04/05/2020
Passover Gleanings
Ken has a chart of the events of Passion Week that he believes to be more biblical than the traditional one below.
Email him [email protected] if you would like a copy.
o Sunday—Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem
o Monday—Cleansing the temple
o Tuesday—Controversies with the Jewish leaders
o Wednesday—Apparently a day of rest
o Thursday—Preparation for Passover
o Friday—Trial and Crucifixion
o Saturday—Jesus rests in the tomb
o Sunday—Jesus raised from the dead.
B. Our Thoughts on Passover
1. On 10 Nisan (Exod 12:3), Israel was choosing the Passover lambs to be staked on the Temple Mount for inspection during the next four days. Also, on the 10th (see Jn 12:1, 12), Yeshua enters the procession toward the Temple Mount from Bethany – This is the “Triumphal Entry”! As the spotless Lamb of God, Yeshua too is about to be examined for four the next days (see Matt 22:15-45; 27:24; John 19:6).
2. Why a donkey that no one has ridden for Yeshua’s entry into Jerusalem? Is it possible that it is because the day the lamb was selected is Sabbath, and even the animals were to rest (Dt 5:14)? This donkey did not need a rest as it never worked a day in its life.
3. An Hebraic understanding of “kill it in the evening” (Exodus 12:6), meant that the lambs were to be killed “between the evenings” i.e., the Passover Lambs were sacrificed between noon and 6:00 pm (or sundown) on the 14th of Nissan (Exod 12:6) in Israel. Messiah’s death occurred at 3:00 PM (the 9th hour). The Jewish people ate the Passover meal after the sun set at the beginning of the 15th, the 1st Day of Unleavened Bread.
4. Yeshua’s Last Supper seems to have been a Memorial Passover meal (Lu 22:7, 14), not a full Seder, as the Passover Seder was celebrated on the following night, after Yeshua was in the tomb. John wrote that during Yeshua’s morning trial, the Jews would not enter Pilate’s palace because they wanted to be ceremonially clean to eat the Passover that night (Jn 18:28).
5. Numerous prophetic voices are pointing to this year’s Passover as the stopping of the “plague” presently on our nation and the nations of the earth. We add our faith and prayers to these words. This much we know: “… when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land …”