๐ฆ๐๐บ๐ฏ๐ผ๐น๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ข๐๐ฟ ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ
The children of the Most High are commanded in Uayyiqra (Leviticus) 23:4-8 to keep the appointed times of ๐ค๐ค๐ค ๐ค, starting with the Feast of Unleavened Bread or Chรขg Hamatstsot (ืึทึฅื ืึทืึทึผืฆึนึผึืืช). This is a seven-day festival that is observed during the first Scriptural month of Aแธiแธ, which happens in what we know today as Spring. There is both historical and prophetic significance to this celebration, as there is with every other Scriptural appointed time or celebration.
The feast clearly points to the saving work of our loving Messiah ๐ค๐ค๐ค ๐ค๐ค ๐ค, which He accomplished about 2,000 years ago. He is our Passover Lamb, His body is the true unleavened bread (being sinless) and His blood is the true wine (unfermented grape juice, the ‘blood of grapes’). He Himself explained the meaning of the Passover symbols known even before the Exodus.
The Passover season was foreshadowed in the story of our forefather, Aแธraham, to whom the Father appeared in Berฤshith (Genesis) 18, when He came to deliver judgment upon Sodom and Gomorrah. At the same time, He announced the future birth of Yitshaq, which He said would be fulfilled at the set time or ‘appointed time’ the following year (see verse 14).
In verse 6, we see Aแธraham commanding Sarah to โHurry, make ready three measures of fine flour, knead it and make cakes.โ Sarah was making unleavened bread. This is elaborated later, as unleavened bread was also served by Lot to the messengers who visited him to deliver him and his family before the destruction of the city where they lived.
Moving on to Gen 19:3, we read: “…And he [Lot] made them [the messengers] a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.” As the story unfolds, we see that Lot and some of his relatives were taken out from Sodom and Gomorrah, and the entire place was destroyed, as the Father rained down fire and brimstone upon it!
Fast forward to the days of the Exodus, and we see that ๐ค๐ค๐ค ๐ค Himself, by the hand of Moshe and Aharon, came to deliver His people out of bondage in the midst of the 10 plagues of Egypt.
This pattern will be repeated near the close of earth’s history, after the final 7 plagues, as the Father reaches out His hand, through the messengers, to deliver His elect from the four winds, before destroying the kingdom of Satan (Mat 24:31 & Mar 13:27).
This will NOT be a secret rapture, as every eye will see Him and there will be a great sound of a trumpet that will be unmistakable.
Chรขg Hamatstsot (Feast of Unleavened Bread) is a feast for all generations to observe and nothing, not even the most time-honoured traditions, can ever replace what ๐ค๐ค๐ค ๐ค has ordained as special times to meet with Him!
PASSOVER (ืคึถึผืกึทื – Pesach in Hebrew) is an annual Scriptural festival that transcends all generations of human history. The first foreshadowing of Passover came in the book of Berฤshith (Genesis) when ๐ค๐ค๐ค ๐ค prophesied: โAnd I put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed. He shall crush your head, and you shall crush His heel (Gen 3:15).โ
The prophecy, amazingly, told the end from the beginning, as ๐ค๐ค๐ค ๐ค told Satan, after he instigated the fall of Adam and Chuah (ืึทืึธึผื), that his demise was certain. The words “He will crush your head,” pronounced a deathblow on the enemy.
Although this deathblow is yet to come, the second part of the prophecy has been fulfilled: “…you will strike his heel.”
Approximately two thousand years ago, or 40 yobels, the seed of the woman, ๐ค๐ค๐ค ๐ค๐ค ๐ค Messiah, was nailed (hands and feet) to a torture stake. This happened on Passover Day, which was at the time the middle of the week (not Friday), fulfilling the prophetic word given to Danyal that the Messiah would be cut off in the middle of the week, both in the literal sense and in the prophetic sense.
Messiah was cut off at 3.5 years into His earthly ministry, but the final 3.5 years of the prophetic word comes as the great tribulation unfolds. At the end of that prophetic week, the word of ๐ค๐ค๐ค ๐ค will come to pass. Danyal 9:26-27 sums it up and concludes that the one who lays waste shall himself be laid waste, according to what the Almighty has already decreed!
The True Messiah will return soon, and when He does, Satan will be bound in chains for a thousand years, and the earth will finally have its Millennial Sabbath – a thousand years of tranquility!
