Celebration of the PASSOVER

DEFINATIONSHaggadah:”The telling”…the book narrates the

Passover.Seder: Order; the order of the Passover Service. Yeshua /Yesh-wha/ JesusElijah’s Place…empty chair…precursor to

Messiah. Wine Cups…filled and drunk 4 timesSeder plate. Afikomen (Gk): “The Coming One”Lashanah Jaba ’a bi Yerushalayim: “Next Year

in Jerusalem”…a traditional wish expressed after the Seder.

Messianic…pertaining to the Messiah

Exodus 14-15Fear and dread will fall on them; By the greatness of Your arm They will be [as] still as a stone, Till Your people pass over, O LORD, Till the

people pass over Whom You have purchased.(15:16)

It’s a CELEBRATION!Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron,

took the timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. Exd 15:21And Miriam answered them: "Sing to the LORD, For He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!"

CHARIOT WHEELS AND BONES FOUND IN THE RED SEA

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A coral covered chariot wheel on a vertical axel that is buried in the sand

Above, chariot wheels fixed to axels standing at attention on the seabed.

The right leg of a man 165-170cm tall.  mineralized by

resting in the Red Sea for such a long time

http://www.arkdiscovery.com/red_sea_crossing.htm

Deu 16:1 Observe the month of Abib (~March), and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

Passover in 2010 will start on Tuesday, the 30th of March and will continue for 7 days until Monday, the 5th of April.

It’s HOLY, It’s THE LORD’S Passover

Exodus 12:11 And thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it [is] the LORD'S Passover.

Exodus 12:27 That ye shall say, It [is] the sacrifice of the LORD'S Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped

Exodus 12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the Passover [It’s the Lamb (of God)].

INTERESTING FACTS: Exodus 12:37-38 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. Many other people

went up with the well as large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds. 2,000 tons -- four million pounds -- of food each day To bring that much food each day, would require

three freight trains each a mile long! They had to get across the Red Sea in one night. If

they went on a narrow path, double file, the line would be 800 miles long and would require 35 days and nights to get through.

So, there had to be an opening in the Red Sea, 3 miles long so that they could walk 5,000 abreast to get over in one night.

Each time they camped at the end of the day, they needed a campground two-thirds the size of the State of Rhode Island, about 750 square miles.

All Seder plates contain the following, and they must be placed on the plate in a specific order (although that order may differ

according to family tradition):Maror, or bitter herbs.

Charoset, a mixture of apples, nuts, wine, and spices. Karpas, a vegetable such as parsley, celery, or potato.

Z’roa, a roasted shankbone or neck of poultry. Beitzah, a roasted egg.

Chazeres, the same mixture as the Maror.

There are also three matzahs, the

unleavened, cracker-like bread served throughout Passover, 3 matzahs symbolizes many things (explained latera)

MESSIANIC: The three aspects on the ONE God: Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.

YACHATZ

Begins with lighting the Candle page 5… Read Gen 3:15

4 Cups of Wine : Drunk 4 times in Seder1. Cup of

Sanctification(7)

2. Cup of Plagues (21)

3. Cup of Redemption (28)

4. Cup of Praise (31)

Hand-washing Ceremony (8)John 13:5… “Then He poured some water into a basin to wash the feet of His disciples………you also should wash one another’s feet

Take the parsley (kar-pas) dip it into the salt water (1st Dip): symbolize the tears and pain of the Israelites

Exodus 2:23b-25 The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. [24] God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. [25] So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.

Many explanations: A) the three matzahs represent the patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. However, why would we break the matzah representing Isaac? Abraham offered his son Isaac at the a-ke-dat Yitz-chak, the binding of Isaac, but

Isaac was not broken.B)the three matzahs represent God, Israel and the Jewish people. Again, why

break the matzah representing Israel and that one only?C)The slaves could not be sure where their next meal was coming from and so

they might hide some away just in case. (Jesus’ Burial). The broken piece is called "the bread of affliction” It’s the AFIKOMEN “The Coming One”Later in the ceremony (page 27) children find it and It’s RANSOMED by the leader.

PAGE 12-14 (corporate reading)

Maror (Bitter Herb)(page 15) represents the bitterness the Jews experienced as

slaves in Egypt.  Most people use prepared horseradish or parsley.

Exodus 2:23b-25 The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. [24] God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. [25] So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them

P 16. Charoset is sweet and has a paste-like consistency (chopped apples, nuts, wine and spices) that symbolizes the mortar the Hebrews used during their slavery. 

EXODUS 5:14 Also the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, "Why have you not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and today, as before?“ALSO SWEETNESS “Weeping may endure for a night but JOY cometh in the morning”

2nd dipping in sweet KharosetPage 16. “Someone dipping matzah in the

dish with me” Jesus (Mark 14:20)

Spoken at the Passover Seder, most likely when he dip the matzah in the Kharoset

Pages 17-22Tonight we recline (Jh. 13:23 “The one leaning (reclining) on Jesus’ bossom…”(17)

The telling of the Passover story (18-19)

The cup of plagues (20-21)

Page 22-25 THE PASSOVER LAMBExd 12:21Then Moses called for all the

elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. Num 9:12They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.

Jhn 19:36For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.

The Passover Lamb . P22. Z’roa, a roasted shankbone: “Although the

Bible specifically says to use a lamb for Passover, in modern usage this is generally not done.

A chicken bone or a roaster shankbone is generally substituted. There are various explanations for this which are beyond the scope of a basic Haggadah.

John 19:1-37 ….die at 12 noon on the eve of Passover. By giving us this, Johns lets us know what was happening in the Jewish Temple. Starting at that very hour, the priests were busy in the Temple killing the Passover lambs needed for approximately 100,000 people to sit down that night to a Passover meal. Thousands of lambs were dying as Jesus’ was sentenced, led out to the cross and put to death

There is yet another connection to the Passover lamb. The Passover lamb was first and foremost a meal. The way one sealed a connection with the covenant was to eat the meal. Jesus also asked his followers to do this. Jesus changed the significance of the Passover meal making his body the bread and the blood the wine.

As the blood of the Passover lamb marked the Israelites as God’s own people, and protected them from the Angel of Death, Jesus’ blood overcomes death and seals the new covenant that marks us as children of God. We too can pass over from death to life as we by faith make Jesus’ death our own.

p.27 The Afikomen: (comes out of burial)…may be ransomed back by the head of the table

The Afikomen (p.27) “this is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me”

Page 28-32Cup of Redemption (28)Elijah (empty chair vs. John the Baptist)(29)Cup of Praise (30-31)“Lashanah hab ’ah bi Yerushalayim!”See you next year in Jerusalem!