WHICH PASSOVER ARE YOU KEEPING?

ARE YOU KEEPING A 14TH OR 15TH PASSOVER and IS IT OF THE SPIRIT OR OF THE FLESH?

        Are you of the number of believers that keep Christ's Passover as He has commanded on the 14th day of the 1st month, the day that He gave Himself to become the sacrificial Lamb for all mankind that will accept Him as their sacrifice? Or are you of the number of "professed to be Christ-followers," but who are keeping a 15th day  Passover, based on when the roasted, sacrificial, lamb of the early  Exodus Passover  was eaten? One of these Passovers is observed of the flesh and the other is to be observed of the spirit. Which one do you observe?

        Without any question the sacrificial lamb of the  Exodus Passover was roasted and eaten on the 15th day of the 1st month, but was it the eating of the lamb that saved the families of Israel from the destroyer that passed over them that night? Also and without any question, this same sacrificial lamb was killed, His blood shed and painted on the doorposts on the 14th day of the 1st month, and this lamb's blood was what protected the families of Israel from the death of their first born. The Lord, because  of seeing the lamb's blood that night caused the plague of death to pass over the families of Israel and it was not the eating of the lamb that night that caused the passing over of the plague, Study Ex. 12:13. The Exodus lamb was not of a spiritual covenant but of the fleshly covenant or agreement  receiving the blessing of protection of the flesh.

         Are you part of the growing number of "professed to be Christ-followers" that look past this fact of truth of the Passover, the importance of the Lamb's blood in the  Passover. Are you of those who are now creating another Passover, a 15th Passover Service. This is a passover of the flesh, inspired and led, and commanded by the flesh of men that God has not  commanded to be kept as His Passover Service but to be kept as a high Sabbath, the first day of Feast of Unleavened Bread and beginning that night to be observed as the Night To Be Much Observed. Certain ones are presumptuously teaching this 15th  is the Passover Service and  to be remembered to be observed based on when the passover lamb was roasted and eaten. Are you of the number of people who are laying  a foundation of teaching that  lays great meaning on the time the sacrificial lamb was eaten which was the 15th, the first day of Unleavened Bread and no meaning as to the spiritual significance of Jesus Christ as our spiritual Passover and all His suffering, pain, agonizing scourgings and death as our true, sacrificial, Lamb of God, sent by God the Father to become our 14th passover Sacrifice. Christ, our true spiritual sacrifice who gave His body, blood and life as the sin-bearing Lamb for all mankind, and this all was done  by Him on the 14th day of the 1st month? Jesus Christ and the giving of His blood and broken body and the partaking of those symbols was the new covenant- the spiritual covenant given in His blood, I Cor. 11:25. 

       The Passover, sacrificial lamb of Exodus 12 represented Christ only in that its blood was shed and presented before God as His commanded offering for protection from death. The eating of the lamb that night  and the bitter herbs was for them to remember the great miracle that God had done for them that night in causing the plague to pass over them and also the joy in leaving Egypt and the lesson to be learned of the great bitterness of bondage that sin produces.  This was a lesson for all generations to learn and to remember, if they don't they to will end up in the bondage of sin and in slavery. This was not  the spiritual covenant of Christ but lessons to be learned for anyone's preparation for the receiving of the spiritual covenant of Jesus Christ, our true spiritual Passover. That night of the 15th, God calls the Night To Be Much Observed  and is to be remembered and kept as He commanded it to be, Ex. 12:42.

        This Exodus sacrificial lamb's body was not broken, beaten and ripped a part in any way as Christ's  body was as the true Lamb of God. The Exodus lamb was commanded to be roasted and eaten whole, with its feet, its head and its purtenance intact, Ex. 12:9. This early Exodus lamb was much unlike the True Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, whose blood was not only shed,  but shed all day long on the 14th  with excruciating pain  and terrible suffering because of His Body being beaten, scourged, bruised, flagged and broken by being torn open, Psalm 22:14-17, Matthew 27:26, to a point of being unrecognized. Christ permitted this to all be done for the great spiritual purpose of becoming man's true sacrifice and all this was done and given on the 14th. of the 1st month, becoming man's true spiritual Passover.

         The Exodus, sacrificial, lamb did not and could never represent all that the true Lamb of God, Jesus Christ represented in His Passover. Jesus Christ, as the Son of God, came in the flesh to represent the true, sacrificial Lamb that all the Scripture points people to look too for salvation, to be saved from their sins of death. Christ did this by taking on Himself all the suffering, pain, sorrow, the guilt and anguish of pain that sin produces, the depression, discouragement and despair of pain and suffering that sin produces. Christ is the only sacrificial Lamb that can forgive, heal, justify, lift man free from all the bondage, curses, suffering and pain of sin, protect and save him, and give him eternal life at His coming. Jesus Christ commands His true followers to remember this at His Passover Service on the 14th of the first month. A 15th Passover Service is in rebellion to Jesus Christ and is nothing less than a commandment of men, a Passover Service of the flesh.

OUR 14TH Day PASSOVER

        On the 14th day of the 1st month when Jesus Christ was crucified, Christ at the beginning of this day which began in the evening, sat down for a meal with His disciples. After the meal, Christ instituted the symbols that were to represent His death and suffering. He gave to His disciples some broken bread to eat, to represent His suffering of His broken body, and then  He gave them some wine to drink to represent His blood, shed for the remission of sins. After Christ instituted that 1st New Covenant Passover, He went to a place for earnest prayer to His Father, praying that He would help Him endure this great trial and suffering that was about to be released upon Him that day so that He could become man's true needed spiritual sacrifice that could save man spiritually from death. Christ went twice more that night in prayer to the Father, and each time appealing to the Father, "if there is possible any other way to fulfill this law's judgment for man's sins," and each time the answer was the same. There is no other way for sins penalty to be justified except through the shedding of blood. Christ accepted the Father's answer and His will each time, and so Christ in a supreme love for man laid down His life to became man's substitutinary sacrifice, Matthew 26:36-44.

        After Christ's deep and earnest prayer, He gave of Himself to be man's sacrifice as the sacrificial Lamb of God, and it all began that night with Him being betrayed by one of His chosen disciples, Judas, and then He was arrested by the religious community. Christ's life had already begun to be filled with sorrow of all that was about to come upon Him, Matthew 26:38. At this point of Christ's trial and suffering, all of His disciples forsook Him and fled, Matthew 26:56. He then was led before the High Priest and was condemned by the testimony of 2 false witnesses, to be put to death! At this point, the religious elders, priests and the council began to strike Him repeatedly and beat Him, spit in His face, completely humiliating the Lamb of God in every possible way, Matthew 26:76-68.  

        This all happened during the night of the 14th, and in the morning Christ's crucifixion to death continued with Him being led before the governor. Pilate caused Him to be scourged, which was a beating or whipping that inflicts very severe pain, agony and suffering that breaks the body's flesh and makes tears all over the body, Matthew 27:26. Through all the beatings and scourgings Christ's blood was continually being spilled from Him. Then the soldiers of the governor took Christ and mocked Him, made fun of Him, hitting His head with a reed, Matthew 27:30. After all of this, they took Christ and nailed or pierced His body to a cross spilling more of His blood and then raised Him up to hang from the nails driven through His feet and hands. He hung in this terrible, excruciating, agonizing, painful, suffering position for hours, being mocked and made fun of by the elders, scribes and chief priests, Matthew 27:39-43, until He died in mid-afternoon. A spear was pierced through His side to make sure He was dead, causing whatever blood that was left and water to come forth from His body. Christ was put in the grave minutes before the 15th Sabbath. None of this took place on the 15th.

        This is the true, sacrificial Lamb and His death of great suffering and agonizing pain, that all His true followers and chosen ones are commanded to remember on the  beginning of the evening of the 14th day of the 1st month of each year,  the time his sacrifice actually begun. His true followers are commanded to remember His death and suffering until Christ comes back, I Cor.11:24-26. Christ said, "Unless His true, and  chosen ones are eating His flesh (bread) and drinking His blood (wine), you have no life in Him, and whosoever eats His flesh and drinks His blood has eternal life and I (Christ) will raise him up at the last day," John 6:53-54. Anyone keeping a Passover at a different  time than  what Jesus Christ commands to be kept and that He observed and that represents His death and the giving of Himself on the 14th day, is not part of Jesus Christ and He is not part of them.

JESUS CHRIST- THE TRUE REQUIRED PASSOVER OFFERING

       The Passover offering is the offering of the spilt blood and broken Body of Jesus Christ, and offered in love to all the world, John 3;15-16, I John 2:16, Eph. 5:2. Christ's Sacrifice--offering as in the tree of life, (Gen. 3:22) is an offering-requirement that everyone desiring life must accept to be saved from their sins, Gen. 3:22, Heb. 9:22, Heb. 10:10, Luke 24:47 and Luke 1:77. Christ's shed blood and broken body is given as an offering for sin to anyone who believes and accepts Him, but He and His offering requires one to repent of his sins, the breaking of God's Ten Commandments, for the remission of his sins, Luke 3:3, Luke 24:47 and Acts 3:19. Christ's sacrificial offering is given as a free gift whereas, the repentant sinner will not have to pay for his own debt of sin with his own life and spilt blood, but is freed from the law's eternal death penalty and judgment.

        Beware of false teachers of today's Christianity that teach Christ and His offering is a redeeming message that frees one from the requirement to obey God's holy, righteous, spiritual law, His Ten Commandments and the time  of His Passover when His offering is to be observed. This is a lie and heresy that is much to the contrary of Christ's offering message, which lays greater urgency on Christ's chosen saints to obey all of His commandments, in their fullness and perfection, or else one's acceptance of Christ and His offering is in vain and meaningless, Gal. 2:17, Mat. 19:17-18, James 2:10-11, Heb. 10:26 and Eph. 5:3-8.

        The Passover and its offering requirement is for only those Christians that He is choosing at this time and who understand the meaning of Christ's death, have repented of their sins and have accepted His shed blood and broken, body offering in payment for their own sins. The Passover week consisting of the Passover Service  and Feast of unleavened Bread and began as recorded about 4,000 years ago. His Passover Service is commanded by Jesus Christ for His saints today, to observe, to remember every year to partake of its symbols, so as never to forget to understand its everlasting, spiritual meaning for life. Christ commands His church, "to observe this service for an ordinance, commandment to thee and thy sons forever," Ex. 12:24-27.  

        Christ was Israel's God-Leader, I Cor. 10:3-4, yes, but that Passover Service many will argue was for the physical nation of Israel, and not for us today. Again, Let Christ answer for His spiritual church today, His spiritual Israel! Near the time of the Passover, Christ gave His disciples a  life saving tip and a vital key to eternal life. He said in John 6:53, "Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, you have no (eternal) life in you. Whoso eats My flesh and drinks My blood, has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." Was Christ referring to His Passover service offering? Examine what He says at His last Passover on earth, found in Mat. 26:26-29, Mark 14:22-25 and Luke 22:17-20, in conjunction with what Paul said about Christ's example and teaching of pataking of the offering of the bread and wine, I Cor. 11:23-30. Paul was referring to that night when Christ said, "This cup is the New Testament (blood covenant) in My blood: this do you as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of Me.

        Every year at the Passover Service, when one eats the unleavened bread and drinks of the wine, "Ye do shew (proclaim) the Lord's death till He come." Verse 27 says, "Whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the Body and blood of the Lord." Christ goes on to say by His Word, "Whosoever eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation (judgment) to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. Verse 30, "For this cause, many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep (die).

        Jesus Christ, through Paul, is giving warning to all Christians and professed to be Christians, the seriousness of this service, and that it is a required service for all of Christ's disciples. The seriousness for all is to make sure they know the meaning of why Christ died, why He was the sacrifice, why He was beaten, bruised, His flesh badly broken and His blood shed. This is the offering required for all that desire to be forgiven of their sins, and if they want eternal life. They must believe and accept this Passover offering, and must repent of their sins, and desire to obey all of The Ten Commandments of Jesus Christ and God the Father, or else forget about eternal life and begin to think in terms of the judgment of Christ upon themselves like the rest of the world will receive, I Cor. 11:31-32.

        Jesus Christ says through Paul that one can be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. How is one guilty of the blood and body, by eating the bread and drinking the wine unworthily! How does one do this? First, by not accepting  the date of the true passover and the meaning of the 14th and what Christ did by giving of Himself on that 14th day and secondly, by anyone that takes his sins lightly which amounts to taking Christ sacrifice lightly. Christ  gives the judgment for these sins through His inspired writer of Hebrews by saying in Hebrews 10:26, "For if we sin willfully (not concerned about sin and counting God's Ten Commandments as not important and not required in salvation) after we have received the knowledge of the truth (the truth about Christ's forgiveness and judgment for sin) there remains no more sacrifice (Christ's offering of His blood and broken body) for sins. Verse 27,  The only thing remaining for that person is a fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries." Christ says the punishment for this person is going to be worse than it was for a sinning person in Moses' time who disregarded God's law.

        Today's Christian shall be thought worthy of greater punishment who has counted the blood of Christ's covenant an unholy thing, that observes the service of His suffering and death with a mis-focused purpose,  with a man decided day with no real meaning in relation to one's sins, and as Christ's offering-requirement for sin, verse 29, that He gave on the 14th  day of the 1st month and not the 15th.

          Every person desiring life in God's Kingdom must observe the Passover Service, with its intended meaning at its set time, the 14th of the first month as Christ commanded, I Cor. 11:23-27, or reap what is said  in Hebrews 10:26-31,-- "greater punishment  on those today who trample under foot  the Son of God and counted the blood of the covenant as an unholy thing  (who take His sacrifice lightly). The Lord shall judge His people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God."