The Foot Washing Memorial

Joseph F. Dumond

Isa 6:9-12 And He said, Go, and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and seeing you see, but do not know. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back, and be healed. Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land laid waste, a desolation, and until Jehovah has moved men far away, and the desolation in the midst of the land is great.
Published: Mar 21, 2016

News Letter 5852-004
The Shemitah Year
12th day of the 1st month 5852 years after the creation of Adam
The 1st Month in the Seventh year of the Third Sabbatical Cycle
The Third Sabbatical Cycle after the 119th Jubilee Cycle
The Sabbatical Cycle of Earthquakes, Famines and Pestilence

The Year of letting the land rest
The Sabbatical year that begins at Aviv 2016 to Aviv 2017

March 22, 2016

 

Shalom to The Royal Family of Yehovah,
Again I am going to share with you the commandments for the Sabbatical year, maybe each week until you have it memorized. The Sabbatical year began with the sighting of the moon on the evening of March 10, 2016.

1)  Do not plant

2) Do not harvest

Lev 25:3  You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in the fruit of it. 4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest to the land, a sabbath for Jehovah. You shall neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard. 5 You shall not reap that which grows of its own accord of your harvest, neither gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It is a year of rest to the land.

3) You can eat what grows on it’s own.

Lev 25:6 And the sabbath of the land shall be food for you, for you and for your servant, and for your slave woman and for your hired servant, and for your stranger who stays with you, 7  and for your cattle, and for the beast that is in your land, shall all the increase of it be for food.

4) Stock up on food in the 6th year.

Lev 25:20  And if you shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow nor gather in our increase! 21  Then I will command My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

5) Forgive any debts people owed to you by Sukkot.

Deu 15:1  At the end of every seven years you shall make a release. 2  And this is the manner of the release. Every man who has a loan to his neighbor shall release it. He shall not exact it from his neighbor, or from his brother, because it is called Jehovah’s release. 3  You may exact it from a foreigner, but your hand shall release that which is yours with your brother,

6) Read the Torah out Loud at Sukkot so all can hear it being read.

Deu 31:10  And Moses commanded them, saying: At the end of seven years, at the set time of the year of release, in the Feast of Tabernacles, 11  when all Israel has come to appear before Jehovah your God in the place which He shall choose, you shall read this Law before all Israel in their hearing. 12  Gather the people, men and women and the little ones, and your stranger who is within your gates, so that they may hear and that they may learn and fear Jehovah your God, and be careful to do all the words of this Law, 13  and that their sons who have not known may hear and learn to fear Jehovah your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over Jordan to possess it.

I am making plans to go to Israel and do this again this year. If you want to come, begin to set aside your funds so you can go. I will have more details in the weeks to come. But remember it is a Sabbatical year. Keep this in mind as you travel.

 


 

“The Facts About this Years Dispute”

Nehemiah Gordon;

  • uses the end of the 12th month to decide if the barley is Aviv or not.
  • said the barley was in a dough stage or worm stage.
  • From this date, with some few aviv barley and much of it in the dough stage, to the wave sheaf day in April is 46 days. By then much of the barley will have reseeded.

Brain Convery:

  • uses wave sheaf day to decide if the barley is aviv by that date to declare the new year.
  • said the barley was in late dough stage.

Solomon:

  • uses wave sheaf day to decide if the barley is aviv by that date to declare the new year.
  • said the barley was in late dough stage.
  • From March 11, the first day of the month of Aviv until wave sheaf day, March 27 is 16 days. The barley will go to Aviv ready in just ten days.
  • The Month of Aviv means the Month, not just the first day or by the first day.

Lev 23:9  And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 10  Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest of it, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. 11  And he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah to be received for you. On the next day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12  And you shall offer that day when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering to Jehovah. 13  And its food offering shall be two-tenths part of fine flour mixed with oil, a fire offering to Jehovah for a sweet savor. And the drink offering of it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.

Lev 23:14  And you shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor green ears, until the same day, until you have brought an offering to your God.It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 15  And you shall count to you from the next day after the sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete.

Deut 16:9  You shall count seven weeks to yourselves. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time you began to put the sickle to the grain.

The day you put the sickle to the Barley is the same day that you are to start harvesting the grain. No one could begin harvesting until the wave sheaf was completed. If they had to wait another 46 days then some farmers would lose their crops.

As of this posting I have had 5 different people report to me that the Barley was aviv and ready for the wave sheaf day this Sunday. We also have two men out returning to the those sites mentioned in the reports and again checking those fields. As I have said from the beginning, if I am wrong and the barley is not ready by wave sheaf day then I will keep Passover in April. But the reports have been coming in that the fields are now ripe for this Sunday’s wave offering.

I am not going to state their names. After the many mean spirited comments this past week they do not want their names dragged through the mud. As always you get to choose what you will do. I am keeping Passover on March 24, 2016.

 


 

“The Foot Washing Memorial”

 

This article taken from our teachings in 2011 and updated for this year.

On the evening of Wednesday March 23, 2016 is the customary night of washing each other’s feet and the drinking of wine and the breaking of bread in remembrance of the last supper Yehshua had with the Apostles. This is not the Passover meal. There will also be a dark full moon this night.

After supper Yehshua and His apostles went over to the Mount of Olives, also known as the Mount of Offence, where He prayed that this cup He was about to bear might pass from Him.

He was arrested this night and brought before the Sanhedrin and found guilty of blasphemy. They then brought Him to Pilot which is where the Dome of the Rock now is, who then sent Him to Herod which is up near where the Jaffa Gate now is who then sent Yehshua back to Pilot at what is now the Dome of the Rock, the Pavement. This all took place through the night and it is now morning of the 14th day of Nisan. This year it falls on the morning of the 24th of March.

Pilot gave in to the demands of the crowd and ordered Yehshua crucified. They then led Him and two other criminals back to the Mount of Offence, Calvary, Golgotha, the Skull or the place where the head count was done, where He was nailed to the wood that went across between His hands and then hoisted Him up and nailed Him to the Almond tree, having already cursed the Fig tree so that He would not be nailed to it.

On Thursday, March 24, 2016 which again is the 14th of Nisan from about Noon to the ninth hour it was dark. And when I look at NASA for the year and the month that Yehshua was killed on April 25, 31 C.E., we do indeed find a lunar eclipse over Jerusalem. The trouble is, that in order for this to be a natural event like an eclipse it had to be a solar eclipse. And it is impossible for a solar eclipse to take place when we have a full moon. Again showing you all the facts. This year we had a solar eclipse on the 1st day of the Month of Aviv. Now at Passover we are going to have a lunar eclipse much like the one Yehshua had, showing you a dark moon which represents famine is coming.

If you have not yet watched our teaching on the blood moons then I do urge you to watch it during this Passover Season.

This year Wednesday March 23rd is the 13th day of Aviv. The Foot Washing Memorial takes place this evening after sunset. It is a very somber evening and not one for talking and having a social. This is the evening Yehshua was betrayed and the next day murdered. I treat it as if I am at a Funeral and remember the things I have done that caused Him to be killed.

Thursday day, March 24, is the 14, of Aviv. This is the day when Yehshua would have been hung on the tree at 9 AM and then die at 3 PM, the same time the lambs were slaughtered. He was placed in the tomb before sunset which began the High Day of the 1st day of Unleavened Bread. Sunset Thursday is also the time we eat the Passover lamb. The blood having been smeared on the doors after it was killed at 3 PM. Midnight is the time when the first born of Egypt would have been killed by the death angel.

Moses and all of Israel then left Egypt in the dark, this year that is before Friday morning started. Friday March 25 is the 1st High Day of Unleavened Bread and no leaven is be found in your home from Sunset the evening before until after the 7th day of Thursday March 31 at sunset.

This year we then have Sabbath and then the wave sheaf day on Sunday. I will send out that teaching for Sabbath.

 

I have told you this for all the new people now starting to keep Passover and the rest of the Holy Days for the very first time. It is truly awesome to see so many going back to the Torah and the ways of our Ancestor who came out with Moses and crossed the Red Sea.

Many are asking how do we do this? Most of those who call themselves Christian do not keep Passover even though Yehshua did.
Let me tell you what I do. It is not the end all and be all way. It is what I try to do. You may develop your own customs.

To begin with I read

1Co 11:23  For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread; 24  And giving thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body, which is broken for you; this do in remembrance of Me.” 25  In the same way He took the cup also, after supping, saying, “This cup is the New Covenant in My blood; as often as you drink it, do this in remembrance of Me.” 26  For “as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you show” the Lord’s death until He shall come. 27  So that whoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, he will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28  But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. 29  For he who eats and drinks unworthily eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. 30  For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and many sleep. 31  For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. 32  But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. 33  So that, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. 34  But if anyone hungers, let him eat at home, so that you do not come together to condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.

Pay attention to what you just read. This is a very serious time of the year. If you treat it shamefully then you can die from the sickness that will come upon you.

This is why we do the de-leavening of our homes and of ourselves. We are examining ourselves and finding out that we are guilty of sin and need this Passover sacrifice. We do not take part in it halfheartedly.

It is a somber time. This is not a night to be talking about this or that. It is the memorial of the night Yehshua was betrayed and then killed. And the more you think about it the more somber the night is.

Without this first step pictured by the Passover, there would be no hope for humanity. But because Yehshua gave His life as our Passover sacrifice, we have a potential beyond human imagination! All the holy Days as told to you in Lev 23 explain this great potential.

I myself will watch again the Passion by Mel Gibson and the Ten Commandments.

If you’re in a group then explain to them briefly the seriousness of the event of this evening and set the tone for the night.

I begin in

Mat 26:26  And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat, this is My body. 27  And He took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink all of it. 28  For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. 29  But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom. 30  And singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

This is briefly the outline for the evening.

We begin with the foot washing.

Notice this is before Passover and after the supper they were gathered for, had taken place. So this is not and was not the Passover meal as some teach.

I then read

Joh 13:1  And before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come when He should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own in the world, He loved them to the end. 2  And when supper had ended, the Devil now having put into the heart of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon to betray Him, 3  Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and went to God, 4  He rose up from supper and laid aside His garments. And He took a towel and girded Himself. 5  After that He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. 6  Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, Lord, do You wash my feet? 7  Jesus answered and said to him, You do not know what I do now, but you shall know hereafter. 8  Peter said to Him, You shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me. 9  Simon Peter said to Him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and head. 10  Jesus said to him, He who is bathed has no need except to wash his feet, but is clean every whit. And you are clean, but not all. 11  For He knew who would betray Him. Therefore He said, You are not all clean. 12  So after He had washed their feet and had taken His garments and had reclined again, He said to them, Do you know what I have done to you? 13  You call Me the Teacher, and Lord, and you say well, for I AM. 14  If then I, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15  For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. 16  Truly, truly, I say to you, A servant is not greater than his master, neither is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. 17  If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

I have had the distinct pleasure of doing this with a couple of men on the Mount of Olives one year and another friend the year before. It surely has a very special meaning to me now having done this there at this place at that time.

After reading this part of John we would then go and wash each other’s feet; Men doing the men’s feet and women doing the women’s feet. If you’re with your own family you can do each others. In your own family this will help to teach the children to serve each other in love and not to always think of themselves. This is a very humbling thing to do, especially as a father to allow your son to do your feet or you do his. It can be emotional as you submit in humility. Tremendous lessons learned in doing this one exercise.

What does it mean for us? Is it just something we do on the night of the 14th or is it something that represents the way we strive to be all year round?

After the foot washing we come back and read the next section with the Bread.

As you tear the bread in front of your group know and understand this represents Yeshua’s body being ripped apart for you, because of your sins.

Mat 26:26  And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat, this is My body.

Heb 10:10  By this will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11  And indeed every priest stands daily ministering and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12  But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right of God,

Again what is sin?

1Jn 3:4 Everyone doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

1Pe 2:24 who Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live unto righteousness1 – by whose stripes you were healed. Footnote: 1Rom. 6:2, 1 Peter 4:1-2.

Joh 6:48 “I am the bread of life. 49 “Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died. 50 “This is the bread which comes down out of the heaven, so that anyone might eat of it, and not die. 51 “I am the living bread which came down out of the heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever. And indeed, the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”

1Co 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Messiah? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Messiah?

Now let me ask you when is the lamb ever beaten as Yehshua was? The answer is it never is. So what is beaten? It is the barley which is beaten to give up the grain which is then roasted as a grain offering on the wave sheaf day which is the day after the weekly Sabbath during the days of Unleavened bread, or in other words the first day of the week.

This same grain is made into bread which is what Yehshua represents; The Bread of life.

Yehshua said the bread represented His body, which He voluntarily gave to be beaten and to die as part of His complete sacrifice for us. He suffered that He might take our infirmities and bear our sicknesses.

Mat 8:16 And when evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, 17 that it might be filled what was spoken by Yeshayahu the prophet, saying, “He Himself took our weaknesses and bore our sicknesses.”

He is our Healer. Bread is also associated with life, and Yehshua is the Bread that makes eternal life possible as we allow Him to live in us.

Gal 2:20 “I have been impaled with Messiah, and I no longer live, but Messiah lives in me.1 And that which I now live in the flesh I live by belief in the Son of Elohim, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Footnote: 1Rom. 8:10, 2 Cor. 6:16, 2 Cor. 13:5, Eph. 3:17, Col. 1:27, 1 John 4:4.

And the fact that His followers all partake of this symbol of Him highlights the unity He wants us to have.

Isa 53:2  For He comes up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground; He has no form nor majesty that we should see Him, nor an appearance that we should desire Him. 3  He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as it were a hiding of faces from Him, He being despised, and we esteemed Him not. 4  Surely He has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5  But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was on Him; and with His stripes we ourselves are healed. 6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each one to his own way; and Jehovah has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. 7  He was oppressed, and He was afflicted; yet He opened not His mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth. 8  He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who shall declare His generation? For He was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of My people He was stricken. 9  And He put His grave with the wicked, and with a rich one in His death; although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth. 10  Yet it pleased Jehovah to crush Him; to grieve Him; that He should put forth His soul as a guilt-offering. He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the will of Jehovah shall prosper in His hand. 11  He shall see the fruit of the travail of His soul. He shall be fully satisfied. By His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify for many; and He shall bear their iniquities. 12  Therefore I will divide to Him with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He has poured out His soul to death; and He was counted among the transgressors; and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for transgressors.

Once you have broken the bread share it with everyone and let them think about this the body of Yehshua.

We now move on to the wine part of this service.

Luk 22:14 And when the hour had come, He sat down, and the twelve emissaries with Him. 15 And He said to them, “With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before My suffering, 16 for I say to you, I shall certainly not eat of it again until it is filled in the reign of Elohim.” 17 And taking the cup, giving thanks, He said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves, 18 for I say to you, I shall certainly not drink of the fruit of the vine until the reign of Elohim comes.”

Luk 22:20 Likewise the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the renewed covenant in My blood which is shed for you.

The 4 glasses of red wine that are drunk during the Seder, symbolized Yehovah’s four statements of redemption in the Torah:

  1. “I took you out”
  2. “I rescued you”
  3. “I liberated you”
  4. “I took you to Me for a people”

The wine represents redemption. Although this meal Yehshua is eating is not the Passover meal he is showing them what the symbols of that meal mean.

The cup of Elijah derives from a problem in Talmudic Law. The problem is not knowing exactly how many cups of wine to drink at the Seder, four or five. The number of cups is based on the four expressions of deliverance, but there is actually a fifth expression of deliverance.

So, the rabbis came up with the perfect Jewish compromise. We fill the fifth cup, but we don’t drink from it. And since Elijah will proceed the Messiah, who will be able to tell us whether four or five cups are correct, we make the fifth cup of wine Elijah’s cup.

In some Seder services, each person at the Seder contributes some wine to the fifth cup, symbolizing everyone sharing in the messianic hope. At other Seder services, wine from the cup of Elijah is mixed with the fourth cup.

You can learn more about the 4 or 5 cups at http://www.sichosinenglish.org/cgi-bin/calendar?holiday=pesach10474

Now notice what Yehshua said after the meal;

Luk 22:20 Likewise the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the renewed covenant in My blood which is shed for you.

Is this not the 5th cup that Judah had a problem figuring out? “This cup is the renewed covenant in My blood which is shed for you.

Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the defiled, sets apart for the cleansing of the flesh, 14 how much more shall the blood of the Messiah, who through the everlasting Spirit offered Himself unblemished to Elohim, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living Elohim?

Heb 10:16  “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put My Laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,”

”1 Footnote: 1Jer. 31:33, Heb. 8:8-12. 17 and, “Their sins and their lawlessness I shall remember no more.”

Heb 10:19  Therefore, brothers, having boldness to enter into the Holy of Holies by the blood of Jesus, 20  by a new and living way which He has consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, His flesh; 21  and having a High Priest over the house of God, 22  let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies having been washed with pure water.

The wine of the New Testament Passover represents Yeshua’s shed blood. His sacrifice made the forgiveness of our sins and the removal of our guilt possible. This opened the way for the New Covenant that Yehovah makes with believers, writing His laws on our hearts. We make this covenant when we are baptized and renew it each year at the Passover. This is why Passover and Atonement are tied together.

At this time you should all drink a small amount of wine.

After the wine we close the evening with the following readings.

Joh 13:18  I do not speak of you all; I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.” 19  From now I tell you before it comes, so that when it happens you may believe that I AM. 20  Truly, truly, I say to you, He who receives whomever I send receives Me. And he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. 21  When Jesus had said this, He was troubled in spirit, and testified and said, Truly, truly, I say to you that one of you shall betray Me. 22  Then the disciples looked upon one another, wondering of whom He spoke. 23  But there was one of His disciples leaning upon Jesus’ bosom, the one whom Jesus loved. 24  Simon Peter therefore signaled to him to ask whom it might be of whom He spoke. 25  And lying on Jesus’ breast, he said to him, Lord, who is it? 26  Jesus answered, It is he to whom I shall give the morsel when I have dipped it. And dipping the morsel, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. 27  And after the morsel, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, What you do, do quickly. 28  But no one reclining knew for what reason He spoke this to him. 29  For some thought, because Judas had the moneybag, that Jesus had said to him, Buy what we have need of for the feast; or that he should give something to the poor. 30  He then, having received the morsel, went out immediately. And it was night.

To help show that this was not the Passover meal I have said in the past that the bread Yehshua was leavened and not Matzos because Matzos does not soak up sauce. Others will argue this point differently so I bring it to your attention.

We continue to read in John;

Joh 13:31  Then when he had left, Jesus said, Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32  If God is glorified in Him, God shall also glorify Him in Himself, and shall immediately glorify Him. 33  Little children, I am with you yet a little while. You shall seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, Where I go, you cannot come, so I now say to you. 34  I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. As I have loved you, you should also love one another. 35  By this all shall know that you are My disciples, if you have love toward one another. 36  Simon Peter said to Him, Lord, where do You go? Jesus answered him, Where I go you cannot now follow Me, but you shall follow Me afterward. 37  Peter said to Him, Lord, why cannot I follow You now? I will lay down my life for Your sake. 38  Jesus answered him, Will you lay down your life for My sake? Truly, truly, I say to you, The cock shall not crow until you have denied Me three times.

Joh 16:1  I have spoken these things to you so that you should not be offended. 2  They shall put you out of the synagogue. But an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think that he bears God service. 3  And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. 4  But I have told you these things so that when the hour shall come you may remember that I told you of them. And I did not say these things to you at the beginning because I was with you. 5  But now I go to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, Where do You go? 6  But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7  But I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you. But if I depart, I will send Him to you. 8  And when that One comes, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment. 9  Concerning sin, because they do not believe on Me; 10  concerning righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; 11  concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. 12  I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13  However, when He, the Spirit of Truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth. For He shall not speak of Himself, but whatever He hears, He shall speak. And He will announce to you things to come. 14  He will glorify Me, for He will receive of Mine and will announce it to you. 15  All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and will announce it to you. 16  A little while and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me, because I go to the Father. 17  Then His disciples said to one another, What is this that He says to us, A little while and you will not see Me, and again a little and you will see Me? And, Because I go to the Father?

Joh 16:18  Therefore they said, What is this that He says, A little while? We do not know what He is saying. 19  Then Jesus knew that they desired to ask Him, and said to them, Do you seek answers with one another concerning this, because I said, A little while and you shall not see Me; and again a little while, and you shall see Me? 20  Truly, truly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. And you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. 21  The woman has grief when she bears, because her hour has come. But when she brings forth the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a man is born into the world. 22  And therefore you now have sorrow. But I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. 23  And in that day you shall ask Me nothing. Truly, truly, I say to you, Whatever you shall ask the Father in My name, He will give you. 24  Before now you have asked nothing in My name; ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be full. 25  I have spoken these things to you in parables, but the time is coming when I shall no more speak to you in parables, but I will show you plainly of the Father. 26  At that day you will ask in My name; and I do not say to you that I will pray to the Father for you, 27  for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came out from God. 28  I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world. Again I leave the world and go to the Father. 29  The disciples said to Him, Lo, now You speak plainly and speak no parable. 30  Now we know that You know all things and do not need that anyone should ask You. By this we believe that You have come forth from God. 31  Jesus answered them, Do you now believe? 32  Behold, the hour comes, yea, has now come, that you will be scattered, each man to his own things, and you will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. 33  I have spoken these things to you so that you might have peace in Me. In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.

Joh 17:1  Jesus spoke these words and lifted up His eyes to Heaven and said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son so that Your Son also may glorify You, 2  even as You have given Him authority over all flesh so that He should give eternal life to all You have given Him. 3  And this is life eternal, that they might know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 4  I have glorified You upon the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. 5  And now Father, glorify Me with Yourself with the glory which I had with You before the world was. 6  I have revealed Your name to the men whom You gave to Me out of the world. They were Yours, and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 7  Now they have known that all things, whatever You have given Me, are from You. 8  For I have given to them the Words which You gave Me, and they have received them and have known surely that I came out from You. And they have believed that You sent Me. 9  I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. 10  And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I am glorified in them. 11  And now I am in the world no longer, but these are in the world, and I come to You, Holy Father. Keep them in Your name, those whom You have given Me, so that they may be one as We are. 12  While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those that You have given Me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13  And now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world that they might have My joy fulfilled in them. 14  I have given them Your Word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15  I do not pray for You to take them out of the world, but for You to keep them from the evil. 16  They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Joh 17:17  Sanctify them through Your truth. Your Word is truth. 18  As You have sent Me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. 19  And I sanctify Myself for their sakes, so that they also might be sanctified in truth. 20  And I do not pray for these alone, but for those also who shall believe on Me through their word, 21  that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me. 22  And I have given them the glory which You have given Me, that they may be one, even as We are one, 23  I in them, and You in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them as You have loved Me. 24  Father, I desire that those whom You have given Me, that they may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me, for You have loved Me before the foundation of the world. 25  O righteous Father, indeed the world has not known You; but I have known You, and these have known that You have sent me. 26  And I made known to them Your name, and will make it known, so that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them. Footnote: 1See v. 6, Ps. 22:22, Heb. 2:12.

Joh 18:1  Having spoken these words, Jesus went out with His disciples over the winter stream Kidron, where there was a garden. He and His disciples entered into it. 2  And Judas who betrayed Him also knew the place. For Jesus oftentimes went there with His disciples. 3  Then Judas, having received a band and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons. 4  Then Jesus, knowing all things that were coming upon Him, went out and said to them, Whom do you seek? 5  They answered Him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus said to them, I AM! And Judas who betrayed Him also stood with them. 6  Then as soon as He had said to them, I AM, they went backward and fell to the ground. 7  Then He asked them again, Whom do you seek? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth. 8  Jesus answered, I have told you that I AM. Therefore if you seek Me, let these go away; 9  (that the word might be fulfilled which He spoke, “Of those whom You have given Me, I have lost not one of them”). 10  Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant and cut off his right ear. And the servant’s name was Malchus. 11  Then Jesus said to Peter, Put up your sword into the sheath. The cup which My Father has given Me, shall I not drink it? 12  Then the band, and the chiliarch, and under-officers of the Jews together seized Jesus and bound Him. 13  And they led Him away to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year. 14  And Caiaphas was he who gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.

All that we have just read was the night before Yehshua was arrested. Pray after this evening and think about what you have just experienced and then what Yehshua was going through this whole night. We have prayed this in the very same garden Yehshua did on the Mount of Olives.

You can now sing a song and then quietly leave and consider the events that this night represents and those things that are about to happen to our Messiah the following day. Again it is a very somber time.

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