderness without a temple and not being in the promised land.
So then we go on and we see that when they do get into the promised land they continue to celebrate Passover. Joshua 5:10 and the children of Israel camped at Gilgal and performed Pesach on the 14th day of the new moon at evening on the desert plains of Yericho.
Then again 2 Kings 23:21. 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.”
Again, in Ezekiel 45:21, in the first month, on the 14th day of the new moon, you have the Pesach, a festival of 7 days, unleavened bread is eaten.
So they continued on all the way out through the Tanakh because they read that word forever and they knew what forever meant. And they understood it and remembered that so much so that even when they came back from exile, they still performed the Passover. Ezra 6:19. And the sons of the exile performed the Pesach on the 14th day of the first new moon.
So this should be pretty obvious. That’s where Passover comes from. Why is celebrated to remember and commemorate the angel of death passing over the Hebrews in Egypt and right before they went out of Egypt heading toward the promised land. And they continued celebrating Passover when they were in the wilderness when they got to the promised land when they came back from exile etc etc. All throughout the Tanakh the people of Israel people of Yahweh celebrated the Passover.
Brit Chadasha and Passover
So now you’re thinking, well, what about the New Testament, which is called the Brit Chadasha? What does that have to say about the Passover now with our Messiah? Well, if you haven’t read your Bible, let me break it to you. Yeshua, Jesus, he kept Passover.
Luke 2:40-41. And the child 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 Passover or Pesach was something that Yeshua was raised with and continued with throughout his life.
We see the continued observance in the Brit Chadasha. We look at Luke 22 verse 1. And the festival of Matzah drew near which is called Pesach. So they kept on doing it. Even the righteous, the faithful, the followers of Yeshua celebrated Pesach or Passover.
Then we look at, well, maybe thinking, okay, well, isn’t Passover actually a Jewish festival? And we’ll get into some misnomers here in just a little bit, but just to let you know, it is called the Passover of the Jews in one particular book, and that’s the book of John.
Here is one example from the book of John. John chapter 2:13. And the Pesach of the Yehudim was near and Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim. So once again, Yeshua is going up to the temple to celebrate the Passover. And here in the book of John is calling it the Passover of the Jews or I’m sorry, the Passover of the Judeans, etc., etc.
However, John is the only place in scripture where it’s ever called the Passover of the Jews. And we’ll get into some more details on that coming up in just a minute. So, you may be thinking, okay, yeah, Yeshua celebrated Passover and so did his disciples, but then he was crucified and buried and resurrected. And everyone knows that the law was nailed to the cross when he died on the cross.
Once again, I come from a Baptist background. I’ve heard this throughout my life. This is the kind of thing that’s preached and taught in mainstream Christianity. But is that true? Is there any evidence to show that the Torah and the Passover and the feast days were done away with on the cross? Let’s look at the scriptural evidence real quick.
Acts 12:1-4. And about that time, Herod the sovereign put forth his hands to do evil to some from the assembly. That means some from the followers of Yeshua. And he killed Ya’akov the brother of Yochanan with the sword. And seeing that it was pleasing to the Yehudim, he proceeded further to arrest Kefa 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. So, here’s something that’s really interesting as well. We went over the technicalities of what Passover is and also the unleavened bread, the week of unleavened bread. But here in this passage, it starts out by saying that these were the days of unleavened bread. And then it goes on to refer to that as Passover or Pesach.
In Greek, that would be pascha. So here they’re kind of using that interchangeably, the days of unleavened bread and Pesach too like we do still nowadays a lot of times. However, you can see here they were still celebrating and still concerned with Passover even after the death, burial, and resurrection of Yeshua.
Now, one interesting thing, if you’ve ever read a King James Bible and you’ve read this particular passage, you want to go look it up as we read this in a minute, you can. But here is one of the several places where the King James has an error. And the error in the King James is that it actually calls this Easter instead of Passover.
Let’s look at that in the King James version Acts 12:4. And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him, intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. So if you don’t know, Easter did not come about until the 800s, 900s, something like that. It was a long time in coming, much longer than the feast of nativity we know of as Christmas nowadays.
But let it be known the fact is that back in the first century they knew nothing about Easter. So calling this Easter is anachronistic. There we go. It’s taking a modern concept trying to read it back into past events and it’s false. It’s it leads people astray and it has for many many years.
Anyways, the Tyndale, which came before the King James, also mistranslates it, but that’s kind of par for the course because the King James is pretty much like 75 80% Tyndale. Anyways, other translations correct this particular passage and they get it right, especially the modern translations like the ESV, the LSB, even the Wycliffe, which came long before the King James and the Geneva, which came before the King James. They got it right as well.
Modern translations accurately translate this word pascha in Greek as Passover. That’s what the scripture is talking about there. It’s talking about Passover, not Easter. Here in the Wycliffe and the Geneva, it doesn’t even translate it into a word that we know today. It simply calls it pascha.
And little known or little unknown fact. If you look at various celebrations around the world and what I’m talking about here is the celebrations of Easter. Okay, just let the cat out of the bag. You look at these various celebrations around the world of Easter. A lot of people still call it by some derivative of pascha. They call it Pasca, Pasque, Pascal, something like that. They don’t call it Easter.
Very few cultures actually use that word Easter. A lot of people, but when you compare culture to culture, it’s very few. They call it some derivative of pascha, just like the word Saturday we have here in America. A lot of places around the world, they call it some derivative of Shabbat or Sabbath, Sabado, things like that.
So, very nerdy tangent there. But anyways, yeah, King James translates this as Easter incorrectly, but modern translations correctly translate it as Passover. And the word we looked at earlier, that word pascha actually does mean Passover. It does not mean Easter. And you can look this up in the lexicons and the dictionaries that we have provided and other dictionaries and lexicons as well. It’ll say the exact same thing. Pascha means Passover, not Easter.
So as they continue on in the Brit Chadasha, they use this festival of Passover or Pesach or pascha for teaching metaphorical and symbolic things. We look in 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 says here, “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.”
Now when it says let us celebrate the festival which festival is it talking about? Well it doesn’t use the actual word pascha here but from all the references it’s obvious what it’s talking about. It’s talking about Passover because it’s talking about getting rid of the leaven calling us unleavened etc etc. So we know it’s referencing Passover.
Well this would not mean squat to people who didn’t know anything about Passover. So as we already established the people were all still continuing to celebrate Passover. They would have known this imagery already being associated with Passover. And now when Paul writes to the church at Corinth, he uses that imagery from this festival to teach them the point he’s trying to get across. But they wouldn’t have known that if they did not know about Passover or celebrating Passover.
Passover is a ‘Jewish’ Holiday
So now let’s get into some Passover myths. And we hinted at this earlier, but let’s start out at looking at the whole concept and the tradition of myth that’s going around that Passover is one of those quote unquote Jewish holidays. Well, is that what scripture calls it? Does scripture call it a quote unquote Jewish holiday?
We look at Exodus 12:11. 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 12:26-27. 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 who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Mitzrayim when he struck the Egyptians and delivered your households.”
Numbers chapter 9:10. 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.”
Numbers 9:14. And when a stranger sojourns among you, then he shall perform the Pesach of Yahweh. He shall do so according to the law of the Pesach and according to its right ruling. You have one law both for the stranger and the native of the land.
Numbers chapter 28:16. And in the first new moon on the 14th day is the Pesach of Yahweh etc etc etc.
So what does scripture call Pesach? It says it is Yahweh’s Pesach. Yahweh is the one who instituted it, who told us to do it. It wasn’t given just to the tribe of Judah. It wasn’t the tribe of Judah who instituted it. No, it was instituted by Yahweh himself and it’s given to all of us, all of his people, not just the tribe of Judah or the southern kingdom of Judea, given to all of us. And it’s the Pesach of Yahweh.
However, in the spirit of full disclosure, we’ve already hinted to this already, but in the spirit of full disclosure, scripture does in one particular book refer to Pesach as the Jewish Passover, for lack of a better term. And like we said earlier, that is in the book of John.
Let’s look at some examples real quick in John 2:13. And the Pesach of the Yehudim was near and Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim.
John 6:4, “And the Pesach was near, the festival of the Yehudim.”
John 11:55. Now the Pesach of the Yehudim was near, and many went from the country up to Jerusalem before the Pesach who set themselves apart.
Now, like I said, everywhere else except for the book of John, it always calls it the Pesach of Yahweh, not the Jewish Passover. Only in the book of John does it call it the Jewish Passover or the Passover of the Jews or something like that.
I haven’t been able to track down fully why that is, why it’s only John. Some things I come across that I haven’t fully verified yet. So, take this with a grain of salt, but some things I come across says that John was actually writing to a Greek audience and he was calling it that just for clarity and specificity. So take that for what you will. If you have any more research, by all means, send it our way so we can look at it.
But yeah, it’s only in the book of John is it ever in scripture referred to as a Jewish Passover or Passover of the Jews.
Jesus Died on Good Friday
So now, another myth or misnomer about Passover is that Yeshua, Jesus, died on Good Friday. Is that actually true? Let’s examine the scriptures to find out.
Matthew 12:40. 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.
Remember that Yeshua foretold and prophesied because he was a prophet. He prophesied that he would be in the tomb in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. So let’s stop real quick and add this up.
If it’s like tradition says, “And he was crucified on Friday, Friday evening.” That gives Friday night, one night, Saturday, one day. For the benefit of the doubt, we’ll say Saturday night. So that’s two nights and one day. And then we’ll get to here in a moment, but it says that he was seen on the first day of the week. That’s not three days and three nights.
Matthew 16:21. 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. The third day. Put that in your memory bank. We’re going to be applying that here in just a moment.
Luke 9:22 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 10:39-40. And we are witnesses of all he did both in the country of the Yehudim and in Jerusalem whom they even killed by hanging on a timber. Elohim raised up this one on the third day and let him be seen.
So again, three days and three nights. You can say, “Well, maybe that’s just a Hebrew idiom instead of actually being literal.” But then we go on and we read correctly. We go on and we read that he was raised on the third day. That’s not an idiom. That is specific.
So, we know that when Yeshua said he was to be in the tomb for three days and three nights, he was being literal. And when we look at the timing of stuff, there’s a lot of pieces that go into it.
One of the things that we can know for sure is that he was seen after being killed and buried. He was seen on the first day of the week. That can be our anchor point.
Look at John 20:1. 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 some things to note from this particular verse. It’s the first day of the week. What is the first day of the week? Well, we know that as Sunday nowadays and mainstream churchianity says that Sunday is now the Sabbath because it was on Sunday that Jesus rose from the dead. Well, that’s not exactly true.
It doesn’t say he rose from the dead on the first day. It says that he was first seen on the first day. There’s that’s an important distinction there. He had already risen and then he was seen on the first day. Yeah.
And when Mary Magdala sees him on the first day of the week, he’s already risen. And it’s my contention that he actually rose after sunset on the seventh day. So take that for what you will.
So let’s look at this visually. Now, according to standard Catholic tradition, it says that Jesus dies on Good Friday and then if you follow scripture, it says he’ll be in the tomb for three days and three nights and then he is first seen on Sunday, the first day of the week. That’s not three days and three nights.
Like I said, we know he was seen on the first day of the week. So, we can use that as an anchor point and count backwards 3 days and three nights. And that leads us to Wednesday evening as to when he was actually crucified.
There’s a lot more information from scripture that actually feeds into this and lines up with a Wednesday crucifixion, not a Friday crucifixion.
First of all, the first day is considered a Sabbath or a Shabbaton. Now, we already went over that when we read back in the Tanakh. This is going to be important to remember.
Let’s look at Leviticus 23:5-7. And the first new moon on the 14th day of the new moon between the evenings is the Pesach to Yahweh. And on the 15th day of this new moon is the festival of matzah to Yahweh. Seven days you eat unleavened bread. On the first day, you have a set apart gathering. You do no servile work.
So the first day of unleavened bread is a Shabbaton. It’s a Sabbath, considered a Sabbath because there’s no work. So yeah, the first day of unleavened bread and the last day is a Shabbaton, a Sabbath, a day of rest.
So remember that the first day, it’s going to come into play here in just a minute. It says here in the scripture that the day after the crucifixion was referred to as a Sabbath.
John 19:31. Therefore, since it was the preparation day that the bodies should not remain on the stake on the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a high one, the Yehudim asked Pilate to have their legs broken and that they be taken away.
So, here is calling the day after Yeshua was crucified a Sabbath. And it’s actually referring to it as a high Sabbath.
I tried to look this up and this is the only time I could find that this Sabbath was called a high Sabbath. Nowhere else in scripture, nowhere else in the Talmud, nowhere else in the Mishna, in the writings of Josephus, in the writings of Philo is this term high Sabbath ever used.
So that was a non-starter to begin with, but it does give it an adjective, and that sets it apart, I think, from the regular weekly Sabbath because it’s called a high one. It’s something distinct from the regular Sabbath. Otherwise, they just refer to it as the Sabbath.
So, it’s definitely referring to it as something different than the weekly Sabbath. So, again, it’s fitting in with what we saw from the timeline that we just put forth that he was crucified on a Wednesday evening. The next day was a Sabbath. So, he had to be buried on that Wednesday evening.
And why was it a Sabbath on a Thursday? Well, because it was the beginning of the week of unleavened bread and it’s ordered that you do no servile work on the first day. That’s why it’s called a Sabbath. So, there’s two Sabbaths in that week and we’ll get to that in just a minute. It gets complicated if you’re not taking notes. So, just try to remember this if you can.
Anyways, moving on. It says that the women buy spices after the Sabbath. We look in Mark 16:1-2. And when the Sabbath was passed, Miriam from Magdala and Miriam the mother of Ya’akov and Shalom bought spices to go and anoint him. And very early on day one of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.
So take note of this because it gets confusing here in just a minute, but we it’ll all make sense at the end. Here it says that the women buy spices after the Sabbath because on the Sabbath, buying and selling is not to be done. So they had to wait until after the Sabbath to buy the spices to anoint his body with.
Then it goes on to say that the women prepare the spices and then rest on the Sabbath. Luke 23:53 and 56. And the women who had come with him from Galil followed after and saw the tomb and how his body was laid. And having returned, they prepared spices and perfumes and they rested on the Sabbath according to the command.
So, is the Bible getting things confused? Is it contradicting itself? It just said that they bought spices after the Sabbath. Now, it says that they took the spices, prepared them, and then rested on the Sabbath. How does that make any sense?
Remember, we’ll clear it up for you in just a minute cuz it all fits on that timeline that we just proposed.
And then finally, it says that the women see the risen Yeshua on the first day of the week. Mark 16:2. And very early on day one of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.
Mark 16:9. And having risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Miriam from Magdala from whom he had cast out seven demons.
So, we know that’s an anchor point that we can count backwards from. And everything we just read and looked at, it all fits with that timeline we’re going to show you in just a moment.
But if you want to indulge me just a second to go on a tangent here, it says here in Mark 16:9 that Yeshua rose early on the first day of the week. So does that confirm that he rose on Sunday? Nope. Not if you know what a biblical day is.
Remember according to scripture, the day starts at sunset. So, if you go with the timeline that we just put forth, he was crucified on a Wednesday. He spent Wednesday night, Thursday, Thursday night, Friday, Friday night, Saturday. That’s three days and three nights.
So, that means sunset on Saturday would been the start of the first day according to scripture. That’s when I put forth that he actually rose because that would have completed three days and three nights. He was done at that point and then he could have rose.
And it says here confirming what I just put forth. I think in my opinion that he rose early on the first day of the week. So take that for what you will. That’s my tangent. I’m done now.
Anyways, so taking out everything we just looked at in scripture, all these little pieces of information about the women waiting till after the Sabbath to buy spices and then buying the spices and resting on the Sabbath. How does that all put together?
Let’s look at the visual representation here real quick that goes along with everything that we just looked at. On Wednesday, this is what we’re putting forth that on Wednesday Yeshua dies and is laid in the tomb. That is when the Passover is celebrated. They eat the lamb, all that stuff.
Then on Thursday, that would have been the first day of unleavened bread. That would have been a Sabbath. That is referenced as far as the women waiting till after the Sabbath to buy spices.
Then on Friday, the women are able to go out, go buy and sell. They buy the spices. They come back, they prepare the spices. And I don’t know what’s involved. I tried to look this up, but I didn’t have time. I don’t know what’s involved with preparing spices for anointing a dead body, but apparently doesn’t seem like they were able to do that all in one day.
So, they go buy the spices, come back, prepare them, and then rest for the Sabbath. And that Sabbath would have been the recurring weekly Sabbath.
Then, they take those spices early on the first day of the week. They go to the tomb to anoint the Messiah, but he’s not there. He’s already gone.
So everything we just looked at lines up perfectly with the timeline that we’re putting forth here.
The bigger picture, the bigger point is it’s not about what day of the week that he was crucified on and rose on. That’s just what happened to be at that time. The biggest thing is that he was crucified on Passover, the 14th day of the first month. That’s it.
And that’s going to come into play as we look at next week’s teaching on Easter. So remember that particular tidbit.
Yeah, the timeline we put forth lines up with everything we found in scripture. Take it as you will. If you disagree and you still hold to Good Friday, that’s fine. We can still fellowship. No fights or nothing like that. We disagree, but that’s okay. We can still break bread, still fellowship.
But it just the Good Friday scenario just does not line up with scripture. But when you’re Catholic, it doesn’t matter. It’s the teaching of the church, not scripture that’s most important. Unfortunately, those traditions from Catholicism has continued down into Protestantism, and it’s just stuck around and should be getting rid of, but unfortunately, they haven’t.
Further Study
So, anyways, let’s start winding down and look at some things for further study. Some things I got into trying to flesh out for this particular teaching, but didn’t have time. So, I’m going to mention them to you in case you want to go on in your own studies.
There’s been over the years some things put forth saying that the last supper that Yeshua had with his disciples before he was crucified was actually a Passover meal. Well, is that true or not? Because they had the last supper one night and then he’s crucified on Passover the next day. So, how is that a Passover meal?
Well, when we look in scripture, the disciples actually refer to it as the Pesach, the Passover meal, even though he’s crucified a day later on Passover. So, how does all that make sense? And here’s the references I put up there for you where the disciples actually refer to the last supper as a Passover meal.
Another thing I got to look at, but I didn’t get into a lot of detail or research on was different customs. Because when you look at even nowadays within Christianity, if you look at people who celebrate Easter, depending on which culture or custom you come up with depends on how you would celebrate Easter or Christmas or stuff like that. And the northern part of America, they would celebrate it one way whereas it’s a little bit different in the south and a little bit different in the west, a little bit different in Europe, etc., etc., but it’s all regarding the same holiday.
And the same thing goes with Passover, even back in Yeshua’s day. What I came to find out is that in Galilee that, you know, Jesus is from Nazareth, which is in the territory of Galilee in Israel. So Yeshua was a Galilean. Well, a Galilean custom is to have what’s called a meal of cessation. And what they do is they have a fast on the 14th day of Passover. And it’s called the fast of the firstborn to remember the death of the firstborn back in Egypt.
Now once that fast is over on the 14th then they have the seder that’s commanded by scripture at the evening and that’s their Passover meal. But before the fast they have a final meal to eat before they fast the next day. And that meal is called the meal of cessation. And that was a Galilean custom that Yeshua probably would have at least known about because he was from Galilee.
So, take that for what you will. I didn’t have time to flesh it out. If you want to go further with that and run with it, by all means, do some research. Let me know what you find out. But, yeah, it’s called the meal of cessation. And some people actually point to that as being what is referred to nowadays as the last supper. It’s connected with Passover, but there’s a lot of nuances and stuff there.
So yeah, if you go further with that and you find anything out, by all means, please send it my way so I can learn as well and put it in our notes to get out to everybody.
Customs
So now you’ve learned about Passover, where it comes from, how to celebrate it according to scripture. But if you want to celebrate it today, what are some various customs and practices that you could implement in your own life in order to celebrate Passover?
Well, number one, the food. Obviously cuz we read in scripture there’s a lot of food associated with Passover three specifically mentioned in the scriptures. Number one is lamb. A lot of people know that on Passover you roast a lamb and you eat the lamb. This is something I learned a couple years ago but anyways that you can actually substitute a goat if you don’t have a lamb. So if you’re trying to celebrate Passover and you can’t get a hold of lamb, go for goat. That is scripturally accurate and mentioned in scripture here in Exodus 12:5. Let the lamb be a perfect one, a year old male. Take it from the sheep or from the goats.
So a young lamb or a young goat you can eat for Passover. So there is your protein, your meat that you’re going to be eating for Passover as directed by scripture.
Another thing directed by scripture is unleavened bread. Now, we went into some detail on that. So, you know what unleavened bread is? You can go and buy that at the store. Again, it’s edible. It’s not the most tastiest thing in the world, but it’s edible. And it’s called matzah. You can buy it. I think Manischewitz is a company that produces matzah crackers or matzah bread you can make your own as well and if you want some recipes I got four or five recipes for different matzah that you can make.
So there’s two things mentioned by scripture to eat on Passover and that is the lamb or the goat and the matzah the unleavened bread.
And the third thing that scripture tells us to eat is bitter herbs. It doesn’t give anything specific, but most of the time when I celebrate Passover, we have horseradish. The kids despise it. And that’s fine. I mean, it’s not meant to be enjoyable. It’s meant to remember what’s going on with Passover. So, yeah, it’s supposed to be bitter. It’s supposed to invoke a reaction, a memory of what is going on.
So those are the three things commanded by scripture when you celebrate Passover. Eat lamb or goat, unleavened bread, and bitter herbs. And again, it doesn’t have to be horseradish. You can use something else, but horseradish is fairly common.
Now, some other things that are commonly eaten at Passover is something called charoset. Charoset is very, very good if you make it correctly. Now, a couple years ago, I did not make it correctly and it was very off. And I realized that when I went to… first of all, those of you who don’t know, charoset is a mixture of things like apples, nuts, raisins, honey, things like that, and they’re put in and mixed all together. It’s very sweet. It’s very good. And it’s meant to represent the mortar that was used by the Israelites when they were making bricks and stuff like that in Egypt.
But what I did the couple years ago is when I went with the store to buy the peanuts to go in the charoset, I just grabbed the can of peanuts off the shelf at the store, not looking, and made my charoset. I did not know that you could buy raw peanuts already shelled at the store. I thought they were all cooked and roasted. But I found out that year that yeah, you can find raw peanuts. And raw peanuts are absolutely nasty. So if you’re going to make charoset, look at the label before you buy that can or jar of peanuts.
Going on. Some other food that is nowadays commonly associated with Passover but not required by scripture is something called parsley stalks. You know what that is? And that symbolizes the tears or I’m sorry, it’s used to symbolize the putting on the blood on the doorpost. We’ll get to the tears in just a minute.
Anyways, that also wine or grape juice is used in Passover celebrations. We see this from where Yeshua drank wine at the last meal, referring to it as his blood. And as we went over with our alcohol episode, wine was commonplace back then, they had it for just about every meal. So wine or grape juice is commonly used at Passover seder.
Some Jews, I’d say probably a lot of Jews anyways, use what’s called a beitzah. We know it better as an egg. This is something I would advise you not to do. There’s nothing wrong with eating eggs. I get it. They’re not poisonous. Are not unclean, whatnot. But when used in a religious context, that’s usually something that comes from paganism. Think Easter that we’ll get into next week. And Judaism is not immune from bringing in or syncretizing pagan practices. And bringing in the egg is one of those. It’s another thing that’s not commanded by scripture. And as far as I can tell, it was only put in there when it was brought in from paganism. So, a lot of people do use an egg, but I would highly advise against that.
And the last thing that I see a lot of times with a seder meal in the celebration of Passover is salt water. And that’s to remind us of the tears of the Israelites when they were in bondage and slavery in Egypt.
Now, when you start looking at buying things for Passover, some things are not considered kosher for Passover, but some things are, and a lot of things are actually labeled as kosher for Passover. If you’re watching the video here, you can see this orange juice here, and it’s got in Hebrew kosher le Pesach, and that means kosher for Passover. Other orange juice or other things that aren’t labeled like that are not kosher for Passover according to Jewish tradition.
Put that way. If it’s kosher according to scripture, go for it. That’s always been my attitude. It doesn’t have to be labeled. If I know it’s kosher, I’ll look at the ingredients. There’s nothing unclean in there. I’m good to go.
For Passover, there’s another criteria to look at, and that would be leavening. If it doesn’t have leaven in it, then it’s good. It doesn’t have to be certified by Jewish authority. If it’s not got leaven and it’s kosher, it’s good for Passover in my opinion.
Anyways, look at any bread or dessert that you have and make sure it’s not leavened when you include it with your Passover meal or anything you eat during the week of Passover or the week of unleavened bread.
You can eat things like matzah that we’ve already looked at and already covered, but some other things that you can eat as well. Some people who probably don’t know this, but there’s a type of cake called a sponge cake. And I love making sponge cakes. They’re so good. It’s called angel food cake a lot of times. But these cakes are not made with a leavening agent. They are soft and they’re puffy, but they’re not leavened. And the reason is that it uses a meringue egg whites and it’s air that gets beaten into them.
And if you have ever cooked an angel food cake or a sponge cake and you know if you let it sit out too long, it’ll eventually deflate without ever coming back up, then that’s because it doesn’t have leavening in it. You have to whip the air into it and while it’s still got that air whipped in it, you have to bake it so it sets.
So angel food cake, sponge cake, does not have leavening. And as far as I can tell, if I’m wrong, let me know and let me know your reasoning. But angel food cake, as far as I can tell, is perfectly okay for Passover because it does not contain leaven.
Matzah balls, those are good to eat any time of the year, but matzah balls are not leavened, so they’re especially good for Passover. Anything dairy, obviously, you can eat yogurt, cream cheese, regular cheese, etc., etc. Meat like salmon, gefilte fish, if you can stand gefilte fish, beef, poultry, things like that. You can have in addition to the lamb or goat, but scripture tells us to have lamb or goat. So, make sure you definitely have that first and then you have other meat in addition to it if you’d like.
Quinoa if you like quinoa. Nuts like almonds, peanuts, cashews, etc., etc. But once again, make sure you’re looking at the label before you buy it. Fruits, obviously, fruits are not leavened and fruits are kosher. So, fruits are good to go for Passover. Rice. Rice is good for Passover. It’s kosher. It’s unleavened. Just regular old boiled rice, fried rice, even brown rice, whatever. Rice is good for Passover. Beans. Beans are also good. It doesn’t contain leavening either.
So, basically, the rule of thumb when you’re looking at what to eat for Passover to include in your Passover meal is anything that is both kosher and unleavened.
So, another thing that you could use, but you don’t have to, is something called a seder plate. If you’ve ever seen a seder plate, it’s got different places for the different items that we just went over. Things like the parsley, the salt water, some people include a bone in there, the bitter herbs and stuff like that, too. But you don’t have to have this. It just it’s a little bit more fancy, a little bit more formal. So, if you want to do it, do it. It’s okay. If you don’t want to do it, that’s fine. It’s not commanded.
We have a lot of presence on the internet as far as files, network, stuff like that. One place we have a presence is a place called archive.org. And we’ve actually put up our own version of a messianic seder, Passover seder on archive.org that you can go and download for yourself and feel free to use it. We’ve got two versions. A regular version for a general gathering of a group of people and also a light version if you’re doing it at home. That way it doesn’t just take forever if it’s just you and a few family members.
So go look for that on our archive.org account or you can go to our website and we should have it linked there as well. If you still can’t find it, let us know and we will actually send you that link to an email or what have you. And like I said, feel free to download it and use it yourself. Even print it off for your guests if you like. It’s all for you guys. That’s why we’re here. So that’s our God Honest Truth Passover Haggadah free for use if you need one.
Summary
So finally in summary, Passover is referred to as Pesach in Hebrew and pascha in Greek. Passover commemorates the powerful hand of Yahweh redeeming the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. Passover commemorates the sacrifice of our Messiah Yeshua as well, who is referred to as the Passover lamb.
The Hebrews kept the Passover outside of the promised land, inside of the promised land, and all throughout the Tanakh. Yeshua kept the Passover and is our Passover lamb. Yeshua was crucified on a Wednesday afternoon, not on Good Friday.
The apostles and the faithful kept the Passover in the Brit Chadasha. The early Christians also kept the Passover. Now, we didn’t get into the history of the early church. Maybe this is something else we need to turn into a series, but even the early Christians kept the Passover. And this led to what was eventually became known as the Quartodeciman controversy if you want to do some more research on your own there.
But yeah, the early Christians also kept the Passover. Look at Polycarp who was a disciple of John and when it was that he kept the Passover.
And then Passover is an everlasting ordinance, aka forever. Not just until the time Jesus comes, but forever. And finally, we should keep Passover because once again, it is forever. It’s a commemoration of the power and majesty of Yahweh. It’s also a commemoration of the sacrifice of our Messiah Yeshua. Therefore, we nowadays should also eat the Passover.
And that is just the God honest truth.
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