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 Blessings in the name of Yahshua our precious Passover Lamb and Mighty Redeemer,

 Dear Ones, Yahveh’s Biblical calendar was given to us as an invitation and ordinance to leave behind everyday life to meet with Him on His prescribed Biblical days which Yahveh set apart and said, “These are My appointed times” (Lev 23:4).  You don’t want to miss these divine appointments with our King, for He has so much more of the riches of His glory to reveal to you.  Don’t let the enemy rob you from receiving all that He has ordained through His Holy Days as outlined in Leviticus 23.

 This year, beginning at sundown March 29^th (the 14^TH of Nissan on the Biblical calendar), we enter into the glorious season memorializing the Passover in Egypt 3,500 years ago when Israel, Yahveh’s chosen people, were spared death because of the lamb’s blood that was placed over the door posts and lintels of their homes.  (Ex 12:7)  The original Passover with Moses was a foreshadowing of our ultimate Passover Lamb and Deliverer, Yahshua the Messiah.  (Yahshua’s original Hebrew name means: Yahveh  Saves.)  Yahveh’s name is magnified as the covenant keeping Elohim (God) as proclaimed in Exodus 6:6-7.  He sovereignly promised to deliver and redeem His people, to bring them safely into the Promised Land where He will be their Elohim and they will be His people forever.

 Yahshua is encouraging us all to celebrate, in obedience to His Father’s ordinances, the Feast of Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  The following will be a simple yet adequate instruction to help you participate in these “appointed times of Yahveh.”  As we learn about these Biblical “Holy Days”, Yahveh magnifies His holy character and eternal plan of redemption through His Son, our Passover Lamb.

 To begin the feasts of Passover and Unleavened Bread, each household will benefit by responding to Yahveh’s words in Exodus 13:7 by removing all yeast products from their homes, putting them aside for eight days.  This obedient act will heighten your awareness of the importance of ridding ones life of sin (leaven).   Eating unleavened bread (matzos) for eight days, instead of the usual bread and yeast products, will deeply impress upon your heart the need to walk in a righteous (sinless) manner upholding the blood of the Lamb poured out for your redemption.

    Passover Seders (meals) vary because of different man-made traditions, but the central elements and Biblical ordinances do not change.  To actively participate in the Passover teaching and Seder you will need a few basic food products.  To keep things simple we will adhere to the Biblically prescribed foods of the Passover as seen in Exodus 12:8.  They are:  roasted lamb, unleavened bread (matzos), Bitter herbs (white horseradish).

 Before the Seder, place on each person’s plate roasted lamb, a matzah, and a little white horseradish for the bitter herbs.  To highlight the precious blood of the Passover Lamb, have a pitcher of grape juice and a glass for each person.  The four cups of grape juice will be used as symbolic remembrances of Yahveh’s promises in Exodus 6:6-7 and the Last Passover called the Last Supper when Yahshua took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.”  (Lk 22:20)

 The first cup is called the cup of sanctification – “I Will Bring You Out.” (Ex 6:6)

As we take this first cup, it prepares us for the Passover by separating us from the world and its preoccupations, focusing our attention on the reality of Yahveh’s holiness and on our need to be holy through the blood of the Lamb’s cleansing delivering power.

 The second cup is called the cup of deliverance - “I Will Deliver You.”  (Ex 6:6)

Israel was delivered from bondage to Pharaoh in Egypt and we, The Redeemed, have been delivered from bondage to Satan and this doomed world system through the blood of Yahshua the Passover Lamb.  In drinking this cup of grape juice let us wholeheartedly thank Yahveh for His promise in 1 Thessalonians 5:9, “For Yahveh did not appoint us to suffer wrath (as the Egyptians did) but to receive salvation through our master Yahshua, the Messiah.”

 take turns reading the exodus story, chapter 12:1-42.  Then read the account of Yahshua’s last passover supper in Matthew 26:17-29.

 The third cup is called the cup of redemption - “I Will Redeem You” (ex 6:6)

This cup is most significant as it is the point in the Last Passover (Supper) where Yahshua broke the bread (matzah) and gave it to His disciples and said, “This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”  And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood” (Lk 22:19-20 - This is the origin of communion and the time to take communion if you feel led). 

 Each person should take some lamb, matzah, and bitter herbs, remembering the bitterness of bondage to Satan and our sinful nature.  Give thanks and rejoice that Yahshua became our Passover Lamb and shed His blood on the tree of Calvary to cover our hearts from repented sins (leaven) that we will be spared eternal death because of His sacrificial blood.

 The fourth cup is often called the cup of praise pertaining to the completion of Yahveh’s sovereign promises in Exodus 6:7 - “I Will Take You For My People and I Will Be Your Elohim (God)” and I Will Bring You to the Land I Promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  It is the cup of utmost praise for all that Yahveh has done by giving His “only begotten Son” as our Passover Lamb. 

 To conclude your Passover celebration, we have the example of Yahshua and the disciples after that last Passover Supper “After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.”  Psalms 113-118 are called the Hallel Psalms - Psalms of praising the Mighty One of Israel by His holy name, Yahveh (Ex 3:15).  Join in this time of praise by reading one or more of the Hallel Psalms. 

 May His glory fall upon you as you celebrate Yahveh’s holy days, His “appointed times”.  May He transform you from glory to glory as you behold Yahshua the Lamb who was slain and “raised from the dead as the first fruits” promising resurrection for those who are redeemed by His blood (1Cor 15:20-23). 

 As previewed in the first Passover in Egypt, Yahveh proclaimed many times throughout the entire scripture that He will once again pour out His final and greatest judgments on Satan and all the gods and godless ones of the entire world (Exodus 12:12, Isaiah 24, Revelation 8).  When Yahveh sees our sins (leaven) removed through the blood of the Lamb covering our humble repentant hearts, then in sovereign mercy His final judgment of eternal death will pass over us.  Praise be to Yahveh who has caused us to triumph over eternal death through Yahshua the Messiah our Passover Lamb!

 The Mighty One of Israel will bring both the redeemed Jews and Gentiles as “one new man” (Eph 2:16) into His eternal promised land.  He is Yahveh, the covenant keeping great “I AM” who is worthy of a holy people who will continually exalt and highly esteem the blood sacrifice of His Son – our Passover Lamb!

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The Biblical Feasts of Leviticus 23 

The Biblical Feasts as outlined in Leviticus 23, are ordained holy days and are a symbolic picture of the entire redemptive plan of YAHveh, the almighty Creator. “These are the appointed times of YAHveh … a perpetual statute…” (vv. 31,41). Indeed, these prophetic festivals have much to teach all who desire to know their Maker and His eternal plan.

Traditional biblical scholarship acknowledges that YAHveh is the memorial name of the Creator. The title LORD or Adonai (Hebrew) used in most translations of the Bible, are substitutes for His original name YAHveh - Yod Hey Vav Hey (the Hebrew letters spelling His name), which was to be remembered forever (Exodus 3:15). The original divinely given name of the Messiah is YAHshua, meaning YAHveh is Salvation, known to many by the Greek rendered name of Jesus.

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to bless you with the knowledge of His love, purpose and plan for your eternal well being.

Messiah is the fulfillment of all the Biblical Feasts. YAHshua’s death and resurrection were the fulfillment of the Feast of Passover (Pesach) and the Feast of Firstfruits (Bikkurim). YAHshua, the Messiah, was crucified in Jerusalem as the perfect Passover Lamb at the hour that multitudes of Jews were sacrificing their “spotless male lambs” (Exodus 12:3-7.) For those who accept His sacrifice, His blood covers the door posts of their hearts and protects them from eternal death (Exodus 12:12). Yahshua was resurrected as fulfillment of the Feast of Firstfruits. He is “the firstfruits” of those to rise from the dead, promising resurrection and eternal life to those who are covered in His, the Passover Lamb’s blood (1 Corinthians 15:23.) Shavuot (Pentecost), biblically referred to as the Feast of Weeks, was fulfilled precisely on divine schedule when Yahshua poured out His Holy Spirit at Jerusalem exactly fifty days after the Feast of Firstfruits. On this day, three thousand Jewish souls were brought into the eternal kingdom of YAHveh. YAHshua’s sacrificial death opened the way for the promised blessings of Israel to be shared with believing Gentiles who through common faith in His cleansing blood would become united as “one new man” (Ephesians 2:15.)

The Biblical Fall Holy Days are approaching. The first of the three Fall Feasts, is the Feast of Trumpets. This Feast commonly known to the Jewish community as Rosh Hashanah (Head of the Year) but biblically as the Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah) or the Day of the Awakening Blast, is a feast calling ones attention to the need for humility and repentance. An integral part of this holy time is the blowing of the ram’s horn-shofar (trumpet), to alert the people that they must repent before a holy God who will judge sin and all who fall short of His righteousness. The shofar was made from a ram’s horn reminding the people that Abraham obediently put Isaac on the altar and YAHveh mercifully provided a substitute, a ram caught in a thicket. When the ram’s horn is sounded it reminds the people, that although YAHveh is warning them to come in humility and repentance, He is merciful to provide a way that their sins can be forgiven, a life for a life, a substitutionary sacrifice. Natural catastrophe requires and brings a loud warning to the people’s hearing urging them to escape and leave the path of destruction, to get out of harms way to a place of safety. Likewise in the spiritual a similar alert and loud warning goes forth from heaven to earth beseeching the people to repent and flee from the judgments that are coming!

We are called to be spiritual people, not just fleshly temporal people of this world. We have a soul and that is the issue. Where is your soul going to be for eternity, will your name be written in the book of life? The scripture says, “The wages of sin is death but the gift of YAHveh is eternal life in Messiah YAHshua…” (Romans 6:23) and “without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.” (Leviticus 17:11 and Hebrews 9:22) The most holy day of Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement, the day repentant sins are washed over, covered and removed by the blood of the ultimate and final sacrifice. The Messiah’s atoning blood averts YAHveh’s wrath upon man’s sins fulfilling all that Yom Kippur pointed to. “Now is the day of salvation if you hear His voice do not harden your heart.”

The celebration of Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, is in remembrance of YAHveh’s provision of shelter for Israel as He led them during her wilderness journeys. This last great Biblical Feast speaks of Messiah’s first coming when He came to dwell (tabernacle) among His people. This feast will ultimately be fulfilled and enjoyed by a redeemed remnant of Jews and Gentiles who experience His kingship and holy presence forever. This feast is one of great rejoicing that can only be eternally experienced by those who have repented and are redeemed by the blood of YAHshua the Passover Lamb, who is the final Yom Kippur atonement for our sins. The Savior of our souls extends His invitation: “Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of everlasting life.” (Revelation 22:17)