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Pesach n. Hebrew (PAY-sakh) The Hebrew name for the holiday of Passover.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”11380″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text](Dictionary of Jewish Words: A JPS Guide)
Passover n. English The English name for the holiday of Pesach.
patriarchs pl. n. English from Greek The “founding fathers” of Judaism: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In Genesis 12:1, Abraham is chosen by God to “take your people to a new land, where I [God] will make of you a great nation.” In the Torah, Abraham is singled out many times by God; he is regarded as the originator of monotheism.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Grace and Mercy” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:22|text_align:left|color:%23833a14″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]
The feast of the Passover represents the believer’s redemption, but the feast of Shavu’ot represents the culmination of Adonai’s plans for the full recovery of humanity.
While all of the feasts of Israel connect in a continuum, the joining of the Passover to the Celebration of Shavu’ot signifies a complete picture of Grace and Redemption.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”11623″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_custom_heading text=”How We where summoned into the Oneness amidst God” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:27|text_align:left|color:%23822a14″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]The Book of Exodus is the place in the Bible where visual aids tell the story of our Lord faithfully walking with the Hebrew children in the Wilderness. Israel complained over and over, although the Lord was consistently trying to create a relationship between The God of Israel and His Covenant people. Adonai, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; was trying to establish details in the feasts so that visual references would generate mental concepts and cause the people to connect historical relations between Adonai and Israel, with His salvation plan for all of humanity.
As Passover is only a few weeks away, I give thanks to our Heavenly Father for His none-exhausting efforts to rescue the whole world from sin and bondage. In our last blog, we talked about Adonai’s unapproachable Light. Although we could not approach that Light, our Heavenly Father gave us His Son, Yeshua (Jesus Christ of Nazareth), who brings us into His Father’s Presence.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Adonai’s Unapproachable Light” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:27|text_align:left|color:%23822a14″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”11356″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]If we do not have Christ to bring us into the Light, how could anyone accept the Father’s invitation into Salvation? All of us would die in our sins. Thankfully, we come to faith in God, only because the Father is always desperately attempting to approach humanity through His Son for our deliverance and forgiveness.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”11627″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What is also critical to keep in mind is that the record indicates Adonai approached Abraham (Avraham, originally called Abram or, in Hebrew, Avram. He flourished early 2nd-millennium BCE, the first of the Hebrew patriarchs and a figure revered by the three great monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
According to the Biblical book of Genesis, Abraham left Ur, in Mesopotamia, because God called him to found a new nation in an undesignated land that he later learned was Canaan. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abraham[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”11634″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Furthermore, Adonai approached Jacob (Ya’akov in Hebrew) in a dream introducing the service of angelic-creatures and their preoccupation in aiding in the salvation of the children of the world. Jacob is one of Judaism’s three patriarchs and appears throughout many chapters of the Book of Genesis. He is the son of Isaac and Rebecca, the grandson of Abraham and Sarah, and the father of 12 sons, the progenitors of the 12 tribes of Israel. https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/jacob/[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”11637″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Finally, Adonai approached Moses. His name is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Moses is “savior.” Also, possibly (Hebrew) “drawn out of the water.” Biblical: name of the Hebrew infant pulled out of the River Nile and adopted by the Egyptian Pharoah’s daughter. Moses later became the great leader of the exiled Israelites. https://www.bing.com/search?q=where+is+moses+from&form=WNSGPH&qs=TPP&cvid=85145aa324314d4aafcc3aeccc0eb8a4&pq=where+is+Moses+from&cc=US&setlang=enS&nclid=02A6B1E00D2B55F1A49CC4F13CF0E0D7&ts=1553601725940&elv=AY3%21uAY7tbNNZGZ2yiGNjfPYlfL*qrzu9PG6VzziPwBwN4E58pl6TRYyv6rxNTcBSa*2WBfj6B2%218SlTbueg8h*LRphWEVh1me4Zjrms3iG%21&wsso=Moderate[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]God is always attempting to increase His sphere of influence in the world, by individuals, personal witnessing, by ministries, and by this blog. Every believer should do whatever they can to address someone with the introduction of a life with God. The message of God’s desperate optimism the save souls, the sharing of new believers and their life experiences that result in the salvation of their eternal souls.
All through the Bible, in the Old and New Testaments, God is approaching men and women with His desperate optimism to influence them to turn their finite lives over to the Infinite One who controls everybody’s eternity. And, the Passover weekend is a perfect time to explain what the celebration means to the nation of Israel.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Passover was when The Almighty established a Promise between the dependents of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Covenant between Israel and Adonai was that the God of Moses would deliver special instructions from Heaven that would guarantee the Israelites’ safety, protection, and prosperity. Moreover, God would maintain an abiding agreement with them as they followed His word.
Exodus 16:12-18
(CWSB)
12 I have heard — the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.
13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered — the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
16 This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Emanuel, has indeed become “God with Man.“” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:22|text_align:left|color:%23822a14″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]In the desert, Israel would count the Omer filled with Bread from Heaven. Every individual had just enough for themselves, and on the Eve of the Sabbath, each person received a double portion. What happened on the feast of Shavuot was prophetic. Miraculously, instead of Manna falling from Heaven (as a type of Christ), the Promise was made that God would pour out of Himself (His Holy Spirit). The Body of Believers would receive a portion of the Godhead! The fullness of the meaning, Emanuel, has indeed become “God with Man.” Hallelujah!
An Omer
H6016. עֹמֶר ‘ōmer:
A masculine noun referring to a sheaf of grain. It indicates ears of grain recently cut off the stalks (Lev. 23:10-12, 15; Deut. 24:19; Ruth 2:7, 15). Sheaves were to be left for the poor and hungry (Job 24:10).
A masculine noun indicating an omer; a measure of grain. It is a dry measure of about two liters or two quarts (Ex. 16:16, 18, 22, 32, 33, 36).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The length of days
The celebration of Shavu’ot became the Pentecost because the translator may have noticed that there were special significances of the date of Passover feast and that of Pentecost; a culmination “Shavu’ot” of the Redemptive plan of God.
Acts 2:17-23 (CWSB)
17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
18 And — on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy:
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke:
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
Acts 1:3-5
(CWSB)
3 To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them — forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not — many days hence.
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”When Adonai Breathes ” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:36|text_align:left|color:%23822a14″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”11645″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_column_text]The Breath of God
H7307. רוּחַ rûaḥ: A feminine noun meaning spirit, wind, breath. The word is used to refer to the Spirit of God or the Lord. The Spirit of the Lord inspired prophets to utter their prophecies (Num. 11:17, 25; 1 Sam. 10:6; 19:20); the Spirit of the Lord moved the prophets in time and space, as in the case of Elijah (1 Kgs. 18:12; Ezek. 2:2).
Adonai’s plan of Redemption and His intention to proceed with a Nation of Priest, filled with the influential Holy Spirit as the Teacher of the Heart of God, in addition to tutoring us with the Mind of Christ, but also as a Sanctifier making us one with the purpose of God.
(CWSB Dictionary)
A great Passover feast (Josh. 5:9, 10). It is mentioned 35 times in the Old Testament. It was a place condemned by the prophets for it fostered false worship of the Lord as did Bethel (Hos. 4:15; 9:15; Amos 4:4; 5:5).
From Passover to the Outpouring
Adonai is creating a nation of priests who worship Him and then, teach others to do likewise. In earlier days, Israel was considered a peculiar people. Today, God’s body of Believers (His priests and peculiar people), are joined with Christ as our Sanctifier; filled with His Holy Spirit, and we are being made “one” with the Purpose of God.
We renounce our past experiences with pagan worship of the “Easter goddess of the Saxons.”
We only embrace the day Heaven poured out His Holy Spirit! Through the outpouring of His Spirit, Jesus has made us one, and He has made us one with Adonai, the God of the Holy Manuscripts, the Holy Bible.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]