Passover Revisited - "Do This In Remembrance of Me"

As for me and my house, we will serve you, Lord, lifting holy hands in worship. We will not bow down to the gods of man. We will worship the God of Israel. You are holy, for you are holy, holy. There is no one else like you. As for me and my house, we will serve you alone. Choose this day whom you will serve. But as for me and my house, we will serve you, Lord. We will not bow to the gods of men. We will worship the God of Israel.

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Shalom, friends. My name is Chadwick Harvey. You have reached Faithful Performance. Thank you very much for joining us on this special night — the night before Passover, Passover Eve, if you will. This is the night on which Yeshua ate the Passover with his disciples and said, "Do this in remembrance of me." We are going to get into the depth and the layers of what that means and why he said it — not only in reference to communion, the bread and the wine, but also in reference to the specific day. That specific day carries us back to Leviticus 23, which carries us back to the calendar, as we are all familiar with on this channel.

Shabbat shalom, everybody. Thank you again for joining us on this special evening of Shabbat, and also on the night before he was crucified for our sins — tomorrow. It is very important to keep up with God's timeline, as we have discussed so many times before — with God's calendar and the feast days. We are going to examine all of these things to understand how important it is to be aligned with the times and the seasons of the Most High God.

We have to be in alignment with him to understand the times and the seasons — for events like tonight, and for tomorrow night, Passover. Then the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and onward through the counting of the Omer to the fifty-day Shavuot, or Pentecost. It is supremely important to identify with the times and the seasons and to be in alignment with our Savior.

Tonight is just as important as any, as we prepare our hearts for tomorrow night — for the crucifixion of our Savior. We go on the journey: first, Passover; then Yeshua laid in the tomb during the Feast of Unleavened Bread; and then the resurrection on the Feast of First Fruits, which is three days and three nights. We have to understand that there is a process, an order of events that we must go through every year. He does not want us to skip over the crucifixion to the resurrection, or to Shavuot, or to anything else. He wants us to honor and revere him enough to go on the full journey with him — through Passover, through Unleavened Bread, through First Fruits, all the way through the fifty-day journey to Shavuot, or Pentecost as we know it.

This is the season of deliverance. This is the season of freedom and liberty, as we have discussed so many times before. Once we reached Purim — about thirty days ago, on Adar 14 — it began. We had a blood moon that opened this season of deliverance, freedom, and liberty. If you are not familiar with that, it is on the calendar. That is why it is so important to be on the times and the seasons of the Most High — so that we are tracking with him and understanding the festivals he wants us to celebrate for what he has done for his son, and what his son has done for us.

In this case, it does not get any bigger than Passover. If it were not for Passover, we would all be lost — to be completely frank. If it is not for Passover, it is over for mankind. Passover was always plan A. He was the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. Think about that — the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. God did not have to come up with plan B because of our sin. He always had plan A with Yeshua, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. Passover was always the day that Yah ordained for all of us.

We are going to read those scriptures tonight, and they will give us the right heart posture going into this evening — into meditation, prayer, dreams, and visions, however God speaks to you through the evening and into tomorrow. This is a holy day, everybody. It is because of the crucifixion that we are not lost, and this is the specific day God has ordained for all of mankind to honor his son, his king over the entire world.

Tonight we are going to walk through the scriptures of that Passover meal with Yeshua and his disciples, to understand why he had to observe it then — because he was on the cross the very next day. He could not have eaten the Passover on Nissan 14 because he was the Passover Lamb. Whenever we read the gospel accounts, they align perfectly with the calendar and with the prophetic foreshadows of Exodus 12. Tomorrow night, on Passover night, we will go through the calendar, Leviticus 23, and Exodus 12 — the prophetic foreshadow of Yeshua — and then tie in the gospel accounts.

We must understand that the gospel accounts align exactly with Leviticus 23 and the calendar. They align perfectly, because through this alignment we can understand that he is the Jewish Messiah — the Messiah who came to fulfill the Torah, the prophets, and the Psalms, just as he said he would in Matthew 5 and in Luke 24. We must realize what he came to do. He is the Jewish Messiah, and we need to demonstrate his testimony to others — proving to both Jew and Gentile what he has accomplished.

As Revelation 19:10 says, the testimony of Yeshua — the witness of Yeshua — is the spirit of prophecy. If we are not including the first coming events and how he fulfilled them to the exact day, hour, and detail of the ceremony, we are missing a tremendous testimony of our Messiah. That is totally amazing when you think about it. Only one God could do that. Only one king could do that, and his name is Yeshua, Jesus.

We must track with him to obtain the intimacy he wants to have with all of us. He wants to invite you to the Passover table tomorrow night. Are you going to be there? I hope so. I hope you go through that Passover door, because that is exactly what it is — the Passover door. Tonight we are going to read John 10 and Psalm 118, and we are going to look at what Paul said about the crucifixion. He taught Christ crucified, as we all know, in 1 Corinthians 1 and 1 Corinthians 2. We have to identify with the holy scriptures. We have to identify with our Jewish Messiah. We have to identify with the Messianic Jew Paul. We have to identify with the Jewish people to understand what is going on in the scriptures the way God has ordained it.

Where Christianity has gone astray is in replacement — not slightly, but entirely. What God ordained has been replaced. This is called replacement theology, and we have to move out of it, because here we are on the calendar at Passover, and unfortunately most Christians are not on this. They are waiting until next week, on the wrong calendar, with the wrong days — not because they do not love Jesus, I am not saying that — but because they lack the education and the knowledge. We must get knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, as Solomon said. If we do not have it, we must go get it, especially living at the end of the age when things are moving at lightning speed.

We must understand the calendar to understand the biblical prophecies, the blood moons, the solar eclipses, and all the things the Lord has shown us. But it all begins with understanding the calendar, and it begins with the first fulfillment of the first coming events — the Feast of Passover. Passover is the door that opens up the rest of the feast days. The Sabbath is the first feast when you read Leviticus 23, but Passover is the first feast Yeshua would fulfill — the first of the first coming events.

We cannot replace this with Good Friday. That is a replacement — that is what Constantine did in AD 325. He replaced what God called holy. Constantine did not have the power or the authority to change what the Most High ordained for his son, his king, to fulfill to the exact day, hour, and detail of the ceremony. Constantine, Martin Luther — no one had that authority to change what the Most High God ordained for his son. When his son fulfilled those things to the exact day, hour, and detail of the ceremony, it is nothing but blasphemy and heresy to alter those times and seasons. No one had that authority. That is what Yeshua says. That is what Paul says.

We must have the right heart posture this spring season as we enter a new biblical calendar year. We have to be in alignment with him, especially given the times we are living in now. Look at what is going on around us. You can always tell those who are in alignment with God's prophetic timeline and those who are not, because those who are not cannot make sense of what is happening. How can anyone understand what is going on unless they are following the times and the seasons of the Most High God?

The biblical prophets prophesied through the calendar, through the feast days, and through the everlasting covenants. If we are not identifying with the calendar, the feast days, and the covenants — not only personally for intimacy with God, but also in terms of the Day of the Lord as the biblical prophets ordained — then we are not understanding where they are coming from. We are not understanding where Paul is coming from when he speaks about the Torah. He is speaking through the Torah. He is speaking through the prophets. If we do not have his educational foundation, we are going to take him out of context. We do not have to be scholars like Paul was, but we must understand that he is speaking through his knowledge of the Torah, through his knowledge of the prophets, through his understanding of the Psalms — and whatever he had with