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Pesach and Redemption gqt Dct Before leaving Mitsrayim, the House of Slavery, those choosing to follow YHWH had to be redeemed, purchased from slavery. The following passages are the scriptural accounts of the original Pesach [Passover], before those following YHWH were set free from Mitsrayim [Egypt, the House of Slavery]. This is also the foundation that we will build on concerning Yahusha, the son of YHWH, as the Pesach Lamb. Shemoth [Exodus] 11, “1 now YHWH said to mosheh, ‘one more plague i will bring on faraoh and on mitsrayim; after that he will let you go from here. when he lets you go, he will surely drive you out from here completely. 2 speak now in the hearing of the people that each man ask from his neighbor and each woman from her neighbor for articles of silver and articles of gold.’ 3 YHWH gave the people favor in the sight of mitsrayim. furthermore, the man mosheh himself was greatly honored in the land of mitsrayim, both in the sight of the servants of faraoh and in the sight of the people. 4 mosheh said, so says YHWH, 'about midnight i am going out into the midst of mitsrayim, 5 and all the firstborn in the land of mitsrayim will die, from the firstborn of the faraoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the millstones; all the firstborn of the cattle as well. 6 moreover, there will be a great cry in all the land of mitsrayim, such as there has not been before and such as will never be again. 7 but against any of the sons of yisrael a dog will not even bark, whether against man or beast, that you may understand how YHWH makes a distinction between mitsrayim and yisrael. 8 all these your servants will come down to me and bow themselves before me, saying, “go out, you and all the people who follow you,” and after that i will go out. and he went out from faraoh in hot anger. 9 then YHWH said to mosheh, ‘faraoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders will be multiplied in the land of mitsrayim.’ 10 mosheh and aharon performed all these wonders before faraoh; yet YHWH hardened the heart of faraoh, and he did not let the sons of yisrael go out of his land.” Shemoth [Exodus] 12:1-14, "now dedi said to mosheh and aharon in the land of mitsrayim, 2 'this month will be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you. 3 speak to all the assembly of yisrael, saying, "on the tenth of this month they are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to the beyth of their fathers, a lamb for each beyth. 4 now if the beyth is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his beyth are to take one according to the number of persons in them; according to what each man should eat, you are to divide the lamb. 5 your lamb will be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6 you will keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the assembly of yisrael is to kill it at twilight. 7 moreover, they will take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 they will eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they will eat it with matstsoth [ unleavened bread] and bitter herbs. 9 do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails. 10 and you will not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you will burn with fire. 11 now you will eat it in this manner, with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you will eat it in haste it is pesach to dedi. 12for i will go through the land of mitsrayim on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of mitsrayim, both man and beast; and against all the elohey of mitsrayim i will execute judgments i am dedi. 13 the blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when i see the blood i will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when i strike the land of mitsrayim. 14 now this day will be a memorial to you, and you will celebrate it as a feast to dedi; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as an eternal rule.' " 12:21-29, "21 then mosheh called for all the elders of yisrael and said to them, 'go and take for yourselves lambs according to your families, and slay the pesach lamb. 22 you will take a bunch of ezob and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you will go outside the door of his beyth until morning. 23 for dedi will pass through to strike mitsrayim; and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, dedi will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you. 24 and you will observe this event as an rule for you and your children forever. 25 when you enter the land which dedi will give you, as he has promised, you will observe this rite. 26 and when your children say to you, "what does this rite mean to you?" 27 you will say, "it is a pesach slaughtering to dedi who passed over the houses of the sons of yisrael in mitsrayim when he struck mitsrayim, but spared our homes." ' and the people bowed low and worshiped. 28 then the sons of yisrael went and did so; just as dedi had commanded mosheh and aharon, so they did. 29 now it came about at midnight that dedi struck all the firstborn in the land of mitsrayim, from the firstborn of faraoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle." 12:42-49, " '42 it is a night to be observed for dedi for having brought them out from the land of mitsrayim; this night is for dedi, to be observed by all the sons of yisrael throughout their generations.' 43 dedi said to mosheh and aharon, 'this is the rule of the pesach, no foreigner is to eat of it; 44 but every slave of a man, purchased with money, after you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it. 45 a settler or a hired servant will not eat of it. 46 it is to be eaten in a single beyth; you are not to bring forth any of the flesh outside of the beyth, nor are you to break any bone of it. 47 all the assembly of yisrael are to celebrate this. 48 but if a ger stays with you, and celebrates the pesach to dedi, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to celebrate it; and he will be like a native of the land. but no uncircumcised person may eat of it. 49 the same thorah will apply to the native as to the ger who stays among you.' " Redeem/Ransom of Firstborn: Shemoth [Exodus] 34:19,20, “ ‘19 the first offspring from every womb belongs to me, and all your male livestock, the first offspring from cattle and sheep. 20 you will redeem with a lamb the first offspring from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you will break its neck. you will redeem all the firstborn of your sons. none will appear before me empty-handed.’ “ Shemoth 13:1-16, “1 then YHWH spoke to mosheh, saying, 2 ‘set-apart to me every firstborn, the first offspring of every womb among the sons of yisrael, both of man and beast; it belongs to me.’ 3 mosheh said to the people, ‘remember this day in which you went out from mitsrayim, from the beyth of slavery; for by a powerful hand YHWH brought you out from this place. and nothing leavened will be eaten. 4 on this day in the month of abib, you are about to go forth. 5 it will be when YHWH brings you to the land of the kenaaniy, the chiththiy, the amoriy, the chiwwiy and the yebusiy, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you will observe this rite in this month. 6 seven days you will eat matstsoth, and on the seventh day a feast to YHWH. 7 matstsoth will be eaten the seven days; and nothing leavened will be seen belonging to you, nor will any leaven be seen belonging to you in all your borders. 8 you will tell your son on that day, saying, “it is because of what YHWH did for me when i came out of mitsrayim.” 9 and it will serve as a sign to you on your hand, and as a reminder on your forehead, that the thorah of YHWH may be in your mouth; for with a powerful hand YHWH brought you out of mitsrayim. 10 therefore, you will keep this decree at its appointed time from year to year. 11 now when YHWH brings you to the land of the kenaaniy, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you, 12 you will devote to YHWH the first offspring of every womb, and the first offspring of every beast that you own; the males belong to YHWH. 13 but every first offspring of a donkey you will redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then you will break its neck; and every firstborn of man among your sons you will redeem. 14 and it will be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, “what is this?” then you will say to him, “with a powerful hand YHWH brought us out of mitsrayim, from the beyth slavery. 15 it came about, when faraoh was stubborn about letting us go, that YHWH killed every firstborn in the land of mitsrayim, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. therefore, i slaughter to YHWH the males, the first offspring of every womb, but every firstborn of my sons i redeem.” 16 so it will serve as a sign on your hand and as a bands on your forehead, for with a powerful hand YHWH brought us out of mitsrayim.’ “ Thehillah [Psalm] 34:22, “YHWH is redeeming the nefesh of his servants; and none of those who trust in him will be guilty.” Thehillah 78:40-52, “how often they disobeyed him in the wilderness, angering him in the desert. 41 and they turned back and tested el, and pained the set apart one of yisrael. 42 they did not remember his hand, on the day he redeemed them from the enemy; 43 who set his signs in mitsrayim, and his wonders in the field of tsoan. 44 he turned their rivers into blood, also their streams that they might not drink. 45 he sent swarms of flies against them, and they devoured them; also frogs, and they destroyed them. 46 he also gave their crops to the stripping locust, and their labor to the locust. 47 he killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with sleet. 48 he gave their cattle up to the hail, and their flocks to bolts of fire. 49 he sent the heat of his anger on them, fury and indignation and distress, a sending of malakiy of evils. 50 he leveled a path for his anger; he did not keep back their nafesh from death, but gave their life over to the plague. 51 and he struck all the firstborn in mitsrayim, the firstfruits of strength in the tents of cham. 52 and he led his people forth like sheep; and he led them like a flock in the wilderness.” Miykah [Micah] 6:4, “for i brought you up out of the land of mitsrayim and redeemed you out of the beyth of slaves; and i sent mosheh, aharon, and miryam before you.”
Matthew 26:17-29, “and on the first day of the matstsoth [unleavened bread] came the students near to yahusha, saying to him, 'where do you want that we may prepare for you to eat the pesach [passover]?' and he said, 'go away to the city, to such a one, and say to him, “the teacher says, ‘my time is near; with you i will keep the pesach, with my students;' “ ‘ and the students did as yahusha appointed them, and prepared the pesach. and evening came, he was reclining with the twelve, and while they were eating, he said, 'truly i say to you, that one of you will deliver me up.' and being grieved exceedingly, they began to say to him, each of them, 'is it i, master?' and he answering said, 'he who dips with me the hand in the dish, he will deliver me up; the son of man will go, as it has been written concerning him, but woe to that man through whom the son of man is delivered up. good it were for him if that man had not been born.' and yahudah [judas], he who delivered him up, answering said, 'is it i, teacher?' he said to him, 'you have said.' and while they were eating, yahusha having taken the bread, and having blessed, did brake, and gave to the students, and said, 'take, eat, this is my body;' and having taken the cup, and having given thanks, he gave to them, saying, 'drink you of it all; for this is my blood of the restored covenant, that for many is being poured out, for forgiveness [pardon] of sins; and i say to you, that i will not drink again on this produce of the vine, till that day when i may drink it with you new in the kingdom of my father.' “
These two accounts are virtually the same, except that the account in Mark gives a better rendering of the two students being sent to have the Pesach prepared, as well as the timing, that of the slaughtering of the Pesach. There are several aspects that Yahusha brings to fullness, first I would like to focus on Yahusha as the pesach lamb, that which redeems. John 1:26-31, ‘yahuchanan [john] answered them, saying, 'i immerse with water, but in midst of you he has stood whom you have not known, this one it is who is coming after me, who has been before me, of whom i am not worthy that i may loose the cord of his sandal.' these things came to pass in bethabara, beyond the yarden, where yahuchanan was immersing, on the morrow yahuchanan saw yahusha coming to him, and said, 'look, the lamb of the elohiym, who is taking away the sin of the world; this is he concerning whom i said, after me will come a man, who has come before me, because he was before me: and i knew him not, but, that he might be manifested to yisrael, because of this i came with the water immersing.’ “ Requirements For Keeping Pesach There are a number of requirements concerning the lamb, the blood and who may partake of it, listed in the previous passages of Shemoth [ Exodus] 12. These aspects give us a better understanding of the son of YHWH and what is required in the relationship with YHWH. Male without blemish : I Kefa [Peter] 1:18-21, “ ‘having known that, not with corruptible things, silver or gold, were you redeemed from your foolish behavior delivered by fathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted, the mashiyach’s [messiah’s], foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you, who through him do believe in elohiym, who did raise out of the dead, and honor to him did give, so that your faith and your hope may be in elohiym.’ “ Ibriym [Hebrews] 9:14, “ ‘how much more will the blood of the mashiyach [messiah] who by the eternal ruach did offer himself unblemished to elohiym to purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living elohiym?’ “
BeMidbar [Numbers] 9:12, “they do not leave of till morning; and a bone they do not break in it; according to all the rule of the pesach they prepare it.” Blood applied with “hyssop”: The Hebrew word in the passages concerning pesach, as well as others that translate it as hyssop, is ezob. Kleins Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language says that it is marjoram, that others identify it with hyssop. I research and use edible, medicinal and useful wild plants, as well as what people refer to as herbs. In looking these two plants up in all my books, a number made the same statement that it was probably marjoram, but did not state why. It seems that marjoram is native to the Middle East, while hyssop is not. Also, many passages dealing with ezob put it in conjunction with scarlet wool. The red blossoms of the hyssop are not used for dyes, but the red blossoms of the wild marjoram are. Both have medicinal properties, though marjoram seems to have more attributed to antiseptic. Due to the fact that marjoram is native and produces a red dye, I am inclined to believe that ezob is marjoram. With that said, Thehillah [Psalm] 51:7, “purge me with ezob [marjoram], and i will be clean; wash me, and i will be whiter than snow.” I cannot say with certainty that marjoram is necessary to dip in the blood and apply it on the doorways, that no other herb would do. Obviously, marjoram is a cleansing and healing herb, which the whole passage in Thehillah 51 is all about, creating a clean and pure heart, forgiveness of sins, but is it that specific healing plant to be used, or can any healing herb be used? It could be that the plant was so common of knowledge that it was not deemed necessary to list. Since ezob was not listed in every verse about the application of the blood, and since it was not listed in the Testimony of Yahusha`, there is no certainty. I feel that obviously the main importance lies with the application of blood over the doorways, the entrances to the beyth, the house. The blood of Yahusha being necessary to restore the original beriyth [covenant] that YHWH made with those that chose to follow Him. Whether you are applying the principle physically to your home, or whether you are applying his blood spiritually to the doors of your heart, your mind, your mouth or your eyes, your body being a beyth to YHWH, it is his blood that is necessary for purification. Eaten with matstsoth [no yeast]: Shemoth [Exodus] 34:25, “ ‘you will not offer the blood of my slaughter with leavened bread, nor is the slaughtering of chag hapesach [feast of passover] to be left over until morning.’ “ wayyiqra [leviticus] 10:8-12, “8 and YHWH spoke to aharon, saying, 9 ‘you will not drink wine and fermented drink, you nor your sons with you, as you go into the tent of meeting, and you will not die; a eternal rule throughout your generations; 10 and to make a distinction between the set apart and profane, and between the unclean and the clean; 11 and to teach the sons of yisrael all the rules which YHWH has spoken to them by the hand of mosheh.’ 12 and mosheh spoke to aharon, and to eleazar, and to iythamar, his sons who were left, take the food offering that remains from the fire offerings of YHWH, and eat it unleavened near the altar, for it is set apart of the set apart.” MaththiYahu [Mathew] 16:5-12, “and his students having come to the other side, forgot to take loaves, and yahusha said to them, 'beware, and take heed of the leaven of the farushiym [Pharisees] and tseduqqiym [Sadducees];' and they were reasoning in themselves, saying, 'because we took no loaves.' and yahusha having known, said to them, 'why reason yourselves, you of little faith, because you took no loaves? do you not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets you took up? nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? how do you not understand that i did not speak to you of bread. to watch for the leaven of the farushiym and tseduqqiym?' then they understood that he did not say to watch for the leaven of the bread, but of the teaching, of the farushiym and tseduqqiym.” Luke 12:1-3, “at which time the myriads of the multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread on one another, he began to say unto his students, first, 'take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the farushiym [pharisees], which is hypocrisy; and there is nothing covered, that will not be revealed; and hid, that will not be known; because whatever in the darkness you have said, in the light will be heard: and what to the ear you speak in the inner-chambers, will be proclaimed on the house tops.’ “ I Corinthians 5:6-8, “ ‘not good your glorying; have you not known that a little leaven the whole lump does leaven? cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, according as you are unleavened, for also our pesach [passover] for us was slaughtered, mashiyach [messiah], so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.’ “ Do not leave any of it till morning: Shemoth [Exodus] 12:10, “ ‘and you will not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you will burn with fire.’ ” Shemoth 34:25, “you will not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, nor is the slaughtering of chag hapesach to be left over until morning.” BeMidbar [Numbers] 9:12, “they do not leave of till morning; and a bone they do not break in it; according to all the rule of the pesach they prepare it.”
This covenant was not just for blood descendants of Abraham. As just listed, it is also for any servants purchased or born to him. But other verses expand the scope of circumcision in conjunction with Pesach [ Passover], to include the converts to this faith – the Ger, who are then to be considered as native born. Shemoth [ Exodus] 12:42-49, “ ‘42 it is a night to be observed for dedi for having brought them out from the land of mitsrayim; this night is for dedi, to be observed by all the sons of yisrael throughout their generations.' 43 dedi said to mosheh and aharon, 'this is the rule of the pesach, no foreigner is to eat of it; 44 but every slave of a man, purchased with money, after you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it. 45 a settler or a hired servant will not eat of it. 46 it is to be eaten in a single beyth; you are not to bring forth any of the flesh outside of the beyth, nor are you to break any bone of it. 47 all the assembly of yisrael are to celebrate this. 48 but if a ger stays with you, and celebrates the pesach to dedi, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to celebrate it; and he will be like a native of the land. but no uncircumcised person may eat of it. 49 the same thorah will apply to the native as to the ger who stays among you.' " BeMIdbar [ Numbers] 9:14, “ 'and when a ger [convert] remains with you, then he will prepare a pesach to YHWH, according to the rule of the pesach, and according to its judgement, so he does; one rule is to you, even to a ger, and to a native of the land.' “ Circumcision is not just circumcision of flesh, but that of the heart as well. A man may have been circumcised in the flesh, as a child, but as a man, turn away from YHWH. That circumcision of flesh will not save him. YHWH desires a covenant that is kept in the heart as well. YirmeYahu [Jeremiah] 9:25,26, “ ‘25 look, the days come,’ says YHWH, ‘that i will punish all the circumcised with foreskin. 26 mitsrayim, and yahudah, and edom, and the sons of ammon, and moab, and all those trimmed on the edges of their beards, who dwell in the wilderness. for all the goyim are uncircumcised, and all the beyth yisrael, those uncircumcised of heart.’ “ HaDebariym [Deuteronomy] 10:12-22, “’12 and now, yisrael, what has YHWH your elohey asked of you, except to fear YHWH your elohey, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve YHWH your elohey with all your heart, and with all your being; 13 to observe the commands of YHWH, and his rules which i am commanding you today, for your good. 14 look, the heavens and the heavens of the heavens, the earth and all in it, belong to YHWH your elohey. 15 only, YHWH has delighted in your fathers, to love them; and he chose their seed after them, on you out of all the peoples, as it is today. 16 and you will circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and you will not harden your neck any more. 17 for YHWH your elohey, he is the elohey of the elohiym, and the master of the masters; the great, the mighty, the fearful el who does not lift up faces, nor take a bribe. 18 he executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the ger, to give to him food and clothing. 19 and you will love the ger, for you were geriym in the land of mitsrayim. 20 you will fear YHWH your elohey; you will serve him; and you will cleave to him; and you will swear by his name. 21 he will be your praise, and he will be your elohey, who has done for you these great and fearful things which your eyes have seen. 22 your fathers went down to mitsrayim with seventy persons; and now YHWH your elohey has made you as the stars of the heavens for multitude.’ “
In these cases, YHWH is speaking to men that are already circumcised in flesh, but they are not living that covenant with YHWH. This is the same as Yahusha teaching, “ ‘You have heard that is was said to the people long ago, “Do not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.” But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment.’ “ He also taught, “ ‘You have heard that it was said, “Do not commit adultery.” But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ‘ “ Yahusha was teaching that a relationship with YHWH is one of heart and body. A man can avoid committing murder and adultery, appearing righteous before the eyes of man, but YHWH knows the heart of a man, as He stated in the previous verses in YirmeYahu, that He would punish those circumcised in flesh but not in heart. Man cannot hide his heart from YHWH. We need to make sure that we keep covenant with YHWH in flesh and heart. Some may argue that the New Testament teaches that physical circumcision is of no value and we should just be circumcised in heart only. These teachings come from the letters of Paul. Yet no where did Yahusha state that circumcision was obsolete, that the covenant was no longer of value. Yahusha, himself, was circumcised according to the covenant, Luke 2:21. Yahusha also spoke about circumcision, in respect to Shabbath. Yahuchanan [John] 7:14-24, “and in the midst of the days of the feast (sukkoth), yahusha went into the temple, and taught. and the yahudiym [jews] wondered, and said, ‘how knows this man writings [scripture], having not learned?’ yahusha answered and said, ‘my teaching is not from me, but from him that sent me. he that wishes to do his pleasure, will understand my teaching, whether it is from elohiym, or whether i speak from my own pleasure. he that speaks according to the pleasure of his own mind, seeks honor for himself: but he who seeks the honor of him that sent him, is true, and evil is not in his heart. did not mosheh give you the thorah? yet no one of you observes the thorah. why do you seek to kill me?’ the multitude answered and said, ‘you have a demon. who seeks to kill you?’ yahusha replied, and said to them, ‘i have done one work, and you all wonder. because mosheh gave you circumcision, not that it was from mosheh, but it was from the fathers, you circumcise a child on the shabbath. and if a child is circumcised on the shabbath day, that the thorah of mosheh may not be violated, do you murmur at me, because i have made a man entirely sound on the shabbath day ? judge not, with a respect for persons; but judge you a righteous judgment.’ “ In this passage, at no time, does Yahusha speak against circumcision, saying that it is no longer necessary, obsolete. In fact, he clears up an apparently common belief or perception that Mosheh gave circumcision, when in fact circumcision was made with Abraham, therefore the Fathers, as Yahusha stated and is quoted in the scriptures above. Another interesting point is that of the circumcision being done on Shabbath, a debate amongst Rabbinic Judaism, even in this day. I remember contacting a rabbi/moel to have my first born son’s circumcision done. It fell on a shabbath and the rabbi stated that it could not be done because it was on shabbath, that I could have it done the day before or after. I ended up having a doctor do it so that it was done on the 8th day, despite the fact that it was on a shabbath. The subject of circumcision is much like the passages in Yaaqob [James] about faith without deeds. He asked what good it was if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds. Can such faith save him? Yaaqob says, “In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accomplished by action, is dead.” “You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone.” YHWH clearly stated in Bereshiyth [Genesis] 17:14, “ ‘but an uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person will be cut off from his people; he has broken my beriyth.’ " Circumcision is an outward deed of the beriyth [cutting of covenant] with YHWH, that he established with Abraham, that is forever. This covenant is necessary for the partaking of Pesach – the redemption from the House of Slavery. These qualifications for Pesach are just touching on the subjects, that are full studies in themselves.
YHWH was striking firstborn and executing judgment against the false gods of Mitsrayim [Egypt]. The blood of the Pesach lamb was a sign, an outward sign, much as the covenant of circumcision mentioned above, that the people inside had made a covenant with YHWH and were passed over from the striking down. They were redeemed from death and the house of slavery. Some believe that Pesach is only to be dealt with from the temple, which was destroyed twice and has not been rebuilt. Therefore, according to them, you cannot keep it and they no longer slaughter a lamb, while Christianity ignores it altogether, focusing on the pagan fertility celebration of Easter. There is a growing number of believers that have seen that this is an eternal feast, one which is family oriented, as the Shomroniym [Samaritans] have been keeping it for thousands of years, and choose to follow the ways of YHWH, rather than the traditions of men. Shemoth 12:42, “'it is a night to be observed for dedi for having brought them out from the land of mitsrayim; this night is for dedi, to be observed by all the sons of yisrael throughout their generations.' “ Despite the thorah of YHWH concerning pesach and being observed for all generations, parts of Yisrael, at different times, have abandoned His thorah. An example of this is in II Melekiym [Kings] 22, where they were doing repairs on the temple and the Book of the Thorah was found. It was read to the king YoshiYahu [Josiah] – who was in his 20’s. When the king heard the words of the Book of Thorah, he tore his robes. Thus begins another time of theshubah [teshuvah – turn and return, what most Christians refer to as repentance]. After reading all the words of the Book of the Covenant, in the hearing of the people of Yahudah and Yerushalayim [Judah and Jerusalem], YoshiYahu renews the covenant, in the eyes of YHWH. They begin a massive effort to remove all the idols from their territory. In 23:21, YoshiYahu gave the order to the people to celebrate the Pesach to YHWH their elohey, as it was written in the Book of the Covenant. It says that not since the days of the judges who led Yisrael, nor throughout the days of the kings of Yisrael and the kings of Yahudah, had any such Pesach been observed. We need this kind of zeal for YHWH and His Thorah. We need to read the words of Thorah and actually do them, not ignore them as previous generations have done; not keep a watered down, semblance of this feast, because a temple was destroyed. We need to put away the pagan fertility feast of Easter and renew this covenant with YHWH, be redeemed from the House of Slavery. We need to observe this night, to YHWH, throughout our generations. Shalom, Kathryn QannaYahu
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