The Passover
New City Church Message MF-NCC
° God would have us celebrate the Passover
° The Passover is the fulcrum of all history
° All of history is measured before and after the Redeemer Himself
° It is the central point of humanity
° Before it was death and after it is life and the resurrection
° In a moment, when time and eternity collided
° Every sin, past, present, and future; nailed and written off
° On the cross Jesus says "Tetelestai" in Hebrew; IT IS FINISHED!
° According to God's Law, the sin debt could be paid in full by a substitute
° One sinless man for all sinful men
° If you do not accept Jesus, you spend all eternity trying to pay for your own sins in hell, and it will never be enough
° Why doesn't Easter fall on the same date as the Jewish Passover
° Satan tries to change time and law, to make God's word not come true
Daniel 7:25 — And he shall speak
great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change
times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
° Council of Nicea in the early early church days they delibertly create a formula where Easter never falls during the Jewish holiday of Passover.
° Inserted a lot of confustion into the church thousands of years about celebrating Easter or Passover.
° Last week we went through a deep study of
Jesus in the Old Testament
° After Jesus was resurrected, at the end of Passover, He goes on a seven mile Bible study...
° See
Luke 24:13-15
Luke 24:27 — And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
° What Jesus had just fulfilled was laid out in great detail throughout God's Word-The Passover
° After the church is raptured and we are in the throne room of the universe, there is only ONE that is worthy to take back dominion, because only HE could pay for it.
° See
→Revelation 5:1-12
° We shall reign on the earth with HIM because HE was resurrected
° He ALONE is WORTHY!
° He ALONE can take back what HE rightfully paid for and purchased
° He ALONE will receive these 7 things
- Power
- Riches
- Wisdom
- Strenght
- Honour
- Glory
- Blessing
° But why is HE ALONE worthy?
Matthew 5:17 —
Think not that I am come to destory the law, or the prophets, I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
Psalm 40:7 — Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book
it is written of me.
° Jesus is the entire Word of God
° What we are celebrating is referred to as the passion week by some
° Biblically it is called the Passover which is instituted in Exodus 12:1-13
° See
→Exodus 12:1-13
° When we get to the gospels there are many times the people try to take Jesus and make Him King, but he always slips away (John 6:14-15)
John 6:14 — Then those men, when they had seen the mirale that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.
John 6:15 — When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
° However, in one event Jesus not only allows it, He arranged it
° We call it the triumphal entry (which is a bit of a misnomer)
° His descent on the donkey was to begin the fulfillment of the Passover feast
° We see the Passover connection several times in the New Testament
John 1:29 — The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
I Corinthians 5:7 — Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
° Jesus fulfilled a lot of prophecies in the events of the passion week
Zechariah 9:9 — Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, they King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having
salvation; lowly, and riding upon tan ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
See
→Matthew 21:1-5
° As Jesus rides in on the donkey the people are singing...
Psalm 118:26 — Blessed
be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
° God is so precise in everything He does, and His Word is so pure and true
° The timing of Jesus riding in at that pivotal moment in history had to be deliberate
° And indeed, it was, it was fortold in Daniel 9:25, and when the lamb was to be inspected on the 10
th of Nisan
Daniel 9:25 — Know therefore and understand,
that
from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build
Jerusalment unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks
: the street shall be built again, and the wall even in troublous times.
° Daniel 9 prophesies the arrival of our King to the very day
God Is Absolutely Precise in His Word!
This Starts the Passion Week and the
Fullfillment of the Passover Feast.
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Make a triumphal entry into Jerusalem
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Psalm 118:26 — Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD, we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
Daniel 9:25 — Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalment unto the
Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall even in troublous times.
Zechariah 9:9 — Rejoice greatly, O daughters of Zion; shout, O daughters of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just,
and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
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People to sing Hosanna to Him
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Psalm 118:25 — Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.
Psalm 118:26 — Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD, we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
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Betrayed by a friend for 30 pieces of silver
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Psalm 41:9 — Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Zechariah 11:12 — And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighted for my price
thiry pieces of silver,
Zechariah 11:13 — And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty
pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
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° Judas takes 30 pieces of silver
Matthew 26:15 — And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they convenanted with him for thirty
pieces of silver.
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To be rejected
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Psalm 69:8 — I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
Psalm 69:20 — Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was
none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Psalm 118:22 — The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
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He did not speak in defense
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Isaiah 53:7 — He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a
sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
John 19:9 — And went again into the judgement hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.
John 19:10 — Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to
release thee.
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Would be a smitten shepherd
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Zechariah 13:7 — Awake, O sword, against my sherpherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts; smite
the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
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Would be given vinegar and gall
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Psalm 69:21 — They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
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They would cast lots for His garments
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Psalm 22:18 — They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
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He would be pierced
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Zechariah 12:10 — And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grae and supplications: and
they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth fo his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in
bitterness for his firstborn.
Psalm 22:16 — For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
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To be reproached & mocked
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Psalm 22:7 — All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lips, they shake the head, saying
Psalm 22:8 — He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Psalm 89:51 — Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD, wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine annointed.
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To be whipped
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Psalm 129:3 — The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
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Not a bone to be broken
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Psalm 34:20 — He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken
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His beard would be ripped off
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Isaiah 50:6 — I gave my back to the smitters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
The Days of Passover
° 10th of Nisan — (Saturday) The Lamb is inspected on the donkey
Psalm 118:25 — Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.
Psalm 118:26 — Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD, we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
Daniel 9:25 — Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalment unto the
Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall even in troublous times.
Zechariah 9:9 — Rejoice greatly, O daughters of Zion; shout, O daughters of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just,
and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
° 11th of Nisan — (Sunday) The fig tree was cursed
° 12th of Nisan — (Monday) The conspirators counseled
° 13th of Nisan — (Tuesday) The last supper
° 14th of Nisan — (Wednesday) The crucifixion: The Passover Lamb for us!
° 15th of Nisan — (Thursday) The feast of unleavened bread
° 16th of Nisan — (Friday) The women prepare the spices, etc.
° 17th of Nisan — (Saturday; ) The resurrection!: Empty tomb discovered on Sunday
° Even the final day was predictive!
Genesis 8:4 — And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
° Why would the Holy Spirit want us to know this back in Genesis?
° It's because Noah's new beginning on planet earth, walking out of that ark was on the anniversay in advance of our new beginning in Christ when he was resurrected.
° All the way from the beginning it was planned in this one event in Genesis
° If you track down the 17th of Nisan, a lot of deliverance occurs on that day
The Final Week
- Event
- Triumphal Entry
- End Times Discourse
- Last Seder
- Crucifixion
- Resurrection
- Matthew
- 21, 22, 23
- 24, 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- Mark
- 11, 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- Luke
- 19, 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- John
- 12
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- 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
- 19
- 20, 21
Jesus Is in Control
° Jesus is in charge the entire time
° The timing of everything was controlled by Jesus Christ Himself
° Judas was put on the spot in Matthew 26
° See
→Matthew 26:21-25
° Judas then had to make arrangements with the High Priest, gather the troops, schedule a morning appointment with Pilate, etc.
° Even in Gethsemane it was Jesu who was giving the orders
° See
→John 18:4-6
° After pilot confronts Jesus and Jesus doesn't defend himself, Jesus lets Pilot know who is in control
John 19:10 — Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to
release thee.
John 19:11 — Jesus answered,
Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above:
therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
Illegal Aspects
° Jesus went through six illegal trials full of fraud
° There were three Jewish trials and three Roman trials
Jewish Trials:
Matthew 27:1 — When the morning was come, all the chief priest and elders of the people took counse against Jesus to put him to death:
Matthew 27:2 — And when they had bound him, they led
him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
Roman Trials:
John 18:14 — Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
° Self-incrimination was prohibited in their law (and yet that is all they brought against Jesus)
° Every aspect of the six trials (the number of man) were illegally administered
° The religious trials ended and the Jews wanted Jesus to go before the civil authorities for criminal prosecution
° The Jews had lost the ability to administer capital punishment, so they had to get Jesus before the Romans to pull that off
° This is why Jesus was crucified and not stoned, which was the Jewish method of capital punishment
Genesis 49:10 — The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto hiim
shall the
gathering of the people
be.
° The binding of a prisoner before he was condemned was unlawful unless resistance was offered or expected, which Jesus offered none
° See
→John 18:12-24
° It was illegal for judges to participate in the arrest of the accused
John 18:3 — Judas then, havaing received a band
of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and
torches and weapons.
° No legal transactions, including a trial, could be conducted at night
John 18:28 — Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall,
lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
° The arrest was affected through the agency of an informer and a traitor
John 18:5 — They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus saith unto them,
I am he. And Judas also, which betrayed
him, stood with them.
° See
→Exodus 23:6-8
° While an acquittal could be pronounced the same day, any other verdict required a majority of two and had to come on a subsequant day
Matthew 26:65 — Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy, what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have
heard his blasphemy.
Matthew 26:66 — What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
Leviticus 21:10 — And
he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated
to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
° See
→Matthew 26:63-65
° It was the duty of a judge to see that the interest of the accused was fully protected
John 18:14 — Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
° Preliminary hearings before a magistrate were completely foreign to the Jewish legal system
John 18:13 — And led him awa to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.
° The judges sought false witnesses against Jesus
Matthew 26:59 — Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
Mark 14:56 — For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
° In a Jewish court, the accused was to be assumed innocent until proven guilty by two or more witnesses
Deuteronomy 19:15 — One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two
witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
° When the witness first disagreed, the prisoner should have been released
° The Jews failed to find two witness agreeing on anything against Jesus
° See
→Mark 14:56-59
° The trial under Caiaphas took place in his home rather than the council chamber where it should have been held
° See
→John 18:13-16
° The court lacked the civil authority to condemn a man to death
John 18:31 — Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us
to put any man to death:
° It was illegal to conduct a session of the court on a feast day
John 18:28 — Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall,
lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
° A guilty verdict was rendered without evidence
John 18:30 — They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee.
° The balloting was illegal, it should have been by roll with the youngest voting first
Matthew 26:66 — What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
° The sentence is finally passed in the palace of the high priest, but the law demanded it be pronounced in the temple, in the hall of hewn stone
John 18:28 — Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall,
lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
Proverbs 11:1 — A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
° Every false balance possible was brought out against Jesus
Pilate's Title on the Cross-"Jesus is King!"
° Pilate even knew that Jesus is King!
° See
→John 19:19-22
° Remarkable that Pilate could write in three languages, but why were the Jews so upset?
(An acrostic YHWH) ישוע הנצרי ומלך היהודים
Four Cups of Wine
° At the Passover, there are four cups of wine
° The four cups are taken from Exodus 6:6-7
Exodus 6:6 — Wherefor say unto the children of Isreael, I
am the LORD, and (1)
I will bring you out from under the burdens of the
Egyptians
, and (2)
I will rid you out of their bondage, and (3)
I will redeem you with a stretched our arm, and with great judgments:
Exodus 6:7 — And (4)
I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I
am the LORD your God,
which bringeth you out from under the burndens of the Egyptians.
° The four cups:
1. Cup of Sanctification — God bringing out from under bondage
2. Cup of Thanksgiving — God did what He promised
3. Cup of Redemption — God redeemed them with an outstretched arm
4. Cup of Completion — God will take Israel for Himself as a people
° The cup of completion reaches fulfillment at the end of the tribulation when Jesus returns to the earth
Matthew 26:29 —
But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink
it new with you in my Father's kingdom.
° In the Kingdom, we will get to watch Jesus drink that final cup, the cup of completion
° It is interesting that these four Passover cups are even modeled in the gospel of John (4 is also the number of the Kingdom, the completion of material creation being put in order)
1.
John 2 — Jesus turns water into wine (the cup of sanctification)
2.
John 5 — The man with infirmities for 38 years needs to dip into the pool (the cup of thanksgiving); this cup is actually to model the crossing
of the Red Sea, or the crossing of troubled waters to be healed
3.
John 6 — Jesus feeds the 5,000 with bread (John 6:48 - I am the bread of life.) Jesus is acting out the third cup (the cup of redemption). The
Jews however are saying at this point that they will not eat of it, thus refusing fellowship with Jesus.
4.
John 13-17 — These 5 chapters represent the fourth cup (the cup of completion). It begins where Jesus washes the disciples feet;
John 14 where Jesus declares that he will come to take us home;
John 15
where Jesus is the vine
John 18:11 — Then said Jesus unto Peter,
Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not
drink it?
Resurrection
° Without the resurrection, our faith has no eternal meaning:
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It proves that Jesus is God's Son, and His sacrifice was fully accepted.
- John 10:17 — Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
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John 10:18 —
No man taketh if from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power
to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Fahter.
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John 11:25 — Jesus said unto her,
I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live:
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Verifies the truth of God's Word.
- Psalm 16:10 — For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell: neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
- Psalm 110:1 — The LORD said unto my Lord. Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
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Assures our future resurrection
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Proof of a future judgement
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Acts 17:31 — Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained;
whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
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Basis for Christ's heavenly priesthood
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Gives power for Christian living
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Romans 6:4 — Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father,
even so we also should walk in newness of life.
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Assures our future inheritance
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Side Note:
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John 20:7 — And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
° What is so significant about the napkin wrapped together in a place by itself.
° In Jewish tradition, when the master was eating his meal, the servant would wait until the meal was finished.
° If the napkin was waded up and thrown on the table, the servant knew he was finished eating when the master left
° If the napkin was folder neatly, and placed to the side, it notified to the servant, that "I'll be back", I'm am not finished.
° Yes, Jesus is coming back some day, he isn't finished with what he is doing.
° The Resurrection in Mark
See
→Mark 16:9-20
Go to
→The Resurrected Body