If you’re not reading this series in order, I’d recommend reading the prior article before reading on. For me and my house, we don’t see Messiah holding a Pesach “Seder” the night before his death. So we, like Yeshua, hold a separate meal the night before Pesach. That’s the night… Read More »Our Family’s Pesach Haggadah
Whether we realize it or not, many of the traditions of our faith cannot specifically be found in Scripture. Most have been added, I believe in good faith, by believers over the centuries. Some of our non-Biblical traditions are more obvious than others. Every thoughtful believer has a… Read More »The Last Supper (Was Not a Passover Seder)
At first glance, it’s very difficult to reconcile the timing of Pesach events detailed in Leviticus 23, and the related details in the Gospels. The first thing we need to come to grips with is that even the original Greek manuscripts of the new testament contain a flagrant… Read More »Messiah’s Pesach Week, From Start to Finish.
Since Pesach is both a night and a rite centered around the promises of covenant, it should be no surprise that the word for covenant is also rooted in the word bar. “Covenant” in Hebrew is brit (Strongs H1285). Brit contains the same two-letter root as bar but adds the letter yod (a picture of the hand… Read More »Pesach vs Passover (Part 4)
The Hebrew word abar, the word that really does correctly translate to “pass over” or “pass through”, is one of the most crucial words to understand in the entire Old Testament. It is not simply a translation error that “Passover” became the traditional name for the appointed time of… Read More »Pesach vs. Passover (Part 3)
Let’s finally see how all of this talk of garments, robes, coats, and pas directly connect to the Feast of Pesach. If you skipped part 1, this article will make far less sense. Go back and read it. The word pesach is first used in Exodus 12:23, “For YHWH will pass through to smite… Read More »Pesach vs Passover (Part 2)
As you may have noticed, I’ve vacillated between the terms Passover and Pesach when writing this series. Obviously, Passover is the traditional and popular term, certainly in English speaking countries and related Bible translations for Jews and Christians alike. The goal of this and the proceeding articles in this sub-series is to… Read More »Pesach vs. Passover (Part 1)
A huge challenge to seeing the consistent storyline from Genesis to Revelation is the Bible’s use of metaphor. These themes are not always obvious, and often require a larger context not present in a verse, or even a chapter or book. On top of that, various metaphors are… Read More »Pesach and Mixed Metaphors
Every generation of believers has had expectations of the future based on prophecy and promise. There are three related promises, one in Abraham’s era, the other in Moses’, the third in Ezekiel’s, which highlight the nature of Pesach (Passover) from the perspective of believers at the time. All… Read More »Pesach (Passover) as Unfulfilled Prophecy
If you’ve read part 3 of this series, I ended with my understanding of the beauty of the precision of the moment of the meal. However, there’s another aspect of the timing of Passover that is unique but still consistent with the core theme. In Numbers 9, on… Read More »Passover: Timing is Everything (Part 4)