PASSOVER LAMB OR EASTER HAM?
The notes below are from a video produced by Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries on the prophetic shadows of Jesus in the Passover ceremony. If you are teaching your kids about bunnies, eggs, and chocolate you are doing them a great disservice. Passover has great truths about Jesus hidden in the ceremony. Enjoy!
Jerusalem in Jesus’ time was
about 600,000 population. At Passover it is estimated that as many as 2.5
million people came to the city for the feast.
Lev 23.1-2...And the Lord
spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘The
feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are
My feasts. Appointed = mo’ed
= appointment.
Gen 1.14...Then God said, “Let
there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the
night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; Signs and seasons, days, and years. The
word for seasons is the same word as feasts, signals.
Convocations = mikrah =
dress rehearsals. Proclaim = call out,
publish.
Same meaning as Matt
22.3-4...and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the
wedding; and they were not willing to come. Again, he sent out other servants,
saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen
and fatted cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding.” Call those
bidden=come.
Lev.23.5-6...On the
fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord’s Passover. And on
the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the
Lord; seven days you must eat unleavened bread. Applying the blood of the lamb. Unleavened Bread begins 7
day feast. Yeshua a sinless sacrifice.
Lev 23.10-11...“Speak to
the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I
give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the first
fruits of your harvest to the priest. He
shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day
after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. Spring barley harvest…waving the barley sheaf…Yeshua is the
first fruit of the coming eternal harvest.
Lev 23.15-17...And you
shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that
you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed.
Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a
new grain offering to the Lord. You shall bring from your dwellings two wave
loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour; they shall be
baked with leaven. They are the first fruits to the Lord.
Counting 50 days
to the Feast of Weeks, Pentecost, and the summer harvest that began at the
giving of the Holy Spirit.
Deut 16.16...“Three times
a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which
He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the
Feast of Tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.” The three times of the year all to go to
Jerusalem to celebrate the feasts of the Lord.
Numbers 9.2-3...“Let the
children of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time. On the fourteenth
day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time.
According to all its rites and ceremonies you shall keep it.”
The word “appointed
times” means dress rehearsal…understanding the times and seasons.
Ex 12.15...Seven days you
shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your
houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh
day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
Ex 13.7...Unleavened bread
shall be eaten seven days. And no leavened bread shall be seen among you, nor
shall leaven be seen among you in all your quarters.
The exercise of
cleaning out our homes reminds us of how easy it is to sin knowingly and
unknowingly.
Sweeping leaven from our “house”
in context of our bodies being the temple:
Psalm 119.105...Your word
is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Psalm 91.4...He shall
cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you shall take refuge; His
truth shall be your shield and buckler. Sweeping with a feather.
1 Peter 2:5...you also, as living stones, are being built up a
spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable
to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Cor 3.16-17...Do you not
know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of
God is holy, which temple you are.
1 Corinthians
5:7-8...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. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven
of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Purge out sin in our
lives.
Jesus is examined four days
and found without blemish…Aviv 10-14:
Ex 12.3-6...Speak to all
the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth of this month every man shall
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 neighbor next to his house take it
according to the number of the persons; according to each man’s need you shall
make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the
first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. Now you shall
keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of
the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. 4 days from creation to Jesus’ death = 4,000 years.
Lazarus’
resurrection was 6 days before Passover…the 8th of Aviv…John 12.1-2...Then, six days before the Passover,
Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom He had raised
from the dead. There they made Him a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was
one of those who sat at the table with Him.
The next day…9th
of Aviv…
John 12.12-13...The next
day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus
was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him,
and cried out: “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ The
King of Israel!”
During the
selection of the Passover lamb Psalms 113-118 are sung. These psalms are called
the Hallel--songs of praise. This is where the word Hallelujah comes from.
Mark 11.9-11...Then those
who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: “Hosanna! ‘Blessed is
He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ Blessed is the kingdom of our father
David that comes in the name of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest!” And Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the temple. So when He had looked around at all things, as the hour was already late, He went out to Bethany with the twelve.
Hosanna in the highest!” And Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the temple. So when He had looked around at all things, as the hour was already late, He went out to Bethany with the twelve.
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
So they came to Jerusalem.
Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and
sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the
seats of those who sold doves. Cleaning the leaven out of His father’s house! These four days the
rabbis’ where inspecting Yeshua but found no blemish so they brought lying
witnesses. Luke 23.4...So Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowd, “I
find no fault in this Man.”
Seder Service…Luke
22.12-34...children ask four questions. Why is this night different from all
other nights?
Ex 12.7-10...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. Then 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 entrails. You shall let none of it remain until morning,
and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.
Instructions to
eat…roasted because Jesus is the sacrifice. Picture the Seder plate:
Vegetable
(Karpas)--the salt water represents the
tears our ancestors shed during their years of enslavement. Yeshua was the salt
of the earth.
Shank bone (Zeroa)
/ Roasted Beet--shank bone of a lamb
reminds us of the tenth plague in Egypt, when all firstborn Egyptians were
killed and also reminds us of the sacrificial lamb that was killed (Yeshua).
Hard Boiled Egg
(Baytzah)--a symbol of mourning for the
loss of the two Temples. Now we are the temple.
Charoset- represents the mortar the Israelites were forced to
use while they built structures for their Egyptian taskmasters. Hard labor of
sin.
Bitter
Herbs (Maror)-remind us of the harshness of
servitude.
Bitter Vegetable
(Hazeret)--the bitterness of
slavery to sin.
Four Cups of Passover:
1. The Cup of
Sanctification…I will bring you out from the burden of the Egyptians…Ex
4.22-23
2. The Cup of
Deliverance…I will deliver you from their bondage…Romans 6.6...He is our
salvation.
3. The Cup of
Redemption…Jeremiah 32.17...I will redeem you with an outstretched arm.
Jesus’ arms were outstretched on the cross.
4. The Cup of
Hope…the hope of His eternal kingdom (MK)…the coming of Elijah.
See the four cups
in Ephesians 1.4-7...just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of
the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having
predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the
good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He
made us accepted in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood,
the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace….
The matzos is broken into
three pieces. The center part put in a linen bag…just as Yeshua was wrapped in
linen at His death. This matzos is called the Afikomen and is put in the
Afikomen bag. Afikomen means = I came! The piece of matzos in the bag is hidden
and the children seek it out. Just as the believers sought Jesus at the tomb
and at first could not find Him.
Mark 14.26...And when they
had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. Singing the Hallel,
psalms 113-118.
Mark 15.21...Then they
compelled a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus,
as he was coming out of the country and passing by, to bear His cross. This was the 3rd hour…9AM
Matt 27.45...Now from the
sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land. 12 noon until 3 PM
John 19.30...So when Jesus
had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He
gave up His spirit.
He gave up the ghost at the exact time of the sacrifice of the lamb at the
temple…3 PM…the High Priest would say, “It is finished!” at this exact time.
John 6.25...And Jesus said
to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he
who believes in Me shall never thirst. Bethlehem means = House of Bread. Jesus was born there…many
of the sacrificial lambs came from there.
Hebrews 4.15...For we do
not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in
all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. He was unleavened and
unblemished…just as required by the feast.
Gen 2.2-3...And on the
seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh
day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and
sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created
and made. Unleavened Bread is a seven day feast…symbol
of entering God’s rest as the price for sin has been paid.
Matt 28.1...Now after the
Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the
other Mary came to see the tomb. Sunday was First
Fruits…Jesus is first fruits raised from the dead…the priests at the temple
wave the first sheaves of the spring barley harvest--the first fruits.
Psalm 126.6...He who
continually goes forth weeping, bearing seed for sowing, shall doubtless come
again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Acts 26.23...that the
Christ would suffer, that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and
would proclaim light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.”
Deut 26.1-2...Deuteronomy 26:1-2...Offerings of First fruits and Tithes “And it shall be, when you come into the land which
the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell
in it, 2 that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the
ground, which you shall bring from your land that the Lord your God is giving
you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where the Lord your God chooses
to make His name abide.”
Matthew 27:51-53..
Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and
the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened; and
many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His
resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
The Lord of the Harvest is risen! The spring barley harvest is
Jesus as first fruits, the summer harvest at Pentecost is the harvest of those
who have been sent to labor, the final fall harvest is the end of the age at
Yeshua’s second coming symbolized by the Feast of Trumpets.
Luke 10.2...Then He said
to them, “The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray
the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest. Amen!
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