Passover 2010

Those who abide by the rabbinical calendar have already celebrated Passover, but those who abide by the Biblical reckoning of time -which is based upon the visible new moon and not the astronomical new moon-, will celebrate Passover tonight.
Since I think the scriptural Jews (Karaite Jews) are right in this matter I will also celebrate Passover tonight.

Have you ever wondered why we are supposed to EAT a sacrificed lamb, why we are supposed to EAT unleavened bread, and why we are supposed to DRINK red wine?

Well, can you imagine any animal sweeter and more innocent than a little lamb?

Among all the animals this lamb is the epitome of all that is good and innocent.

When we EAT we aborb the nutrients of the food we eat in our body so that we may live and be strengthened and renewed by the nutrients, and our body is strengthened in accordance with the characteristics of the food we eat.

So, when we EAT the lamb we absorb the nutrients in the lamb.

Since a lamb's character is so sweet and innocent we -in a symbolical sense-, also absorb the innocense and kind, good character of the lamb.

Nourished by those nutrients we are strengthened and renewed in accordance with the character of the nutrients offered by that lamb, so that we assimilate the goodness and the innocense and they become part of us.

Of course eating the lamb is a ritual, but in the spiritual sense the Lamb which came to offer Himself as a sacrifice offers our soul-body the nutrients of eternal life, and as we grow closer to Him and are fed by Him continuously we assume His character in our hearts, so that we too become like lambs displaying the Lamb's goodness, His kindness and His sweetness in this world.

And why did Yahshua command His disciples to EAT His body as symbolized in the unleavened bread?
Because, in this ritual, leaven (chametz) is used as a symbol of sin which can permeat man's entire being.
When we EAT the UNleavened bread we absorb within us the nutrients of the unleavened (sinless) bread so that we assume His sinlessness and the chametz of sin disappears from our lives.

This sinless Bread is offered by only ONE Man, our Messiah Yahshua.

Yahshua was that unleavened bread, and by participating in the ritual of eating from the unleavened bread we express our desire to be fed by His sinlessness so that our character, growing from the sinless nutrients contained within the unleavened bread, assumes the characteristics of that which it is fed with, the sinless offering of our Messiah.

Red wine resembles red blood.
What does blood do?

It transports nutrients and oxygen (the spirit) to the cells of our body.

Likewise, the red wine is to depict the atoning blood of the Lamb's sacrifice, so that when we drink of that wine we, as it were, absorb the Lamb's innocent blood within us, and this blood cleanses and nourishes us from within.

And what is a characteristic of wine?

Doesn't it make the heart glad?
Likewise the atoning blood of the sacrifice provides us with the joy of living as renewed human beings before our Creator and fills us with gladness, just like wine.

So the ritual is not depicting some sort of psychic cannibalism, it is an expression of something of a spiritual nature in a way that we can clearly understand.

And by making a ritual out of it YHWH provided us with a strong reminder and a way to feel it in our souls as well as understand it.

Isn't there a saying 'You are what you eat'?
Think about that when you eat the lamb, when you eat the unleavened (sinless) bread, and when you drink the red wine.

Have a blessed Passover, and a blessed week of Unleavened Bread.