This week, though, is when God wants us to celebrate and remember the Passover, which really is not a Jewish-only holiday, but one that should have been more integrated into Christian life. God worked the life of Mashiach Yeshua to end during Passover in 32 AD because He preordained Him to be the Passover sacrifice, our Passover Lamb (1 Corinthians 5:7), for the eternal atonement and “Passover” of the penalties for the sins of mankind.
But because of the conflicts of darkness in God’s kingdom, He also preordained that the church would become corrupt, as prophesied by Jeremiah/Yirmiyahu – “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord Yahovah, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of animals'" (Jeremiah 31:27/Yirmiyahu 31:26).
Those seeds refer to our Father God becoming embodied in the flesh as a man as the true Messiah Christ and founding the church through Him and the New Covenant – the seed of man – while also, He allowed that foundation to continue fostering the corruptions of the devil in God’s kingdom, just as He let happen for Judaism. Remember that God refers to His kingdom as a field and that He wanted the weeds of the devil to grow with His good seed or wheat (Matthew 13:24-30, 13:36-43), and so it was done – God also sowed and grew The Beast from the seed of animals or what I prefer to translate as the seed of beast in Jeremiah 31.
It was the corruptions in God’s kingdom that prevented the Passover from being celebrated by Christianity, but that was also for the Church Age, a time that is coming to end because the time for corruptions to end also comes now at the end of the age. So may you remember your ancient Hebrew heritage as God gave it to His people; to celebrate ancient holidays, like the Passover, but not by the strict ways of the Old Law or by corrupted ways brought by Judaism.
You may have seen all kinds of Haggadah and other Jewish instruction about seder meals and traditions for Jewish holidays, but pay no mind to them, as most of it is extraneous and optional tradition. It is sufficient under Christ to acknowledge and celebrate the main themes of holidays, and for Passover, it is recommended that we begin eating flat bread after sundown on Passover Eve.
It was on that first Passover night that God told His people to prepare a lamb and brush its blood on their doorways so that the destroyer would skip or passover their house (Exodus/Shemot 12:3, 12:7, 12:12-13). And God told them to eat in haste and be girded with belts and shoes on, because He was bringing judgment on all Egypt and all their gods that night, so that by morning, all Egypt would make the Israelites leave quickly; for Egypt and their gods would be put to lament and shame with no house untouched by God’s destroyer and no protection or reprieve from pagan gods or rituals, while the people of our one true God would be unharmed.
Keep that note of judgment on other gods for our days, as well, for
the Baal imposters of God and the saints I’ve spoken of, whose reign and ways most believers remain loyal to – they will get the same judgment in our days as during the last plague of Egypt, for God will continue to punish that Leviathan, so that the reigns of modern day Baals will also come to end and believers who remain loyal to what is false will find they also will get no help or reprieve from their imposters. The days of corruption are coming to end.
So on Monday night, when you eat your first Passover meal with flatbread, remember that it is called the Bread of Affliction because God made His people run in haste. They did not have time to prepare leavened bread for their journey, so when they fled Egypt in the morning, they bundled dough for their flatbread in bowls bound to the shoulders of their garments (Exodus/Shemot 12:33-34; Deuteronomy 16:3). They would later bake their bread at the first stop of their Exodus.
Remember, too, that the first day of Passover on Tuesday is also supposed to be a Sabbath rest (the rest and holiday actually begin on Monday night at sundown), so may you enjoy that day for the holiday, worship the Lord, and celebrate it with a good meal and the blessings of Mashiach Yeshua. Amen.
And remember, too, that this first feast of Passover corresponds with the Lord’s Last Supper, so may you also remember that and do communion during the meal – with solemn reverence, break bread and drink grape juice or wine to remember the Lord and His sacrifice (Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-25; Luke 22:14-20; 1 Corinthians 11:17-34).
