- Good Friday
- Passover
- Pesach
- Feast of Matzot
- Festival of Freedom
- Feast of Unleavened bread
- Why it's name is Not Easter?
- 14th - 21st of Nisan (Abril) every year
- It varies on our calendar every year, usually April
What do we do at this party:
- Teach our children
- Similar to a family Thanksgiving meal except bread without yeast or leaven
Why Should we Celebrate this Party:
- Jesus told us to (Do this in remembrance of me)
- It teaches us that God wants us free!
- It teaches us that God has a plan to set us free to worship him
Verses to Study specifically talking about this party:
Read: Isiah 29:13 Mark 7: 6-9
After reading that, learn about origins of Easter. Just google search "Origins of Easter" What did you learn?
We've replaced Passover with Easter (fertility goddess (bunnies, eggs).
Exodus 34 This is the chapter that actually mentions stone tablets and 10 commandments....Read it! It has the feasts mixed in the middle of the 10 commandments.
Read: Exodus 23 If you read Exodus 20 it gives the 10 commandments and then continues to list other commandments with the festivals listed in Exodus 23 right in the middle of other commandments. The Feasts are part of the commandments.
Read: Leviticus 23 Notice, these feasts are listed with all the other commandments and notice what it says about the feasts: "This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live." So, YES, for sure Jews are supposed to be celebrating the 7 Feasts forever.
Read: 2 Kings 23 Notice, after finding the book of the law, after tearing down idols and obeying the law, they celebrated passover verses 21-23, Proving its part of the law to be observed.
Read 1 Chronicles 23 :31 Lists the jobs of the Levites to .......appointed festivals.......prescribed to them
Matthew 23:30-36 Jesus yelling at Pharisees and Jews for Killing prophets and telling them to finish what they started by killing Himself too. (Predicting his death at passover.)
Read: John 23 Notice, Jesus is the fulfilment of the law and the prophecy. Meaning he fulfilled the passover, we aren't supposed to celebrate communion in memory of him, we are supposed to celebrate passover in memory of him.
Notice above 5 readings are all the 23rd chapters. (easy for remembering this proof) I recommend reading surrounding chapters for full stories. (Is that coincidence or extra proof for the entire Bible?) The most famous 23rd chapter is Psalm, so I read it and didn't think it was relevant or it was at least stretching. HOWEVER. I re-read it and did a little research. Yeshua was anointed with oil 6 days before crucifixion, (same time as passover lamb). He was anointed again with oil 2 days before crucifixion, (same as passover lamb). Now read Psalm 23 Read it as if you were Yeshua when he rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and then when he reclined at the last supper. It's not a stretch, this 23rd chapter fits perfectly into the prophecy of Passover throughout the entire Bible. Yeshua is the sheep led to slaughter! Who is the shepherd?! "The Lord"!!! That Psalm wasn't about David, it is a prophecy about Yeshua at Passover!!
Again, please read surrounding chapters....Like Psalm 22 Look how much prophecy there is in Psalms. Yeshua quoted so much of Psalms during his life.
1 Corinthians 5:6-8 (New testament)
Your boasting is not good Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Time line of 3 spring feasts and Jesus If we follow Jesus, then we are asked by Jesus to celebrate these 3 feasts in honor and remembrance of Him.
So, what do we do to honor and celebrate this party?
- Passover starts FRIDAY NIGHT SUNSET APRIL 19 (Nisan 14) 2019
- -----Last supper meal, BBQ lamb, eat unleavened bread, drink red wine or juice. Teach family leaven represents sin that grows in our lives and needs to be removed, Lamb represents Jesus who removed the sin from our lives by being sacrificed on cross, red wine is the blood he spilled for our sins. The matzo bread we eat represents Jesus' Holy Spirit is to be in us, like the bread.
- Feast of Unleavened Bread starts April 20 (Nisan 15) Ends April 26 (Nisan 21) 2019. DAY OFF WORK and GATHERING BOTH DAYS.
- -------Clean all the yeast out of your home, no yeast eaten all week, removing sin from our lives. Day off from work, Sabbath day of rest on 1st and last day of feast.
- First Fruits April 21 Sunday (Nisan 16) 2019
- --------Jesus is God's only son and was the first fruit offering to God. Celebrate Jesus rising from the dead.
- -------BBQ lamb, no bread, celebrate Jesus risen from the dead. Donate your first fruits. Read Leviticus 23:9. Pray about what to give away on this day and at future times in your life. God wants the first part of your wealth he blessed you with. EX: Give away your very 1st paycheck at a new job you start during the year. Showing your faith and trust in God. Again this is between your family and God.
Past, Present, future of Passover:
- Genesis 18: 6 So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. “Quick,” he said, “get three seahs[b] of the finest flour and knead it and bake some bread.” 7 Then he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it. (I would trust heavy Jewish research on these verses. Most likely the 1st passover: Abraham visited by God, hurried to make bread, so no yeast, fattened calves were most likely young sheep back then.) Google search
- Exodus 12:25-27 "When you enter the land which the LORD will give you, as He has promised, you shall observe this rite. "And when your children say to you, 'What does this rite mean to you?' you shall say, 'It is a Passover sacrifice to the LORD who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but spared our homes '" And the people bowed low and worshiped.
- Numbers 9:14 If an alien sojourns among you and observes the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its ordinance, so he shall do; you shall have one statute, both for the alien and for the native of the land.'" (So it applies to all people that want to follow the statutes of the Jews "commandments") It is not for slaves or those that don't want to be part of their laws.
- Ezra 6:19-21 The exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth of the first month. For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were pure Then they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, both for their brothers the priests and for themselves. The sons of Israel who returned from exile and all those who had separated themselves from the impurity of the nations of the land to join them, to seek the LORD God of Israel, ate the Passover.
- Luke 2:41-42 Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when He became twelve, they went up there according to the custom of the Feast; (Jesus celebrated it.)
- Mark 14:12-16 On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed, His disciples said to Him, "Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?" And He sent two of His disciples and said to them, "Go into the city, and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him; and wherever he enters, say to the owner of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is My guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?" (Jesus betrayed a little while later and sacrificed on the same day as the passover lamb)
- 1 Corinthians 5:7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. (After Jesus ascended) Disciples still celebrating passover in remembrance of Jesus.
- Matthew 26:26-28 While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is My body." And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you; for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins. (Passover meal just minutes before he was betrayed) Jesus asked his disciples to do Passover in remembrance of him.