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39th B're'shiyt Teaching - Torah Portion Vayak'hel - March 14

39 B’re’shiyt 1:12-13 - Torah Vayak’hel and Pekudei 14 March 2015 23 Adar 5115

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39th B’re’shiyt teaching - B’re’shiyt 1:12-13 

          By Bradley Scott (used and shared with permission)

Torah Parashah: Vayak’hel and Pekudei - Sh’mot (Exodus) 35:1-40:38 p 76

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B’re’shiyt teaching by Bradley Scott

Page 41 in study guide

B’re’shiyt 1:12

Vat-totze’  ha’arets deshe’  ‘esev  maz’riya’  zera’  l’miynehu  v’etz  ‘oseh-p’riy  ‘asher  zar’o-vo l’miynehu  vay-yar’  Elohiym  kiy-tov.

“And bore the earth vegetation herb seeding seed after its kind and the tree producing fruit which is it in it after its kind and saw Elohiym it was good.”

“And the wearth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and YHWH saw that it was good.”

This verse is a repeat of verse 11.  Which was the commandment going forth from YHWH’s mouth, for the earth to reproduce.

It may seem redunant... but it is important because - when the creation is told to produce - it does it.

This is showing the pattern for those who are truly the creation of YHWH.  The earth and the creation can’t say no, but they are nontheless expressing the fruit. 

The trees clap thier hands and

Y’shua mentions that if He wanted to, He could raise up the rocks to praise Him.

But you and i have a choice... we have the abilit to say no to what YHWH wants. 

NEW WORD:

VAT-TOTZE’ -

          yod - tzadi - ayin

          root = yatza’ = go forth, come out

          Y’sha’yahu 11:1 p 303 RSTNE

          “And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Yishai, and a Netzer-Branch shall growo out of HIs roots:

          Y’sha’yahu 45:23 p 329

          “I have sworn by Myself, the Word is gone out of My mouth in tzedakah, and shall not return, That to Me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall swear.”

          Miz’mor 37:6 p 508

          “And He shall bring forth your tzedakah as the light and your mishpat as the noonday.”

--Review other words because they are NOT first mention. (- follow along under the verse)

ha’arets = the earth

deshe’ = vegetation

‘esev = herb

mazeriya’ = seeding

zera = seed

le’miynehu = after its kind

ve’etz = and the tree

‘oseh = producing

‘e’riy = fruit

‘asher = which

ZAR’O-VO = IS IT IN IT = a direct reference to a seed being in something

le’miynehu = after its kind

vay-yare’ = and saw

Elohiym = God

kiy-tov = it was good

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Page 42 in study guide

(1:07:09 in cd 10)

B’re’shiyt 1:13

“Vayehiy - ‘erev  vayehiy - voger yom sheliyshiy.”

“And the evening and the moring were day third.”

Vayeyiy - ‘erev = and the evening

Vayehiy - voquer = and the morning

yom = day

Sheliyshiy = third

          shin lamed shin

          root = shelosh = third

It’s no coincidence that this is the third day....

and the third day is all about the earth producing fruit.

True - literal first fruits of the creation...

This same term is  used of Y’shua’s resurrection.

We know that Y’shua rose on the Feast of First Fruits

and we know that was on the third day.

No coincidence that on the third day the earth was commanded to bring forth fruit.

Third = ordinal number  - rather than the cardinal number 3

page 43 in study guide - list of Scripture with Third in...

“Three” or “third” = fullnesss, perfection, complettion in time and space. (- not from a heavenly or Yah’s point of you

as we see that is found in the  number 7.)

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Next time we will be on Sh’mot 1:14... and talk about the things in the sky....

which is an interesting thing considering there is a blood moon comping up on Pesach - April 4!!

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Torah Parashah: Vayak’hel (he assembled) and Pekudei (accounts)  -

Sh’mot (Exodus) 35:1-40:38 p 76

I used to read Sh’mot and become irritated with the details. 

I am beginning to see it differently now.

Sh’mot 35:1 - Moshe gathers Isra’el...

“And Moshe gathered allthe congregation of the children of Yisrale together, and said to them,  These are the worlds that YHWH has commanded, that you should do them.”

and then immediatly starts talking about working six days but resting on Shabbbt.

Then he invited Yisra’el to bring an offering...

What were the qualifications of those who brought offerings?

Sh’mot 35:21

“... everyone whose lev (heart) stirred up and everyone whose ruach was willing...”

Sh’mot 35:25-26 p 76

          chochmah / wisdom in heart

          and a heart “stirred” to do it

Sh’mot 36: 2

          chochmah/ wisdom in heart

          and a heart “stirred” to do it

How does this fit with us?

We could say - how are we qualified to bring offerings to YHWH?

First let me say that offerings are not just gifts of money... but our offerings we give unto YHWH are our time and talents and efforts and focus and perservance and the way we love others.

Are our hearts “stirred” to do it?

Do we have a passion that - this is our focus and we are intensly following hard after him?

Do we walk in chochmah / wisdom??

Is the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) in us bring chochmah and stirring up our hearts??

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Sh’mot 36:6 - Moshe had to STOP them from continuing to give!!

Image if that was the probelm today!

Think how excited and how focused they must have been!!

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Sh’mot 36:8 begins the particulars of the things in the mishkan /tabernacle.

and this goes through...Sh’mot 39:42-43...

We don’t know how long this took...

One estimation says 6-8 months, and another thought 5 months.

One interesting idea I found ....

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According to the Mishnah...

“Hundreds of years before it was built, the Mishkan was already in the works.

In fact, on his way down to Egypt, Jacob planted acacia trees, instructing his sons that thier descendants should take the wood with them when they leave.  That way they would have the right materials on had when the command would come to build a Tabernacle.”

Now i can’t tell you if it is true or not - but it is interesting!

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The tabernacle contained slightly  more than:

1 ton of gold

3.75 tons of sliver, and

2.5 tons of bronze.

More silver was used indicating the value of redemption (symbolism of silver.”

The tabernacle probably weighted in excess of - 10 tons.

However, there were between 32,000 and 75,000 adults male Levites.  Thus each man would have had to carry less than a pound.  One ton of gold is worth $10 million

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And to go along with our B’re’shiyt teaching.... on Sheliyshiy = third...

There were 3 metals used in the Tabernacle

          gold, silver, and brass

         

          gold = YHWH

          silver = redemption

          brass = sin

There were 3 coverings on the tabernacle

          Rams’ skins dyed red

          badgers’ skins

          woven goats hair

There were three divisions

          Outer Court

          Holy Place

          Most Holy Place

There were 3 entry ways into the tabernacle:

          the gate

          the door     

          the vail

There were 3 colors used in the tabernacle:

          blue

          purple        

          scarlet

There were 3 uses of oil in worship in the tabernacle:

          Oil for light

          spices for anointing oil

          sweet incense

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Sh’mot 39:42-43 p 80

Each piece was built /made - as we see in

Sh’mot 39:1-31 and throughout this section of Scripture...

... “as YHWH commanded Moshe.”

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(In this spot or nearby i talked about something close to this:....

Throughout Sh’mot 39 - the Word makes it clear... that they built all these things....

          “as YHWH commanded Moshe.”

And can’t you see by the end of chapter 39.. Moshe is inspecting... and there the main builders would have stood and said to themselves...

Do you think he likes it?  Is it going to pass??  he sort of rolled his eyes or he sighed loudly... are we in trouble...

b/c they would have known... the screwed up at the Golden calf and they could have died....  and now here was another chance - they couldn’t mess this up.

Now keep in mind... they would have had reminders....  they probably were all bald!

What?

Yeps bald - b/c that is one of the side effects  for consuming gold... remember they had to grind up the calf and dump it in water and drink it. 

so they’ve been building these tabernacle parts for roughly the guess is about 6 months....  bald, watching each other’s hair grow in...  a constant reminder of the big mess they made.

Sh’mot 39:43 p 80

    ~ Imagine this...  finally after all this hard work....

there they stood waiting....

and Moshe approved it.  whew!!!

And then in Sh’mot 40 YHWH  starts giving Moshe the instructions to set it up!

So Moshe did...  Sh’mot 40:16  “So Moshe did: according to allthat YHWH had commmanded him, so did he.”

What a joy that must have been!!

Do you think they realized that YHWH could have and maybe “should” have killed them for their disobedience...??

Do you think they delighted in their salvation?

It was salvation -  and what saved them was this temporary priesthood /tabernacle system... 

They were given a second chance to be YHWH’s people.... 

and they gave and gave until Moshe had to tell them to stop.

Then they worked and worked... following directions explicitly ... 

Maybe they - this particular generation had at least temporairly learned that YHWH expects things done HIS way. ...?...

So they must have been delighted to set up the tabernacle...

I think they must have been meticulous about the building and very very careful about the setting it up....  this was the tabernacle for YHWH to dwell among them...

Do we take care of our temples (our bodies) like this today?

And what was there?....

Sh’mot 40:34-38 p 80

The cloud - the Presence of YHWH was so heavy that Moshe couldn’t even enter the Tabernacle!

What is that CLOUD ?...

1.     first appeared at Red Sea crossing  Sh’mot 13:20 - 14:25

2.     Appeared before the people at Mount Sinai.  Sh’mot 19:9-20

3.     Descended upon tabernacle and continued to guide Isra’elites

          -Sh’mot 40:34-38; 9:15-23. 10:33=36

4.       Filled Temple of solomon -I Kings 8:10-13 and II Chronicles 5:14

5.    Spoken of in Psalms 99:7 and 105: 38-39

6.   Departed by the time of Babylonian captivity (586 BCE)

7.   No indication of appearance during second temple period.

8.   Appeared at Y’shua’s transfiguration in Matt 17:5, Luke 9:34-36

9.       Will appear at Y’shua’s return  Luke 21:25-28

10.      Will reappear in the “last days”  (Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 4:2-6)

11.     In permanent resides during millennium ( Rev 21:23)

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Let’s look in the B’rit Chadashah...

2 Corinthians 5:1-5 p 867

This is talking about the temple in the RE-newed covenant of the Melchizedek Priesthood...

Ivrim /Hebrews 9:1-10 p 819

There is a distinction made between a heavenly tent and an earthly tent, and between what was ‘built by man’ and what is ‘not part of this creation’

Ivrim 9:1-10 describes the earthly tabernacle, or “tent of meeting” as a place into which the priests would go to offer sacrifices for the sins of the people. 

Then look at

Ivrim 9:11 

Who is the better Cohen HaGadol (High Priest)??

And it is His blood that is offered... HE is made like the halves of the animals he as the “burning lamp” walked between in B’re’shiyt 15 - when the Covenant of Promise was made and Y’shua walked between the halves with the “smoking furnace” / YHWH ... instead of Avraham.

Y’shua covenanted right there in B’re’shiyt 15 that man would not have to die, but HE would be the one who died if man broke the covenant!

So it is HIS blood that saves us... His blood that re-established the Covenant of Promise!

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Now you really need to understand this... b/c christianity will tell you that it is about “the blood shed on the “cross”... and that the blood of animals could temporarily cleanse worshipers of the guilt of sin.”

But it is not about the levitical priesthood not working.... 

It is about the Covenant of Promise in B’re’shiyt 15  p 18 

and WHO covenanted WHAT.

B’re’shiyt 15: 17 p 18

Y’shua HAD to die...b/c HE walked between the animal halves instead of Avraham!  He promised then - way back in - B’re’shiyt 15, that if man broke the Covenant - that HE - Y’shua would be the one to die!! 

THAT IS THE FOCUS!!

It is all about Mashiach ... all about Y’shua.

He promised in B’re’shiyt 15.... and He fulfilled it...

Yisra’el should have been killed when they broke the Covenant or promise... but that was not the agreement made...

The one who is represented of by so many things in THREE...

....it was HIM who agreed. 

...It was HIM who promised to be our “instead-of” - “replacement”....

...  IT was HIS blood that cleanses us and makes us whole.

It’s all about Y’shua’s blood - nobody else’s would have counted.

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I’d like to read something from Mike Clayton...

          “So what have we learned from these 16 chapters of the Tabernacle?

We’ve learned that we must have a model to go by....

We’ve learned that we can not come up with our own model... 

-different days and different diets and expect Him to show up.

We must have a pattern, and that pattern in Scripture is clear.

It takes time, effort and giving of ourselves to be a Tabernacle worthy of His presence.

We must have authority:  Not only must we submit to His authority, but also to those on earth He has chosen to lead us.

We must leave our opinions at the door:  His way of doing things is not open for our interpretation.

We must expect the unexpected:  The day we have it all figured out of how everything is going to happen will be the day  nothing happens.  Well, it will still happen, but we will miss it because we may be looking the wrong direction 

We need to keep our poles in the Ark and our tent pegs shallow:

Remember those poles which were to be left in the Ark?  Remember that the tent pgs were only to be half in the ground and half out of the ground? 

The purpose was to be a reminder that this Tabernacle is not to stay in one place and become a museum. 

It was to be a guide to take the people home.

And guess what, HE still is!!

So how are you keeping your temple?? 

Because it is ALL about Y’shua HaMashaich - the one who agreed in a covenant - so we wouldn’t have to die....  he would take our place.

Praise YHWH

and AMEIN.

April 19 - Pesach and First Fruits

Another look at Pesach....  

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Sh’ma

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April 19, 2014 ~ 

Torah portions can be found in CJB p 1622

We are going to start in 

Sh’mot /Exodus 12:21- 24 cjb p 72

Now i want to share with you information from a teaching Rav Matthew Nolan published on Pesach.  

Some of it is going to be very new for us.  

Most people believe that Pesach started here in Sh’mot 12.

But Rav Nolan says it happened before Sh’mot...  

in the days of Avraham....  he actually had a Pesach covenant

B’re’shiyt 19:1-3  cjb p 17 

in verse 3 the word “meal” is actually “moed” = Feast of YHWH !!

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We have talked before that the Torah was known before Sinai...because there was sacrifice and there were clean and unclean animals known.  

Noah knew which animals were clean and not clean.

Noah knew what was righteous....

So the Torah was given verbally...because the Torah is eternal.

Who is the living Torah?

Yochanan / John 1:1-2 cjb p 1329 

“In the beginning was the Word (the Living Torah) ET and  the Word (the Living Torah) was with YHWH, and the ET (the Living Torah) was YHWH.  He was with YHWH in the beginning.”

The Torah is eternal - it was just codified - written down and given to the nation as Mt Sinai.

So the Pesach was from eternity.

Pesach was known through the age to the patriarchs, according to Rav Nolan.

In B’re’shiyt /Genesis 17,18, and 19...  is in the context of YHWH’s Pesach!

B’re’shiyt 18 is all about the Beinah - the SON...  but it wasn’t the SON that was sacrificed there.. it was the Lamb who was in a thorn bush!

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After the death of the first born... YHWH has more to say about the Pesach in 

Sh’mot 43-50    cjb p 73

Pesach is for anyone who comes into covenant....

Rav Nolan said something interesting next....

He said.. “To eat at the Pesach table you have to be able to judge yourself.”

What is he talking about??

I Corinthians 10 cjb p 1431 is all about judging yourself...

you can’t drink from an idol’s table... you can’t be pagan... you must come into covenant.

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Rav Nolan then explains some misconceptions or messes we find in the world today...

People make big mistakes and view the Pesach Seder of today as a sacrifice...

He says that if the Temple was up and running it would be a sacrifice... they would follow all the instructions like no broken bones and burning any leftovers.... etc...

but there is no Temple...(building)

So this is a MEMORIAL.

The 3 elements that are required for Pesach Memorial are:

lamb

bitter herbs

unleavened bread

When we do this we are memorializing YHWH’s work of redemption.

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Remember we talked about the first 7 words of the Torah:

“B’re’shiyt Bara Elohiym  ET hashamayim v’et ha’aretz”

“In the beginning created Elohiym the heaven and the earth.”

and this is a done deal...  perfect. Finished. 7 means completed.

And then hasatan fell...

and the next 7 words:

“V’ha’aretz hay’tah tohu vovohu v’choshek al-p’ney t’hom.”

“And the earth was/became without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.”

and hasatan thought this was a done deal - a completed work... 

But then then next 5 words:

“V’rucha Elohiym m’rachephet al-peney ham-mayim.”

“And the Spirit of YHWH moved upon the face of the waters.”

and 5 means redemption.

Right there...  in the first to verses of the Torah... YHWH announces his plan for redemption...  

So Pesach memorializes YHWH’s plan of redemption.  :)

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Sh’mot 13:3-7 cjb p 73

... another confusing thing.. “Aviv”.

Rav Nolan says... “Aviv is the Babylonian name for the month of Nissan”

Wikipedia says that ever since the end of Babylonian captivity, Aviv has been called Nissan.

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If you are taking notes...

I want you to write these numbers down, leaving about five lines or more between each one...

start with  #13 and number through...17

Aviv/ Nissan 13

preparation day for Pesach

as the 14th goes into the 15th

Pesach 

slaughter the lamb at 3:00

seder that evening

Aviv/Nissan 15 = first day of Unleavened Bread 

This is a HIGH SHABBAT

This is day 1 of the 7 days of Unleavened Bread

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As we talked about getting ready for Pesach and even at Seder - Pesach is about getting the chametz - the sin- out of our homes and out of our lives!

In Pesach you should judge yourself - search yourself for sin and clean your “house” in preparation for Pesach Seder.  

What we find is that every year we learn more - Praise YHWH! and so every year there is still more chametz /sin to clean up... (things we didn’t know/ understand before).

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Vayikra /Leviticus 23:4-8 cjb p 136

Some people get different ideas.... of when Pesach is...  

Some people think it is the 13th going into the 14th.. but this won’t work because you can’t sacrifice the lamb on the 13th!

Now let’s read about Chag haBikkirum  - the Feast of First Fruits

Vayikra 23:9-11 cjb p 136

Vayikra 23:11 

cjb = 

“He is to wave the sheaf before YHWH, so that you will be accepted; the cohen is to wave it on the day after Shabbat.”

“on the day after Shabbat”

--- This is an area where many get confused...  

When is First Fruits??

We have studied for a long time - that it is the day after the Shabbat in the Unleavened bread time.... 

but maybe it is time to reconsider that... i don’t think we have had it right....

Let’s look at the Word...

Yes in our CJB it says...

.... “On the day after Shabbat”

but we have learned many times over, that translations make a big mess.

And we need to know that this is very important because this day determines when we start the Counting of the Omer ... and this tells us when Shavuot is!

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Rav Nolan says...

... our Tanakh comes from the Masoretic text... and that was translated by Monks who changed it at least 134 times in reference to Yahshua... 

and a better translation is the Septuagint LXX because that was translated directly from the Hebrew text of Yahshua’s day... and is sometimes more reliable when “digging deeper into the Word.”  

So if we look at 

Vayikra 23:11 from the Septuagint LXX we find it says..

“He shall wave the sheath before YHWH to be accepted on your behalf on the day after the first day of Unleavened Bread.”

The Word Sabbath or Shabbat is not in the Septuagint.

So the meaning of Vayikra 23:11  - based on the Hebrew text from Yahshua’s day is...

that the Shabbat of First Fruits is on the day after the first day of Unleavened Bread.

-which makes sense to me b/c this is the THIRD day!

This is the 16th day of the month of Aviv or Nissan.

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So let’s go back to your number/ day listing page...

14 Aviv/Nissan

Pesach

slaughter the lamb at 3:00

in eve - sit down and eat the lamb as the sun sets... 

and the 15th starts as finishing meal..

15 Aviv/Nissan

first day of Unleavened Bread

So then as the 15th turns into the 16th - so into the evening...

The priests would go across the bridge into the Kidron Valley and they would say....

“With this sickle...”

and the people would say

“Yes with this sickle”

and the priests would say

“I shall harvest”

and the people would say

“yes, you shall harvest”

and the priest would take the sickle to the standing grain of barely and start to reap the First Fruits  - taking “10 Omers”...

and they would carry them across the priestly bridge and burn them and thresh them and get rid of the chaff... 

After all that thrashing... the 10 omers would go down to 1 omer of grain.

(Now i am sure that means a bunch - but i don’t yet know.)

Rav Nolan explains that  - as soon as the sickle hits the standing grain - you are able to consume barely /bread/ grain products.  

“You can’t consume them before, because they are for YHWH.”

Rav Nolan says - that this is when history tells us Jews always did this... 

That First Fruits is the day after the HIGH SHABBAT of the First Day of Unleavened Bread....  not the day following the next weekly Shabbat.

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But - let’s look at a second witness:

Y’hoshua /Joshua 5:10 cjb p 246

-If First Fruits was after the weekly shabbat - then Joshua called all of Isra’el to sin!....  

So with that i believe that the Septuagint is correct...

That First Fruits is the day after the FIRST day of Unleavened Bread.

So let’s go back ... to Vayikra 23:9-11 cjb p 136....

.... and .. consider making a note in your Bible that where it says “on the day after Shabbat” in verse 11 

you make a note that says the Septuagint says “on the day after the first day of Unleavened Bread.”

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So look at your date paper again...

Aviv 14 - going into 15

you sit down to Pesach Supper

Aviv 15 

first day of Unleavened Bread = HIGH SHABBAT

Aviv 16

day 2 of Unleavened Bread

Day one of the Counting of the Omer

And so from then we are to count 50 days... to Shavuot.

If we understand the counting of the omer we know exactly what day Yahshua ascended into the heavens...

and we know exactly how many days the Talmidim had before the giving of the Ruach HaKodesh...  

... if you understand the spring feasts... all this will mean something to you!

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Rav Nolan says.... Not understanding these feasts explains why people go to easter service...

... because they don’t understand the spring feasts of YHWH 

and to think - Yahshua said he will give ONE sign...  Jonah...  the 3 days and 3 nights... 

... and how long did we go through the motions pretending that we didn’t notice Friday night through Sunday morning is NOT 3 days and 3 nights!!!?!!

we can’t even follow one sign!!

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so... 

Aviv /Nissan 15

day 1 of Unleavened Bread

15th going into the 16th 

the sickle goes into the standing barely and the first fruits are then brought in

16th 

Day 2 of Unleavened Bread ... 

...but it is First Fruits - day one of the Counting of the Omer

First Fruits is about the barley harvest.... while we then count the omer until we get to Shavuot - the wheat harvest...

Nolan says... 

Barley is animal feed  

while wheat is food for humans

And in that 50 days  - if we count every day we are supposed to transform as believers from carnal animal to supernatural believers... full of the Ruach HaKodesh!!

We are supposed to move from faith - into Kingdom faith ... 

we are to be transformed in those 50 days!! 

Why?  because we should have gotten rid of the chametz/ the sin in our lives before Pesach!!

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Okay - so let’s look at the B’rit Chadashah and see how it actually played out with Yahshua....

Mattityahu /Matthew 26:17 cjb p 1258

“On the first day for Matzah”  !!

again this is not translated correctly!

The Greek word that “ON” came from, is 

=”Protos” and it can mean “first “ or “BEFORE”

So it should read BEFORE the first day of Matzah.

Strong’s # 4253

and what else we need to know is that whole week if mostly called the Feast of Matzah!

Mattityahu 26:17-23 cjb p 1258

Now let’s go to 

Mark 14:12 cjb p 1282

“On the first day for Matzah...”

again this is a wrong translation.

that word “ON” is again - “protos”  - Strong’s # 4253

So it should read...  “BEFORE the first day for Matzah”

Read 

Mark 14: 12-16 cjb  p 1282

Mark 26:13 - man carrying a jar of water -- meaning -- “follow the waters of purification -- that is the sign...

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Luke 22:7 cjb p 1323

“Then came the day of unleavened bread”

This is an understandable translation b/c Pesach bridges into Unleavened bread - and again, the whole period is often called - The Days of Unleavened Bread.

Luke 22:1-7

I want to share something very interesting that Rav Nolan shared.... and i can’t tell you more than what i am going to say (yet).   He did say he has  a book that explains this.... and i have emailed him and asked for that title.  

He says... regarding Luke 22:3...

about - Judas k’riot (Iscariot) ....Rav Nolan says that this was a brother of Messiah...

His sir name wasn’t K’riot (Iscariot)....  and that he was an assassin from Kumron.

This makes the betrayal all the more profound.

This is why Yahshua said “Who is my mother? Who is my brother?”

and the rest in this portion of Luke is the same as in Matthew and Mark.

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Yochanan / John 18:28 cjb p 1354

They are in Pilot’s Court....  the pertoriam. 

They couldn’t go in because in the pertoriam men were flogged and killed and if they came in contact with a dead body - they wouldn’t be clean for Pesach and not able to keep it.

This is on the 14th day of Aviv in the morning

And you can read on ... and this section ends by crucifying Yahshua and not the known criminal - Bar-Abba.

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One of the things we need to know ... in Yahshua’s day and even today in ultra orthodox Jewish tradition - the Rabbi will take a minion - 10 of his best students.... 

and the rabbi will invite them to his home and they will have a practice Pesach Seder!...   

-because these guys would be helping others “do it correctly”  at the real Pesach meal!

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How could Yahshua eat the lamb - b/c he was the lamb that year...

.. he has to be slaughtered at the same moment the priest would call out “It is finished”....  b/c that is what the only Priest did that year... He cried out “It is finished”... just at the Cohen would have at the slaughter of the lamb!

So on the 13th day of Aviv /Nissan, Yahshua  had a meal with his disciples... 

It was not the Pesach...

the “last supper” was not the Pesach Seder ...

It was a practice seder meal.

And after the meal he tells Judas to “go and buy” - If this was Aviv 14 going into 15, he would not been able to buy  - b/c it was shabbat of Pesach.

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Another thing we need to do is forget all Roman stuff when figuring out when Yahshua died etc...  

We have got to let go of Wed - Thrus - Fri - sat - sunday ...

and only go by DATES

I Corinthians 5:6-8 cjb p 1427 

= The purpose of the Memorial Pesach Seder... is to transcend the natural state ... to get sin cleaned out of us and be kadosh!!  

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Aviv 13- going into 14

-get a room

-practice Pesach meal

-Yahshua tells Judas to go out and buy

-Yahshua is betrayed

-They arrest Yahshua

Morning of 14

-Yahshua is before Pilot

Afternoon of 14

-Yahshua is crucified in the “ha bein hamiyim” = “between the 2 evenings”

Yahshua cries out “It is finished” - as THEE Cohen...the very moment the lamb dies (he was the only Cohen to do that this the day he died.)

Before evening on the 14th

Yahshua is put into the grave

14 going into 15 

in the grave

15 going into 16 

in the grave

16 going into 17 

in the grave

3 days and 3 nights in the tomb.... just as the Jonah prophecy!

In the morning of the 17th... women go to the garden and HE says... he hasn’t ascended to Father...  

So he has to ascend and take his blood to the mercy seat of heaven so it can transcend Pesach and become the Yom Kippur sacrifice... the final Sin Sacrifice

(and Thomas can touch his scars after this.)

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So let’s talk a bit about the Counting of the Omer:

Acts 1:1-17 cjb p 1360

vs 3 - speaking with them 40 days...

vs 6 

They’ve got the transfigured Yahshua... and he is spending 40 days with them and the one question they ask ... is .... “When will you restore the Kingdom to Isra’el?”

“Every Jew understood - the purpose of Messiah was to bring in the 12 tribes of Isra’el to keep the Torah under the banner and covering of Messiah!”

Yahshua spent 40 days and ascended into heaven...

If Yahshua rose on the 17th day of Aviv.. 

What day of the Omer is that???

- Aviv 16 is day 1of Omer.. 

-Aviv 17  is day 2 of omer

Yahshua ascended into Heavens on the 42nd day of Omer..

leaving the disciples with 8 days  -which is “a sign of time after time” 

=8 days without Ruach and without Yahshua....  that is why he said hold down and stay in Jerusalem = there is no Ruach until you learn to trust me...

8 days= a sign of time after time...

Then in Acts 2....the Ruach and the sign of the tongues of fire...!!

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Let’s look at 

Colossians 2:6-8 cjb p 1471 for context 

=through the love of wisdom...

philo = love

sophia = wisdom

==Philosophy ...

=== according to the basic traditions of men...

We should have the attitude of...

“All i know is Mashiach and him crucified.”   :)

So with Colossians 2:6-8 in mind:

-vs 8 can’t be talking about Torah!!

- So whatever happens in next verses - is not going to be anything about Torah... 

but about paganisms...

Remember --  it was in colossal where people abused their bodies to try to be holy...

Colossians 2:13 ... 

Rav Nolan said something very interesting here....

“Yahshua took away the law of adultery”

What am i talking about??

It goes back to:

 Yirmeyahu 3:8-10 cjb p 549

“I had sent her away and given her a divorce document

 ... even though we have all whored... Yahshua drank the cup that the adulterer would have drunk.

Who drinks the cupof adultery for us....  The very thing that we deserve...

In the spiritual realm we are all adulterers....  been whoring in the nations ; been pagan!

Colossians 2:15-18  cjb p 1471

 Yahshua made a public spectacle of those demons who want to take us out... triumphing over them...  

vs 16.... so let now no one judge you in food or drink of festival or sabbath...

--This has been so taken out of context!!!

-- Remember -  the collosals are into pagan astral deities...

and so.... Rav Shaul is saying do not let the community of pagans judge you b/c you are keeping his laws...   let the body of Messiah - the Torah judge you.. don’t let the pagan community judge you....  

And christians keep trying to make this about ... nobody can judge what they eat....  !!!

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Our memorial is that we eat unleavened bread, lamb , herbs... and drink of the cups...

And we remember what YHWH did for His people  and how Mashiach fulfilled the spring feasts... 

And we can can go to Yesha’yahu /Isaiah  53...  

Now keep in mind that Jews have used unleavened bread for thousands of years... 

pierced and stripped for our transgressions...  

Amein !  Praise YHWH!!