Menu of God's Passover Lamb

1. The First and the Last Adam. The Truth of the Infinite God Almighty that is Passed Over in the finite mind of man. Pg 2

2. Ground Work with Weed Puling. The pulling of weeds that breeds confusion. Pg 3

3. The Removal of Chometz (Yeast).  Pg 6

4. The Preparation of the Passover for the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  At His last Passover Seder with His Jewish disciples, Jesus/Yeshua participates fully in the Jewish Feast and closes the old Covenant in the blood of animals; for while His disciples were yet eating the Passover, Jesus institutes God's New Covenant in His Flesh and Life Blood. Pg 9

5. Confusion in the Preparations. There are two preparations for the Jewish Feast. The first was for the Lord's Passover (the lamb).  The second preparation was for the Presentation Offering called the Chagigah.  It was specifically required for the males of Israel to participate in the Chagigah which occurred on the latter portion of 1st day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Pg 13

6. Jesus Christ, The Crucified Unleavened Bread of our Passover.  To fulfill His Word, the True Bread of Heaven, the Christ of God, the Son of Man must be in the grave 3 days and 3 nights, and not the 2 and a half days that are determined from good Friday. For Jesus/Yeshua to arise in Triumph on the morning of the first day of the week, then He would have been crucified to death on the 5th day (Thursday) of the week.  The Truth of God trumps the trite human tradition of a Friday crucifixion, death and burial of Christ Jesus. Pg 14

7. John's Gospel has no conflict with the Synoptic Gospels. 

The First and the Last Adam

Ground Work with Weed Pulling.

Yahweh God is not the author of confusion, but the Author of Peace, as [Peace within His Word should be reigning] in all the churches/ecclesia of the saved.  ^{(1st Corinthians 14 verse 33.)}

Who then is the author of confusion and the breeder of lies?  If you know of this entity, then what other handles is this author of confusion known by?  If any person is a party to, or a conveyor of confusion, even unknowingly, then that person's mind would be in collusion with the source of confusion.  If we are not having True Communion with Jesus the Prince of Peace and with each other in participating in the True Bread of LIFE, then every form of confusion is reigning, both in the pulpit, and with the people of the pews.  Confusion with its gross errors, brings divisions of unbelief in the Truth of the Word of Yahweh God.  However the incarnate Christ of Yahweh God, as the Son of Man, is One Essence of Heart with His Father, the God of the Living, and prays to this end:

And the Glory (The Spirit of LIFE) which Thou has given to Me, I have given them that they may be one. even as We are One.  I in them and Thou in Me. ^{(See John 17 verse 22 thru 23.)}

Hear again Paul's exhortation that speaks of this One Essence of Life:

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. ^{(1st Corinthians 1 verse 10.)}

However, with the seeding of confusion in the flesh of the mind of man, the enemy has deceptive pathways with stumbling blocks that disrupt the mind of even the so called saved.

Now, to this one point of the controversies with the gross confusion inherited by all men through the sin and death of the first Man, Adam.  There have been in yester years, and today, pious individuals, Christian Jew and Christian Gentile alike, who have correctly thought and taught that in God's Sovereignty, the sinless Sacrifice of the Lord, Jesus/Yeshua would have annulled the eating of the slain Passover lamb that showed its temporary blood covenant.  The TRUTH stands forever, for Yahweh God said He would institute a New Covenant . ^{(See Jeremiah 31 verse 31 thru 33.)}

However, in conjunction with the timing of Yahweh God's Torah appointed Feast of Unleavened Bread, and to justify their human logic, these bright individuals, Christian Jew and Gentile alike, have reasoned in their minds that the Lord Jesus/Yeshua, would have been crucified on the 14th day of Abib/Nisan, at the same time when the Passover lambs were being slaughtered.  So then, from their logical point of view, they reasoned that for the Lord Jesus Christ to be able to commemorate His last supper on earth, He would have had to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread at the sunset close of the beginning of the 14th of Abib/Nisan, which would have been 24 hours earlier than the Lord Yahweh God's command to celebrate the Feast of eating the Passover with the Jew's permanent Feast of Unleavened Bread.  With such reasoning compliance, there are many church leaders that erroneously believe and teach that Christ would have instituted His Supper of His Father's Grace, on a different assigned day, which would have been with the eating of the forbidden leavened bread, thereby breaking the Law of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which was Commanded by the Word of YHVH God for the children of Israel.  This cannot be the case, for it would make Jesus/Yeshua a sinner, and not the sinless Lamb of God, slain before the creation of the world.   

We can appreciate the zeal of the authors of error, but the whole assumed concept is a gross misrepresentation of scriptures that creates holes in the continuity of the writings of the Gospel accounts that cannot be fulfilled with the distorted zeal of the interpreters.  You cannot rip away the fabric of any one of the Gospel accounts, to piecemeal together snippets of selected script, and then with twisted commentary justify a position of gross error.  In our minds of flesh, we are all leavened little gods, and will justify our errors with more puffed up errors, and the cycle of confusion in mankind continues unabated.

For beginning clarity, the First Month of the Lord Yahweh's lunar calendar year was called Abib, and then many years later, and after the Babylonian captivity, the first month became known as the Babylonian month of Nisan.  Also, a day of the Lord Yahweh God Almighty begins at evening when the sun goes down (approximately 6:00 PM) and that day would end at the following evening sun set (approximately 6:00 PM) with the beginning of another day. ^{(See Genesis 1 verse 3 thru 5.)}

At this point within our defense of the WORD of GOD, it is important that the instructions for the Torah's prerequisite Feast of Unleavened Bread with the eating of the passover lamb, would be known in its completeness, with the understanding that Yahweh God's New Covenant WORD would be totally fulfilled in Jesus Christ/Yeshua haMashiach obedience to Yahweh's WORD as His WORD.  Yahweh God does not change His Covenant WORD of Justification and Sanctification of man-kind, just to accommodate the self centered minds of persons that give birth to ill-conceived assumptions!

The King James Version, along with some other English bible translations, have each of the lambs, known as the passover, killed "in the evening", as they transliterate the Hebrew language with:

And you shall keep it (the lamb) until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole congregation shall kill the lamb ^?in the evening^?. ^{(Exodus 12 verse 5.)}

There is ambiguity in this translation leading to confusions in timeliness; where as the translated word "in" according to Strong's Concordance, is the Hebrew Word  "beyn" meaning "between" the evenings. The following text is taken from the Jubilee Bible, because it tends too a more correct understanding of the killing of the lambs allowing time for the Passover to be eaten with the Feast of Unleavened Bread that would soon follow at sun down during the evening change to the 15th day of Abib.

The lamb shall be without blemish, a male of one year; ye shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats; 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 'between the two evenings'. ^{(Exodus 12 verse 5 thru 6.)}

Leviticus chapter 23 verse 5 in the Septuagint, transliterated into English, would also confirm that the two evening are between the hours of the evening of the 14th and the evening of the 15th of Abib, for: 

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the evening times is the Lord’s Passover (or the lamb of the Lord). ^{(See also Numbers 28 verse 16.)}

The male lambs, that are chosen to be the Passover would naturally have been slaughtered in the day light hours between the rising of the sun until 3PM of the 14th day of the first month of Abib/Nisan. The timing was appropriate for the slaying of the Passover so that slain lamb would be eaten with the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Feast of Matzo).  This Feast of Unleavened would occur during the beginning evening hours of the 15th day of Abib/Nisan. 

Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them: Draw out and take of you a lamb and "kill the Passover". Thou shall eat no leavened bread with it; [the it, is the  sacrificed lamb that is also called the Passover.]  ^{(See Exodus 12 verse 21 thru 22.)}. Thou shall therefore sacrifice the Passover (lamb) unto the Lord thy God, [out] of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place His Name there. ^{(Deuteronomy 16 verse 2 thru 3.)}

From rightly dividing scripture, we can deduct from Moses' command that the lamb when it is slain for the Feast of Matzo is now called the Passover, whose sacrificial blood and flesh is tied to the whole event of the Lord's angel of death passing over the marked homes of the Israelites. The Passover is the lamb that was slain, and not the event when the lamb was slain. Witness again in the following scriptures:

And it shall come to pass when you come into the land which the Lord will give you according as He has promised, that you keep this service. Then when your children shall say unto you: What mean you by this service?  You shall say: It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, Who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt; ^{(See Exodus 12 verse 25 thru 28.)}

The Scriptures in Numbers 33 verse 2 thru 3 would also legitimize our thoughts on the timing of the Feast of Unleavened Bread when we understand that the Passover is interpreted to be the slaughtered lamb rather than the day itself:

And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the Commandment of the Lord -- And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month (Nisan), on the morrow after the [slaughter] of the Passover [lamb], the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians. 

You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this "very day" I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent ordinance. ^{(Exodus 12 verse 17.)}

The observance of the eating of Unleavened Bread is set in the very day that the Lord delivered Israel from the house of Egyptian bondage. That very day of deliverance is the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and in the Lord's Calendar is the 15th of Abib/Nisan, and not the 14th when the lambs were slain. The sacrificial slaying of the animal lambs was never designated by God to be a permanent ordinance.  However, the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Matzo) was so designated to be a permanent Feast.

Witness Yahweh God's Command for all of Israel:

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread (matzo), until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. ^{(Exodus 12 verse 17 thru 18.)} Seven Days shall you eat unleavened bread: even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses.

The evening of the first day of the 14th of Abib, is when the yeast was forbidden and removed from each house hold.  Then on the same day of the 14th, a portion of unleavened dough, was baked or pan fried sufficient for the households need for that day of fasting, and more specifically for the coming evening Feast of Unleavened Bread that God had commanded Israel to eat on the full moon of the 15th day of the first month of Abib/ Nisan.  The rest of the unleavened dough was to be sufficient for the six following days until the evening of the 21st day of Abib/Nisan.  Again this is from the 15th day until the 21st day, which is Seven Days.

So then, God's Passover was a lamb that was eaten with Unleavened Bread that begins at the sunset close of Abib the 14th, which immediately became Abib the 15th, being the evening of the first day of Yahweh God's required celebratory Feast of Unleavened Bread.  The first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Nisan the 15th, would always be a High Sabbath to the Lord.  The Feast of Unleavened Bread would begin with a full moon and would end seven days later at the High Sabbath evening of the 21st of Abib.  The scripture text would indicate that the Lord Yahweh God brought the nation of Israel out of Egypt in the day light hours of the High Sabbath Feast day, before the evening of the 16th day of Abib.  Again the 15th of Nisan, is the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and it is tied to Yahweh God's Passover/Lamb of His New Covenant in the LIFE Blood of Messiah Yeshua.  God Almighty declares that the Feast of Unleavened Bread is to be observed as a permanent ordinance, and the act of slaying the animal Passover lamb, was never permanent.  God's New Permanent Covenant was to come in time, for Yahweh God's Covenant in the Blood of Jesus Christ had already been conceived in time even before the foundation of the World, and was prophetically declared by Jeremiah. ^{(See Jeremiah 31 verse 31 thru 36.)} The 15th of the first month/Abib is Yahweh God's High Sabbath Passover day, and not on the 14th when both the multitude of lambs were being slain, and the unleavened bread was being prepared for the evening High Sabbath Feast of the 15th of Abib/Nisan.  At His Passover Table of Unleavened Bread, Jesus/Yeshua the Messiah, initiates a New Covenant within His sacrificed Body and sealed in His Life Blood. ^{(See Hebrew 10 verse 19 thru 20.)}

The Passover lamb with the Feast of Unleavened Bread, would in the future become a Feast of great celebration for Israel, for it commemorated Abib/Nisan the 15th, to be the day when Israel was delivered by the Hand of Yahweh God from Egypt's slavery.  The preparation, for that day of Yahweh God's Passover, had its beginning early in the darkness of the evening of Abib/Nisan the 14th, and required that all of the yeast (leaven, Chometz) would be physically removed from the dwellings of the Israelites.  Then after the removal of the leaven, and the baking of the bread without the yeast, there were the many lambs that were to be slain through out the mid-afternoon of Abib/Nisan the 14th.  One lamb for each household was required.  Then the blood of each innocent lamb was applied with a branch of hyssop on the lintel and the two door post of the entrances of all of Israel's dwellings: Then when seeing the blood of the lamb, the angel of death would pass over the occupants.  However, in the climax of Yahweh God's 10th judgment against the idolatrous sins of Egypt, if the sign of the lamb's blood was not on the entrance of any home, then the first born male of that house was slain by the angel of death during the darkness of Abib/Nisan the 15th. 

In the finality of Yahweh God's judgment's against Egypt's slavery to idolatry, the first born male of Egypt, being the strength of the house of Ham, was slain during the evening of the day of Yahweh God's Passover that occurred on Abib/Nisan the 15th.  It was Yahweh God's final plague against the slavery of Egypt that secured the release of Israel.  Israel's departure from slavery took place in the latter part of that same day and before the evening of the next day of Nisan the 16th. 

Consider that the evening of the 15th, when the sun went down, would have extended beyond 12:00 Midnight:

For it came to pass that at midnight the Lord smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh; etc. ^{(See Exodus 12 verse 29.)}

Beginning at midnight, of the 15th of Abib/Nisan, the angel of the Lord would have passed over the houses of Israel that were sealed in the blood of the passover lamb, as the angel proceeded to bring sin's destruction of death to the first born males within the houses of Egypt. Perhaps, with the exception of Pharaoh's first born son, the total discovery of all of the slaying of the first born of Egypt, probably did not take place until the morning sun had begun to shine. 

Now in Yahweh God's final judgment for all of the world's slavery to sin, the First Born of Yahweh God's creation, His only begotten Son, Yeshua/Jesus, conceived as the Son of Man/Adam, was slain on the cross, in the afternoon darkness of the 15th of Abib/Nisan, and secured the greater deliverance and release of all of the slaves of sin and death, who would follow in the Faith of the Lord our Righteousness. 

The first logical thought, is that the Jewish Man of Hebrew Blood, Jesus the Messiah and the very WORD of Yahweh God, Who knew not the leaven/yeast of sin, would not have broken Yahweh God's law of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  As Yahweh God's Passover, Jesus, the True Unleavened Bread of Heaven would not have breached Yahweh God's Covenant WORD with the Jews.  Neither would the Lord Jesus Christ cause His own Jewish disciples to break Yahweh God's Commands in the Torah, concerning Yahweh's established Feast with Unleavened Bread. ^{(See Exodus 12 verse 14 thru 20.)}

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I AM not come to destroy, but to fulfill. ^{(Matthew 5 verse 17.)} To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the TRUTH.

Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh Lord God Almighty does not ever break Covenant with His WORD of TRUTH, for Yahweh God's beginning Covenant WORD is immutable, and the One Holy Yahweh God Almighty is One with His Holy WORD, for He was the True Unleavened Bread of Heaven that His Holy Father Yahweh God would send to be conceived within the genetic flesh of Adam.  That which Elohim proclaimed in the Garden of Eden, He brought to pass exactly as He said He would: ^{(See Genesis 3 verse 15.)} Christ Jesus, the incarnate Son of Man, was born of the genetic seed of the virgin woman, Mary, of the preceding Hebraic generations of the first Adam.  

Simple logic would deduct that it would make no sense that the Christ of Yahweh God, as the Son of Man, knowing that He is facing the brutality of the cross for the sins of mankind, would now fail in the least of the Law and break Covenant with Yahweh God's Torah that reveals the Holy One of Yahweh God as the True Passover.

Not one jot or title will pass from the law until all is fulfilled. 

When coming to the finish line, how could the Holy WORD of GOD, fail to finish His Perfect Work of Agapao/Love and trusting obedience that His Father had sent Him to fulfill? 

Every one that is of the Truth hears My Voice. I AM the Way, and the Truth, and the Life of men. No one comes to the Father but by Me.

According to the Mishna, leaven (Chometz) was permitted on the day of Abib (Nisan) the 14th thru the early hours of the morning until 10:00 or 11:00 A.M.  Apparently, the multitude of lambs were slaughtered later in the day after all of the leaven had been removed from the households of Israel.  Now if the Christ of Yahweh God would have been crucified on (Abib) Nisan the 14th, at the third hour of the preparation day, 9:00 A.M. our time. then Yahweh God would have set an illegal precedence in allowing for the violation of His own Torah command of Exodus 23 verse 18:

Thou shall not offer the blood of My Sacrifice with leavened bread:  Neither shall the fat [choice part] of MY SACRIFICE remain until the morning.

The evening and the morning constituted a day.  And again we see in another chapter the same Word of YHVH God given in Exodus 34 verse 25: 

Thou shall not offer the Blood of MY SACRIFICE with leaven. 

The false assumptions of the human mind discredits the TRUTH of the WORD of Yahweh God.  Jesus Christ is the TRUTH, and the Master of His disciples: Therefore, it is impossible that the Lord would have desecrated the Divine proclamation, by leading His disciples into gross violation of Yahweh God's established Word by celebrating Yahweh God's Feast of Unleavened Bread a day earlier than what YHVH had Commanded.  The day of the Feast of Passover with Unleavened Bread was set by the WORD of Yahweh God as an ordinance, occurring at the latter moments of the day of Nisan the 14th becoming the evening of the beginning of the 15th day of Abib/Nisan. 

"Three times thou shall keep a feast unto Me in the year.  Thou shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days, as I Commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib: for in it you came out from Egypt: And none shall appear before Me empty." ^{(Exodus 23 verse 14 thru 15.)}

The Gospel of Luke confirms the absolute significance of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and how Yahweh God's Passover is tied to the first day of the seven day Feast, and not how the seven day feast is tied to the prior one day of the slaughter of the lambs. 

Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover. ^{(Luke 22 verse 1.)} Then came the day of the Unleavened Bread, when the Passover must be killed. 

Yes, the Passover lamb would be killed, but the unleavened bread must also be prepared and baked without the yeast that was forbidden within that day and the following 7 days.

And Jesus sent Peter and John, saying: Go and prepare for us the Passover (lamb) that we may eat. ^{(See Luke 22 verse 7 thru 8.)}

The Gospel of Matthew concurs:

Now the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him: Where will you have us to prepare for you to eat the Passover (lamb).  ^{(See Matthew 26 verse 17 thru 19.)}

Your glorying is not good.  Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough. ^{(See 1st Corinthians 5 verse 6 thru 7.)}

You can not take the least little bit of yeast out of the dough once it is there.  The flesh of our being is leavened with sin's corruption.  Except for the incarnate Son of Man, sin, like yeast, resides in the corrupted flesh of all of mankind, but the Body of Christ Jesus did not see corruption, for the Man was innocent of sin, and He overcame mankind's sin with the perfection of His Love for His Father, and God's Sacrificial Lamb was Holy Resurrected, as the Son of Adam/Man, through the Holy Spirit of the Eternal Life of His Father God Almighty.  Humanity's flesh is totally corrupted with the renegade 'Law of Sin and Death, and has no redeeming qualities what so ever.  For human kind to live, the soul must be born brand new from the Spirit of God that raised up Jesus the Christ of God.  The soul can be born again by Faith IN Christ Jesus, but unfortunately their remains the unruly mind of the flesh of human kind that needs sanctification through God's Spirit of Grace and Life that resides IN Jesus Christ, the risen Son of Man/Adam.

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump [of dough], as you are [to be] unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: ^{(See 1st Corinthians 5 verse 6 thru 7.)}

Absolutely, the leaven of sin can not be the driving force in our lives, for even Christ Jesus is our Unleavened Passover Bread that is sacrificed for us. The heart's repentance from sin is the prerequisite before we partake of God's Gift of His Spirit of Righteousness in Christ Jesus. ^{(See 1st Corinthians 11 verse 27 thru 30.)}

So then, Jesus Christ, the True Bread of Heaven, as the Son of Man, did not violate one jot or tittle of the Torah nor the Words of the prophets!  Jesus the Messiah, is the True Bread, the Unleavened Bread of Heaven, Who came down to be born of the flesh of Man/Adam, and as the only begotten Son of God, He would fulfill the Will of His Father Yahweh God.  Yes, Jesus Christ is the innocent Lamb of Yahweh God's Passover that is led to the slaughter, but in the Perfection of His Love and Obedience, Jesus/Yeshua is our necessary daily Unleavened Bread of LIFE

The Preparation of the Passover for the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

We draw your attention to the above Scripture and to Paul's affirmation that the eating of the  Feast took place on the very 'same night' that Christ was betrayed by Judas. The 'same night' would indicate, without reservations, that eating of the Passover lambs would have been previously slain, certainly, before they could be eaten.  Christ could not have been slain in the daylight hours of Nisan the 14th at the same time during the slaughter of the sacrificial lambs, and then participate in the evening Passover feast. The foolish invent another dinner  2 days prior to God's assigned Feast in the eating of the  Passover Lamb.  It is impossible for the Word of God, Jesus Christ to finish fully the TRUTH of His Father Yahweh God, and not break God's Covenant Word.  Christ Jesus was the Celebrant at this Feast of Unleavened Bread, brought the original Covenant in the blood of animals to a permanent close and instituted the New Covenant with Yahweh God IN His Life giving Blood.

While Jesus, the Christ of God was living on the earth, as the last genetic Son of Adam, He was physically present with His disciples, and spoke the Covenant Words and Salvation Doctrine of His Holy Father Yahweh God: For indeed the Holy Spirit of His Holy Father God was leading, without measure, His Word of TRUTH that is His only Begotten and Beloved Son, Jesus Christ. 

Caution

Again we remember that there are many individuals who erroneously teach that the Lord Jesus Christ instituted His supper a day earlier than Nisan the 15th and that he was crucified on Nisan the 14th at the same time that the passover lambs were being slaughtered. 

But remember, Yahweh God had fore ordained the New Covenant in the Blood of His Perfect Son, and not according to the old covenant in the blood of animals after He delivered Israel out of Egypt.  For the True Bread of Heaven, came in Yahweh God's time, to be born the Son of Man, and to do the Will of His Father Yahweh God Almighty. 

On the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Nisan the 15th, Jesus the Christ of Yahweh God ratified the TRUTH of Yahweh God's New Covenant in His LIFE Blood poured out for the damnable sin of Adam and the sin's of man kind.  Then, three days later on the first day of the week,  the Spirit of His Father God confirmed the TRUTH of His WORD with the resurrection of His Son from the dead. ^{(See Luke 22 verse 7, and verses 14 thru 15.)} It is impossible for the Feast of Unleavened Bread to be in the evening of an earlier day such as Nisan the 14th for that would circumvent Yahweh God's everlasting Feast of Unleavened Bread that always occurs on the full moon of Nisan the 15th.  The Lord Jesus Christ would not have created a different dinner that would be less than the fulfillment of the Torah's appointed Feast with Unleavened Bread.  This Feast day occurs after the sacrifices of the lambs (passovers), and occurs when the sun went down initiating the day of Nisan the 15th. 

If Jesus, the Unleavened Bread of Heaven, would go against the heart of the Torah, then the perfection of our sinless/unleavened Lord is voided, for He would not be Yahweh God's sinless propitiation for sinful mankind.  TRUTH would have been broken; for Christ Jesus, the TRUTH of Yahweh God, would have perpetrated a lie in allowing for both He and His Jewish disciple to break the instructive Word of the Torah.  Jesus Christ must fulfill the whole of Yahweh God's Word, for: 

Not one jot or tittle shall pass from the Torah until all is fulfilled, says the Messiah of Yahweh God, Who is His Father's True Bread of Heaven. 

So now, at the beginning of Nisan the 15th, and after the Paschal meal, the Lord Jesus Christ instituted His Holy Supper, as the Word of His Holy Father God.  This Covenant Promise was prior to the Lord's actual crucifixion and death.

We read in Scripture that the Lord, Jesus Christ was crucified on a cross for the souls of rebellious man kind, and at the moment of His death, the Innocent Man cried out with His last breath: It is Finished!  God Almighty's purpose in the flow of His creation of time had been totally fulfilled by the Man Christ Jesus.   And so the WORD of GOD, crucified before the foundation of the world, had fully brought to fruition His righteous work of Salvation for the lost souls of man kind.  Jesus/Yeshua did fail not one jot or title of what was written in the Torah about the Almighty's Holy One.  The Son of Man was obedient until death.

Jesus Christ was the genetic Son of Adam, and also the Incarnate Word of His Father Yahweh God Almighty.  Even as the WORD of Yahweh God is Infinitely Pure, so was the Messiah's Presentation Offering to Yahweh God as the Son of Man/Adam.  The Last Adam's perfect Love and Obedience to the Almighty was accepted by the His Father Yahweh God of the Living. The Almighty Yahweh God demonstrated His Satisfaction with the Sacrificial Love of the Son of Adam/Man, by Bodily resurrecting Jesus/Yeshua Messiah from the dead.  

The Infinite Yahweh God Almighty does not change in His Holiness, and in His Feast of unleavened Bread, Yahweh God demands that no hint of leaven, indicative of sin, would be present in our Offering of Christ's Blood Sacrifice. ^{(Again See Exodus 34 verse 25.)}  Such is the purity of the Holy Communion Table of our Lord Jesus Christ; for He is the Unleavened Bread of Heaven, and the WORD of His Father, Whose Holy Covenant LIFE Blood is offered for the remission of the sin's of the flesh for all of His followers into Life. 

I AM the Bread of Life.  Whosoever eats My Flesh, and drinks My Blood has Eternal Life.  As the Living Father has sent Me, and I Live by the Father; so he that eats [of] Me, even he shall Live by Me.  Amen!  Unless you eat of the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood you have no Life in you.  This is the Bread that came down from Heaven: Not as your fathers did eat manna and are dead.  He that eats of this Bread shall live forever. ^{(See John 6 verse 53 thru 58.)}

And while His disciples were eating, [of the old covenant Passover lamb] Jesus (the Son of Man) took unleavened bread and gave thanks [to His Father], and broke it, and gave the Unleavened Bread to His disciples, and said: Take and eat; this IS My Body. 

It was impossible for the Christ of Yahweh God to give thanks to His Holy Father for leavened (yeasted) bread, for that would break Yahweh God's original Covenant Word.  Jesus is the Father's Unleavened Bread Who ushers in His Father's New Covenant Passover in His Blood. 

Behold the Days come says Adonai, that I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel, and the house of Judah;  Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day (Nisan the 15th nearing the day's sunset) that I took them out of the land of Egypt; which My Covenant they broke, although I was a husband unto them, says Adonai: But this shall be the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel:  After those days, says Adonai, I will put My Law [of Agapao] in their inward parts [by My Spirit], and write it in their hearts [by My Spirit], and will be their God, and they shall be My people. ^{(Jeremiah 31 verse 31 thru 33.)}

The old Covenant in the sacrifice of Passover lambs is totally supplanted by Jesus at His last Passover Feast of unleavened Bread, for God's New Covenant is forever established in the Flesh and Blood of the incarnate Son of Man, Yeshua haMashiach, the only Begotten Son of His Eternal Father God Almighty.  Consider the God of Infinity for all is accomplished by the Word of God even before Christ's physical death, burial and resurrection from the dead.  For Jesus/Yeshua was the Lamb (Passover) slain before the foundation of the world.

Jesus/Yeshua haMashiach, Who knew not the leavening of any sin, was Yahweh God's Passover Sacrifice, with the Perfection of Love and the Trust of a Son; so that like a trusting lamb,  Jesus would be led away and crucified to death, for the unloving sins of the world. 

For He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before his shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.  He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare His generation?  For He was cut off, out of the land of the living, for the transgression of My people was He stricken.  And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death, because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth.  (See Isaiah 53 verse 4 thru 12.) 

And from the abundance of His Heart, Jesus cries from the cross of His horrendous suffering:

"Father forgive them, for they know not what they do!"

The Covenant Word of God, Jesus the Son of Man, Who is One with the Spirit of His Holy Father Yahweh God, said to His disciples;

Take and drink all of you; for this is My Blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sin.

In our sinful flesh, we are the many who break covenant with Yahweh God, but Yahweh God's Covenant Grace of forgiveness and cleansing of sin is extended to all members of His Covenant through the New Covenant Blood that is administered through the Spirit of Yahweh God's Holy WORD.  ^{(See John 3 verse 16 thru 17.)} Jesus closes the old covenant, with its sacrifice of the paschal lamb and the eating of its flesh, and institutes His Father's New Covenant of Salvation and Sanctification, with His disciples partaking of His Father's Supreme Gift of the Unleavened Bread of Heaven, and the drinking of Christ Jesus' Holy Life sustaining Blood for the remission of sins.  The Word's that I speak unto you they are [of the] Spirit [of Grace] and they are [of] Life.  But there are some of you that believe not.   ^{(John 6 verse 63 thru 64.)}  Will you also go away.  O Man, where are you?  How is it that you are naked?  Have you eaten of that forbidden tree of the confusion of good and evil?

At this point of the TRUTH, and as we continue, it will be come clear that those that suggest that the Christ of Yahweh God would break with this Feast of Yahweh God, are unwise in the vanity of their own minds.  The mindset of all of humanity, Jew or Gentile, is ingrained with idolatrous self, and is subject to our own vain opinions engendered within corrupted flesh, and that flesh is in opposition to the only Holy Lord Yahweh God of Infinity. ^{(See Romans 8 verse 20 thru 23.)}

For we are all right in our own eyes, but Yahweh God is the Judge of the heart.  Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His Sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the Eyes of Him with Whom we have to do. If we say that we have no sin, then we deceive ourselves and the TRUTH is not in us.  Yahweh God is not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance: For as many that are led by the Spirit of TRUTH, they are the sons of God.  ^{(See Proverbs 21 verse 2, Hebrews+4:13,1 John 1 verse 8,and Romans 8 verse 14 thru 17.)} 

If the WORD/Yeshua had failed in one jot or tittle of the Torah, then the heavens and the earth would have passed away, and the Foundational WORD of GOD is not the TRUTH, the WAY and the LIFE of men, and therefore, we do not exist.  ^{(See Matthew 5 verse 18.)}

Confusion in the Preparation's

The word "preparation", as found in the written Gospel accounts, is part of the confusion, and needs to be examined in the context, in which the Word is communicating the completion of the full essence of the Gospel Scriptures as they are linked to the Torah Instructions.  Now during those 7 days of the Celebration of Unleavened Bread, there were two High Sabbaths, as is called for in two of Yahweh God's specified Feast.  The exceptions would be Shavuot (Pentecost) where there was the one High Sabbath, and also the one Sabbath day at the end of the week, which would would be Yahweh God's traditional seventh day of Sabbath rest. 

We note that in the time of Jesus Christ's crucifixion, that the first High Sabbath day would be the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread on Nisan the 15th, which in true reality fell on a Thursday evening.   Then of course there came the regular  Sabbath day of rest that falls on the 7th day of the week (Saturday), and was followed by the ending of another High Sabbath on the evening of the 1st day of the week ^{(Sunday evening)}.  In this time scheme, the Synoptic Gospels will reveal the timing of the Crucifixion of Jesus and then the three days  that the Lord was in the heart of the earth.  We will see through Scripture that Yahweh God's Passover affair, with the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus, the Unleavened Bread of Heaven, logically happened in the order of the three Synoptic Gospels.

John's Gospel, is misinterpreted by many, including the Messianics, but the confusion is in no way a contradiction to the other Gospel accounts.  When properly understood all the Gospels reveal that the day of Christ's crucifixion is on the High Holy Sabbath day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Nisan the 15th, and not when the lambs were slaughtered on Nisan the 14th.  Jesus the Messiah, as the Son of Adam/Man, is Yahweh God's Passover (Lamb),  Who brings in Yahweh God's New Covenant in the Son of Man's LIFE giving Blood on the first High Sabbath day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  The offering of Christ Jesus/Yeshua, is that of the sinless Generational Son of the first Adam, and far and away surpasses, the old covenant in the slaughter of the many passover lambs.

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: Behold, thy King cometh unto thee: He is just, and having Salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. ^{(See Zechariah 9 verse 9 thru 11.)}

The King and Lord of the Sabbath, came riding into Jerusalem, apparently positioned upon both the female donkey and its foal, a colt and that on the Sabbath Day of Abib/Nisan the 10th. While Matthew aligns with Zechariah speaking of the ass and its colt, both the Gospel's of Mark and Luke mention only the colt.  Nevertheless, the Lord of the Sabbath rest, came in the Peace of His Father, as signified by His riding on the lowest of the beast of burden. ^{(See Matthew 21 verse 1-11.)} Consider Luke 6 verse 1 And it came to pass on the Second Sabbath after the First (Sabbath)

Jesus Christ, The Crucified Unleavened Bread of Heaven
is Yahweh God's Passover Lamb.

1. Behold the days come, says the Lord: I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;  not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt, which covenant they broke.  But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel.  After those days, says the Lord; I will put My Law in their inward parts, and write It in their hearts, and will be their God and they shall be My people. ^{(See Jeremiah 31 verse 31 thru 33.)}

Is there a conflict in John's Gospel, or is there harmony with understanding ?  

And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release Him: but the Jews cried out saying;  If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend:  Whosoever makes himself a king, speaks against Caesar.  When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.  And it was the preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour: and he [Pilot] says unto the Jews: Behold your King! ^{(John 19:13-14.)} 

Note the confusion in time in the Gospels: The Synoptic Gospels have Jesus crucified on the cross on that High Holy Sabbath day, at the Hebrew 3rd hour of the day, approximately 9:00 AM universal time.  However John's Gospel has Jesus being examined by Pilot at the 6th hour, which if it were in Jewish time would be about 12:00 noon as transliterated in the Gospel of John.  The only possible explanation is that the Gospel of John written in the Greek, was translated in English creating time anomaly by using the Julian or Gregorian time of the day, but intending it to be 6:00 AM of the morning of the Lord's High Sabbath day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. 

Outside of the transliterate time anomaly, we sill see that John's Gospel concurs with the synoptic Gospels:

The Jews, therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, (for that Sabbath day was a High Day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. ^{(See John 19 verse 31 thru 37.)}

Note that that Sabbath Day was the High Sabbath Day of the Lord's Feast of Unleavened Bread, and is when the Lord Jesus Christ was crucified and died and was buried.  Jesus was the kernel of grain that was Yahweh God's Covenant Seed of  woman, Who was planted in death, to bring forth the abundance of God's Harvest of souls.  ^{(See John 12 verse 23 thru 24.)} (See again Edersheim's Chagigah for a clarification of John's reference to the preparation that was necessitated on the High Sabbath day of this Feast of Unleavened Bread that took place on 15th of Nisan). 

The preparation of the Passover is for the Jewish Chagigah/Hagigah at the ending of God's High Holy Sabbath that began in the evening of Nisan the 15th.  This preparation for the presentation offering was Yahweh God's mandatory requirement for all the males of Israel to appear before the Lord Yahweh God with their prepared thanks offering, for indeed, the presentation offering was mandatory:

Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which He shall choose; within the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and within the Feast of Weeks, and within the Feast of Tabernacles: and they shall 'not appear' before the Lord empty.  Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which He has given thee. ^{(Deuteronomy 16 verse 16.)} 

At each of the Feast of the Lord, a grown son of Israel was required to appear before the Lord Yahweh God during the Feast, preferably the first High Sabbath day, and to bring, as he was able, a peace offering of thanksgiving, the Chagigah/Hagigah, that was to be sacrificed to Yahweh God.  It is quite apparent in John 18 verse 28 that for the priest to participate in the Chagigah that they must be ritually clean, and therefore would not enter into the Roman judgment hall. 

Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover. 

Again the Passover is not a day, but in this case it is the Passover (lamb) that the priest might eat of, being the required Peace Offering Chagigah portions of the breast wave offering given to the sons of Aaron, and the right shoulder heave offering given to the priest.  ^{(See Leviticus 7 verse 28 thru 34.)} Later in the Day of that High Sabbath, and with the crucifixion death of Jesus Christ, the priest were looking to ritually prepare themselves for their presentation offering of the mandatory Chagigah, and would need to wash themselves thru emersion in water, as part of their preparation.

On this Nisan the 15th, there would be only the One Chosen and Perfect Lamb of Yahweh God, slain from before the foundation of the world that would be acceptable to Yahweh God for the full reparation for the sin of Adam and mankind.  Yahweh God's Passover, Jesus/Yeshua the Lamb of God, would present Himself (Chagigah) to His Holy Father Yahweh God, and the Almighty God accepted the Man Jesus/Yeshua's pleasing sacrifice, Chagigah/Hagigah, that would propitiate humanity's sin's that demands death.  The demands of death are paid for in the Life Blood of the incarnate Son of Man, Jesus the Christ of God, Who knew not sin, for He Loved His Holy Father Yahweh God even unto death by the cross. 

Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:  Not according to the Covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which My Covenant they brake, even though I was a husband unto them, says the Lord:  But this shall be the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the Lord, I will put My Law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be My people.  ^{(Jeremiah 21 verse 31 thru 33.)}

And Jesus/Yeshua says:

I have many things to say unto you, but you can not receive them now.  Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth is come, He will guide you unto all Truth, for He shall not speak of Himself, but whatever He shall hear that shall He speak, and He will show you things to come. ^{(See John 16 verse 7 thru 15.)}

Yahweh God provided the New Covenant of Life, not in the blood of animals, but in the LIFE Blood of the Perfect Lamb that is His only begotten Son, Whom He sacrificed; not only for the sins of Israel, but for the sins of the whole world, Jew and Gentile alike.

Christ Jesus is the Unleavened Presentation Bread of LIFE that is always before the Almighty. 

No one comes to the Father but by Me. ^{(See John 14 verse 6.)}

Yeshua/Jesus is the TRUTH of His Holy Father Yahweh God, and His WORD of LIFE bears witness that He is the Unleavened Bread that came down from Heaven to become Yahweh God's New Covenant Lamb, Who would bear the sins of the world.  If one thinks that they no longer sin then either they are a liar or Yahweh God is a liar.  Consider deeply Yahweh God's WORD of Fellowship that does not change:

If we walk in the light as He is the Light, then we have fellowship, COMMUNION, one with another, for of the Blood of Jesus Christ, Yahweh  God's Son, cleanses us from our sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive our selves and the TRUTH is not in us.  If we confess our sins, then He is faithful and just to cleanse us from our unrighteousness.  If we say that we are not sinners, then we make Him a liar and His WORD is not in us.

A message to the wise: If you make Yahweh God to be a liar then the TRUTH of His WORD is not in you and you are dead in your in your wicked unbelief.

However we do not think that you are so foolish, therefore: If you repent and acknowledge the TRUTH of the Father's Yahweh God's WORD, then  eat of Yashua's Unleavened Bread, and Drink of His Holy LIFE giving Blood Which is given by the Yahweh God Holy Spirit of Grace, then that person shall know the Light of LIFE Eternal. ^{(See John 6 verse 43 thru 51.)} God's Holy Spirit of Grace would be bearing witness with the spirit of our minds, that we are born again as His children of faith, and if such, then we would all be saying and doing the same TRUTH in LOVE, even as that of the Almighty's Unleavened WORD of Salvation, Jesus, the Sacrificed LAMB of Yahweh God. ^{(See John 17 verse 21 thru 23.)} Jesus/Yeshua is the heart of the Torah.

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