THE THREE FESTIVALS OF THE LORD. THE PASSOVER: EXODUS 12, NUM 9.
Exodus 23:14-17
Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me. "Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv (Nisan) , for in that month you came out of Egypt. "No one is to appear before me empty-handed. "Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. "Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field. "Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD.
(1) Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread / The passover / The Lord supper.
(2) Celebrate the Festival of Harvest
(3) Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering.
RESURRECTED CHRISTIAN CHURCH
FEAST OF HOLY MEMORIAL OF JESUS CHRIST ( FOHMOJC )
LET US BE SPIRITUAL IN OUR WORSHIP OF YEHOVAH (YAHWEH) THROUGH YESHUA HA-MASHIACH.
John 4:23-24
23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth."
THE PASSOVER OR THE LORD'S SUPPER OR THE MEMORIAL FEAST OF (YESHUA HA-MASHIACH (JESUS CHRIST.) LK 22, JN 13.
PREPARATION OF THE LORD'S SUPPER OR FEAST. ( 7 DAYS FESTIVAL WITH PRAYER AND FASTING )
HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE.
Preparation for the Festival should be done by abstaining from leaven bread and eating of unleavened bread starting from the first day appearance of the moon in the month of Aviv / Nisan, between March and April. Therefore, watch out for the first appearance of the moon in March each year for the observance of this festival. Exodus 12:16, "And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you."
The Festival start from 14th of Aviv to end on the 21th of the same month, which is seven days period. "Exodus 12:18-19,[18] In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
[19] Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.^
Holy Fasting and prayers should be observed during this period. 6 AM - 6 PM for seven days. Yeast should be kept away from our home and Church throughout this seven days festival period.
We must not touch yeast. Both Bread and Wine use for this purpose must be free from yeast. We must not follow the observance of Easter as the world do, but keep to the appointed time of our God and our Lord Jesus Christ. Bear in mind, the time is not for enjoyment, but a time of sober reflection and gratitude to our God for a great sacrifice offered and received for our sake. Isaiah 9:6-7.
" No one should ignore this doctrine by grace. For this, Christ observed it to layed this doctrinal foundation for us to observe yearly at the appointed time. If you want to break this ordinance by grace, use leavened for this purpose, and wait for the wrath of God. "
The purpose of abstinence from leaven bread stand on the fact that the bread use for the communion is an unleavened bread till date for that was not defiled by grace. Therefore, it is proper to keep to the holiness of the old Testament by having nothing to do with yeasts during this period of festival of MEMORIAL FEAST OF YESHUA HA-MASHIACH ( JESUS CHRIST. )
The crucifixion of Jesus Christ took place during full moon, that was after passover night on the 14th of Aviv or Nisan. It takes 14-15 days for full moon to appear. So, his crucifixion was on the 15th of the month of Aviv or Nisan, middle of the month and resurrected on the 17th of the same month.
14th of the same month, there should be a sacred assembly of the breaking of bread, that is, everyone should bring their prepared food, not with a slain or bloody animal, but with fish to the gathering of believers for the observance of the feast. With fish and unleavened bread, he fed thousands of souls.
Exodus 12:1-25
[1]And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
[2]This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
[3]Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
[4]And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
[5]Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
[6]And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
Lamb will no longer be kill because Jesus Christ has been killed in place of the passover lamb, but time and conditions still applied.
Before the eating of the meal which is the supper; all the ordained and baptised members are to come out for the washing of feet; John 13:1-15
Every person, both the believed and unbelievable is allowed to eat of the supper because it is a feast, LK 22:15-20
But, the spiritual rite of the Breaking Of Bread or Eating Of Holy Communion or Memorial Communion which is the body of Jesus Christ. and the Drinking of wine which is the blood of Jesus Christ, only the baptised members can participate in this rite if their conscience permit them to do so because, this is an oath taking as an allegiance of sacred fellowship with Jesus Christ which must be kept with Holiness and Faithfulness;
Psalms 15:1-5
[1](A Psalm of David.) LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
[2]He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
[3]He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
[4]In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
[5]He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
● HOW THE LORD'S SUPPER SHOULD BE DONE.
1 Corinthians 11:18 In the first place, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it.
1 Corinthians 11:19 No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God’s approval.
1 Corinthians 11:20 So then, when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat,
1 Corinthians 11:21 for when you are eating, some of you go ahead with your own private suppers. As a result, one person remains hungry and another gets drunk.
1 Corinthians 11:22 Don’t you have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God by humiliating those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? Certainly not in this matter!
1 Corinthians 11:23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread,
1 Corinthians 11:24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me."
1 Corinthians 11:25 In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me."
1 Corinthians 11:26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
1 Corinthians 11:27 So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:28 Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup.
1 Corinthians 11:29 For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves.
This Festival is to be observed for seven days. From the first day (14th) which is the day of the Lord supper till the last day is seven days. 15th was the day of his crucifixion and resurrected on the 17th in the morning. He was arrested, judged, sentence, crucified, died and buried on the 15th day.
ORDINATION
Therefore, ordination should be carried out if there is any and this should be done on the 14th accordingto Hebrew calendar ( first day of the Festival ), and 20th will be for thanksgiving to the LORD God Almighty, making it a total of seven days according to the Hebrew or Julian calendar
Ordination should be done at 3:00 PM on the day of the Lord supper, which is 14th; so that all the ordained members can participate at the LORD table and the Ministers could part take in the Sacramental Bread and Wine of the Holy Covenant.
The Lord supper is of two sections and both will occur simultaneously.
(1) General Supper, which involved every persons in the gathering.
(2) Covenanted Supper, which involved only the ordained members .
14th Lord supper = Playing of musical instruments
15th Crucifixion = clothing in Red. = No playing of musical instruments
16th Mourning = clothing in black = No playing of musical instruments
17th Victorious Resurrection = clothing in white = worship and praises with the playing of musical instruments
1 Samuel 16:1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
1 Samuel 16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
1 Kings 1:39 And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon.
Psalms 92:10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
● Judah Iscariot feet was also washed by Jesus Christ and also ate of the flesh and drink of the blood of Jesus Christ
● John 18:28 Jesus before Pilate
Early in the morning Jesus was taken from Caiaphas' house to the governor's palace. The Jewish authorities did not go inside the palace, for they wanted to keep themselves ritually clean, in order to be able to eat the Passover meal.
TIME OF PRAYER.
WHEN WAS THE TIME OF MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER IN THE ANCIENT HEBREW DAYS?
09:00 AM and 03:00 PM, and is also a time of morning and evening sacrifice.
To be spiritually inclined to spiritual time, we should keep to this time of sacrifice because the angels commonly appear to the sons of men at this hour.
● Our sacred prayer days should be 1st to 7th of every month. This period is the time of full moon which collide with either 11th to 17th in Julian calendar.
The Hebrews had twelve months, each running from the middle of one of our months to the middle of the next month. The Jewish day ran from sundown to sundown and was divided into eight "watches", four of daylight and four of darkness.
As the Jewish day ran from sundown to sundown, it means that they considered night first before day as in Genesis 1:1-5. Darkness was created first before light. Prayer should be made in the dark (night) and wait for the manifestation light (day)
The biblical day begins in the morning, citing, for example, Gen 19:33-34; Lev 7:15; Num 9:11, and 33:3; Jdgs 19:4-9; and 1 Sam 19:11. 35 Because Stroes addresses each of these verses in his paper (in favor of the evening theory), we will examine them.
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INSTRUCTIONS ON FOOD TO THE CHURCH
The Acts 15:28 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements:
The Acts 15:29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
REFERENCES:
Exodus 12:1-25
[1]And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
[2]This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
[3]Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
[4]And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
[5]Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
[6]And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
[7]And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
[8]And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
[9]Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
[10]And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
[11]And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
[12]For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
[13]And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
[14]And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
[15]Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
● [16]And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
[17]And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
● Exodus 12:18-19,[18] In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
[19] Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
[20]Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
[21]Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
[22]And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
[23]For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
[24]And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
[25]And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
Leviticus 16:29-34
"This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work —whether native-born or a foreigner residing among you — because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the LORD, you will be clean from all your sins. It is a day of sabbath rest, and you must deny yourselves; it is a lasting ordinance. The priest who is anointed and ordained to succeed his father as high priest is to make atonement. He is to put on the sacred linen garments and make atonement for the Most Holy Place, for the tent of meeting and the altar, and for the priests and all the members of the community. "This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: Atonement is to be made once a year for all the sins of the Israelites." And it was done, as the LORD commanded Moses.
The reason why God order the children of Israel to put on their sanders was that they are about to make their move out of Egypt. So, He prepared them for the journey.
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BAKING OF UNLEAVENED BREAD
Ingredients
(1) flour
(2) vegetable oil ( For sacred purpose, olive oil should be use )
(3) teaspoon salt
(4) water
Directions
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Mix flour, oil, and salt together in a bowl; add water and mix with a pastry cutter until dough is soft. ...
Bake in the preheated oven until bread is cooked, 8 to 10 minutes.
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PRODUCTION OF WINE USE DURING THE LORD'S SUPPER OR BREAKING OF BREAD.
Zobo Drink or Zobo Wine.
Ingredients:
Zobo flower,
Pineapple,
Peper or garlic.
If needed, pure dry gin or Spirit gin may be added in average amount. ( free from yeast )