Passover (so-called Lord's Supper)
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.
More Background is Needed Before to Understand the So-called Lord's Supper
The Name:
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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.
- As recorded in Matthew, the name is so important that Mary and Joseph could not name the child. Yahweh named the child by the hand of an angel. As recorded in Mathew 1:21, the angel told Mary that the name of the child she was carrying was to be Yahshua: "for He will save His people from their sins." Jesus is a perversion of the true name of Yahshua the Messiah.
Yahshua's Mission:
- 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.
LESSON 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).
LESSON THREE coming soon.
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