Pesach and the Feast of
Unleavened Bread
Daniel ban Ya'acov Ysrael
1Co 5:7 Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, so that
you are a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Messiah our Passover was
offered for us.
Joh 1:29 On the next day Yoḥanan saw יהושע coming toward him, and said, “See, the Lamb of Elohim who takes away the sin of
the world!
Here we see Yeshua to be call the Lamb of El,
sacrificed during the Feast of Pesach:
Lev 23:4 ‘These are the appointed times of יהוה, set-apart gatherings which
you are to proclaim at their appointed times.
Lev 23:5 ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth
day of the month, between the evenings*,
is the Passover to יהוה.
Lev 23:6 ‘And on the fifteenth day of this month is the Festival of Unleavened Bread to יהוה – seven days you eat unleavened bread.
Lev 23:7 ‘On the first day you have a set-apart
gathering, you do no servile work.
* The term "between the evening" in Hebrew "ben
HaArbayim". Yeshua explain that a day has 12 hours:
Joh 11:9 יהושע answered, “Are
there not twelve hours in the day? .....................
In Hebrew understanding, a day count 12 hours and the night 12 hours.
The day start at 6am to finish at 6pm (erev). Counting from 6am the 9th hour
correspond to 3pm our time today and noon correspond to the 6th hour of the
day.
Mat 27:45 And from the
sixth hour (noon time) there was darkness over all the land, until the ninth hour (3pm).
Mat
27:46 And about
the ninth hour יהושע cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Ěli, Ěli, lemah sheḇaqtani?” that is, “My Ěl, My Ěl, why have You forsaken Me?”
Symbol and reality
For many believers, there are many difficulties to see what Yehowah did,
due to false interpretation and sometime denial of interpretation of the
scriptures, looking simply and alone to the p'shat (literal) level. Sha'ul who
was perfectly knowledgeable in the Torah, having study at Gamaliel feet will
bring a new dimension in the mystery of
the New Covenant:
Acts 22:1 “Men, brothers, and fathers, hear my defence
before you now.”
Act 22:2 And when they heard that he
spoke to them in the Heḇrew language,1 they kept greater silence. And he said:.
Act 22:3 “I am indeed a
Yehuḏite,
having been born in Tarsos of Kilikia, but brought
up in this city at the feet of Gamli’ĕl, having been instructed according to
the exactness of the Torah of our fathers, being ardent for Elohim, as you
all are today,
Sha'ul explains one principle to understand how to interpret scriptures:
1Co 15:45 And so it has been written, “The first man Aḏam
became a living being,” the last Aḏam a life-giving Spirit.
1Co 15:46 The
spiritual, however, was not first, but
the natural, and afterward the spiritual.
1Co 15:47 The
first man (Adam) was of the earth, earthy;
the second Man is the Master from
heaven.
1Co 15:48 As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly.
1Co 15:49 And as we have borne the likeness of the
earthy, we shall also bear the likeness of the heavenly.
Here Sha'ul explains that there are two kind of people, the first be carnal the one who live with the first
Adam nature, the second is spiritual, the one who has the nature of Mashiach.
At birth, we all have the
nature of the first Adam and not the "original sin" inherit from Adam
as taught by the Roman Catholic Church. We inherit the carnal nature from the
first Adam which point to the necessity of Messiah in our life, because without
him there is no way to become the perfect man intended by Yehowah.
And this is the reason:
Rom 8:29 Because those whom He knew
beforehand, He also ordained beforehand
to be conformed to the likeness of His Son, for Him to be the
first-born among many brothers.
Tout
To be transformed in the image of Yeshua who himself is the image of
Elohim:
Heb 1:1 Elohim, having of old spoken in many portions
and many ways to the fathers by the prophets,
Heb 1:2 has in these last days spoken to
us by the Son, whom He has appointed heir of all, through whom also He made the
ages,
Heb 1:3 who being the brightness of the glory
and the exact representation of His
substance, and sustaining all by the word of His power, having made a
cleansing of our sins through Himself, sat down at the right hand of the
Greatness on high,
Etre transformé en l'image de Yeshua qui
lui même est l'image de Elohim:
Heb 1:3 et qui, étant le reflet de sa gloire et l'image de sa personne, et soutenant
toutes choses par sa parole puissante, a fait la purification des péchés et
s'est assis à la droite de la majesté divine dans les lieux très hauts,
Image in Romans 8:29:
G1504 εἰκών eikon (ei-kone') n.
1. a likeness
2. (literally) statue, profile
3. (figuratively) representation, resemblance
In the book of Hebrew we find:
G5481
χαρακτήρ
charaktēr
From
the same as G5482; a graver (the
tool or the person), that is, (by implication) engraving ([“character”],
the figure stamped, that is, an exact copy or [figuratively] representation):
- express image.
In another place Sha'ul writes: "Mashiach in you,
the hope of glory"
1Jn 3:2 Beloved ones, now we are children of Elohim.
And it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is
revealed, we shall be like Him, for
we shall see Him as He is.
But let
us go back to the Feast of the Unleavened Bread. The Torah as I have already
say in other midrash is filled with symbols, euphemism, metaphors concerning
Yeshua and the Assembly.
Egypte
in the Torah is a microcosm of our world today. Pesach is the signal of
delivrance proclamed by Yehowah for his children. In the Torah Pesach represent
a physical delivrance by the hand of Moshe a forerunner of Maschiach. For us
today our delivrance is spiritual who deliver us from the power of sin
(rebellion against the Torah). This rebellion is point to the nature of the
first Adam purely carnal.
The
text and application:
Exo 12:1 Yehowah dit à Moïse et à Aaron dans le pays
d'Égypte And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh and to Aharon in the land of Mitsrayim, saying,:
Calendrier
Hébreux:
Exo 12:2 “This month is the beginning of months for you, it is the first month
of the year for you.
Exo 12:3 “Speak to all the congregation of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘On the tenth day
of this month each one of them is to take for himself a lamb (symbol used by Yochanan the immerser in Yochanan1:36),
according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.
Joh 1:36 and looking at יהושע walking, he said, “See the Lamb of Elohim!”
.
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 month. Then all the assembly of the congregation
of Yisra’ĕl shall kill it between the
evenings (ben HaArbyim in Hebreuw).
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.
*The door post a metaphor for the heart.
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.
Yeshua explains the mmeaning in its Hebraic context:
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.
Joh 6:57 “As the living Father sent Me,
and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me shall live because of
Me.
Here a metaphor from many misunderstood. The
idea of "eating" is directly connected with the action of taking part
and thus to associate one with the center of the action. We find the same metaphor
with the priests taking part of the sacrifices.
Lev 6:24 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Lev 6:25 “Speak to Aharon and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the
Torah of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is
slaughtered, the sin offering is slaughtered before יהוה, it is most set-apart.
Lev 6:26 ‘The priest
who is making atonement eats it, in the set-apart place it is eaten, in
the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 6:27 ‘All that touches its flesh is
to be set-apart. And when its blood is sprinkled on any garment, you wash that
on which it was sprinkled, in a set-apart place.
Who are the priest nowaday?
1Pe 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a set-apart nation,
a people for a possession, that you should proclaim the praises of Him who
called you out of darkness into His marvellous light,
1Pe 2:10 who once were not a people, but
now the people of Elohim; who had not obtained compassion, but now obtained
compassion.
1Pe 2:11 Beloved ones, I appeal to you as
sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts which battle against the
life,
Pesach the transition from a life in
this world to a life in Mashiach after the inner man, the spiritual.
Yehowah fore told His plan of redemption to Moshe before. This plan is
build on 4 steps:
Exo 6:6 “Say, therefore, to the children
of Yisra’ĕl, ‘I am יהוה, and (1) I shall bring you out from under the
burdens of the Mitsrites, and (2)shall
deliver you from their enslaving, and (3)shall redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great
judgments,
Exo 6:7 (4)and shall take you as My people, and I shall be your Elohim. And
you shall know that I am יהוה your Elohim
who is bringing you out from under the burdens of the Mitsrites.
Exo 6:8 ‘And I shall bring you into the land which I swore to give to Aḇraham,
to Yitsḥaq, and
to Yaʽaqoḇ, to give
it to you as an inheritance. I am יהוה.’ ”
1 Delivrance by the hand of Moshe: Act 7:35 “This Mosheh whom they had
refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ – this one Elohim sent to
be a ruler and a deliverer by the
hand of the Messenger who appeared to him in the bush.
2Co 1:10 who
rescued us from so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we trust that He
shall still rescue us,
Gal 1:4 who gave Himself for our sins, to deliver us out of this present
wicked age, according to the desire of our Elohim and Father,
Col 1:13 who
has delivered us from the authority of darkness and transferred us into the
reign of the Son of His love,
-
2 Sanctification:
1Co 1:30 And of Him you are in Messiah יהושע, who became for us wisdom from Elohim, righteousness also, and sanctification and redemption,
- 3 Rédemption by the blood of Mashiach:
1Pe 1:18 knowing that you were redeemed from your
futile way of life inherited from your fathers, not with what is corruptible,
silver or gold,
Rev 5:9 And they sang a renewed song, saying, “You
are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals, because You were slain,
and have redeemed us to Elohim by Your blood out of every
tribe and tongue and people and nation,
;
-
4 Finalité. Wenn Yehowah will be among his people:
Rev 21:1 And I saw a renewed heaven and a renewed
earth, for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea
is no more.
Rev 21:2 And I, Yoḥanan,
saw the set-apart city, renewed Yerushalayim, coming down out of the heaven
from Elohim, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Rev 21:3 And I heard a loud voice from the heaven
saying, “See, the Booth of Elohim is with men, and He shall dwell with them,
and they shall be His people, and Elohim
Himself shall be with them and be their Elohim.
These 4 steps are found in Mashiach Yeshua:
1 Délivrance, Mashiach deliver us from sin (the world system today calling evil good
and good evil Isa.5:20, 13:11)
2
Sanctification. Yehowah turns us back
(shuv in Hebrew) to the Torah in order to sanctify us. (Rom. 12:1-2)
3
Rédemption
(down payment) 1.Kefa/Peter 1:18.
4
Finality.
When Yeshua turn over the Kingdom to Yehowah the Father:
1Co 15:22 For as all die in Aḏam, so also all shall be made alive in Messiah .
1Co 15:23 And each in his own order: Messiah the
first-fruits, then those who are of Messiah at His coming,
1Co 15:24 then the end, when He (Yeshua) delivers up the reign to Elohim the Father, when He (Yeshua) has brought to naught all
rule and all authority and power.
1Co 15:25 For He
(Yeshua) has to reign until He
(Yehowah) has put all enemies under His(Yeshua)
feet.
1Co 15:26 The last enemy to be brought to naught is
death.
1Co 15:27 For “He
(Yehowah) has put all under His
(Yeshua) feet.” But when He says “all are put under Him (Yeshua),” it is clear that He (Yehowah) who put all under Him (Yeshua) is excepted.
1Co 15:28 And when all are made subject to Him (Yeshua), then the Son Himself
shall also be subject to Him (Yehowah)
who put all under Him (Yeshua), in
order that Elohim be all in all.
This text seems a bit unclear, but by looking
closer demonstrate that Yeshua is not the Father and that Yehowah is greater
than Mashiach.
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 Passover of יהוה.
Exo 12:12 ‘And I shall pass through the land of
Mitsrayim on that night, and shall smite 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.
Yeshua explain the meaning of the blood:
Joh 6:55 “For My flesh is truly food, and My blood is
truly drink.
Yeshua nous donne l'explication du sang:
Joh 6:55 Car ma chair est vraiment une nourriture, et mon sang est vraiment un breuvage (symbole,
métaphore de l'alliance).
Sha'ul
explains also:
1Co 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not
a sharing in the blood of Messiah?
The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Messiah?
Rom 3:25 whom Elohim set forth as an atonement, through belief in His blood, to
demonstrate His righteousness, because in His tolerance Elohim had passed over
the sins that had taken place before,
Rom 5:9 Much more then, having now been declared right by His blood, we shall
be saved from wrath through Him.
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.
Mitzvot/Commandment:
Exo 12:15 ‘Seven
days you shall eat unleavened bread. Indeed on the first day you cause leaven to cease from your houses. For
whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that
being shall be cut off from Yisra’ĕl.
Exo 12:16 ‘And on
the first day is a set-apart gathering (Shabbaton), and on the seventh day you have a set-apart
gathering. No work at all is done on them, only that which is eaten by
every being, that alone is prepared by you.
Exo 12:17 ‘And you
shall guard the Festival of Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I
brought your divisions out of the land of Mitsrayim. And you shall guard this day throughout your generations, an everlasting
law.
When and
how long:
Exo 12:18 ‘In
the first month, on the
fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread
until the twenty-first day of the
month in the evening.
Exo 12:19 ‘For seven days no leaven is to be found in
your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, that same being shall be cut
off from the congregation of Yisra’ĕl, whether sojourner or native of the land.
Double
mitzvot: "do not" and "you shall":
Exo 12:20 ‘Do
not eat that which is leavened – in all your dwellings you are to eat unleavened bread.’ ”
Exo 12:21 And Mosheh called for all the elders of
Yisra’ĕl and said to them, “Go out and take lambs for yourselves according to
your clans, and slaughter the Passover lamb.
Symbols:
Using the blood of the Lamb
to apply on the door post a metaphor for the heart (atonement). The blood is also a metaphor for the blood of the
renewed covenant in Mashiach:
Mat 26:27 And taking the cup, and giving thanks, He
gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you.
Mat 26:28 “For this
is My blood, that of the renewed covenant, which is shed for many for the
forgiveness of sins.
Exo 12:22 “And you shall
take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and
strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the
basin, and you, none of you shall go out of the door of his house until
morning.
Exo 12:23 “And יהוה shall pass on to smite the Mitsrites, and shall see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and יהוה shall pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come
into your houses to smite you.
Torah has never been abolish
Exo 12:24 “And you
shall guard this word as a law for you and your sons, forever.
Exo 12:25 “And it shall be, when you come to the land
which יהוה gives you, as He promised, that you shall guard this service.
Memorial
for the next generations:
Exo 12:26 “And it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
Exo 12:27 then
you shall say, ‘It is the Passover slaughtering of יהוה, who passed over the houses of the children of Yisra’ĕl in
Mitsrayim when He smote the Mitsrites and delivered our households.’ ” And the
people bowed their heads and did obeisance.
Obeisance:
Exo 12:28 And the
children of Yisra’ĕl went away and did so – as יהוה had commanded Mosheh and Aharon, so they did.
Sha'ul explains
how to celebrate:
1Co 11:23 For I received from the Master that which I also
delivered to you: that the Master יהושע in
the night in which He was delivered up took
bread,
1Co 11:24 and having given thanks, He broke it and said,
“Take, eat, this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of
Me.”
1Co 11:25 In the same way also the cup, after
supper, saying, “This cup is the renewed
covenant in My blood. As often as you drink it, do this in remembrance of Me.”
1Co 11:26 For as often as
you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the death of the Master
until He comes.
1Co 11:27 So that whoever should eat this bread or
drink this cup of the Master unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood
of the Master.
1Co 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and
so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.
1Co 11:29 For the one who is eating and drinking
unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the
body of the Master.
1Co 11:30 Because of this many are weak and sick
among you, and many sleep.
1Co 11:31 For if we were to examine ourselves, we
would not be judged.
Sha'ul mention the violation and encourage toward
purity:
1Co 5:4 In the Name of our Master יהושע Messiah, when you are gathered together, and my spirit, with
the power of our Master יהושע
Messiah,
1Co 5:5 deliver such a
one to Satan for destruction of the flesh, in order that his spirit be saved in
the day of the Master יהושע.
1Co 5:6 Your boasting is
not good. Do you not know that a little
leaven leavens the entire lump?
1Co 5:7 Therefore cleanse
out the old leaven, so that you are a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Messiah our Passover was offered for us.
1Co 5:8 So then let us
observe the festival, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and
wickedness, but with the unleavened
bread of sincerity and truth.
,
Yeshua point to the leaven of the Pahrisee and
saduccees:
Mat 16:6 And יהושע said
to them, “Mind! And beware of the leaven
of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”
Mat 16:11 “How is it that you do not understand that I
did not speak to you concerning bread, but to beware of the leaven of
the Pharisees and Sadducees?”
Mat 16:12 Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of
bread, but of the teaching of the
Pharisees and the Sadducees.
There is the paradigm of the
Feast of Unleavened Bread: To live a life far from hypocrisies like the Pharisee and Saducees
How to
celebrate:
As we have seen, Pesach is a memorial and start the
14th days of the first month in the Hebrew calendar (2012 April 5) between the
two evening/ ben HaArbayim, so around 3pm. The evening staring at noon in
Hebraic understanding, but in reality start at sunset of the 13th and goes to from sunset to dusk. So indeed Yeshua celebrated the Feast of Pesach with his talmidim.
The memorial
include to eat bread and to drink wine (symbol of the blood of Mashiach). We read Matt. Chapter 26 and 27 during
this moment in an attitude of humility and gratfulness knowing what Yeshua
endured for all of us at this very time.
Breaking
of the bread and reading the verses:
Matt.26:26
Taking
the cup and passing from one to another after having read the verses concerning
the wine (Matt.26:27-28)
From this
time we eat during 7 days Unleavened Bread
The memorial will lead to the sunset, the beginning of
the First day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Memorial of the coming out of Mitzaryim/Egypt (literal
and spiritual)
Exo 34:18 “Guard the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For
seven days you eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the appointed time
of the month of Aḇiḇ, because in the month of Aḇiḇ you came out from Mitsrayim.
Deu 16:3 “Eat
no leavened bread with it. For seven days you eat unleavened bread with it,
bread of affliction, because you came
out of the land of Mitsrayim (world od sin) in haste – so that you remember the day in
which you came out of the land of Mitsrayim, all the days of your life.
Deu 16:4 “And no
leaven should be seen with you in all your border for seven days, neither should any of the meat which you
slaughter in the evening on the first day stay all night until morning.
Few
verses to mediate:
1Co 5:2 And you have been puffed up, and did not
rather mourn, so that he who has done this deed, be removed from among you!
1Co 15:33 Do not be led astray, “Evil company corrupts
good habits.”
Gal 5:9 A little leaven leavens all the lump.
May Yehowah the Father of our
Master Yeshua HaMashiach be with you all and bless your Feats aboundantly.
