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In continuing to prepare ourselves for the Passover this coming spring, let’s look at the
first time the word Pesach – Passover is actually recorded in the scriptures and seek to
understand this word in order to understand the meaning of this Feast Day.
Exodus 12:1-14
12 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 “This month is to be for you the first
month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the
tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb[a] for his family, one for each
household. 4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with
their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You
are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will
eat. 5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take
them from the sheep or the goats. 6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the
month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at
twilight. 7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of
the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. 8 That same night they are to
eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without
yeast. 9 Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head,
legs and internal organs. 10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till
morning, you must burn it. 11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into
your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the
Lord’s Passover.
12 “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both
people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13
The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I
will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
14 “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall
celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance.
Why are we talking about the Passover again? Because each year it needs to be
retaught. Even this chapter of Exodus tells us we will need to explain it to our children
what we are doing and why over and over again. Exodus 12:26-27 26 And when your
children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ 27 then tell them, ‘It is the
Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and
spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’” Then the people bowed down
and worshiped.
Chapter 11 of Exodus tells us about the First Born of those who are not covered by the
blood and what will happen to them. Exodus 11:4-6 4 So Moses said, “This is what theLORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. 5 Every firstborn son in Egypt will
die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the
female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well. 6 There
will be loud wailing throughout Egypt—worse than there has ever been or ever will be
again. 7 But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any person or animal.’ Then you
will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.
This is Yehovah telling the people through Moses in advance what to expect – therefore
Ch 11 is prophetic, about what will happen in the very short future before the Greater
Exodus we read about in:
●
Jeremiah 23:7-8: “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD,
“when they
shall no longer say,
‘As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of
the land of Egypt,’ but, ‘As the LORD lives who brought up and led the
descendants of the house of Israel out of the north country and from all the
countries where he had driven them.'”
●
Ezekiel 36:24-28: “I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the
countries… I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you… and
you shall be my people, and I will be your God.”
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Isaiah 11:11-12:11 In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to
reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from
Upper Egypt, from Cush,[a] from Elam, from Babylonia,[b] from Hamath and from
the islands of the Mediterranean. 12 He will raise a banner for the nations
and gather the exiles of Israel;
he will assemble the scattered people of Judah
from the four quarters of the earth.
According to the timeline we see in the SightedMoon Charts, we expect this Greater
Exodus to begin at Passover 2030. That is just 5 short years away. This is why we are
preparing for Passover this year months before the event, so that you are prepared to
keep this rehearsal, understanding it’s meanings for the future.
Ch 13 is prophetic about the First Born of those who ARE covered by the blood, and this
is a long term prophecy, for all of time. Exodus 13:8-10 8 On that day tell your son, ‘I do
this because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ 9 This observance
will be for you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that this law ofthe LORD is to be on your lips. For the LORD brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand.
10 You must keep this ordinance at the appointed time year after year.
Year after Year.
So this word Passover פסח – Pasach means to Hop: To hop from one place or another.
Also to be lame as one who hops on one leg. to hop, that is, (figuratively) skip over (or
spare); by implication to hesitate; also (literally) to limp, to dance: – halt, become lame,
leap, pass over.
But we use it, in reference to this feast day – Pesach, in this context used only technically
of the Passover (the festival or the victim): – passover (offering). It is both an event and
a sacrifice, meaning an animal, namely a lamb or a goat, dies in place of the firstborn.
Do you have in your culture this concept of the grim reaper?
Imagine a person out scything the grasses. If he’s doing a good job, it all gets cut down
and no blades of grass are left standing.But here is a picture of a section of grass that was hopped over, or skipped over. This is
the same thing that happened with those Israelites in Egypt when the Blood was on the
doorposts of their houses. They were skipped over, left to continue.
We see this same picture in Matthew 24. These verses are often used to preach the
Rapture Theory saying that those taken were taken up in the Rapture. They say that
those left are the ones “left behind” or left without the blessing of eternal relationship
with Yehovah. But given the picture we have of the Passover, where those who are
covered by the blood are hopped over, skipped over, left to continue, is this really what
these verses are trying to portray to us? Let’s read in Matthew 24: 36-41 36 “But about
that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the
Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving
in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what
would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at thecoming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the
other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the
other left.
Now this phrase “No one knows the day or the hour” is a phrase, an idiom, referencing
the Feast of Trumpts, but there is a reason these two feasts, Passover and Feast of
Trumpets are related. The Feast of Trumpets is a warning, reminding us that the
Judgement is coming, that Yom Kippor, the Feast of Atonement is coming. It is
reminding us we need that covering, that blood on the doorpost of our hearts. That
covering says we are chosen, we were skipped over and remain close to his heart in a
sea full of those He would see as strangers.
This brings us to the connection between Passover and Atonement. Yeshua is that
Passover Sacrifice, He is our Passover Lamb. It is His shed blood that covers us so that
we may be hopped over, left standing, chosen, so that we can continue forward to the
Atonement, to the Judgement. For Yeshua is not only our Passover Lamb, He is also
our Atonement Goat. Yeshua’s death on the cross is not just that we may be chosen to
be taken out of the ways of this world, but He also is the one who, in the days still to
come will be the one who dies to make Atonement for our sin at the end of days. There
is a Judgement to come, a day when those 10 virgins will be waiting for their
Bridegroom to come for them, and some will be ready and waiting with their oil, and
some will be waiting, but not ready, not prepared, they will have no oil and will try to gain
some at the last moment and will return to find that the Bridegroom has come and the
door has been shut on them. They will knock, but He will answer “Away from me, I know
you not”
We were taught in our Christianity that once saved always saved. We were taught that
once we had been chosen, once we had experienced this Passover Moment where we
entered this relationship was THE moment, and all that comes after pales in contrast to
this “born again moment”, the moment where we said our sinners prayer and gave our
lives to Jesus. But this is just the beginning, and this idea only recognizes Yeshua as our
Passover Lamb but fails to understand, fails to see how we must continue the
relationship and grow in the relationship so that we grasp the meaning of all the feasts,
so that we come to understand what it means that Yeshua is also our Atonement Goat.
A Relationship is not a once and done situation. We don’t choose a spouse and say to
them only once “I Love You” and then never again say it, nor live it out. We can not
assume that a relationship like this is going to last a lifetime.Psalm 130:4 But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve
you.
Matthew 26:28 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the
forgiveness of sins.
Acts 10:43 All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives
forgiveness of sins through his name.”
The whole purpose of being hopped over, of being left standing, passed over is so that
we can continue on, continue along the journey. Once the children of Israel were passed
over in Egypt, they did not remain in Egypt. They began the journey, leaving Egypt. And
Egypt didn’t want them to leave, it tried hard to bring them back. We have the same
thing in our lives. Once we have made the decision to follow Yehovah, there are people
who are trying to get us to remain in our old way of life. People who criticize us for
trying to change our lives, trying to walk in righteousness. The world does not like it
when we try to pull ourselves up out of our pit, the world wants to drag us back. How
dare we try to be better than them by working for our freedom. How dare we walk away
from them.
But the Children of Israel did walk away, and they walked through a process, they
proceeded to the Red Sea which is a picture of Baptism, which is a picture of the Feast
of First Fruits. A picture of being made new, leaving behind the old life and walking
forward as a New Creation. They then continue walking toward Mount Sinai, and enter
into the Covenant, the relationship that has boundaries, stipulationship, conditions. And
if these boundaries are not kept, if the stipulations are not met, if the terms and
conditions are ignored, then we can not be surprised that at the Judgement, we will not
pass through the judgement and be found worthy to continue forward to the
Confirmation of the relationship, the sealing at the wedding feast. You see, it’s not Once
Saved Always Saved. The “born again” moment is not the only thing that matters, as a
matter of fact, it’s the least important. If you claim to be chosen, but lose your chosen
status because you glorified yourself in being chosen instead of walking out your life as
if you were chosen to be in covenant then you have missed the whole purpose of being
chosen in the first place.
John 6:60-70 60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who
can accept it?”61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this
offend you? 62 Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! 63
The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they
are full of the Spirit[e] and life. 64 Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For
Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would
betray him. 65 He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me
unless the Father has enabled them.”
66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.
68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of
eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”
70 Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!” 71
(He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to
betray him.)
Verse 66. From this time, many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
You can not read this and think those who no longer followed him are going to be
atoned for, that they will enjoy eternity with Yehovah if they have turned their back on
Him.
Yeshua is our Passover Lamb. He is also our Goat for Atonement. Passover means we
are chosen, Atonement means our sins are covered. Yeshua accomplished both these
things at the cross, but we do not receive both these things in one moment.
There are two things needed to make restoration when a relationship is broken, as ours
is because of the Fall in the Garden of Eden. Those two things are Forgiveness and
Repentance. We can forgive a person for what they did to us, the wound their sin
inflicted upon us, but we can not, should not, restore the relationship until there is
repentance. Without repentance the person who wounded us is likely to do it again. We
call this person “toxic” in our current culture. Because people fail to repent, we
frequently also refuse to forgive, for we have equated forgiveness with restoration.
These are two separate actions, just like Passover and Atonement are two separate
pictures. When we forgive a person, we take the debt they owe us and give up our right
to have that debt paid – we give that debt to Yehovah and He pays that debt with His life
on the cross. This is the action Yeshua did as the Passover Lamb. Likewise, we can
repent of having hurt someone through our sin, but the relationships still can not berestored until we are forgiven by that person. Repentance of sin is what is covered at
Atonement. It is a two step solution to the reconciliation of relationship between
persons here on earth, and for the reconciliation of our relationship with our Abba
Father against whom we have sinned.
Please read again Exodus 12:26-27 26 And when your children ask you, ‘What does this
ceremony mean to you?’ 27 then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who
passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck
down the Egyptians.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
Why do we have to do Passover every year? Because we need a reminder, a refresher.
And each year there will always be children who have not experienced this being passed
over, this being chosen, and they will need to be taught – so that they will bow down and
worship.
Last week we asked “What are we teaching our children?” This week we ask, what have
we failed to teach our children. If we are not celebrating the Passover Meal, do we truly
understand what forgiveness is? Do we understand what it means that we are chosen,
that our debt is paid? And if we expect that the whole of our relationship is completed,
we will fail to be ready at the Judgement in the year 2033? We must walk out the whole
of our Salvation. We have been chosen, not so we can stand still, but chosen so we can
move foreward, towards our Salvation, towards the Wedding Feast, towards Eternity
with out Bridegroom.
Article written by Sombra Wilson.
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