Jewish Holiday: Passover 2022 – A PROPHETESS' PERSPECTIVE: BIBLICALLY UNBIASED PROPHETIC END TIME NEWS

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Introduction

Passover is a celebration #commemorated by Jewish descendants of those whom the LORD God in the Lord Jesus Christ brought out of slavery in Egypt through the wilderness, as testified of from the Book of Exodus.

How Christians and Jews alike can celebrate the Power of God present in the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, manifested by Passover:

To celebrate and remember the miraculous acts of the LORD God in the Lord Jesus Christ that brought the Jewish people into their own Promised Land, consider the following:

Hold or attend a Seder after nightfall the first day of Passover and the second day of Passover (if dwelling outside of Israel). A Seder is #antonymous of a fast following the lighting of the holiday candles after nightfall. We will share the special components of what a Seder feast entails a little later in this article.

Important Note:

Erev Pesach, the day before Passover 2021 occurred on the Sabbath Day. This happens approximately every 9 years. Passover 2021 occurred on the day after the Great Shabbat or Shabbat Hagadol (Shabbat in Hebrew means Sabbath, the day the LORD God in the Lord Jesus Christ declared a rest from regular work). This year the first day of Passover occurs on the Sabbath so work to prepare the Seder should be before the Sabbath begins after sundown on Friday, April 15, 2022.

Candles should be #procured that will last 48 hours from Friday night to Sunday night. If your candles fail to continuously burn for that amount of time, it is important to wait until after sundown to transfer light from a pre-existing flame when Passover commences right after Shabbat.

Special aspects of the ritualistically symbolic feast for spiritual remembrance include:

Preparation of the Seder plate following the end of the Sabbath at sundown.
Drinking four glasses of wine at set times determined by the Haggadah, the official Jewish Guide for how to celebrate Seder.
Veggie dipping in saltwater.
Telling the story of Passover from the Book of Exodus by asking the children to ask the four questions of the Ma Nishtana.
Eating Matzah with the meal at set times as the Jewish people left Egypt on the eve of the 14th day of Nissan in #haste and had no time to allow the grain to rise.
Singing late into the night.

To prepare for Passover, chametz or anything containing grain that has risen is tossed out of the house or sold. However, if Passover occurs right after the Shabbat ends on sundown Saturday night, risen breads (most commonly, challah) are usually made as customary to the day but are consumed prior to sundown before the start of Passover.

Care is taken to make the right proportions to prevent from needing to flush any unused chametz down the toilet. As throwing it in the trash signifies ownership still exists and on Passover it is customary that it should not be in the person’s possession any longer. An alternative to throwing out risen breads, pastas, cakes, and cookies are to give the leftovers to the poor foreigners in exchange of selling them to a Rabbi for buyback later.

Passover lasts a total of eight days in the Diaspora (the dispersion of Jewish people beyond Israel) and a total of seven days in Israel. Reason being before electronic correspondence, the message that would commence the Passover Festival for Jews came by a #makeshift fire burning relay system. This method of transmittal took time to relay the start of the Passover Festival beyond Israel to the Diaspora. Dependent on those in distant territory from Jerusalem seeing the fire within sight of them burning and lighting their own fire to relay the message further and further until the full Diaspora was reached. In some cases, after Israel’s Passover Festival began.

The Samaritan leaders of the day, sought to confuse the day that commenced the start of the Passover Festival by lighting their own fires at times that conflicted with the accurate beginning of the Passover Festival, which is based on the sighting of the New Moon. As Passover is referenced to occur on the 14th day from the first of the Jewish month of Nissan. Also known as, the “Beginning of Months” or the start of the Jewish Year in the Book of Exodus. There is another Jewish New Year called Rosh Hashanah, which celebrates the creation of the world and the birth of Adam and Eve that begins on the first of the Jewish month of Tishrei.

The New Moon sighting by the Sanhedrin astronomers determined whether a Jewish month was 29 days or 30 days in length.

To explain this a little further, the first day of a Jewish month is called Rosh Chodesh. And the beginning of the Jewish month in those days depended on the lunar cycle. The Sanhedrin astronomers declared the beginning of a Jewish month right at the start of the New Moon that lasted ~2 days. A Full Moon occurs approximately in the middle of each Jewish monthly cycle; equating to a lunar cycle of ~29 1/2 days.

However, since Jewish months were observed in whole and not partial days, the Jewish month was either defined a chaser month, #synonymous with “missing” (if deemed 29 days in length) and a malei month, synonymous with “full” (if deemed 30 days in length). Jewish astronomers were #interrogated of their lunar calculations based on the orientation of the first sighting of the Waxing Crescent Moon with respect to the sky and the sun. Jewish Leaders received the testimonies of the first of two Sanhedrin astronomers. If the first two testimonies agreed regarding the direction the moon’s crescent phase, the evidential lunar sighting was sanctified by authorities and used to mark the end and the beginning of each Jewish month.

In the 4th century BC, the sage Hillel II #presaged the disbandment of the Sanhedrin. Indicating months would no longer be able to be established under their astronomical assessments. And therefore, a #perpetually dependent lunar calendar was #constituted for the pre-determining of all Jewish months, start and end; whether 29 days or 30 days in length.

This precise calculation of the commencement of the Jewish Passover Festival was done to fulfill the Commandment of the LORD God in the Lord Jesus Christ given unto Moses in the Book of Exodus:

¹ THE Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, ² This month shall be to you the beginning of months, the first month of the year to you. ³ Tell all the congregation of Israel, On the tenth day of this month they shall take every man a lamb or kid, according to [the size of] the family of which he is the father, a lamb or kid for each house. ⁴ And if the household is too small to consume the lamb, let him and his next door neighbor take it according to the number of persons, every man according to what each can eat shall make your count for the lamb. ⁵ Your lamb or kid shall be without blemish, a male of the first year; you shall take it from the sheep or the goats. [I Pet. 1:19, 20.] ⁶ And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall [each] kill [his] lamb in the evening. ⁷ They shall take of the blood and put it on the two side posts and on the lintel [above the door space] of the houses in which they shall eat [the Passover lamb]. [Matt. 26:28; John 1:29; Heb. 9:14.] ⁸ They shall eat the flesh that night roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. ⁹ Eat not of it raw nor boiled at all with water, but roasted–its head, its legs, and its inner parts. ¹⁰ You shall let nothing of the meat remain until the morning; and the bones and unedible bits which remain of it until morning you shall burn with fire. ¹¹ And you shall eat it thus: [as fully prepared for a journey] your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. ¹² For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment [proving their helplessness]. I am the Lord. ¹³ The blood shall be for a token or sign to you upon [the doorposts of] the houses where you are, [that] when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt. [I Cor. 5:7; Heb. 11:28.] ¹⁴ And this day shall be to you for a memorial. You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations, keep it as an ordinance forever. ¹⁵ [In celebration of the Passover in future years] seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away leaven [symbolic of corruption] out of your houses; for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. ¹⁶ On the first day you shall hold a solemn and holy assembly, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn and holy assembly; no kind of work shall be done in them, save [preparation of] that which every person must eat–that only may be done by you. ¹⁷ And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore shall you observe this day throughout your generations as an ordinance forever. ¹⁸ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread [and continue] until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. ¹⁹ Seven days no leaven [symbolic of corruption] shall be found in your houses; whoever eats what is leavened shall be excluded from the congregation of Israel, whether a stranger or native-born. [I Cor. 5:6-8.] ²⁰ You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread [during that week]. ²¹ Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, Go forth, select and take a lamb according to your families and kill the Passover [lamb]. ²² And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood in the basin, and touch the lintel above the door and the two side posts with the blood; and none of you shall go out of his house until morning. ²³ For the Lord will pass through to slay the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood upon the lintel and the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to slay you. ²⁴ You shall observe this rite for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever. ²⁵ When you come to the land which the Lord will give you, as He has promised, you shall keep this service. ²⁶ When your children shall say to you, What do you mean by this service? ²⁷ You shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, for He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He slew the Egyptians but spared our houses. And the people bowed their heads and worshiped. ²⁸ The Israelites went and, as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. ²⁹ At midnight the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. ³⁰ Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead. ³¹ He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the Israelites; and go, serve the Lord, as you said. ³² Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone! And [ask your God to] bless me also. ³³ The Egyptians were urgent with the people to depart, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We are all dead men. ³⁴ The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders. ³⁵ The Israelites did according to the word of Moses; and they [urgently] asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver and of gold, and clothing. ³⁶ The Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they gave them what they asked. And they stripped the Egyptians [of those things]. ³⁷ The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children. ³⁸ And a mixed multitude went also with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds. ³⁹ They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought from Egypt; it was not leavened because they were driven from Egypt and could not delay, nor had they prepared for themselves any food. ⁴⁰ Now the time the Israelites dwelt in Egypt was 430 years. [Gen. 15:13, 14.] ⁴¹ At the end of the 430 years, even that very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out of Egypt. ⁴² It was a night of watching unto the Lord and to be much observed for bringing them out of Egypt; this same night of watching unto the Lord is to be observed by all the Israelites throughout their generations. ⁴³ The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover: No foreigner shall eat of it; ⁴⁴ But every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then may he eat of it. ⁴⁵ A foreigner or hired servant shall not eat of it. ⁴⁶ In one house shall it be eaten [by one company]; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house; neither shall you break a bone of it. [John 19:33, 36.] ⁴⁷ All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. ⁴⁸ When a stranger sojourning with you wishes to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. ⁴⁹ There shall be one law for the native-born and for the stranger or foreigner who sojourns among you. ⁵⁰ Thus did all the Israelites; as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. ⁵¹ And on that very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their hosts. (Exodus 12:1-51 AMPC)

How Passover biblically connects to the coming of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ and His Crucifixion on the Cross as the Passover Lamb of God for the Sins of the World:

¹ NOW THE Festival of Unleavened Bread was drawing near, which is called the Passover. ² And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to do away with [Jesus], for they feared the people. ³ But [then] Satan entered into Judas, called Iscariot, who was one of the Twelve [apostles]. ⁴ And he went away and discussed with the chief priests and captains how he might betray Him and deliver Him up to them. ⁵ And they were delighted and pledged [themselves] to give him money. ⁶ So he agreed [to this], and sought an opportunity to betray Him to them [without an uprising] in the absence of the throng. ⁷ Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover [lamb] had to be slain. [Exod. 12:18-20; Deut. 16:5-8.] ⁸ So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare for us the Passover meal, that we may eat it. ⁹ They said to Him, Where do You want us to prepare [it]? ¹⁰ He said to them, Behold, when you have gone into the city, a man carrying an earthen jug or pitcher of water will meet you; follow him into the house which he enters, ¹¹ And say to the master of the house, The Teacher asks you, Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover [meal] with My disciples? ¹² And he will show you a large room upstairs, furnished [with carpets and with couches properly spread]; there make [your] preparations. ¹³ And they went and found it [just] as He had said to them; and they made ready the Passover [supper]. ¹⁴ And when the hour came, [Jesus] reclined at table, and the apostles with Him. ¹⁵ And He said to them, I have earnestly and intensely desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; ¹⁶ For I say to you, I shall eat it no more until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God. ¹⁷ And He took a cup, and when He had given thanks, He said, Take this and divide and distribute it among yourselves; ¹⁸ For I say to you that from now on I shall not drink of the fruit of the vine at all until the kingdom of God comes. ¹⁹ Then He took a loaf [of bread], and when He had given thanks, He broke [it] and gave it to them saying, This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me. ²⁰ And in like manner, He took the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament or covenant [ratified] in My blood, which is shed (poured out) for you. ²¹ But, behold, the hand of him who is now engaged in betraying Me is with Me on the table. [Ps. 41:9.] ²² For the Son of Man is going as it has been determined and appointed, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed and delivered up! ²³ And they began to inquire among themselves which of them it was who was about to do this. [Ps. 41:9.] ²⁴ Now an eager contention arose among them [as to] which of them was considered and reputed to be the greatest. ²⁵ But Jesus said to them, The kings of the Gentiles are deified by them and exercise lordship [ruling as emperor-gods] over them; and those in authority over them are called benefactors and well-doers. ²⁶ But this is not to be so with you; on the contrary, let him who is the greatest among you become like the youngest, and him who is the chief and leader like one who serves. ²⁷ For who is the greater, the one who reclines at table (the master), or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am in your midst as One Who serves. ²⁸ And you are those who have remained [throughout] and persevered with Me in My trials; ²⁹ And as My Father has appointed a kingdom and conferred it on Me, so do I confer on you [the privilege and decree], ³⁰ That you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. ³¹ Simon, Simon (Peter), listen! Satan has asked excessively that [all of] you be given up to him [out of the power and keeping of God], that he might sift [all of] you like grain, [Job 1:6-12; Amos 9:9.] ³² But I have prayed especially for you [Peter], that your [own] faith may not fail; and when you yourself have turned again, strengthen and establish your brethren. 33 And [Simon Peter] said to Him, Lord, I am ready to go with You both to prison and to death. ³⁴ But Jesus said, I tell you, Peter, before a [single] cock shall crow this day, you will three times [utterly] deny that you know Me. ³⁵ And He said to them, When I sent you out with no purse or [provision] bag or sandals, did you lack anything? They answered, Nothing! ³⁶ Then He said to them, But now let him who has a purse take it, and also [his provision] bag; and let him who has no sword sell his mantle and buy a sword. ³⁷ For I tell you that this Scripture must yet be fulfilled in Me: And He was counted and classed among the wicked (the outlaws, the criminals); for what is written about Me has its fulfillment [has reached its end and is finally settled]. [Isa. 53:12.] ³⁸ And they said, Look, Lord! Here are two swords. And He said to them, It is enough. ³⁹ And He came out and went, as was His habit, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples also followed Him. ⁴⁰ And when He came to the place, He said to them, Pray that you may not [at all] enter into temptation. ⁴¹ And He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw and knelt down and prayed, ⁴² Saying, Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but [always] Yours be done. ⁴³ And there appeared to Him an angel from heaven, strengthening Him in spirit. ⁴⁴ And being in an agony [of mind], He prayed [all the] more earnestly and intently, and His sweat became like great clots of blood dropping down upon the ground. ⁴⁵ And when He got up from prayer, He came to the disciples and found them sleeping from grief, ⁴⁶ And He said to them, Why do you sleep? Get up and pray that you may not enter [at all] into temptation. ⁴⁷ And while He was still speaking, behold, there came a crowd, and the man called Judas, one of the Twelve [apostles], was going before [leading] them. He drew near to Jesus to kiss Him, ⁴⁸ But Jesus said to him, Judas! Would you betray and deliver up the Son of Man with a kiss? ⁴⁹ And when those who were around Him saw what was about to happen, they said, Lord, shall we strike with the sword? ⁵⁰ And one of them struck the bond servant of the high priest and cut off his ear, the right one. ⁵¹ But Jesus said, Permit them to go so far [as to seize Me]. And He touched the little (insignificant) ear and healed him. ⁵² Then Jesus said to those who had come out against Him–the chief priests and captains of the temple and elders [of the Sanhedrin]–Have you come out with swords and clubs as [you would] against a robber? ⁵³ When I was with you day after day in the temple [enclosure], you did not stretch forth [your] hands against Me. But this is your hour–and the power [which] darkness [gives you has its way]. ⁵⁴ Then they seized Him and led Him away, bringing Him into the house of the high priest. Peter was following at a distance. ⁵⁵ And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and were seated together, Peter sat among them. ⁵⁶ Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight and gazing [intently] at him, said, This man too was with Him. ⁵⁷ But he denied it and said, Woman, I do not know Him! ⁵⁸ And a little later someone else saw him and said, You are one of them also. But Peter said, Man, I am not! ⁵⁹ And when about an hour more had elapsed, still another emphatically insisted, It is the truth that this man also was with Him, for he too is a Galilean! ⁶⁰ But Peter said, Man, I do not know what you are talking about. And instantly, while he was still speaking, the cock crowed. ⁶¹ And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter recalled the Lord’s words, how He had told him, Before the cock crows today, you will deny Me thrice. ⁶² And he went out and wept bitterly [that is, with painfully moving grief]. ⁶³ Now the men who had Jesus in custody treated Him with contempt and scoffed at and ridiculed Him and beat Him; ⁶⁴ They blindfolded Him also and asked Him, Prophesy! Who is it that struck You? ⁶⁵ And they said many other evil and slanderous and insulting words against Him, reviling Him. ⁶⁶ As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people gathered together, both chief priests and scribes; and they led Him into their council (the Sanhedrin), and they said, ⁶⁷ If You are the Christ (the Messiah), tell us. But He said to them, If I tell you, you will not believe (trust in, cleave to, and rely on what I say), 68 And if I question you, you will not answer. ⁶⁹ But hereafter (from this time on), the Son of Man shall be seated at the right hand of the power of God. [Ps. 110:1.] ⁷⁰ And they all said, You are the Son of God, then? And He said to them, It is just as you say; I AM. ⁷¹ And they said, What further evidence do we need? For we have heard [it] ourselves from His own mouth! (Luke 22:1-71 AMPC)