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There have been a lot of questions coming to me concerning the details in how to observe the Passover and about fleeing
the following night after the 1st day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Some of the
Passover questions are answered in the Passover video that was posted last April but there are some that are not so I thought
that I would post this follow-up video to it.
Some have written and asked me wasn't Yehshua our
Passover lamb.
Absolutely, but we are commanded to perform this service each year as a memorial
of His Father's sacrifice of His son to us.
Ex 12:14
14 This day shall be to you FOR A MEMORIAL; you shall celebrate it as feast
to YEHWEH throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it AS A STATUTE FOREVER.
The Passover service was never our sacrifice to our Elohiym like the other sacrifices were.
It
is to be a memorial of His sacrifice to us.
It started out as a memorial of that 1st
Passover night and that first Passover night was a foreshadow of our Messiah.
Now it is to be
a memorial of our Elohiym's sacrifice that He gave to us.
We read elsewhere in Numbers 9:3 that
it is to be kept with all of its statutes and with all of its charge or its customs.
Obeying this
service never went away after Yehshua became our Passover.
On the contrary, this memorial became
more significant.
Ex 12:21-27
21 Then
Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, Draw out to you and bring from the flock (a lamb or a goat) according
to your families and kill the Passover.
22 And you
shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in a basin and strike the lintel and the two door posts (and
the upper post/ verse 7) of your house with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of
his house until the morning.
23 Because YEHWEH will
pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood upon the lintel and on the two side posts, YEHWEH will pass
over the door and will not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you.
This verse shows that we need to procure some hyssop ahead of time to use as a brush and we need to collect some
of the blood in a basin when butchering the animal.
We are told elsewhere that the lamb or goat
must be a male of the first year and without blemish.
Of the first year would be less than a year
old.
Without blemish would be void of physical deformities or injuries.
We
are also told elsewhere that without blemish means to be intact, meaning not castrated.
The question
came up if tail docking or ear notching would be considered a blemish.
Ear notching is not a physical
deformity like a broken leg or an animal that is missing an ear would be but rather something that man uses for identification
purposes so it would not be considered a blemish.
Tail docking is not a natural occurring deformation
or a result of an injury either so I would not necessarily call this a blemish although if the tail bone was cut or broken
in the process, then I would consider it a blemish because we are not to break any of its bones.
Another
question was would a spotted animal be considered blemished and the answer is no.
The account
of Jacob separating out the spotted and the brown animals shows that they would not have been considered blemished.
The instructions also include gauging the size of the animal according to the number of people who will be eating
it.
Also, we are to prepare the animal in the afternoon of the 14th day and have the
blood on the door posts and be finished with this service before dark so that we can remain indoors until morning.
We are told to eat the animal at night.
This poses a potential problem with timing.
If you can burn up that which remains from inside of your house, then you can eat the animal after dark without a
problem.
But you do need to be done with the outside services before dark because we are to remain
indoors until morning.
However, if you do not have the ability to burn up that which remains from
inside your house, you will need to either eat the animal after the sun has gone down but before it is dark so that you can
get that which remains in the outside fire to get it burnt up.
Or, the other option would be to
get it burnt up after it begins to draw light the next morning but before sunrise because the next day is a high Sabbath,
plus none of it is to remain until morning.
Obviously, having an indoor fireplace to assist in
this would be the best option.
We are also to eat it with our lions girded and our shoes on our
feet and our staffs in our hand.
I have been talking about the symbolism of the shoes on our feet
for many months now in regards to the Ezekiel 24 sign and making straight our paths for Yehshua's return and preparing for
the 2nd Exodus.
This ties into this Passover instruction and fleeing into the wilderness
the next night if you have not already fled prior to then.
We need to eat it clothed and this
would include covering your heads like you have been commanded to do at this time.
This is all
symbolism about being prepared to go.
It was asked by one person if they should get a walking
staff as part of this and the answer is yes.
Striking the blood on the two door posts and the
upper post is a matter of painting the outside walls around the door with the hyssop.
Also, we
are to separate the animal and bring it in our gates four days prior which would be on the 10th day of the 1st
month.
It was asked if we can purchase the animal if we do not have one available and the answer
is yes.
It was also asked if we could purchase it ahead of time in lieu of where we are at in
time.
One thing that you can do to solve this problem is to purchase more than one animal ahead
of time.
And then you can select one of them and set him aside on the 10th.
Bringing the lamb or the goat into our gates means into our yards.
If you do not have
a yard, you probably do not have a place to be performing this statute so you should be looking for such a place.
You might not have a fenced yard so you might need to build a small pen or something like this.
Moses goes on to add again that this observance was to go on forever;
24 And you shall hedge about (guard) this cause to be a statute to you and to your sons forever.
25 And it will be when you come to the land which YEHWEH will give to you which He
has spoken, that you shall hedge about this service.
26 And
it will be that when your children will say to you, what is this service for?
27
You shall say, it is YEHWEH's sacrifice of the Passover, who passed over the houses of the children
of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And the people bowed their heads and worshipped.
Now it is a memorial of YEHWEH's sacrifice of His Son through whose blood we can enter into the renewed covenant
through in order to come out of the bondage of sin and be forgiven of our sins.
And it is also
representative of YEHWEH's vengeance that is fast approaching.
That night was also a foreshadow
that He is going to smite all who do not come under the covering of His Son's blood.
In the next
103 days after this year's night to be observed it will not just be the first born who will be destroyed, it will be all who
oppose His righteousness and refuse His covenant.
Another question has been asked is what about
eating the lamb or goat with bitter herbs.
The instructions say that we are to eat it bitter.
The word "herbs" was added to the text by the translators.
It
is to be a bitter experience and it is if we are reflecting on the reason why He gives us this annual exercise and what it
represents.
It is our transgressions against Him that causes us to receive the death penalty which
results in us being separated from Him for eternity.
He wants us understanding the death penalty
and why it must be given to us if we refuse to be molded by Him to become made in His image.
He
set up the sacrificial system so that we would learn that sin causes death to teach us to sin no more.
The Passover experience is to point us to His Son replacing the sacrificial system and to cause us to reflect on
the high price that was paid on our behalf.
This whole event should make us bitter that our transgressions
caused Him to have to send His Son to pay the price for our transgressions.
And it should give
us a desire to sin no more.
But there is also much to rejoice in with this understanding as well;
we can rejoice that His Son did shed His blood so that the death penalty will pass over us if we are walking in the covenant.
And we had better not be bitter over the destruction of those who are not covered by Yehshua's blood.
For this we should rejoice because finally our Elohiym's will will finally be done on earth as it is in heaven.
It is just that when we eat the meal, He wants us reflecting on our transgressions with bitterness because they are
what caused His Son to have to shed His blood.
And we are told to eat this lamb or goat in haste
which means eating it quickly which is symbolic of leaving our sins quickly.
We are also to eat
unleavened bread with it.
We actually need to have all leavened products and leavening agents
removed from our gates before evening because the following day is the Feast of Unleavened bread.
During
this feast, we are to eat unleavened bread each day and eat nothing that has leavening in it for 7 days.
And we are to remain with no leavened products or agents in our gates for this week.
I
will speak more on this when I get to fleeing without bringing any leavening with us.
Another
question that has been asked is do we need to cook the animal whole with the guts inside of the animal.
This idea comes from a mistranslation in;
Ex 12:9
9 Do not eat it raw nor boiled or seethed in water, but roast it upon fire "WITH"
its head AND "WITH"
its legs and the inwards thereof (Strong's #7130-Keh-reb).
The word "with" is the Hebrew word 'al and is only in the Hebrew text twice in this verse and not three
times so it is not necessarily saying with the inwards thereof although I will explain what it could also be referring to.
Both times with is used in this verse it is referring to with the head and with the legs still attached.
The translators in the king James translated it with the pertinence thereof and most think that this is referring
to with the guts still in the animal.
It would be impossible to cook the animal whole with the
guts still inside.
Even if the guts or the bladder did not explode, there would be no way to properly
cook the animal intact like this.
The outside meat would be burnt to a crisp before the inside
would be cooked.
The second time the word ‘al is used in this verse it is used with the
grammatical notation wcj which adds an "and" or an "and also" to it.
This
shows that it belongs with the legs as in; "and with the legs still attached"
With some
of the sacrifices like the burnt offerings, the animals were cut into pieces so Moses is saying that this is not the case
with this service.
The Hebrew word keh-reb (7130) is most often translated "from among you"
or "in the midst of you" referring to among the people.
But sometimes in other places
it does refer to the center of the animal as well.
When it does, it is referring to the heart
and liver and such and not the guts that are in the abdominal area.
It is pre-conceived ideas
that come from the translations of men that cloud things so we have to be diligent and we have to make sure that we have our
Elohiym's 7 spirits guiding us into the truth.
Leviticus 1:9 uses this word when it says to cut
up the animal and wash the inwards and the legs with water and then burn them for a burnt offering.
If
they cut the animal up into pieces and washed them and washed the inwards, they had to remove the inwards in order to do so.
The question is; were the guts included as the inwards that Moses was speaking of in this verse in Leviticus?
They were to burn these pieces and these inwards up as a sweet smelling savor to YEHWEH.
Would
they burn the guts with the bladder and everything in the abdominal cavity as a sweet savor to YEHWEH?
No, it is referring to the meat that is found in the inwards.
In lieu of the Hebrew words
that are used in this verse in Exodus 12, there are two possibilities to what it is saying in regards to cooking the animal.
It could be saying;
"Roast the animal upon the fire with the head and also
with the legs amongst you"
I say this because elsewhere in verse 6 we are told
that the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to be involved in butchering the animal.
Verse
6 also says that it is to be killed in the evening but this is a mistranslation.
This is discussed
in detail in last year's Passover video.
The animal is to be killed in the afternoon at the same
timing of our Messiah's murder.
HOWEVER, this verse could also be saying that the heart and liver
need to be roasted upon the fire as well.
Either way it is certainly expressed by precept upon
precept that we are to roast all of the meat which would include the heart and Liver and the whole assembly of the family
is to be involved in performing this service.
And everything else and that which is not consumed
is to be burnt up; this would also include the hide and the guts.
For this reason I have two fire
pits going and one of them is away from the other.
There is no way that we could get the liver
and heart cooked if they were left inside the animal.
Last year was my first Passover observing
it the correct way.
I burnt much of the rest of the meat just trying to get the inside of the
hind quarters cooked.
And I had the hind quarters over the most concentrated part of the heat
and it was still not cooked thoroughly.
Our Creator's measuring rod, which is His word confirms
this when you study how the word Keh-reb is used elsewhere.
This word is used 226 times and I
never found it referring to the guts anywhere.
I did find it used a few times referring to our
inner most being meaning what is in our heart or our core essence.
One of these places is in Jeremiah
where He says that He will write His Torah in our most inward parts.
So since this verse could
be saying that the inwards such as the heart and liver need to be roasted with fire, which I believe it is, they should be
roasted as well, plus we are to roast it in our midst.
But it cannot be referring to roasting
them in the animal because at least as far as I know, this would not be possible
I say this because
it would not be possible to get them cooked from my experience.
And a study of the word Keh-reb
shows that it is not referring to the guts and the things that are in the abdominal compartment.
Just
imagine if the bladder were to burst, this would contaminate the meat.
In Psalm 109 Keh-reb is
translated as bowels in the King James but this is just a mistranslation, just a few verses later it translates the same word
as "within me".
In any case, it would be more than a stretch to say it means that He
wants us to cook and eat the animal with the guts and this is not what the instructions are saying.
But
we certainly are to cook the whole animal with its head and legs still attached because we are not to break a single bone
on it.
I even left the hooves on because of not wanting to break a bone.
Then
I washed the inwards referring to the liver and heart and such and roasted them on the fire.
After
butchering the animal, we burn up the hide with the guts.
So here is a summary of the instructions;
- 1) On the 10th day we bring the animal into our gates.
- 2)
We butcher the animal in the afternoon of the 14th
- 3) We burn up
the hide and the guts.
- 4) We are to have all leavened foods and leavening agents
removed from our gates by sunset.
- 5) We paint blood with hyssop on the door
posts and the upper post.
- 6) We roast it whole with the head and the legs upon
the fire and have it ready to be eaten at the going down of the sun or at night depending on fire pit circumstances. And this
includes roasting the heart and liver.
- 7) We are not to break any of the bones
in the process.
- 8) We eat it quickly with our loins girded, shoes on our feet
and staffs in hand.
- 9) We eat it bitter and with unleavened bread.
- 10) We burn up that which remains before the next day which might mean burning it up before dark depending
on your circumstances.
The next day is the first Day of Unleavened bread.
The following night, the night of the 15th is a night that we were always to observe.
It is a night that YEHWEH wants us leaving our gates to reflect on coming out of the bondage of sin and it is the
anniversary of the 1st Exodus.
This night is not only to be a remembrance of the first
Exodus and coming out of sin, but also a foreshadow of the 2nd Exodus that would one day come.
I have been saying for over a year now that we are to not only flee the spiritual bondage of sin and man's false
religions but to also flee America and her allies altogether.
But I have also been saying to at
least to flee from the false religions and from the cities to the hills and the mountains to a remote area if you do not flee
the actual nations.
But even if you have done this, we are still told to leave our gates for this
night.
This night is discussed in;
Ex 12:42
42
It is a night to be observed unto YEHWEH for bringing you out from the land of Egypt (bondage
to sin): this is YEHWEH's night to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
In the next verse He says that this is part of the statutes of the Passover.
A lot of
people are confused by this because they think that Moses is still talking about the Passover night but he is not.
The Feast of Unleavened bread is also referred to as the Feast of the Passover.
On this
15th night they were commanded to offer up sacrifices to our Elohiym in lieu of His Passover sacrifice to us.
These sacrifices were not to be offered up in their gates and they could be of either the herd or the flock which
means they could also be of the cattle.
Even the Hebrew word for roasting them is a different
procedure than that of the Passover lamb or goat.
In these instructions for the night of the 15th
we are told;
Deut 16:5-7
5 You may not
offer the sacrifices of the Passover within any of your gates which YEHWEH Elohiym gives to you:
6 But at the place which YEHWEH Elohiym will choose to place His name, there you shall
do the Passover sacrifice at even, at the going down of the sun, AT THE APPOINTED TIME that you came forth out of Egypt.
7 And you shall roast and eat it in the place which YEHWEH Elohiym will choose: and
you shall turn in the morning and go to your tents.
So you see, these instructions
are completely different than the Passover night instructions.
They are different because they
are to represent the Exodus and fleeing the bondage of sin and our sacrifices in lieu of the atonement of Yehshua's blood.
If you have been baptized into Yehshua's blood and have entered into the renewed covenant, He substituted the need
for you to offer up these sacrifices.
But we are still to leave our gates on this night in obedience
to His word.
And if you are walking in agreement with Him, He will lead you to a place where He
has placed His name.
But if you have not fled to the hills and the mountains yet by this night,
you are going to want to be fleeing to them this night.
This night will be the night of April
7th in the United States and Europe and most of the places where the most of scattered nations of Israel are today.
You are going to want to get out of dodge quickly on this night if you have not already done so.
And fleeing means fleeing without bringing any leavening with you.
This means leaving
your abominations behind you and not carrying them with you when you flee.
If you want Him to
deliver you, you are going to have to flee from all that is false and embrace His unleavened bread of life.
His unleavened bread is His word that His Son became in the flesh.
His word is going
to have to become your meat and your desire.
If you flee physically but you are still holding
onto that which is leavened, I can guarantee you that you are going to be experiencing hardship.
This
night marks the beginning of 103 days of trials and testing and refining that will lead you into being delivered into the
millennium if you choose to trust and obey our Elohiym.
If you do not, then somewhere along the
line or on that final day, you will be purged out.
It is a very fair proposition that our Creator
is offering to you.
Most of you have lived your life rebelling against His word but He is giving
you a chance to be covered by His Passover sacrifice to us.
But you have to agree to the terms
by agreeing to come out of the bondage of sin so that He will turn the water into His Son's blood.
And
you have to understand, sin is transgression of His Torah so you are going to have to agree to stop transgressing His Torah.
If you agree to become as He is on His terms by letting Him be your potter, He will deliver you.
And He will mold and fashion you to become as He is and He will one day give you eternal life in His family.
But if you do not want to become His righteousness, then you have no place in Him.
The
choice is yours to make.
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