The full title of this page, "52313210 Yehovaw's Passover", includes its catalog number, which shows where I have placed it among the many fascinating topics I have arranged in the Table of Contents of this website's amazing Vault!

As for "Yehovaw's Passover", His deliverance of the children of Israel from their bondage in Egypt was an excellent reason to celebrate!

But Yehovaw commanded them to conduct that celebration by sacrificing a lamb and eating its flesh, along with the unleavened bread that their hasty departure required, which became a sacred ritual among them, "by an ordinance for ever"! (Exodus 12:14)

In anticipation of the day when the children of Israel would occupy the land Yehovaw had promised them, He added another stipulation to His commandment concerning the Passover; He said, through Moses:

Thou shalt ... sacrifice the Passover, unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place where the Lord shall choose to place His name there. (Deuteronomy 16:2)

"The place where the Lord shall choose to place His name there" (Deuteronomy 16:2) would prove to be His temple in Jerusalem! He said, through Moses:

¹⁰When ye go over Jordan and dwell in the land that the Lord your God giveth you to inherit and when He giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety, ¹¹then there shall be a place where the Lord your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you - your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the heave offering of your hand and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord; ¹²and ye shall rejoice, before the Lord your God, ye and your sons and your daughters and your menservants and your maidservants and the Levite who is within your gates! (Deuteronomy 12:10 to 12)

The "burnt offerings" of the children of Israel were to be made "upon the altar that is by the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation" (Leviticus 1:4 to 9), which eventually became their temple in Jerusalem! (2nd Chronicles 23:10)

Yehovaw was quite insistant concerning where His Passover was to be celebrated; He said, through Moses:

⁵Thou mayest not sacrifice the Passover within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee; ⁶but at the place where the Lord thy God shall choose to place His name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the Passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season when thou camest forth out of Egypt! (Deuteronomy 16:5 and 6)

But the temple or "the place where the Lord thy God shall choose to place His name in" (Deuteronomy 16:6) was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D., making it impossible for the Jews to sacrifice anything any more!

I point this out simply to show that the present day annual observance of the Passover that is conducted by the Jews in their homes is contrary to Yehovaw's toraw or law and thus void of His blessing in it, which would not be so devastating to them, if their rabbis had not taught them to disregard the teaching and example of Yehoshua, Who on the night before the Passover, which under Yehovaw's toraw is the first part of that day, gave His disciples a cup of wine, saying:

This is My blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins! (Matthew 26:28)

"Remission" is a King James translation of a word meaning "forgiveness"! (Strong: Greek: 859) Being well taught in His toraw or law, Yehovaw's disciples through Yehoshua were aware that the only provision He had ever given for forgiving the children of Israel was by their bringing a lamb for a "sin offering". (Numbers 15:27)

The priest shall make an atonement for the soul who sinneth ignorantly ... and it shall be forgiven him. (Numbers 15:28)

Before that day of the Passover was over, Yehoshua was crucified as "the lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world" (John 1:29), of whom Yehovaw wrote, through His author:

²⁴Christ is not entered into the Holy Places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us, ²⁵nor yet that He should offer himself often, as the High Priest entereth into the Holy Place every year with blood of others! ²⁶For then must He often have suffered, since the foundation of the world! But now once, in the end of the world, hath He appeared, to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself! (Hebrews 9:24 to 26)

Yehovaw prayed, to Yehovaw the Father:

For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified, through the truth! (John 17:19)

Refusing to accept the truth that Yehoshua taught and what he did on the cross to fulfill it (Matthew 5:17), the unbelieving Jews denied themselves that sanctification, which Yehoshua obtained "once, in the end of the world" (Hebrews 9:26), not needing to repeat Himself, as did the High Priest of the children of Israel "every year with blood of others"! (Hebrews 9:25)

So, when Yehovaw removed, from the children of Israel, His temple, which was the only place where they could make their sacrifices of lambs for the atonement He had offered them in His old covenant (Leviticus 17:11), they were left without any recourse but to accept by faith Yehoshua's fulfilling of that atonement (Matthew 5:17), with His own body and blood (Matthew 26:28), "for many for the remission of sins"! (Verse 28) Yehovaw wrote, through His faithful apostle:

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness! (1st John 1:9)

That provision is more than sufficient to cover one's need for Yehovaw's atonement and forgiveness, which is now available to all who will qualify themselves to be children of Israel, that availability's being through His "New Covenant with the House of Israel"! (Jeremiah 31:31; Matthew 26:28) But it all began clear back with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden!

Amen! Alleluia!

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