Passover to Shavuot (Pentecost) 2022 (5782)

Kind: captions Language: en and you've reached Faithful Performance i want to wish everybody a happy passover out there hawks peace out to the jewish friends out there and we just want to come on live tonight to really go through this beautiful season that we've entered into the passover ever since the new moon uh 14 days ago as we enter into nissan 14 which is sundown tonight thursday night such an important time as we know when we read the gospels of what messiah himself was doing at this time preparing to die on the cross for all of our sins on nissan 14 or this year on the gregorian calendar it will be april 15th tomorrow around sundown you know so to speak in for the full day so we want to appreciate everybody for joining us tonight or also watching on the replay of this beautiful season that we've entered into we're going to go over a lot of information if you're new to the passover it is basically when jesus was crucified for our sins yeshua crucified for our sins but also we'll go back into the historical point of passover which most people are familiar with with the exodus from egypt so we'll look at it prophetically historically personally as well as we go through this beautiful season that we're in so we appreciate everybody joining us tonight and also those on the replay for the next couple of days as we enter into this beautiful weekend of passover unleavened bread the feast of first fruits is which is when he was resurrected and most people celebrate the day as good friday or easter sunday and we'll get into some of those things as well but we really appreciate you joining us and we'll first begin this uh by being set apart it's so important when we speak about the lord uh being holy being righteous it's all about being set apart he's mentioned that from the very beginning of the scriptures uh on through the new testament for all those all of us to be set apart and that goes into so many things we're going to read a bunch of scriptures tonight so if you do have your bible i'll try to go slow for you guys and uh go through this uh so we can all read this together instead of rushing through it but we do have a lot of information for you as we begin again this holy season this great season that we've entered into at sundown tonight which is nissan 14. if you're not familiar how god works the day and the night he the sundown starts the beginning of the next day so whenever sundown comes like right now at sundown on eastern time that is when the next day starts in this case it's nissan 14 or the day that jesus was crucified for our sins tomorrow morning at 9 00 a.m and then on the 3 p.m area he gave up his spirit and he was crucified for all of us which is totally phenomenal so we're going to get into all of these scriptures again we're going to go back into the commandment in leviticus 23 with the feast days the divine opponents of the lord we'll go through the exodus foreshadow of it which he was going to fulfill and then we'll go to the gospels and we'll see these beautiful correlations of how messiah and the father he has appointed these times for his son to intersect with human history at the certain divine appointments and it's totally remarkable but my friends like i said it all starts with being set apart being set apart is so important you know as the world goes one way and even including the church the believers the remnant we have to stay true to god's word and the original intent of what the way he wants us to worship and we're going to get into those but as we all know he made us in his image in genesis 1 26 it says let us make man in our own image according to our likeness so we were made in the glory of the father's image and the son's image and the holy spirit it says us so it's a trinity thing that he wanted us to be in his image and to follow these beautiful ways of the lord the commands of the lord which we're going to get into in ephesians 1 4 it says just as he chose us in christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love so he wants to set us apart he's had us before the foundation of the world that's pretty remarkable when we think about it we were in him before the foundation of the world so we need to follow the commands follow the ways that messiah himself walked in when he was on earth and the ones that he taught us to obey in matthew 7 13-14 we all know the scripture says we've got to walk down the narrow path the narrow gate and not the broad gate and so many times we look at our uh church today the body of christ today and it's so it's just like the world so to speak we've we've inherited the world of man-made traditions all of these things and there's really no difference in the world than the church when you look at it honestly so we've got to remember that it is narrow there's only one way to worship he's told us to weigh the worship and we're going to go through these beautiful things uh and these beautiful commandments and you're going to see the purity of worshiping in the most intimate way with the lord not a part of mankind traditions but according to the word of god and it's the most intimate way uh to worship the lord as we will see but friends as you guys know i don't have to say this to you guys he wants us to be set apart he wants us to be a holy nation he wants to be a kingdom of priest and we know that he said that in at mount sinai which we'll get into a little bit later but he said that at mount sinai in exodus 19 6 he wants to separate and that was the mixed multitude jew and gentile is what left egypt and we're going to get into that as well this season but he wanted us all of the believers in god all of the believers in christ messiah yeshua to be set apart and to obey the commands and also to guard them and also to proclaim them to the people as the most intimate pure way of worship but we find that in exodus 19 6 also deuteronomy 14 2 1st peter 2 9 it talks about being a holy nation to be a kingdom of priest and that's for jew and gentile that's why it's consistent through the holy bible like that from mount sinai in exodus he followed it up in deuteronomy he followed it up in uh first peter 2 9 and also in revelation 1 6 as well it says to him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood the blood of the messiah which is today nisan 14 and made us kings and priests to god his father to him be glory and dominion forever and ever amen so now we have to ask ourselves when we know that the lord wants us to be set apart he wants us to be different from the world uh who sets us apart do we set ourselves apart do we are we able to call something holy that is not holy or do we go by what god has called holy and what god has called righteous well of course he's the one who calls holy holy and unholy unholy and we cannot go against that in either fashion but we can find these beautiful scriptures and they're short so i'll just go through those real quick in psalms 4 3 it says but know that the lord has set apart the godly for himself in leviticus 27-8 it says consecrate yourselves therefore be holy for i am holy and i am the lord your god keep my statutes and do them i am the lord who sanctifies you so god's the one who sanctifies our self and so often we try to sanctify ourselves we try to bring in man-made traditions we try to we try to call what's holy but the bible is the one that calls what's holy and righteous and we have to obey what he has set forth in whatever way there is manners of worship eating health whatever the subject is he has told us how to do all these beautiful things in the holy bible in leviticus 20 26 it says this you shall be holy to me for i the lord am holy and have separated you from your p from the peoples that you should be mine so friends all through the bible we can see from adam and eve he wanted to set them apart in the garden of eden eden onto abraham isaac jacob to moses joseph he wants us to be set apart in his ways and not man-made traditions and things like that now there's a lot of great traditions out there but if it goes against the biblical command then there's a problem and we have to follow the holy bible so all throughout the holy bible for jew and gentile he's wanted us to be sanctified to be holy to be set apart and there are certain days that he has ordained these divine opponents of the lord that separates us from the world now unfortunately and regrettably the church has inherited a lot of man-made traditions you know throughout all of the churches and we have to make sure that we can discern and we can tell the difference in man-made traditions and the biblical man the biblical commands of the lord god and what i mean by that is there's holy days as far as the sabbath is concerned as far as the divine appointments of the lord or the feast days that we'll get into these are set times these are fixed times of the new moon celebration as we've discussed in other videos these are very important to the lord and guess what just like we discovered in those videos we'll be celebrating the sabbath and the new moon and what we'll see tonight with passover in the millennial kingdom it's a forever ordinance on these things so it's so important and unfortunately like i said we've i was born a gentile and i inherited a lot of these man-made traditions as far as what the roman catholic church and the protestant church and the non-denominational churches they've all inherited these things that are not biblical their men made traditions and we re when we read the scriptures the torah the first five books of the bible the prophets the gospels it perfectly aligns with the new testament and the old testament as some call it so i would encourage anyone out there that if this is new information to you to explore this yourself to discover it yourself what man-made traditions the church has inherited and what god has ordained for us to follow because it does there is a discrepancy in both of those uh as i'm sure some of you guys know this as well so we're going to go on the biblical command of how to worship in spirit and in truth and the truth is in the holy bible is not man it's not the church it's not a preacher or a pastor it's not me it's not you it's the biblical command that god's always wanted his people to be on and when i say his people jew and gentile the one new body the one new man and there's not two ways to worship there's only one in both sides jew and gentile have problems you know the jewish people as a nation they need to accept yeshua jesus as their savior and some of the oral traditions they need to throw off and then the gentiles when we look at the gentiles we've inherited manmade traditions the easter and things like that that is man-made it's not biblical and in fact in the prophets it tells you not to do some of these custom things that are associated with the the easter celebration with the eggs and all of these fertility things the prophet ezekiel warns about that in ezekiel 6 through 8 so you can read that for yourself but we have to understand that we have been taught men made traditions um in the church and we need to eliminate those and get on the biblical command because guess what it's the purest way to worship the lord in spirit and truth and again we cannot call something holy that is unholy to the lord or call something oh unholy that is holy you know so it works both ways and we have to make sure that we are under the biblical understanding of how to worship correctly because we all have to stand before the lord at the end and give an account on these things and only ignorance only goes so far you know that we need to really study the word of god be bereans and understand that there are some man-made traditions that we have to eliminate and i know that might be uncomfortable for some people but it is the truth and when you look at the bible which is truth the holy spirit's going to lead you into all truth and uh it will confirm these things in the holy bible so i want to wish you a happy passover first and foremost happy unleavened bread happy first fruits we're going to explain all of these things about what's going on this weekend and it's such a powerful weekend prophetically historically and personally as we remember what messiah did for us when he went and he sacrificed himself for all of our sins so if you have your holy bible it's important when we look at what the gentiles and like i said i was born a gentile but once you are born a gentile and you receive the blood of the lamb you are no longer a gentile you are crossed over into the commonwealth of israel so if you have your bible i would like to go through that first because it sets the stage that we need to all be worshipping one new body one new man there's only one way to worship as we will read and it's so important for us to be on the same page as we enter into these times that we're living in but a lot of the confusion comes from with the gentiles of which ways to worship and uh we have been given you know it goes back into the council of nisi in 325 with constantine he changed the sabbath from saturday to sunday well he had no authority to do that okay god did not anoint him to change his sabbath because jesus didn't change it paul didn't change it or any of the disciples didn't change it either he's the same yesterday today and forever so the nissi account the council of nissim 325 is so important to understand and read it uh read about it we've gone through that in other videos but it's so important because that transitioned the church if you will into man-made traditions easter christmas things like that it's replacement theology uh replacing god's holy festivals with man-made festivals that have pagan origins to them okay so you can do the research yourself but he wants us to worship in spirit and in truth my friends and i know this might be a hard conversation for some out there because we've inherited these things and again i was in it for 38 years until the lord opened my eyes into the truth of worshiping him in spirit and in truth according to the holy bible and i know that if you've gone through the same transition or if you've always been on the festivals of the lord the divine opponents then you know what i'm talking about it's the purest way to worship and we need to understand that but as gentiles it's important for us to understand that in exodus 12 it's a very important chapter to understand and it relates to what paul was telling us in the ephesians also in galatians also in romans as well so if you have your holy bible if you turn to exodus 12 47 through 49 this will give us a great understanding of how the lord has always wanted the jews and gentiles to worship the same way again we have to understand a lot of these things and we'll get into this were given to the jewish people as as they were chosen to give to the gentiles okay but they have failed doing that with messiah with yeshua and now the gentiles are failing the lord by not making them jealous of yeshua uh in romans 11 if you will when you read that passage it really spells it out perfectly how the jew and gentile relationship works together but in exodus 12 47-49 it says this all the congregation of israel shall keep the passover is what he's talking about and when a stranger which is a gentile dwells with you and wants to keep the passover to the lord let all his males be circumcised and let them come near and keep it and he shall be a native of the land for no uncircumcised person shall shall eat the passover and then it says in verse 49 there's one torah one law for the native born jew and for the stranger gentile who dwells among you so right there in exodus 12 he tells us jew and gentile to keep the passover okay and when we read this next verse this is all going to make sense but he tells us there's one way to worship there's one torah for the citizen jew stranger gentile at that time in exodus and now let's read ephesians 2 11-13 so if you have your holy bible look at ephesians 2 11-13 and paul is reverting us back to exodus 12. in ephesians 2 11-13 it says therefore remember that you once gentiles in the flesh who are called uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision made by flesh by hands now we just read exodus 12 that you had to be circumcised to keep the passover but look at what paul says that at that time you were without christ being aliens from the commonwealth of israel and strangers from the covenants of promise having no hope and without god in the world but now in christ jesus you were once far off have been brought near by the blood of the lamb by the blood of christ so paul is telling us to go back to exodus 12 to understand how the jew and gentile relationship works gentiles who were born we were without christ at one time but by the blood of the lamb by what jesus did on passover now we're grafted in now we're into the commonwealth of israel okay so you're no longer a gentile you're in the commonwealth of israel thus we need to be celebrating what he commanded israel okay it's right there in front of us in ephesians 2 and then it says we were strangers from the covenants of promise what is that it's not talking about the law it's talking about the abrahamic covenant it's talking about the davidic covenant it's talking about the new covenant the abrahamic covenant with abraham that promised a seed which is jesus yeshua it promised the land the davidic covenant promised a seed which is the same seed as abraham which is messiah okay remember in the gospels it says messiah is the son of david the son of abraham is telling you to go back into the covenants he's going to fulfill the covenants in matthew 1. so he's telling us that this is so important with the covenants that were grafted into it we weren't strangers now we're into the new covenant now we're into the davidic covenant and the abrahamic covenant and it's so important that those three covenants work together but the new covenant is first made with the jewish people we have to understand that when you read jeremiah 31 ezekiel 36 isaiah 59 and 60. that's with israel first and we are grafted into these beautiful promises which is awesome so it's so important with covenant theology because it will make sure that when we read the scriptures like we read in paul it goes back into exodus it goes back into the gospels and our theology is correct thus it will eliminate replacement theology and replacing god's holy days his appointed times his divine appointments so it's very important for us to understand also in first corinthians 5 7 through 8 this is what paul says about the feast of passover it says therefore purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump since you are truly 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 of wickedness but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth so paul tells us to keep the feast of passover of course he did he would have been raised up to the gentiles if he would have said not to keep the feast of passover so the divine opponents of the lord which we're about to get into which is passover are so important to recognize again most people call passover or what they think is passover good friday that's just a roman catholic term that was inherited by the protestant church and all the non-native non-denominational churches when someone says good friday to me it means absolutely nothing i don't even know what that means though when someone says i recognize that with our passover lamb who was slain before the foundation of the world you know on passover and we need to really understand the importance of terminology because it goes into covenant theology replacement theology then that gets into a different topic at a different time but paul is telling the gentiles to keep the feast of passover which obviously is right there in front of us in first corinthians five seven through eight this is also very important what messiah himself said about his commandments okay remember the new testament wasn't written at that time so he's talking about the torah the old testament the the prophets the psalms etc in matthew 5 17-18 if you have your holy bible you can turn to that as well and he makes it very clear of what he thinks about the torah and also he makes it very clear to all the believers what he expects to us with the torah and the prophets as well so if you turn to matthew 5 17-18 it and this is the son of god this is messiah this is our savior talking to us do not think that i came to destroy the torah or the prophets i did not come to destroy but to fulfill but assuredly i say to you till heaven and earth pass away one jot or one tittle will by no means pass away from the torah until all that is fulfilled so he's telling us he is going to fulfill every jot and tittle of the torah nothing's going to pass away the new heavens and the new earth will not come until he fulfills all of the torah and the prophets and then he hands the keys to the father just like first corinthians 15 says okay and some people look at this like okay he came to fulfill it so he fulfilled it so i don't have to i don't have to observe it well no he came to fulfill it and to establish it okay so because if we keep reading we're going to find that so i have a question for those who only believe that he just came to fulfill it a couple questions is if he came to fulfill it then that means that i can go commit adultery and commit murder and lie and steal and just break all the commandments because he fulfilled it well of course not i mean i know i'm being facetious here but of course we can't just do whatever we want and have a license to sin because we're saved by grace through faith certainly we are saved by grace through faith but he wants us to be good children he wants us to obey him and to be intimate with him to be purified within him during these beautiful things and also if he came to fulfill it and it's not established then my question would be was why is he sending it out to the on the millennial kingdom to the nations he sent them the torah when you read isaiah 2 and micah 4 those are millennial kingdom chapters you know when messiah is here on earth he's going to send the torah out he's going to send the word of god so my question to all those who believe the torah is obsolete and it's you know it's not not valid anymore that's era you know it's almost blasphemy because you're really cutting off his second coming events the feast days the covenants you're cutting out a lot of the things that he has to fulfill with the torah and he came to establish it on the earth to walk in his ways and it's such a beautiful thing king david calls it a delight he calls it freedom and liberty of the torah in psalms 119 so whatever we've been taught with the torah that it's invalid that is an era the torah is valid he's coming to fulfill the rest of the torah and to establish his beautiful ways a lot of people call it law i call it the ways of the lord that's all that it is is the ways of the lord and what we're going to be dealing with tonight with passover that was established before the foundation of the world nissan 14 was established before the foundation of the world god didn't have to go to plan b as we will see and it's amazing so now let's continue to read matthew 5 19-20 and he clarifies for us about how he's established his ways on the earth it says this now whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments he's talking about the torah and the prophets now remember what we read instead verse 17-18 and teaches men so shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven but whoever does the commandments torah prophets and teaches them he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven and then he makes it even more clear for i say to you that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and the pharisees you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven those are very strong words my friends and what he's saying is he's clarifying it that he came to fulfill the torah and the prophets but also to establish it and he wants all of us you and me to obey these things but also to proclaim them just like the great commission says the great commission everybody says yes go baptize the name of the father son and the holy spirit and then they leave it at that but he also says and teach them all things that i've taught you and he's talking about the commandments so whenever we talk about commandments uh sometimes the gentile church gets a little nervous because uh they don't understand the commandments or that we feel like we can do whatever we want save by grace we gotta license the sin it's okay everything's kosher no it's not uh things are not kosher unless we follow the commandments now this is not legalism it's called love it's called obedience it's called noah obeyed abraham obeyed david you name them they all obeyed the lord god almighty and that comes with a lot of grace and a lot of favor it works together with obedience but messiah makes it very clear in the in the gospels in the book of john how do he how he knows that we love him excuse me and this is what it says and this is very very simple passage john 14 15 if you love me keep my commandments that's pretty simple for all of us to understand and we have to understand well what is his commandments was what he taught in the gospels of course but he is also reverting you back to the beautiful commands of the torah the ten commandments you know he said the two greatest commandments is the love your love the lord your god with all your heart soul mind and strength and the second one is to love your neighbor well if you're doing those two things you're not going to commit adultery you're not going to steal you're not going to kill you're not going to have idolatry you're not going to have any of these things that are in the commandments so he sums it up with two great commandments but it fulfills all of them because if we love the lord we're going to be doing what he says in the torah if we love our neighbor the same way and it's really that simple that the torah is love and he wants us to obey it and it it teaches us to love our neighbor and to also love the lord god but in john 14 21 he makes it even more clear he says he who has my commandments and keeps them it is he who loves me and he who loves me will be loved by my father and i will love him and manifest myself to him in first john 5 3 the apostle john says in fact this is the love of god to keep his commandments and his commandments aren't burdensome so my friends it reminds me of what moses told them in deuteronomy i believe it's deuteronomy 30 in that area that this is not hard to do okay to love the lord your god with all your heart and to love your neighbor he says you don't have to go search it into heaven you don't have to go search it in on the sea or whatever it may be you can read that for yourself in deuteronomy 30 32 somewhere in there it's beautiful these are the loving commandments and when we're saved by the blood of the lamb and grace comes upon us and the holy spirit dwells within us he's going to lead us into all truth and peace and love and to love the lord and to also also love our neighbor that will fulfill the torah you know so it's really that simple and people really get kind of sideways with it with the torah a little bit because they just don't understand uh being especially being born a gentile how important the torah and the commandments and the divine appointments are the new moon celebration the sabbath which is on saturday all of these things we have to have the correct theology uh with this so i just wanted to go through that real quick that sometimes i get questions and emails about that since i'm born a gentile i worship according to israel well that's what it's about is we all have to cross over just like abraham crossed over he was a gentile abraham crossed over isaac jacob every one of us have to paul crossed over you know and had a great balance of it and just remember we're saved from the curse of the torah in galatians 3 13 we're safe from the curse of it but the torah is valid it will be sent out in the millennial kingdom it's his ways it's his beautiful ways and all of us just need to have a better understanding of it but we're going to go into a little bit more into it with the calendar and also with the festival of passover unleavened bread and the feast of first fruits again if this is new to you i'm going to try to do my best to explain it to you but these are the days that you can see in the bible when you look at the gospels it's passover it's unleavened bread you don't see good friday there you don't see easter sunday there okay it's passover it's unleavened bread it's first fruits these are the divine opponents of the lord that we'll get into and i just want to proclaim those to you if you have been on them then you know what i'm talking about if this is new to you i hopefully encourage you to go research this yourself and let the holy spirit lead all of us but my friends everything starts with god's calendar in the bible if we understand god's calendar if we understand the feast days or the divine appointments if we understand the covenants those three major things those foundations then the scriptures will read very very clear there will not be any confusion on jew or gentile side on those three major foundation principles but first and foremost we'll go to genesis 1 uh verse 14. if you've been with us on previous videos with the new moon and some of these other things that we talk about the sabbath the festivals then you know where we're going with this it all begins with god's calendar and unfortunately the world has gotten off of god's calendar and just like it's been prophesied so if satan can get you off of god's calendar or the church off god's calendar which he certainly has as a whole then we're not going to know what time it is we're not going to know what god has ordained with these principles because it excuse me it all starts with god's calendar the new moon the sabbath the feast days it's kind of like a grandfather clock you know all of these things going together all these wheels going together where god is on a timetable he has ordained certain markers certain uh divine appointments fixed times for all of us to understand not only for personal reasons or historical reasons but also prophetically and we'll see that as well when we go through these and we'll explain this but in genesis 1 14 this is the calendar that god uses in the two prerequisites that he has in genesis 1 14 it says 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 let them be for the lights and the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth and then it goes on to say that god created the sun and the moon sun for the day moon for the night so god's calendar is based upon the sun and the moon uh the gregorian calendar which is the calendar that most of us go by it's based upon the sun only okay which is it's a great scientific calendar it's just not the calendar that god uses okay and we can correlate the calendar he uses to our dates which again like tomorrow is nissan 14 but on our calendar it's april 15th okay so that's how it correlates together and there's many calendars out there that does correlate them together for you to understand it but god's calendar is based upon the sun and the moon okay so we have to understand that's what his calendar is and it's for signs and seasons what's so what's so important about this is the word for seasons the hebrew word is called moed and that means a divine appointment an appointed time a fixed time so god's telling us that he's created the sun and moon calendar his calendar for fixed times appointed times for yeshua jesus to intersect with human history at his first coming events and also his second coming events i mean this is totally amazing that he has set it up like this so remember that word moed because we're going to see it when we get to leviticus 23 when we talk about the festivals of the lord how that correlates to the calendar but in genesis 1 14 through 16 he's telling us his calendar is on the sun and the moon and it's for signs and seasons and we're going to get into more of that and the word uh for uh i'm sorry i'll go through that on leviticus 23 but anyhow that's how the calendar works is the sun and the moon the sun is for the day and the moon is for the months okay so the sun goes every day as we know up and down and also uh the moon is for the new months okay so when the biblical month comes it's going to be the new moon and then it goes through its phases and then it gets renewed again so the moon is an interesting thing to watch and you'll know god's calendar by this like right now it's a full moon for passover okay so we're in the middle of the biblical month well 14 days ago it was the new moon it was the sliver so that's how you know how the moon works when you look at the moon you'll know where we are on god's calendar if you're just following the moon only how it renews itself how it uh waxes and wanes throughout the month so that's how the moon works and the sun works on god's calendar and it's so important to understand uh where we are because it does deal with the prophetic of understanding what time it is uh when he returns for his second coming events so now that we understand the calendar is for fixed times appointed times uh times that messiah is going to fulfill it his first coming and second coming event now let's turn to leviticus 23. so if you have your holy bible uh we'll go to leviticus 23 and we'll see how it correlates to god's calendar in genesis 1 14. in leviticus 23 most people know this as the feast days of the lord we'll see the proper interpretation of that but most people will understand that and most people will feel like that those are just for the jewish people that's what you will get if you're a gentile believer or quote unquote a christian when you start talking about leviticus 23 all that's a jewish thing that's for the jews well let's read leviticus 23 and let's just see what this is about so to speak in leviticus 23 1-2 it says and the lord spoke to moses saying speak to the children of israel and say to them the feast of the lord which you shall proclaim to be holy complications these are my feasts so the lord makes it very clear in this passage in the first two verses that these are his feasts these are not the jewish people's feasts the calendar is not the jews calendar okay the jews did not create the sun and the moon and i mean that very respectful to the jewish people i love the jewish people as most of you guys know who keeps up with our ministry i love the jewish people and i love mankind i love everybody but the jewish people or mankind did not create the sun and the moon so they didn't create the calendar and then the lord says that these are his feast days okay these are his times that he's allowed not the jewish people okay he gave it to the jewish people to give to us the gentiles but make no mistake the calendar and these divine appointments are ordained by god almighty for his son to fulfill so when we look at the word feast in this passage the word feast is the hebrew word again is moed which again is the same word that was for seasons in the calendar so god is correlating his calendar to these divine appointments of the lord because that's what moab means is a divine appointment a fixed time and an appointed time for yeshua the son of god to fulfill when he comes at his first coming and second coming i mean this is totally amazing okay when you think about it that god has established this and has given this to the jewish people given it to us to understand what time it is and to worship the lord on these beautiful divine appointments that's incredible i tell people i don't know why people wouldn't want to be on the divine opponents of the lord i mean it's totally incredible how he set it up but he's correlating his calendar the seasons moed feast moed they're both mean divine appointments you know so he's correlating how important it is to understand his calendar and understand that these are the divine opponents of the lord or the feast of the lord that messiah will fulfill and these are his feasts okay these are his that he wants you and me to be on and also the word for holy complications when we read this passage that word is oath which means a rehearsal so when you look at this passage and we can read it again in its proper terms it says speak to the children of israel and say to them the divine opponents of the lord or the fixed times of the lord which you shall proclaim to be dress rehearsals these are my feasts what's so important about that was very important because this is what happened in the first coming the first coming the jewish people were sacrificing the passover lamb for 1500 years on nissan 14 and we'll get into that here in a few minutes but they didn't recognize the time of their visitation when jesus was walking and followed the biblical command he was the passover lamb coming to be sacrificed and they just didn't see what was going on you know they were sacrificing for 1500 years and just like luke 19 41-44 says you didn't understand the time of your visitation so basically now you're going to see destruction okay with the roman 80-70 and also that's prophetically at the end of the age as well but my question to the gentile church is this as well if they missed it and they were sacrificing the passover land for 1500 years then are we going to miss it at the second coming because he's going to fulfill these feast days these last three feast days and we're going to get into this but if we don't understand god's calendar and we don't understand the divine opponents of the lord we're going to be no different than the jewish people were when messiah was crucified for all of our sins and the majority of them didn't understand what time it was we're going to be the same way that's why we have to understand a basic understanding of god's calendar the feast days of the lord the covenants because we will know what time it is and messiah has commanded all of us to watch he said to watch these things in matthew 24 matthew 25 so that we're not caught as a thief in the night which the dead church is called as a thief in the night the lukewarm church is not the faithful church but the lukewarm and the dead church you can read that revelation but the faithful church just like paul says in first thessalonians 5 the faithful church we understand the times and the seasons the moadim the divine appointments of the lord we understand those and we will not be caught as a thief in the night so my friends that's why it's so important to be on god's calendar the purity of the divine appointment celebrate number one it's a commandment as we will see but number two the intimate relationship that you get by worship him on his time on his appointed times not man and now this year the calendars work together where good friday is passover and easter sunday goes into the resurrection most of the time it doesn't work like that the calendars are different and we've got to follow the divine opponents of the lord not the church not the pastors or the preachers who's teaching a replacement theology and i know that's strong i know that's tough but that's the truth it's replacement theology and that goes into the festivals of worshiping him on man constantine or the church and not his divine appointments okay so it's important as we look at the calendar and we look at the feast days of the lord in leviticus 23 it's the same it's the modem he's saying get on my calendar you will understand when uh my son's going to intersect with human history okay and that goes into a lot of the prophets and all of these things again the second coming with where we are on god's timetable that's for another time but the point being is you've got to be on god's calendar first and foremost understand the book of revelation you've got to understand the feast days to understand the book of revelation and you have to understand the covenants as well and the book of revelation will read very smoothly then and also the book of daniel and all the so now let's go into uh the actual feast of passover now that we know god has his times his seasons his divine appointments on the calendar we know that the feast days are the divine appointments now let's look further into the feast of passover which is where it all begins if it's not for passover then we're doomed okay pretty much okay if it's not for the feast of passover passover is it that was ordained before the foundation of the world remember in revelation he's the lamb slain before the foundation of the world so god has always had nissan 14 as the date that his son was going to intersect with human history and save the world those who believe in him he was going to be crucified for our sins and it is a shame that most of the church does not recognize the feast of passover i kind of look at it like this friends if you tell me your birthday is july 1st and i say okay that's great but i want to celebrate your birthday on august 1st or september 1st i don't think that would be too kosher with you guys i probably wouldn't be your friend long well the lord is no different the lord has one day that he was crucified on and that day is nissan 14 and we can correlate it to our calendar because it's going to be different on the gregorian calendar every year this year is april 15th next year to be sometime else in april and sometimes it's in march so at the end of march so we have to understand my friends that i think ultimately it's insulting i think it's disrespectful that we do not celebrate as a church on the feast of passover you know we look at it we i don't even know if uh people look at good friday as passover i'm you'd have to ask them but as a church we do not emphasize the feast of passover the way that we should and i think it's very disrespectful and all ultimately it's a disgrace in my opinion just because if it's not for passover if it's not for our savior going to the cross willingly that didn't have to go willingly then we are all doomed to hell okay so that's it starts with passover it ends with passover because without passover we're all doomed and that's my response to a lot of gentiles who says well that's the jews feast well if it's if passover is the jews feast then he just came for the jews then well of course he came from mankind john 3 16 he so loved the world god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son on passover to be sacrificed you know for all of our sins so my friends is so important i know this is kind of tough a strong language and i'm saying this in love to all of you guys out there but if it's not for the love that we have for the messiah to communicate with him and to be on his timetable this is passover it's not good friday it's not easter sunday it's passover and that's in the scriptures nowhere will you find that and if you do have a bible that says easter sunday then you have a bad mistranslation bible and i would encourage you to get the the correct interpretation because passover is it and we're going to look at all the historical prophetic and personal understanding of it and i hope you uh this encourages you if this is new to you to explore this in the scriptures and let the holy spirit lead you and if you're accustomed to this then you know what i'm talking about it's the purest way it's the purest form and obviously it's biblical so to speak so now let's look at some of these cool tie-ins with the feast of passover again messiah is going to fulfill the torah and the prophets to the exact day hour and detail of the ceremony i mean this is totally amazing how god's done this when you read the gospels i know when i first came across the feast days which was about seven eight years ago you know i was in the gentile way of worship quote unquote for 38 years and i'm not trying to be critical but it's just an era and once i crossed over into the purest form of worship it's just amazing when you read the holy bible the torah the prophets and also the gospels it allows of course it does it aligns perfectly with that when you read hey what is passover what is unleavened bread i had all these questions and then you go back into the torah and it explains all of them and according to the messiah as well but we're going to be in leviticus 23 and also in exodus 12 and also in the gospels of mainly matthew so just if you want to follow with me we'll read these things it's just mind-blowing what's going on with the scriptures with this so we read the scriptures that these are his divine opponents these are his feast days if you will and then the sabbath is really the first one he talks about in leviticus 23 that the sabbath is that important it has not changed i know man's changed it but it's on friday night to saturday night just like he's always ordained and we will get into that how we know that when we read the resurrection because he was he resurrected on the first day of the week which we know is sunday so that tells you the sabbath is on saturday even in the new testament so we'll go through leviticus 23 verse 5 real quick and it tells us exactly when this day is that he was going to be crucified for us in leviticus 23 verse 5 it says this on the 14th day of the first month that evening is the lord's passover so again this will not make any sense to us if we don't understand his calendar what is the first month and what is the 14th day of the month well most of us if we don't know god's calendar we'll say okay well that's january 14th it's not talking about january 14th or the gregorian calendar is talking about his calendar the biblical calendar made by the sun and the moon calendar and that day is nissan 14 or abib 14 or the first month okay some people have a problem with using the babylonian what they created in babylon the nissan things but it's in the bible zechariah talks about a shavat which is a babylonian term also there's other areas as well and the lord wanted them to remember their captivity remember their bondage so it's not unbiblical to use nisan as the first month because other months are in the scriptures like i said in zechariah with shavat and there's other ones as well so just f with esther i believe uh in the book of esther there's some as well so nissan 14 or abid 14 or the first month which is right now nissan 14 is the lord's passover so now let's look at exodus 12 and you're going to see this beautiful prophetic foreshadow of jesus it's totally amazing how the lord did it and when you go to exodus 12 it's such an important chapter like i said before for jews and gentiles to understand how this works with the torah and what was going to be fulfilled by the messiah but in exodus 12 1-3 and also 5-14 i'll skip over verse 4. this is what it says now the lord spoke to moses and aaron in the land of egypt saying this month shall be the beginning of your months it shall be the first month of the year to you speak to all the congregation of israel and say on the 10th of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb according to the house of his father a land for his household so we'll stop right there and explain that so the lord said this was in exodus this was during the three nights of darkness okay moses saw a sliver of the new moon and the lord said to he and aaron this is your first month this is where you're going to count the months you're going to count the sabbaths you're going to count the feast days you're going to count all these things in exodus 12 2 this is your first month which is nissan this is the month that we're in now the new moon was 14 days ago and now we're in nissan 14 the beginning of it okay and then it goes to tomorrow at sundown but this is the beginning of the months and he said speak to the congregation of israel or commonwealth he didn't say to the jewish people only or to the children of israel he said to the congregation which included the commonwealth of jew and gentile remember jew and gentile left egypt even pharaoh's daughter left with him actually when you read first chronicles 4 i think pharaoh was the one who saved moses she left with them so there were jews and gentiles that left egypt and he said to the congregation to do this but on the 10th of the month they were to grab a lamb or take a lamb and to keep it and then it says your lamb shall be without blemish think about messiah during this okay and we're going to get to the fulfillment of how he fulfilled all of these things that we're talking about right now but it says your lamb shall be without blemish a male of the first year you may take it from the sheep or the goats now you shall keep it until the 14th day of the same month which is nissan 14 then the whole assembly of the congregation of israel shall kill it at twilight and they shall take some of the blood and put it on their two doorposts and on the lentils of the houses where they eat it it is the lord's passover for i will pass through the land of egypt on that night and i will strike all the firstborn in the land of egypt both man and beast and against all the gods of egypt i'm sorry i lost my place uh and i will execute judgment upon them i am the lord now the blood shall be a sign think about that the blood shall be a sign what did we read in the calendar is for signs and seasons okay he's telling you to the ultimate fulfillment will be messiah but he said this will be a sign that i shall pass over you when i see it on your houses i see the blood i will pass over you think about messiah doing this my friends it's amazing and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when i strike the land of egypt so this day shall be to you as a memorial and you shall keep it as a feast or divine appointment to the lord throughout your generations you shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance this is very powerful my friends everlasting means everlasting okay this is passover this is when he set the prophetic foreshadow of what was going to be eventually fulfilled by yeshua by jesus the messiah when you read this you can see the prophetic understanding of it all over this this is totally amazing and remember this is throughout all generations you shall keep it as an everlasting ordinance well some people say well that's just for the jewish people but what did we read in uh ephesians 2 uh romans 11 we're grafted into the commonwealth of israel so if we're going to be all together in the millennial kingdom we're all going to be celebrating one way and that's going to be passover it's going to be an everlasting ordinance we're going to keep the feast of passover throughout the millennial kingdom and just like he wants us to do now so this is very amazing that the lord has really put this prophetic foreshadow in this to give us great understanding of a male unblemished okay we're going to see that with with the messiah the congregation of israel shall kill it it didn't say children of israel the commonwealth of israel shall kill it it's another foreshadow of jew and gentile he came to save the world okay and then put it on your houses or put it on your heart is what he wants you to do with it and it is a sign that separates us that sets us apart from the world is the is the sign it's the blood of the lamb it's it's all these beautiful things that he's instituted and as we know this is a forever uh ordinance for us to keep so what's so interesting like i said you know we before we look at the fulfillment of passover with yeshua that they were killing the land 1500 years every nissan 14 they just didn't understand their eyes were blinded that veil was over their faces just like moses proclaimed they would after the rejection so to speak but this is what it is it is a rehearsal and it was a rehearsal for a greater passover that was coming so whenever passover is mentioned most people will revert to the thought of the exodus from egypt which surely it was thank god almighty but also there's a greater passover that was coming and that was going to be jesus that was going to be yeshua he was going to fulfill this uh feast day to the exact day hour in detail of the ceremony which is pretty phenomenal in numbers 9 2-3 it says on the 14th day of this month which is nisan 14 at twilight you shall keep it at its appointed time according to all its rights and ceremonies you shall keep it again it's the number uh the moses was just following up on this he says it throughout deuteronomy as well proclaiming the feast of passover we know what paul said as well in first corinthians 5 keep the feast the passover just like we read before for all of those who just read the new testament only paul is telling us to keep the feast of so now let's look at the beautiful fulfillment of yeshua messiah jesus how he fulfilled this feast to the exact day hour in detail of the ceremony it is totally amazing that only he could do this okay to fulfill this feast so when you read the gospel account in all four accounts he entered into jerusalem on nisan 10. remember the lambs if you're not familiar with this all of the lambs were from bethlehem so all of the lambs would be gathered on nissan 10 going towards jerusalem and at the time of the messiah there was about two million people okay in jerusalem remember they were ordered or commanded to be at the in jerusalem three times a year the feast of passover unleavened bread which is an eight day feast the feast of shava oat which is pentecost as we know it and then also the feast of tabernacles in deuteronomy 16 16 it says that so they were that's why there was 2 million people in the city and they had to have the appropriate lambs according to the people to sacrifice all of them to make atonement but they all came from bethlehem okay so who else came from bethlehem well yeshua he was born in bethlehem or the house of bread back like hem is that called the house of bread we know he's the bread of life and we know that he's the passover lamb so it's not by any coincidence that the lord god commanded them to take the lambs from bethlehem because the lamb of god was going to come on that time to fulfill this feast of passover so nissan 10 when you read the triumphal entry when he's writing a donkey and they're saying hosanna in the highest so zen in the highest which means save now that was on nissan 10 when all of the lambs are coming in he was coming in the eastern gate which is very important to be sacrificed for all of our sins you can read that in matthew 21 mark 11 luke 19 and also john 12. you can read the triumphal entry but that day was on nissan 10 fulfilling what they said get a lamb on nissan 10 and hold it for four days inspect it and then it was going to be crucified on nissan 14 at twilight well messiah entered in jerusalem for nissan 10 and he was going to be inspected by the pharisees by the sadducees by the scribes by pontius pilate it's the fulfillment of it as they were inspecting them for any blemishes on the lambs at that time because they remember it had to be unblemished when you read uh the exodus 12 account well obviously messiah was without sin he was unblemished and they were inspecting him during these four days as well which is totally remarkable but they didn't find any sin in him okay so as we know messiah was born in bethlehem like i said in micah 5 2 that prophecy was fulfilled as well and it's just amazing that he fulfilled even nissan 10 he fulfilled even the lambs he fulfilled okay it's important to recognize that in psalms 113 and 118 that's called the hallel okay and that's the psalms that they would be singing during the feast days of the lord you know during all seven feasts that they would sing the hallel king david wrote the hallel which is psalms again psalms 1 13 through 118 he wrote excuse me he wrote all of the songs and when we look at these things basically it's going to be phenomenal when you read especially psalms 118 how he's talking about how he was wrote a song for messiah's crucifixion you know and we have to remember when they were saying uh hosanna in the highest so then in the highest they were saying save now save now well they were looking for a king to save them from the roman oppression but they didn't realize that he was going to be the savior of the world by uh by fulfilling the sacrificial system of the torah you know he is the sacrifice he is the lamb that was slain for all of us okay but check this out in psalms 118 and i would encourage you to read this passage during this weekend it's a phenomenal passage that king david wrote about the messiah the full thing but we'll read verse 22 through 26 and it says this the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone this was the lord's doing it is marvelous in our eyes this is the day the lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it save now i pray o lord o lord i praise sin now prosperity blessed is he who comes in the name of the lord that's why they were singing in the gospels we have blessed you from the house of the lord so again i encourage you to read the gospel account of that when they're saying hosanna in the highest is reverting us back to psalms 118 because that's the hymnal that they were singing uh during these feast days and what's so amazing was when you look at the psalms 118 because so many people get tripped up with uh you know the jewish people killed jesus or the roman soldiers killed jesus or whatever it may be guess what me and you and the whole world kill jesus on that cross because we're all sinners you know so that resolves that debate that he came to save the whole world because all of our sins put was put upon him on the cross you know so that i'll make that very clear and look at what king david wrote this was the lord's doing it is marvelous in our eyes this is the day the lord has made and i know we've seen that a lot this is the day this is the day the lord has made but this scripture is talking about nisan 14 is talking about passover is talking about the day the lord has ordained to save mankind you know from again the lamb slain before the foundation of the world nisan 14 it was always established god did not have to go to plan b once uh the people decided to kill yeshua okay he didn't have to say oh they crucified my son now i have to go to no there was always plan a plan a was mankind needed a savior if you read isaiah 59 through 60 we needed a savior and he sent his arm of salvation yeshua means salvation that's why he was named that that's why mary named him that the angel gabriel told mary to name him yeshua because that means salvation and we understand that to be jesus you know in the english language so yeshua means salvation it's funny uh when mary you think about mary calling yeshua tour he's basically saying here's my salvation you know this is yeshua or this is my salvation it's pretty interesting how the lord works but anyhow it was always plan a my friends for him to be sacrificed for all of our sins so uh we'll resolve that debate and that's for people that are um unfortunately they're just ignorant to the scriptures with uh the romans killed jesus the jews killed jesus we all killed jesus and we all put him on the cross and he saved all of us from our sins thank god almighty but this was the day the lord has ordained some king david confirmed that from from the foundation of the world there was always going to be a passover so to speak so and from nissan 10 to nissan 14 which we just entered into nissan 14 at sundown tonight they were inspecting the lambs to make sure they didn't have any blemishes just like we discussed before and then the high priest were inspecting the lambs and the pharisees the chief priests the scribes the herodians all the religious zealots were inspecting jesus however they did not find any wrongdoing whatsoever because he was perfect he was without blemish going back into the exodus 12 account it's totally phenomenal in matthew 26 59-60 it says this now the chief priests the elders and all the councils sought false testimony against jesus to put him to death but they found none even though many witnesses came forward they found none so again he's going to fulfill even the minor details of the passover lamb they had to be without blemish and of course he was without blemish so after what most people call the lord's supper it was actually a passover seder in my opinion but whatever you want to call it and before he was betrayed and crucified the children of israel sang this song right here in the hillel and it's psalms 118 again 21-23 and verse 27. and this and i would encourage you to read the whole psalm psalm 118 it's phenomenal it talks about the crucifixion of the messiah it says i will praise you for you have answered me and you have become my salvation which is what yeshua means in hebrew the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone this was the lord's doing it's marvelous in our eyes god is the lord and has given us light he is the light of the world and then look what it says bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar so again he's talking about the crucifixion king david is i mean this is amazing they were singing these psalms and they just the majority of them just didn't understand what was going on that he was going to intersect with human history at that time and he was going to fulfill the feast of passover not only just the peace to passover but to the exact day hour and detail of it as we will continue to see it's totally amazing you know as we look forward to that in first peter 1 19-21 it says this but with the precious blood of christ as a lamb without blemish going back to exodus 12 and without spot he indeed was for ordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times for you who believed through him and god and raised up from the dead and gave him glory so that your faith and hope are in god almighty praise the lord and then when we get to nisan 14 the actual day which we'll go into tomorrow right now so to tonight begins nissan 14 he's in the garden of gethsemane you know anguishing praying etc throughout the night he's arrested but in the morning come tomorrow morning these are this is what really goes down uh for the timetable according to the scriptures it says in mark 15 25 when you look at mark 15 25 it says now it was the third hour and they crucified him okay so the third hour is 9 a.m in the morning what's so significant about this my friends is 9 a.m is the morning sacrifice so just as we read in psalms 118 they they bind the sacrifice to the horns of the altar that's what king david wrote you know to save and all of these things that's when they were bound in the lambs is that 9 a.m in the morning and that's when they were binding messiah you can read that in mark 15 25 again he's going to fulfill it to the exact detail hour of the ceremony it's totally phenomenal okay so at 9 a.m he was wrapped on the they was wrapped on the cross you know bounding him on the cross as they lifted his body on the cross the people were singing psalms 118 and hallel and this is what it says in verse 14 14-16 the lord is my strength and he is my song and he has become my salvation he's become my yeshua the voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tense of the righteous the right hand of the lord does valiantly the right hand of the lord is exalted remember they were lift him in and up and what did he say if i'm lifted up i'll draw all men to me and then the right hand of the lord does valiantly again that's what the prophet said in isaiah the right arm of the lord the right hand of the lord is yeshua jesus and he is our salvation and he's sitting at the right hand of the father as we speak so it's just amazing when we look at the correlations of the hallel when we look at the morning sacrifice we look at the timing in the gospels he's going to relate it perfectly and he's going to fulfill it perfectly okay so after messiah was nailed and lifted up on the cross there were more dress rehearsals fulfilled of course there was so if you want to turn to matthew 27 we'll read this as well in verse 45 through 47 but in matthew 27 verse 45 it says now from the sixth hour which is twelve noon okay until the ninth hour which is three pm this evening sacrifice begins there there was darkness over all the land and about the ninth hour which is the 3 pm sacrifice jesus cried out with a loud voice saying that is my god my god why have you forsaken me that's what he was that's what he said on the cross and what he was doing is he was reverting us back to psalms 22 because back then if someone said the first couple of lines of a scripture they were reverting you back to that well that's what messiah was doing he was saying my god my god why have you forsaken me reverting them back not because he has been forsaken he was reverting them back to psalms 22 which that's the first few lines of it my god my god why have you forsaken me he was trying to tell the people even though he was being crucified to go read psalms 22 that he is the passover lamb so i would encourage you to read psalms 22 because it tells the jewish people and really all of us now that he is the messiah he is the mashiach that was going to be crucified for our sins as the suffering servant kind of like joseph but he will come back as the king as the david if you will uh david you know as david so to speak uh fulfilling uh the davidic covenant in john 19 30 it says this so when jesus had received the sour sour wine he said it is finished and bowing his head he gave up his spirit you know so that what that's what happened uh at three o'clock 3 p.m on the evening sacrifice on nissan 14 remember nissan 14 starts at sundown but it also ends at sundown so obviously three o'clock to six o'clock it's still light in nissan 14 uh so to speak so as the high priest was killing it and this is why he said this okay excuse me as he why i said it is finished is because as the high priest was killing the lambs okay at the evening sacrifice that's what he would have said it is finished every time that he did that he finished up so that's why messiah was number one it is finished because we're all saved in eternal life but number two he was reverting them back to what the high priest would have said when the lambs were all sacrificed so to speak so he would say those exact words after killing the passover lamb so in summary my friends the passover lamb [Music] we have to understand that he fulfilled this from the exact hour in detail of the ceremony going back to the leviticus 23 command also the exodus 12 foreshadows i would encourage you guys to read those during this weekend also psalms 22 isaiah 53 all of these beautiful scriptures that points to him being the passover lamb for all of us on this day that we remember the crucifixion and where we were all if it's not for passover then we're all doomed so to speak so that is the feast of passover the prophetic foreshadows the command and also the fulfillments of it to the exact day hour and detail of the ceremony is totally amazing so now as we continue forward to the next two feasts and we'll in there with the next two feasts for is the feast of unleavened bread and what's uh so interesting about the feast of unleavened bread is it is a seven day feast okay so when you read the command and we'll read it it says to eat unleavened bread for seven days uh unleavened means without sin and as we know messiah was without sin he was perfect okay but it's called the feast of unleavened bread a lot of people will look at it as passover and unleavened bread or just the same feast if you will it's like a eight day feast that's okay you kind of look at it as bookends okay there's the feast of passover and then there's a seven day feast of unleavened bread so to speak so it's very important to understand that as well and we're going to see how he fulfilled the feast of unleavened bread as well so now let's go back to leviticus 23 verse 6 and this gives us the commandment of the feast of unleavened bread and on the 15th day of the same month which is nissan 15 is the feast of unleavened bread seven days you must eat unleavened bread okay so there's the commitment for all of us uh we do observe the feast of unleavened bread we do eat we don't eat anything leaven for seven days you know just as the commandment states and then when we get to exodus 12 15 which is the foreshadow that we just mentioned uh in passover it says this seven days you shall eat unleavened bread on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses and then there is the seventh day of unleavened bread which are sabbaths okay and we're going to see the importance of this when we go to the gospel account of the first day is a holy day a high holy day it's a sabbath but it is a annual sabbath if you will so that doesn't mean that it replaces the weekly sabbath okay that's two different things the weekly sabbath and also the high holy sabbath which is unleavened bread first day and then the seventh day is a high holy day as well sabbath that you know no work and all these things worship the lord but it's so important to understand how these work because when we read the gospel account of the unleavened bread we'll see the significance of what we're talking about but in exodus 13 10 it tells us you shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year so he says from year to year from generation to generation he didn't say until jesus came and then quit doing it and then we don't have to do it it's from year to year so everlasting ordinance passover is unleavened bread it's a beautiful thing okay so now let's look into the fulfillment of messiah on the feast of unleavened bread which is nisan 15 and it's important to realize so nisan 14 or really all of god's days start at sundown to the following sundown so when we read the gospel account we're going to see why this happened the way it did because of the high holy day of unleavened bread so in the mark 15 verse 46 this is what it says okay then this is after jesus was crucified it says then he brought fine linen which joseph okay brought fine linen took messiah down from the cross wrapped him in the linen he laid him in a tomb which had been hewned out of a rock rolled against the stone against the door of the tomb but what's so interesting if you want to turn to john 19 you'll see what i was talking about earlier with the feast of unleavened bread and the importance of why it happened the way it did in john 19 verse 31 and verse 42 it says this therefore because it was the preparation day that the body should not remain on the cross on the sabbath and then it says for that sabbath was a high day going back to what i was saying the high holy day sabbath so there they laid jesus in the tomb because of the jews preparation day so this is very important to understand they took messiah down from the cross before sundown because of the nissan 15 because of the feast of unleavened bread just like it said so whenever we read john 19 verse 31 and 42 this is the reason why they had to take him down before nissan 15 began at sundown and that's why john wrote it the way he did because it was the preparation day the body should not remain on the cross etc on the sabbath but it was a high holy sabbath it wasn't the weekly sabbath because most people would put jesus being crucified around wednesday so to speak and then he would have risen three days three nights you can do the math so it wasn't talking about the weekly sabbath it's talking about the high holy sabbath the annual sabbath feast of unleavened bread sabbath that obviously they were going to observe okay so when we look at nisan 14 and nissan 15 and how those work together remember he was crucified at 3 pm okay so then he was on the cross and then joseph took him off of the cross before the annual sabbath the feast of unleavened bread began which is totally again totally remarkable uh what happened the wasa also was interesting as a tycoon but with unleavened bread going back to the exodus account uh remember 1500 years before that was the exodus from egypt and on the feast of unleavened bread which is when they left egypt remember they had the passover that night and then the next day nissan 15 they left egypt you know so this is on nissan 15 and just as the egyptians were burying their firstborn on nissan 15 after the death angel on nissan 14 uh god uh buried his son so to speak for the whole world if you will we can read that in numbers 33 3-4 okay we know that he was taken off the cross and he was buried on nisan 15 and now this is the foreshadow of it that he fulfilled in numbers 33 3-4 it says they departed from remisses in the first month which is nissan on the 15th day of the first month which is nissan 15. on the day after the passover the children of israel went out with boldness in the sight of all the egyptians for the egyptians were bearing all their firstborn whom the lord had killed among them so just as they were burying their firstborn on nisan 15 god also quote unquote buried laid messiah in the tomb on nissan 15 again fulfilling the feast of unleavened bread to the exact day hour in detail of the ceremony i mean it's totally amazing and it all begins my friends with understanding god's calendar and understanding the divine appointments of the lord and then searching these things out with the prophetic foreshadows in exodus and also going to the gospel account and seeing it align perfectly together is totally amazing so now as we continue down uh to the last feast that we'll discuss tonight we're going to just discuss the first three and then we'll have a video on this sunday uh talking about um the feast of first fruits to pentecost uh shava oats so to speak and there's so much revelation during those 50 days that we're going to go through but we'll just go through these first three tonight since we're entering into nissan 14 and passover so we've discovered passover which is when he was crucified we've discovered unleavened bread which is when he was laid in the tomb and now we'll discover the feast of first fruits as he is the first fruits of everything of creation of mankind of all things and that's why it's called the feast of first fruits so it is the third feast that he fulfilled in leviticus 23 or the third divine appointment that he fulfilled so to speak but this is the feast where he was resurrected and that's why he's called the first fruits of the resurrection because he is that in first corinthians 15 verse 23 paul himself calls messiah the first fruits he says but each one in his own order christ the firstfruits after those who are christ are coming at his second coming so we have to understand that he's going to be the first fruits of that that's why it's called the feast excuse me the feast of first fruits is because he is the first fruits of mankind i know that most of the church calls this easter sunday but that is a replacement theology term as we discussed before it has no relevance in the holy bible in fact i can point to the prophets and to the torah to not you know use that terminology because it's in reference to a babylonian goddess so to speak so again we can't call anything holy that god calls unholy i know people mean in a good way when they say happy easter and all that they mean it from what they understand but this not uh correct uh terminology and i believe the lord wants us to honor the first fruits of mankind which is yeshua the messiah again it goes back into respect it goes back into uh observing the way that he wants us to observe and uh and following his ways so now let's go to back to leviticus 23. i know we're jumping around to leviticus exodus in the gospels but that's how it works with the holy bible but if you turn back to leviticus 23 verse 10 through 12 we get a good understanding of the feast of first fruits the commandment and the lord spoke to moses saying 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 waive it remember that the day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it and you shall offer on that day when you wave the sheaf a male lamb of the first year without blemish as a burnt offering to the lord again he's reverting us back to messiah look at the prophetic understanding of it so to speak so they were to waive a sheaf to be accepted on behalf and then on the day after the sabbath okay in this case after unleavened bread of male lamb of the first year and then without blemish again who is without blemish messiah so to speak so this is to be uh god commanded the feast of first fruits to be rehearsed uh the day after the sabbath which is the first day of the biblical week okay which is sunday okay so it says in there sunday he rose on sunday so that tells you the sabbath is on saturday if the first week is on sunday in the new testament so to speak okay but the children of israel were commanded to bring a sheaf of the first fruits and to give it to the high priest he would wave it to be accepted to the lord so to speak so a sheaf represents a person or people and you can find that in the strong's dictionary number 6016 it represents a person or people so god commanded a male lamb of the first year without blemish to be offered as a sacrifice messiah on nissan 14 and then on nissan three days later we waived the sheath to be accepted by him as well and then now let's see the fulfillment of the feast of first fruits as the third third feast in leviticus 23. as we know we just discussed that uh nissan 14 passover jesus was crucified nissan 15 or a piece of unleavened bread he was laid in the tomb and then he rose on the feast of first fruits fulfilling these first three feasts to the exact day hour and detail of the ceremony which in matthew 5 17-20 he tells us that he's going to do so now let's go to matthew 28 if you have your scriptures matthew 28 verse 1 and verse five through six so it says in verse one it says 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 but the angel answered and said to the women do not be afraid for i know that you seek yeshua who who was crucified he is not here for he is risen as he said okay so now just like we discussed according to god's word the sabbath is friday night the saturday night which is the last day of the week and the first day of the week is saturday sundown to sunday sundown and this scripture we just read proves that god has never changed his sabbath from being on saturday it's always been on saturday and sunday has always been the first day of the week that was changed by constantine in the council of nicaea 325 a.d that the catholicism catholic church has inherited that the protestants have inherited and the non-denominational churches is inherited as well it's a replacement theology from man yeah so to speak from constantine so what would happen is the first sheep that the high priest would wave would represent the entire harvest would be fulfilled so this tells us that messiah when he was resurrected as the first fruits of mankind that we all will be resurrected on the last day as it says in the gospel we will be resurrected as well that's why he's called the feast of first fruits because he's the first fruits of the resurrection uh it's not called easter sunday in the bible you know you know that's just not the way it is he's the first fruits of mankind and and sees the first fruits of the resurrection he's accepted by the father then the father is going to accept us as the first fruits as well because he's the one who fulfilled that in psalm 16 10 it says for you will not leave my soul in sheol nor will you allow your holy one to see corruption you will show me the path of life in your presence is the fullness of joy at your right hand are pleasures forevermore so please also read first corinthians 15 50-58 in acts 13 33-35 and again as the high priest waved the sheikh to the lord he was also commanded to offer an unblemished male lamb of the first year and as we discovered messiah is that unblemished male lamb of the first year the first fruits which fulfills this divine appointment of the lord which is totally amazing again jesus is the beginning of the creation of god through all whom things were created he is also the first begotten son the firstborn of creature creatures the firstborn of mankind firstborn of mary the first begotten of the dead and the firstfruits of the resurrections my friend he is the messiah of the first fruits and it's so interesting so that concludes of these first three divine opponents of the lord and i would encourage you to read more into it there's so much more you know that goes into these scriptures you know that are in the holy bible that proves this but the main thing is understanding god's calendar first and foremost and understanding the months that he is talking about in the bible and it's not january february march and april okay it's his biblical dates throughout the scriptures it's so important to understand his calendar then to understand the leviticus 23 and understand that these are his ways these are his calendar this is not mankind's calendar again no disrespect to the jewish people but the jews did not create the sun and the moon god did so it's his calendar he gave it to the jewish people leviticus 23 these are his feasts he says it twice to confirm it these are not the jews feast they are because they were given to him given to them by the lord god almighty to give to us as the gentile nations to worship in one new body one new man spirit and in truth and again both sides have problems but we need to all come together and worship in spirit and in truth and as we read in exodus 12 49 there's one torah for the citizen and the stranger jew and gentile but like paul says once you receive the blood of the lamb you're no longer a stranger you're in the commonwealth of israel romans 11 will go through that in very good detail as well with us being grafted in the jews are grafted in as well and they'll be re-grafted in as well at the end of the age when they come to a salvation as a corporate nation it's a beautiful love story and also we read in galatians 3 that if we are a seed of christ we are a seed of abraham and we're heirs according to the promise well that promises the abrahamic covenant my friends that goes into the davidic covenant that goes into the new covenant they all work together and we've done videos on those but my friends this is a very beautiful time on god's calendar as we entered into the month of nisan the new biblical year 14 days ago with the new moon and now we get into the middle of the month nissan 14 which is the day that got preordained before the foundation of the world the lamb slaying before the foundation of the world nissan 14 is that date that is we we are in that date right now because it's evening to evening sun down to sundown so but this is the time jesus was in the garden of gethsemane right now you know anguishing you know so to speak about what was about to occur when he got arrested you know that happened in the midnight hours you know 12 to 6 area if you will the midnight watch the all of these things you know the fourth watch as well the morning watch so this is a very important time for us to remember on god's appointed time what jesus did for us uh this year again the calendars correlate most of the years they don't correlate because passover can be tuesday wednesday thursday friday because the date never changes it's nissan 14 even though it'll fluctuate on the day of the week nissan 14 is nissan 14 and that's the commanded day for us to celebrate what god almighty what he sent his son to fulfill the divine appointment of the lord for me and you and for mankind this is the day that we worship on and i really appreciate um all of you taking time out to celebrate uh this this season with us tonight as we go through a couple of scriptures and stuff and i hope you have a great season of passover this is a beautiful time you know to petition and to pray you know for deliverance for redemption for restoration whatever you may be going through you know this is a very very favorable time to the believers of god uh right now i mean think about the exodus deliverance think about the red sea miracle think about all these beautiful things that happen in this month of nisan but ultimately think about what yeshua did for you and me and he sacrificed himself so that we can live with him excuse me forever and inherit eternal life with him forever and ever it is this day and if we can all get our heads wrapped around that i think it's pretty phenomenal of what the lord has ordained through his calendar in the feast days and the gospels and how it all correlates for all of us me and you for all of us to come together to worship him as one church as one new body one new man on the feast of passover jew gentile male female we're all god's people you know so it's so important so i get this question all the time how do you celebrate passover i mean what do you do and i'll say this just follow the biblical command you know the biblical command is lamb bitter herbs and unleavened bread when you read exodus 12 you know of course communion you know wine and or grape juice if you don't drink wine uh and uh matzah you know unleavened bread make sure it's unleavened okay not eleven bread is unleavened bread we should take communion with so this very that simple now there's a lot of great uh traditions out there beautiful traditions out there that you could uh implement or you can make your own tradition there's nothing wrong with that but just don't get burdened with it you know just like messiah says with the oral traditions okay there's nothing wrong if it doesn't burn you and if it's not against the biblical command but keep it simple if this is your first time uh or second time or if you're new to this it's okay we were all eight years ago i was new to it okay and what we have to do is just follow the biblical command of eat lamb bitter herbs unleavened bread and then do your communion with unleavened bread and that's the biblical command and again i'll do a passover seder myself which goes into more symbolism of the exodus and also with the gospel account it's a beautiful thing the passover um seder dish but again the biblical command is very simple you know because he wants us to keep it simple but again i do a passover saver and saturn is a beautiful thing with all the symbolism and uh all of these beautiful things so friends i really appreciate you guys joining us we will be doing a video um here this sunday night probably around the same time on the feast of first fruits to pentecost as we know it or the hebrew term is shavaot you know this 50-day journey it's so important it's a very purification journey a cleansing journey it's a beautiful time to really get intimate with the lord and we're going to see that even in the gospel account again we'll go through the same thing we'll go through the biblical command the foreshadow and even the gospel account which is when jesus after he was resurrected for 40 days he was on the earth then the 40th day he ascended to the right hand of the father and then he told them to tarry in jerusalem for 10 days and to the feast of shabbat or pentecost we'll see all of that revelation and how important personally it is for all of us to go on this purification journey uh with him during this season now and make it clear there's nothing wrong with going on a purification journey any time of the year but he does have his seasons and his seasons are seasons and there's something very special about going on this purification journey from passover to shava oat you know or pentecost this 50-day journey if you will after the feast of first fruits that's 50 days and as we know in the bible 50 days means jubilee freedom liberty so whatever you're maybe going through this time whether it's a good season or a warfare season or a challenging season this is a beautiful time for the believers this is a beautiful time for favor for provision for restoration for redemption and again think about all of the accounts that we read according to passover to pentecost think about the children of israel when they left bondage into freedom and liberty and went on this faith journey in this purification journey with them that's what he was doing with them he was purifying their faith and getting rid of the egypt inside of them so every year we like to go through this to get egypt out of us you know to get egypt out of us as we get purified even more through it's called the counting of the omer or a 50-day count to pentecost you know when the holy spirit was poured out and also when the torah was given it was the same exact day so we'll go through all of those things on sunday night so i hope you join us a sunday night it'll be around 8 o'clock eastern time and we'll go through all of that we can fellowship more together with this and give all this beautiful revelation as we all journey uh with the lord with the purity of the scriptures again it's purity is intimacy with him and the way to do that is through the holy bible and through these beautiful beautiful ordinances these commandments that he has given us and like we all know his commandments are not burdensome whatsoever so i appreciate you joining us taking time tonight to joining us i wish you a very happy passover he has risen he has risen indeed enjoy the day enjoy tomorrow but also have the remembrance throughout the night through tomorrow what he did for us you know the garden of gethsemane being arrested being beaten being whipped being tortured basically the worst crucifixion in history for you and i to live with him forever and ever amen well i really appreciate it guys and as always may god bless you may he keep you may his face shine upon you and give you his grace may he lift up his countenance upon you and your family and give you his everlasting shalom in the name above every other name the god of abraham isaac jacob and david the urea huda the line of the tribe of judah and the ones whose names hired in every other name and he is our passover lamb thank god almighty have a great night everybody and we'll see you sunday night at eight o'clock shalom