Jesus The Passover Lamb
In the telling of any story, be it History or a relating of a real-life happening, one must begin "at the beginning".
In the telling of the great story of the Passover as it relates to Jesus Christ (Yeshua HaMashiach) we must begin there also.
The Holy Scriptures begin here also with the words Bereshith bara Elohim "In the beginning God". The very first word of scripture is the word Bereshith, and it begins in every Hebrew bible with an over sized letter B or "BeYT".
It appears as an oversized letter, calling attention to it. Beyt means “house. Prefixed to a word, carries the meaning in, or into. God is creating His “house.” In Hebrew, the name of the letter spelled full, BeYT is the Hebrew word for house. House [S# 1005] Hey-Aleph-vav-Tav and it’s Gematria is 412 the same Gematria as “house”.
Know and understand that a house (Beyt) DIVIDES (2) what is inside [family] from what is outside [strangers]. God is building His house and we by adoption, will be IN (the meaning of the letter B/Beyt) that house. Remember that in Hebrew, every letter has both a meaning, and a Gematria, a numerical value.
When God brought the Hebrew people out of bondage in Egypt, He commanded them to pick the lamb that would represent each house on the 10th day of the month.
Exodus 12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
Exodus 12:4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
Exodus 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
Exodus 12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
Now don't miss the spiritual connection here, for the natural will show the spiritual. Jewish people always ask God for a "sign" and He gives them (and us) the most wonderful of signs.
Bereshith with it's oversized letter B that represents God's house shows us the house, the Lamb that was to atone for the house(hold) of God was Jesus.
On the tenth day of the month of Nissan Yeshua/Jesus rode into Jerusalem as predicted in Zech. 9:9 and at the exact same time, tens of thousands of lambs, selected by the people to be their Passover sacrifice at the Temple on the 14th day of the month, each bearing “THE SIGN” around it’s neck that indicated the “HOUSE” for which it was to atone.
Yeshua/Jesus went directly to His Father’s “HOUSE”, the Temple and cleaned out the leaven (a type of sin).
As Dr. Chuck Missler has pointed out in his book “The Creator Beyond Time And Space” Pilate wrote a sign that would be placed over the head of Yeshua/Jesus. He writes:
Throughout the Tanach, our Old Testament, there are many fascinating acrostics and other textual peculiarities that will fascinate the diligent scholar. In the New Testament there also appears to be a Hebrew acrostic that generally goes unnoticed.
Meaning of the word Acrostic: A composition in verse, in which the first, and sometimes last, letters of the line read in order form a name, a sentence, or title.
When Jesus was crucified, Pilate wrote the sign that was nailed to the cross. The particular wording he chose displeased the Jewish leadership and they asked him to change it. He refused. There are some interesting aspects to this incident that are not apparent in our English translations.
" And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, 'Jesus Of Nazareth And King Of The Jews.' This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, 'Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.' Pilate answered. 'What I have written I have written.'"
John 19:19-22 (KJV)
Pilate refused to revise the epitaph he had composed. This may have more significance than is apparent in our English translations.
The Hebrew epitaph is shown below (remember Hebrew is read from right to left):
Ha Yehudim V'Melech HaNazarei Yeshua
What a great revelation this is for us, for the most Sacred and unutterable name is formed by this acrostic is none other than the most Sacred name of Almighty God YHVH!
Going back now to the tenth day of Nissan when Jesus rode into Jerusalem along with the tens of thousands of sacrificial lambs, the SIGN on His cross indicated the HOUSE this particular Lamb was to atone for. It was none other than the HOUSE of God.
Remember what John wrote of Jesus:
John1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. And again:
John 1:36 And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
In the Tabernacle, and then the Temples, only the High Priest (Kohen HaGadol) could enter into the Holy of Holies (Kodesh HaKodesheem) and then, only once a year, on the day of atonement (Yom kippur). This most Holy place was seperated by a thick veil, through which one could not pass under pain of death. But when Jesus died as our Sacrifical Lamb, that veil was torn in two, and the doors of the sanctuary opened on their own and the way to God was no longer barred. What was the spiritual truth of the veil?
Fast forward now to our present time and read what was written for us:
Hebrews 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Hebrews 10:20 By a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Now dear friends, hidden from public view, in the Gematria, the numerical value of the words of scripture we see this truth proven to us. In the Greek text of the Holy scriptures the word flesh is "Sarax" and totals 361
The word lamb in Greek is "Amnos" and totals 361
The ancient Rabbis knew that when words and phrases carried the same numerical value or "weight" there was a definite connection.
Jesus' FLESH was the veil that kept hidden from us, the Lamb of God
Finally, religion and tradition have combined to obscure the truth of this special time of year. You will be shocked to find, if you only do some research, that our "Easter" really comes down to us from the Babylonian goddess "Ishtar" (note the phonetic similarity) and tracing farther, you will find "astarte" the "queen of heaven". PAGAN practices all.
The true celebration is Passover and the Passover Lamb of God, Jesus/Yeshua who takes away the sins of the world, for ALL who come to him and offer Him as their spiritual sacrifice to God. As it is written:
1Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
1Peter 2:3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
1Peter 2:4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
1Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Dear friends and brethren, let us cast off the meaningless traditions and embrace the truth of Scripture. The LORD followed the PATTERN of scripture throughout His entire life. The pattern was followed exactly, and the Lamb of God was offered up on behalf of ALL of those in the household of God.
He was crucified on the Feast of Passover, buried on the feast of unleavened bread, rose from the tomb, NOT on easter, but on the Jewish feast of first fruits, 50 days later sent His Holy Spirit on the feast of Pentecost (Shavout) and I have no doubt whatsoever, that He will fulfill the remaining feasts in the appropriate manner.
He fulfilled the Scriptural shadow and type from the moment of His birth to the instant of His atoning death and He continues in His role as High Priest (Kohen HaGadol) as the mediator or intercessor between God and man. Amazingly, this simple phrase is also a numeric key for us. The Greek text of 1st Timothy 2:5 reads " Mesites Theou kai anthropos" translated as "the mediator between God and men", it's total is 3168 which is the same total as " Kurios Ihsous Christos", which is LORD JESUS CHRIST in the Greek of the New Testament. Faced with this level of conformation one must come to the conclusion that God was, is and has always been in perfect control and that His word is truth, for man, even with all of his computer knowledge today, could never author a work such as we have in the Holy Scriptures.
May your Passover celebration be filled with great joy as you realize the sacrifice you have chosen is the correct one, the ONLY one now acceptable to God. And, as the LORD rose from the tomb of man's greatest fear, death, so shall He raise each of us to everlasting life, for it is written:
Ezek 37:12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
Ezek 37:13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
Ezek 37:14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
Dan 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
So rejoice all you beloved of God that have the Lamb of God as your Passover, for you will live.
Have a great Passover, Shalom Shalom (perfect peace) to your household in Jesus' Name
Ron
In the telling of the great story of the Passover as it relates to Jesus Christ (Yeshua HaMashiach) we must begin there also.
The Holy Scriptures begin here also with the words Bereshith bara Elohim "In the beginning God". The very first word of scripture is the word Bereshith, and it begins in every Hebrew bible with an over sized letter B or "BeYT".
It appears as an oversized letter, calling attention to it. Beyt means “house. Prefixed to a word, carries the meaning in, or into. God is creating His “house.” In Hebrew, the name of the letter spelled full, BeYT is the Hebrew word for house. House [S# 1005] Hey-Aleph-vav-Tav and it’s Gematria is 412 the same Gematria as “house”.
Know and understand that a house (Beyt) DIVIDES (2) what is inside [family] from what is outside [strangers]. God is building His house and we by adoption, will be IN (the meaning of the letter B/Beyt) that house. Remember that in Hebrew, every letter has both a meaning, and a Gematria, a numerical value.
When God brought the Hebrew people out of bondage in Egypt, He commanded them to pick the lamb that would represent each house on the 10th day of the month.
Exodus 12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
Exodus 12:4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
Exodus 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
Exodus 12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
Now don't miss the spiritual connection here, for the natural will show the spiritual. Jewish people always ask God for a "sign" and He gives them (and us) the most wonderful of signs.
Bereshith with it's oversized letter B that represents God's house shows us the house, the Lamb that was to atone for the house(hold) of God was Jesus.
On the tenth day of the month of Nissan Yeshua/Jesus rode into Jerusalem as predicted in Zech. 9:9 and at the exact same time, tens of thousands of lambs, selected by the people to be their Passover sacrifice at the Temple on the 14th day of the month, each bearing “THE SIGN” around it’s neck that indicated the “HOUSE” for which it was to atone.
Yeshua/Jesus went directly to His Father’s “HOUSE”, the Temple and cleaned out the leaven (a type of sin).
As Dr. Chuck Missler has pointed out in his book “The Creator Beyond Time And Space” Pilate wrote a sign that would be placed over the head of Yeshua/Jesus. He writes:
Throughout the Tanach, our Old Testament, there are many fascinating acrostics and other textual peculiarities that will fascinate the diligent scholar. In the New Testament there also appears to be a Hebrew acrostic that generally goes unnoticed.
Meaning of the word Acrostic: A composition in verse, in which the first, and sometimes last, letters of the line read in order form a name, a sentence, or title.
When Jesus was crucified, Pilate wrote the sign that was nailed to the cross. The particular wording he chose displeased the Jewish leadership and they asked him to change it. He refused. There are some interesting aspects to this incident that are not apparent in our English translations.
" And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, 'Jesus Of Nazareth And King Of The Jews.' This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, 'Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.' Pilate answered. 'What I have written I have written.'"
John 19:19-22 (KJV)
Pilate refused to revise the epitaph he had composed. This may have more significance than is apparent in our English translations.
The Hebrew epitaph is shown below (remember Hebrew is read from right to left):
Ha Yehudim V'Melech HaNazarei Yeshua
What a great revelation this is for us, for the most Sacred and unutterable name is formed by this acrostic is none other than the most Sacred name of Almighty God YHVH!
Going back now to the tenth day of Nissan when Jesus rode into Jerusalem along with the tens of thousands of sacrificial lambs, the SIGN on His cross indicated the HOUSE this particular Lamb was to atone for. It was none other than the HOUSE of God.
Remember what John wrote of Jesus:
John1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. And again:
John 1:36 And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
In the Tabernacle, and then the Temples, only the High Priest (Kohen HaGadol) could enter into the Holy of Holies (Kodesh HaKodesheem) and then, only once a year, on the day of atonement (Yom kippur). This most Holy place was seperated by a thick veil, through which one could not pass under pain of death. But when Jesus died as our Sacrifical Lamb, that veil was torn in two, and the doors of the sanctuary opened on their own and the way to God was no longer barred. What was the spiritual truth of the veil?
Fast forward now to our present time and read what was written for us:
Hebrews 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Hebrews 10:20 By a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Now dear friends, hidden from public view, in the Gematria, the numerical value of the words of scripture we see this truth proven to us. In the Greek text of the Holy scriptures the word flesh is "Sarax" and totals 361
The word lamb in Greek is "Amnos" and totals 361
The ancient Rabbis knew that when words and phrases carried the same numerical value or "weight" there was a definite connection.
Jesus' FLESH was the veil that kept hidden from us, the Lamb of God
Finally, religion and tradition have combined to obscure the truth of this special time of year. You will be shocked to find, if you only do some research, that our "Easter" really comes down to us from the Babylonian goddess "Ishtar" (note the phonetic similarity) and tracing farther, you will find "astarte" the "queen of heaven". PAGAN practices all.
The true celebration is Passover and the Passover Lamb of God, Jesus/Yeshua who takes away the sins of the world, for ALL who come to him and offer Him as their spiritual sacrifice to God. As it is written:
1Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
1Peter 2:3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
1Peter 2:4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
1Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Dear friends and brethren, let us cast off the meaningless traditions and embrace the truth of Scripture. The LORD followed the PATTERN of scripture throughout His entire life. The pattern was followed exactly, and the Lamb of God was offered up on behalf of ALL of those in the household of God.
He was crucified on the Feast of Passover, buried on the feast of unleavened bread, rose from the tomb, NOT on easter, but on the Jewish feast of first fruits, 50 days later sent His Holy Spirit on the feast of Pentecost (Shavout) and I have no doubt whatsoever, that He will fulfill the remaining feasts in the appropriate manner.
He fulfilled the Scriptural shadow and type from the moment of His birth to the instant of His atoning death and He continues in His role as High Priest (Kohen HaGadol) as the mediator or intercessor between God and man. Amazingly, this simple phrase is also a numeric key for us. The Greek text of 1st Timothy 2:5 reads " Mesites Theou kai anthropos" translated as "the mediator between God and men", it's total is 3168 which is the same total as " Kurios Ihsous Christos", which is LORD JESUS CHRIST in the Greek of the New Testament. Faced with this level of conformation one must come to the conclusion that God was, is and has always been in perfect control and that His word is truth, for man, even with all of his computer knowledge today, could never author a work such as we have in the Holy Scriptures.
May your Passover celebration be filled with great joy as you realize the sacrifice you have chosen is the correct one, the ONLY one now acceptable to God. And, as the LORD rose from the tomb of man's greatest fear, death, so shall He raise each of us to everlasting life, for it is written:
Ezek 37:12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
Ezek 37:13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
Ezek 37:14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
Dan 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
So rejoice all you beloved of God that have the Lamb of God as your Passover, for you will live.
Have a great Passover, Shalom Shalom (perfect peace) to your household in Jesus' Name
Ron
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