Pesach (Passover)
Duration
Old Covenant Scriptures
Hebrew Date
New Covenant Scriptures
1 Day
Ex. 12:1; 34:25 Lev. 23:5 Num. 9:1-14; 28:16-31 Deut. 16:1-8 Josh. 5:10
2 Kings 23:21-23
2 Chr. 30:1-19; 35:1-19
Ezra 6:19-21 Ez. 45:21-24
14th of the 1st month
Mat. 26:2-5; 26:17-19 Mark 14:1-2; 14:12-26 Luke 2:41; 2:21-23 Jn. 2:13-25; 6:4-15; 11:55; 12:1; 13:1; 18:28; 18:38-40
1 Cor. 5:7-8
What's It About?
פֶּסַח Pesach | Passover is a Holy Feast Day in which we remember how the Most High Yahuah saved the children of Israel from hard bondage in Mitsraiym (Egypt) under Pharaoh by sending great wonders and plagues, in which the last one was an Angel of Death.
It is important to remember whose blood was shed for our sins
Key Information
Background Insight:
Vayiqra (Leviticus) 23:4-8; Shemoth (Exodus) 12:1-27; Mattithyahu (Matthew) 26:1-2; Bemidbar (Numbers) 9:1-7 | 28:16-25
Pesach: Hebrew - פֶּסַח peçach
In Exodus 12 Elohiym instituted the Passover. This was just before He brought the 10 th and final plague on Egypt where the death angel passed through Egypt killing the first born of both man and beast. The children of Israel were commanded to eat a lamb roasted in the fire, unleavened bread, and bitter herbs. They were to take the blood of the lamb without blemish and place it on the doorposts and the lintels of the house. They were to eat it in haste.
The Passover Meal On the 14th of Nisan, just before sunset, the Passover Lamb was to be slaughtered and was roasted whole (no bone was to be broken) and eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. The unleavened bread was made simply from flour and water and cooked very quickly. This ceremony was rich in symbolism: the blood of the lamb symbolized the cleansing of sins; bitter herbs, the bitterness of slavery in Egypt; the unleavened bread, purity.
How to Observe
How do we observe/celebrate?
We celebrate Pesach | Passover by making a Holy Convocation and eating lamb made with fire, bitter herbs, and unleavened bread.
We should do this as closely as possible as out forefathers did this in Shemoth (Exodus) 12. Please understand thar we dont deal with the sacraficial part of the laaw anymore because Yahushua fulfilled this by dying for our sins.
How to Keep the Passover:
Eat Lamb fully cooked, cooked with fire, grill
Shemoth (Exodus) 12: 8-9
Eat Bitter Herbs & Unleavened Bread with Passover Lamb on 1st night
Shemoth (Exodus) 12:15
Eat passover meal in haste & dispose of leftovers
Shemoth (Exodus) 12:10-11
Eat unleavened bread for 7 days
Shemoth (Exodus) 12:8; Vayiqra (Leviticus) 23:6
Congregate on the first & last day
Shemoth (Exodus) 12:16
No working on first and last day
Shemoth (Exodus) 12:16
Remove physical leaven out of dwellings and spiritual leaven out of spirit
Are these Feasts of him done away with?
NO.
Qolasiym (Colossians) 2:16-17: Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath day: things which ARE a shadow of things to come; but the body of Messiah.Feast Days - Should we observe them?
Should we still observe these feasts?
YES.
In Vayiqra (Leviticus) chapter 23 we're told four different times that these feast days are to be a "statute forever, throughout your generations" (Lev 23:14, 21, 31, 41).
Sources: Cepher Bible with Apocrypha | Hebrew Israelites, Biblical Feast Days by Unknown Hebrew | Hebrew Lexicon | Blue Letter Bible
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