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Yeshua in Israel's Feasts - Pesach - 04/11/2009
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Yeshua in Israel’s Feasts – Pesach
Teaching Outline by Lori Gracey
Pesach - Passover
We should understand the Feasts of Israel because God gave them as shadows of things to come such as Passover pointing to our redemption by Yeshua’ blood.
Historic Significance of Passover – What it meant for Israel: Deliverance from Egypt
1. Instituted on eve of Israel’s deliverance from Egypt.
a. Exodus 12:1-14 1 ADONAI spoke to Moshe and Aharon in the land of Egypt; he said, 2 "You are to begin your calendar with this month; it will be the first month of the year for you. 3 Speak to all the assembly of Isra'el and say, 'On the tenth day of this month, each man is to take a lamb or kid for his family, one per household - 4 except that if the household is too small for a whole lamb or kid, then he and his next-door neighbor should share one, dividing it in proportion to the number of people eating it. 5 Your animal must be without defect, a male in its first year, and you may choose it from either the sheep or the goats. 6 "'You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, and then the entire assembly of the community of Isra'el will slaughter it at dusk. 7 They are to take some of the blood and smear it on the two sides and top of the door-frame at the entrance of the house in which they eat it. 8 That night, they are to eat the meat, roasted in the fire; they are to eat it with matzah and maror. 9 Don't eat it raw or boiled, but roasted in the fire, with its head, the lower parts of its legs and its inner organs. 10 Let nothing of it remain till morning; if any of it does remain, burn it up completely. 11 "'Here is how you are to eat it: with your belt fastened, your shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand; and you are to eat it hurriedly. It is ADONAI's Pesach [Passover]. 12 For that night, I will pass through the land of Egypt and kill all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both men and animals; and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt; I am ADONAI. 13 The blood will serve you as a sign marking the houses where you are; when I see the blood, I will pass over [Hebrew: pasach] you - when I strike the land of Egypt, the death blow will not strike you. 14 "'This will be a day for you to remember and celebrate as a festival to ADONAI; from generation to generation you are to celebrate it by a perpetual regulation.
b. Exodus 12:43-48 43 ADONAI said to Moshe and Aharon, "This is the regulation for the Pesach lamb: no foreigner is to eat it. 44 But if anyone has a slave he bought for money, when you have circumcised him, he may eat it. 45 Neither a traveler nor a hired servant may eat it. 46 It is to be eaten in one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you are not to break any of its bones. 47 The whole community of Isra'el is to keep it. 48 If a foreigner staying with you wants to observe ADONAI's Pesach, all his males must be circumcised. Then he may take part and observe it; he will be like a citizen of the land. But no uncircumcised person is to eat it.
2. Commanded to be celebrated throughout the generations as a memorial to God.
a. Exodus 12:14 14 "'This will be a day for you to remember and celebrate as a festival to ADONAI; from generation to generation you are to celebrate it by a perpetual regulation.
b. Lev. 23:4-5 4 "'These are the designated times of ADONAI, the holy convocations you are to proclaim at their designated times. 5 "'In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between sundown and complete darkness, comes Pesach for ADONAI.
c. Leviticus 23 – the entire chapter provides a summary of the 7 Feasts of the Lord
3. It also looks forward to a greater deliverance by the Lamb of God down to the detail.
a. Exodus 12:46 46 It is to be eaten in one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you are not to break any of its bones.
b. John 19:36 36 For these things happened in order to fulfill this passage of the Tanakh: "Not one of his bones will be broken." (see also Psalm 34:20)
c. 1 Cor. 5:7 7 Get rid of the old hametz [leaven], so that you can be a new batch of dough, because in reality you are unleavened. For our Pesach lamb, the Messiah, has been sacrificed.
Prophetic Significance of Passover – How Yeshua fulfilled it
1. Yeshua entered Jerusalem on 10 Nisan, just as the Passover lambs entered on that same day, to be set aside as the perfect Sacrificial Lamb of God.
a. Ex. 12:3-5 3 Speak to all the assembly of Isra'el and say, 'On the tenth day of this month, each man is to take a lamb or kid for his family, one per household - 4 except that if the household is too small for a whole lamb or kid, then he and his next-door neighbor should share one, dividing it in proportion to the number of people eating it. 5 Your animal must be without defect, a male in its first year, and you may choose it from either the sheep or the goats.
b. John 12:1 1 Six days before Pesach, Yeshua came to Beit-Anyah, where El`azar lived, the man Yeshua had raised from the dead; [The 6th day before Pesach on 14 Nisan works out to 9 Nisan]
c. John 12:12-13 12 The next day, the large crowd that had come for the festival heard that Yeshua was on his way into Yerushalayim. 13 They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, "Deliver us!" "Blessed is he who comes in the name of ADONAI, the King of Isra'el!"
2. He was examined by the religious officials for 5 days, just as a Passover lamb was, to determine if he was perfect which of course he was.
a. Ex. 12:5 5 Your animal must be without defect, a male in its first year, and you may choose it from either the sheep or the goats.
b. Matt. 21:23-27 23 He went into the Temple area; and as he was teaching, the head cohanim and the elders of the people approached him and demanded, "What s'mikhah do you have that authorizes you to do these things? And who gave you this s'mikhah?" 24 Yeshua answered, "I too will ask you a question. If you answer it, then I will tell you by what s'mikhah I do these things. 25 The immersion of Yochanan -- where did it come from? From Heaven or from a human source?" They discussed it among themselves: "If we say, `From Heaven,' he will say, `Then why didn't you believe him?' 26 But if we say, `From a human source,' we are afraid of the people, for they all regard Yochanan as a prophet." 27 So they answered Yeshua, "We don't know." And he replied, "Then I won't tell you by what s'mikhah I do these things.
c. John 19:4 4 Pilate went outside once more and said to the crowd, "Look, I'm bringing him out to you to get you to understand that I find no case against him."
3. He was crucified on 14 Nisan at the exact hour (9:00 a.m.) the Passover lambs were prepared for sacrifice. (See Booker p. 24-25 especially in reference to Josephus.)
a. Mark 15:25 25 It was nine in the morning when they nailed him to the stake.
b. Jesus in the Feasts of Israel, Richard Booker, pages 24-25 “At the exact hour when the Jews were preparing their lambs for sacrifice, Yeshua was nailed to the cross.”
4. He died at the exact hour that the Passover lambs were sacrificed (3:00 p.m.).
a. Exodus 12:6 6 "'You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, and then the entire assembly of the community of Isra'el will slaughter it at dusk.
b. Mark 15:33-37 33 At noon, darkness covered the whole Land until three o'clock in the afternoon. 34 At three, he uttered a loud cry, "Elohi! Elohi! L'mah sh'vaktani?" (which means, "My God! My God! Why have you deserted me?") 35 On hearing this, some of the bystanders said, "Look! He's calling for Eliyahu!" 36 One ran and soaked a sponge in vinegar, put it on a stick and gave it to him to drink. "Wait!" he said, "Let's see if Eliyahu will come and take him down." 37 But Yeshua let out a loud cry and gave up his spirit.
c. Jesus in the Feasts of Israel, Richard Booker, pages 24-25 “Then at three o’clock as the people were praising God and slaughtering the lambs, Jesus died.”
5. He was buried just as the next day began at sunset (6:00 p.m.) which coincides with 15 Nisan and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
a. Exodus 12:6 & 10 6 "'You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, and then the entire assembly of the community of Isra'el will slaughter it at dusk. . . 10 Let nothing of it remain till morning; if any of it does remain, burn it up completely.
b. John 19:31 31 It was Preparation Day, and the Judeans did not want the bodies to remain on the stake on Shabbat, since it was an especially important Shabbat. So they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.
c. Jesus in the Feasts of Israel, Richard Booker page 26 “God had specifically instructed the Jews to consume the whole lamb. Nothing was to be left over for the next day (Exodus 12:10). This also was the case with Jesus. The Jews, not realizing they were carrying out God’s plan, hurriedly had Jesus’ body taken down before six o’clock.” [The especially important Shabbat was the Feast of Unleavened Bread on 15 Nisan.]
Personal Significance of Passover – What it means for us today: Our Redemption
1. John 1:29 29 The next day, Yochanan saw Yeshua coming toward him and said, "Look! God's lamb! The one who is taking away the sin of the world!
2. Ephesians 2:13 13 But now, you who were once far off have been brought near through the shedding of the Messiah's blood.
3. John 5:24 24 Yes, indeed! I tell you that whoever hears what I am saying and trusts the One who sent me has eternal life -- that is, he will not come up for judgment but has already crossed over from death to life!
4. 1 Peter 1:18-19 18 You should be aware that the ransom paid to free you from the worthless way of life which your fathers passed on to you did not consist of anything perishable like silver or gold; 19 on the contrary, it was the costly bloody sacrificial death of the Messiah, as of a lamb without defect or spot.
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