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Showing posts with label Passover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Passover. Show all posts

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Repost: So, Pesach's On Shabbat? Nu?

Well:

"13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”...

"31 Therefore, because it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 32 Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with Him. 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. 34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. 35 And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you may believe. 36 For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, “Not one of His bones shall be broken.”[f] 37 And again another Scripture says, “They shall look on Him whom they pierced.”[g]
"38 After this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took the body of Jesus. 39 And Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. 40 Then they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in strips of linen with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. 41 Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.42 So there they laid Jesus, because of the Jews’ Preparation Day, for the tomb was nearby."

Do you think that this PesachHaT'chiyah v'Yom Adonai will happen?

Monday, April 2, 2012

"Hell Is Not A Jewish Concept". Or Is It? And About Legalism...

 To be fair, even Tanakh (Hadashah not included for the purposes of this discussion) indisputably and unequivocally warns of Gehenna or Gei Hinnom along with Gan 'Eden (Yesha'yahu 66:17-24, Dani'el 12:2-3). Even Talmud Bavli talks of Gei Hinnom (e.g., Gittin 57a; where, according to the Munich Codex of the Talmud, they believe that Yeshua is). Gei Hinnom is and should be no joke. As Max Lucado states, we too often make light of Gei Hinnom.


So if you continue to reject Yeshua as Mashiach, you may be among the Yehudim who are not of the remnant. Yesha'yahu 66:17-24 admonishes clearly:



“Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves,
To go to the gardens
After an idol in the midst,
Eating swine’s flesh and the abomination and the mouse,
Shall be consumed together,” says the Lord.
18 “For I know their works and their thoughts. It shall be that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory. 19 I will set a sign among them; and those among them who escape I will send to the nations: to Tarshish and Pul[a] and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles. 20 Then they shall bring all your brethren for an offering to theLord out of all nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord21 And I will also take some of them for priests and Levites,” says the Lord.
22 “For as the new heavens and the new earth
Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord,
“So shall your descendants and your name remain.
23 And it shall come to pass
That from one New Moon to another,
And from one Sabbath to another,
All flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.
24 “And they shall go forth and look
Upon the corpses of the men
Who have transgressed against Me.
For their worm does not die,
And their fire is not quenched.
They shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”

The same goes for (as Hadashah is included in this discussion of) those who insist that a Meshichi must be shomer Torah, "who came in by stealth to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage" (Galatians 2:4b). When you observe Pesach, think about why you are compelled to do it: you might not actually be under chen, or grace:


"7 Remember those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 9 Do not be carried about[c] with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

"10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat. 11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp. 12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate. 13 Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach. 14 For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come. 15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. 16 But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." (From Ivrim 7).

You can be easily condemned to Gei Hinnom for still keeping all 613 mitzvot while claiming to be under chen:

For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins...

11 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. 14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
15 But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,”[c] 17 then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”[d] 18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

Hold Fast Your Confession

19 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21 and having a High Priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water...
26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said,“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,”[e] says the Lord.[f] And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”[g]31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

(From Ivrim 10)

Many have fallen away, if they even had yeshu'at v'chen to begin with because they "have become estranged from Christ, [they] who attempt to be justified by law; [they] have fallen from grace." However, if you observe Pesach and the other mo'edim without compelling yourself and others to do so as a means of tzedek v'tzedekah, you're okay:

One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord;[a] and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks. For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ died and rose[b] and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living. 10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.[c] 




Thursday, March 29, 2012

So, Pesach's On Shabbat? Nu?

Well:

"13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”...

"31 Therefore, because it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 32 Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with Him. 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. 34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. 35 And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you may believe. 36 For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, “Not one of His bones shall be broken.”[f] 37 And again another Scripture says, “They shall look on Him whom they pierced.”[g]
"38 After this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took the body of Jesus. 39 And Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. 40 Then they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in strips of linen with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. 41 Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.42 So there they laid Jesus, because of the Jews’ Preparation Day, for the tomb was nearby."

Do you think that this Pesach, HaT'chiyah v'Yom Adonai will happen?

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Two Sacrifices and A Stumbling Point For Many Non-Messianic Jews

So which is or are what the korban Yeshua relates to? HaAkedah v'HaKorban Pesach or HaKorban-Haben-Melekh-shel-Mo'av? Parsha Vayera contains Parsha v'Haftarah Vayera, Bereshit 18-22 and Malakhim Bet 4. Beginning with a parsha m'Parsha Vayera:


Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
8 And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.
9 Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. 10 And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
11 But the Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
So he said, “Here I am.”
12 And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
13 Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 And Abraham called the name of the place, The-LORD-Will-Provide;[b] as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the LORD it shall be provided.”
15 Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, 16 and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son— 17 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. 18 In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.” 19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
Then m'Malakhim Bet, right before HaHaftarah:



 20 Now it happened in the morning, when the grain offering was offered, that suddenly water came by way of Edom, and the land was filled with water.
21 And when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who were able to bear arms and older were gathered; and they stood at the border. 22 Then they rose up early in the morning, and the sun was shining on the water; and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood. 23 And they said, “This is blood; the kings have surely struck swords and have killed one another; now therefore, Moab, to the spoil!”
24 So when they came to the camp of Israel, Israel rose up and attacked the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they entered their land, killing the Moabites. 25 Then they destroyed the cities, and each man threw a stone on every good piece of land and filled it; and they stopped up all the springs of water and cut down all the good trees. But they left the stones of Kir Haraseth intact. However the slingers surrounded and attacked it.
26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew swords, to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not. 27 Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering upon the wall; and there was great indignation against Israel. So they departed from him and returned to their own land.

So, which is hakorban Yeshua? HaAkedah-Akedot or avodah zarah? Look at the differences: Yeshua is Jewish and came to save Israel. Mo'av attempted to destroy Yisra'el v'Yehudah. Yeshua offered himself, fulfilling "“My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.”"-- and only G-d can die to save others from sin. Hamelekh-Mo'avi was not offering his firstborn son for selfless reasons but to try to win a war against the Yisra'elim v'Yehudim.

Also, hakorban Yeshua was wanted by those who thought that he committed avodah zarah. "Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering upon the wall; and there was great indignation against Israel. So they departed from him and returned to their own land." The original Hebrew reads, "Vaiyikkach et-benov habbechor asher-yimloch tachtav vaiya'alehu olah al-hachomah vayhi ke·tzef-gadol al-Yisra'el vaiyis'u me'alav vaiyashuvu la'aretz. פ"

'Al could mean, as one translator put it,  "upon" as in that Israel was disgusted. "Following this, such great anger came upon Isra'el that they left him and went back to their own land." So they were disgusted with the korban of haben shel hamelekh-Mo'avi.

Many Yehudim see hakorban Yeshua as parallel to the korban-haben shel hamelekh-Mo'avi. For example, "Who died on the cross? Was it Jesus-the-god, or was it Jesus-the-human? If it was Jesus-the-god, Jews don't believe that God can die. If it was Jesus-the-human, then all Christians have in the death of Jesus was a human death, a human sacrifice. Jews believe that God hates the very idea of human sacrifice."

But these Yehudim miss what Avraham said plus:


But the Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
So he said, “Here I am.”
12 And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”


HaMelekh-Adonai is not just HaMelekh-Adonai; but also Adonai, and not by coincidence. Therefore, to the Antimissionaries in particular:

Romans 11:8-10

New King James Version (NKJV)

8 Just as it is written:


“ God has given them a spirit of stupor,
Eyes that they should not see
And ears that they should not hear,
To this very day.”[a]

9 And David says:


“ Let their table become a snare and a trap,
A stumbling block and a recompense to them.
10 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see,
And bow down their back always.”[b]
 


Also:

Mark 12:9-11

New King James Version (NKJV)

9 “Therefore what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers, and give the vineyard to others. 10 Have you not even read this Scripture:


‘ The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone.
11 This was the LORD’s doing,
And it is marvelous in our eyes’?”[a]

 

 

Monday, April 2, 2007

Happy Pesach

I'm writing my blog in both Hindi and English for Hindi- and English-speaking Jews and Gentiles who are celebrating Pesach, or Passover.

First the English, which will be spoken of in Jewish terms:

A young boy named Moshe was born in Egypt to a Hebrew couple who had already had two other children, Aaron and Miryam. Moshe had to be taken from his house, put in a basket to hide, and float in that basket down the Nile River. Being carried by the Nile to Pharaoh's palace, Moshe's basket was seen by Pharaoh's daughter, who took the baby out and was the one that named him Moshe (meaning "drawn out"). Moshe grew up as an Egyptian prince after being nursed for the last time by a Hebrew woman who Miryam was asked to get to nurse Moshe. That woman was Moshe and Miryam's mother.

Moshe did not know or see his family for those 40 years while growing up an Egyptian prince. Then, defending a Hebrew slave who was whipped, Moshe killed an overseer and had to run in exile for his saftey, finding refuge with high priest Yithro and marrying Yithro's daughter, Tzipporah. Having Gershon and Eliezer, Moshe eventually went back with his new family to Egypt after meeting YahWeh while providing for his family as a shepherd.

Moshe, with Aaron and Miryam, Tzipporah and her sons, and the rest of the Hebrews were let go by Pharaoh after the words given to Moshe by YahWeh were fulfilled and after the first Pesach. To this day, Pesach, though changed over the years, is celebrated and recounts the events recorded in the book of Exodus.

नोव थे हिंदी:
अ यौंग बॉय नामेद मोशे वास बोर्न इन ईजिप्ट तो अ हेब्रेव कपल व्हो हद अल्रेअडी हद तवो ओथेर चिल्ड्रेन, आरों ऎंड मिर्यम. मोशे हद तो बे ताकें फ्रॉम हिस हौसे, पुट इन अ बास्केट तो हाइड, ऎंड फ्लोअत इन तहत बास्केट डाउन थे नीले रिवर. बीइंग कार्रिएद ब्य थे नीले तो फारोह'एस पैलेस, मोशे'एस बास्केट वास सीन ब्य फारोह'एस डॉटर, व्हो टूक थे बेबी आउट ऎंड वास थे वन तहत नामेद हिम मोशे (मेअनिंग "द्रवं आउट"). मोशे ग्रेव उप अस अन एज्ञ्प्तियन प्रिन्स आफ्टर बीइंग नुर्सेद फ़ॉर थे लास्ट टिम ब्य अ हेब्रेव वूमन व्हो मिर्यम वास अस्केद तो गेट तो नर्स मोशे. तहत वूमन वास मोशे ऎंड मिर्यम'एस मदर.

मोशे दीद नॉट क्नोव ओर सी हिस फमिल्य फ़ॉर ठोस ४० येअर्स व्हिले ग्रोविंग उप अन एज्ञ्प्तियन प्रिन्स. थें, देफेन्दिंग अ हेब्रेव स्लावे व्हो वास व्हिप्पेद, मोशे किल्लेद अन ओवेर्सीर ऎंड हद तो रन इन एक्षिले फ़ॉर हिस सफ्तेय, फिन्दिंग रेफुगे विथ हाई प्रिएस्त यिथ्रो ऎंड मर्र्यिंग यिथ्रो'एस डॉटर, त्ज़िप्पोरह. हविंग गेर्शों ऎंड एलिएज़र, मोशे एवेंतुअल्ल्य वेंत बैक विथ हिस न्यू फमिल्य तो ईजिप्ट आफ्टर मीटिंग यह्वेह व्हिले प्रोविदिंग फ़ॉर हिस फमिल्य अस अ शेफर्ड.

मोशे, विथ आरों ऎंड मिर्यम, त्ज़िप्पोरह ऎंड हेर सोंस, ऎंड थे रेस्ट ऑफ़ थे हेब्रेव्स वेरे लेट गो ब्य फारोह आफ्टर थे वोर्द्स गिवें तो मोशे ब्य यह्वेह वेरे फुल्फिल्लेद ऎंड आफ्टर थे फर्स्ट पेसच. तो थिस दय, पेसच, थौघ चंगेद ओवर थे येअर्स, इस सलेब्रतेद ऎंड रेकोउन्ट्स थे एवेंट्स रेकोर्देद इन थे बुक ऑफ़ एक्षोदुस्.