Passover

Passover. What is it? How do we do it? Why do we do it?

Reason #1 to keep it. Yahuah, The Most High Alahyam, commanded His people to guard them. Uyaqura’a (Leviticus) 23 lays out all of His feasts for His people. Note – the feasts weren’t commanded to only the tribe of Yahudah (Judah) but all 12 tribes of Yashara’al (Israel) which we are grafted in to through the blood of Yahusha Mashayach (Messiah).

The timing of when Easter was and Good Friday never really made sense to me. This teaching was phenomenal in finally fitting the puzzle together through Scripture. Read how we got started on this journey, here.

The Pasach (Passover) story can be found in Shamut (Exodus) 12 after all the plagues on Pharaoh, he would not let the people go. Scripture takes us on an incredible journey of Mashah (Moses) leading Yahuah’s people out of Matsarayam (Egypt). If you want to read an action packed book, Scripture is full of excitement.

I’m going to walk you through how we observe Pasach. I will add Matsut (Unleavened Bread) to another post. Our first year, we were pretty clueless on what to do. We just asked the Father’s Ruch Qudush (Set Apart Spirit) to guide us. We set the table with some tissue paper and brown craft paper for the parting of the Red Sea. The children loved setting it up with their lego and playmobil figures.

We kept it very simple. We read through the verses of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (Yahusha) ah’Mashayach’s last week on earth, ate unleavened bread, and drank grape juice. The week before we spent ridding our home of physical leaven as a spiritual picture (more on that in the Unleavened Bread post)

The kids really enjoyed spending the week studying the Passover unit from Torah in the Home, but there’s definitely a few things we didn’t do, like the sedar plate and other Jewish traditions.

Our 2nd Pasach was my first time ever cooking lamb. I was so nervous. It was ok, but I am definitely looking forward to eating some Passover lamb with friends this year and seeing how they make it. If you have any favorite lamb recipes, leave them in the comments! We served this with potatoes, carrots, and bitter herbs which was a simple dandelion salad from the yard.

Something that was laid on my husband’s heart was packing our BOB bags. What would you do if a messenger came to your door and said, “it’s time”. Would you be ready? Many call this night a night of watching. So that was fun to see what the kids would choose to pack in their bags. My daughter had probably 5 stuffed animals squished in hers.

We ate our meal in haste, shoes on and loins girded, hehehe, well sort of! We went on an “Exodus” walk after dinner before the sun set.

“Therefore see, the days are coming,” declares 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, “when it is no longer said, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 lives who brought up the children of Yashara’al from the land of Matsarayam,’ but, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 lives who brought up the children of Yashara’al from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.’ For I shall bring them back into their land I gave to their fathers.” Yaramayahu (Jeremiah) 16:14-15

We put red ribbon around our door to signify the blood of the Lamb that was slain for us to wash our sins away clean. This teaching was significant in seeing 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 our Redeemer in Passover.

“And when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall come to be the word that has been written, “Death is swallowed up in overcoming.” “O Death, where is your sting? O She’ol, where is your overcoming?” Qorintiyim Aleph (1 Corinthians) 15:54-55 quotes Isaiah 25:8, Hosea 13:14

𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 Messiah bore the judgement of our sin which is death. In accordance with Turah, was selected 4 days before Passover and anointed as the lamb. Yuchanan (John) 12. He was guitless and without sin. Abarayam (Hebrews) 4:15, Alap Kayapa’a (1 Peter) 1:19. The perfect Lamb Yashayahu (Isaiah) 53. He is that door to salvation. Yuchanan (John) 10:9, 14:6, Mashah (Acts) 4:12, Chazan (Revelation) 1:5, Abarayam (Hebrews) 9:22, Yuchanan (1 John) 1:7.

This year we have been blessed to find fellowship and we will be observing with many of our friends. I cannot wait to see what it looks like. I pray you all have a beautiful Spring Feast season and see our wonderful King who paid the price for us to have life.