Shanah Tovah 5857/2021

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: Feb 12, 2021

News Letter 5856-051
The 4th Year of the 4th Sabbatical Cycle
The 25th year of the 120th Jubilee Cycle
The 30th day of the 12th month 5856 years after the creation of Adam
The 4th Sabbatical Cycle after the 119th Jubilee Cycle
The Middle of the 70th Jubilee Since Yehovah told Moses To go Get His People
The Sabbatical Cycle of Sword, Famines, and Pestilence

2038 Days until the Two Witnesses

February 13, 2021

Shabbat Shalom to the Royal Family of Yehovah,

After Sabbath, once the sun has set, the New month of Aviv will begin. The new year of 5857 will begin.

It is now 9 years until the Two Witnesses will be killed at Passover in 2030. And also at this time those Saints on the wrong calendar will also be executed after the woman flees into the wilderness for times time and a 1/2 a time.

It is now just 5 1/2 years until the Two Witnesses begin to avenge the death of 90% of Israel who going die between Shavuot 2020 and Trumpets 2026. They will die by plague like the one we now have and famine and sword, Lev 26 warns us.

We are also just 12 years until Shavuot in 2033 when the Saints that obeyed and kept Torah will be raised from the dead and those of us who are still alive will be change in the twinkling of an eye. At this time King David will be brought back to life to lead during the 7th Millennium which begins in 2045.

And we are just 12 1/2 years away from the time when Satan will be locked away at Atonement in 2033.

Are you ready for what is about to come? Are you letting others know? Let me warn you, doing so will or could cost you everything.

As we showed you on our video from a couple weeks ago there is an extremely interesting conjunction of planets right now over head in the constellation of Capricorn with Venus Jupiter and Saturn all in conjunction in that constellation.

You may wonder why we look at the planets and watch them. We are told why in Luke.

Luk 21:25  And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars. And on the earth will be anxiety of nations with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

Luk 21:26  men fainting from fear, and expecting those things which have come on the earth. For the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

Luk 21:27  And then they shall see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

Luk 21:28  And when these things begin to happen, then look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption draws near.

Right now. Right this moment the world is anxious and perplexity because of the fourth curse of Lev 26 that is now upon the whole earth. This fourth curses comes in three sections. Sword, Famine and Plague. COVID 19 has shut down the whole world. People are very anxious as they worry about their mortgage and food and getting sick.

The sea and the waves roaring, I would expect to see more tsunamis around the world. Men are not yet fainting from fear, but that day is coming.

Now you know where we are in time. We are in the 120th Jubilee Cycle. We are approaching the end of the 4th Sabbatical Cycle. All end time prophecy must take place in the years remaining. I have shared with you when I believe they are to happen. You can decide for yourself in the time remaining when they will fall. But know for a fact they will come and must come before the 7th Millennium begins in 2045.


It Was A Riddle Not A Command Audio

We are very pleased to announce that our book It Was A Riddle Not a Command is now available in audio format. And can be found in our store. It has been narrated by Sally Cave and we have cut all the costs to make this affordable to everyone.

This means we have done away with the expensive productions costs that Audible charges and the edits and all that goes into making this book 100% perfect. The normal going rate for an audible book that goes through this process is about $37 US or more. We are not charging that but we are asking for $5 donation to help us finance more translations in the future.

We hope you will listen to the teachings in this book while you drive or as you walk about with your phones.

 


Shabbat Zoom Meeting

There are many people in need of fellowship and who are sitting at home on Sabbath with no one to talk to or debate with. I want to encourage all of you to join us on Shabbat at 12:30 PM Eastern Time Zone, and to invite others to come and join us as well. If the time is not convenient then you can listen to the teaching and the midrash after on our youtube channel.

We hope you can invite those who want to keep Torah to come and join us by hitting the link below. It is almost like a Torah teaching fellowship talk show with people from around the world taking part and sharing their insights and understandings.

We start off with some music and then some prayers and it as though you were sitting around the kitchen back in Newfoundland having a cup of coffee and all of us enjoying each other’s company. I hope you will grace us with your company someday.

 Sabbath Feb 13, 2021, will be a 1 PM Eastern. The room opens at 12:30 EST

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Septennial Torah Portion

If you go to Torah Portion at our archived section, you can then go to the 4th year which is the 4th year of the Sabbatical Cycle, the one we are in now, as we state at the top of every News Letter. There you can scroll down to January 23, 2021, and see that this Shabbat we could very well be midrashing about

Gen 22-23
Judge 20-21
Psalm 48
Matthew 27

If you missed last weeks exciting discoveries as we studied that section you can go and watch past Shabbats on our media section.

New Year 2021 and Holy Day Dates
We at Sightedmoon.com will begin our New Year Saturday evening after the sun sets. Sunday February 14, 2021 will be the first day of the New Year.

Even though Devorah does not agree with us this year she has been very kind in providing a calendar with the various dates when the Holy Days will be depending on what you believe. I do sincerely thank her and appreciate the act of love towards all the brethren.

Let not our differences be cause for division. But do let them spur you to investigate each one and determine for yourself what you and your family will do.

After the Sabbath, February 13, those who want to join us on our weekly Sabbath service will stay on and celebrate together the sighting of the new moon. We will have people on from around the world so the celebrations will be throughout the day and evening depending on where you live. We hope you might want to join us.

 


Pray the 7th Day

March 20, 2013 I first shared with you a teaching I was then shown by Dr. Dave Perry about the 7th day of the first month.

I want to emphasize this once again now as we approach the 7th day of the First month one week from today.

18 So says the Lord Jehovah: In the first month, in the first of the month, you shall take a bull without blemish, a son of the herd, and cleanse the sanctuary. 19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the inner court. 20 And so you shall do on the seventh of the month for each man who goes astray, and for the simple. So you shall atone for the house. (Ezekiel 45:18-20)

It is just seven day more until Passover when the blood is again placed on the door of the house for protection.

We all have spouses and children and parents and family who do not and will not have anything to do with Torah. Yet it is now the Torah that has become your way of life.

Many times you wonder why they do not get it. Why you are the only one. All these years and they still make fun of your Sabbaths and Holy Days.

Here in Ezekiel we are told to pray for our house hold on the 7th day of the first month. “Thus says Yehovah”.

Why? I do not know but He said to do this. So I am going to do this and we will see what happens after. Pray and obey. This time you are being told to obey by praying.

Look at what happened in Acts.

12 And the Spirit told me to go with them, not discriminating. And these six brothers went with me, and we entered the man’s house. 13 And he declared to us how he had seen an angel in his house, who stood and said to him, Send men to Joppa and call for Simon whose last name is Peter, 14 who will tell you words by which you and all your house shall be saved. 15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, as on us at the beginning. 16 And I remembered the Word of the Lord, how He said, John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit. 17 If God gave to them the same gift as to us, they having believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to be able to prevent God? (Acts 11:12-17)

Here we have Gentile believers receiving the Holy Spirit and the whole household was saved.

Is this not what we all want for our families?

Yehovah has given us a specific date to meet him for us to plead for our families. Will you take Him up on this opportunity?

28 But Paul called out with a loud voice, saying, Do yourself no harm, for we are all here. 29 Then asking for a light he rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. 30 And leading them outside, he said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved, and your household. 32 And they spoke the Word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his household. 33 And taking them in that hour of the night, he washed from their stripes. And he was baptized, he and all his, immediately. 34 And bringing them up to the house, he set a table before them and rejoiced, believing in God with all his household. (Acts 16:28-34)

In both these cases it was just one person who believed and then the whole family was blessed. I have a hard time wrapping my mind around this. I cannot imagine having my whole family keeping this walk with me. How awesome that would be.

If you’re having trouble praying here is one King David used to help you get started.

1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall rest under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of Jehovah, my refuge and my fortress; my God; in Him I will trust. 3 Surely He will deliver you from the fowler’s trap and from the destroying plague. 4 He shall cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you shall trust. His truth shall be your shield, and buckler. 5 You shall not fear the terror by night; nor because of the arrow that flies by day; 6 nor for the plague that walks in darkness, of the destruction laying waste at noonday. 7 A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; it shall not come near you. 8 Only with your eyes you shall look and see the reward of the wicked. 9 Because You, O Jehovah, are My refuge; if You have made the Most High Your dwelling-place, 10 no evil shall befall You, nor shall any plague come near Your dwelling. 11 For He shall give His angels charge over You, to keep You in all Your ways. 12 They shall bear You up in their hands, lest You dash your foot against a stone. 13 You shall tread on the lion and adder; the young lion and the jackal You shall trample underfoot. 14 Because He has set His love on Me, therefore I will deliver Him; I will set Him on high, because He has known My name. 15 He shall call on Me, and I will answer Him; I will be with Him in trouble; I will deliver Him, and honor Him. 16 With long life I will satisfy him, and show him My salvation. (Psalm 91:1-16)

If you keep the commandments and are striving to walk them out; If you keep the Weekly Sabbath, the Annual Holy Days, and are going to keep the coming Sabbaitcal year all of which are part of the 4th commandment, and you are walking in Torah then you are righteous. Even if your not perfect.

If you’re doing this then you are considered one of the righteous. And if you’re one of the righteous, then Yehovah will hear your prayers.

Jehovah is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous. (Proverbs 15:29)

15 The eyes of Jehovah are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry. 16 The face of Jehovah is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth. 17 The righteous cry, and Jehovah hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. 18 Jehovah is near to the broken-hearted; and saves those who are of a contrite spirit. 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Jehovah delivers him out of them all. (Psalm 34:15-19)

16 Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for my soul. 17 I cried to Him with my mouth, and exaltations were under my tongue. 18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, Jehovah will not hear; 19 Surely God has heard; He has attended to the voice of my prayer. 20 Blessed is God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me. (Psalm 66:17-19)

1 Behold, Jehovah’s hand is not shortened so that it cannot save, nor is His ear heavy so that it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have come between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing. (Isaiah 59:1-2)

Do you remember the Lord’s Prayer. The prayer to Our Father. In it we confess our sins. This is what Solomon and Daniel do in their prayers. They confess the sins of the nation and of themselves and then Yehovah will turn and hear us where we are in our affliction and save us. Go read these things and know He waits until you repent and then He answers.

11 Let him turn aside from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears open to their prayers. But the Lord’s face is against those who do evil. (1 Peter 3:11-12)

We are de-leavening right now in preparation for the days of Unleavened Bread. It is symbolic of putting sin out of our lives. Do not cover up your secret sins. Nor walk past the obvious elephants in the room. Take care of them and address them and turn back to the truth and have your prayers heard.

He who covers his sins shall not be blessed; but whoever confesses and leaves them shall have mercy. (Proverbs 28:13)

Yehovah listens to those who fear Him, who stand in awe of His greatness, goodness and power.

16 Then those fearing Jehovah spoke together, each man to his neighbor. And Jehovah listened and heard. And a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who feared Jehovah, and for those esteeming His name. 17 And they shall be Mine, says Jehovah of Hosts, for the day that I will make up My treasure. And I will pity them as a man has pity on his son who serves him. 18 Then you shall again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God, and him who does not serve Him. (Malachi 3:16-18)

16 Confess faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous one avails much. 17 Elijah was a man of like passion as we are. And he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for the time of three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth caused its fruit to sprout. (James 5:16-18)

Our bibles are full of examples of people who prayed and Yehovah heard their prayers and answered them. Repent of your sins and your secret sins and return to the truth. Let your name be found in the book of remembrance as one whose prayers were heard and answered.

Take up the appointment to pray for your family on Aviv 7 5857. That is sunset Friday, February 19 and Shabbat February 20, 2021.

 


 

Passover on the 14th or the 15th Controversy

Shalom Joseph,
Do you keep the Nisan 14 “Last Supper” (since you and I both share much of the traditional teaching from the wwcog days should I assume a “Yes”?). Since it is not in Torah (Levit. 23) should we treat it the same as for Purim and Hanukah which you have definitely condemned as “adding to Torah”??

The person is asking, if Purim and Chanukah are adding to Torah, then did Yehshua add to torah by adding the symbols at the last supper making it the new Passover date?

1st of all Yehshua is the creator of all things and the one who told us about the Holy Days of Lev 23.

2nd He did not add another Holy Day to Lev 23 as Chanukah and Purim do. He merely showed us new symbols. But for the rest of this answer you need to read to the end of this article.

So which day is the Passover? Is it the beginning of the 14th or the end of 14th going into the 15th day at sunset?

The problem many are having is arising in Mathew, Mark and Luke.

In Mathew we read this;

Mat 26:17 And on the first day of Unleavened Bread the taught ones came to Yehshua, saying to Him, “Where do You wish us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

So you must ask yourself the question “If this is the first day of Unleavened Bread, then Passover is already over with, right?” Because Passover always precedes Unleavened Bread.

So it is obvious that something is not kosher here in Mathew. A bad translation or just a real bad interpretation by someone who does not know the Holy Days. Mathew did know the Holy Days being Jewish, so I am leaning to a bad interpretation.

Keep in mind as you read this one important fact;

Heb 13:7 Remember those leading you, who spoke the Word of Elohim to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their belief. 8 Yehshua Messiah is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. 9 Do not be borne about by various and strange teachings.10 For it is good for the heart to be established by favour, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

Yehshua does not change and has not changed. But strange teachings abound in these last days both from within the body as well as outside the body of believers. So study your bible and search it daily to find the truth.

And we also read in;

Mal 3:6  For I am Jehovah, I change not. Because of this you sons of Jacob are not destroyed.

Mal 3:7  From the days of your fathers, you have turned aside from My statutes, and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you, says Jehovah of Hosts. But you say. In what way shall we return?

The Torah does not change.

We read in Mark the following;

Mar 14:12 And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they were slaughtering the Passover lamb, His taught ones said to Him, “Where do You wish us to go and prepare, for You to eat the Passover?”

Here, we have a huge problem with the translation. You do not slaughter the Passover lamb on the first day of Unleavened bread. The first day of Unleavened Bread is always on the 15th day of the month and the Passover lambs were killed on the 14th.

Exo 12:3 “Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month each one of them is to take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. 4 ‘And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next to his house take it according to the number of the beings, according to each man’s need you make your count for the lamb. 5 ‘Let the lamb be a perfect one, a year old male. Take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6 ‘And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then all the assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it between the evenings. 7 ‘And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. 8 ‘And they shall eat the flesh on that night, roasted in fire – with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 ‘Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire, its head with its legs and its inward parts. 10 ‘And do not leave of it until morning, and what remains of it until morning you are to burn with fire. 11 ‘And this is how you eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Passover of Yehovah.

The Passover lamb was killed at the end of the 14th and eaten that evening as the 15th day which was the first day of Unleavened bread was about to begin. This is why we are told to eat the Passover Lamb with unleavened bread.

8 ‘And they shall eat the flesh on that night, roasted in fire – with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

So once we read and understand the scriptures we know that something is wrong with both Mathew and Mark when they say it was the first day of Unleavened Bread and they were going to prepare the Passover. It is not kosher. This has caused many to be confused about the timing of this event which is why I go back to the Exodus and read it there.

Now let’s look at Luke.

Luk 22:7  And the day of the Unleavened Bread came, when the passover must be killed.

Luk 22:8  And He sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare the passover for us, so that we may eat.

Luke also does the exact same thing. It is telling us that this day is already the 14th day and also the 15th day at the same time. Again this is not right.

As I discuss this subject those who want to hold to a certain position which I will soon explain quote the letter of Paul to Timothy.

2Ti 3:14 But you, stay in what you have learned and trusted, having known from whom you have learned, 15 and that from a babe you have known the Set-apart Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for deliverance through belief in Messiah Yehshua. 16 All Scripture is breathed by Elohim and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for setting straight, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of Elohim might be fitted, equipped for every good work.

We have a very good research paper at http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/nicaea.html which shows us that the New Testament was created by the Nicene council under Emperor Constantine’s orders in 352 AD.

In tracing the origin of the Bible, one is led to AD 325, when Constantine the Great called the First Council of Nicaea, composed of 300 religious leaders. Three centuries after Jesus lived, this council was given the task of separating divinely inspired writings from those of questionable origin.

If the New testament was put together 3 hundreds after the letter written to Timothy then what is Paul referring to when he says all scripture is breathed by Elohim and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for setting straight, for instruction in righteousness,

It most certainly could not be the New testament as it had not even been put together at that time.

It can be only the scriptures that he had at his disposal which we are told exactly what they are in Luke. In fact Luke is quoting Yehshua who tells us what the scriptures are and what Paul is referring to.

Luk 24:44 And He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all have to be filled that were written in the Torah of Mosheh and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.”

Clarke’s Commentary on the Bible

The law – the prophets – the psalms – This was the Jewish division of the whole old covenant. The Law contained the five books of Moses; the Prophets, the Jews divided into former and latter; they were, according to Josephus, thirteen. “The Psalms included not only the book still so named, but also three other books, Proverbs, Job, and Canticles.

These all,” says the above author, “contain hymns to God, and rules for the conduct of the lives of men.” Joseph. Cont. App. i. 8. This account is imperfect: the common Jewish division of the writings of the old covenant is the following, and indeed seems to be the same to which our Lord alludes: –

I. The Law, ???? thorah, including Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

II. The Prophets, ??????, nabiaim, or teachers, including Joshua, Judges, the two books of Samuel, and the two books of Kings: these were termed the former prophets. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi: these were termed the latter prophets.

III. The Hagiographa, (holy writings), ?????? kethuvim, which comprehended the Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and the two books of Chronicles. The Jews made anciently only twenty-two books of the whole, to bring them to the number of the letters in the Hebrew alphabet; and this they did by joining Ruth to Judges, making the two books of Samuel only one; and so of Kings and Chronicles; joining the Lamentations to Jeremiah, and making the twelve minor prophets only one book.

I point this out because Paul is not talking about the New Testament which had not yet been put together. Paul was talking about the Old Testament.

Far too many believe in the Inerrancy and Infallibility of the Bible, yet we have just shown you that the New Testament does have at least three mistakes in it and that the saying of Paul’s applies to the Old Testament and not the new.

Getting back to the point of this article. The chronology of events of the last supper which is NOT and never was a Passover meal.

We now go to John who was there and rested on the breast of Yehshua.

Joh 13:1 And before the Festival of the Passover, Yehshua knowing that His hour had come that He should move out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. 2 And supper taking place, the devil having already put it into the heart of Yehudah from Qerioth, son of Shimon, to deliver Him up, 3 Yehshua, knowing that the Father had given all into His hands, and that He had come from Elohim and was going to Elohim, 4 rose from supper and laid aside His garments, and having taken a towel, He girded Himself. 5 After that He put water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the taught ones, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.

You will notice that it was BEFORE THE PASSOVER.

You cannot eat the Passover Lamb at the beginning of the 14th which was the night before when the lambs had not yet been killed!!!

Think brethren and stop being the dumb Christians we all used to be. Think!!!

Now I am going to lay out the Chronology of this night of the Last Supper which this year will be sunset Nisan 14. This will be the start of the 14th of Aviv; the evening before the Passover Meal which comes at the end of the 14 and into the 15th or First day of Unleavened Bread.

You can do this if you are in a small group or at home alone with one other person.

But be very mindful of the seriousness of this night. It is not to be an evening of socializing or joking and talking and small talk. It is to be a very solemn and sober occasion. You are to think on the fact that your sins have caused the death of the Creator of the universe which took place beginning on this night 1990 years ago.

1Co 11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the death of the Master until He comes. 27 So that whoever should eat this bread or drink this cup of the Master unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Master. 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. 29 For the one who is eating and drinking unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Master. 30 Because of this many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we were to examine ourselves, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Master, that we should not be condemned with the world.

If you do not consider the cost of this night but come together to have just another meal and eat this matzo and drink this wine just like any other night then you bring judgment down on yourself. It is a most serious night.

So turn off the phones, the computers for this one night. Each person is to have eaten before they arrive to take part in this service. It is not to be a meal and social gathering. I stress this so that you can get your head into the right frame of mind. You do not want to become sick or die nor your family to have this happen to them.

What we have done in the past is to take a table and place a pure white linen cloth on it; Then the wine and the matzo bread unbroken. We then covered that with another pure white linen cloth so that it looks like a white casket. You should conduct yourself as if at the funeral parlour is how I would relate it. You are morning the sins that you have brought forward which have caused the Messiah to have to die this day.

Each person comes in and sits down quietly and does not talk and they read the bible about the events of this night to themselves until the service is ready to begin which it does promptly at sunset.

The following is the order of events and scriptures to be read on this night. This is a guide and is not a law.

Mat 26:26 And as they were eating, Yehshua took bread, and having blessed, broke and gave it to the taught ones and said, “Take, eat, this is My body.”

Luk 22:19 And taking bread, giving thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you, do this in remembrance of Me.”

Notice that the word bread here is

G740   (Thayer)
ἄρτος

artos

Thayer Definition:

1) food composed of flour mixed with water and baked

1a) the Israelites made it in the form of an oblong or round cake, as thick as one’s thumb, and as large as a plate or platter hence it was not to be cut but broken

1b) loaves were consecrated to the Lord

1c) of the bread used at the love-feasts and at the Lord’s Table

2) food of any kind

G740   (Strong)
ἄρτος

artos

ar’-tos

From G142; bread (as raised) or a loaf: – (shew-) bread, loaf.

Yehshua is taking leaven bread, Artos and eating and sharing this. If this was in fact the Passover meal then they have just eaten leavened bread and not Matzos or unleavened Bread as you are told to do with the Passover. The reason Yehshua is doing this is because this is not the Passover meal.

For this special evening service I would then read;

Isa 53:1  Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of Jehovah revealed?

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.

Isa 53:3  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.

Isa 53:4  Surely He has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Isa 53:5  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.

Isa 53:6  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.

Isa 53:7  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.

Isa 53:8  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.

Isa 53:9  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.

Isa 53:10  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.

Isa 53:11  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.

Isa 53:12  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 this part is done then the leader can read the follow.

Mat 26:27 And taking the cup, and giving thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. 28 “For this is My blood, that of the renewed covenant, which is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins. 29 “But I say to you, I shall certainly not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on till that day when I drink it anew with you in the reign of My Father.”

Pay attention to this line here. Why does He say He shall not drink it until He is with His Father. This is a huge clue.

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.

If Yehshua had eaten the Passover meal then it would mean He did not die. But this meal they are now eating is not the Passover meal. We will show you what this meal is very soon. We are going through the service we conduct today for this night. So bare with me while we do this and share with you the chronology of the events. This evening is also known as the foot washing night.

Why Have You Forsaken Me?

Psa 22:1  To the Chief Musician, on the deer of the dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me, and are far from my deliverance, and fromthe words of my groaning?

Psa 22:2  O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not answer; and in the night, and am not silent.

Psa 22:3  But You are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

Psa 22:4  Our fathers trusted in You; they trusted, and You delivered them.

Psa 22:5  They cried to You, and were delivered; they trusted in You, and were not ashamed.

Psa 22:6  But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

Psa 22:7  All who see Me mock me; they shoot out the lip; they shake the head, saying,

Psa 22:8  He trusted on Jehovah; let Him deliver Him; let Him rescue Him, since He delights in Him!

Psa 22:9  For You are He who took Me out of the womb, causing Me to trust while on My mother’s breasts.

Psa 22:10  I was cast on You from the womb; You are My God from My mother’s belly.

Psa 22:11  Be not far from Me; for trouble is near, for there is none to help.

Psa 22:12  Many bulls have circled around Me; strong bullsOf Bashan have surrounded Me.

Psa 22:13  They opened wide their mouths on Me, like a ripping and a roaring lion.

Psa 22:14  I am poured out like water, and all My bones are spread apart; My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of My bowels.

Psa 22:15  My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and My tongue clings to My jaws;

Psa 22:16  and You have brought Me into the dust of death. For dogs have circled around Me; the band of spoilers have hemmed Me in, piercers of My hands and My feet.

Psa 22:17  I can count all My bones; they look and stare at Me.

Psa 22:18  They divide My garments among them and cast lots for My clothing.

Psa 22:19  But You, O Jehovah, be not far from Me; O My strength, hurry to help Me!

Psa 22:20  Deliver My soul from the sword, My only one from the dog’s hand.

Psa 22:21  Save Me from the lion’s mouth; from the wild oxen’s horns. You have answered Me.

Psa 22:22  I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise You.

Psa 22:23  You who fear Jehovah, praise Him; all of you, the seed of Jacob, glorify Him; and fear Him all the seed of Israel.

Psa 22:24  For He has not despised nor hated the affliction of the afflicted; and He has not hidden His face from him, but when he cried to Him, He heard.

Psa 22:25  My praise shall be of You in the great congregation; I will pay My vows before the ones who fear Him.

Psa 22:26  The meek shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek Jehovah shall praise Him; your heart shall live forever.

Psa 22:27  All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to Jehovah; and all the families of the nations shall worship before You.

Psa 22:28  For the kingdom is Jehovah’s; and He is the ruler among the nations.

Psa 22:29  All the fat ones on the earth shall eat and worship; all those who go down to the dust shall bow before Him; and none can keep alive his own soul.

Psa 22:30  A seed shall serve Him; it shall be spoken of Jehovah to the coming generation.

Psa 22:31  They shall come, and shall declare His righteousness to a people that shall yet be born, that He has done this.

You would now pass around the wine and each one would drink it as they received it. Do not wait and do it all together as if in a toast. Drink it as soon as you receive it and consider the cost of your sins. Our savior’s blood.

Now that the Bread and wine have been done we move on to the foot washing and begin to read John 13.

Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet

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 Hisown in the world, He loved them to the end.

Joh 13:2  And when supper had ended, the Devil now having put into the heart of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon to betray Him,

Joh 13:3  Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and went to God,

Joh 13:4  He rose up from supper and laid aside Hisgarments. And He took a towel and girded Himself.

Joh 13:5  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.

Joh 13:6  Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, Lord, do You wash my feet?

Joh 13:7  Jesus answered and said to him, You do not know what I do now, but you shall know hereafter.

Joh 13:8  Peter said to Him, You shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me.

Joh 13:9  Simon Peter said to Him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and head.

Joh 13:10  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.

Joh 13:11  For He knew who would betray Him. Therefore He said, You are not all clean.

Joh 13:12  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?

Joh 13:13  You call Me the Teacher, and Lord, and you say well, for I AM.

Joh 13:14  If then I, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

Joh 13:15  For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.

Joh 13:16  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.

Joh 13:17  If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Having read this we then get up and go and wash each other’s feet; Men with men and women with women.

One time I lined up and ended up with an elderly gentleman. I let him sit and I removed his shoes and then his socks and then I washed his feet. It was most humbling for me to do this. I saw others where the father was doing the adult son and then the son doing his dads feet. After I had washed and dried this man’s feet and helped him to put on his socks and shoes. I sat down and let him do my feet. Again it was very humbling to allow someone to do my feet like this. I put my foot up on the chair so that he did not have to get down on his knees. But he insisted on doing everything himself without my help. Once we were done we would go back and sit and wait until everyone else was back, again maintaining the quiet and sobriety of this evening.

We would then begin to read the rest of this story. Note that the piece of bread Yehshua gives to Judas is bread and not Matzos. This is another clue as to the time we are in. It is the beginning of the 14th. All the leavened bread was to be out of the house by the 15th and the Passover meal was to be eaten with Matzo bread or unleavened Bread. So here again this is not the Passover meal Yehshua has just eaten.

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.”

Joh 13:19  From now I tell you before it comes, so that when it happens you may believe that I AM.

Joh 13:20  Truly, truly, I say to you, He who receives whomever I send receives Me. And he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.

One of You Will Betray Me
Joh 13:21  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.

Joh 13:22  Then the disciples looked upon one another, wondering of whom He spoke.

Joh 13:23  But there was one of His disciples leaning upon Jesus’ bosom, the one whom Jesus loved.

Joh 13:24  Simon Peter therefore signaled to him to ask whom it might be of whom He spoke.

Joh 13:25  And lying on Jesus’ breast, he said to him, Lord, who is it?

Joh 13:26  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.

Joh 13:27  And after the morsel, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, What you do, do quickly.

Joh 13:28  But no one reclining knew for what reason He spoke this to him.

Joh 13:29  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.

Joh 13:30  He then, having received the morsel, went out immediately. And it was night.

A New Commandment

Joh 13:31  Then when he had left, Jesus said, Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.

Joh 13:32  If God is glorified in Him, God shall also glorify Him in Himself, and shall immediately glorify Him.

Joh 13:33  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.

Joh 13:34  I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. As I have loved you, you should also love one another.

Joh 13:35  By this all shall know that you are My disciples, if you have love toward one another.

Jesus Foretells Peter’s Denial

Joh 13:36  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.

Joh 13:37  Peter said to Him, Lord, why cannot I follow You now? I will lay down my life for Your sake.

Joh 13:38  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.

I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life

Joh 14:1  Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in Me.

Joh 14:2  In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

Joh 14:3  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, so that where I am, you may be also.

Joh 14:4  And where I go you know, and the way you know.

Joh 14:5  Thomas said to Him, Lord, we do not know where You go, and how can we know the way?

Joh 14:6  Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by Me.

Joh 14:7  If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also. And from now on you know Him and have seen Him.

Joh 14:8  Philip said to Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.

Joh 14:9  Jesus said to him, Have I been with you such a long time and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father. And how do you say, Show us the Father?

Joh 14:10  Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in Me? The Words that I speak to you I do not speak of Myself, but the Father who dwells in Me, He does the works.

Joh 14:11  Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the very works themselves.

Joh 14:12  Truly, truly, I say to you, He who believes on Me, the works that I do he shall do also, and greater worksthan these he shall do, because I go to My Father.

Joh 14:13  And whatever you may ask in My name, that I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Joh 14:14  If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

Joh 14:15  If you love Me, keep My commandments.

Joh 14:16  And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, so that He may be with you forever,

Joh 14:17  the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see Him nor know Him. But you know Him, for He dwells with you and shall be in you.

Joh 14:18  I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

Joh 14:19  Yet a little while and the world does not see Me any more. But you see Me. Because I live, you shall live also.

Joh 14:20  At that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.

Joh 14:21  He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.

Joh 14:22  Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, Lord, how is it that You will reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?

Joh 14:23  Jesus answered and said to him, If a man loves Me, he will keep My Word. And My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.

Joh 14:24  He who does not love Me does not keep My Words, and the Word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.

Joh 14:25  I have spoken these things to you, being present with you.

Joh 14:26  But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance, whatever I have said to you.

Joh 14:27  Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Joh 14:28  You have heard how I said to you, I go away and I am coming to you again. If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, I go to the Father, for My Father is greater than I.

Joh 14:29  And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens you might believe.

Joh 14:30  I shall no longer speak many things with you, for the ruler of this world comes, and he has nothing in Me.

Joh 14:31  But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father has given Me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go away from here.

I Am the True Vine

Joh 15:1  I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser.

Joh 15:2  Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away. And every one that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bring forth more fruit.

Joh 15:3  Now you are clean through the Word which I have spoken to you.

Joh 15:4  Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.

Joh 15:5  I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

Joh 15:6  If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered. And they gather and cast theminto the fire, and they are burned.

Joh 15:7  If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done to you.

Joh 15:8  In this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, so you shall be My disciples.

Joh 15:9  As the Father has loved Me, so I have loved you; continue in My love.

Joh 15:10  If you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love, even as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

Joh 15:11  I have spoken these things to you so that My joy might remain in you and your joy might be full.

Joh 15:12  This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Joh 15:13  No one has greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Joh 15:14  You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

Joh 15:15  No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

Joh 15:16  You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it to you.

Joh 15:17  These things I command you, that you love one another.

The Hatred of the World

Joh 15:18  If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

Joh 15:19  If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Joh 15:20  Remember the word that I said to you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept My saying, they will also keep yours.

Joh 15:21  But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.

Joh 15:22  If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Joh 15:23  He who hates Me hates My Father also.

Joh 15:24  If I had not done among them the works which no other did, they would not have had sin. But now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father.

Joh 15:25  But that the Word might be fulfilled that is written in their Law, “They hated Me without a cause.”

Joh 15:26  And when the Comforter has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He shall testify of Me.

Joh 15:27  And you also shall bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

Joh 16:1  I have spoken these things to you so that you should not be offended.

Joh 16:2  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.

Joh 16:3  And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.

The Work of the Holy Spirit

Joh 16:4  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.

Joh 16:5  But now I go to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, Where do You go?

Joh 16:6  But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

Joh 16:7  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.

Joh 16:8  And when that One comes, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment.

Joh 16:9  Concerning sin, because they do not believe on Me;

Joh 16:10  concerning righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more;

Joh 16:11  concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

Joh 16:12  I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

Joh 16:13  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.

Joh 16:14  He will glorify Me, for He will receive of Mine and will announce it to you.

Joh 16:15  All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and will announce it to you.

Your Sorrow Will Turn into Joy

Joh 16:16  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.

Joh 16:17  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.

Joh 16:19  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?

Joh 16:20  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.

Joh 16:21  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.

Joh 16:22  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.

Joh 16:23  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.

Joh 16:24  Before now you have asked nothing in My name; ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.

I Have Overcome the World

Joh 16:25  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.

Joh 16:26  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,

Joh 16:27  for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came out from God.

Joh 16:28  I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world. Again I leave the world and go to the Father.

Joh 16:29  The disciples said to Him, Lo, now You speak plainly and speak no parable.

Joh 16:30  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.

Joh 16:31  Jesus answered them, Do you now believe?

Joh 16:32  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.

Joh 16:33  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.

The High Priestly Prayer

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,

Joh 17:2  even as You have given Him authority over all flesh so that He should give eternal life to all You have given Him.

Joh 17:3  And this is life eternal, that they might know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

Joh 17:4  I have glorified You upon the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.

Joh 17:5  And now Father, glorify Me with Yourself with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

Joh 17:6  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.

Joh 17:7  Now they have known that all things, whatever You have given Me, are from You.

Joh 17:8  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.

Joh 17:9  I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.

Joh 17:10  And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I am glorified in them.

Joh 17:11  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.

Joh 17:12  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.

Joh 17:13  And now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world that they might have My joy fulfilled in them.

Joh 17:14  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.

Joh 17:15  I do not pray for You to take them out of the world, but for You to keep them from the evil.

Joh 17:16  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.

Joh 17:18  As You have sent Me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.

Joh 17:19  And I sanctify Myself for their sakes, so that they also might be sanctified in truth.

Joh 17:20  And I do not pray for these alone, but for those also who shall believe on Me through their word,

Joh 17:21  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.

Joh 17:22  And I have given them the glory which You have given Me, that they may be one, even as We are one,

Joh 17:23  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.

Joh 17:24  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.

Joh 17:25  O righteous Father, indeed the world has not known You; but I have known You, and these have known that You have sent me.

Joh 17:26  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.

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.

Mat 26:30 And having sung a song, they went out to the Mount of Olives

It is at this point that we would sing one hymn. Not a joyful one, but one that would reflect on the somberness of the evening. I am sorry I cannot think of one at this time.

Once we sung the hymn we would all leave and go home with nothing else said and no socializing. Let everyone think about the events of this night. If you talk to others then you would be interrupting them as they contemplated what they have just read and heard and done.

You could then go on to read the rest of John during the day when Yehshua was killed. I also watch the Passion to remind me of the suffering he went through.

Yehshua was the lamb, He was the Passover Lamb which was killed at 3 PM on the 14th day of Aviv. The meal Yehshua had the night before which we have just read about was not the Passover meal. Once the Passover lamb is killed on the 14th which is the exact same time when Yehshua was killed, then that lamb had to be roasted and taken back to the homes to be eaten.

We do not have a Temple today. You are not to kill a Passover lamb unless it is done at the Temple. You can purchase lamb at the store to eat but do not sacrifice a lamb on this day. It is murder as Torah states.

During this evening when you eat the Passover Lamb or chicken or fish or whatever kosher food you decide on, it is the beginning of the 15th, the First day of Unleavened Bread which is when the blood from that lamb killed at the Temple, is taken and placed on your door post and lintel. It is on this night of the 15th while you’re eating the lamb that the Death angel passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. When Morning came the first born of all the Egyptians was dead and Israel then left Egypt traveling over the Sinai during the 7 days of Unleavened Bread arriving at Nuweiba where they would cross the Red Sea.

I like to watch the Ten Commandments on this night.

Brethren are you aware there is a relationship between this festival of Passover and the Patriarch Abraham. Yehovah first mentions foot washing, unleavened bread and wine in a religious ceremony with Abraham. There is more to the story than what we have been told so far. Yehshua did not implement something new and foreign in his day. Abraham did not think it unusual to take of the bread and the wine with Melchizedek when he brought it out to him after the battle.

Abram Blessed by Melchizedek

Gen 14:17  And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and of the kings with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which isthe king’s valley.

Gen 14:18  And Melchizedek the king of Salem brought forth bread and wine. And he was the priest of the most high God.

Gen 14:19  And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of Heaven and earth.

Gen 14:20  And blessed be the most high God, who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

The bread and wine is a covenant meal. The foot washing was part of the covenant process. And there is one more thing that must be considered in this deal. Circumcission.

Abraham and the Covenant of Circumcision
Gen 17:1  And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him, I am the Almighty God! Walk before Me and be perfect.

Gen 17:2  And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.

Gen 17:3  And Abram fell on his face. And God talked with him, saying,

Gen 17:4  As for Me, behold! My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.

Gen 17:5  Neither shall your name any more be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham. For I have made you a father of many nations.

Gen 17:6  And I will make you exceedingly fruitful, greatly so, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come out of you.

Gen 17:7  And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

Gen 17:8  And I will give the land to you in which you are a stranger, and to your seed after you, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. And I will be their God.

Gen 17:9  And God said to Abraham, And you shall keep My covenant, you and your seed after you in their generations.

Gen 17:10  This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your seed after you. Every male child among you shall be circumcised.

Gen 17:11  And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin. And it shall be a token of the covenant between Me and you.

Gen 17:12  And a son of eight days shall be circumcised among you, every male child in your generations; he that is born in the house, or bought with silver of any stranger who is not of your seed.

Gen 17:13  He that is born in your house, and he that is bought with your silver, must be circumcised. And My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

Gen 17:14  And the uncircumcised male child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.

Again when Abraham met the angels who were on their way to Sodom he again brought out bread and washed their feet. You will see the time of year when these angels arrive at Lots door.

Gen 18:1  And Jehovah appeared to him in the plains of Mamre, and he sat at the tent door in the heat of the day.

Gen 18:2  And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo, three men stood by him. And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed toward the ground.

Gen 18:3  And he said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in Your sight, do not pass away, I pray, from Your servant.

Gen 18:4  Let a little water, I pray, be brought, and wash Your feet, and rest under the tree.

Gen 18:5  And I will bring a bite of bread, and will comfort your hearts. After that You shall pass on. For this is why You have come to Your servant. And they said, Do so, as you have said.

Gen 18:6  And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal; knead it, and make cakes.

Gen 18:7  And Abraham ran out to the herd and brought a calf, tender and good. And he gave it to a young man. And he hurried to dress it.

Gen 18:8  And he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. And he stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

Lot also knew that he was to feed the strangers and wash  their feet.

Gen 19:1  And there came two angels to Sodom at evening. And Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. And Lot rose up to meet them when he saw them. And he bowed himself with his face toward the ground,

Gen 19:2  and said, Behold now, my lords, please turn into your servant’s house and stay all night, and wash your feet, and you shall rise up early and go your way. And they said, No, but we will stay in the street.

Gen 19:3  But he urgently pressed on them, and they turned in to him and entered into his house. And he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

What did Abraham understand about the Plan of Yehovah?

Abraham knew about the meaning of the symbols of the covenant: foot washing, bread, wine, and circumcision. Yehshua did not add anything new to this day at the beginning of the 14th. What He did was to bring it back our attention the very same things that Abraham already knew.

May Yehovah bless you as you obey and keep His Passover according to His timing and in His order. And May He bless you as you consider the new symbols Yehshua showed us which were there from Abraham’s time until now.

So if the Last Supper Yehshua ate was not Passover then what was it?

 


The following is taken from our News Letter 5853-040 on January 6, 2018.

The Redeemer

I had almost completed this week’s News Letter when my friend Donald McGrew began to write me on facebook wanting to talk about Passover being on the 13th instead of the 14th. I was busy packing books and DVDs for overseas and for the prisons that had requested them and answering other emails at the same time. So I was in truth not paying much attention to the discussion Donald was trying to have with me. It is a big subject and one that I have devoted many newsletters to and really did not want to have at this time.
Now Donald has come to my first teaching in Eastern Kentucky when I was there in I think 2010. He later came to our teaching a year or so later in Missouri. And he also attended our Sukkot in 2013 where we made the videos of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years teachings, which was the first time I was able to explain in detail the whole matter over the course of 8 days.


This Donald with his granddaughter in Jericho on tour with me in 2016 for Sukkot.

In 2013 after each of my presentations all the people would rush out and head back to the campsite. I had felt they were eager to leave these long teachings and go and have fun. There were over 100 people there and few stuck around to ask questions. So at night when I would walk around the camp, I would see Donald and about 6-10 others sitting around the campfire all studying their bibles. When they saw me they would shout out a question and wait for me to answer then go back to studying.

When I joined them to ask what they were doing they all said they had to prove the astounding things I had taught them that day whether it was true or not. They had never heard such things before. And they were proving what I said was indeed true and they were dumbfounded they had never seen it before. And as I walked around the camp to other groups most of them were doing the same or discussing the day’s lessons. It was pretty awesome for me to see this. But it was Donald and his group that I have never forgotten and one other lady sitting under the Succah alone going over everything as well. Those are some my sweetest memories of that Sukkot. Until I saw Donald’s group studying, I was under the impression no one was interested in what I had to say.
What I am telling you is, that Donald is a true Berrean.

Back to our facebook conversation. After a bit, Donald wrote me something in the conversation he was mostly having and the same one I was not paying much attention to. And it was like Yehovah had hit me across the side of the head with a 2 x 4 and said wake up and look at this. Donald had switched his position about the time of the Passover meal and was now agreeing with me that it was at the end of the 14th, the start of the 15th. But how he arrived at that was stunning. It was the very thing I was writing about in this News Letter and was about to wrap up.

Now thanks to Donald I have to rewrite this week’s News Letter and share these juicy truths with you all.

In Christian theology, Jesus is sometimes referred to as a Redeemer. This refers to the salvation he is believed to have accomplished, and is based on the metaphor of redemption, or “buying back”. Although the Gospels do not use the title “Redeemer”, the word “redemption” is used in several of Paul’s letters. Leon Morris says that “Paul uses the concept of redemption primarily to speak of the saving significance of the death of Christ.”[1] The English word redemption means “repurchase” or “buy back”, and in the Old Testament referred to the ransom of slaves (Exodus 21:8).[2] In the New Testament, the redemption word group is used to refer both to deliverance from sin and freedom from captivity.[3]

When I searched the word Redeem I found the following;

40 verses found, 56 matches

Exodus 4 verses found 8 matches
Leviticus 12 verses found 17 matches
Numbers 3 verses found 4 matches
Ruth 2 verses found 8 matches
2 Samuel 1 verse found 1 match
1 Chronicles 1 verse found 1 match
Nehemiah 1 verse found 1 match
Job 2 verses found 2 matches
Psalms 8 verses found 8 matches
Isaiah 1 verse found 1 match
Jeremiah 1 verse found 1 match
Hosea 1 verse found 1 match
Micah 1 verse found 1 match
Galatians 1 verse found 1 match
Titus 1 verse found 1 match

The word Redeemer

18 verses found, 18 matches

Job 1 verse found 1 match
Psalms 2 verses found 2 matches
Proverbs 1 verse found 1 match
Isaiah 13 verses found 13 matches
Jeremiah 1 verse found 1 match

The word Redeemed

61 verses found, 62 matches

Genesis 1 verse found 1 match
Exodus 2 verses found 2 matches
Leviticus 10 verses found 10 matches
Numbers 5 verses found 5 matches
Deuteronomy 6 verses found 6 matches
2 Samuel 1 verse found 1 match
1 Kings 1 verse found 1 match
1 Chronicles 1 verse found 1 match
Nehemiah 2 verses found 2 matches
Psalms 7 verses found 8 matches
Isaiah 13 verses found 13 matches
Jeremiah 1 verse found 1 match
Lamentations 1 verse found 1 match
Hosea 1 verse found 1 match
Micah 1 verse found 1 match
Zechariah 1 verse found 1 match
Luke 2 verses found 2 matches
Galatians 1 verse found 1 match
1 Peter 1 verse found 1 match
Revelation 3 verses found 3 matches

I can only see 9 times the word redeem or one related to it is used in the New Testament. All the rest are found in the Old Testament.

According to Talmudic tradition, the first-born acted as officiating priests in the wilderness, until the erection of the Tabernacle, when the office was given to the tribe of Levi (Num. iii. 12, 13, 45-51; Zeb. 112b; compare Onelos to Ex. xxiv. 5). In consequence of the deliverance from the tenth plague, when “the Lord slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt” but spared the first-born of the Israelites, the following commandment was given: “Sanctify unto me all the first-born, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine” (Ex. xiii. 2), which is explained in greater detail in verses 12-15. The first-born of clean beasts were thus made holy and were unredeemable, while the first-born of unclean beasts and of man had to be redeemed from the priests (Num. xviii. 15-18; Deut. xv. 19-22; compare Neh. x. 37).

The concept of the redeemer is used in the Book of Ruth to refer to the kinsman-redeemer, and in the Book of Isaiah to refer to God, the “Redeemer of Israel”.

In Job 19:25, Job makes the statement, “I know that my Redeemer liveth.”

This passage mentions an unnamed man who was the guardian-redeemer for Naomi and Ruth. Other Bible translations call him a family guardian or kinsman-redeemer. This description comes from the Hebrew word go’el, meaning “redeemer.” A go’el was a male relative who was responsible for caring for a deceased relative’s possessions, including land, houses, livestock, and even the widow. If the deceased had debts, the go’el would pay them. If the deceased was childless, the go’el would marry the widow and produce offspring who would carry on the name and family lineage of the deceased man. When they came of age, those children would inherit the deceased man’s property. The possessions and people who were cared for by a go’el were said to be “redeemed.” The go’el’s responsibility, then, was supremely sacrificial: He invested much in supporting his deceased relative’s estate and family but received little to nothing in return. Israel’s social system and survival as a people depended on men who performed their duty as a go’el. So important was this role that Isaiah 43:14 describes God as Israel’s go’el or redeemer, a concept that carries over to the New Testament understanding of Jesus’ life and ministry.

Ruth 4:1-12

1 Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the guardian-redeemer he had mentioned came along. Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down. 2 Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, “Sit here,” and they did so. 3 Then he said to the guardian-redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our relative Elimelek. 4 I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.” “I will redeem it,” he said. 5 Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead man’s widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.” 6 At this, the guardian-redeemer said, “Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it.”
7 (Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.) 8 So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it yourself.” And he removed his sandal. 9 Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon. 10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!” 11 Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem. 12 Through the offspring the Lord gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah. Boaz was a well-to-do farmer who owned land and crops and had numerous employees. Why would he be interested in a poor Moabite widow such as Ruth, despite Jewish law forbidding intermarriage with Moabites? It so happens that Boaz was a fifth generation descendant of Perez, who was the son of a Canaanite widow named Tamar. Tamar’s first two husbands died. They were both sons of Judah, one of the great-grandsons of Abraham himself, the father of the Jewish people. Judah promised to give her his third son, but he neglected to fulfill that promise. So Tamar used some loopholes in the law, plus a little trickery, to get Judah to father twin sons, one of whom was named Perez. (Genesis 38 has the full details.) Thus, Tamar provided for her future security and family line. Perhaps this was why Boaz was sensitive to the plight of disadvantaged foreign widows such as Ruth. And he was brave enough to ignore social stigma to follow through on his promises to care for her.

The Hebrew word for redeem is used 22 times in Ruth and 104 times throughout the Old Testament. It means to restore, repair, or avenge. God is the ultimate redeemer (Isaiah 49:26).

In the Old Testament, God redeemed people from slavery (Exodus 6:6), disobedience (Isaiah 44:22), harm (Genesis 48:16), enemies (Psalm 107:2), captivity (Isaiah 43:14), and death (Hosea 13:14). In the New Testament, God sent Jesus to provide redemption for all people: “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:23-24).

The Pidyon Ha’bon

Why did Yehovah have to pay a redemption price and to whom?

To redeem the firstborn is called The Pidyon Ha’bon

The source for an Israelite’s obligation to redeem his firstborn son through giving the kohen (priest) specifically five shekels is written in the Book of Numbers (18:15-16): “You shall redeem the firstborn of man . . .the redemption [shall be performed] from the age of a month, according to the valuation, five shekels of silver.”

Several explanations are given for the specific amount of silver shekels used for the pidyon haben. The following is from the Talmud:

Joseph – Rachel’s firstborn son – was sold by his brothers for twenty silver pieces, the equivalent of five shekels. This established that the standard “price” for a (firstborn) human is five shekels, which are given to the kohen, God’s representative, to redeem the child.

Genesis 37:26 Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain by killing our brother? We’d have to cover up the crime. Instead of hurting him, let’s sell him to those Ishmaelite traders. After all, he is our brother—our own flesh and blood!” And his brothers agreed.  So when the Ishmaelites, who were Midianite traders, came by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to them for twenty pieces of silver. And the traders took him to Egypt.

A pidyon haben, or “redemption of the [firstborn] son,” is a ceremony wherein the father of a firstborn male redeems his son by giving five silver coins to a kohen(a priestly descendant of Aaron), thirty days after the baby’s birth.

What is the reason for this procedure?

Exodus 13 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”

:13And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck: and all the first-born of man among thy sons shalt thou redeem.
And it shall be, when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand Jehovah brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage: and it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Jehovah slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of beast: therefore I sacrifice to Jehovah all that openeth the womb, being males; but all the first-born of my sons I redeem. And it shall be for a sign upon thy hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand Jehovah brought us forth out of Egypt.

The first place we see the word redeem is in Exodus 6:6

Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments: and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God, who bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

Originally, the Israelite firstborn were the sanctified priestly class. They were inducted into God’s service when they were spared from the Plague of the Firstborn that struck Egypt. However, when Israel—firstborn included—served the Golden Calf, the firstborn forfeited their status. The priesthood was transferred to the tribe that did not participate in the Golden Calf hoopla—the Levites, and particularly the children of Aaron.

Now we have 20 pieces of silver being the price for Joseph being redeemed from the cistern. That amount equaling 5 shekels as we were just told. Joseph represents the northern 12 tribes. It is upon his children that the name of Israel is given. Let my name Israel be carried on in them.

Gen 48:15 “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,
the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys;
and in them let my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”

We have another interesting story that we can also connect to this and to the redemption of Israel. That is the story of Hosea. Hosea represents Yehovah seeking His wayward bride who has gone a whoring after other men. Hosea, Yehovah is redeeming Israel.

Hosea Brings His Wife Back to Himself

3 The Lord said to me, “Go. Show your love to your wife again. She is loved by another man. And she has committed adultery. But I want you to love her just as I love the people of Israel. They turn to other gods. And they love to offer raisin cakes to Baal and eat them. In spite of that, I love my people.”
2 So I bought Gomer for six ounces of silver and 430 pounds of barley. 3 Then I told her, “You must wait for me for a long time. You must not be a prostitute. You must not have sex with any man. And I will be faithful to you too.”
4 So the people of Israel will live for a long time without a king or prince. They won’t have sacrifices or sacred stones. They won’t have sacred linen aprons or statues of family gods. 5 After that, the people of Israel will return to the Lord their God. They will look to him and to a king from the family line of David. In the last days, they will tremble with fear as they come to the Lord. And they will receive his full blessing.

Now 6 ounces is equal to 170.1 Grams of Silver.  And 1 shekel is equal to 100 grams. So gomer is being bought or redeemed for about 10 shekels of silver. And Gomer represents Israel (Ephraim and Manasseh) who have gone a whoring after other gods.

The question we are addressing this week is Why did Yehovah have to pay a redemption price? And to whom did He pay it?

We are told in Exodus 4:22-23

Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son, and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.” If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’”

In “The Prophecies of Abraham“, we have shown you many times how Egypt represents the end time whore.
When Abraham and Sarah go down to Egypt Pharaoh takes Sarah for his wife. This is similar to Egypt taking the children of Israel for slaves and in the end time how the Great end time Whore will take the remnant of Israel for captives. You are this very day witnessing the same events of the children of Israel living in Egypt and the tables being turned to make them slaves. Today the UN and the EU whores are fighting everything the US is doing under Trump. And now Trump is cutting off funding to the UN and so is the State of Israel and the UK is pulling out of the EU agreement. The BREXIT divorce. The USA has pulled out the Paris Agreement.

When you step back from the banter of the headline news you should be able to see that in each of these cases, the EU and the UN stand to lose billions of potential income that the USA and the UK were providing to these various causes.

The EU and the UN will soon turn their forces upon the USA and the UK and turn what is left of them after the wars, (The remnant) into slaves.

It is during this time that the two witnesses will act and cause all sorts of plagues to fall upon this great whore in the same way Moses and Aaron did in the Exodus story.

Now again I ask you ‘Why does Yehovah have to pay anything at all.” I can see Hosea paying for Gomer who is owned by her new lover.

Oops, I think I just learned something Gomer was owned by the one she had given herself to, the other lover. Gomer represents Israel, who has gone after all sorts of other lovers who do not love her. Hosea or Yehovah loves Israel, who is His first born. Meaning Yehovah will have others nations as HIs children at some point in time.

Paul has this to say in Romans 6:12:

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Slaves to Righteousness

What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

When we give into sin then we submit ourselves to Satan. We submit ourselves to the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The very same tree Adam and Eve submitted themselves too and the rest of mankind. Just imagine if you can, that each time you sin, all of your descendant that come from you from that point on will be enslaved by Satan for your sins.

And yet we have sinned and we have submitted ourselves to our new lord Satan.

In Matthew, we read how he has authority to give kingdoms to whomever he chooses.

Mat 4:8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”

We also read in the letters from both John and Paul how Yehshua Himself admits that there is one who rules this earth now and it is not Yehshua.

John 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.

John 14:30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

John 16: 7-11 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; concerning judgment because the ruler of this world is judged.

1 Corinthians 10:18-22 Consider the people of Israel: are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar? What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Eph 2:1-3 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Eph 6:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

1 John 5:19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Rev 9:11 They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.

Rev 20:1-3 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.

Now getting back to the Exodus story we need to understand that Yehovah did not destroy the firstborn of Egypt. But Yehovah protected Israel from the destroyer who was at this time killing all the firstborn in Egypt.

Exodus 12:23 says that when God passed over the doors of the houses which had been marked with the blood of the Passover lamb, He would not allow the destroyer to enter into the house to kill the firstborn of that house.

So it was not Yehovah who struck down the firstborn sons of Egypt, but a being referred to as “the destroyer.”
Yehovah’s primary activity in the tenth plague was not in killing the firstborn sons of Egypt, but in protecting people from the destroyer that had come to kill all things.

Yehovah paid a price to this destroyer and that price was Egypt.

Isa 43:3 For I am the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
I give Egypt as your ransom,
Cush and Seba in exchange for you.

The Se’udat-Siyum

We now need to take another look at what took place on the night Yehshua was betrayed and relook at the events of this night. I have not seen this until Donald tipped me off whether or not he realized it.

Nisan13 in 31 AD, was Tuesday. Do not forget the day begins with sunset. Tuesday is the day before the preparation day for Passover. At the end of this the 13th of Nisan, and the start of the 14th, which is the start of the preparation day, that the disciples had the special meal that we call The Last Supper.

There was a tradition which in Hebrew is called, seudah maphsehket; this translates essentially to “last supper”. This last supper was about remembering that it was indeed not ALL Hebrews who were in danger from death at God’s hand in Egypt, but ONLY the firstborn sons. So a special nighttime meal was adopted whereby this meal would be eaten and then there would be a 24 hour fast that followed……thus the name “last supper”. The next meal to be eaten was the Passover meal after the 14th had passed and the start of the 15th of Nisan was just beginning.

It is at the start of the 14th day of Nisan at this seudah maphsehket that Yeshua says to commemorate this day by drinking wine that symbolizes His blood that establishes the New Covenant, and by eating unleavened bread that symbolizes His body.

After having the last supper, the next event is that Judas betrays Him and shortly after midnight Yehshua is arrested. It is still The Preparation day. In the wee hours a little before sunrise, He is tried and convicted of blasphemy by the Sanhedrin. It is still Preparation Day. After the Roman Governor, Pontius Pilate, confirms his death sentence Yehshua is scourged and then nailed to the tree by Roman soldiers. It is still The Preparation Day, Wednesday, Nisan 14, 31 C.E.

When Yehshua dies at 3 pm in the afternoon on this Preparation Day, it is the exact same time the slaughter of the Passover Lambs begins in the Temple grounds. Somewhere around ¼ million sheep will be killed and their blood collected between the hours of 3 pm and 6 pm. It is still Preparation Day because the sun has not yet set and after sunset then the Passover meals are eaten with these lambs which have just been killed and roasted in the Temple area. It was from these lambs at this time that the blood was smeared on the door posts and lintel of their home.

The Fast of the First Born

Let’s understand one thing very clearly: The final meal Yeshua had with his disciples was NOT THE PASSOVER! The Passover very plainly had not yet come. John, in describing this final meal Yeshua had with his disciples, said, “Now BEFORE the feast of the Passover” (John 13:1). He plainly shows this meal or banquet was BEFORE the true Passover, which was scheduled to be eaten and observed the next night, Nisan 15 (John 18:18). The next day the Jews would still be “preparing” for the Passover (John 19:14, 31). Therefore, what exactly WAS this “last meal”?

What few have realized, not being familiar with Jewish customs of the time of Yeshua, is that this meal could not have been the Passover, since Passover lambs would not be slain until the following afternoon, and then eaten in the homes of the Jews on the night of the actual “Passover” — when YEHOVAH God slew the firstborn in the land of Egypt and “passed over” the Israelites — Nisan 15. Yet obviously, this final meal was very important — a meal of close fellowship and spiritual significance.

A Jewish Look at the Last Supper

Says David H. Stern, in the Jewish New Testament Commentary:

“The Last Supper is considered by most scholars to have been a Passover meal or Seder. Many Pesach themes are deepened, reinforced and given new levels of meaning by events in the life of Yeshua the Messiah and by his words on this night. However, Joseph Shulam has suggested that it may not have been the Seder but a se’udat-mitzvah, the CELEBRATORY ‘BANQUET accompanying performance of a commandment’ such as a wedding or b’ rit-milah.

“Here is the background for his argument. When a rabbi and his students finish studying a tractate of the Talmud, they celebrate with a se’udat-mitzvah (also called a se’udat-siyum, ‘banquet of completion,’ i.e., graduation). The Fast of the Firstborn, expressing gratitude for the saving of Israel’s firstborn sons from the tenth plague, has been prescribed for the day before Pesach, Nisan 14, at least since Mishnaic times. When it is necessary to eat a se’udat-mitzvah, this takes precedence over a fast. With a modicum of foresight a rabbi can plan to complete a tractate on Nisan 14 and thus avoid having to fast; doing so is not construed as cheating, and in fact it has become the custom. “The tradition of the Fast of the Firstborn dates at least from Mishanic times. But, Shulam reasons, if it goes back a couple of centuries more to the time of Yeshua, and if the si’udat siyum custom applied in the first century to the completing of any course of study, then Yeshua might have arranged to have himself and his talmidim [students, disciples] finish reading a book of the Tanakh on Nisan 14. Or, since Yeshua knew he was going to die, he may have regarded it as appropriate to complete his disciples’ earthly ‘course of study’ with a BANQUET. This solution would also resolve the perceived conflict between Yochanan [John] and the Synoptic Gospels over the timing of the Last Supper” JNT, p. 77).

In other words, there is much more to this passage in I Corinthians 11, and its meaning, than we have supposed. Although there is no doubt that Yeshua the Messiah presented the new meanings of the bread and the wine as representing his broken body and shed blood, given on our behalf, at the last supper, and that these symbols are directly involved in the Passover Seder, held on Nisan 15, it is also a fact that this final meal was ONE DAY before the Passover. It is also a fact that Yeshua did not tell his disciples that they should institute a NEW COMMANDMENT, or a new “holy day,” and begin observing Nisan 14, at the eve, as a memorial of this “last supper.” However, he was having a “final banquet” with them — a special and unique “fellowship meal” with them, where all were relaxed, reclining, at ease, and experiencing a very close oneness with each other. This was similar to a Passover Seder in some respects — but yet different.

The Greek Word “Artos”

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 Cor. 11:20-21; Rev. 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 a 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” (Matt. 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!

The Real Bread at the “Last Supper”

Further proof that Yeshua and his disciples did NOT and could not have eaten the “Passover,” with its unleavened bread, at the “last supper” on the eve or beginning of Nisan 14, is plain and simple Jewish law (halakha) of the time. It is a historical fact that when the Scriptures use the expression “kept the Passover” (Ezra 6:19) it refers strictly to the slaying of the Passover lamb, on the 14th of Nisan, whereas the expression “eat the Passover” was fulfilled the coming evening of Nisan 15 which was the beginning of the eating of unleavened bread on “the night to be much observed.” The reason why this evening was called “the night to be much observed” was because the Passover meal was always eaten as the first meal in the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

Also, according to Jewish law of the times (halakha), it was absolutely forbidden to eat unleavened bread during the 24-hour period prior to the first night of Unleavened Bread! This was a distinction made by law to sanctify (set apart) the sacred meaning of the Feast from whatever they may have eaten for bread on the previous days. This means that Yeshua and the disciples could not have eaten unleavened bread the evening prior to the “night to be much observed”!

Also, the gospels indicate that Yeshua was keeping the Fast of the Firstborn during the daylight hours of the crucifixion day — this was a daytime fast observed by all firstborn Jews on the Preparation Day in remembrance of YEHOVAH God protecting the firstborn of Israel while killing the firstborn of Egypt; this also explains Yeshua’s remark in Matthew 26:29, “I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.” Obviously, Yeshua did not drink any wine the following day. Furthermore, this explains why he refused to accept the vinegar mixed with gall mentioned in Matthew 27:34. The Hebrew text of Matthew’s gospel written by the Spanish Jewish scholar Shem-Tov ben-Shaprut (c. 1380 A.D.) reads: “and gave him wine mixed with gall. But when he began to drink it he perceived and would not drink it.” Yeshua must have remembered he was observing the Fast of the Firstborn. The Greek word for “taste” used in this verse produced a false impression. Yeshua remembered before he drank and swallowed.

Clearly, then, the “bread” which Yeshua broke and gave to his disciples during the beginning portion of Nisan 14, in the evening, at his final “supper” with them, must have been and indeed was LEAVENED BREAD!

But can this be? Can leavened bread, as well as unleavened bread, represent the body of Yeshua the Messiah?

The answer is a resounding YES!

In Leviticus 23:17, regarding the feast of Pentecost, we read: “Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be BAKEN WITH LEAVEN; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.” Leaven, in this case, certainly does not represent SIN, as nothing “contaminated” or “sinful” could ever be offered to YEHOVAH God. To offer “sins” to YEHOVAH would be sacrilegious — blasphemy — like offering swine’s flesh (Isa. 66:3, 17).

Notice, therefore, what the Jamieson, Faussett and Brown Commentary has to say on this passage in Leviticus 23:

“These loaves were made of “fine” or wheaten flour, the quantity contained in them being somewhat more than ten pounds weight. As the wave-sheaf gave the signal for the commencement, the two loaves solemnized the termination of the harvest season. They were the first-fruits of that season, being offered unto the Lord by the priest in name of the whole nation (see on Exo. 34:22). The loaves used at the Passover were UNLEAVENED, those presented at Pentecost were LEAVENED — a difference which is thus accounted for, — that the one was a memorial of the bread hastily prepared at their departure, while the other was a TRIBUTE OF GRATITUDE TO GOD for their daily food, which was leavened…” (vol. 1, p.498).

However, even “leavened bread” is a TYPE of the body of the Messiah, and represents “his flesh” which he gave for the sins of the world. To the Jews, unleavened or flat bread represented affliction and poverty, as when the Israelites came out of Egypt; but leavened loaves of bread, as were sacrificed at Pentecost to the Lord (Leviticus 23:17), typify ABUNDANCE, richness, wealth. The typology should be clear. The Messiah crucified was in affliction, flatness, abject, beaten, bruised, pierced, pummeled — the perfect type being unleavened bread. The Messiah as the richness of the abundance of life, life-giving bread, is pictured by the leaves of beautiful, sweet-smelling leavened bread! Don’t all of us enjoy a beautiful loaf of home-made leavened whole wheat bread straight out of the oven steaming? Therefore, the richness of leavened bread also symbolizes Yeshua the Messiah, the “bread of life.” Notice!

“The BREAD of Life”

In John chapter 6, when Yeshua fed the multitude from a few loaves of bread and a few fishes, he declared,

“For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world….I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst….

“I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

“I am the LIVING BREAD which came down from heaven: if any man eat of THIS BREAD, he shall live forever: and the bread which I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world….

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

“This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live forever” (John 6:33-58).

Yeshua, then, is the “bread of life.” This is a reality. This is not just Passover. Throughout the year, every day, day in and day out, Yeshua the Messiah remains and IS the “bread of life” which came down from heaven! We should be eating of this “bread” DAILY as we study the Scriptures! Yeshua went on to declare:

“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63).

Thus even regular bread is a type of the richness of the life-giving bread of Yeshua the Messiah! In this sense, the leaven represents fullness and abundance. True Christians, as members of the body of the Messiah, also are “one bread” IN the Messiah!

 

30 Pieces of Silver

Now with everything you have been shown thus far consider the following.

Zech 11:10-14 And I took my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples. So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the Lord. Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver. Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter. Then I broke my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

In Mathew, we learn how Judas has agreed to betray Yehshua.

Mat 26:14-16 Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.

Next, we read about the betrayal of Yehshua in John 13:21-30

After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke. One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table at Jesus’ side, so Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus of whom he was speaking. So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus, said to him, “Lord, who is it?” Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.” Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him. Some thought that, because Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor. So, after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night.

We then read the rest of what Judus has done in Mat 27:3-10

Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself. But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money.” So they took counsel and bought with them the potter’s field as a burial place for strangers. Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel, and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me.”

I will share next what is commonly said about this transaction and then share my thoughts on it.

In Zechariah 11:12–13, 30 pieces of silver is the price Zechariah receives for his labour. He takes the coins and throws them “to the potter”. Klaas Schilder notes that Zechariah’s payment indicates an assessment of his worth, as well as his dismissal.[18] In Exodus 21:32, 30 pieces of silver was the price of a slave, so while Zechariah calls the amount a “handsome price” (Zechariah 11:13), this could be sarcasm. Barry Webb, however, regards it as a “considerable sum of money.”[19]

Schilder suggests that these 30 pieces of silver then get “bandied back and forth by the Spirit of Prophecy.”[20] When the chief priests decide to buy a field with the returned money, Matthew says that this fulfilled “what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet.” Namely, “They took the thirty silver coins, the price set on him by the people of Israel, and they used them to buy the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me” (Matthew 27:9–10). Although many scholars see Jeremiah’s name as included in error,[21] Jeremiah’s purchase of a field in Jeremiah 32 may indicate that both prophets are in mind.[22] Craig Blomberg argues that Matthew is using typology in his quotation, rather than “any kind of single or double fulfillment of actual predictive prophecy.” According to Blomberg, Matthew is telling his readers that, “like Jeremiah and Zechariah, Jesus attempts to lead his people with a prophetic and pastoral ministry, but instead he ends up suffering innocently at their hands.”[23] William Hendriksen argues that Matthew is referring to Jeremiah 19.[24]

Blomberg also suggests that Matthew may also be saying that “Jesus’ death is a ransom, the price paid to secure a slave’s freedom,” and that the use of the blood money to buy a burial ground for foreigners (Matthew 27:7) may hint at the idea that “Jesus’ death makes salvation possible for all the peoples of the world, including the Gentiles.”[25]

The 1877 Handy Book for Bible Readers states that “Argurion, argenteus, denarius. This word occurs in two passages–(A) the account of the betrayal of our Lord for “thirty pieces of silver” (Matt. xxvi. 15; xxvii. 3, 5, 6, 9). These have usually been considered to be denarii, but on no sufficient ground. The parallel passage in Zechariah (xi. 12, 13), is translated “thirty [pieces] of silver”; but which should doubtless be read, “thirty shekels of silver”, whilst it is observable that “thirty shekels of silver” was the price of blood to be paid in the case of a servant accidentally killed (Exod. xxi. 32). The passage may therefore be explained as “thirty shekels of silver”, not surrent shekels, but tetradrachms of the Attic standard of the Greek cities of Syria and Phoencia. These tetradrachms were common at the time of our Lord, and of them the stater was a specimen.”

Slave-Captives-Death-Redemption

There is something very special about this Fast of the First Born and the money paid to redeem the firstborn. And then when we actually see it played out in real time at the crucifixion we should be able to draw understanding from it. But we do not because of so much confusion about the events and because we have not obeyed for over 2700 years. So we have lost much understanding.

Yehovah had to pay the ruler of this world, Satan the destroyer, for those whom Yehovah was redeeming the same as Hosea did for  his adulterous wife whom he bought back.

The price of redeeming the firstborn was set at 5 shekels. The price for Gomer was equivalent to about 10 shekels. The 30 Silver coins …

The word used in Matthew 26:15 (???????, argyria) simply means “silver coins,”[9] and scholars disagree on the type of coins that would have been used. Donald Wiseman suggests two possibilities. They could have been tetradrachms of Tyre, usually referred to as Tyrian shekels (14 grams of 94% silver), or staters from Antioch (15 grams of 75% silver), which bore the head of Augustus.[10] Alternatively, they could have been Ptolemaic tetradrachms (13.5 ± 1 g of 25% silver).[11]There are 31.1035 grams per troy ounce. At spot valuation of $17.06/oz (the closing price on Monday, December 12, 2016), 30 “pieces of silver” would be worth between $185 and $216 in present-day value (USD).
The Tyrian shekel weighed four Athenian drachmas, about 14 grams, more than earlier 11-gram Israeli shekels, but was regarded as the equivalent for religious duties at that time.[12] Because Roman coinage was only 80% silver, the purer (94% or more) Tyrian shekels were required to pay the temple tax in Jerusalem. The money changers referenced in the New Testament Gospels (Matt. 21:12 and parallels) exchanged Tyrian shekels for common Roman currency.[13][14]

I am trying to say that the redemption price is connected to the 30 pieces of Silver. Exactly how I will leave for you to ponder.

This day called the Fast of the firstborn is directly connected to the Fast of the Day of Atonement. As we showed you last week, the goat that represented Yehovah was killed on the Day of Atonement. This is the sacrifice that shows us we will be killing Yehovah. We were to kill the goat that represented Him, the same as we were to take the other goat, that looks just like the one that represents Yehovah, and cast it into the wilderness with all the guilt from our sins placed upon it. This Goat represented Satan the destroyer.

So because these two Holy Days are connected in that the lamb that is killed also represents Yehovah at Atonement, so we are to fast at this time. It is the Fast of the Firstborn.

But although we have the symbolism here in the redemption of the firstborn, and we have it already stated that the 30 pieces of silver were to be used to buy the potters field as graves for the strangers. It has been stated that this field represents the rest of the gentile world.

Now let us go back once again to Genesis 15.

Gen 15:17-21 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”

Yehovah made this blood covenant by Himself. He swore by His own life. There is no higher authority than He.
Then at Mount Sinai Yehovah again reaffirms this covenant with all of Israel whom He had just bought with the lives of the Egyptians from the destroyer. In Exodus starting in chapter 19 and going all the way to 34 is the covenant with all of Israel and we all agreed to obey it. Now, this too was a blood covenant which means that if either party breaks those things they have agreed to in it then they would pay with their lives.

Israel did break this agreement and is guilty of sin and thus must pay for this with their lives.

But Yehovah has shown us just how much He loved Israel and not just Israel, but all of mankind, by giving His own life as payment for us breaking the covenant of Mount Sinai.

He has redeemed us with His own blood. The redemption price of the firstborn as shown to us each time we keep the Pidyon Ha’bon and again each year we keep the last supper not as the Passover meal which is the next night but as this special night in which He paid for us on this day by His own blood.

We know this is what He did because of the fact that the dead who were held prisoners by Satan up until that time had not and had never come back to life from the grave until Yehshua came out of the grave at the end of the Sabbath.

This is the first time other than Lazarus, that anyone has come out of the grave.

Mat 27:50-53 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.
And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.

This was the first chag of Unleavened Bread. It is the first wave offering and it is the first time any of the Saints were brought back to life.

Paul tells us how Yehshua led the captives.

Eph 4:8 Therefore it says,
“When he ascended on high he led a host of captives,
and he gave gifts to men.”

1 Cor 15:20-26 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

This event that took place after the payment had been executed is the redemption of mankind from the grave. It took place on the wave sheaf day. It is what the wave sheaf represents. Those Saints who obeyed were brought back to life on wave sheaf day. All of those from the time of Adam until this day in 31 C.E. were brought back to life and then ascended to heaven at 9 AM that Sunday morning with Yehshua.

Those captives were those who were held by Satan in death. They are now free and ascended with Yehshua to heaven.

The next wave offering to take place happens at the end of the tribulation on Shavuot when the next wave offering of two loafs of bread are waved. This is the one that all those since 31 C.E. until that time who have died and even those who are alive will be brought back to life and or changed in the twinkling of an eye and rise to meet Him in the air.

1 Cor 15:50-57 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Again death is captivity and captivity means to be a captive of Satan. What is to be thrown into the lake of fire in the end?

Rev 20:11-15 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Rev 20:4-6 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

I do hope I have been able to convey this new to me and some of you, understanding. I hope you can see the Great and mightiness of Yehovah in everything He is doing. Yehovah is our redeemer and Yehovah is the one who paid the redemption price with His own blood for us and for all mankind.

Psalm 19:14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my rock and my Redeemer.

Isaiah 41:14 “Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel; I will help you,” declares the LORD, “and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 50:34 “Their Redeemer is strong, the LORD of hosts is His name; He will vigorously plead their case So that He may bring rest to the earth, But turmoil to the inhabitants of Babylon.

Amos 4:13 For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the wind And declares to man what are His thoughts, He who makes dawn into darkness And treads on the high places of the earth, The LORD God of hosts is His name.

Isa 43:14-15 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I send to Babylon and bring them all down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.
I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”

Isa 44:6 Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.

Isa 49:26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am the Lord your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Look at this verse above again and note what it is saying to you.’I am Yehovah your Yehshua and your Redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob’.

Isa 54:5 For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.
Isa 43:3 For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you.

Let me show you this scripture in the Hebrew. And I want you to think on it some over this coming week.

Isa 43:3 For I am Yehovah, the Holy One of Israel, your Yehshua. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you..
Jer 31:10-11 “Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’
For the Lord has ransomed Jacob and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him.
Jer 50:33-34 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them. All who took them captive have held them fast; they refuse to let them go. Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon..

What some today claim as Passover at the end of th e13th day and the start of the 14th day known as the Last Supper is in fact the Last Supper for those who are first born. They will now fast until the Passover meal the next evening. They do this because the first born of Egypt paid for thier freedom with their lives on that night of the Exodus.

Yehshua never replaced the Passover of the Exodus with a new law on a new day. Don’t you either try and rewrite the law to suit modern day misunderstandings.

35 Comments

  1. Lori-Dawn

    I need to reread this a few times I think, to fully grasp the significance of all you are saying. I have a clear understanding now of what the Last Supper was and how we can incorporate that into our prePassover traditions. Also, I had never paid attention to the prayers on the 7th of Aviv! woah! Excited to start this year out with more clear understanding!

    Reply
  2. Lori-Dawn

    I need to reread this a few times I think, to fully grasp the significance of all you are saying. I have a clear understanding now of what the Last Supper was and how we can incorporate that into our prePassover traditions. Also, I had never paid attention to the prayers on the 7th of Aviv! woah! Excited to start this year out with more clear understanding!

    Reply
  3. Lori-Dawn

    I need to reread this a few times I think, to fully grasp the significance of all you are saying. I have a clear understanding now of what the Last Supper was and how we can incorporate that into our prePassover traditions. Also, I had never paid attention to the prayers on the 7th of Aviv! woah! Excited to start this year out with more clear understanding!

    Reply
  4. Lori-Dawn

    I need to reread this a few times I think, to fully grasp the significance of all you are saying. I have a clear understanding now of what the Last Supper was and how we can incorporate that into our prePassover traditions. Also, I had never paid attention to the prayers on the 7th of Aviv! woah! Excited to start this year out with more clear understanding!

    Reply
  5. Lori-Dawn

    I need to reread this a few times I think, to fully grasp the significance of all you are saying. I have a clear understanding now of what the Last Supper was and how we can incorporate that into our prePassover traditions. Also, I had never paid attention to the prayers on the 7th of Aviv! woah! Excited to start this year out with more clear understanding!

    Reply
  6. Lori-Dawn

    I need to reread this a few times I think, to fully grasp the significance of all you are saying. I have a clear understanding now of what the Last Supper was and how we can incorporate that into our prePassover traditions. Also, I had never paid attention to the prayers on the 7th of Aviv! woah! Excited to start this year out with more clear understanding!

    Reply
  7. Lori-Dawn

    I need to reread this a few times I think, to fully grasp the significance of all you are saying. I have a clear understanding now of what the Last Supper was and how we can incorporate that into our prePassover traditions. Also, I had never paid attention to the prayers on the 7th of Aviv! woah! Excited to start this year out with more clear understanding!

    Reply
  8. cosmos1947

    “New Year 2021 and Holy Day Dates
    We at Sightedmoon.com will begin our New Year Saturday evening after the sun sets. Sunday February 14, 2021 will be the first day of the New Year. Even though Devorah does not agree with us this year she has been very kind in providing a calendar with the various dates when the Holy Days will be depending on what you believe. I do sincerely thank her and appreciate the act of love towards all the brethren. Let not our differences be cause for division. But
    do let them spur you to investigate each one and determine for yourself what you and your family will do.”

    Axiomatically, for mature sentient individuals to seek personal Clarity ahead of group Agreement, unavoidable physical divisions result. Honouring different set-apart days can means nothing less than a division! So to settle
    individually, with a clear conscience, on one of the four-way year-long choice listed by Devorah herein, should the number [as well as the quality of] witnesses for a choice be paramount.
    Hence I’m disappointed, given the repeated emphasis on calendrical correctness, that the non-disparaged J.D. Aviv1
    choice does NOT seem to have a newsletter-published 2nd. Witness, or even a last-minute reinforcement ….. so far.
    Nevertheless the newsletter’s ‘Last Supper’ clarification is insightful. It shows a willingness to think outside the square of the Church of God traditions I and J.Dumond and his associate, D.McGrew share. Whilst the recent flurry of
    J.D.-disliked blogs re ‘political and medical’ issues has been editorially squashed, that candle of doctrinal lateral-thinking still flickers, thankfully.

    Reply
  9. cosmos1947

    “New Year 2021 and Holy Day Dates
    We at Sightedmoon.com will begin our New Year Saturday evening after the sun sets. Sunday February 14, 2021 will be the first day of the New Year. Even though Devorah does not agree with us this year she has been very kind in providing a calendar with the various dates when the Holy Days will be depending on what you believe. I do sincerely thank her and appreciate the act of love towards all the brethren. Let not our differences be cause for division. But
    do let them spur you to investigate each one and determine for yourself what you and your family will do.”

    Axiomatically, for mature sentient individuals to seek personal Clarity ahead of group Agreement, unavoidable physical divisions result. Honouring different set-apart days can means nothing less than a division! So to settle
    individually, with a clear conscience, on one of the four-way year-long choice listed by Devorah herein, should the number [as well as the quality of] witnesses for a choice be paramount.
    Hence I’m disappointed, given the repeated emphasis on calendrical correctness, that the non-disparaged J.D. Aviv1
    choice does NOT seem to have a newsletter-published 2nd. Witness, or even a last-minute reinforcement ….. so far.
    Nevertheless the newsletter’s ‘Last Supper’ clarification is insightful. It shows a willingness to think outside the square of the Church of God traditions I and J.Dumond and his associate, D.McGrew share. Whilst the recent flurry of
    J.D.-disliked blogs re ‘political and medical’ issues has been editorially squashed, that candle of doctrinal lateral-thinking still flickers, thankfully.

    Reply
  10. cosmos1947

    “New Year 2021 and Holy Day Dates
    We at Sightedmoon.com will begin our New Year Saturday evening after the sun sets. Sunday February 14, 2021 will be the first day of the New Year. Even though Devorah does not agree with us this year she has been very kind in providing a calendar with the various dates when the Holy Days will be depending on what you believe. I do sincerely thank her and appreciate the act of love towards all the brethren. Let not our differences be cause for division. But
    do let them spur you to investigate each one and determine for yourself what you and your family will do.”

    Axiomatically, for mature sentient individuals to seek personal Clarity ahead of group Agreement, unavoidable physical divisions result. Honouring different set-apart days can means nothing less than a division! So to settle
    individually, with a clear conscience, on one of the four-way year-long choice listed by Devorah herein, should the number [as well as the quality of] witnesses for a choice be paramount.
    Hence I’m disappointed, given the repeated emphasis on calendrical correctness, that the non-disparaged J.D. Aviv1
    choice does NOT seem to have a newsletter-published 2nd. Witness, or even a last-minute reinforcement ….. so far.
    Nevertheless the newsletter’s ‘Last Supper’ clarification is insightful. It shows a willingness to think outside the square of the Church of God traditions I and J.Dumond and his associate, D.McGrew share. Whilst the recent flurry of
    J.D.-disliked blogs re ‘political and medical’ issues has been editorially squashed, that candle of doctrinal lateral-thinking still flickers, thankfully.

    Reply
  11. cosmos1947

    “New Year 2021 and Holy Day Dates
    We at Sightedmoon.com will begin our New Year Saturday evening after the sun sets. Sunday February 14, 2021 will be the first day of the New Year. Even though Devorah does not agree with us this year she has been very kind in providing a calendar with the various dates when the Holy Days will be depending on what you believe. I do sincerely thank her and appreciate the act of love towards all the brethren. Let not our differences be cause for division. But
    do let them spur you to investigate each one and determine for yourself what you and your family will do.”

    Axiomatically, for mature sentient individuals to seek personal Clarity ahead of group Agreement, unavoidable physical divisions result. Honouring different set-apart days can means nothing less than a division! So to settle
    individually, with a clear conscience, on one of the four-way year-long choice listed by Devorah herein, should the number [as well as the quality of] witnesses for a choice be paramount.
    Hence I’m disappointed, given the repeated emphasis on calendrical correctness, that the non-disparaged J.D. Aviv1
    choice does NOT seem to have a newsletter-published 2nd. Witness, or even a last-minute reinforcement ….. so far.
    Nevertheless the newsletter’s ‘Last Supper’ clarification is insightful. It shows a willingness to think outside the square of the Church of God traditions I and J.Dumond and his associate, D.McGrew share. Whilst the recent flurry of
    J.D.-disliked blogs re ‘political and medical’ issues has been editorially squashed, that candle of doctrinal lateral-thinking still flickers, thankfully.

    Reply
  12. cosmos1947

    “New Year 2021 and Holy Day Dates
    We at Sightedmoon.com will begin our New Year Saturday evening after the sun sets. Sunday February 14, 2021 will be the first day of the New Year. Even though Devorah does not agree with us this year she has been very kind in providing a calendar with the various dates when the Holy Days will be depending on what you believe. I do sincerely thank her and appreciate the act of love towards all the brethren. Let not our differences be cause for division. But
    do let them spur you to investigate each one and determine for yourself what you and your family will do.”

    Axiomatically, for mature sentient individuals to seek personal Clarity ahead of group Agreement, unavoidable physical divisions result. Honouring different set-apart days can means nothing less than a division! So to settle
    individually, with a clear conscience, on one of the four-way year-long choice listed by Devorah herein, should the number [as well as the quality of] witnesses for a choice be paramount.
    Hence I’m disappointed, given the repeated emphasis on calendrical correctness, that the non-disparaged J.D. Aviv1
    choice does NOT seem to have a newsletter-published 2nd. Witness, or even a last-minute reinforcement ….. so far.
    Nevertheless the newsletter’s ‘Last Supper’ clarification is insightful. It shows a willingness to think outside the square of the Church of God traditions I and J.Dumond and his associate, D.McGrew share. Whilst the recent flurry of
    J.D.-disliked blogs re ‘political and medical’ issues has been editorially squashed, that candle of doctrinal lateral-thinking still flickers, thankfully.

    Reply
  13. cosmos1947

    “New Year 2021 and Holy Day Dates
    We at Sightedmoon.com will begin our New Year Saturday evening after the sun sets. Sunday February 14, 2021 will be the first day of the New Year. Even though Devorah does not agree with us this year she has been very kind in providing a calendar with the various dates when the Holy Days will be depending on what you believe. I do sincerely thank her and appreciate the act of love towards all the brethren. Let not our differences be cause for division. But
    do let them spur you to investigate each one and determine for yourself what you and your family will do.”

    Axiomatically, for mature sentient individuals to seek personal Clarity ahead of group Agreement, unavoidable physical divisions result. Honouring different set-apart days can means nothing less than a division! So to settle
    individually, with a clear conscience, on one of the four-way year-long choice listed by Devorah herein, should the number [as well as the quality of] witnesses for a choice be paramount.
    Hence I’m disappointed, given the repeated emphasis on calendrical correctness, that the non-disparaged J.D. Aviv1
    choice does NOT seem to have a newsletter-published 2nd. Witness, or even a last-minute reinforcement ….. so far.
    Nevertheless the newsletter’s ‘Last Supper’ clarification is insightful. It shows a willingness to think outside the square of the Church of God traditions I and J.Dumond and his associate, D.McGrew share. Whilst the recent flurry of
    J.D.-disliked blogs re ‘political and medical’ issues has been editorially squashed, that candle of doctrinal lateral-thinking still flickers, thankfully.

    Reply
  14. cosmos1947

    “New Year 2021 and Holy Day Dates
    We at Sightedmoon.com will begin our New Year Saturday evening after the sun sets. Sunday February 14, 2021 will be the first day of the New Year. Even though Devorah does not agree with us this year she has been very kind in providing a calendar with the various dates when the Holy Days will be depending on what you believe. I do sincerely thank her and appreciate the act of love towards all the brethren. Let not our differences be cause for division. But
    do let them spur you to investigate each one and determine for yourself what you and your family will do.”

    Axiomatically, for mature sentient individuals to seek personal Clarity ahead of group Agreement, unavoidable physical divisions result. Honouring different set-apart days can means nothing less than a division! So to settle
    individually, with a clear conscience, on one of the four-way year-long choice listed by Devorah herein, should the number [as well as the quality of] witnesses for a choice be paramount.
    Hence I’m disappointed, given the repeated emphasis on calendrical correctness, that the non-disparaged J.D. Aviv1
    choice does NOT seem to have a newsletter-published 2nd. Witness, or even a last-minute reinforcement ….. so far.
    Nevertheless the newsletter’s ‘Last Supper’ clarification is insightful. It shows a willingness to think outside the square of the Church of God traditions I and J.Dumond and his associate, D.McGrew share. Whilst the recent flurry of
    J.D.-disliked blogs re ‘political and medical’ issues has been editorially squashed, that candle of doctrinal lateral-thinking still flickers, thankfully.

    Reply
  15. Mike Hogan

    Thank you Joe for the newsletter, in particular, how you laid out the service you do within your own fellowship. It is helping me rethink our order of program, which has been the Haggadah through the years. And the emphasis on a serious, sober tone I definitely agree with. I do have one question: Do you read the Exodus story at some point during your service? I can’t find the specific verse(s) that state we are to do that through the generations as a teaching to our children. It seems practical to do this but more so because it appears to be a command in Scripture. Your thoughts would be much appreciated! Blessings!

    Reply
    • Joseph F. Dumond

      Shalom Mike, I hope you might consider joining us for this time period. It is my desire to do an online foot-washing and reading of the what took place this night. Then the next day the 14th will be our Shabbat service which will be about the death of our Messiah. This then would be followed by the start of the 15th and the eating of the Passover meal.

      Reply
  16. Mike Hogan

    Thank you Joe for the newsletter, in particular, how you laid out the service you do within your own fellowship. It is helping me rethink our order of program, which has been the Haggadah through the years. And the emphasis on a serious, sober tone I definitely agree with. I do have one question: Do you read the Exodus story at some point during your service? I can’t find the specific verse(s) that state we are to do that through the generations as a teaching to our children. It seems practical to do this but more so because it appears to be a command in Scripture. Your thoughts would be much appreciated! Blessings!

    Reply
    • Joseph F. Dumond

      Shalom Mike, I hope you might consider joining us for this time period. It is my desire to do an online foot-washing and reading of the what took place this night. Then the next day the 14th will be our Shabbat service which will be about the death of our Messiah. This then would be followed by the start of the 15th and the eating of the Passover meal.

      Reply
  17. Mike Hogan

    Thank you Joe for the newsletter, in particular, how you laid out the service you do within your own fellowship. It is helping me rethink our order of program, which has been the Haggadah through the years. And the emphasis on a serious, sober tone I definitely agree with. I do have one question: Do you read the Exodus story at some point during your service? I can’t find the specific verse(s) that state we are to do that through the generations as a teaching to our children. It seems practical to do this but more so because it appears to be a command in Scripture. Your thoughts would be much appreciated! Blessings!

    Reply
    • Joseph F. Dumond

      Shalom Mike, I hope you might consider joining us for this time period. It is my desire to do an online foot-washing and reading of the what took place this night. Then the next day the 14th will be our Shabbat service which will be about the death of our Messiah. This then would be followed by the start of the 15th and the eating of the Passover meal.

      Reply
  18. Mike Hogan

    Thank you Joe for the newsletter, in particular, how you laid out the service you do within your own fellowship. It is helping me rethink our order of program, which has been the Haggadah through the years. And the emphasis on a serious, sober tone I definitely agree with. I do have one question: Do you read the Exodus story at some point during your service? I can’t find the specific verse(s) that state we are to do that through the generations as a teaching to our children. It seems practical to do this but more so because it appears to be a command in Scripture. Your thoughts would be much appreciated! Blessings!

    Reply
    • Joseph F. Dumond

      Shalom Mike, I hope you might consider joining us for this time period. It is my desire to do an online foot-washing and reading of the what took place this night. Then the next day the 14th will be our Shabbat service which will be about the death of our Messiah. This then would be followed by the start of the 15th and the eating of the Passover meal.

      Reply
  19. Mike Hogan

    Thank you Joe for the newsletter, in particular, how you laid out the service you do within your own fellowship. It is helping me rethink our order of program, which has been the Haggadah through the years. And the emphasis on a serious, sober tone I definitely agree with. I do have one question: Do you read the Exodus story at some point during your service? I can’t find the specific verse(s) that state we are to do that through the generations as a teaching to our children. It seems practical to do this but more so because it appears to be a command in Scripture. Your thoughts would be much appreciated! Blessings!

    Reply
    • Joseph F. Dumond

      Shalom Mike, I hope you might consider joining us for this time period. It is my desire to do an online foot-washing and reading of the what took place this night. Then the next day the 14th will be our Shabbat service which will be about the death of our Messiah. This then would be followed by the start of the 15th and the eating of the Passover meal.

      Reply
  20. Mike Hogan

    Thank you Joe for the newsletter, in particular, how you laid out the service you do within your own fellowship. It is helping me rethink our order of program, which has been the Haggadah through the years. And the emphasis on a serious, sober tone I definitely agree with. I do have one question: Do you read the Exodus story at some point during your service? I can’t find the specific verse(s) that state we are to do that through the generations as a teaching to our children. It seems practical to do this but more so because it appears to be a command in Scripture. Your thoughts would be much appreciated! Blessings!

    Reply
    • Joseph F. Dumond

      Shalom Mike, I hope you might consider joining us for this time period. It is my desire to do an online foot-washing and reading of the what took place this night. Then the next day the 14th will be our Shabbat service which will be about the death of our Messiah. This then would be followed by the start of the 15th and the eating of the Passover meal.

      Reply
  21. Mike Hogan

    Thank you Joe for the newsletter, in particular, how you laid out the service you do within your own fellowship. It is helping me rethink our order of program, which has been the Haggadah through the years. And the emphasis on a serious, sober tone I definitely agree with. I do have one question: Do you read the Exodus story at some point during your service? I can’t find the specific verse(s) that state we are to do that through the generations as a teaching to our children. It seems practical to do this but more so because it appears to be a command in Scripture. Your thoughts would be much appreciated! Blessings!

    Reply
    • Joseph F. Dumond

      Shalom Mike, I hope you might consider joining us for this time period. It is my desire to do an online foot-washing and reading of the what took place this night. Then the next day the 14th will be our Shabbat service which will be about the death of our Messiah. This then would be followed by the start of the 15th and the eating of the Passover meal.

      Reply
  22. Robert Marr

    Thank you for an awesome newsletter if which I greatly and humbly will submit to.
    Yes Passover is evening of 14th Nisan, between the evenings. Fast of firstborn son I didn’t know. Neither the whole redeeming from the destroyer. It all makes sense. Perfect

    Reply
  23. Robert Marr

    Thank you for an awesome newsletter if which I greatly and humbly will submit to.
    Yes Passover is evening of 14th Nisan, between the evenings. Fast of firstborn son I didn’t know. Neither the whole redeeming from the destroyer. It all makes sense. Perfect

    Reply
  24. Robert Marr

    Thank you for an awesome newsletter if which I greatly and humbly will submit to.
    Yes Passover is evening of 14th Nisan, between the evenings. Fast of firstborn son I didn’t know. Neither the whole redeeming from the destroyer. It all makes sense. Perfect

    Reply
  25. Robert Marr

    Thank you for an awesome newsletter if which I greatly and humbly will submit to.
    Yes Passover is evening of 14th Nisan, between the evenings. Fast of firstborn son I didn’t know. Neither the whole redeeming from the destroyer. It all makes sense. Perfect

    Reply
  26. Robert Marr

    Thank you for an awesome newsletter if which I greatly and humbly will submit to.
    Yes Passover is evening of 14th Nisan, between the evenings. Fast of firstborn son I didn’t know. Neither the whole redeeming from the destroyer. It all makes sense. Perfect

    Reply
  27. Robert Marr

    Thank you for an awesome newsletter if which I greatly and humbly will submit to.
    Yes Passover is evening of 14th Nisan, between the evenings. Fast of firstborn son I didn’t know. Neither the whole redeeming from the destroyer. It all makes sense. Perfect

    Reply
  28. Robert Marr

    Thank you for an awesome newsletter if which I greatly and humbly will submit to.
    Yes Passover is evening of 14th Nisan, between the evenings. Fast of firstborn son I didn’t know. Neither the whole redeeming from the destroyer. It all makes sense. Perfect

    Reply

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