This week we are going to show you from your Bible where the 13th month is found. Every year, when there is the possibility of adding an Adar Bet or 13th month, people stand up and show their ignorance publicly. Here is one example:

How can you have a thirteenth month when there is no 13th captain for the month and no constellation for it either? No mention of it in all of scripture anywhere. No pattern, as Moses was told to be sure to maintain.

 

You guys that follow those Hellenistic, Greek influenced Assyrian replacements make me chuckle and then I cry for how confused you must be about His creation. How you never get to behold the beauty of His glorious works.

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The Stones Cry Out Part 1 & Part 2

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Most people assume that Hillel created the calendar in 358 C.E. They then assume that because it was a Sanhedrin, they are not allowed to change in order to obey Yehovah. The Hillel calendar has been changed many times since 358 C.E. up until 1177 C.E. Few people talk about these changes but we do in our latest Book The Stones Cry Out Part 1 which is free on our website. The Hillel calendar was changed on many occasions and many sought to make other changes during this time. They never needed a Bet Din to approve those changes. They just did them. So this excuse that we do not have the right to obey Yehovah because the Bet Din has not approved it is a crock of crap.
You have the obligation to obey Yehovah. You have the duty to prove which calendar you are to go by. You must prove it beyond all doubt. Yehshua never followed the Hillel calendar. Nor did any of the Apostles.
The reason no man can know the day or the hour is because it refers to a crescent moon to begin the 7th month. That is the day He was born on and the day He comes to judge on. At a day and hour no one can know. Using the Hillel calendar predicts Yom Teruah years in advance so every one knows when to keep it. But even in the Hillel calendar they keep two days of Yom Teruah reckoning back to the sighted moon. Also in the postponement rules developed long after Hillel, they again state that if the conjunction is at a certain time then the day begins at such and such, in order that the moon will not be seen in another part of the world before it is seen in Israel. That was rule number 2.
Everyone has to choose. You have the right to be wrong. But if you choose to be wrong then you also must live with the consequences that come with sin. And that is the death penalty for not keeping the Holy Days, these Sabbath at the proper time. It is your choice.
Just because you write in to me to justify your position does mean it is right. It just means your sounding off.

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And yes, many observe the Equinox.  There are many who are deceived, improperly educated.  And this is why Joe puts out a newsletter every week, why he writes books, why the SightedMoon Zoom Shabbat service started, why he travels to places like England and the Philippines to share this message and why were are going to the NRB in February.  The calendar is always a divisive issue in social circles because the details are many, that’s why there are so many books Joe has written.  I’m not looking to put Joe on a pedestal here.  This is not about Joe worship.  But Joe has tenaciously studied out the calendar from every angle, not to prove himself right, to to seek to find and share what Yehovah is telling us about His Calendar.

In The Stones Cry Out, Joe has shared the history of all the different groups within Israel, and the beliefs they had about the scriptures and the feast days and the calendar.  When you line it all up, you can see for yourself the how and why these misunderstandings and arguments about how and where and why  they came about.

This is my new favourite book and I’m only 60-70 pages in.  And I encourage you to read the footnotes in this one.  Sometimes there’s more footnote on the page than Joe’s words.

Sombra Wilson

When I wrote Stones Cry Out, I wanted it to be one of our FREE books so everyone would have it. It is more of an encyclopedia than a book to read. It will be your quick resource book; you will have access to every question about any calendar, how it got started, and who started it. You will also learn the history of how the Mishnah was assembled, when it was assembled and why. Then, you will learn how that information was transferred into both the Jerusalem and the Babylonian Talmud until it reached its final stage in the Mishneh Torah. Along with this progression, the calendar also progressed and changed long after 358 C.E. when Rabbi Hillel first published it. But…what was before the Hillel calendar? What does the Mishnah record about those things?

The Stones Cry Out was originally going to be one book explaining all the various proofs we have discovered, demonstrating when the Sabbatical and Jubilee years are throughout history.

You can know; it is not a mystery.

As I began to write The Stones Cry Out, I quickly found myself going back, time and time again, to explain how the calendar is behind the confusion of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. The Rabbis, as they began to write the Mishnah, incorporated wrong understandings, and those errors were written into what became known as the Talmud and then the Mishneh Torah. The expulsion from the land and subsequent persecutions in trying to send out messengers to report the barley being found or the crescent moon being seen, proved to be more and more dangerous over time. All of these things took place over 14 centuries.

Then as I was working on The Stones Cry Out, I discovered that many people were now accepting the Zadok calendar as factual. This is when we pivoted to include all the details of the various calendars that have crept back into public knowledge today and are being used to mislead new people who are just starting to learn about the calendar. All of this was directly connected to the period starting with the Hasmonaeans, up to the destruction of the Temple. Then, with the compiling of the Mishnah, the studies that led into the writing of the Jerusalem Talmud, then the Babylonian Talmud and finally the Mishneh Torah, each error that was added is compounded over time.

The Stones Cry Out, Part 1 explains the history of how each compilation of the Oral Torah incorporated errors, leading the followers thereof away from the actual Torah. In understanding these facts, it is then possible to understand more readily how the Sabbatical and Jubilee years were then mixed and later changed. By explaining all this history, I will be able to help you the reader understand the tombstones when most authorities do not. They have assumed, to their error, the Hillel calendar to have always been in use since Mount Sinai. Not understanding the history of the calendars is why most authorities dismiss the tombstones as too confusing to use. Once you understand The Stones Cry Out Part 1, Part 2 will be very easy to grasp.

Daniel 7:25 tells us he will change the appointed seasons and commandments. Many assume Constantine did this when he made Sunday the Sabbath. Few have considered the calendar’s many changes and how they relate to us today. Hidden in this proverbial swamp of confusion is the truth about the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. The Sabbatical and Jubilee years reveal the truths about the calendar that have been hidden for almost 2000 years.

We are in the very last days and Yehshua warned us that during this time:

Mat 24:10 And then many will be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another.

Mat 24:11 And many false prophets will rise and deceive many.

Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many will become cold.

Mat 24:13 But he who endures to the end, the same shall be kept safe.

Paul also warned Timothy about these last days, warning that some would leave the truth and begin to follow demonic teachers:

1Ti 4:1 But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,

Paul again warned the Thessalonians that the Great Falling away would take place in the last days. How can you fall away if you have never come to know the truth? So who is Paul talking to? Those who are called and answer that calling begin to walk this road of restoration back to Yehovah, and then at some point along that walk, they change and leave this walk following the teachings of demons to false calendar.

2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, my brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,

2Th 2:2 that you should not be soon shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us, as if the Day of Christ is at hand.

2Th 2:3 Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition,

2Th 2:4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.

We must endure until the end. We must not let ourselves become offended by personalities and leave the faith once given.

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Myths About the Passover!

by HOIM Staff

The Passover — mystery of mysteries! Why do so many “Christians” who claim to observe the Passover, claim also that the Jews — the only people who have been observing this festival for the past two thousand years — keep it on the WRONG DAY?

Doesn’t such an idea really boggle your mind? Sometimes I think people today have mush for brains, they have been so totally deceived and blinded by the subtleties of Satan the devil! As one man said, repeatedly, it is surely ten times more difficult to UNLEARN ERROR than to simply learn the truth in the first place!

A number of errors have crept into the thinking and reasoning of a number of Churches and individuals regarding the Passover. Let us examine them, one by one, and expose the error to the light of truth.

Myth #1– Our eternal salvation depends on our taking the Passover.

At first glance, that statement might seem very true to the incautious person. Didn’t the Messiah say unless we eat his flesh and drank his blood, we have no life in us (John 6:53)?

But wait a minute! Didn’t the Messiah also say to the thief on the cross, “Assuredly, I say to you today, you will be with me in Paradise [Kingdom of YEHOVAH God]” (Luke 23:43)? This man believed on the Messiah; at the “last minute,” one might say, he repented. Yeshua discerned in his heart the depth of his repentance and pardoned his sins and said he would be with him in the Kingdom (Luke 23:40-42). Yet this man, technically, never partook of the Passover!

Let’s not place too much emphasis on “rituals” as a means of salvation. We are not “saved” by keeping the Passover — not at all! We are saved only by the blood of the Messiah, and believing on his name (Acts 4:12; 2:38; Romans 5:9-10). When the Philippian jailor asked Paul what he must do to be saved, he replied, “BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house” (Acts 16:31).

Belief, of course, also includes obedience (James 2:20, 22, 26). We will be held accountable to the total extent of our knowledge of YEHOVAH’s truth, but not for that which we haven’t been given to understand or know. There will be some in YEHOVAH’s Kingdom, such as George Mueller, the apostle of faith of the last century, who never correctly observed either the Passover, or even the weekly Sabbath! Their knowledge did not extend to such things. YEHOVAH God only holds us accountable for that which He has revealed to us! For that, however, we are dearly accountable. Many will be saved who never understood the truth about the Passover. YEHOVAH is their judge, not you or I. As Paul so earnestly reminds us, “Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth” (I Corinthians 8:1).

Myth #2 — Passover was a time of solemnity and quiet; the Israelites cringed in their houses as the LORD smote the Egyptian firstborn.

Today, many who observe the Passover at the beginning of the 14th of Nisan seem to think they should be very quiet, solemn, and in a spirit of awe and austere fear and circumspection. But where did this idea come from? Only those Israelites who lacked faith that Passover evening would have been “cringing” in fear. The Word of YEHOVAH God simply says, “And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand” (Exodus 12:11), “in haste” — in expectant anticipation of LEAVING SLAVERY AND SERFDOM in Egypt! It was not a time of solemn quietness; it was a time of rejoicing and great JOY!

Myth #3 — the firstborn of Egypt were slain by the “death angel” or “angel of death.”

Some may consider this a minor point, but it is amazing how many people assume that some mysterious “angel of death” smote the Egyptian firstborn. Such is not the case at all! No angel of death is mentioned anywhere in the account of the slaying of the Egyptian firstborn. Rather, we read the simple straightforward account, “And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle” (Exodus 12:29). YEHOVAH God Himself did it (Exodus 12:13, 27, 29). No mysterious “death angel” at all! YEHOVAH told the Israelites, “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…I am the LORD” (Exodus 12:12).

Myth #4 — The Passover was slain after sunset, as it grew dark, or “between the evenings.”

The Hebrew expression ben ha erevim, “between the evenings,” means in the late afternoon, as the sun descends in the western sky. It is not the time after sunset! This point is crucial to understanding the truth about when it should be observed. YEHOVAH God commanded ancient Israel to offer to Him “two lambs of the first year without spot, DAY BY DAY [literally, Hebrew, ‘IN A DAY’], for a continual burnt offering” (Numbers 28:3). One was to be offered “in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer AT EVEN” — or, in the Hebrew, “BETWEEN THE TWO EVENINGS.” Yet, notice! These two sacrifices were “IN A DAY” — that is, offered on the same day! If the second, evening sacrifice, was offered AFTER SUNSET, it would be on the NEXT DAY! Here, then, is clear proof that “between the two evenings” meant the time PRIOR TO SUNSET, not after the sun has set!

Some object, saying, YEHOVAH God sent quail to the Israelites “at even,” or “between the two evenings” (Exodus 16:12), and they claim this proves the expression refers to the time of day the quail began to settle down to roost, after sunset, as it is growing dark. Is this true? The Bible says no such thing. It merely says the quail came “between the two evenings,” and does not go on to state that this meant after sunset — not at all! Such an extrapolation from this verse is merely searching for straws to support a dying, moribund theory! The quails came into the Israelite camp BEFORE SUNSET, not after, probably as the sun was beginning to strike the western horizon. The verse itself offers no definition of the term, but we already saw it defined in Numbers 28!

Further evidence this is so is found where YEHOVAH God commanded Israel to bury those hanged upon a tree “that day” — not the next day, or after sunset (Deuteronomy 21:22-23). Joshua knew this, and he made sure that the hanged kings of Canaan were taken down from their trees before sunset, “at the time of the going down of the sun” (Joshua 10:26-27).This expression was the very same one Moses used to define the proper time for the Passover sacrifice (Deuteronomy 16:6), which was “between the evenings” (Exodus 12:6, marginal reference).

Myth #5 — The priests lit the lamps as it grew dark, after sunset, not at 3 o’clock in the afternoon (Exodus 30:8).

The Word of YEHOVAH God declares, “And when Aaron lighteth the lamps AT EVEN [“between the two evenings”], he shall burn incense upon it.” what time was this done? Those who say you would not light lamps so early as 3:00 in the afternoon miss the whole point of this ceremony! Notice, this was not done just to provide “light” as some seem to assume! Beginning in verse 7, we read: “And Aaron shall BURN thereon SWEET INCENSE every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, HE SHALL BURN INCENSE upon it.” When he dressed the lamps in the morning, he prepared the wicks, and put in fresh oil for the evening. The sweet incense would counteract the unpleasant smells which would arise from the slaughter of animals. Obviously, therefore, this ritual was performed “between the two evenings,” at the same time as the “evening sacrifice,” which we have already seen was upon the SAME DAY AS THE MORNING SACRIFICE!

Josephus, in Wars of the Jews, corroborates this fact. He writes: “So these high priests, upon the coming of their feast which is called the Passover, when they slay their sacrifices, from the ninth hour to the eleventh…” (Bk. VI, 9, 3). The ninth hour was 3 in the afternoon; the eleventh hour was 5 P.M. This was the time of the slaying of the evening sacrifice, and the time the high priests “lighted the lamp” to burn the incense!

Myth #6 — None of the Israelites left their house until morning, the night the Passover was kept.

Here is another gross assumption which evidence proves to be unfounded. YEHOVAH did not forbid the Israelites to leave their houses until morning. Rather, Moses instructed them not to go out of the door of their houses until morning (Exodus 12:22). This was Moses’ advice, but not a commandment from YEHOVAH God. It was a safety precaution. Yet, when Pharaoh arose at midnight, and the Egyptians, and found all their firstborn dead, they cried out in great grief and anguish, and Pharaoh “called for Moses and Aaron BY NIGHT…” (Exodus 12:29-31). So they got up and went to see him, while it was still dark — shortly after midnight! The plague was OVER! It was now safe for the Israelites to go outside their doors, and Moses and Aaron plainly did so first. As soon as they returned to their people, they conveyed the GOOD NEWS that Pharaoh had set them all FREE, and all began immediately to bustle about making preparations to get moving — to leave the land of their servitude.

Myth #7 — The Israelites were still in Goshen, an area of 300 square miles, and still had to be gathered together. This would have been a mammoth job, requiring much time to notify them, and get them ready to travel — at least a whole day.

First of all, an area of 300 square miles is not very large — merely ten miles by thirty miles, or seventeen by seventeen miles. A few messengers sent out on horseback could have roused the entire area very quickly. Also, our ancestors were not stupid. They could have used signal flares to warn the people, which would have taken mere minutes.

However, Josephus disposes of this entire argument, for be informs us that the children of Israel were already gathered at Ramses, one of the treasure cities of Pharaoh. The people had received plenty of notice of what was going to happen (Exodus 12:1-6) — at least two weeks’ warning, in which to prepare. Moses had been a great Egyptian general, well accustomed to logistics and quarter-mastering troops. Josephus says of him “Accordingly, he having got the Hebrews ready for their departure, and having sorted the people into tribes, he KEPT THEM TOGETHER IN ONE PLACE: but when the fourteenth day was come, and ALL WERE READY TO DEPART…” (Antiquities, Bk. II, 14, 6).

The fact that they were still living in “houses” (Exodus 12:7) does not prove they were still in Goshen. Their houses may have been temporary “rentals,” or barracks, or houses which had been supplied for the workers in the treasury cities, or other excess housing in the area. It is certainly grabbing at straws to insist this proves they were still in the land of Goshen, and widely scattered.

Myth #8 — The Israelites left Egypt during the full moon night of Nisan 15, after robbing the Egyptians all day of Nisan 14.

In Deuteronomy 16 we read, “…for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt BY NIGHT” (v.1). Does this suggest, as some seem to think, that Moses took three million men, women and children, and numerous cattle and goats, and actually marched out of Egypt AT NIGHT? Even if there were a full moon, that would not be sufficient light to lighten the way for such a group! If you have ever marched at night with a group of people, with the light of only the moon, down a dusty road — you will know that it is no picnic! There would have been sheer chaos and shortly pandemonium, and perhaps even a cattle stampede, if Moses had attempted such a thing. And what if the sky were overcast, and clouds came between the moon and the earth? Nothing in Scripture assures us that the moon shone brightly that particular night! Again — it is another groundless assumption.

What does it mean, that YEHOVAH God brought Israel out of Egypt “by night”? The Jews and most commentators have no difficulty with this verse. It simply refers to the initial act which liberated the Israelite slaves — when YEHOVAH smote the Egyptian firstborn “AT MIDNIGHT” (Exodus 12:29). It is simply a reference to PASSOVER NIGHT, when so much transpired that altered history, and initiated a chain of circumstances that led to the liberation of Israel! YEHOVAH says of that very night, “It is a NIGHT TO BE MUCH OBSERVED unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: This is THAT NIGHT OF THE LORD [when YEHOVAH God intervened!] to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations” (Exodus 12:42).

Myth #9 — when Joshua and the children of Israel entered Canaan, they kept the Passover on the 14th day of the second month.

In Joshua we read, “And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho” (Joshua 5:10). There is no mention here of it being the SECOND month! If it had been, then Joshua would certainly have said so; he was a very precise and exacting writer (notice his descriptions of the boundaries of the Promised Land). This was plainly the month of Nisan or Abib, when the Passover always fell; there is no indication whatsoever any other date was meant, contrary to the speculations of some. They ate of the old stored grain of the land the following day (Nisan 15), and the manna ceased to rain down (Joshua 5:12). The very next day, when they were to offer the wave sheaf before partaking of the new year’s harvest (Leviticus 23:11-14), they were permitted to eat of the new grain (Joshua 5:12).

Interestingly, those who are all mixed up on Passover, also can’t count properly to the next Holy day season — Pentecost! They observe both holy days on the WRONG DAY!

Myth #10 — Passover is actually an eight day festival — beginning on Nisan 14 and lasting to Nisan 21.

Since the Passover was killed at the end of the 14th, and eaten that night (the beginning of the 15th), it was essentially one with the Days of Unleavened Bread, and was a seven day festival That’s why the Jews generally called the whole period simply “the Passover.” This is made very clear in Ezekiel. YEHOVAH says: “In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the PASSOVER, A FEAST OF SEVEN DAYS; unleavened bread shall be eaten” (Ezekiel 45:21). How clear! How plai  jm n! The Passover was never an “eight-day” festival, stretching from the beginning of the 14th of Nisan till the 21st!

This same truth is evident in the New Testament. Luke records, “Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew nigh, WHICH IS CALLED THE PASSOVER” (Luke 22:1). This was a seven day festival (Exodus 12:15-19), not an eight-day festival! And it was also called the “Passover”! How plain!

Myth #11 — the Jews used to keep the Passover on the beginning of Nisan 14, but changed it to the end of the day due to Egyptian influence from 301 B.C. till 198 B.C.

There is no proof to back up such an assertion. It is a bald-faced claim without any evidence to support it. Rather, as we have seen, all the Old Testament and New Testament evidence shows the Jews always observed the Passover at the close of the 14th, “at even.” That’s when they killed the Passover lamb. The fact is, Egypt did not rule Palestine from 301-198 B.C. Rather, Syria and Egypt fought over Palestine repeatedly during that hundred year span, each one vying for influence and power. During that time, however, the land of Israel was essentially independent, although affected by the pagan influences of her neighbors, both to the north and south. There is no evidence, however, that they ever changed the day they celebrated Passover.

Ptolemy Philadelphus, ruler of Egypt, and Antiochus II, ruler of Syria, fought a brutal war, culminating in B.C. 260, when Antiochus and Bernice, Philadelphus’ daughter, married. However, he later repudiated her, and took back his former wife, Laodice. She didn’t trust him and had him murdered, securing the throne for her son Seleucus II in B.C. 246.

Ptolemy Euergetes III, the brother of Bernice, then invaded Syria B.C. 245 to avenge the murder of his sister. Although he succeeded in his war with Seleucus II, and even seized Antioch, he died in B.C. 222. Seleucus II died in B.C. 226, and his sons ruled the kingdom for three years, when his brother, Antiochus III, called “The Great,” ruled (B.C. 223-B.C. 187). In his wars with Egypt, Antiochus III conquered as far south as Gaza and Palestine. But Ptolemy IV (Philopater), roused to action, finally defeated him, once again annexing Palestine to Egypt. But Ptolemy IV made a rash peace, and lived to regret it. In B.C. 205 Ptolemy Philopater died, leaving his throne to an infant son. Antiochus once again forged a great army, and attacked, conquering Phoenicia, southern Syria and Palestine from the Egyptians. Antiochus the Great marched into Palestine and destroyed the interests of Egypt in the region at the battle of Mount Panium in 198 B.C.

During this eventful period of history, it seems hardly likely that the Jews would inadvertently or deliberately change the date that they celebrated the Passover! There was simply no cause, no reason, no pressure, for them to do so! Later, Antiochus Epiphanes would try to destroy the religion of Israel all together, and forbid observance of all the annual festivals and weekly Sabbath, on pain of death, but his persecution and control were overthrown in 165 B.C. by the Maccabees.

Myth #12 — the Passover must all occur on the 14th of Nisan. No part of it may be done on the 15th.

The entire Passover ceremony includes both the slaying of the lambs at the ending of the 14th of Nisan, the roasting of the lambs, and the eating of the Passover meal (Exodus 12:6-11). It was slain “between the two evenings” (v. 6), which means before sunset, as we have already seen. It was eaten “in that night” (v. 7), which would have been on the 15th of Nisan. Therefore, the Passover occurred on parts of two separate days — it began on the 14th, when the lambs were slain, but ended on the 15th, with the Passover dinner!

If some people insist that it had to be eaten on the 14th of Nisan, at night, then it would have to have been slain at the close of the 13th, “between the two evenings,” and not on the 14th! Therefore, according to the Bible, no matter when Passover was celebrated, it had to include two days — the ending of one day, and the beginning of the following day!

Myth #13 — Yeshua and his disciples kept the “Passover” the last night before his crucifixion.

The present day observance of Passover by those who attempt to keep it during the “Lord’s Supper,” prior to the actual Passover, at the beginning of Nisan 14, is in error and makes no sense. It is ludicrous that some eat the unleavened Passover bread at what they call the “Passover,” then go right back into eating leavened bread — a type of SIN — the following hours, and don’t put it out of their homes until prior to sunset the following day, almost 24 hours later! Such a symbolism is screwy and foolish. Do we partake of the Messiah, then go back into SIN and “live it up” for 24 hours, and only then finally “repent” and put the leaven — SIN — out of our lives? Nonsense!

The Lord’s Supper, as it has been called, which occurred at night shortly after the beginning of Nisan 14, was NOT the Passover. The Jews did not celebrate the Passover until after the lambs were slain, generally from 3-5 o’clock during the afternoon of Nisan 14, according to the Jewish historian Josephus of the first century. They slew the lambs on the 14th, as YEHOVAH God commanded, and then ate the Passover on the 15th of Nisan. This was the “night to be observed unto the LORD” (Exodus 12:42).

The last meal Yeshua had with his disciples was not the “Passover.” It was merely a “last supper,” often called “The Lord’s Supper.” The following morning of Nisan 14 was still called “the PREPARATION of the Passover” (John 19:14, 31). Nowhere in Scripture does YEHOVAH God command us or tell us to commemorate or observe this last supper which Yeshua had at the beginning of Nisan 14 as a distinct event or observance. It is not a holy day or feast or festival of YEHOVAH God. The fact that it was not the Passover itself is clear from the apostle John’s record.

Notice! John explicitly wrote, ‘”Now BEFORE the feast of the PASSOVER, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of the world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. AND SUPPER BEING ENDED…HE RISETH FROM SUPPER” (John 13:1-4) and he began to wash the disciples’ feet. Notice! This supper was clearly stated to have been “BEFORE the feast of the Passover” (verse 1). Therefore it could NOT have been the Passover!

Interestingly, when Yeshua held this final dinner with his disciples, the word John used to describe it was diepnon, which means “supper, the principal meal, dinner.” It is used of the last supper Yeshua held with his disciples, and other main meals of the day (see Mark 6:21; Luke 14:12, 16, 17, 24; 22:20; John 12:2; 13:21, 4; I Corinthians 11:20-21; Revelation 19:9, 17). This word is NEVER used of an annual Festival, or of the Passover. However, it simply refers to the MAIN MEAL of the day, usually at evening.

Furthermore, at this final dinner or banquet, there is no mention of lamb being eaten — which would have been necessary if this were the Passover. The gospel accounts would hardly have neglected to mention such an important feature.

But even more interesting is the fact that Jewish custom of that time, and always, has dictated that UNLEAVENED BREAD was not to be eaten during the days before the FEAST of Unleavened Bread, so that the Feast would be set apart as distinct and real. For unleavened bread to have been eaten BEFORE the Festival would have diminished its importance during the Feast itself! Therefore, if Yeshua and his disciples had eaten “unleavened bread” on the night of Nisan 14, they would have violated Jewish custom and practice. It is very interesting, therefore, to notice that when Yeshua sat down at dinner, at that final meal with his disciples, “as they were eating, Yeshua took bread, and blessed it (many Greek copies have, “gave thanks”), and brake it, and gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body” (Matthew 26:26). The word for “bread” here is artos, and means, “bread (as raised), a loaf.” This same word is used in Matthew 4:3-4, “man does not live by bread alone,” in Matthew 6:11, “our daily bread,” and Matthew 16:12,”the leaven of bread,” etc. This word is often used of LEAVENED BREAD!

Generally, whenever UNLEAVENED bread is meant, this word is preceded by the Greek word for “unleavened,” which is azumos, meaning “unleavened, uncorrupted.” But in the three synoptic gospel accounts of the last supper of Yeshua and his disciples, Matthew 26:26, Mark 14:22, Luke 22:19, the writers always use ONLY THE WORD ARTOS, meaning BREAD — without the modifying word azumos to designate “unleavened.” Therefore, the clear indication is that AT THE LAST SUPPER YESHUA USED NORMAL LEAVENED BREAD, when he blessed and broke it, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body”!

Here is further proof that this dinner was not — and could not have been — the PASSOVER!

Myth #14 — We should observe the Passover at the end of the 14th, but also observe “the Lord’s Supper” at the beginning of the 14th.

Although the Messiah gave new meaning to the leavened bread and wine, and instituted the new ceremony of the foot-washing service, he never intended to begin an entire new “supper” ceremony to be perpetuated for all time at the beginning of the 14th of Nisan. Nor did the Messiah intend for the Passover to become divided into two distinct celebrations — one at the beginning of the 14th, only focusing on bread and wine and foot-washing, and the other at the end of the 14th, including a dinner.

The Passover has always been just ONE ceremony or service; and it always occurs at the close of the 14th and beginning of the 15th. It seems strange to me that even those who insist on observing what they “call” the “Passover” at the beginning of the 14th of Nisan, have completely changed the Passover, calling the Messiah’s farewell meal the Passover when it was nothing of the sort! They do away with the Passover meal that the Jews have eaten for Millennia on the beginning of the 15th, and substitute only a thin piece of unleavened wafer, and a small droplet of wine!

Such a ceremony seems to me to be very close to the Roman Catholic idea of “mass,” when the priest gives each parishioner a tiny wafer, supposedly the actual body of the Messiah, and a drop of grape juice or wine, which also is supposed to actually be his literal blood! When we depart from and pagan rituals, shouldn’t we depart from them COMPLETELY? Should we allow any vestige or even a trace of paganism in our observances?

Paul wrote, “For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus THE SAME NIGHT IN WHICH HE WAS BETRAYED took [leavened] bread…” (I Corinthians 11:23).

Consider for a moment! The evening of the beginning of the 14th of Nisan is the evening of the traitorous conduct of Judas Iscariot; it is the evening of the greatest BETRAYAL in all human history. Should we, as Christians, commemorate such a night? Does that make any sense at all? It was a night which will go down in infamy — the night of the most infamous deed and sordid betrayal in all earth history — the night Satan the devil entered into Judas Iscariot, and Judas “sold out” for a measly thirty pieces of silver, and then betrayed the Messiah with the kiss of friendship! Should we honor, or celebrate, or commemorate, such an evening?

Not at all! But by observing the “Passover,” at the wrong time — and in the wrong manner — that is precisely what we do! Yeshua certainly never intended such. But the Devil is a master of deception, stratagems, and guile. He is able to make black appear white, sweet to seem bitter, and poison to taste like pudding.

But it is poison, nevertheless.

Even a minute trace amount of poison is still poison. And such minute trace amounts of poison are cumulative over time, like DDT in our tissues, or other carcinogenic pesticides, such as Alar. In due time they wreak their spiritual damage and destruction, leading to eventual spiritual DEATH! Observing Passover at the wrong time, over years, is like that. It keeps one in darkness. It perverts the truth, which would make us free (John 8:32). It enslaves to sin.

Myth #15 — The Passover service should be an austere, morose and melancholy service with children excluded.

YEHOVAH’s true Passover involves eating a FESTIVE MEAL with family and friends, around the Passover dinner table, with the recitation of the history of Israel, and YEHOVAH’s plan of redemption, the FALSE pagan Passover is a solemn, painful, sorrowful, quiet, stark ceremony much akin to a Catholic MASS, with the congregation huddled quietly, listening to the ministers solemnly intone their genuflections, and then quietly eating a piece of wafer, like the mass, and a thimble sized vial of wine.

In the Catholic mass, the believers are required to believe that the little piece of unleavened bread IS the literal body of the Messiah, and the wine literally becomes the BLOOD of the Messiah. Thus each time they take of the mass, they sacrifice Yeshua the Messiah all over again! When the priest supposedly changes the bread and wine into the Messiah’s body and blood, he intones the phrase, “Hoc est corpus me us.” Evidently, the common expression used of false magic, to connote deception and fraud, is derived from this phrase — it is “HOCUS POCUS”!

Who, then, should partake of the Passover? In ancient Israel, the Passover was a FAMILY festival. Children were included, too. They were TAUGHT by their parents the tremendous meaning of the Passover, as they partook of it (see Exodus 12:23-27). The Passover is a family affair, for true believers. Having become a baptized, converted Christian, or being an adult, are not necessary requirements! Even Yeshua’s own disciples were not yet spirit-begotten Christians when they partook of the Passover with the Messiah!

In other words, even children should participate, so they can be instructed in the full meaning of the Passover! All adult believers, whether or not they have been baptized as of yet, should also participate, so they can learn and experience the full significance of the Passover (see Daniel 10:12).

This means, of course, that even young children who are in the family should also partake of the Passover celebration — including the wine and the unleavened bread. This is how they LEARN its meaning. The original Passover, observed in Egypt, was a whole FAMILY AFFAIR. The entire family of each family in Israel was to keep it (Exodus 12:3-4). Children were to be taught the meaning of the symbols and purpose of the Passover, each year, as they observed and participated in it (Exodus 12:25-27; 13:8-16).

The Passover was and is a “festival of the LORD.” As such, it was commanded to be celebrated by ALL ISRAEL — men, women and children — as a FAMILY affair (Exodus 12:3-4). Many of the Israelites were not “converted” — that is, they were a rebellious people — yet they were indeed commanded to celebrate the Passover and festivals of YEHOVAH God.

However, on the other hand, it is obvious that no one should partake of the Passover if they are a carnal, unconverted, uncircumcised unbeliever, whose attitude would be one of hostility, disbelief, ridicule, scorn, and outright disobedience to YEHOVAH God. Such a person would make a mockery of the Passover, and should definitely not be invited — even if he or she is a family member! YEHOVAH God says in His Word, “For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law — indeed it cannot, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God” (Romans 8:7, NRSV).

One of the purposes of YEHOVAH God’s festivals is to draw people to Him, and His way of life — not to reject them or put them off. In other words, if a person is truly seeking YEHOVAH God, and His truth, and has shown by the evidence that he or she supports the Work of YEHOVAH God, and believes His Word — even though they have not yet been physically “baptized” — such a person is on the pathway to becoming circumcised in heart, and in the process of becoming converted. Such a person should not be categorically, summarily rejected from participating in the Passover! Yeshua himself set us an example in this matter. Yeshua kept Passover with his disciples who were mere learners of the truth and his students, at the time, and they did not yet fully understand his purpose and teachings, and had not yet received the holy spirit (John 7:37-39; Acts 2:1-2).

Myth #16 — In I Corinthians 11:17-34 Paul was talking about the Passover service.

Many have assumed in the past that Yeshua’s last supper was the Passover. Therefore, they have concluded that I Corinthians 11 also must refer to the Passover. However, neither assumption is true. Since we now know that Yeshua’s last supper with his disciples was actually ONE WHOLE DAY BEFORE the true Passover, it had to be a sacred meal of fellowship. This sheds new light on Paul’s real meaning and subject of discussion in I Corinthians 11. Let us notice this chapter carefully, going through it with the Jamieson, Faussett and Brown Critical, Experimental and Practical Commentary.

Verse 20. “When ye come together in one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.” Says the commentary:

“It is not possible to eat a true Lord’s supper where UNITY exists not (ch.X.17); where each is greedily intent on ‘HIS OWN SUPPER,’ and some are excluded altogether, not having been waited for (v.33); where some are ‘drunken,’ others ‘hungry’ (v.21). The LOVE-FEAST preceded the Lord’s supper…They ate and drank together earthly, then heavenly food, in token of their unity for time and eternity. It was a CLUB-FEAST, where each brought his portion, and the rich extra portions for the poor. From it the bread and wine were taken for the Eucharist. It was at it that the excesses took place which made a true celebration of the Lord’s supper, during or after it, with due discernment of its solemnity, out of the question…”

Paul here, then, is rebuking the Corinthians for their IMPROPER OBSERVANCE of the sacred fellowship meal, patterned after Yeshua’s last supper with his disciples. This was a “love feast” of the brethren, where members of the church ate together in joy and godly fellowship.

Notice further:

“23. He shows the unworthiness of such conduct from the dignity of the holy supper. I — emphatic in the Greek. It is not my own, but the Lord’s institution. received of the Lord — by immediate revelation from the risen Saviour (Gal. 1:12; cf. Acts 22:17, 18; II Cor. 12:1-4)….The renewal of the institution, by special revelation to St. Paul, enhances its solemnity….the time for the Lord’s supper is not fixed. betrayed. With the traitor at the table, and though about to receive such injury from man, He gave this LAST GIFT, a pledge of his amazing love to man. 24. brake. The breaking of the bread involves its distribution….as oft as — as many times soever; FOR IT IS AN ORDINANCE OFTEN TO BE PARTAKEN OF. in remembrance of me…The Lord’s supper brings to our remembrance Christ’s sacrifice once for all for the full and final remission of sins. Not ‘do this for a memorial of me,’ as if it were a memorial sacrifice, which would be mnemosunon (Acts 10:4) or hupomnesin, — a reminding the Father of His Son’s sacrifice. Nay, it is for OUR REMEMBRANCE OF IT, not to remind Him. 26. For — in proof that the Lord’s supper is ‘in remembrance’ of Him. show. Announce publicly; not dramatically represent, but publicly profess each of you, the Lord died FOR ME’…”

Notice! This sacred meal and service is NOT AN ANNUAL MEMORIAL AT ALL — it is to be partaken of “AS MANY TIMES SOEVER,” or “OFTEN.” This could even mean as often as weekly, when possible. In Jewish synagogues, following the synagogue service the congregation often met together for a fellowship meal. Paul does not “set a time” for this wonderful fellowship meal, patterned after the Lord’s final meal with his disciples — this LOVE-FEAST. But he does say, “as OFT as ye do it.” The implication is that this holy meal of fellowship, including the symbols of bread and wine representing the Messiah’s body and blood given for us, should be enjoyed OFTEN!

This same expression in the Greek, “as oft as,” is found in Revelation 11:6, speaking of the two witnesses who in the future will smite the earth with plagues “as often as they will.” Thus Paul is not talking about the Passover here at all, but to a sacred fellowship meal held often, but not on an annual or “scheduled” basis such as an annual Festival! Let us continue:

“That the Lord’s supper is in remembrance of Him, implies that He is bodily absent, though spiritually present; for we cannot ‘commemorate’ one absent. Our not only showing the Lord’s death, but eating and drinking the pledges of it, could only be understood BY THE JEWS, ACCUSTOMED TO FEASTS after propitiatory sacrifices, as implying our personal appropriation of the benefits of that death. till he come — when there shall be no longer need of symbols, the body itself being manifested. The Greek…expresses the certainty of His coming…” (p. 316-317, Critical-Experimental Commentary).

How cleverly Satan has deceived so many. Paul is not talking about the Passover at all in this passage. He discusses the Passover in I Corinthians 5:7-8, very plainly, showing that we should also observe that Feast. It is kept as a vigil and “Seder” on the night of Nisan 15, as it has been observed by the faithful ever since the time of Moses. But in I Corinthians 11, Paul is discussing another subject altogether — the sacred fellowship meal patterned after the final supper Yeshua the Messiah held with his disciples! And this wonderful spiritual “banquet” is NOT an annual anniversary at all, but is to be held “OFTEN”!

May YEHOVAH God help us all to come OUT of paganism — and Babylonish customs and traditions — COMPLETELY, that we may be found righteous and holy and pure in His sight!

Why Look For the Barley?

Last year we posted this video showing you why the First Fruits of the Barley are needed to begin the year. It is critical to understand the importance of doing this and why. We hope you will watch and share this video many times to your groups and friends as we once again begin to search for the Barley and get ready for the Passover season.

Ezekiel’s 13th Month

A Goat or Lamb

In Exodus, Yehovah tells us that we can use either a goat or a lamb for the Passover sacrifice. Why does He give a choice in this matter?

The Passover

Exo 12:1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

Exo 12:2 This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.

Exo 12:3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month they shall take to them each man a lamb for a father’s house, a lamb for a house.

Exo 12:4 And if the household is too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take according to the number of the souls, each one, according to the eating of his mouth, you shall count concerning the lamb.

Exo 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You shall take from the sheep or from the goats.

If we continue to read all of Exodus 12 we are not given the answer as to why we can use one of the other.

Exo 12:6 And you 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.

Exo 12:7 And they shall take some of the blood and strike on the two side posts and upon the upper door post of the houses in which they shall eat it.

Exo 12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

Exo 12:9 Do not eat of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs, and with its inward parts.

Exo 12:10 And you shall not let any of it remain until the morning. And that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

The lamb or goat that is sacrificed and consumed differs from the burnt offerings presented at the Temple. So, what makes this particular offering stand out from the others?

Exo 12:11 And you shall eat of it this way, with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in a hurry. It is Jehovah’s passover.

Exo 12:12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am Jehovah.

Exo 12:13 And the blood shall be a sign to you upon the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you. And the plague shall not be upon you for a destruction when I smite in the land of Egypt.

Exo 12:14 And this day shall be a memorial to you. And you shall keep it as a feast to Jehovah throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by a law forever.

Exo 12:15 You shall eat unleavened bread seven days; even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

Exo 12:16 And on the first day shall be a holy gathering, and in the seventh day there shall be a holy gathering for you. No manner of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.

Exo 12:17 And you shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall keep this day in your generations by a law forever.

Exo 12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

Exo 12:19 Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses. For whoever eats that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, among the aliens and among the natives of the land.

Exo 12:20 You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your dwelling-places you shall eat unleavened bread.

Exo 12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, Draw out and take a lamb for yourselves according to your families, and kill the passover.

Exo 12:22 And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip in the blood in the bowl, and strike the lintel and the doorposts with the blood in the bowl. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

Exo 12:23 For Jehovah will pass through to strike the Egyptians. And when He sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.

Exo 12:24 And you shall observe this thing for a law to you and to your sons forever.

Exo 12:25 And it shall be, when you have come to the land which Jehovah will give you, according as He has promised, that you shall keep this service.

Exo 12:26 And it will be, when your sons shall say to you, What is this service to you?

Exo 12:27 Then you shall say, It is the sacrifice of Jehovah’s passover, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And the people bowed and worshiped.

Exo 12:28 And the sons of Israel went away and did as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron; so they did.

In Leviticus 4, we read about what must be done for a sin offering. The High Priest would have to give a bull, which was completely burned up outside the camp.

Laws for Sin Offerings

Lev 4:1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses saying,

Lev 4:2 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of Jehovah concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do any one of them,

Lev 4:3 if the priest who is anointed sins, resulting in guilt to the people, then he shall bring for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull, a son of the herd without blemish, to Jehovah for a sin offering.

Lev 4:4 And he shall bring the young bull to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before Jehovah, and he shall lay his hand on the young bull’s head, and kill the young bull before Jehovah.

Lev 4:5 And the priest who is anointed shall take of the young bull’s blood, and shall bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation.

Lev 4:6 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle of the blood seven times before Jehovah, at the front of the veil of the holy place.

Lev 4:7 And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Jehovah, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation. And he shall pour all the blood of the young bull at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Lev 4:8 And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering, he shall lift up the fat which is covering over the inward parts, and all the fat which is on the inward parts,

Lev 4:9 and the two kidneys, and the fat which is on them, which is on the loins, and he shall remove the lobe on the liver beside the kidneys.

Lev 4:10 Even as it was lifted from the young bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings, the priest shall burn them on the altar of the burnt offering.

Lev 4:11 And the skin of the young bull, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inward parts, and its dung,

Lev 4:12 even the whole bull shall he carry forth outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on the wood with fire. It shall be burned where the ashes are poured out.

If Israel sinned as a nation, they would have to give a bull and sacrifice it outside the camp.

Lev 4:13 And if the whole company of Israel sins through ignorance, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and if they do that which ought not to be done to any of all the commands of Jehovah, and are guilty;

Lev 4:14 when the sin is known which they have sinned against it, then the congregation shall bring near a young bull for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.

Lev 4:15 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the young bull before Jehovah, and the young bull shall be killed before Jehovah.

Lev 4:16 And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the young bull’s blood to the tabernacle of the congregation.

Lev 4:17 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle seven times before Jehovah, before the veil.

Lev 4:18 And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Jehovah, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation. And he shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Lev 4:19 And he shall take all its fat from it and burn it on the altar.

Lev 4:20 And he shall do with the young bull as he did with the young bull for a sin offering; so shall he do to it. And the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.

Lev 4:21 And he shall carry forth the young bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is a sin offering for the congregation.

If the King sinned, he had to give a Goat for a sin offering.

Lev 4:22 When a ruler has sinned and through ignorance has acted against one of the commands of Jehovah his God, which is not to be done, and is guilty;

Lev 4:23 or if his sin which he has sinned shall be made known to him, he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish.

Lev 4:24 And he shall lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it in the place where he kills the burnt offering before Jehovah. It is a sin offering.

Lev 4:25 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out its blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.

Lev 4:26 And he shall burn all its fat on the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.

If the people as individuals sinned, they were to bring a female goat.

Lev 4:27 And if any one of the people of the land sins through ignorance, by doing that which is not to be done against one of the commands of Jehovah, and is guilty;

Lev 4:28 or if his sin which he has sinned shall be made known to him, then he shall bring his offering, a ewe of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has sinned.

Lev 4:29 And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.

Lev 4:30 And the priest shall take of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood of it at the bottom of the altar.

Lev 4:31 And he shall take away all its fat, as the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest shall burn it on the altar for a sweet savor to Jehovah. And the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.

Now, here is where we read about the ability to bring a lamb as a sin offering. It is to be a young female lamb. Take note that it is a female lamb.

Lev 4:32 And if he brings a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish.

Lev 4:33 And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where he kills the burnt offering.

Lev 4:34 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all its blood at the bottom of the altar.

Lev 4:35 And he shall take away all the fat of it, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings. And the priest shall burn them on the altar, on the fire offerings to Jehovah. And the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.

The Passover lamb or goat was to be a male, about a year old, not a female.

Exo 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You shall take from the sheep or from the goats.

This lamb that was killed at Passover was to be eaten by those who killed it and it was a male lamb about a year old. The lambs or goats killed as a sin offering were burnt entirely, and they were not eaten by those offering it, and they were female lambs or goats.

Zec 13:6 And one shall say to him, What are these wounds in your hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of those who love Me.

When we stop all the debates and all of the arguments and consider what we have done to cause Yehovah, our creator, to give up HIs life for us, it is beyond my ability to describe in words. It was not the Jews who killed Yehshua; it was not the Romans; the people who killed Yehovah are you and me by our sins that we keep on doing.

 Zec 12:10  And I will pour on the house of David, and on the people of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of prayers. And they shall look on Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be bitter over Him, as the bitterness over the first-born.

The Apostle Peter knew these things. He said Yehovah/Yehshua bore our sins as the Goat that is killed on the Day of Atonement is killed for a sin offering.

1Pe 2:21 For you were not called to this? For Christ also suffered on our behalf, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps,

1Pe 2:22 He who did no sin, nor was guile found in His mouth,

1Pe 2:23 who when He was reviled did not revile in return. When He suffered, He did not threaten, but gave Himself up to Him who judges righteously.

1Pe 2:24 He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that dying to sins, we might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

1Pe 2:25 For you were as sheep going astray, but now you are turned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Heb 13:10 We have an altar of which they have no right to eat, those who serve the tabernacle.

Heb 13:11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the Holy of Holies by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.

Heb 13:12 Therefore Jesus also, so that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

Heb 13:13 Therefore let us go forth to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

The Altar outside the camp on Mount Moriah, today known as Golgatha, is the same mount, and Altar Satan will ascend in the very near future as though he were Yehovah. The same place Yehovah was crucified representing both the Passover lamb and the Goat for a sin offering at Atonement.