Happy passover everyone! Or as you might say in Hebrew, Chag Sameach Pesach! Tonight begins Passover at sunset and it is a great time to celebrate the Messiah Jesus, Yeshua. “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” “Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.” I am holding a Seder tonight and wish you could all be there. I have been celebrating the Lord’s supper as a Passover for about 30 years now and have had the privilege of presenting this to many church groups over the years. If you have the opportunity to celebrate a Messianic Passover somewhere tonight or tomorrow - do it! You will not regret it I promise! This time of year is all about deliverance and salvation and truly calls our attention to God’s ability and willingness and desire to save and deliver us! I always look up this time of year knowing that God might just use this great day once again for our deliverance in the rapture. I so look forward to celebrating Passover every year, but I also wonder if this will be the year that I will not make it to the Seder or be whisked away by the rapture in the middle of it - I wouldn’t complain! So happy Passover everyone, may we all sanctify the Lord in our hearts tonight and remember what He did for us. If there was not a Passover, there would be no Good Friday! I’m curious of why the Seder is observed vs. just doing church Communion with bread & wine or grape juice for those who don’t like wine? I Corinthians 11:20-31 20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. 21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. 22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? what shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not. 23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: 24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. 27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. Hi Geri, There is so much to say about the Seder, that I can’t do it justice in this short reply - the obvious symbology of the lamb is there, but there is symbolism in almost every element of the Seder. - So I’ll just give you one example. Here’s a good one - in the Seder there is a linen container called a “matza tosh” it is a little cloth bag with 3 pockets sewn into it. There are 3 pieces of matzah and the middle one is taken out, broken in half and half is placed back in the container with the other 2 pieces while the other half is hidden away wrapped in a linen napkin. This piece is called the “afikomen”. By the way the orthodox, or traditional Judaism offers no explanation for why this tradition started. It is thought to have started in the first century. (Gee, what else happened around then?). Christians/ Messianic Jews have a great explanation for this. The 3 matzah united in the matzah tosh represent the trinity, Father Son Holy Spirit. The middle matzah, the “Son” was taken and broken and the “half” of Him that represents His human nature was “hidden” away for 3 days and 3 nights wrapped in a linen shroud in the tomb. In a Messianic Seder, this “afikomen” that was hidden away to be “resurrected” becomes the bread that is used for Holy Communion along with the 3rd of the 4 passover cups of wine (grape juice). (Jesus only drank the first 3 cups and the 3rd was used for communion - He never drank the 4th, but said I will not drink of the fruit of the vine again until I drink it anew with you in the kingdom of God) Now please don’t get me wrong, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the traditional church communion and I personally take communion at least once a week with simple bread and grape juice and without going through the whole passover production, but as you can see from the example above - there is just so much there to love! I’ll try to check back on this thread later to answer any other questions but I’ll bee getting things ready for the Seder soon so I might not be online much. Blessings! Chag Pesach Semeach. I will be attending a Seder tonight and tomorrow. I am doubly blessed. Yeshua is our Passover Lamb, slain for us. Even better, He then conquered death and rose from the dead. All those who have applied His blood to the lintels of their heart will have the death angel pass over them. ❤️ It has also been noted that like the matzah like Christ is perforated as was Crist through beatings and scourgings! TR
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