When one begins to study the doctrines of the religions of this world, and compares their teachings with the inspired instructions written in The Holy Scriptures, one can see a VAST DIFFERENCE in the two. One can see that there is a difference between the customs and religious practices taught in the Churches and Assemblies throughout Christianity today, and those taught in The Holy Scriptures. The Creator, Who inspired The Holy Scriptures to be written, gave INSPIRED INSTRUCTIONS to everyone who desires to achieve eternal life, commanding us to Live By His Every Word, as we see in:

Deuteronomy 8:1-3--
1 You must BE CAREFUL TO OBSERVE AND DO EVERY COMMANDMENT WHICH I GIVE YOU today, so that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land Yahweh vowed on oath to your fathers.
2 You must remember that Yahweh your Father led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, test and prove you, and know what was in your heart; the seat of your intelligence, to see whether you would keep His commandments, or whether you would not.
3 So He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you did not know of nor did your fathers know of it; so He might make you to know that MAN DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD ONLY, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF YAHWEH, DOES MAN LIVE.

In these three verses the Creator shows that man does not have eternal life, nor can he obtain eternal life, by eating food. Yahweh then shows us that the ONLY WAY we can obtain the free gift of eternal life is Living By His Every Word! Notice the following instruction Yahweh also inspired for us:

Proverbs 13:13--
Whoever despises the word; the Law and the Prophets, will be destroyed, but HE WHO REVERENCES THE LAWS OF YAHWEH WILL BE REWARDED.

Therefore, on the one hand we will be given eternal life, if we choose to live by Yahweh’s Every Word, but on the other hand if we choose to despise Yahweh’s words of instruction, His promise to us, is: We will be destroyed! Yahshua Messiah, the Savior sent by Yahweh, believed Yahweh’s inspired written word:

Mattithyah 4:4--
But He answered, and said; It is written: MAN DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF YAHWEH.

These precious words, showing the only way to attain eternal life, still rang true in the Apostle Yahchanan’s day, for he was inspired to write:

Revelation 22:14--
BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO KEEP HIS LAWS, THAT THEY MAY HAVE RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

In spite of these clear, precise, inspired instructions, this whole world, including the Christian Churches and Assemblies in it, actually TEACH CUSTOMS which are CONDEMNED in the Word of Yahweh!

Some independent religious groups have tried, in vain, to get back to the written Scriptural Instructions. However, they FAIL miserably because of a LACK OF SCRIPTURAL KNOWLEDGE, and because The Holy Spirit of Yahweh does not guide them. However, being determined to proceed in ignorance, they have gone out TEACHING LIES to the whole world. By teaching these lies, they play right into the hands of Satan the Devil, who, through these same lies, has DECEIVED THE WHOLE WORLD!

Revelation 12:9--And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil and SATAN, who DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD...

Nevertheless, there are Scriptures of HOPE, written for everyone who is WILLING to turn from these deceptions when UNDENIABLE PROOF is presented to them. The Prophet Yeremyah was inspired by Yahweh to write:

Yeremyah 16:19-21--
19 O Yahweh, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles will come to You from the ends of the earth, and will say: Surely OUR FATHERS HAVE INHERITED NOTHING BUT LIES AND VANITY; WORTHLESS, POWERLESS GODS (elohim), of no use at all!
20 Do men make gods (elohim) for themselves? Yes, but they are powerless!
21 Therefore behold, I will make them to know--this time I will teach them My power and might; and they will know that My Name is Yahweh!

The Gentiles will begin to know that they have ONLY INHERITED LIES, DECEPTION, and GODWORSHIP, because of the fulfillment of Yahweh’s prophecy written in Isayah 2:2 and Micahyah 4:1--the fulfillment of the Establishment of The House of Yahweh in These Last Days!

Yes, all Gentile Nations will soon come to realize that they have been TAUGHT nothing but RELIGIOUS LIES! One of the lies that they have been taught concerns the day on which Yahweh’s Passover is to be celebrated. Another lie which has been perpetrated throughout the Churches and Assemblies, concerns the day on which Yahshua’s Memorial is to be observed.

Yahweh’s Passover is first written for our understanding in Exodus 12:1-51. Within these Scriptures we read of the SEASON in which Yahweh’s Passover is to take place, WHEN the Passover Lamb is to be chosen and penned up, WHEN it is to be killed, WHAT DAYS one is commanded to eat unleavened bread, WHO would be eligible to eat the Passover, and WHEN the children of Israyl set out from Egypt on their journey.

However, these are the very same Scriptures that the deceived Churches and Assemblies MISUNDERSTAND! These are the Scriptures on which they have placed their own interpretations, because they do not have Yahweh’s Holy Spirit to guide them.

Yahweh inspired these words to be written:

Exodus 12:2, KJV - This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.

This particular month is to be the beginning of months to us. This is the FIRST MONTH OF YAHWEH’S SACRED YEAR, but only when we use Scripture to interpret Scripture would we know exactly what month this is referring to:

Deuteronomy 16:1, KJV--
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

How easy it seems to look at the calendar hanging on your wall to ascertain the Roman Months of each year. Most modern calendars also show you the conjunctions of this world’s new moon, based upon astronomical calculation. However, the common calendar has not always been so common; and the Roman Calendar is NOT Yahweh’s Way of counting His Moons (months). Yahweh’s Moons (months) are set according to actual, personal observation.

Unger’s Bible Dictionary, by Merrill F. Unger, page 352, tells us of the New Moon and how it was ascertained:

"Mode of Ascertaining the New Moon. As the festivals, according to the Mosaic law, were always to be celebrated on the same day of the month, it was necessary to fix the commencement of the month, which was determined by the appearance of the new moon, for the new moon was reckoned not by astronomical calculation, but by actual personal observation. On the thirtieth day of the month watchmen were placed on commanding heights round Jerusalem to watch the sky. As soon as each of them detected the moon he hastened to a house in the city which was kept for the purpose, and was there examined by the president of the Sanhedrin. When the evidence of the appearance was deemed satisfactory the president rose up and formally announced it, uttering the words, ‘‘It is consecrated.’’ The information was immediately sent throughout the land from the Mount of Olives by beacon fires on the tops of the hills."

The ordinance of the New Moon is quite simple. We are to WATCH FOR THE REBUILDING OF THE MOON. When this moon emerges as a tiny new crescent in the Western horizon, we can see this tiny new crescent with our own eyes. The New Moon Crescent is seen by the eyes just after sunset. When the New Moon Crescent is sighted, then day number one of that particular moon begins.

The word translated Abib in Deuteronomy 16:1 is word #24 in the Hebrew Dictionary of Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, and means: green, a young ear of grain.

Comparing Exodus 12:2 with Deuteronomy 16:1, we know we are to FIRST look on the ground for the green ears of grain. When we find the green ears of grain on the ground we are to THEN look up to the Western horizon to see the very next New Moon, which would be the New Moon of Green Ears--the beginning of moons to us.

We must understand what green ears of grain Yahweh is telling us to look for, because different grains head out at different times of the year. Due to this fact, we must know what green ears are spoken of, in order to know what season of the year Passover must be celebrated in.

The Ordinance to look for the green ears of a certain kind of grain, effectively keeps Passover within a SET SEASON of the year. Were it not for this one Ordinance, Passover would keep rotating through the year: Spring, then Summer, then Fall, then Winter, and finally back to Spring. Due to this one Ordinance, Passover is set in the season when the BARLEY IS IN THE GREEN EARS, as Yahweh has Ordained through His Holy Scriptures. We read of this season in:

Exodus 9:31-32--
31 Now the flax and the barley were struck; destroyed in the hail, for the barley was in the green ear, and the flax was in the bloom.
32 But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they were not grown up, ripening later.

Yahweh’s Deliverance of the children of Israyl was during the season when the barley was in the green ear stage and the flax was in the boll. It was not in the season when the wheat and spelt were in the ear.

Barley ripens earlier than wheat, and is the grain to look for in the green ear stage, in order to set Yahweh’s First Moon of His Sacred Year: The New Moon of Green Ears of Barley. The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, by Benjamin Davidson, page 2, then CONFIRMS that the month of green ears, is the month in which the earing of the barley took place:

The next question is: from WHAT LOCALITY are we to watch for, look for, observe these Green Ears of Barley? When it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere of this planet, it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere. When grain is ripening to a golden color in the South Texas Valley, the North Texas grain is not even in the ear. Each part of this planet has grain ripening at different times. So, does Yahweh give us the location in which we are to search for the Green Ears of Barley? Indeed He does.

Isayah 2:3-- ...and He will teach us of His Ways, and we will walk in His paths: because OUT OF ZION will come forth the Law, and the word of Yahweh FROM YERUSALEM

Most assuredly, it is from Yerusalem that the search for the Green Ears of Barley is to take place. Now, Yahweh’s Ordinances are made absolutely clear to us. We are to: watch for (look at, then celebrate) the New Moon of Green Ears of Barley seen from MOUNT ZION IN YERUSALEM, then we are to keep the Passover unto Yahweh our Father.

Yes, the season in which the barley is in the Green Ear, is the season in which the Passover is kept, as you may read for yourself in Leviticus 23:4-5 and Numbers 9:1-2.

Yahweh gives instructions for choosing the lamb that had to be sacrificed for Passover:

Exodus 12:3-5--
3 Speak to all the congregation of Israyl, saying; On the tenth day of this first moon, each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household.
4 If any household is too small for the lamb, let him and his brother next to his house share it, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.
5 Your lamb must be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

These instructions are written very clearly: On the Tenth Day of the Moon of Green Ears of Barley, we are to choose a MALE lamb or goat, and pen it up. This sacrificial lamb had to be WITHOUT BLEMISH, and of the first year. This last phrase literally means: son of a year. In Leviticus 22:27 and Exodus 22:30 we find that these sacrifices were to remain with their mother for the first seven days of their lives, but on their eighth day through their first year they were acceptable as Passover Sacrifices.

Exodus 12:6, KJV-- And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israyl shall kill it in the evening.

It is at this point in the Scriptures that the deceived Churches and Assemblies have relied completely on their OWN UNDERSTANDING, because the simple truth written in Exodus 12:6 has been HIDDEN from them!

The first thing I want you to notice, is the Scriptural fact that the lamb had to be KEPT UP UNTIL the Fourteenth Day. There has been a very simple, but very vital fact that has been completely OVERLOOKED or IGNORED by the deceived Churches and Assemblies about this time. This simple fact is: The Passover Lamb was kept up until the Fourteenth Day.

As you may read for yourself, the word DAY is very clearly written in Exodus 12:6. Yahweh’s Ordinance clearly states that this lamb must be kept during, while, until this Fourteenth Day. Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon, page 341, shows the word day to mean:

In this context, the word day means: In the daytime, as opposed to the night! Do you understand this Ordinance? This lamb was to be kept up until the Fourteenth day of this count, and then it was to be killed on the Fourteenth day of this count. It was not to be kept up until the Thirteenth Day at sunset, which began the Fourteenth Day; neither was it kept up until the Fifteenth Day. It was only to be KEPT UP UNTIL the Fourteenth Daylight Period of the Count, and then it was to be killed in the evening.

There has been much controversy about the time span the words, at even or in the evening encompass. Not only has there been much controversy, but there has been MUCH CONFUSION about these times which contributes to the confusion about the time of day in which the Passover Lambs were sacrificed.

The DECEIVED Churches and Assemblies think that the Passover Lambs were killed just after sunset of the Thirteenth Day, which was the beginning of the Fourteenth Day, Yahweh’s Way. However, I must remind you that the Passover Lambs had to be kept up until the Fourteenth daylight period. Therefore, there is a key fact that these deceived Churches and Assemblies have completely overlooked.

This controversy about the meanings of the words at even--in the evening arises because there are some who, hating to let go of a false traditional doctrine, have tried to create confusion purely as a cover-up! However, the true meanings of the Hebrew words used to translate these vital Scriptures are clearly defined through authoritative sources; and, these definitions do not contradict other Holy Scriptures of Yahweh, as the false doctrines do!

Yahweh, in creating the first day called the darkness night and the light day. Yahweh said that night (first) and then the day (second) was the first day:

Genesis 1:4-5--
4 And Yahweh saw the light, that it was beneficial; and Yahweh divided between the light and between the darkness.
5 And Yahweh called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And THE EVENING AND THEN THE MORNING WERE THE FIRST DAY.

It is vital that you know how Yahweh begins and ends His Days, His Way: RIGHT AFTER THE SUN SETS, YAHWEH’S DAY BEGINS. Then, that same day does not end until the sun has set, at which time another day begins.

Therefore, the word evening in Genesis 1:5, is self explanatory: This word evening means: immediately after sunset.

In Exodus Chapter Twelve we are given the first Ordinances of the Passover, and we are shown exactly when the Passover Lambs were to be killed:

Exodus 12:6, KJV-- And ye shall keep it up until the Fourteenth Day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israyl shall kill it in the evening.

The word evening in the previous Scripture is the same Hebrew word translated even in Genesis 1:5.

The words, in the evening are translated from the Hebrew bane ha--erebim. Bane, is word #996 in the Hebrew Dictionary of Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, and means: between. Ha-Erebim is word #6153, and means: evenings (plural: more than one evening):

Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament, Baker Book House, page 652, gives us the complete definition of word #6153, and shows there is a definite distinction between the space of time in which the lambs were being slaughtered and between the time of day defined as the beginning and ending of Yahweh’s Days:

The authoritative definition of Bane Ha-Erebim agrees perfectly with the time period in which the lambs were to be slaughtered on the Fourteenth Day between 3:00 and sunset of that very day!

Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible, Dake’s Bible Sales, page 75, proves that the phrase in the evening in Exodus 12:6, should have been translated: between the two evenings:

The Pentateuch and Haftorahs, edited by J. H. Hertz, page 254, explains the meaning of the phrase: in the evening-between the two evenings:

6. at dusk. Better, towards even (M. Friedlander); lit. ‘between the two evenings’. According to the Talmud, the ‘first evening’ is the time in the afternoon when the heat of the sun begins to decrease, about 3 o’clock; and the ‘second evening’ commences with sunset.

The Commandments; Negative, by Dr. Charles B. Chavel, page 108, then tells us:

NOTE The expression ‘at dusk’ means after the sixth hour of the day (Ex. XIII, 6, Mechilta). Accordingly, the Passover offering was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of Nisan in the afternoon, while the leaven had to be removed earlier on that day (cf. Note to Pos. Comm. 156, Volume I, page 166).

The Passover Lambs had to be kept up until the Fourteenth Day of the First Moon, and they had to be killed on the Fourteenth Day between the two evenings--be-tween 3:00 and sunset! If this Passover Lamb was not kept up until the Fourteenth Day, or if it was not killed between the two evenings, then it would NOT have been sacrificed according to Yahweh’s Ordinances, and it would not have been acceptable to Him.

But the Churches and Assemblies have ASSUMED that the Passover Lambs were killed at the end of the Thirteenth day--the Thirteenth at sunset--which began the Fourteenth Day. They believe that they began killing the Passover Lambs right at sunset of the Thirteenth Day, and worked until night. The Thirteenth Day at sunset is the exact day those deceived Churches and Assemblies observe their passover.

The Churches and Assemblies are DECEIVED into believing this erroneous assumption, because they have NOT RESEARCHED key words, nor have they UNDERSTOOD key Scriptures in the King James Version, which they heavily rely upon. If one is deceived into believing this lie, then Satan has just tricked one more person into not following Yahweh’s Complete Truth; therefore, that person’s worship is in vain.

The Churches and Assemblies, not having Yahweh’s Holy Spirit to guide them into all Truth, have assumed that the Passover Feast--Eating the Passover--begins after sundown of the Thirteenth Day, which begins the Fourteenth Day of the First Moon.

To all of these deceived Churches and Assemblies, keeping the Passover means only one thing--eating the Passover! By just reading these Scriptures, rather than studying what these Scriptures are actually saying within the context of Yahweh’s Ordinance, you, too, will be deceived into thinking you should eat the Passover on the Fourteenth Day.

Numbers 9:1-14 deals with the SACRIFICING of the Passover Lambs--not with the Passover EATING! Numbers 9:7 and 9:13 contain the key phrases within Numbers 9:1-14 which PROVE that the Passover is the offering of Yahweh--the Lamb that was sacrificed!

Numbers 9:7, KJV--And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the Lord in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

Numbers 9:13, KJV--But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and for-bear eth to keep the Passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the Lord in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

The Offering of Yahweh is something brought near. The Passover Lamb is brought near, and is sacrificed on the Fourteenth Day!

This definition states implicitly that the Passover has to be the Passover FESTIVAL or the Passover VICTIM. Most assuredly, the Passover offering that is brought near, is the Passover Victim: The Passover Lamb!

Throughout Numbers 9:1-14, displayed previously from the King James Version, the words keep and kept have been underlined. These are key words in these Scriptures which have been mistranslated! The words keep and kept are words #6213 in the Hebrew Dictionary of Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, and mean:

The Hebrew word asah, which has been translated in the King James Version as keep and kept throughout Numbers 9:1-14, means: to make or to do in the widest possible application. The only possible application the words keep and kept in this chapter could apply to, is the application of the sacrifice of the Passover Lambs; and most assuredly, not the application of the Passover eating.

The words keep and kept should have been translated SACRIFICE in each of these verses! Most assuredly, The Book of Yahweh is correctly translated:

The previous Scriptures, when they are correctly translated, show us exactly when the Passover Lambs were to be killed: The Passover Lambs were to be KILLED on the Fourteenth Day of the First Moon. This Scriptural Fact is undeniably corroborated in:

II Chronicles 35:1-- Moreover Yoshiyah kept a passover unto Yahweh in Yerusalem: and they KILLED THE PASSOVER LAMBS ON THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE FIRST MOON.

As you have read for yourself in II Chronicles 35:14, the Aaronic Priests and the Levites prepared the Passover Lambs and the other burnt offerings and worked until night! They did not start killing these Passover Lambs at night--after sunset of the Thirteenth Day, which began the Fourteenth Day--as all the deceived Churches and Assemblies falsely teach as doctrine! They BEGAN sacrificing the Passover Lambs BETWEEN THE TWO EVENINGS--at the first even, which is the Ninth Hour, or about 3:00 in the afternoon, and they WORKED UNTIL NIGHT.

Had they begun killing these lambs immediately after sunset of the Thirteenth Day, which began the Fourteenth, they would have spent over 24 hours working, to have worked until night! Remember, the Scripture says that they worked until night.

Through the Scriptures we have just studied, we know that the Passover Lambs were KILLED on the Fourteenth Day of the First Moon, which means they were killed on THE PREPARATION DAY for the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The Preparation Day is the Fourteenth Day of the First Moon, but that did not make the Fourteenth Day the Feast. There would be no Passover Feast if Preparations had not been made. Therefore, the Preparation Day on the Fourteenth is as important a part of Yahweh’s Ordinances, as the Ordinances of the Seven Days of Eating Unleavened Bread and all that is referred to as Passover.

The Book of Yahweh, correctly tells us what time of day on the Fourteenth Day that the Passover Lambs were to be killed:

Exodus 12:6-- And you must keep it until THE FOURTEENTH DAY of the same Moon: then the whole multitude of the congregation of Israyl shall kill it BETWEEN THE TWO EVENINGS.

As you have just read for yourself in Exodus 12:6, the Passover Lambs had to be penned up until the Fourteenth Day, then they were to be killed between the two evenings, between the time of around 3:00 in the afternoon until sunset, just as Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible; The Pentateuch and Haftorahs; and The Commandments; Negative, have plainly shown. Most assuredly, the Passover Lambs were not killed at night, as so many have falsely assumed.

The Interpreter’s Dictionary of The Bible, Volume 3, pages 664-665 gives some very interesting facts about the time that the lambs were slaughtered, and about the speedy efficiency of all Twenty-Four Divisions of Priests as they slaughtered these offerings:

"At the temple all twenty-four divisions of priests were in attendance, though normally there was only one. The first ceremonial action consisted in the removal of leaven. This was done in the morning, and its completion was indicated by the ritual burning of leaven by the priests. Work ceased at noon. The daily afternoon sacrifice at the temple was made an hour earlier than usual (Pes. 5.1). At about 3:00 p.m. the slaughtering of the Passover sacrifices began, announced by a threefold trumpet blast sounded by Levites."

In fact, all outside Preparations had to be COMPLETELY FINISHED BEFORE SUNSET, although the roasting of this Passover Lamb could continue to cook even after the sun had set. All outside Preparations had to have been completed before sunset, because our forefathers were COMMANDED not to go out of their houses that night, which was an Ordinance of the Passover. We read in:

Exodus 12:22--
And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it into the blood that is in the basin, and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe; and NOT ONE OF YOU MUST GO OUT OF THE DOOR OF HIS HOUSE UNTIL THE MORNING

Digressing here, I would like to draw your attention to the Scriptural Fact that Yahweh’s Days begin and end at sunset. It is another Scriptural Fact that when the sun had set, the children of Israyl were commanded not to come out of their doors until the morning! Therefore, the children of Israyl would have disobeyed Yahweh had they killed the Passover Lambs after the sun had already set!

The Passover Lambs had to be killed between 3:00 and sunset in the afternoon on the Fourteenth Day, or they simply would not have been killed according to Yahweh’s Ordinance, and they would not have been Passover Lambs.

The following diagram shows the Time Table of Events, from the 1st through the 14th Day of the First Moon:

The Fourteenth Day of Yahweh’s First Moon--the Moon of Green Ears of Barley--was the Preparation Day. The Preparation Day began right after sunset of the Thirteenth Day, and ended right at sunset of the Fourteenth Day.

The lambs were killed on the Preparation Day--the Fourteenth Day--between the two evenings. Then right after the lambs were killed, the children of Israyl took some of this sacrificial lamb’s blood and put it on the tops and sides of the doorposts of their houses on the Preparation Day, before the sun had set!

7 And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses, in which they eat the lamb.
22 And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it into the blood that is in the basin, and PUT SOME OF THE BLOOD ON THE TOP AND ON BOTH SIDES OF THE DOORFRAME; AND NOT ONE OF YOU MUST GO OUT OF THE DOOR OF HIS HOUSE UNTIL THE MORNING.

After this lamb was sacrificed and the blood placed on the doorframes, the children of Israyl were then to begin to roast this lamb in a certain way, still on the Preparation Day:

On this Fourteenth Day--the Preparation Day--all leavening was removed from the Israylite’s dwellings, because they were also preparing for the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which would be celebrated for seven days. However, the leavening had to be removed even BEFORE the Passover Lambs were sacrificed! The Commandments, Negative, Volume II, Dr. Charles B. Chavel, pages 107-108, shows:

There has been a great deal of confusion about when the leaven was to be removed, because of the way it was translated in the King James Version as shown below:

The word translated first, referring to the day in which to put leaven out of the houses, is the Hebrew word rishon, which means before. The Commandments, Positive, by Dr. Charles B. Chavel, Volume 1, page 166, corroborates this meaning saying:

Yes, the day BEFORE the Feast of Unleavened Bread began, was the day in which leavening and leavened bread were removed. The day before the Feast was called the Preparation Day. Unger’s Bible Dictionary, Merrill F. Unger, page 354, tells of the Preparation for the Passover:

"(b) The 13th Nisan. On the evening of the 13th Nisan, which, until that of the 14th, was called the ‘‘preparation for the Passover’’ (John 19:14), every head of a family searched for and collected by the light of a candle all the leaven.
(c) The 14th Nisan. This day, called until the evening the preparation for the Passover, was also known as the ‘‘first day of Passover’’"

The Fourteenth Day, is when the lambs were killed, and when all other preparations for Yahweh’s Feast were accomplished. There would be no Passover Feast if preparations had not been made. Therefore, the Preparation Day on the Fourteenth is as important a part of Yahweh’s Ordinances, as His Ordinance of Eating Unleavened Bread for Seven Days.

The Churches and Assemblies have always been confused about the fact that the Passover Meal is the very FIRST MEAL during the Feast of Unleavened Bread! You must also understand the fact that there are definitely different meanings to this one word: passover.

We saw earlier that the word passover, in what is commonly known as The Old Testament, is word #6453 in the Hebrew Dictionary of Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, and can mean either the Passover Eating: the Festival, or the Passover Victim: the Offering.

The Greek word pascha is derived from the Hebrew word pesach, and means exactly the same thing. Passover can mean: the meal, the day, the feast, or the special sacrifices associated with it.

In order to understand when the word Passover is speaking of the Special Offering: the killing of the lamb on the Fourteenth Day between 3:00 and sunset, or of the Meal Eaten after the sun went down on the Fourteenth Day, beginning the Fifteenth Day and eaten during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, one has to have Yahweh’s Holy Spirit to lead and guide one into His Truth.

As we have proven, Exodus 12:6, Leviticus 23:5, and Numbers Chapter Nine specifically address the killing of the Passover Lamb on the Fourteenth Day of the First Moon, not the eating of this Lamb!

Another of the least understood Ordinances of Yahweh, is His Ordinance about the exact days His Passover Feast of Unleavened Bread would span. We are told the exact days of the count of Yahweh’s New Moon of Green Ears of Barley in:

This is a very important clue to the exact time during which Yahweh’s Feast of Unleavened Bread would span.

As we have read in Exodus 12:18, in the First Month (moon), on the Fourteenth Day of this month (moon) at even, we are commanded to eat unleavened bread until the Twenty-First Day of this month (moon) at even.

The word translated until in this Scripture is word #5704, in relation to time, this word means: during, while, until, as we have already proven.

Yahweh has commanded us to eat unleavened bread for seven (7) days. If one ate unleavened bread during the Twenty-First Day and also during the Fourteenth Day, one would be eating unleavened bread for eight days--not seven!

This at even--in the evening was the end of the Fourteenth Day which began the Fifteenth Day. This eating did not begin the Fourteenth Day--the Thirteenth at sunset--as many have been deceived into believing.

The Fifteenth Day is a Holy Day. The Fourteenth Day is the Preparation Day. On The Fourteenth Day one was to work: getting rid of leavening and leavened bread, killing and roasting lambs. The work of slaughtering lambs started about 3:00 in the afternoon, just giving one time to kill, prepare, and roast the lamb in preparation for the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which started on the Fifteenth Day (beginning just after sunset of the Fourteenth Day) and lasted seven days--not eight days!

Following is a diagram showing the Fourteenth Day at even until the Twenty-First Day at even:

In Exodus 12:6-8, 18, one may read of the EXACT sequence of events which surrounded the killing of the Passover Lambs, the eating of these Passover Lambs with Unleavened Bread, and the EXACT span of time in which Unleavened Bread must be eaten. In this sequence of events a day is mentioned, between two evenings is mentioned, a night is mentioned and in the evening is mentioned.

What I want you to be aware of, is the fact that Exodus 12:6-8 must be read in context with Exodus 12:18, in order to understand how these sequence of events exactly came to pass.

(NIV)--And He Will Be With You For Care
The word translated keep and care is mishmereth, word #4931 in the Hebrew Dictionary of Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance and Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon, which show this to mean: Custody, Guard, a Keeping.

(KJV) (NIV)--Until
The word translated until is ad, word #5704 in the Hebrew Dictionary of Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, which means, in relation to time: during, while, until. Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon, page 606, shows us that ad implies an actual arrival quite to such a limit:

(KJV) (NIV)--Day
What is this limit which the Hebrew word ad defines in Exodus 12:6? We are told implicitly that this limit which was arrived ‘‘quite to’’ was the Fourteenth day! The Hebrew word yowm is word #3117 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance and Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon, which we have found to mean: primarily the heat of the day, the daylight as opposed to the night.

(KJV)--In The Evening--Between The Two Evenings

(NIV)--Bane HaErebim
We then read that the children of Israyl were to kill their own Passover Lamb between the two evenings (between around 3:00 and sunset). Between this time span, they were to take their lamb’s blood and put it on the tops and sides of the doorpost of their houses in which they would eat the meat of this lamb; and they must do this beginning around 3:00 in the afternoon, but be finished before sunset!

(KJV)--That Night

(NIV)--The-That Night With Unleavened Bread
It is at this place that the deceived Churches and Assemblies do not associate the eating of this Passover Lamb with the Feast of Unleavened Bread! However, the Law is very clear on this point, and we are told in Exodus 12:8 that we are to eat this lamb with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Another fact they overlook, is that the night spoken of here Scripturally follows a certain logical sequence! The word translated night is word #3915, layil, in the Hebrew Dictionary of Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, and in this context means: night.

However, in the Hebrew word for word translation, this is B-Laylah, which means: in the night. Another vital fact is, this night is a certain night which follows a set sequence.

The word translated that in the King James Version, and the-that in The NIV Interlinear Hebrew-English Old Testament, are translated from a combination of two Hebrew words: ha which means the, and zeh which means self-same, word #2088 in the Hebrew Dictionary of Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance:

What night is Exodus 12:8 speaking of? It is speaking of the Self-Same Night that followed the Fourteenth Day and between the two evenings of that very day. The Self-Same Night is the night of the Fifteenth--the beginning of the Fifteenth Day.

And in that self-same night this lamb must be eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, because this is the first meal of the Feast of Unleavened Bread!

We again read from the King James Version, which says:

Exodus 12:18,KJV--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.

Exodus 12:18, from The NIV Interlinear Hebrew-English Old Testament, by John Kohlenberger, page 177, says:

This says emphatically that on the Fourteenth Day of the month (moon) in the evening, which begins the Fifteenth Day we are to eat Unleavened Bread until the Twenty-First Day of the month in the evening.

As I said previously, if one ate Unleavened Bread on the Fourteenth Day, which began the Thirteenth at sunset, one would be eating Unleavened Bread for eight days, not seven!

There is just no other way this could have Scriptually taken place, because this is the way Yahweh established His Ordinance for the killing of the Passover Lambs (on the Preparation Day, the Fourteenth Day between around 3:00 and sunset) and the eating of the Passover Lambs during the Feast of Unleavened Bread (at sunset of the Fourteenth, which began the Fifteenth Day).

These ordinances of Yahweh fit together, hand in glove, unlike the teachings of the deceived Churches and Assemblies, which cannot stand up under the undeniable proof that the Scriptures provide.

We have PROVEN beyond any shadow of doubt that the Passover Sacrifice it self took place on the Fourteenth Day--between 3:00 in the afternoon and sunset--not at sundown on the Thirteenth Day, as the deceived Churches and Assemblies teach.

We have found that the flesh of this Passover Sacrifice was to be roasted with fire, then eaten in the night with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

The Passover Eating--the Feast--began the very night following the afternoon on which the lambs were killed. The Passover meal was the very first meal of the Feast of Unleavened Bread!

Now, it becomes very clear when the Passover Sacrifices were Offered--Killed, and when these same Passover Sacrifices were eaten.

The Fourteenth at even through the Twenty-first at even is the time span in which Yahweh’s Feast of Unleavened Bread is to be celebrated by an ordinance forever!

14 And this day shall be to you for a memorial; and you shall keep it as a Feast to Yahweh throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a Feast by an ordinance forever.
15 seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the day before you must remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day through the seventh day of Yahweh’s Feast of Unleavened Bread, that person will be cut off from Israyl.
16 On the first day there shall be a Holy Convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a Holy Convocation for you. No manner of work shall be done on these days; except that which everyone must eat--that only may be done by you.
17 And you must observe the feast of unleavened bread, for it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt; therefore, you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
18 In the First Moon, on the Fourteenth Day of the Moon at evening, you must eat unleavened bread until the Twenty-First day of the Moon at evening.
19 Seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israyl, whether a stranger or a native of the land.
20 You must eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you must eat unleavened bread.

Yahweh’s Passover Feast of Unleavened Bread will never be done away with, or changed in any way! This Feast of Yahweh is FOREVER, and will even be celebrated in The New World!

There is another aspect of preparation, which this whole deceived world seems to be completely ignorant of. This aspect of preparation has to do with INTERNAL FITNESS; preparing one’s self inwardly thoroughly cleansing one’s self of all sin before partaking of Yahweh’s Passover.

The idea of purging and preparing one’s self inwardly; thoroughly cleansing one’s self of all sin before partaking of Yahweh’s Passover, is a written Ordinance. Through Yahweh’s written Ordinance concerning His Passover, those who obeyed Yahweh knew they could not partake of the Passover unless this purging; this internal preparation, had been done before the Passover was sacrificed, and before the Passover Feast was celebrated.

1 Hezekyah sent word to all Israyl and Yahdah, and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Menasheh, inviting them to come to The House of Yahweh at Yerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the Father of Israyl,
2 For the king, his officials, and all the congregation in Yerusalem had agreed to keep the Passover in the Second Moon.
3 Now they had been UNABLE TO KEEP IT AT THE PROPER TIME in the First Moon because THE PRIESTS HAD NOT CONSECRATED AND SANCTIFIED THEMSELVES in sufficient numbers, and the people were not gathered together at Yerusalem.

The priests and the people could not keep the Passover in that First Moon, as Yahweh ordained in His Ordinances, because they had NOT PREPARED themselves inwardly; they had not purged their sins; they had not sanctified themselves spiritually and physically.

Because the priests and the people were ceremonially unprepared: unclean, King Hezekyah then set the Passover in the Second Moon, rather than in the First Moon. Hezekyah did not break Yahweh’s Law when he postponed the Passover until the Second Moon, because Yahweh ordained this Statute. If anyone was unclean, he or she could keep--sacrifice and eat--the Passover in the Second Moon. In Numbers 9:6-8, there were men who were defiled, who had become ceremonially unclean, because they had touched the body of a dead man. They went to Mosheh to complain that they were not being fairly treated in this matter. Mosheh took this matter to Yahweh; Yahweh’s answer--His Ordinance--is found in:

9 Then Yahweh spoke to Mosheh, saying:
10 Speak to the children of Israyl, saying; If anyone of you or any of your descendants is UNCLEAN because of a dead body, or away on a journey, HE MAY STILL SACRIFICE YAHWEH’S PASSOVER;
11 On the Fourteenth Day of the SECOND MOON, between the two evenings; between around 3:00 in the afternoon and sunset, they shall sacrifice it. They must eat the lamb with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
12 They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break one of its bones. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they must sacrifice it.

What the majority of this world knows nothing about, is the fact that ONLY those who had CLEANSED themselves, prepared themselves inwardly, were permitted by Yahweh to Sacrifice and Eat the Passover. This is also Yahweh’s Ordinance of Passover:

13 But the man who is CEREMONIALLY CLEAN and is not on a journey, but FAILS to sacrifice the Passover, that same person SHALL BE CUT OFF from among his people, because he did not bring the Offering of Yahweh at its appointed season. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.
14 And if a stranger living among you wants to sacrifice Yahweh’s Passover Offering he must do so according to the ordinance of the Passover and according to its ceremony. You shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger and the native of the land.

The Ordinances of the Passover are performed according to the original Law of Yahweh given through Mosheh. These Ordinances are, and will forever be binding upon all of Yahweh’s People, as all of Yahweh’s servants were fully aware.

Sanctifying one’s self before Passover is just as much a part of the Passover, as is killing the Passover on the Fourteenth Day. The Passover was sacrificed on the Fourteenth Day, and the people were sanctified:

19 Then the descendants of the captivity SACRIFICED THE PASSOVER on the fourteenth day of the First Moon--
20 For the priests and the Levites had PURIFIED AND CONSECRATED themselves, and all were RITUALLY CLEAN, so they killed the Passover lambs for all the descendants of the captivity, for their brothers the priests, and for themselves--
21 Then the children of Israyl who had returned from exile ate the Passover lambs, together with all who had SEPARATED themselves from the filthiness and impurity of the land, in order to seek Yahweh, the Father of Israyl;
22 And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy; for Yahweh had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them, to strengthen their hands in the work of The House of Yahweh, the Father of Israyl.

The deceived Churches and Assemblies do not remember the day that the children of Israyl set out from Rameses, if they do know on what day it falls, they do not realize the significance of it. We are commanded to Remember this Day:

3 And Mosheh said to the people; REMEMBER THIS DAY in which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out of it. No leavened bread shall be eaten,

4 On this day you came out in the Moon Abib; Moon of Green Ears of Barley.

The clue, as it were, in this Scripture is the fact that they came out during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because no leavened bread shall be eaten, and this came to pass in the First Moon.

It was on this very same day that Yahweh delivered the children of Israyl. However, in Numbers Chapter Thirty-three, we are emphatically told what day they set out from Rameses in Egypt, what day the Egyptians were burying their dead, and what day Yahweh had executed judgment against the Gods of Egypt:

3 And they set out from Rameses in the First Moon, on the fifteenth day of the first moon; on the day after the Passover was sacrificed, the children of Israyl marched out boldly in the sight of all the Egyptians.
4 For the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom Yahweh had killed among them. Also upon all the gods (elohim) of Egypt Yahweh had executed judgments.

Yes! We are to Remember this Day because of Yahweh’s Deliverance for His children, and for His Judgments against the Gods of Egypt. We are to remember the Fifteenth Day of the First Moon, as a Feast to Yahweh forever:

Exodus 12:17-- And you must observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt; therefore, you shall OBSERVE THIS DAY throughout your generations by an ordinance FOREVER.

We find two little words which have caused quite a lot of confusion in this world about when the children of Israyl set out from Egypt. This Scripture, from The Book of Yahweh reads:

Does this mean that everything I proved about the children of Israyl leaving on the Fifteenth day is wrong?

The deceived Churches and Assemblies teach that the lamb was killed at sunset of the Thirteenth Day, which began the Fourteenth Day. They teach that the people stayed up all that night of the Fourteenth, because they were not to go out of their houses until morning, and then the people went all over Egypt borrowing from the Egyptians to recover from them on the Fourteenth Day. They teach that the children of Israyl did not leave until night, at sunset of the Fourteenth Day, which began the Fifteenth Day.

But what I want you to know as a certainty, is the fact that the children of Israyl definitely DID NOT LEAVE out of Egypt DURING THE NIGHT! We find this Ordinance of Yahweh, which says:

Exodus 12:22-- And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it into the blood that is in the basin, and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe; and NOT ONE OF YOU MUST GO OUT OF THE DOOR OF HIS HOUSE UNTIL THE MORNING.

As we have proven, the children of Israyl SET OUT from Egypt on the Fifteenth Day in the sight of all the Egyptians, who were busy IN THE DAYTIME burying their dead (Numbers 33:3, Exodus 12:51, Exodus 13:3-4). The children of Israyl did not leave at night, because the Scriptures say that they set out during the day, as we are to remember this day! Yes, they set out during Daylight, and not at night!

The word translated night in Deuteronomy 16:1 is word #3915, from word #3883, in the Hebrew Dictionary of Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, and means:

The definitions of the word night from word #3915 are: night or adversity. The Scriptures themselves have proven that the children of Israyl did not leave Egypt by night, however, the children of Israyl did leave Egypt through adversity.

The definitions of word #3883 are: to fold back, a spiral step, winding. When one studies the journey of the Children of Israyl after their departure from Egypt, one will see they traveled in a path that winded, spiraled, and folded back.

It is a Scriptural Fact that the Children of Israyl were thrust out of Rameses on the Fifteenth Day, but they were to observe this night:

40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israyl and of their fathers, which they sojourned in the land of Canaan and in the land of Egypt, was 430 years.
41 And at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, on that very same day it came to pass that all Yahweh’s divisions went out from the land of Egypt.
42 It is a night to be much observed unto Yahweh for bringing them out of the land of Egypt; this is that night of Yahweh to be observed of all the children of Israyl throughout their generations.

Exodus 12:8-- Then they must eat the meat in that night; roasted in fire. With unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

They were to eat Yahweh’s Passover meal (lamb) that night after sunset the Fourteenth Day, which began the Fifteenth Day. They were to remain fully clothed for their journey, being ready to leave, and they left the very following daylight period on the Fifteenth Day!

11 And in this way you shall eat it: with a BELT ON YOUR WAIST, your SANDALS ON YOUR FEET, and your STAFF IN YOUR HAND. Eat it in haste; it is Yahweh’s Passover,
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt THIS NIGHT, and strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt; both men and animals, and I will execute judgment on all the gods (elohim) of Egypt. I am Yahweh.
13 And the blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 And this day shall be to you for a MEMORIAL; and you shall keep it as a Feast to Yahweh throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a Feast by an Ordinance FOREVER.

What Day were the Egyptians burying their dead? What Night had Yahweh killed all the firstborn of Egypt, and had executed judgments against the Gods of Egypt?

3 And they set out from Rameses IN THE FIRST MOON, ON THE FIFTEENTH DAY of the first Moon; on THE DAY AFTER THE PASSOVER WAS SACRIFICED, the children of Israyl marched out boldly in the sight of all the Egyptians.
4 For the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom Yahweh had killed among them. Also upon all the gods (elohim) of Egypt Yahweh had executed judgments.

They Ate The Passover That Night! (After sunset of the Fourteenth Day, which began the Fifteenth Day)

They Set Out From Egypt That Day! (The Fifteenth Day, during the Daylight of the Moon of Green Ears of Barley, of the First Moon)

These deceived groups would tell you that the children of Israyl spent the entire Fourteenth Day borrowing from the Egyptians. Well, let us see if they did!

To try to prove their point that the Israylites spent the Daytime on the Fourteenth Day borrowing from the Egyptians, they quote:

34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
36 And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.

I have to conclude that these deceived Churches and Assemblies never study the same Bible that they claim to follow, because if they did, they certainly would not be teaching this! I want you to be aware of the fact that the children of Israyl had been given instructions to borrow from the Egyptians, even BEFORE the last plague came!

Therefore, this doctrine, taught by the deceived Churches and Assemblies, that the children of Israyl borrowed after the Last Plague, is a lie!

1 Now Yahweh had said to Mosheh: I will yet bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will surely drive you out of here completely.
2 Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.
3 Yahweh had made the Egyptians honorably disposed toward the people. Moreover, the man Mosheh was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and by the people.

The Pentateuch and Haftorahs, by J. H. Hertz, page 258, tells us:
35. asked of the Egyptians. See III, 22. The command had been given to the people some time before their departure.

34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing.
35 Now the children of Israyl had done as Mosheh had instructed, and THEY HAD ALREADY ASKED THE EGYPTIANS FOR ARTICLES OF SILVER AND GOLD, AND FOR CLOTHING.
36 And Yahweh had given the people honor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they gave them what they had asked for. In this way, they plundered the Egyptians.

The following shows the Time-Table of Events, beginning the Fourteenth Day of the New Moon of Green Ears, which was the Preparation Day, and continuing through the Twenty-First Day of that Moon, which was the Last Holy Day during Yahweh’s Feast of Unleavened Bread:
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The Fourteenth Day of the First Moon is the Preparation Day on which the Passover Lambs were killed, and the day on which they began to be roasted. The Preparation Day was the very day all leavening had to be completely removed from one’s dwelling; and was to be removed even before the Passover Lamb was killed.

The Fifteenth Day officially began the Feast of Unleavened Bread, immediately after the sun had set on the Fourteenth Day.

The First Meal of the Feast of Unleavened Bread is the Passover Meal, when the sacrificed lamb was eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. (Exodus 12:8, Numbers 9:11)
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The Passover Meal eaten that night is part of the First Holy Day of Unleavened Bread; the very following daylight hours is a Holy Convocation, and is also part of the First Holy Day.

Unleavened Bread is to be eaten Seven Days: from the Fourteenth Day just at sunset (which begins the Fifteenth Day), through the Twenty-First Day at sunset.

The Last Holy Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread is from the Twentieth Day of the First Moon at sunset through the Twenty-First Day of the First Moon at sunset.

Yahweh’s Ordinances of His Passover Sacrifice and His Passover Feast of Unleavened Bread are forever! That means: they are not to be changed in any way.

If the Feast of Unleavened Bread is observed in any other way, then it is not being observed according to Yahweh’s Ordinances. If the Feast of Unleavened Bread is observed by any ordinances other than Yahweh’s Ordinances, then it becomes man’s feast, and not the Feast of Yahweh! If it is not Yahweh’s Feast, then it is observed in vain!

One of the very first things Yahweh taught the Children of Israyl when He brought them out of bondage in Egypt, was to obey His Every Word.

Yahweh established Ordinances to set each and every one of His Feasts, including His Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread, as we have conclusively read in the first section of this article: Yahweh’s Passover.

This year, just as they did last year, thousands of people will BLINDLY FOLLOW the False Religious Leaders of the Churches and Assemblies, as they keep their so-called Passover. These leaders have set themselves as called ministers, but they do not know, nor do they understand, the Every Word that proceeds from Yahweh’s Mouth. They are not the Pillar and Ground of Yahweh’s Truth, as The Established House of Yahweh is (I Timothy 3:15); therefore, they ERR in teaching Yahweh’s Every Word, including Yahweh’s Words concerning the Ordinances of His Feasts!

When the DECEIVED LEADERS of the Churches and Assemblies make their followers transgress Yahweh’s Ordinances, they are only serving to lead the people further from Yahweh, our Heavenly Father.

14 Seeing then that we have a great High Priest Who has ascended into the heavens: Yahshua the Son of Yahweh, let us hold fast our profession.
15 For we do not have a High Priest Who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but WAS IN ALL WAYS TEMPTED as we are--yet was WITHOUT SIN.

I Yahchanan 3:4-- Whoever commits sin, transgresses also the Law; for SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW.

Therefore, when the Scriptures say that Yahshua Messiah was without sin, they mean that: He did not transgress any of Yahweh’s Laws, not even once! And since Yahshua did not transgress any of Yahweh’s Laws, that also means that HE KEPT THE LAWS OF YAHWEH PERFECTLY.

The Law of observing Yahweh’s Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread is written by an ordinance forever. Therefore, Yahshua Messiah obeyed this Law as well, exactly according to Yahweh’s Ordinances. Yahshua Messiah DID NOT CHANGE Yahweh’s Law in any way, nor did He ever do away with any of Yahweh’s Laws, irregardless of what deceived Churches and Assemblies may teach.

Many people have assumed that Yahshua and His Disciples had killed the Passover Lamb on the Thirteenth Day of Abib, and then ate the lamb that following night (after sunset of the Thirteenth, which began the Fourteenth Day). The preachers who make this assumption into a doctrine, and the people who follow these preachers, simply do not have Yahweh’s Holy Spirit to guide them.

There are three Scriptures in the King James Version which the Translators use to say that Yahshua Messiah said that He was going to eat the Passover Meal with His Disciples when He sat down at supper with them.

However, these three Scriptures have been DELIBERATELY MISTRANSLATED, and DELIBERATELY TWISTED in order to make you believe this.

The first Scripture the deceived Churches and Assemblies use to justify this false doctrine is:

The literal word for word translation of Matthew 26:18, from The NIV Greek-English Interlinear, is:

The second Scripture which has been deliberately twisted, in order to infer a meaning it does not have is:

The literal word for word Greek translation of Mark 14:14, from The NIV Greek-English Interlinear, is:

The third Scripture which this whole deceived world uses in order to say that Yahshua ate the Passover at that time is:

The literal word for word translation of Luke 22:11, from The NIV Greek-English Interlinear, is:

In each translation of these Scriptures, in the Greek and in the English King James Version, the word I has been ADDED as the subject of each Scripture. In order for you to understand how the translators TWISTED these Scriptures, we must understand some things about Greek Grammar.

In Greek, the word I is generally part of the verb when the subject of the verb is understood to be I, without having to add the I. When the I is understood, this is known as the nominative case. However, the nominative case is the only case in which the word I is regularly omitted: all the other cases will use the Greek word I before the verb or its omission would affect the sense of the particular sentence.

In each of these three Scriptures that this world uses to say that Yahshua Messiah ate that Passover the translators have added the word I to verbs that were not in the nominative case! Since they were not in the nominative case, in effect the translators twisted the verbs to make the Scriptures say what they wanted them to say!

It is also an acknowledged fact that the very earliest manuscripts of the Greek, as well as the Coptic, Scriptures are INCONSISTENT with the modern versions as we know them today! Robert W. Funk, a former theology professor at Emory University, is the founder of the ‘Jesus Seminar’. This is a forum designed to raise public interest in efforts to separate what Yahshua Messiah actually said from words that may have been put in His Mouth by early Christians.

". . . the earliest fragment of the Gospels dates from about 125 A.D. and that there are frequent changes in subsequent versions, since each was hand copied.
Versions began to stabilize by around 400 A.D., he said.
Funk said the earliest Greek and Coptic versions of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke are inconsistent with modern versions and the life and customs as they were known to be at the time of Jesus."

What does this mean? It means that the later translators TWISTED these Scriptures to make them fit a meaning that they wanted them to have, rather than the meaning that was written!

Yes, it was the translators of the King James Version, who ADDED the word I when it was not to be added! And because these three Scriptures were MISTRANSLATED, these Scriptures just do not fit into the Plan of Yahweh, nor do they corroborate the Ordinances of Yahweh’s Feast of Passover, which is Forever. However, with these three Scriptures correctly translated, as they most assuredly are in The Book of Yahweh, they substantiate every other Scripture that Yahweh inspired to be written about His Feasts. For further research on these three mistranslated Scriptures, I urge you to obtain our book: Deceptions Concerning Yahweh’s Calendar of Events.

Another Scriptural Fact the Churches and Assemblies misunderstand, is the fact that Yahshua Messiah said that He was not going to eat that Passover! The Churches an Assemblies misunderstand this fact, simply because the translators ADDED two little words--no more--to a critical Scripture, which entirely changes its meaning.

The Emphatic Diaglott, by Benjamin Wilson, page 296, shows that these two little words were added to Luke 22:16! These words are not in the Vatican Manuscript, one of the oldest Greek Manuscripts:

Not only does the Vatican Manuscript not have these two little added words in its text, but the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Alexandrinus, two other older manuscripts, DO NOT CONTAIN the words no more in Luke 22:16!

Yahshua Messiah did not say that He would no more eat of the Passover, as though He had just finished eating the Passover and would no more eat of it until He observed it in Yahweh’s Kingdom. Yahshua said that: He earnestly desired to eat that Passover with His disciples before He suffered, but that He WOULD NOT eat it UNTIL Yahweh’s Kingdom was established! This Scripture is Correctly translated in The Book of Yahweh:

Another Scripture which has been grossly misunderstood by this deceived world, is:

What do these words, made ready mean? What were the disciples doing here? Were they killing and cooking lambs? Not at all!

To understand what Yahshua and His Disciples did at this time, we must understand the meaning of the Greek words, made ready. These two English words are only one word in the Greek, word #2090, from word #2092, in the Greek Dictionary of Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, and means: fitness, ready, prepared.

Word #2090 has also told us to compare word #2680 in order to obtain a complete understanding of the meaning of these words.

The Greek word hetoimazo literally means: internal fitness, preparation, provision, making ready. This word means to prepare one’s self: putting the leaven of sin out of one’s life, so one may be able to keep Yahweh’s Feast according to His Ordinance!

Yahshua’s Disciples were not making ready by killing a lamb, roasting it with fire, preparing unleavened bread, gathering the bitter herbs, and all the other preparations necessary for eating Yahweh’s Passover at that time.

The Disciples knew a fact that is not universally known, nor is it taught in any of the Churches and Assemblies today: They knew that the Passover must be PREPARED for--both PHYSICALLY and SPIRITUALLY.

The word translated purge in I Corinthians 5:7 is word #1571 in the Greek Dictionary of Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, and means: to cleanse thoroughly.

The Apostles themselves knew, and they also taught, that one must PURGE; cleanse thoroughly, one’s self of SIN, BITTERNESS, and HATRED; that one must REPENT of any and all sins, before coming into Yahweh’s Presence for His Passover! Forgiveness or Sparing is what the word Passover means: Yahweh passes over the sins we have UNINTENTIONALLY committed, and of which we have repented:

The idea of purging and preparing one’s self inwardly; thoroughly cleansing one’s self of all sin before partaking of Yahweh’s Passover, is not a New Testament thought. Through Yahweh’s written Ordinance concerning His Passover, those who obey Yahweh know they cannot partake of the Passover unless this purging; this internal preparation has been done, before the Passover.

What the Apostles knew and observed, the majority of this world knows nothing about. The Apostles knew that only those who had CLEANSED and PREPARED themselves inwardly, were permitted by Yahweh to sacrifice the Passover.

Sanctifying one’s self is always a part of the Passover, as is killing the Passover on the Fourteenth Day and this is exactly what Yahshua Messiah and His disciples were doing in that upper room on the night in which He was betrayed.

Part of preparing themselves would be the fact that Kepha and Yahchanan had checked the cleansing of this room. According to the Ordinances of Passover, all leaven that can be seen, as well as all lea

YAHWEH'S PASSOVER & YAHSHUA'S MEMORIAL

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