Hi gang! Yesterday I introduced a look into the Spring feasts celebrated by Jews. We are approaching Passover, so I want to spend this week examining this important Jewish celebration. In Jewish culture, preparation for the Passover (Pesach) actually begins a full month beforehand, just after the festival of Purim. Since no leavened bread is …
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Looking Toward the Spring Feasts
Nissan 1 is the beginning of the Biblical new year, at the first appearance of the "new moon." To understand Hebrew dates, you must understand that the Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar (versus the solar, Gregorian calendar used by the majority of the world). Though I won't go into great detail about how the …
A Closer Look at Passover, Unleavened Bread and First Fruits
For Christians, we have just celebrated the most important day of the year: Resurrection Sunday. Christ is risen, and if that were not true, Christianity would crumble. We base our celebration on the Biblical accounts of Jesus’s death, burial and resurrection, which is succinctly wrapped up in this passage: For I delivered to you as of first …
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Jesus in the Passover
Hi friends! Yesterday (April 3, 2015) at sundown marked the beginning of the Jewish Passover, celebrated as a remembrance of God's deliverance of them from Egyptian slavery. It is a seven day feast that also includes the Feast of Unleavened Bread. These feasts have "Jesus" written all over them, as they are pictures of Jesus …
Looking for the Blessed Hope 