Passover

Messianic Significance

Passover - Messianic Significance

• How did Yeshua fulfill this Feast?

Yeshua, the Passover Lamb

John (Yochanan):

• The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! John 1:29

• John combined the concepts of Pesach with the Yom Kippur. Passover didn’t take away any sin, Yom Kippur did!

1 Peter 1:19-20

• "But with the precious blood of Messiah, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you"

Yeshua Fulfilled TANAKH• 25 And He said to them, "O

foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! 26 "Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?" 27 Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures…

– Luke 24

Yeshua Fulfilled TANAKH• 44 Now He said to them, "These are

My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled." 45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, 46 and He said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

Luke 24

Matthew 5:17-18

• "Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the Torah till all is fulfilled.”

The Passover Lamb – Exodus 12

• 3 "Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, `On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their fathers' households, a lamb for each household… 5 `Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6 `You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight.

Lamb without Blemish

• On the tenth (today) of Nisan the priests carried the lambs for the Passover sacrifices into the Temple, as commanded by God (see Ex. 12:3). The lambs were then examined for four days and if no blemish or defect could be found, they qualified for the sacrifice and were killed on the fourteenth (Wednesday).

Yeshua’s Fulfillment of the Lamb

• Yeshua the Lamb went up to Jerusalem on the tenth of Nisan, and for four days was questioned and examined by the chief priests, elders, Pharisees, and Sadducees. However, He always left them speechless, because they could find no fault with His impeccable logic and character (Matthew 21:23-27; 22:23-46 and in the end no fault could be found in Him by the highest authority in the land (ref. Luke 23:4,14; John 18:38, 19:4,6).

The Perfect Sacrifice

• Therefore, He was the perfect, complete and qualified sacrifice.

Lambs Killed at Twilight

• He was slaughtered with all the other lambs that same day at 3:00 p.m. on the 14th of Nisan (Wednesday).

Yeshua Dies at Same Time Matthew 27

• 46 About the ninth hour (3 p.m.) Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?" that is, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" 47 And some of those who were standing there, when they heard it, began saying, "This man is calling for Elijah." 48 Immediately one of them ran, and taking a sponge, he filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed, and gave Him a drink. 49 But the rest of them said, "Let us see whether Elijah will come to save Him." 50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.

Day of Preparation for the Shabbat

• “Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and {that} they might be taken away.”

– John 19:31

For the Passover Shabbat – NOT the Weekly Shabbat

• “Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!" John 19:14

The Shabbat of Passover/Unleavened Bread could

fall on any Night of the week!

• Does not have to be on a Friday night!

• This year, it is Monday night!

• Last year, it was Wednesday night!

Yeshua could NOT have been killed on a Friday!

• There IS NO Good Friday!

• WHY NOT???

Three Days AND Three Nights

• “…for just as JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE SEA MONSTER, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” Matthew 12:40

Need Some Math Skills Here!

• How many days did Yeshua say He would be in the earth?

• How many nights did Yeshua say He would be in the earth?

Now…If Yeshua were Crucified on “Good” Friday:

• Count how many days it was from Friday to Sunday!

• Now, count how many nights it was from Friday to Sunday!

Friday Crucifixion

• From Friday to Saturday you have two nights: Friday night and Saturday night. You do not even have a partial night on Sunday, since He arose BEFORE dawn on Sunday morning.

Do You Get…

• 3 days AND three nights???

• If you count a part of Friday and Sunday as complete days, then you have Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

• So you can “fudge” it and call it three days from Friday to Sunday!

But you can NEVER

• Get three days and three nights from a “Good” Friday death to the Resurrection!

This is NOT Nitpicking Scripture!

• A sign HAS TO be complete in its fulfillment, or it is NOT a valid sign!

• “Good” Friday does NOT work!

When the Church walked away from its Jewish roots

• …it lost the correct understanding of the other Sabbaths found in the Torah (Leviticus 23).

• If you get rid of the Authority of the Foundation (Old Testament), you can make the New Testament say anything!

So, Let’s Count BACKWARD from the THIRD Day!

• We KNOW from Scripture when He rose! He rose on the 1st Day of the Week!

ALL Hebrew Days of Week are NUMBERED, except the 7th Day

Shabbat!

• “Now after the Sabbath (7th Day), as it began to dawn toward the first {day} of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the grave.”

Matthew 28:1

1st Day of the Week

• The first day of the Week begins at sundown on Saturday evening (after Shabbat)

Yeshua Rose Sometime BEFORE Dawn on 1st Day of the Week!“But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.”

Luke 24:1  

• 1st Day of the Week: Begins Saturday Night

Count Backwards: Yeshua rises!

• After Sundown

Count Backwards: Third Day

• Shabbat Day – “Saturday”

• Shabbat (7th Day) – Friday after Sundown

Count Backwards: Third Night

• Friday

Count Backwards: Second Day

• Thursday – after Sundown

Count Backwards: Second Night

Count Backwards: First Day• Thursday

• Wednesday – after Sundown

Count Backwards: First Night

Yeshua Killed on Wednesday Day

• Yeshua was killed at twilight on Wednesday, 14 Nisan! Fulfilling the Passover lamb Scriptures of the Torah!

• He was put in the earth just before the Sabbath (not the weekly seventh-day Sabbath! Rather, the Sabbath of Passover/Unleavened Bread)!

Yeshua’s Sign

• Needs to Fulfill 3 Days AND 3 Nights!

“…for just as JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE SEA MONSTER, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” Matthew 12:40

He Rose again on Firstfruits!

• Another Moed listed in Leviticus 23:9-14!

• We talked about that last Shabbat!

Another Question:

• When did Yeshua Celebrate His Passover with His Talmidim?

• If Yeshua died when the Passover lambs were slaughtered as we said, how was it that He celebrated Passover with His Disciples the night before He was killed?

When did Yeshua Celebrate His Passover with His Talmidim?

• Clues from Scripture – Luke 22

7 Then came the first day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. 8 And Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, so that we may eat it." 9 They said to Him, "Where do You want us to prepare it?" 10 And He said to them, "When you have entered the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him into the house that he enters.

Water Carrying – Women’s Work!

• Genesis 24:11-20 – Rivkah.• John 4:7 – Yeshua and the Samaritan

woman at the well.• Still that way in some parts of the Middle

East today!

Men did not draw water! Except ONE group of men – the Essenes!

Only Essenes did NOT have Women

• “By the western shores [of the Dead Sea], but away from their harmful effects, live a solitary people, the Essenes, wonderful besides all others in the world, being without any women and renouncing all sexual desire, having no money, and with only palm trees as companions.” Pliny the Elder, Natural History 5:18:73

Community Property

• The Essene sect also did not hold property in the community as “private” property. All within the community had access to use the property of the community.

Essenes held all things in common with one another.

• “When they enter the sect, they must surrender all of their money and possessions into the common fund, to be put at the disposal of everyone; one single property for the whole group.”

Flavius Josephus

Luke 22

11 "And you shall say to the owner of the house, `The Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?"' 12 "And he will show you a large, furnished upper room; prepare it there." 13 And they left and found everything just as He had told them; and they prepared the Passover.

Jerusalem Communities

• Essenes, besides Qumran, had communities in cities, such as Jerusalem.

Evidence that Essenes lived not only at Qumran, near the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, but also in Jerusalem comes from several sources, including the scrolls themselves (assuming the scrolls constitute an Essene library). The famous War Scroll, which describes an apocalyptic battle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness, refers to the sounding of trumpets when the victorious forces of light "return from battle against the enemy when they journey to the congregation (or community [ha-edah]) in Jerusalem.“ Jerusalem’s Essene Gateway Where the Community Lived in Jesus' Time, BARGIL PIXNER, Biblical Archaeological Review, May/June 1997

The Essenes Celebrated Passover

on a Different Time-table

• Essenes celebrated their Passover the day before the Temple (and the rest of Israel) did!

Yeshua celebrated His Passover

• At the same time that the Essene community celebrated its’ Passover – the night BEFORE the rest of the Jewish community celebrated theirs!

Yeshua Celebrated a Valid Passover

• With His Disciples and was STILL able to be offered up as a sacrifice the next day, as the Passover lambs were killed in the Temple!

New Testament Scripture

• Makes more sense in the light of its’ Hebraic roots!

• If we take away the Hebraic understanding of the New Testament, we lose the meaning of what God is really telling us in His Word!

• We in the Body of Messiah need to get back to the Hebrew roots of our faith and not be content with “tradition.”