One in Messiah Congregation
קָּהָל
אֶחָד בְּמָּשִׁיחַ
27 S. Maple Street, Hohenwald, Tn. 38462
Phone – 615 712-3931
Or 615 591-9820
Email: ministermalachi@comcast.net
A part of the Congregation
of Israel
עֲדַת
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Today we use the Gregorian
calendar from Pope Gregory; from the 1500’s.
Today is April 27 2019 – 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
Today’s Topic
"The last
day of the feast of unleavened bread” - חַג הַמַּצּוֹת
Free from the
"leaven of iniquity"
A solemn
assembly
עֲצֶרֶת
Shabbat Shalom
שַׁבָּת
שָׁלוֹם
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
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 Yehovah: on the eighth day shall be an holy
convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Yehovah:
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 Yehovah 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).
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.
Lev. 23
[1] And Yehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
[2] Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning
the feasts of 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 Yehovah in all your
dwellings.
[4] These are the feasts
of Yehovah, even holy convocations, which ye 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 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 Yehovah
seven days: in the seventh day is an holy
convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Num. 9
[9] And 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 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.
Num.28
[1] And 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.
[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 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 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 Yehovah: it
shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
[25] And on the seventh day ye shall have
a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.
Deut. 16
[1] Observe the month of ha Aviv Abib, and keep
the passover unto Yehovah thy God: for in the month of ha Aviv Yehovah thy God
brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
[2]
Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto Yehovah thy God, of the flock
and the herd, in the place which 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 Yehovah thy God giveth thee:
[6]
But at the place which 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 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 Yehovah thy God:
thou shalt 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.
[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 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 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 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 Yehovah, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified
for ever: and serve Yehovah your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn
away from you.
[9] For if ye turn again unto 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 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 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 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 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, Yehovah God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed
according to the purification of the sanctuary.
[20] And 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 Yehovah day by day,
singing with loud instruments unto Yehovah.
[22] And Hezekiah spake 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.
[2]
And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of
the house of Yehovah,
[3] And said unto the
Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto 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 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 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 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 Yehovah was prepared the same day, to keep the
passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of 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 Yehovah,
[27] And his deeds, first
and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and
Judah.
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 saith Yehovah 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 (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.
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
Another reminder of the 2019 Spring Feasts and Holy Days
This year, the First fruits,
Resurrection Day is the 28 day of April,
Sunday - “Offering time” – tomorrow!
50 days from First Fruits: Hag Sh'vu-ot - חַג
שָׁבֻעֹת “Offering time” - Feasts of Weeks / Pentecost, a Sabbath – June 16
In closing:
See you tomorrow, for a short time, for the resurrection of Yeshua,
our first fruits.
Lord willing - J
Shabbat Shalom