Passover Tidbit No. 1

 A Passover Fly Over For Gentiles

Pesach (Passover) is a celebration of the good things Yahuah (YHWH, YHVH, The Father, The LORD) did for His children to break their servitude in Egypt and set the children free.  A picture of the things to come for His children. We have all seen the movie, with Yul Brenner and Charlton Heston depicting the Pesach and the Exodus, and watched, as the rag tag group of people became a nation well, more or less.

As the season of Pesach approaches, it is worthwhile to read chapter 12 in the Book of the Shemoth (Exodus).  The first 13 verses are Yahuah’s commands to the Children in Egypt regarding this event, and these instructions are the foundation of the Pesach celebration to this day.

Verse 14 begins this way ... "And this day shall be a memorial; and ye shall keep it as a feast by an ordinance forever” And who exactly is to keep this feast?  Well, the congregation of Yashar-el’ (Pronounced yis-raw-ale’), per verse 2.  That is why many 21stcentury Christians do not feel this has anything to do with them.  But who are the people of the congregation of Yashar’el? 

Let's have a look, yisrah-‘el is pretty simple  It is Yud Shin Resh Aleph Lamed YSRAL  ישראל  (remember Hebrew reads right to left) the SR, Shin Resh שר  sound in the middle is the root of the Hebrew word saw-raw' meaning literally navel or umbilical cord, but carries the meaning to prevail against your enemies.  Which is the meaning of authority as you can see from words like Sir, Sire, Tsar, Caesar, which all derive their meaning from this word and are still pronounced using the SR sound. 

The ale' sound at the end is a common word for God (el singular elohyim plural ). Thus yishar-el’ means God has Authority, so anyone who makes the claim that the Elohiym (God) of Avraham, Yet-zok’, (Isaac) and Ya’akov (Jacob, remember there is no “J” in Hebrew) has authority over their lives, is called yishar-el’ in the Scriptures.  Used in this sense the word has nothing to do with the nation, an ethnic group, or the man, by that name.

Which, by the way, also explains why Ya’akov was re-named Yishar-el’  and is why the Children of Yahuah (YHVH) are called yis-raw-ale’, and why Y’shua (Jesus remember no “J” and the word for salvation in Hebrew) said things like "I came only for the lost sheep of the House of Yishar-el’" Matthew 15:24.  That word identifies His people, not just a nation, a man, or an ethnic group.

Do not confuse Yashar-el’ with Jewish (Yahudah - right no “J”).  Two different words, two different meanings and two different people. It is helpful to understand this when we read the English phrase "Israel and Judah" (Yishar-el’ and Yahudah) time and time again in Scripture.  That phrase means the house of Yashar-el’ and all their khaw-bare’ חנר  companions or fellows, and the House of the Yahudyim (yim suffex makes a word plural in Hebrew) and their companions or fellows, two groups of people brought together at the return of Y’shua all who are under the authority of Yahuah: Which should include each of us, if we have joined ourselves to the House of Yashar-el’, by following Y’shua, so the feast is for us, and we are commanded to guard it and protect it, to celebrate it. 

But getting back to chapter 12. Yahuah Himself commanded that all of the Congregation of Yashar’el celebrate the Pesach every year, forever.  This same command is given in dozens of other places as well Leviticus 23:4-8, Numbers 28:16-25, Exodus 23:14, Deuteronomy 16:16 just to name a few of the more than 300 times Scripture we are encouraged to sha-mar’  שמר  or keep the feasts, and His judgements, statutes, instructions, and commands … the Torah.   Shaw-mar means to protect or guard and is often translated as keep in English.  We are called to guard and protect not just the Feast but the meaning of the Feast.

Y’shua would later say as recorded in Yochanon (John) chapter 14:15.  15 If ye love me, keep (tay-ray-o’ guard protect) my commandments. and in verse 21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him., and 23 -24 Y’shua answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

Down in verse 29 we read the account of Y’shua telling His disciples He was "going away" and now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. When did Y’shua tell us what was about to happen, warning us of His coming crucifixion?  Several places of course, but the first and most clear was at Pesach, some 1,000 years previous.