Bar’chu
et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed!
Baruch
ata YHVH Eloheinu melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu
eht Torah-to. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the
blessed One for all eternity. Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the
Universe, you have selected us from among all the peoples, and have given us
your Torah.)
The most
important issue we can occupy and prepare ourselves with in this world is how
we will eventually escape the corruption of this world and enter the coming
Messianic age.
‘’Pesach’’ is the supreme
"chukat olam"
1Pe 1:17 And if you
call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work,
pass the time of your sojourning in fear,
1Pe 1:18 knowing
that you were redeemed from your futile behaviour inherited from your fathers,
not with what is corruptible, silver or gold,
1Pe 1:19 but with
the precious blood of Messiah, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless,
1Pe 1:20 foreknown,
indeed, before the foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times
for your sakes,
Exo 12:1 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh and to Aharon in the land of Mitsrayim, saying,
Exo 12:2 “This new moon
is the beginning of new moons for you, it is the first new moon
of the year for you.
Exo 12:3 “Speak to
all the congregation of Yisra’ěl, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this new moon
each one of them is to take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his
father, a lamb for a household.
Exo 12:4 ‘And if the
household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next to his
house take it according to the number of the beings, according to each man’s
need you make your count for the lamb.
Exo 12:5 ‘Let the
lamb be a perfect one, a year old male. Take it from the sheep or from the
goats.
Exo 12:6 ‘And you
shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same new moon. Then all
the assembly of the congregation of Yisra’ěl shall slay it between the
evenings.
Exo 12:7 ‘And they
shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel
of the houses where they eat it.
Exo 12:8 ‘And they
shall eat the flesh on that night, roasted in fire – with unleavened bread and
with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Exo 12:9 ‘Do not eat
it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire, its head with its
legs and its inward parts.
Exo 12:10 ‘And do
not leave of it until morning, and what remains of it until morning you are to
burn with fire.
Exo 12:11 ‘And this
is how you eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff
in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Pěsaḥa of יהוה. Footnote:
aPěsaḥ - See Explanatory Notes - Passover.
Exo 12:12 ‘And I
shall pass through the land of Mitsrayim on that night, and shall strike all
the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim, both man and beast. And on all the
mighty ones of Mitsrayim I shall execute judgment. I am יהוה.
Exo 12:13 ‘And the blood shall be a sign for you on the
houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I shall pass over you, and let
the plague not come on you to destroy you when I smite the land of Mitsrayim.
This
final plague was a once off experience for the nation of Yisrael. The first
Passover, blood was placed on the doorposts of their homes. When this
appointment was kept subsequently, one no longer placed blood on the door posts
of your house.
Today
we know that the Passover has been given its fullest meaning by the shedding of
the blood of our Messiah - Yahshua. 1Co 5:7 Therefore cleanse out the old
leaven, so that you are a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Messiah our
Pěsaḥ was slaughtered for us.
So
when we celebrate the Pesach Seder, we do it as a Memorial Seder, remembering
the deliverance from Mitsrayim as well as THE Lamb of Elohim through which
there came deliverance for us to be called the children of YHVH our Father
because Yahshua became the Mediator between Elohim and man laying down His life
for us-dying in our place for our sins. I Tim 2:5.
Yahshua
speaking of Pesach/Passover said:
Joh 6:53 יהושע therefore said
to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Aḏam and
drink His blood, you possess no life in yourselves.
Joh 6:54 “He who
eats My flesh and drinks My blood possesses everlasting life, and I shall raise
him up in the last day.
Joh 6:55 “For My
flesh is truly food, and My blood is truly drink.
Joh 6:56 “He who
eats My flesh and drinks My blood stays in Me, and I in him.
Yahshua
was referring to Passover kept the way the Torah teaches and realizing that
this huge redemptive event was directly associated with himself as being our
Passove/Pesachr lamb. Failure to do so would have severe consequences – see
Shemot/Exodus 12:43-51
The use of the word
“pasach” in Yesh 31:5 gives every indication that the base meaning is to “hover
over or protect.”
Isa 31:5 “Like hovering birds, so does יהוה of hosts
protect Yerushalayim – protecting and delivering, passing over and rescuing.”
Exo 12:14 ‘And this day shall
become to you a remembrance. And you shall observe it as a festival to יהוה throughout
your generations – observe it as a festival, an everlasting law.