This coming Sunday, we as believers in Christ, will say Happy Easter. Happy... not exactly the best word to describe the events that have taken place this week. More of a blessed hope - not just forgiven, but washed white as snow.
“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says Yahweh, “Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool. Isaiah 1:18 LSB
Did you know that up until 300AD-ish, early believers in Yeshua, aka Jesus, celebrated his death & resurrection according to the Biblical appointed times of Passover & First Fruits? Those instituted by Adonai.. not by man....
Tom Bradford says this in his Lesson 10 on Exodus 12:
Christians changed the Biblical Passover to a politically based Passover. Because due to decrees by early gentile Church Bishops, and then the Roman Emperor Constantine in the 4th century AD, it was decided that Passover was ALWAYS to be the Friday BEFORE Easter……and it would not be called Passover, but Good Friday. And, Easter was always to be celebrated on a Sunday.
Now, Yeshua was NOT killed by coincidence on Passover. The Holy Father sent our Savior to be executed PRECISELY on Passover day, the 14th of Nisan, in order to bring the festival of Passover to its fullest meaning; so it seems a little odd to me that Jews who don’t yet believe in Yeshua as Savior celebrate the very day of his death, unknowingly to them established for precisely that purpose, and they do it exactly in the way and on the day as God has commanded; but we, the gentile Church, don’t. All due to the tradition established by a Roman politician almost 1700 years ago, as a compromise to the pagan Sun worshippers and the anti- Jewish Church Bishops, we gentile Believers have abandoned God-ordained remembrances.
Our personal Passover, our redemption from eternal death, is the moment we accept Christ and sprinkle His blood on the doorposts of our bodies. But……immediately upon accepting Him we are also free to leave our bondage to sin. We don’t have to wait for something else to happen in order to leave servitude and begin serving God. Isn’t that neat?!
What is our blessed hope? Yeshua did not stay in the grave! He arose just as he said and will return to gather his people!
If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to Myself, so that where I am you may also be.
John 14:3 TLV
Here are the 2025 dates for this year's Feasts.
All things yet to be fulfilled will correlate to one of these feast dates. It really is amazing how the Bible truly comes to life when you study it from it Hebrew/Jewish context. And just what we might think we know is pale in comparison to the full color version.
Happy Studying!
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Resources:
Torah Class, Tom Bradford
Lesson 10 - Exodus 12
The Chosen People:
From Passover to Pentecost:
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