Friday, April 6, 2012

Pesach is here!


Happy Passover, everyone!

 Tonight is the night when we celebrate YHVH'S love in passing over the firstborn of Yisra'el in  Mitsrayim, and when the blood of Yahshua passed over us to save us from hell.

Why should we celebrate Pesach?
 Speak to all the congregation of Yisra’ĕl, saying,
 ‘On the tenth day of this month each one of them
is to take for himself a lamb,  
according to the house of his father,
 a lamb for a household.  
And if the household is too small for the lamb,
let him and his neighbour next to his house take it
according to the number of the beings,
 according to each man’s need you 
make your count for the lamb.
 Let the lamb be a perfect one, a year old male.
 Take it from the sheep or from the goats.
And you shall keep it until 
the fourteenth day of the same month.
Then all the assembly of the congregation of Yisra’ĕl
shall kill it between the evenings.
  ‘And they shall take some of the blood
 and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel
of the houses where they eat it.
  ‘And they shall eat the flesh on that night, 
roasted in fire – with unleavened bread 
and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
 Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water,
 but roasted in fire, its head with its legs 
and its inward parts.
 ‘And do not leave of it until morning,
 and what remains of it until morning 
you are to burn with fire.
 And this is how you eat it: your loins girded,
 your sandals on your feet, 
and your staff in your hand.
 And you shall eat it in haste. 
It is the Passover of יהוה
  And this day shall become to you a remembrance.
 And you shall observe it as a festival to יהוה
throughout your generations – 
observe it as a festival, an everlasting law."
Shemot 12:3-11;14

 We celebrate Passover because YHVH commands us to.

"Didn't Yahshua throw away the torah?"
  Do not think that I came 
to destroy the Torah or the Prophets.
 I did not come to destroy but to complete.
    “For truly, I say to you, 
till the heaven and the earth pass away, 
one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass 
from the Torah till all be done. 
 “Whoever, then, breaks 
one of the least of these commands,
 and teaches men so, shall be called least 
in the reign of the heavens;
 but whoever does and teaches them,
 he shall be called great 
in the reign of the heavens.
Matthew 5:17-19


 We do this feast because it reminds us of YHVH'S love and Yahshua dying for us.
The last Passover lamb.
Shalom.


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