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a brief statement about what this site teaches. All Scripture listed is from the
1917 Scofield King James Bible but putting the True Names
and Title (Yahweh, Elohim, and Yahshua) back in where Lord, God and Jesus
respectively appear, generally, as per the 1963 Holy Name Bible with notations
in the lectures where references differ in each Bible.
Christianity, which includes
Catholicism and its Protestant daughters, practices the sacrament they call "The
Lord's Supper" which as Yahshua the Messiah kept it just before his death,
burial, and resurrection was actually the Passover instituted in Egypt the night
the Israelites left that land to go to Mt. Sinai and 40 years later settled in
Canaan's land (the promised land, a type of heaven as per the Tabernacle Pattern). Christendom teaches as doctrine that
Jesus or the Messiah instituted the sacrament of The Lord's Supper because they
read of Him keeping the Last Supper in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John but He was actually FULFILLING (bringing to an end) the institution of
the Passover in Egypt when the "Last" or Lord's Supper was kept the night before
his death, burial and resurrection.
Background information Needed to Understand the So-called
Last Supper
The Name:
Before explaining what the Messiah was doing by partaking in the so-called
Last Supper we must declare His true name of Yahshua.
Yahshua means Yahweh is salvation. The name of the Father is Yahweh and the
name of the Holy Spirit in or out of a physical body is Yahshua (John
14:26). The name of the Savior is important because it manifests the
mission of the Messiah. In other words Yahweh gave the Redeemer of the world
"a name above every name" (Philippians 2:9). Moreover, () "At
the name of Yahshua every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things in
earth and things under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Yahshua
the Messiah is King to the glory of Elohim the Father." So in this discourse
the true name of the Father, Yahweh, the true title of
the Word or Son, Elohim, and the true name of the Holy
Spirit, Yahshua, will be used and must be used in order for the reader to
receive a true understanding of the topic at hand.
One must understand that Yahshua was on a mission to finish or accomplish
the purpose of His Father Yahweh. His mission was two-fold for not only would
He save His people for their sins but He would also fulfill the Law
(Genesis through Deuteronomy tells the 613 laws and ordinances which He
Himself said He came to fulfill: Matt 3:15, 5:17; Luke 24:44) and the
Prophets (Joshua through Malachi) or the SCRIPTURES (the Old
Testament).
The importance of going back to the Old Testament which are the
Scriptures
Yahweh declares the importance of the Scriptures through His prophet
Isaiah. Isaiah 8:20 says, "To the Law and the testimony (prophets), if they
speak not according to this word it is because there is no light (Holy
Spirit) in them."
The Messiah Himself told Israel at the time he walked the earth plane that
he did not come to destroy the Law and the Prophets (the Scriptures) but to fulfill. (Mathew 5:17-18 KJV) Fulfill means to
bring to an end, to stop or to finish and to translate into reality (check any
dictionary). The Messiah then announces that he has accomplished fulfilling
those things concerning Himself in a physical body under the dispensation of
the law when He is on the cross and says, "It is finished." (John
19:30) This statement was not a reference to the end of His life but a
declaration that he had completed his mission concerning those things written
about him in the Law and Prophets. It is important to know the mission of the
Messiah so you can discern between what is good and evil in the eyesight of
Yahweh rather than in the eyesight of man.
It is also necessary to understand that Yahshua the Messiah came into the
flesh in the tribe of Judah and the House of David (He was an Israelite, a
Jew) and therefore He was bound to keep the Mosaic Law just as all of Israel
was supposed to do the things contained in that Law (although all but Yahshua
failed to do so). As Galatians 4:4 says, "...when the fullness of times
was come, Yahweh sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to
redeem them that were under the law that we might receive the adoption of
sons."
The books referred to by Christianity as the New Testament are not the New
Testament but a biography of the Messiah under the dispensation of the Mosaic
Law. It is a biographical account of Yahshua the Messiah by the apostles
Mathew and John and by the companions of the apostles, Mark and Luke,
concerning Yahshua's mission of fulfilling the Scriptures. The Messiah affirms
His mission of fulfilling the Law and the Prophets again in Luke 24:25,
44. This affirmation of His mission was stated after His death, burial and
resurrection. That means this: He is The Truth therefore He cannot lie or
change the story after Yahweh raises Him from the grave.
If Yahshua was fulfilling, then the so-called Lord's Supper in some
form must be found being instituted in the Law and Prophets (Scriptures)
So in order to discuss Lord's Suppers we must go back to the law and the
prophets. Since the Messiah has already established that he is not instituting
anything but rather is fulfilling the Scriptures, then He must be fulfilling
something in the law and the prophets that Yahweh had given to Israel and
Israel alone.
Please note that Yahweh spoke down a body of law from Mt Sinai to Israel
(the 10 commandments, Exodus 20) and through Moses (Exodus 20:22
through 23:19) all 613 laws they were told to keep. Further, no Gentiles
were present at these exchanges. All the similar sacraments and orders of
service that Christians are told to practice (such as baptisms and suppers)
have been stolen or copied from the Israelites, now called the Jews. Yahweh
gave His commandments to Israel and Israel only. "For He established a
testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel which He commanded our
fathers that they should make them known to their children (Psalms
78:5-7)." "He sheweth his word unto Jacob. His statues and his judgments
unto Israel. He hath not dealt so with any nation and as for his judgments,
they have not known them (Psalms 147:19)."
Given the Above Information What Are Lord's Suppers
Really?
The Christian practice of the sacrament called the "Lord's Supper" in its
liturgy, is a form or derivative of the carnal ordinance given to Israel called
the "Passover". The word carnal means of the flesh or physical. The Passover was
given to Israel down in the land of Egypt where they were in bondage to Pharaoh.
The children of Israel or the Jews as they are referred to today, were the only
people given the Ten Commandments and the additional 603 ordinances. These 613
laws and ordinances were given to the children of Israel only. No gentiles were
present and there is no Scripture to support the gentiles receiving the
commandment to keep the Passover and yet it is being done, but not correctly, by
the name of the Lord's Supper. Yahshua kept the Passover (so-called Lord's
Supper) because he was a Jew and on a mission to fulfill the carnal law and the prophets.
PART TWO
First Passover Instituted
Now, earlier
it was stated that Yahshua the Messiah had a twofold mission of being salvation
for mankind and fulfilling those things concerning Himself in the scriptures or
the law and the prophets. He confirmed these missions before His death, burial
and resurrection (Mathew 5:17) and after His resurrection (Luke
24:25-27, 44-45). In John 5:39 & 40 He told the scribes and
Pharisees that they search the scriptures which testify of Him but they will
still not come to Him. He also told them that Moses wrote of Him (John
5:46). So, if all the law and the prophets testify of Him, the Passover is
about Yahshua the Messiah.
In Luke 24:24, Yahshua the Messiah tells the two disciples on the road to
Emmaus, "O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken,
ought not the messiah to suffer these things and to enter into His Glory? And
beginning at Moses and all the prophets he expounded unto them in all the
scriptures the things concerning himself." So let's begin at Moses the way that
Yahshua the Messiah did.
In the 3rd chapter of the book of Exodus, Yahweh Elohim (the name of the Father) instructed Moses who had been gone from
Egypt for 40 years, to go back down into Egypt, for it was time for the children
of Israel to be delivered from the bondage inflicted upon them by Pharaoh, the
king of Egypt. The 12th Chapter of Exodus is a recounting of the
instructions Yahweh gave Moses for the Passover which would preceed their exodus
from Egypt. It was a holy feast the children of Israel were to eat which
involved taking a lamb out on the 10th day of the first month of the year (the
month of Abib), holding it over for 4 days, and then sacrificing it and eating
it during the night of the 10th plague, the plague of the death of the first
born in Egypt. At this time, Yahweh also established His scared calendar with
Israel with the first month of a new year being named Abib for which the
contemporary equivalent month is April.
By the time of the Passover, Yahweh had poured out nine devastating
plagues on the land of Egypt. The ninth plague was stygian darkness for three
days (Exodus 10:23). However, the children of Israel who dwelt in an area
called Goshen, were the only people in Egypt in light - the rest of Egypt was in
a darkness that could be felt. At a meeting with Pharaoh right after the three
days of darkness ended (Exodus 10:23 through 11:8), Pharaoh announces
that Moses will never see his face again to which Moses concurs (Ex10:28-29).
Moses was told by Yahweh there would be a 10th plague (of death of the first
born at midnight).
At that final meeting with Pharaoh, Moses announces there will be a 10th
plague (Exodus 11:4-5) about midnight: the death of the firstborn in
Egypt. Fourteen days before Moses went to this last meeting, Israel had started
to prepare for the Passover which was implemented the evening following the last
day and night of the stygian darkness of the 9th plague. The Passover
instructions included that when Pharaoh finally says they can leave Egypt, the
Israelites were to be ready to do it immediately by first going to the Egyptians
to "demand" jewels of silver and gold (Ex 3:22; 11:1-2;12:36). At midnight, just
as prophesied by Moses (Exodus 11:4-5) the death plague happened and
Pharoah and all the Egyptians cried out for Israel to leave (Exodus
12:29-34) and Israel immediately left. They spoiled the Egyptians by taking
whatever they demanded of them and a "mixed multitude went...at the end of the
430 years...the self-same day...from the land of Egypt (Exodus
12:30-41)."
To leave successfuly with Yahweh's power each Israelite household must
have first taken out a lamb on the10th of April and held it over until the 14th.
They held the lamb over for 4 days. The lamb had to be without spot or blemish
and could be taken from the sheep or the goats. Then on April 14th which was the
evening after the end of the 9th plague of darkness and Moses' last meeting with
Pharoah, the whole congregation of Israel together, but in their own houses, had
to kill the lambs. Each household had to take the blood of its sacrificial lamb
and strike it on the top of the door of their houses (lintel), strike the two
sideposts of the door, dipping the blood with hyssop from a basin at the foot of
the door (Exodus12:22). Yahweh told them they were to roast the lamb with
fire, eat it with unleavened bread and to drink bitter herbs with it. All of
these points are important.
The carnal ordinance of Passover was given to the children Israel down in
the land of Egypt before the Ten Commandments were spoken by Yahweh to Israel
from Mount Sinai in Arabia (Exodus 20). The Passover was a commandment of
Yahweh which Israel had to keep in order for their first born not to die during
the 10th plague. Please note there were no Gentiles present when Yahweh gave the
Passover as an ordinance to Israel but in fact the gentiles in Egypt suffered
the death of their first born, both of man and animal, during the Passover. In
the next Lesson we will break down the Passover principles explained in
Exodus the 12th chapter to see how they point to Yahshua the Messiah.
Then we can see how He fulfilled the carnal Passover during the LAST supper of
it which brought it to an end and by being the perfect sacrifice for the sins of
mankind (John 1:29).
PART THREE
Passover Principals
We will review the
principles of the Passover feast previously discussed in part two first, then we
will show how Yahshua the Messiah fulfilled the Passover (Exodus 12).
First, let's look at the day the Israelites were to hold this feast in
Egypt and throughout their generations. On the 10th day of Abib (English
equivalent April), the children of Israel chose a lamb without spot and without
blemish, in other words it had to be a perfect sacrifice. The lamb, as with all
the sacrifices that Israel had to offer up for sin under the law of carnal
ordinances, was a type: a shadow that pointed to the true sacrifice, the only
sacrifice accepted by Yahweh for the atonement of sin, and that is Yahshua the
Messiah.
All these sacrifices were given as witnesses by Yahweh, so one would be
able to identify the true Elohim and Savior to worship Him in spirit and in
truth. John the Baptist identified the Messiah as a lamb after baptizing Him in
the river Jordan. In John 1:36 it says, "And looking upon Yahshua as He
walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of Yahweh". Since He was the Lamb of Yahweh
sent to take away the sins of the world, there could be no spot or blemish in
Him either, as confirmed in John 18:37, which reports that when Yahshua
was brought before Pilate, the Roman Governor, he stated he found no fault in
Yahshua.
The lamb taken out in Egypt had to be roasted with fire until it was
completely consumed. When Yahshua walked among His own people, He was also
roasted by Pharisees and Sadducees that questioned Him. In Webster's dictionary,
one of the definitions of roast is "to subject to severe criticism or ridicule".
The Messiah was always being criticized by the religious sects of that time.
The Passover lamb was killed. It was pierced in the side and the blood
drained into a basin (Ex 12:22). Yahshua the Messiah was also pierced in
the side and blood and water came out of His side. The blood of the Passover
lamb poured into a basin and hyssop was used to transfer it from the basin in
order to strike the top of the door of an Israelite's dwelling and then striking
the two side posts of the door. This putting of the lamb's blood on the door
made a four point configuration of blood (basin at the bottom of the door, top
of the door marked by blood, the two side posts marked by blood). In like
manner, Yahshua was placed on a cross in a four point configuration. In John
10:9, Yahshua told His disciples, "I am the door: by Me, if any man enter
in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture." The Door
(Yahshua), had a crown of thorns placed on His head which was signified by the
1st point of blood on the top of the door at the first Passover feast. Yahshua
was then nailed to the cross through each of His hands, 2nd and 3rd points of
blood, that was signified at Passover by the striking of the lamb's blood on the
two side posts. And the last or 4th point of blood was the lamb's blood in a
basin at the bottom of the door signifying Yahshua's feet nailed to the cross.
His feet were placed one top of the other and a nail driven through both.
Israel ate the lamb or goat with unleavened bread (Ex 12:8).
Leaven is an ingredient that makes bread rise. Thus, the bread eaten with the
sacrificed Passover lamb was bread made without leaven. Yahshua the Messiah was
also the bread that came down from heaven (John 6:51). In the Passover,
however, it pointed to Yahshua before His death burial and resurrection. In
other words, while he walked the earth plane He was fulfilling that he was the bread that had not
risen yet from the grave.
In Exodus 12:8, the children of Israel are also told to drink bitter
herbs with the lamb and unleavened bread. Yahshua fulfills this in Matthew
27: 33-34 when He is offered gall or bitter herbs to drink at His
crucifixion.
In the next discussion we will show how Yahshua the Messiah fulfilled
this carnal ordinance of Passover and compare Exodus the 12th chapter to
Matthew 26th chapter.
Teaching the vision and
revelation given to Dr. Henry Clifford Kinley in 1931 in Ohio USA as prophesied
in Hab. 2:2. His teaching of it being the sounding of the 7th Angel
prophesied in Rev. 10:7.