One in Messiah Congregationקָּהָל
אֶחָד
בְּמָּשִׁיחַ
A part of the
Congregation of Israel
עֲדַת
יִשְׂרָאֵל
The last day of the feast
of unleavened bread
Shabbat Shalom
שַׁבָּת
שָׁלוֹם
Today is April 15, 2020
April - Aphrodite's month
We acknowledge Yehovah’s calendar: We are now in the 1st month, ha
Aviv – day 21
Today’s
Topic
Ha Aviv 21,
a Sabbath in 2020
"The
last day of the feast of unleavened bread”
חַג
הַמַּצּוֹת
Free from
the "leaven of iniquity, sin"
A
solemn assembly
עֲצֶרֶת
rootעָצַר aw-tsar'
A primitive root;
to enclose; by analogy to hold back; also to maintain, rule,
assemble: keep (self close, still), refrain, restrain, retain, stop,
withhold (self).
עֲצֶרֶת
עֲצָרָה
‛ătsârâh -
‛ătsereth - ats-aw-raw', ats-eh'-reth
- an assembly, especially on a holy day: - solemn – meeting
Solemn
assemblies
Lev.23 [36] Seven
days you shall offer an offering made by fire unto Yehovah:
on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you; and you shall offer an
offering made by fire unto Yehovah: it is a solemn
assembly; and you shall do no servile work therein.
Num.29 [35] On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you
shall do no servile work therein:
Deut.16 [8] Six days you
shall eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn
assembly to Yehovah your God: you shall do no
work therein.
2Chr.7 [9] And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly:
for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
Neh.8 [18] also day
by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of
God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn
assembly, according unto the manner.
Solemnity:
mô‛êd
mô‛êd
mô‛âdâh
מוֹעָדָה מֹעֵד מוֹעֵד
properly an appointment, that is, a fixed time or season; specifically
a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for
a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of
meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand): - appointed (sign, time),
(place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed,
due) season, solemn (-ity), synagogue, (set) time
(appointed).
Bible information most people don’t know:
There are "7" other holydays which
are treated like a Sabbath
NO WORK - NO BUYING
or SELLING
Read Lev. 23
The 1st month, ha
Aviv, “2” extra Sabbaths – Feast of Unleavened Bread
The 3rd month,
Sivan, “1” extra Sabbath – Feast of Weeks / Pentecost
The 7th month, ha
Ethanim, “4” extra
Sabbaths – Feast of Tabernacles
Feast of unleavened bread
Exod. 12
[15] Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread;
even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever
eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
[16] And in the first
day there shall be a holy convocation,
and in the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation to you; no
manner of work shall be done in them, save
that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
[17] And you shall
observe the feast of unleavened bread;
for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall you observe this day in your generations by
an ordinance forever.
****[18] In the first month, on the fourteenth day of
the month at even, you
shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at
even.
[19] Seven days shall
there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eats that which
is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the
congregation of Israel, whether he be a
stranger, or born in the land.
[20] You shall eat
nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall you eat unleavened
bread.
Lev. 23
[1] And Yehovah spoke unto Moses, saying,
[2]
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of Yehovah,
which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
[3] Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, an
holy convocation; you shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of Yehovah in all your dwellings.
[4] These are the feasts
of Yehovah, even holy convocations, which you shall
proclaim in their seasons.
[5] In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is Yehovah's Passover.
[6] And on the fifteenth day of the
same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto Yehovah:
seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
***[7] In the
first day you shall have a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work
therein.
***[8] But you shall offer an offering
made by fire unto Yehovah seven days: in the seventh day is an holy
convocation: you shall do no servile work therein.
Num.28
[1] And Yehovah spoke
unto Moses, saying,
[2]
Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread
for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savor unto me, shall you observe to
offer unto me in their due season.
[16] And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover
of Yehovah.
[17] And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven
days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
***[18] In
the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no manner of servile
work therein:
[19] But you shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt
offering unto Yehovah; two young bullocks, and one
ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish:
[20] And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three
tenth deals shall you offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;
[21] A several tenth deal shall you offer for every lamb, throughout the
seven lambs:
[22] And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.
[23] You shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning,
which is for a continual burnt offering.
[24] After this manner you shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savor
unto Yehovah: it shall be offered beside the
continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
****[25] And
on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile
work.
40 years later
Deut. 16
[1] Observe the month of ha Aviv /Abib, and keep the Passover unto Yehovah
your God: for in the month of ha Aviv Yehovah your
God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.
[2] You shall therefore sacrifice the Passover unto Yehovah your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place
which Yehovah shall choose to place his name there.
[3] You shall eat no leavened bread
with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of
affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may
remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your
life.
[4] And there shall be no leavened
bread seen with you in all your coast seven days;
neither shall there anything of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at
even, remain all night until the morning.
[5] You may not sacrifice the Passover within any
of your gates, which Yehovah your God gives you:
[6]
But at the place which Yehovah your God shall choose
to place His name in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at even, at the
going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt.
[7] And you shall roast and eat it in the place which Yehovah
your God shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go unto your
tents.
[8] Six days you shall eat unleavened
bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yehovah
your God: you shall do no work therein.
2 Chr. 30 Hezekiah
kept the Passover
[1] And Hezekiah
sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh,
that they should come to the house of Yehovah at
Jerusalem, to keep the Passover unto Yehovah God
of Israel.
[21] And the children of Israel that
were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with
great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised Yehovah
day by day, singing with “loud” instruments unto Yehovah.
[22] And Hezekiah spoke comfortably unto all the Levites that
taught the good knowledge of Yehovah: and they did eat throughout the feast
seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to Yehovah God of their fathers.
[23] And the whole assembly took
counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.
[24] For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a
thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the
congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of
priests sanctified themselves.
[25] And all the congregation of
Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out
of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that
dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
[26] So there was great joy in
Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there
was not the like in Jerusalem.
[27] Then the priests the Levites arose
and blessed the people:
and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to His
holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.
2 Chr. 35 - Josiah kept the Passover
[1] Moreover Josiah kept a Passover
unto Yehovah in Jerusalem: and they killed the Passover
on the fourteenth day of the first month.
[17] And the children of Israel that
were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread
seven days.
[18] And there was no Passover like to
that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the
kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the
priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.
[19] In the eighteenth year of the
reign of Josiah was this Passover kept.
Ezra 6 - 2nd Temple finished
The children of the
captivity kept the Passover
[14] And the elders of the Jews builded,
and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah
the son of Iddo. And they builded,
and finished
it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according
to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
[15] And this house was finished on the third day of the month
Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius
the king.
[16] And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites,
and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God
with joy,
[17] And offered at
the dedication of this house of God
an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin
offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes
of Israel.
[18] And they set the priests in their
divisions, and the Levites in their courses,
for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of
Moses.
[19] And the children of the captivity kept
the Passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
[20] For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of
them were pure, and killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity,
and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
[21] And the children of Israel,
which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated
themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek Yehovah God of Israel, did eat,
[22] And kept the feast of unleavened
bread seven days with joy: for Yehovah had made them
joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen
their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
Ezek. 45
[18] Thus says Lord Yehovah;
In the first month, in the first day of the month, you shall take a young
bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:
[19]
And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the
posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and
upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.
[20] And so you shall do the
seventh day of the month for every one that errors, and for him that is
simple: so shall you reconcile the house.
[21] In the first month, in the
fourteenth day of the month, you shall have (like the Gospels) the Passover, a
feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
[22] And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and
for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.
[23]
And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a
burnt offering to Yehovah, seven bullocks and seven
rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a
sin offering.
A few interesting verses:
Luke 2 [41] Now
Yeshua’s parents went to Jerusalem every year at the
feast of the Passover
[42]
And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.[43] And when they had fulfilled the days, (7 days) they returned…
Custom =
manner according to the divine laws in Torah
A note: This Saturday is our first Sabbath of the 7
Sabbaths we were told to count
50 days from First Fruits: Hag Sh'vu-ot
- חַג
שָׁבֻעֹת
“Offering time again”
Exod.23 [14] Three times you shall keep a feast unto Me in the
year.
[15] You shall keep the feast
of unleavened bread: you shall eat unleavened
bread seven days, as I commanded you, in
the time appointed of the month ha Aviv / Abib; for in it you came out from Egypt: and none shall appear
before me empty
[16] And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field:
and the feast of
ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors out of the field.
Same as verse 15 - [17] Three
times in the year all your males shall appear before
the Lord Yehovah.
Deut.16 [16] Three times in a
year shall all your males appear before Yehovah your God in the place
which he shall choose;
in the feast
of unleavened bread, and in the feast of
weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles:
and they
shall not appear before Yehovah empty:
***[17] Every man shall give as he is
able, according to the blessing of Yehovah your God which he hath
given you.
The Feasts of Weeks - Pentecost, a Sabbath, is on the 31th of May – Sunday.
In the 3rd month
Sivan
סִיוָן
סִיו (seev) bright,
splendid
We
observe these feasts and holy days in memorial the best we understand.
Anyone
ask you what you are doing, just tell them:
We are just following TaNaK, Yeshua and the
Apostles
Shabbat Shalom