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Episode: “Days of Remembrance: Passover”

Filmed on location in Israel, Myles and Katharine demonstrate and explain the origin and significance of Passover while providing insight for Believers in Yeshua.

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Caption transcript for “Days of Remembrance: Passover”

00:05 And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying...
00:08 These are the feasts of the Lord,
00:10 Holy Convocations which you
00:12 shall proclaim in their seasons.
00:15 In the 14th day of the 1st month is the Lord's Passover.
00:27 Shalom, welcome to our program, I'm Myles Weiss
00:29 And I'm Katharine Weiss
00:30 and we have a program today about Passover.
00:32 You know it says in Leviticus 23:1-2
00:36 it talks about how God told Moses to
00:39 speak to the children of Israel and to tell them
00:42 about a feast that he was wanting them to keep,
00:45 keep to him.
00:47 When I think about Feasts Myles
00:49 people might think about eating
00:50 but that's not what it says in Strong's.
00:52 In Strong's it talks about a " moed ", an "appointed time"
00:56 time that God has ordained on his calendar.
01:00 And it talks about also that these are his Feasts
01:02 not just the Jewish people's Feasts
01:04 but these are his Feasts that
01:06 he will do things on these dates
01:08 and it does not change.
01:10 Yes, it's fascinating isn't it
01:11 that people assume that they are
01:13 the feasts of the Jewish people
01:15 but he says repeatedly these are my Feasts.
01:16 In fact, he declares who he is early on in this
01:19 story of putting the Feasts together
01:23 he says,
01:23 (Speaking Hebrew)
01:31 What a picture of bringing the Jewish people up out of Egypt.
01:34 But it speaks to us as well about
01:36 bringing us out of the slavery to sin.
01:39 What a blessing that God is going to use the Feasts,
01:41 especially Passover to speak about redemption
01:44 and the fact the death could pass over us.
01:47 Amen, let's go hear more from Myles in Israel.
01:53 Passover has been called the Crown Jewel of the Feasts.
01:56 It's the first of the Feasts.
01:58 And it comes in the Spring.
01:59 In fact, Leviticus 23
02:01 we're mandated on the first month and
02:03 the 14th day to keep the Feast of Passover, Why?
02:08 Because the most important thing that has happened
02:11 in the history of man
02:12 has been the shed blood of the Lamb.
02:14 And Passover is the picture,
02:16 the story of redemption that
02:18 comes due to the shed blood of Yeshua HaMashiach .
02:22 This is how God says it
02:23 in John 1:29 we see the
02:25 cousin John the Immerser.
02:28 It turns out he wasn't a baptist,
02:30 He was an Immerser
02:31 doing something that Jewish people have done
02:33 for thousands of years.
02:35 And when he saw Yeshua coming
02:37 to the Jordan he said,
02:39 (Speaking Hebrew)
02:47 It's an offer to humanity
02:50 from God pictured in the
02:52 Gospel according to Moses
02:54 because really the story
02:55 of Israel is a story of a love affair between
02:59 God the Creator of the heavens and the earth
03:01 and the Israeli people, the Jewish people
03:03 and by choice Gentiles
03:06 that will knit yourselves to the people of Israel
03:10 and to the story of Messiah.
03:13 I mean really there are 3 aspects to every Feast.
03:15 There's a Historical aspect,
03:17 it speaks about the story of Israel
03:20 the history of God's interaction with Israel.
03:23 There's a prophetic picture in each of the Feasts.
03:26 They each have a picture of Messiah.
03:29 They look towards the finished work of Mashiach .
03:32 And there's a personal meaning.
03:34 If you watch, if you listen
03:36 and if you participate in the Feasts
03:38 I believe God will speak to you about your own life,
03:41 where you are in your journey on this very brief
03:43 time we have on earth and what it may mean.
03:46 So there's a personal aspect
03:47 every time we keep the Feasts,
03:49 every time we teach about the Feasts
03:50 there's something in it for you.
03:53 Now, this love story began in the Garden of Eden.
03:56 You could say all of humanity was bitten by a snake in Genesis 3:15.
04:01 And because of that the
04:02 Scripture tells us that
04:04 the Promised Son, the One to come
04:06 the Mashiach that would come
04:08 would crush the head of the Snake
04:11 and the Snake, the Serpent, the Devil,
04:13 Satan the Adversary
04:15 would bruise the heel of the One to come.
04:18 This is very interesting because
04:19 there's another meaning to
04:21 the word " Pesach "
04:22 which is Hebrew for "Passover"
04:24 And the word means "to limp", " pesach ".
04:26 You see it in the story of Mephibosheth before David.
04:29 We see it in the story of Eliyahu asking
04:32 how long will you halt between two opinions?
04:33 Same Hebrew word "to limp".
04:35 There's something about the coming of Messiah
04:38 that had to do with a bruise, a wound,
04:41 a difficulty, a sacrifice that
04:43 included something other than being a reigning king.
04:46 So he came as the Lamb of God
04:49 The picture in the Passover is this
04:52 amazing story coming out of Egypt,
04:53 the deliverance from Egypt and the
04:56 blood of the Lamb needing to be put
04:59 on the doorposts of each house,
05:01 the Israelites coming inside that house
05:03 and the Angel of Death passing over
05:06 so the people inside would be spared.
05:08 It's a picture for us of what could happen when we allow
05:11 the blood of the Lamb to be placed on our hearts.
05:14 Why? Why blood?
05:16 What a dramatic way of doing this.
05:19 Well the fact is that Leviticus 17:11 tells us,
05:28 But none of us is worthy for that.
05:29 There's no way that the blood of a normal lamb,
05:32 no matter how perfect the lamb may be,
05:34 cannot provide that complete redemption
05:38 that came through Yeshua HaMashicah because he was,
05:41 is 100 percent divine and 100 percent man.
05:45 It's a mystery.
05:46 I'm grateful that God's greater than my ability
05:49 to completely understand him
05:52 causing me to need to walk by faith.
05:54 Passover has always been resisted throughout history
05:57 sadly the history of the Christian Church
05:59 has been one of resisting Passover,
06:01 in fact, outlawing it.
06:03 There was throughout history...
06:14 All forbade the young believing community from
06:17 participating in the Jewish Feasts,
06:20 the Feasts of the LORD.
06:21 Why?
06:22 Because they point to the blood.
06:24 They point to the Lamb.
06:26 And they point to the incredible history of
06:29 God's love affair with the Jewish people
06:31 that continues even this day
06:33 by restoring us to this land
06:35 and beginning this work of restoration that will
06:38 lead to the promise that we see
06:40 in Romans chapters 9 through 11
06:42 where the Apostle Paul, Rav Shaul says
06:45 all Israel will be saved.
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07:26 You may wonder how does something
07:28 as lavish as this come into being.
07:30 There's a lot of preparation that goes into preparing this Passover meal
07:35 It's called a " Seder " which means "Order".
07:37 And sometimes the disorderliness
07:39 that takes place getting it ready is humorous because
07:42 it really does take some preparation.
07:44 In fact, the beginning of this season is right after Purim
07:48 the beginning of the Spring cleaning.
07:51 I believe that may be where traditional
07:53 western spring cleaning comes from
07:54 is from the preparation of the home for a Passover Seder .
07:59 The Seder is a meal, it's a very lavish meal.
08:02 It has symbolic foods that are part of it.
08:05 And it really begins with the
08:08 cleaning out of leaven from the home,
08:10 leaven that is a type of sin,
08:12 a picture of sin in the Scriptures
08:15 So we see in Exodus 12:15
08:24 Actually it's a picture of the consecration of ourselves,
08:27 the separation of ourselves
08:29 to the ways of God and to the things of God.
08:32 There's a picture that continues not only from historically
08:35 in the Passover of the Israeli people
08:38 but also into the New Testament
08:40 when Yeshua himself kept the Passover.
08:43 The word that's used is called " bedikat khameytz "
08:46 "to take the leaven out",
08:48 to take out the leaven products.
08:50 And I remember growing up in the old country, New York City
08:54 where we would take all the leaven in the house
08:56 and give it to our Gentile friends and neighbors
08:58 so that everybody looked forward to Passover.
09:00 We had this season of just a unique part of our lives.
09:04 And our neighbors and friends got all
09:06 the cookies and cakes that were in the home.
09:09 In this cleansing of the home of all the leaven
09:13 it's really a picture of the cleansing of our hearts
09:16 that God is wanting to do,
09:17 really changing us and dealing with what's called " yetzer hara "
09:21 "the evil tendency that is within us".
09:24 There's some wonderful traditions that secretly
09:27 show the work of Yeshua .
09:29 For example, in my family when we would gather
09:32 the " khameytz ", the "leaven", from the home
09:34 for the very last moment we would
09:36 take a feather and a wooden spoon
09:40 and my Dad or Mom would take the feather
09:43 and scoop up a few symbolic crumbs of leaven,
09:46 put them on the spoon and then we would
09:48 take them out to the barbeque and burn them there.
09:51 Well, listen - a feather, a picture of the dove,
09:56 the Holy Spirit, " Ruach HaKodesh "
09:58 coming and taking the sin and putting it on a wooden spoon
10:04 picturing perhaps a wooden cross
10:06 and the full sacrifice burning until nothing was left
10:10 just as Yeshua made a full sacrifice for us
10:13 when he went to the cross as our Passover Lamb.
10:17 I think about this season between Purim and Passover.
10:21 It's very similar in a way to the Days of Awe between
10:24 Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur where that introspection,
10:27 that preparation, that turning to God takes place.
10:31 The idea being here that we can't save ourselves.
10:35 We cannot make ourselves sanctified.
10:38 There's no amount of good deeds or right actions
10:40 I can do that will change my nature.
10:43 But when I believe into the finished work of Yeshua
10:47 something begins to happen in my heart and life.
10:49 I know for myself it was like night and day.
10:52 Does that mean that I walk without sin, absolutely not.
10:54 I am a flawed person in process just as you are.
10:59 But something magnificent happens
11:01 when we say yes to Yeshua .
11:03 And it's a very Jewish thing to do.
11:06 We see it pictured in Isaiah 53
11:09 a very controversial passage of Scripture.
11:12 And we also see that we're to tell this story of the
11:16 historical Passover to our children.
11:18 In fact, Exodus 13:8 says,
11:22 That's why we use the " Haggadah ",
11:24 we use "The Telling",
11:26 a book, that is part of this story.
11:29 We tell the story from generation to generation
11:31 so that never will anyone forget what God did for us.
11:35 In fact, we're supposed to tell it as if we were there in Egypt.
11:39 We tell it from the point of view of
11:41 "I was there and God did this for me"
11:44 And we do that from generation to generation.
11:47 Traditionally you would say at the end of the Seder ,
11:49 " Lashanah Hab'ah bi Yerushalayim "
11:52 "Next Year in Jerusalem"
11:54 But thanks be to God from 1948 forward
11:57 since the rebirth of the state of Israel
11:59 many of our Jewish brothers and sisters can say
12:03 we are here now, we're not looking forward to that.
12:06 Now Yeshua kept Passover.
12:08 Not only was he the Passover, he kept Passover
12:11 as an observant Jewish person
12:14 John 2:13 says,
12:21 And in those days preceding the Passover
12:24 and then the crucifixion
12:26 he was inspected by all of Israel,
12:28 just as the Passover Lamb
12:30 was inspected by the House of Israel back in the desert.
12:32 And year after year, decade after decade Yeshua was inspected.
12:36 And what was the testimony?
12:38 Well, one testimony came from Pontius Pilot who said,
12:42 "I find no fault in this man"
12:45 A perfect Lamb was on the horizon, on the scene
12:49 and about to prepare himself as a sacrifice for you and for me.
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14:05 Passover is a prophecy of our Messiah,
14:08 the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
14:12 Here we are in Israel with our Seder meal before us
14:15 sharing with you the miracle of Passover.
14:18 There's so many wonderful little images
14:21 that God has given to us.
14:22 They're actually a foreshadow, a mikrah
14:24 of what he does completely in himself.
14:27 When he delivered the people out of Egypt Myles
14:29 he said the "Great I Ams" right?
14:30 He said that he would deliver them out of bondage
14:33 and he would redeem them,
14:35 he would rescue them with a strong right arm.
14:38 And he would call them to himself
14:41 and they would be his people.
14:43 He would adopt them.
14:44 He would make them his own people.
14:47 It's true, and not only do we have that historical reality
14:50 but we see it in the midst of the meal.
14:53 Those four statements that Katharine mentioned,
14:55 The "I wills" you might say,
14:57 are symbolized in the four cups that
14:59 are drunk during the Passover Seder .
15:01 And a traditional prayer is said before each of them.
15:04 I'll say it for you now.
15:05 " Barukh atah adonai "
15:06 " eloheynu melekh ha'olam borey pri hagafen "
15:13 Four cups with four meanings.
15:15 And really it's where the communion comes from isn't it?
15:19 It's where the communion comes from and its
15:21 reminding us of the power of the blood.
15:23 The Israelites put the blood of the lamb on the door posts
15:27 and on the lintel so that the death angel would pass over.
15:32 I don't know how many times I prayed that
15:34 when we have been in danger,
15:36 when we have traveled in India or Africa or in Russia,
15:39 I said the blood of the LORD is over our doorposts
15:42 and death angel you have to pass over.
15:44 There is power in the blood.
15:46 Exactly right.
15:47 And all of these foods have a symbolic meaning as well.
15:50 You see the Feast that we are about to partake of.
15:52 But these particular symbolic foods, we have
15:55 the burnt sacrifice of the lamb pictured in that bone.
15:59 We have the bitter herbs, The Maror .
16:01 We have The Kharoset which is a picture of the
16:04 work and the labor of being in the land of Egypt
16:09 and the deliverance God brought from the building of the bricks
16:12 and making the pyramids and the other structures.
16:14 We have the Karpas , the fresh new life of being
16:18 delivered out of Egypt, out of the bondage of slavery
16:21 And then some time in the middle ages
16:23 we believe they added a roasted egg which
16:25 some people say looks back to the burnt temple
16:29 and the mourning for us to be
16:31 back in Yerushalayim and back to the Temple.
16:33 Some people think it might be a picture of
16:37 the pagan sneaking in of a fertility symbol.
16:41 But I have good news for you.
16:43 The Easter Bunny cannot save you.
16:45 It is the blood of the Lamb that saves.
16:48 And that's why we have these foods that are
16:50 partaken of during the Seder as we move
16:53 the story forward as we tell the story.
16:55 Now one of the most important,
16:57 in fact Rabbi Gamaliel said
16:59 that the two most important parts of this Seder are the Matzah and the Bitter Herbs.
17:04 The bitter herbs remind us of what we've been delivered from
17:07 but the Matzah also.
17:09 Typically there would be three Matzot that would be taken
17:12 and put inside of a Matza Tosh or Matza pocket.
17:16 Now some people say, well why three?
17:18 Is it the Levites, the Priests, the people?
17:20 Is it Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?
17:23 Well, first of all there are 3 that go into the Matza pocket.
17:29 But the middle one,
17:30 the middle one, the second one
17:32 I believe that you can see that what this represents
17:36 are the Father, the Son and the Ruach HaKodesh the Holy Spirit
17:41 because the middle matza is taken and you
17:44 can see even today these are striped and pierced
17:47 speaking of Isaiah 53, the sacrifice of Yeshua
17:51 who substituted Himself for us.
17:53 He was whipped, he was pierced at the cross,
17:57 that full sacrifice, that full burning of that life for you and for me.
18:02 Here we have a Matza, the Middle One
18:05 symbolizing the Son is broken.
18:08 And then the broken part is put inside of a white linen and
18:13 then the Father of the family, the Abba will
18:17 take the white linen and bury it somewhere in the room.
18:20 It's called the Afikoman ,
18:21 That which comes after, that which comes later.
18:25 And during the course of the service at some point
18:28 the Father will tell the little children to go out
18:31 and look for this "Hidden One".
18:34 And then the child who finds it will come excited and just thrilled
18:38 and bring it back to the Father of the family.
18:41 And here's the picture.
18:43 Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;
18:45 the Son broken for you and for me
18:48 wrapped in white linen, buried but then brought
18:52 back before the Father as the perfect ransom.
18:55 And then the Father of the home will give the little child a gift.
18:58 And it's a picture for us that we need to become like little children
19:03 in order to see the Kingdom of Heaven.
19:05 There's something about this perfect Sacrifice
19:07 that when presented to the Father, paid the price for you and for me.
19:12 There's another wonderful secret in the four cups,
19:15 and it's the third cup which is when Yeshua said,
19:19 "This is my Body and this is my blood which is spilled for you."
19:23 We say the prayer over the Bread,
19:25 Barukh atah adonai eloheynu melekh ha'olam hamotzi lekhem min ha'aretz .
19:29 Blessed are you, O Lord our God, king of the universe, who brings forth bread from the earth.
19:34 And we know the Bread of Heaven went into the earth,
19:38 came back for us, and is presented to the Father.
19:41 But what about that 3rd cup?
19:43 Right, the Redemption Cup.
19:44 Yes
19:45 The Bride Cup
19:47 Yes, the Bridal Cup.
19:48 Folks, this is so important.
19:50 The Bridal Cup pictures that transaction that would take place
19:54 when a young man would desire a bride he would go and present a cup,
19:59 a silver cup usually, a silver cup picturing redemption.
20:03 And if the Bride to be drank from that cup
20:06 they were betrothed which is as serious as a wedding.
20:09 And I want to say to you today that when Yeshua said,
20:12 This is my blood which is given for you
20:14 he was inviting you to the marriage supper of the Lamb.
20:18 He was inviting you to drink of that cup
20:21 and be forever betrothed to him and wed to him.
20:25 And we want to say to you today
20:27 that we want to invite you as well.
20:29 If you have never given your life, your heart to Yeshua HaMashiach ,
20:34 it is the most Jewish thing you can do if you are a Jewish person.
20:37 It is the most wonderful, eternal thing you can do
20:40 for anyone who's watching this.
20:43 Katharine and I want to invite you to say yes to the Bridegroom of heaven, in Yeshua 's Name.
21:03 ♪ Background Music ♪
21:30 Katharine and I would love to host you in Israel.
21:33 It is a life changing experience.
21:34 Every time I go I learn something new.
21:37 I see new things in the Word.
21:39 And it's such a blessing to be there and to support
21:41 the Israeli people especially at this time.
21:43 So we invite you to come with us.
21:45 It's a statement of your faith.
21:47 It's a statement of your love for the Bible,
21:49 for his people, for the Book.
21:51 And it's a wonderful experience.
21:53 And we would love to be your host.
21:55 We're going to talk more about Passover Myles.
21:58 I love talking about the Feasts
22:00 because they're God's appointments with us.
22:03 He has a Daytimer up in heaven.
22:05 And he's like, Okay, on this moed , on this appointed time
22:09 I'm going to institute my Covenant with the people
22:13 that if they receive me, receive the blood,
22:16 I'm going to cause the death angel to pass over.
22:18 There's so many layers to the Feasts
22:21 and there's also a lot of names.
22:22 It can be confusing at the same time.
22:24 You know it's so wonderful to see the Church now
22:27 is understanding something of the Biblical calendar
22:30 and beginning to come to terms with these are set times,
22:33 appointed times, they're called a mikra , which is a rehearsal
22:36 because they point to the coming of the LORD.
22:38 They point to the Messiah.
22:40 And especially Passover, such a revelatory experience when
22:43 we host them at churches or in different congregations.
22:46 It's just amazing to see how people respond,
22:49 how they see Yeshua in the Passover.
22:51 And so we are just blessed to speak about Passover
22:55 and to keep it every year as well.
22:56 Absolutely.
22:57 We have a guest with us from Israel.
22:59 She lives in the Galilee.
23:02 She's a lovely lady.
23:03 Her name is Carolyn Hyde.
23:04 So let's go now and hear her song.
23:17 ♪ And there she will sing as in the days of her youth ♪
23:21 ♪ As in the days she came out of Egypt ♪
23:26 ♪ And there she will sing as in the days of her youth ♪
23:29 ♪ As in the days she came out of Egypt ♪
23:34 ♪ So will I draw her, ♪
23:39 ♪ I will lead her into the desert ♪
23:43 ♪ I will speak to her gently ♪
23:48 ♪ I will open a door of hope ♪
23:57 ♪ And there she will sing as in the days of her youth ♪
24:01 ♪ As in the days she came out of Egypt ♪
24:06 ♪ And there she will sing as in the days of her youth ♪
24:10 ♪ As in the days she came out of Egypt ♪
24:15 ♪ I will betroth you ♪
24:19 ♪ In love and compassion ♪
24:24 ♪ I will always be faithful ♪
24:28 ♪ And you will acknowledge the LORD ♪
24:36 ♪ Background Music ♪
25:32 ♪ And there she will sing as in the days of her youth ♪
25:35 ♪ As in the days she came out of Egypt ♪
25:43 ♪ Background Music ♪♪
26:10 I know you enjoyed Carolyn's music.
26:12 It's so wonderful.
26:13 You know, God is the God who brought
26:15 the people of Israel out with his strong right hand.
26:18 Yeah, I love the Hebrew language, you know.
26:20 It's so amazing to understand that the
26:22 Hebrew word for Passover is " Pesach "
26:24 The root word is " Pesa " which means "to limp"
26:28 And it points to the blood of the Lamb,
26:30 the limping, the broken, the Suffering Servant Messiah
26:33 whose blood would be spilled on behalf of his people.
26:36 It's and amazing picture that's hidden
26:38 in the very word for Passover.
26:41 It goes back to Genesis 3:15
26:42 where we see that the prophecy
26:44 about Messiah would be that
26:46 he would crush Satan's head
26:48 but Satan would bruise his heal.
26:50 And that is the picture of the cross
26:52 that Yeshua was broken and he was bruised,
26:55 and it please the Father to bruise him on your behalf
26:58 and on my behalf as well.
26:59 WOW, I'm so glad God made a way for us
27:02 to have eternal life through His Son.
27:04 He gave the full ransom price.
27:06 He paid it all Myles.
27:08 You know, as we close our program
27:10 we always tell you to look into the goodness
27:13 and inquire about the peace of Jerusalem.
27:15 We'll do that, but before we do
27:17 let's also tell you what we say at the end of every Passover
27:20 " Lashanah Haba'ah bi Yerushalayim "
27:23 "Next Year in Jerusalem"
27:25 And with that we remind you
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