It is my understanding that the Passover begins on Sunday, Apr 13, 2025, 7:48 PM Eastern Standard Time USA. This is because the Biblical year begins with the appearance of the first 7th of the moon revealing itself in the western sky. This moon sighting is officially noted as the first day of the New Year because it happens after the sun has officially crossed the equator on the northern side of the Earth. This sliver moon is the beginning of the first day of the first month. This first day of the New Year happened on Mar 30th in the evening.

Reminder that Elohim set our understanding of Days and years right from the beginning in:
Gen 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Every biblical day begins in the evening after sundown and ends with brilliant light. The first day in scripture was born in darkness and ended with brilliant light even though the sun and moon were not created until the fourth day.
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Side note: it was Pope Gregory who changed the calendar day from the day beginning at sundown as described throughout scripture to the day beginning at midnight. He also changed the year from beginning in the Spring to the year beginning at the winter solstice in January. These changes make Christian believers observe Elohim’s appointed Feasts at the wrong times.
Christ ate the Passover lamb and unleavened bread and bitter herbs meal that Elohim commanded Israel to eat annually at this appointed time (14 days after the first day of the new year) and did so with his disciples. As a believer in Christ, we are charged to remember that it was after the Passover meal when Yahshua was betrayed captured tried, and crucified. This all took place before 9:00 Am the next morning. He died on the cross at about 3:00 PM and was buried in the tomb before Sundown. We know from scripture that the ones burying him rushed his burial so that they would not be “working” to bury him on the Sabbath as the sun went down.
For those celebrating, Happy Passover! May HIS Resurrection Celebration bring Joy and salvation to all!
The focus during the Last Supper was put on the bread that Yahshua broke and gave to his disciples. I say this because we need to understand that the Fall of Man was because of disobedience to specific food instructions.
Why do I say that?
When Adam and Eve were driven out of EDEN their diet was changed from Fruit from the Tree of Life to BREAD. This bread was to be eaten for food as part of Adam's punishment. Understand this, bread is the FOOD that Christ was tempted to transform stone from when Satan tempted him in the wilderness.
Mat 4:3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
Mat 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
This temptation is a mockery because Satan influenced the fall of man over food instruction that came from Elohim speaking his WORD from his mouth. A mockery, because Elohim had to give NEW FOOD INSTRUCTIONS and the result was from life-giving fruit to bread that would not sustain eternal life.
Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
We all know that bread plays a key role in the PASSOVER event that Elohim (God) told the children of Israel to observe and perform every year forever. If you are a Christian and you are not of Israeli heritage (blood line), then please understand that upon your belief in embracing Christ for yourself as your own personal savior, you are grafted into the ordinances they were commanded to observe.
Nowhere in scripture do we find Yahshua telling his followers to ignore the Passover celebration meal nor to alter the actual food instructions. You should read that again. In fact, Christ himself said to his disciples that as often as you EAT THIS MEAL, remember me.
I have stated many times that Passover is an end-times rehearsal for our Exodus because every year they were to have their clothes on and staff in hand ready to simulate leaving their homes forever. The Last Supper of Christ is celebrated every year in the springtime in the first Hebrew month starting on the 14th day beginning at sundown. I believe the FIRST supper was the Passover. The Passover meal consisted of lamb and unleavened bread, bitter herbs, and wine. It was to be eaten in haste, (a hurried meal) with everyone in the home fully dressed and ready to travel. This command was for all the children of Israel in preparation for their departure from the bondage of Egypt. The day before the Passover began Elohim (God) told Moses to have the children of Israel kill a one-year-old male lamb and collect its blood in a hyssop and apply the blood on the doorposts and lintel of every house of the children of Israel. After the sun went down they were all to remain inside their homes all night and eat the lamb.
The Passover preparations were commanded by Elohim in response to the Pharaoh’s decree that all the firstborn of Israel would die. So Elohim turned Pharaoh's murderous will onto Pharaoh’s own people. That night, Elohim caused the Angel of Death to PASSOVER the land of EGYPT. The firstborn of each house was spared in every house that had lambs' blood on the doorposts and lintel. Every single house in Egypt that did not have the lambs’ blood had someone inside the house die. Everyone that died was the firstborn of their own house.
As the children of Israel departed Egypt the next morning they ate unleavened bread because they needed to move so quickly that they didn’t even have time for their bread to rise. These were the days of unleavened bread.
The LAST supper was also called the Last Supper because Christ said that HE would not eat this annual celebration meal again and that they, the living disciples, and the nation of Israel, would continue to eat until he ate it with his disciples in the restored KINGDOM. (When you pray the Our Father Prayer, this is the KINGDOM you are asking to come when you say, “…thy Kingdom come…thy will be done…”) They, his disciples, continued to celebrate the PASSOVER meal annually AFTER CHRIST ROSE FROM THE DEAD and that is clearly evident in the book of ACTS when the disciples were observing the days of unleavened bread the following year. The Apostle Paul even stated that believers should eat the Feast.
1Co 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
The PASSOVER celebration is required to be rehearsed FOREVER for Israel.
Christ will resume eating The PASSOVER meal with his disciples when the KINGDOM is restored to Israel. That event has not happened yet. You may say, “I am a Christian, not a Jew. I do not have to rehearse the Passover” Friend, according to the scripture, if you believe you are a Christian, then you are grafted into Israel. A branch grafted into a tree relies on those tree roots for life giving water and nutrients, and nourishment and growth. The moment you called on Christ to save you and give you eternal life, you became part of Israel’s heritage as the seed of Abraham. You are not going to have any oil in your lamp to light your way through the darkness of this world if you refuse to fill it with his ways. Yes, I agree that Yahshua is the way the truth, and the life. He practiced this and you are to be like Christ. He said as often as you eat THIS meal (The Passover) and drink this cup, do it in remembrance of me. This is a specific FEAST that Elohim told Israel to observe annually at a specific time of the year, forever.
Consider the following:
One of the Ten Commandments is, Thou shall have no other Gods before me. Many of you participated in dragging the pagan god Ishtar (Easter) before Elohim (God) and you did it in the name of Christ and then defiled your body, which is the temple, of Elohim.
Wait, What?
Many defiled their temple by eating an unclean beast by having swine or ham dinner in direct violation of the Law of Moses. You did so relating it to one of his appointed Feast Days which is a day he specifically gave food instructions to follow. (It was food instructions in Eden that were disobeyed, that caused the fall of man)
As a Christian believer, you may even find it embarrassing to say the true holiday name that Elohim gave for the event because you have been trained by religious teachings to embrace the name of a false god and avoid the true PASSOVER celebration. You even practice the pagan ritual of fertility and say, “Happy Easter” to everyone. Not only did you celebrate it based on a false calendar you honored or brought a god before Elohim and applied the celebration to Christ's resurrection.
You think PASSOVER does not apply to you even though Elohim told Israel to observe it every year at the same time as an ordinance forever. Yet at the same time, you may also believe and agree that you are grafted into Israel and their ways when you accepted Christ as your Savior.
Christ washed away the sin of the world he did not wash away the Torah, the way of Life (also called the law of Moses). The five books of the Torah are the instructions for life.
Satan does not want us to celebrate Yahuah’s instructions and has put a stumbling block in the face of Christianity, and that trap is also in the Bible in the book of Acts. Satan relies on the fact that we do not know the scriptures or are careless with their meanings. In Eden, the Serpent was given the license to change the words of Elohim (God) when he was speaking with Adam's wife, Eve. She was redirected away from the true instructions of Elohim about what to eat, and not to eat, and left with the thought that Elohim deliberately misled Adam because he didn’t want his eyes to be open, knowing good and evil.
Easter is NOT a Christian celebration in Acts 12:4. The translator of the scripture used the PAGAN GODS’ NAME “EASTER” in place of the PASSOVER CELEBRATION that Herod is speaking of because the translator identified the time being celebrated with their own pagan custom that was celebrated at the same time. Herod was the Jewish KING and was being political by holding off on killing Peter, with the author of the book noting that the Jews were KEEPING THE PASSOVER and were at the point of the celebration observing the days of unleavened bread.
Act 12:1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
Act 12:2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
Act 12:3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
Act 12:4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
Act 12:5 Peter, therefore, was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
We now know that to celebrate “Easter” is to drag a false God before Elohim and insult his laws and ordinances for Israel the church to do, and we know many will continue to do so in the name of Christ.
Satan stands before Elohim (God) day and night and accuses us of our sins and his accusations are righteous. Because his accusations are righteous we are all considered lambs for the slaughter. You should read that again. Satan tempts you to fall and then when you do fall he accuses you of disobedience and has the right to take your life or harm you because your sin has separated you from Elohim.
We may be saved by grace, but we still have rules to follow given by Elohim to keep clear from the harm that Satan can and will bring on us when we transgress or turn away from the Law or life instructions.
We all need to turn away from this pagan name and its practices that have been appointed to this very special time so that we can get on the right path, observing Yahuah’s ordinances, keeping The PASSOVER, along with our TORAH (The Law of Moses) journey, moving toward the time of his return and restored Kingdom.
We all need to repent and correct our ways! Let this year’s PASSOVER celebration be your first rehearsal as a Christian believer. It is time to do the right thing. Don't be caught without oil in your lamp or when the kingdom comes, you will be late in understanding how to navigate the darkness all the way to the gate and he will say that he never knew you.
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