One in Messiah
Congregation
קָּהָל
אֶחָד בְּמָּשִׁיחַ
Last day of the
Feast of Unleavened Bread
חַג
הַמַּצּוֹת
A solemn
assembly
עֲצֶרֶת
Shabbat Shalom
שַׁבָּת
שָׁלוֹם
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Today we use the Gregorian calendar from Pope Gregory; from the
1500’s.
Today is April 19, 2017 – in the 21 Century
Yehovah God has His
own calendar, which is deleted from the world
We
are now in the 1st month of the God of Israel called Nisan, נִיסָן and ha aviv הָאָבִיב – 21th day
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The spring
holy days and feasts for 2017
Remember all the days starts the evening before
Feasts of Weeks / Harvest / Pentecost – Sunday June 4th, 2017 – a Sabbath
Remember we
will be counting "weeks" not omers
An "omer" is a "sheaf" of barley
עמר omer - A dry measure of 1/10 ephah
(about 2 liters)
Feast of Weeks, Hag Sh'vu-ot
- חַג
שָׁבֻעֹת
Feast of Harvest Hag
ha katseer - חַג הַקָּצִיר
Pentecost = 50 days
(A Sabbath) Sunday, (there are
2 Sabbaths in a row)
“Offering Time”
Exod.23 [14] Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto Me in the year.
[15] Thou shalt keep the
feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat
unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded
thee, in the time appointed of the month ha Aviv / Abib;
for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
[16] And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which
thou hast sown in the field:
and the feast of
ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in
thy labours out of the field.
Same as verse 15 - [17] Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord Yehovah.
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Deut.16 [16] Three times in a
year shall all thy males appear before Yehovah thy
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 thy God which he hath given
thee.
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In the
Prophets, Writings, Gospels
2 Chr.8 [12] Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto Yehovah on the altar of Yehovah,
which he had built before the porch, [13] Even after a certain rate every day,
offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths,
and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts,
three times in the year,
even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the
feast of tabernacles.
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Today’s topic:
"The last
day of the feast of unleavened bread”
A solemn
assembly
עֲצֶרֶת
root עָצַר 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
Total KJV Occurrences: 21
solemn, 10
Lev_23:36, Num_29:35, Deu_16:8, 2Ki_10:20,
2Ch_7:9, Neh_8:18, Joe_2:13-15 (3), Amo_5:21
assembly, 9
Lev_23:36, Num_29:35, Deu_16:8, 2Ki_10:20,
2Ch_7:9, Neh_8:18, Jer_9:2, Joe_2:14-15 (2)
assemblies, 1
Amo_5:21
meeting, 1
Isa_1:13
Solemn assemblies
Lev.23 [36] Seven
days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day
shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall
offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly;
and ye shall do no servile work therein.
Num.29 [35] On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye
shall do no servile work therein:
Deut.16 [8] Six days
thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh
day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt 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).
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Let’s read:
Exod. 12
[15] Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread;
even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth 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 an holy convocation,
and in the seventh day there shall be an 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 ye 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 ye observe this day in your generations by
an ordinance for ever.
[18] In the first month, on the fourteenth day of
the month at even, ye
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 eateth 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] Ye shall eat nothing
leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
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Lev. 23
[1] And the Yehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
[2] Speak unto the children of Israel, and
say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the Yehovah, which ye 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; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Yehovah in all your dwellings.
[4] These are the feasts
of the Yehovah, even holy convocations, which ye
shall proclaim in their seasons.
[5] In the fourteenth day of the first
month at even is the Yehovah's passover.
[6] And on the fifteenth day of the
same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Yehovah: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
[7] In the first day ye shall have an holy
convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
[8] But ye shall offer an offering made by
fire unto the Yehovah
seven days: in the seventh day is an holy
convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
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Num. 9
[9] And the Yehovah spake unto Moses, saying, [10] Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
If any man of you or of your posterity shall be
unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he
shall keep the passover unto the Yehovah.
[11] The fourteenth day
of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with
unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
[12] They shall leave none of it unto the
morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover
they shall keep it.
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Num.28
[1] And the Yehovah spake 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 savour unto me, shall ye observe
to offer unto me in their due season.
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[16] And in the fourteenth day of the
first month is the passover of the 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 an holy
convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
[19] But ye shall offer a sacrifice made
by fire for a burnt offering unto the 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 ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;
[21] A several tenth deal shalt
thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
[22] And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.
[23] Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning,
which is for a continual burnt offering.
[24] After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days,
the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour
unto the Yehovah: it shall be offered
beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
[25] And on the seventh day ye shall
have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.
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Deut. 16
[1] Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Yehovah thy God: for in the month of Abib the Yehovah thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by
night.
[2] Thou shalt
therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Yehovah
thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Yehovah shall choose to place his name there.
[3] Thou shalt eat no
leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith,
even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in
haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
[4] And there shall be no leavened
bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there anything
of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all
night until the morning.
[5] Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the Yehovah thy God giveth thee:
[6] But at the place which the Yehovah thy God shall choose to place his name in, there
thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the
season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
[7] And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the Yehovah thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.
[8] Six days thou shalt eat unleavened
bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the Yehovah thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.
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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 the Yehovah
at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the Yehovah God of Israel.
[2] For the king had taken counsel, and
his princes, and all the
congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
[3] For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not
sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves
together to Jerusalem.
[4] And the thing pleased the king and all the
congregation.
[5] So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all
Israel, from Beer-sheba
even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the Yehovah
God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such
sort as it was written.
[6] So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes
throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king,
saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the Yehovah
God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you,
that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
[7] And be not ye
like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the Yehovah God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up
to desolation, as ye see.
[8] Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Yehovah, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath
sanctified for ever: and serve the Yehovah
your God, that the fierceness of his
wrath may turn away from you.
[9] For if ye turn again unto the Yehovah,
your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead
them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the Yehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not
turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
[10] So the posts passed from city to city through the country of
Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun:
but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
[11] Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
[12] Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the
commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the Yehovah.
[13] And there assembled at Jerusalem much
people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great
congregation.
[14] And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and
all the altars for incense took they
away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
[15] Then they killed the passover
on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were
ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the
house of the Yehovah.
[16] And they stood in their place after
their manner, according to the law
of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received
of the hand of the Levites.
[17] For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the
charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the Yehovah.
[18] For a multitude of the people, even
many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun,
had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying,
The good Yehovah pardon every one
[19] That prepareth his heart to seek God, the Yehovah God
of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the
sanctuary.
[20] And the Yehovah
hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
[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 the Yehovah day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the Yehovah.
[22] And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the
good knowledge of the Yehovah:
and they did eat throughout the feast seven days,
offering peace offerings, and making confession to the 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.
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2 Chr. 35 - Josiah kept the
Passover
[1] Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the Yehovah in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
[2] And he set the priests in their charges, and
encouraged them to the service of the house of the Yehovah,
[3] And said unto the Levites that taught all
Israel, which were holy unto the Yehovah,
Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did
build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the Yehovah your God, and his people Israel,
[4] And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses,
according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing
of Solomon his son.
[5] And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of
the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families
of the Levites.
[6] So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your
brethren, that they may do according to the word of the Yehovah by the hand of Moses.
[7] And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that
were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks:
these were of the king's substance.
[8] And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the
Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests
for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small
cattle, and three hundred oxen.
[9] Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel
and Jozabad, chief of the Levites,
gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.
[10] So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the
Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
[11] And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their
hands, and the Levites flayed them.
[12] And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of
the families of the people, to offer unto the Yehovah,
as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they
with the oxen.
[13] And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the
other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and
divided them speedily among all the people.
[14] And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because
the priests the sons of Aaron were busied
in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites
prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.
[15] And the singers the sons of Asaph
were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman,
and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the
porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for
their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
[16] So all the service of the Yehovah
was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of
the Yehovah, according to the
commandment of king Josiah.
[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.
[20] After all this, when Josiah had prepared the
temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to
fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
[21] But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What
have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day,
but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste:
forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.
[22] Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised
himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the
valley of Megiddo.
[23] And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants,
Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
[24] His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the
second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and
was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
[25] And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and
all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an
ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the
lamentations.
[26] Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his
goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the Yehovah,
[27] And his deeds, first and last, behold, they
are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
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Ezra 6
[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 the Yehovah
God of Israel, did eat,
[22] And kept the feast of unleavened
bread seven days with joy: for the 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.
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Ezek. 45
[18] Thus saith the Lord Yehovah; In the first month, in the first day of the
month, thou shalt 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 thou shalt
do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth,
and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.
[21] In the first month, in the fourteenth
day of the month, ye shall have 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
the Yehovah, seven bullocks and seven
rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a
sin offering.
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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
Shabbat Shalom