Passover notes and a letter written to GF in 2009 regarding Passover.
5th April 2022
Following notes were written by Mr E Lofton.
PASSOVER CONSIDERATIONS;
The original Passover was commanded by God to the ancient Israelites for the purpose of their deliverance from bondage in Egypt. It was also commanded as a yearly reminder of His delivering their firstborn from death, which was the last plague He brought upon the Egyptians to force them to allow the Israelites to leave Egypt. The New Testament Passover (discussed later) will have much the same meaning. The historical record of this event is described in the Bible, therefore, let’s review those scriptures that apply best to the instructions for observing the Passover.
EXODUS 12:3 — ….In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: (No longer required as explained later).
LEVITICUS 23:5 – In the fourteenth “day” of the first month at even is the Lord’s Passover.
NUMBERS 28:16 – And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of the Lord.
EXODUS 12:6 – And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
Note: This is where the confusion begins and is best explained by a quote of the word
“evening” from the Easton Bible Dictionary. “EVENING the period following sunset
with which the Jewish day began (Genesis 1:5; Mark 1:32; 13:35). The Hebrews
reckoned two evenings of each day, as appears from Exodus 16:12; 30:8; 12:6; Leviticus
23:5 [marg. R.V., “between the two evenings”]. The ‘first evening’ was that period
when the sun was verging toward setting (afternoon), and the ‘second evening’ the
moment of actual sunset.” The margin of most “Authorized versions” of the Bible
literally translates the Hebrew expression “in the evening” as meaning “between the two
evenings.” Most Bible translations of Leviticus 23:5 read “at twilight”, but some
read “even”, “dusk” or “between the two evenings”. Most Commentaries accept this as well.
Still others contend that there is only one “even” or “evening” in each day and that is at sunset. Also, that “up until” in Exodus 12:6 means at the beginning of the day. Then considering Exodus 12:18 we would keep the feast only until the sunset of the 20th day as it reads “until” the one and twentieth day. Then we would not have seven days of unleavened bread unless we considered the 14th, which we know as “preparation day”. . (More on this on page 7—“Between the Two Evenings”, the definition of Strong’s Word #3317 on page 3 and statements from others on page 6)
The JFB Commentary reads, “at the going down of the sun—lit., between the evenings. The first of the two evenings began with the declining of the sun (late afternoon) and terminated at sunset; and the second, which commenced then, continued beyond it. The time appointed for killing the Passover was between them. Hence, according to the rabbinical traditions, the proper time for the killing of the paschal lamb was the interval between the ninth and the eleventh hour—equivalent to our three and five o’clock P.M. In the early period of their history the Hebrews had no proper divisions of time, and accordingly periods of the day were indicated in a very loose and general manner. On the republication of the law the time was definitely fixed at sunset (Deut. 16:6). But the Israelites did not consider themselves bound by that expression to wait till sunset; and hence, availing themselves of the latitude which the use of the general term, (evening) afforded, they were accustomed to kill the paschal lamb an hour or two before that period.” (Exod. 12:6)
We also find in the writings of Josephus, “The Wars of the Jews”, Book 6, Chpt. 9, Sec. 3: “So these high priests, upon the coming of that feast which is called the Passover, when they slay their sacrifices, from the ninth hour till the eleventh, but so that a company not less than ten belong to every sacrifice…….”
The Israelites were very loose in their perception of time, not having the mechanisms for accurate observation that we have today. This can be noted by the JFB reference as to “rabbinical traditions”.
Please see the Bibles definition of “Between the Two Evenings” on page 7.
Note: The Bible makes clear that the Passover is the fourteenth day of Nisan and the only specification as to time is at “even” or “in the evening.” There seems to be a difference of opinion as to which evening is proper to observe the Passover! Matthew 27:45-46; Mark 15:33-34; Luke 23:44-46 tell me that Christ died about the ninth hour or about 3 P.M. Luke 23:54 and Mark 15:42 also tell us that it was preparation day and the Sabbath drew on. Also, John 19:31 tells us the same thing and that the next day was a “high day.” These things being noted then Christ would have died about the same time as the paschal lambs were in the original observances. The Israelites observed the Passover as a yearly reminder that Christ delivered their firstborn from death in Egypt. Today, we observe the Passover as a yearly reminder of our being delivered from the penalty of death through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, who became our Passover “Lamb” (John 1:29), as well.
Please note “What Are Our Present Truths” later for more on this.
I CORINTHIANS 11:23-28 — For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, “Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.” After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, “This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do proclaim the Lord’s death till he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
Note: We memorialize Christ’s suffering (vs. 24) and death (vv, 25_26) by our Passover observance. Christ was crucified at about 9 A.M. (Mark 15:25) and then he died at about 3 P.M. (Matt. 27:46; Mark 15:34) and therefore endured about six hours alive on the cross. Note also that one must examine themselves to be purified before partaking of the Passover (Ezra 6:20). More on this later.
MATTHEW 28:1 – In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher.
MARK 16:1-2 – And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene , and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulcher at the rising of the sun. ( See at the rising of the sun, The LORD has already risen. That means He would have died in the evening, before the rising of the sun, THREE days earlier. The LORD should die, as the Passover LAMB at even. So HE DID. Only three hours to the sunset was left for His burial. If we know what time The LORD died, that is when the Passover should be sacrificed. But since He Had to be buried, and some was necessary to do that, He died 3 hours before the sunset. )
LUKE 24:1 – Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices, which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
NOTE: Now Luke 24:6-8 tell of how Christ had risen and of his words of how he would be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth (Matthew 12:40). So Christ must have risen on the weekly Sabbath about the time of the evening that he had died on three days earlier, which would have been a Wednesday and the Passover (the 14th of Nisan).
JOHN 19:14 – And it was the preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
NOTE: It was the day Christ was crucified and at the sixth hour (noon) it was still “preparation” time for the Passover. (They were still removing leaven)
JOHN 18:28 — Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the Passover. (not wanting to be defiled by gentiles or a dead body)
JOHN 19:31 – The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, (for that Sabbath day was a high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
The high priests did not want to defile themselves on this day as the next day was a “high day”, being the first day of unleavened bread (Exodus 12:16). Christ would have kept the Passover at the beginning of the 14th day as He died at the time the lambs were slain. (See Mark 14:12).
Please see the remarks about that time starting at Mark 15:42 at the very top of page 8 and following.
Jesus said to take the Passover in remembrance of Him—not necessarily when He did.
MATTHEW 26:17 — Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the Passover?
MARK 14:1 – After two days was the feast of the Passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
LUKE 22:1 – Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
LUKE 22:7—Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the Passover must be killed.
MARK 14:12 – And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the Passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the Passover?
so this would have had to be at the end of the 13th or shortly thereafter for the betrayal, trial, crucifixion, death and burial to have all occurred before the first day of unleavened bread, which began at the evening of the fourteenth. (More about this on
pages 5 and 6)
NOTE #1: The Israelites removed the leaven from their houses on the day before the Sabbath, which was called the preparation of the Passover (John 19:14; Mark 15:42) or preparation day. It began on the fourteenth day of the first moon, in the first month, Nisan, and lasted only one day, it being the 24 hr. day for removing all the leaven from their houses; but at even was the feast of the Passover and of unleavened bread (Mark 14:1 above), which were seven (Exod. 12:15; Lev. 23:6), so that the whole lasted eight days, and all the eight days are sometimes called the feast of the Passover, and sometimes the feast or days of unleavened bread (Luke 22:1, 7, 2:41; Acts 12:3-4).
NOTE #2: Leviticus 23:5 tells us that the Passover is the 14th and vs. 6 tells us that the Feast of Unleavened Bread is the 15th. This being noted, Matthew 26:17 and Mark 14:12 have always been a stumbling block to understanding Passover observance. Any attempt to include the days of unleavened bread to Passover will only result in conflict with other scriptures. It should not be difficult to accept that the Israelites called the day for removing leaven from the houses as a day of unleavened bread.
UNDERSTANDING THE WORD “DAY”
Like the words “even” and “evening” as discussed previously, the word “day” has led to various interpretation of scripture, which this article intends to express. The word “day” is expressed several times in the OT and almost all are Strong’s Word #3117 and means: to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether lit. (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), etc.
NOTE: Two time periods are expressed.
The Thomas Nelson Publishers King James Study Bible reads:
“The word “day” used in the first two chapters of Genesis is used to describe these various periods of time:
- Describe the days of creation (Gen. 1:5,8,13,19,23,31).
- Describe the 12 hour period of daylight as opposed to night (Gen. 1:14, 16, 18).
- Describe a solar day of 24 hours (Gen. 1:14). (Also Gen. 1:5,8,13,19,23,31).
- The period of light that began with the creation of light on the first day (vs. 5).
5. The entire six day creative period (Gen. 2:4).
Everywhere in the Pentateuch the word ‘day’ when used with a definite article or numerical adjective means a solar day or a normally calibrated, 24-hour day. Thus, the biblical account of Creation clearly indicates that God created the world in six literal days (Exod. 20:11).”
NOTE #1: By examination of the scriptures in Genesis explaining creation, we can see that the above description of these days is accurate. Also, point 1 and 5 are no longer applicable to the present. Point 2 and 4 both pertain to a 12-hour period of light called “day” (John 11:9). Point 3 then pertains to the 24-hour period of time that God also referred to as a “day”. Therefore, these are the only two periods of time that God called “day” that need our consideration and this agrees with the definition of Strongs’ Word #3117 on page 3.
NOTE #2: First there was darkness and then light and God said, “the evening and the morning were the first day (24 hours)”. Our solar days of 24-hours still start in darkness, after the sun has set and end when the sun sets again (Gen. 1:5,8,13,19,23,31). When God created the light he also called that period of the 24-hour solar day “day” (as in daytime) and the remainder of that time he called night (Gen. 1:5). By separating the darkness by the light we were given signs for seasons, and for days, and years (Gen. 1:14), such as our 365 day year.
NOTE #3: If there were only one “even” then both the 24-hour and the 12-hour day would be easily identifiable as all end at the same time (sunset). But we will prove that there are “two” evens mentioned in the Bible and along with two different periods of time called “day” there exists much disagreement as to the meaning of scripture. First, if the scripture speaks of a time starting after sunset it will pertain to a solar 24-hour day, but if it speaks of a time starting in the morning it pertains to a 12-hour day of daylight. Still, if it says “at even” it can pertain to a “twilight even” or a “sunset even” and then we encounter more disagreement. The only way to arrive at the proper conclusion is by other scriptures [here a little, there a little (Isa. 28:10, 13)], or by divine inspiration. (John 14:6; 17:17)
DEUTERONOMY 16:6 – But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name
in, there thou shalt sacrifice the Passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season
that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
“At the season” indicates the month and day but not necessarily the precise hour.” Deut. 16:6 – JFB)
NOTE: The season that the Israelites came out of Egypt was NIGHT (Deuteronomy 16:1).
“In the early period of their history the Hebrews had no proper divisions of time, and accordingly periods of the day were indicated in a very loose and general manner, (Gen. 15:12; 43:16). ‘Between the evenings’ is a phrase of similar import, denoting the part of the day between the declining and the setting sun, or between noon and sunset. As the slaughtering of the numerous victims required would of necessity occupy a considerable time, no particular hour was specified, farther than that the operation should be performed ‘between the evenings.’ But in order to be within the limits defined, it was necessary that it should be begun and completed between the commencement of the first and the termination of the second evening. On the republication of the law the time was definitely fixed at sunset (Deut. 16:6). But the Israelites did not consider themselves bound by that expression to wait till sunset; and hence, availing themselves of the latitude which the use of the general term, ‘ereb (evening) afforded, they were accustomed to kill the paschal lamb an hour or two before that period (Lightfoot). But the Pharisees and the Rabbinists taught that the paschal lamb was to be killed in the interval between the ninth and eleventh hour. Josephus states that such was the practice of the Jews in the time of our Lord.” (Exod. 12:6 – JFB)
GENESIS 1:5: And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
NOTE: …..And the evening and the morning were the first day. This is not referring to a 12-hour daytime but to a 24-hour solar day.
NOTE: The evening was the time of darkness and continued until God created the light, which God called “Day” in the first part of verse 5 and morning in the latter part. This time of light God called day was 12 hours in length (John 11:9). Therefore, night time would be 12 hours also, making a 24 hour time which God also called day (Gen. 1:5; 14).
NOTICE: Until this first day, there would NOT have been a twilight evening or an afternoon evening and yet there would have been a full 24 hour time that the earth would make a complete rotation. This is how God used the elements to divide time. Man now considers that evening starts midway through the daylight time as the sun is declining. Therefore, we have 12 hours of darkness followed by 12 hours called day of which six hours is called morning and six hours evening (afternoon). It seems to me that God gave us an identifiable way to determine time but man would extend the time to best fill his needs.
JOHN 11:9 — Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
GENESIS 1:5: And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
NOTE #1: First there was darkness (Gen. 1:2, 4) and THEN there was light. The DARKNESS WAS CALLED “EVENING” and then the light was called “morning”, but the two combined was called a “solar day” of 24-hours. In Genesis 1:5 the word “day” was first called the 12-hour time of light (John 11:9) and then the 24-hour time “the first day” (from even unto even—Lev. 23:32–following). Notice also, at this time there could have been no afternoon evening or twilight evening either and yet God called the darkness and then the light “the first day.” Therefore, to say it was even, then night and then day would not be correct. We came out of spiritual darkness and not BEFORE. Israel came out by night (Deut. 16:1).
NOTE #2: FIRST THERE WAS DARKNESS, THEN LIGHT AND THEN EVENING.
EXODUS 13:4 – This day came ye out in the month of Abib.
This day must indicate a solar 24-hour day as they came out of Egypt at night (Deut. 16:1).
EXODUS 14:30 – Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.
This occurred during the morning watch (3 a.m. to dawn—night) (Exodus 14:24).
EXODUS 12:18 – In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
NOTICE: Here we are given the exact time to eat the unleavened bread. We observe the Passover during the twilight even of the 14th,, which is shortly before sunset and ends at sunset. Then after sunset begins the 15th, which is the first day of unleavened bread (Lev. 23:6).
Please see the remarks about that time starting at Mark 15:42 at the top of page 8 and following.
LEVITICUS 23:6 – And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
LEVITICUS 23:5 – In the fourteenth “day” of the first month at even is the Lord’s Passover.
EXODUS 12:6 – And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
NOTE #1: Some suggest that the word “day” in Exodus 12:6 refers to the light time of the fourteenth day of Nisan that pertains to Passover observance. Also, “ that the day starts in the evening—then night follows—then morning light—which is called day and use Genesis 1:5 to support this sequence (probably because God called the darkness “evening” in Genesis 1:5). First it was evening and night of the day. Then light of the day–the morning hours. Therefore 24 hour day started from—evening time. Day one of sacred year starts in the evening. That time is called the evening—then night follows—then morning light—which is called day—(Gen. 1:5 – And God called the light day) – 14th day is then the morning after even of 14th.”
Now those who make this contention agree that the “day” for unleavened bread begins after sunset of the 14th (proven by Exod. 12:18; Leviticus 23:6) but are telling us that the “day” in Leviticus 23:5 (which is a companion scripture and pertains to the same time as Exodus 12:6) pertains to a daylight time. By our understanding of the word “even” as it appears in Exodus 12:18 and the remarks in Note #3 following, this statement seems unfounded.
NOTE #2: Some say that, “when the scripture says 1st day—it is the morning hours of the 1st. Yet we look at Genesis 1:5; Lev. 23:7; Matt. 28:1; John 20:1 and find that these “1st days” refer to the 24-hr. solar day that starts at the sunset even. Note that the word “1st” used here pertains to a “numerical adjective” indicating a 24-hour day as expressed at the top of page 4.
All seem to agree that the days of unleavened bread start after sunset of the 14th of Abib on the 15th (proven by Exod. 12:18; Lev. 23:6; Num. 28:1). We are told to eat unleavened bread for seven days (Exod. 12:15; 13:6,7; 23:15; 34:18; Lev. 23:6). However, some believe that the counting of the seven days is to begin on the 14th day at sunrise—not the 15th. This is derived from the use of the word “day” as it appears in Leviticus 23:5, 6 meaning as it would be at sunrise.
NOTE #3: From our explanation of the word “Day” starting on page 3, we have shown that God created only two times that refer to this description. The only time period that started with light was a 12-hour period. If we were to apply that as a starting point for the seven days of unleavened bread, then we would be allowed to eat leavened bread during the night.
EXODUS 12:15, 19 – Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread….. Then is night time alright?
WHAT ARE OUR PRESENT TRUTHS?
PASSOVER:
The Assembly has noted to us Leviticus 23:32 (following), which has given us understanding as to the Bible’s meaning of the word “even” as it pertains to the Day of Atonement. Verse 27 tells us that the 10th is the Day of Atonement, which starts at the even of the ninth (vs. 32) and therefore when we apply this understanding to Leviticus 23:5 (following), we understand that we should keep the Passover on the evening of the 14th and not the 13th as has been the churches past observance.
LEVITICUS 23:27 – Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
LEVITICUS 23:32 – It shall be unto you a Sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even (Atonement), from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.
NOTE #1: It is significant to note that the word “day” as used in Leviticus 23:32 is not identified by Strong’s Concordance.
NOTE #2: The expression “even unto even” indicates a full 24-hour day, which means from sunset until sunset as previously discussed. It then becomes clear that the word “even” as it applies to the ninth day in Leviticus 23:27 for the Day of Atonement refers to the time from the end of the ninth to the end of the tenth and not a “twilight even”.
LEVITICUS 23:5 – In the fourteenth “day” of the first month at even is the Lord’s Passover. (Also Ezek. 45:21).
NUMBERS 28:16 – And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of the Lord. (Note Numbers 28:17 pertains to the days of unleavened bread.
EXODUS 12:6 – And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. (thus attributed to the entire house of Israel)
NOTE: “in the evening” is often translated as “between the two evenings”. (See Note on page 1)
DEUTERONOMY 16:6 – But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name
in, there thou shalt sacrifice the Passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season
that thou camest forth out of Egypt. (This appears to be before sunset—the first even).
NOTE: “At the going down of the sun” is the exact expression that the JFB Commentary uses to identify the term “between the two evenings”, which describes a first evening (page 1) as does I Samuel 30:17 following. Therefore, it concludes that the definition of “even” for the observation of the Passover refers to the “twilight even” of the 14th.
LET THE BIBLE DEFINE “BETWEEN THE TWO EVENINGS”:
I SAMUEL 30:17 – And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled. (The evening of a day is a sunset even) The evening of the next day here could mean a short while or a 24-hour period, but it doesn’t matter as we have identified a “twilight even”, and we know there is a “sunset even” (page 1 and the following). (See also Mark 1:32; 15:42 following)
NOTE: THEREFORE, THE BIBLE REVEALS THAT THERE IS A “TWILIGHT EVEN OR EVENING” AS OPPOSED TO THE “SUNSET EVEN OR EVENING”.
PROVERBS 7:9 – In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night
Twilight is Strong’s Word #5399 and means dusk (when the evening breeze prevails):–dark,
dawning of the day (morning), night, twilight.
Webster defines dusk: to become dark: to make dark or gloomy: the darkest part of twilight esp.
at night: darkness or semidarkness caused by the shutting out of light
NOTE: Twilight even, dusk would not appear to mean in the middle of the afternoon. Also, please see the SPECIAL NOTICE following.
GENESIS 1:5 – And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
We have long understood that the day begins at evening, when the sun goes down below the horizon and thus God has designated a specific time for dividing the days (Gen. 1:14). Notice that evening here started as “darkness” as there would have been no light before the darkness and that is when God said that was the first day. Therefore, evening means darkness unless referring to a twilight evening time.
LEVITICUS 22:7 – And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
MARK 1:32 – And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.
Note: One day ended and another began, “when the sun did set,” as the people thought it was illegal for Christ to heal on the Sabbath. (See also Luke 4:40: Christ would heal on the Sabbath, but the people thought it was illegal). The Bible expresses a “twilight even” (I Samuel 30:17) and we have identified a “sunset even”, so “between the evenings” would be between these two times–these being the only two evenings identified in the Bible. It appears that the Israelites were loose with their observation of what scripture tells us and what they observed, thus confirming their times of observance as “rabbinical traditions” as the JFB states.
MATTHEW 26:5 – But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
MARK 14:2 – But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
Notice: The word ”day” was not in the original scriptures but read, “Not during the festival.” Also, anyone who touched a dead body was defiled and could not take the Passover (Num. 9:6,7,10).
MARK 15:42: And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, (See Luke 23:53-54 following)
We are told that before Christ was buried that evening had come—it was preparation day—the day before the Sabbath (the evening here would have been the first evening because it was still preparation day as mentioned above and the Jews must have considered sunset as the Sabbath, being the first day of unleavened bread).
LUKE 23:53-54 – And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in the sepulcher that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. And that day was the preparation, and the Sabbath drew on.
NOTE: This tells us that after Christ was placed in the tomb that it was still preparation day and before the Sabbath, even though the even had come (Mark 15:42 above).
NOTE: ALL THIS MEANING THAT THE FIRST EVENING HAD COME, BUT THE JEWS REGARDED SUNSET AS THE END OF ONE DAY AND THE BEGINNING OF THE NEXT AND, THEREFORE, THE SABBATH HAD NOT YET COME EVEN THOUGH THE FIRST EVENING HAD COME.
SPECIAL NOTICE: CHRIST DIED ABOUT 3 P.M. IN THE AFTERNOON AND THESE ISRAELITES DID NOT RECOGNIZE THE SABBATH AS HAVING COME EVEN AFTER OBTAINING THE BODY, WRAPPING IT IN LINEN AND TRANSPORTING IT TO THE TOMB!!!!!!!!!
PASSOVER PICTURES CHRIST’S SACRIFICE:
The Passover instituted with the Israelites in Egypt was only a foreshadow of the sacrifice that Jesus Christ was to make to redeem us from the penalty of death. Once that sacrifice became a reality, Christ changed the symbols to reflect the reality. Christ first instituted the taking of the bread and wine, which were to symbolically represent his body and blood that was shed for us, instead of shedding the blood of a lamb and eating it (Matt. 26:26-29; Mark 14:22-25; Luke 22:17-20: I Cor. 11:23-26). Christ became our Passover lamb (I Cor. 5:7). Partaking of the unleavened bread, representing Christ’s body, was to show our willingness to allow Christ to live in us and to be obedient to him. Partaking of the wine, representing Christ’s shed blood, was to receive the forgiveness of our sins (Heb. 9:22) and to become reconciled to God (having been separated because of our transgressions—Rom. 5:10). Christ has told us that when he sees the blood (we accepting the blood) he will pass over (Exod. 12:13). Christ then instituted the act of humility (the footwashing—John 13) to prepare the believer’s mind to the fact that Christ died for us and that we also should have a servants attitude for one another as Christ had for us. This ordinance was to be perpetuated every Passover until Christ returns when we shall see him as he is (I Cor. 11:26; I John 3:2).
NOTE: Observance today should be kept accordingly to the instruction given to Moses, with the exception of the changes that Christ made, which would include any new understanding.
EXODUS 12:8 – And they shall eat the flesh in that night (14th), roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with biter herbs they shall eat it.
NOTE: The Lord’s Passover meal (vs. 11) was eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Adam Clark Commentary:
Four things were required in the first Passover that were never required afterwards:
1. The eating of the lamb in their houses dispersed through Goshen.
2. The taking of the lamb on the tenth day.
- The striking of its blood on the doorposts and lintels of their houses.
- Their eating it in haste. These things were not required of the succeeding generations.
These things were no longer necessary as Jesus Christ had became our Passover lamb and His sacrifice was sufficient for all time.
Notice: These were the only changes Christ made to Passover observance. There being no changes made as to time. Therefore, we should observe this Feast in all other respects according to the original instructions given to the Israelites.
However, Christ did give us a new commandment after the Passover service, as he was foretelling of his betrayal, and that was that the brethren should love one another (John 13:34).
THE PASSOVER OBSERVANCE:
Having purified ourselves by self examination according to I Corinthians 11:28 we are to begin the solemn observance of Passover. The Assembly suggests that we should begin our service about a half hour before sunset, remind ourselves about the Passover, then pray and begin the ceremony. This all seems to agree with our interpretation of scripture as presented in “What Are Our Present Truths”? The Assembly again reminds us that the foot washing should be done after taking the symbols of Passover. Also, that we have already passed over by knowing the True God and, therefore, not necessary to read scripture. We should review the scriptures so that we can understand it better.
MATTHEW 26:26 – And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it,
and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
MARK 14:22 – And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to
them, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
LUKE 22:20 – Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my
blood, which is shed for you. (Matt. 26:27; Mark 14:23)
JOHN 13:2 – And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas
Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him;
JOHN 13:4 – He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded
himself.
MATTHEW 26:30 – And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
NOTE: It does become obvious that the taking of the Passover symbols were observed during or immediately after supper, while the foot washing occurred later when they had risen from supper.
NIGHT TO BE MUCH OBSERVED:
Passover service having ended, the hymn having been sung and sunset having come, it becomes the 15th of Nisan and time to celebrate this night.
EXODUS 12:41-42 – And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. It is a night to be much observed unto the Lord for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the Lord to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
EXODUS 12:51 – And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
EXODUS 12:42 (NIV) – Because the Lord kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the Lord for the generations to come.
DEUTERONOMY 16:4 – And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven
days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even,
remain all night until the morning.
NOTE #1: “This night commemorates the Israelites walking out of Egypt by night (Deuteronomy 16:1). Each Israelite clearly understood that had there not been a Passover night, they would not have been able to leave Egypt on the night of the 15th. This night has special meaning for God’s people today as it celebrates our being spiritually delivered from Egypt—a type of sin (Hebrews 11:24-27). Christ, “our Passover” (I Cor. 5:7), has delivered us from the bitter slavery of sin” (PCG).
NOTE #2: We should note in Deut. 16:4 that the remains of the lambs that were not eaten were to be destroyed in this night and not remain until morning. Since we symbolize the unleavened bread as the body of Christ (flesh) and that was used in our Passover service that should also be destroyed before morning.
This is the beginning of our spiritual lives and because of Christ’s sacrifice we should celebrate this night with much gratitude in recognition of the greatness of God..
FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD:
EXODUS 12:18 – In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
NOTE: Here is days of unleavened bread in very plain language. The language here is very similar to Leviticus 23:32 (page 6), which speaks of the Day of Atonement, except there is the expression “from even unto even”, which speaks of a 24-hour period of time, as it does here, and we recognize as being from “sunset to sunset”. This seven-day period of time would then be from the setting of the sun on the 14th until it sets again on the 21st. This would NOT refer then to the “twilight even”. If you observe the eating of unleavened bread during this period of time, you will NOT be cut off from Israel (Exodus 12:15, 19).
LEVITICUS 23:6 – And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
NUMBERS 28:17 – And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
NUMBERS 33:3 – And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the Passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
DEUTERONOMY 16:4 – And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven
days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even,
remain all night until the morning.
EXODUS 12:17-18 – And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance forever. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
NOTE: Unleavened bread pictures our coming out of sin as the Israelites came out of Egypt, a symbol for sin. It also pictures our being obedient to Christ and keeping the commandments. Leaven is also another symbol for sin (Matt. 16:6; 11-12; Luke 12:1). Seven is a number denoting completeness or perfection and the seven days of the Feast remind us that God wants us to put sin completely out of our lives. We rededicate out lives to continual spiritual growth and overcoming. Remembering not to eat leavened products and eating unleavened bread each day during the seven days is a constant reminder for spiritual growth by keeping our minds on the meaning.
Therefore the 15th and 21st are the first and last days of unleavened bread to be observed. These are the seven days that unleavened bread is to be observed.
DEUTERONOMY 16:1 – Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
Note: This verse is apparently at variance with (Exodus 12:22) where the Israelites were commanded to remain in their houses until morning, however, the Egyptians were urgent (force, prevail ,seize) upon the Israelites to leave their land in haste (Exodus 12:33) and it does appear that they traveled to and gathered at Rameses that night for their houses were in the land of Goshen and Numbers 33:3; Exodus 12:37 tell us that they departed from Rameses on the morrow after the Passover (this was the 15th) . Notice the following.
NUMBERS 33:3 – And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the Passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
Note 1: Actually, the Israelites only traveled to Rameses (still in Egypt) on this night. Now the letter of the law followers will contend that they would have stayed in their houses until dawn (Exodus 12:22) but then they could not have gathered in Rameses by morning (Numbers 33:3). Also, the Egyptians were “urgent” and we aren’t told what pressure may have been placed upon the Israelites. What would we do if the Egyptians had set fire to our house while we were still in it that night? Does not God allow for these things when it is beyond our control? Extenuating circumstances promote faith in those who know their God. God sometimes speaks of things as if they had already occurred.
Note 2: Now lets examine these events spiritually. The Israelites came out of darkness (night) into the light (morrow) and they feared the Lord (Exodus 14:31). They trusted in the blood and struck it on the doorposts. They were obedient and ate the flesh with unleavened bread that night, followed God through the Red Sea and then God saved them from the Egyptians (Exodus 14:30). God protected the ancient Israelites from physical death through a symbol—the blood of these lambs. This was symbolic of the blood of Christ , the “Lamb of God” (John 1:29), which would be shed much later to make possible the spiritual salvation of mankind. Therefore, by their obedience, the Israelites were spiritually delivered from Egypt (a type of sin and a separation from God) the night that they left their homes in Goshen. Again, sometimes God speaks of things He does as if they were already completed.
Note 3: However, we are told in Exodus 14:24 that the Israelites crossed the Red Sea in the morning watch (by night—between 3 A.M. and dawn) and came to the opposite shore on the morrow of the seventh day of unleavened bread and there was great rejoicing on the last day of unleavened bread.
THIS IS MY PRESENT UNDERSTANDING.
E. Earl Lofton
Following letter was written to Gerald Flurry in 2009 by Mr D Fisher.
Mr. Gearld Flurry
PCOG
PO Box 3700
Edmond, Ok 73083
Dear Mr. Flurry:
Following is a writing prepared by a true servant and witness of Jesus Christ from a study of GOD’S Word about the Passover and comparing to church leader’s writings. The Word of God shows that we have not been keeping the Passover correctly over the years, and this is why Christ said that He will not eat of it till the kingdom comes, or till He comes… There has to be a reason why that Christ our Lord would say something like that.
There is no doubt a lot more to be restored than just eighteen or nineteen truths. If this article is true, then no one in (ISRAEL) PCOG can Passover to the spiritual mountain of God, and thus, no one can receive the salvation, (the kingdom is taken from you and those who follow you and is given to others).
I am concerned for you and my brothers, but more importantly, our great God, Jesus Christ is concerned for His family. I truly hope as the prophet in God's church, you would prove all these and correct the matter, or correct me. I pray to Christ our Lord, that He may open all our eyes to the truth. If this was not important, I would not have sent this to you… As the Passover season is coming soon, we all need to know the truth. I hope you would give your valuable time and read this….In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, His true servant…. Dennis Fisher.
PO Box 542
Altoona, IA 50009
Would CHRIST be present in your Passover ???
26the Jan 2009
GOD’S church has been eating bread with leaven on Passover. Do they keep it on the correct day? Then, why did CHRIST say He will not eat or drink it till the kingdom comes. That means, He was not present in any of the Passover days till He comes to set up the kingdom. HWA taught that we can eat bread with leaven on Passover. Could we really eat ? Have we kept the correct days according to GOD’s ordinances? What does it mean coming out of Egypt the second time? Unless we learn the truth about Passover, we could never come out of Egypt…
CHRIST said, He will not eat the Passover till the kingdom comes. What does that mean? This writing would prove that HE was not present in any of the Passover services His true church has been keeping because they were keeping it on the wrong day, and eating bread with leaven. Since leaven is a type of sin, we have been keeping the Passover WITH SIN, whereas we are to keep it to get rid of sin. This is why CHRIST was not a part of the Passover all these years. As CHRIST Has come, He is teaching the true ways to worship Him. Just think…. If we do not keep the Passover properly the way GOD Has ordained, we will not Passover or be free of sin. Then, we cannot keep the Unleavened bread either. Then, we will not be accepted as a church and therefore no Pentecost. No atonement, no trumpets, no feast of tabernacles… no redemption. GOD says the harvest came but no one is saved. Why ??? Jer 8: 20. The church has been teaching false doctrines. This is why CHRIST, Himself Had to come AT THE COMPLETION of the age and to finish the works. Coming out of Egypt means, getting rid of all these false teachings and learn the truth and keep it sincerely, purely, and worship the ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD in truth.
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HWA taught that ;…
1. One can eat leavened bread on the day of the Passover.
2. And Israel left Egypt on the 15th night , day after the Passover.
3. Also, he wrote that the Passover is not the day which GOD ordained as a memorial but the first day of Unleavened bread.
4. Israel spoiled the Egyptians during the day time of 14th.
(Pagan holidays pg 9). ….. “Israel did not go out from the land of Egypt until that night – the 15th”… … even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out of the land of Egypt. This is that night of the LORD to be observed..”…. Which is the night to be observed? The night they came out of Egypt. They went out of Egypt, not during the day time the 14th, but after that day had ended – after the sun had set – the following night – on the 15th of abib. And that night, the 15th, is to be observed. … … and this night was the 15th, not the 14th.
Notice now, Num 33: 3… “and they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the Passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians. … there it is in plain language…
Then he continues to prove that Israel left Egypt on the 15th, day after the Passover. According to him, On the 14th, day light, they spoiled Egypt … and it took time to do all these… it could not have been done after midnight etc.
Pg 10…”They did not leave Egypt until after that day eneded – after nightfall again, during the night part of the fifteenth.” }}}… Now, is this true ? did they leave on the night part of the FIFTEENTH? We must prove all things.
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Exo. 12: 18… “on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat Unleavened bread, until the 21st even….}}}… Does that sounds the Unleavened bread begins on the 15th??? if the Passover is to come out of sin, can we have sin ( eat bread with leaven ) on the day we are to come out ???
What does Passover mean ??? That means coming out… passing over. They are to Passover, or to come out on the 14th, the same night the Passover is eaten and celebrated. It is “LORD’S” passing over, and people coming out, … but now, spiritually. 1 Cor 5: 7…we must put old leaven… old sins which we have being defiled by the teachings of a dead man, … and be UNLEAVENED “ourselves” as ‘CHRIST ” our Passover is sacrificed for us… as v 8 says… NOW, to come out SPIRITUALLY, we must get rid of the leaven of malice and wickedness… and have sincerity of TRUTH. If Apostle Paul says we must get rid of ‘MALICE AND WICKEDNESS” then the old leaven is malice and wickedness. “Malice’ means “depravity” and “wickedness that is not ashamed to BREAK LAWS”. It is those who have the Law, only could break it. The Scripture says, there are liars in the end of the Philadelphia era. The synagogue of satan. Then, they do not have sincerity and truth. THAT IS WHEN THE GENTILES ARE TO HAVE SINCERITY AND TRUTH. This is why the Gentiles are told to come out of… from false teachings… we are to not to waver from the gospel which Apostle Paul preached.
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One must remember, “Apostle Paul” is the apostle for “gentiles”, and he was chosen and called and trained by CHRIST our LORD PERSONALLY in the desert of Arabia, to teach these doctrines AFTER THE Jews FAILED. AND IT IS TO BE FULFILLED AFTER THE LAST CHURCH BECAME THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN AND Laodicean. This is why NOW, WE ARE BEING TAUGHT BY CHRIST ABOUT SINCERITY AND TRUTH. And we are to share it with others.
CHRIST turned to Gentiles after His own rejected. The history repeats…. The "Times of Gentiles" proves so.
Remember, GOD commanded His people to COME OUT from Babylon.? But all Israel failed to come out. HWA NAMED GOD’s CHURCH UNDER HIS NAME AS PROVEN. Only the Gentiles ( Isa. 56, and 2 Cor 6: 17 – 18 ) came out. Mainly the two witnesses… they came out, by the blood of the Lamb … all Israel are defiled by the dead body of HWA, as they keep Passover on the wrong day, according to his teachings. How could it be “LORD’S” Passover when you keep it on the wrong day and eat leavened bread on Passover???
He says;…. “Which is the night to be observed? The night they came out of Egypt”…. }}}… Now, he has written, that the night to be observed is the night, they came out of Egypt. That is the Passover. THAT IS CORRECT. But in pg 10;..
Here is what HWA wrote in (‘Pagan holidays”) pg 10;..(Note the high lighted)
“What day is established as a memorial – not a shadow a memorial – a feast – to be kept forever ?? Notice , it is the day that is the feast – “Ye shall keep it a feast” . It is the day that is the feast day – the 15th abib, NOT the 14th – not the Passover” … …
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pg 11… “Many have always believed the day here spoken of, and ordained forever, was the Passover, or 14th , but it is not – it is the 15th day “ }}}… NOW, THIS IS NOT TRUE… THIS IS OLD LEAVEN which we have already gotten rid of.
Here are the two statements again…;
Which is the night to be observed? The night they came out of Egypt”….
the 15th abib, NOT the 14th – not the Passover…
Is it really the 15th night that GOD ordained ??? On the 15th, is the first day of the Unleavened bread. Is it the feast of Unleavened bread, which GOD ordained?? If you give less importance to the Passover and to say the Unleavened bread is more important, you put down the GREATEST SACRIFICE CHRIST offered for us to Passover. That exalts God The Father, and not CHRIST our LORD who paid His life. Exo. 12: 42 says, it is the night, which GOD brought them out of Egypt is the night to be observed.
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GOD Has ordained the Passover, so that all those who are to be born, or to come out of Egypt, should do so on this APPOINTED day. If you keep the Passover another day, would you be passed over??? You will be killed as you are not inside protected… CHRIST, knowing this, would have said that He will not eat till the kingdom comes….
Num 9:2 Also the sons of Israel shall prepare the Passover in its appointed season.}}}… Could we keep it when we want??? That is to disobey CHRIST and that is wickedness.
Passover, is followed by the feast of Unleavened bread. But, if we are to be free from sin, when we eat the Lamb, and use the blood to save us, should we also have sin, or leavened bread.??? We are taking the flesh and blood to clean us from sins. That is why a seven day feast is to be continued beginning from the Passover meal. We should not kill the Passover sacrifice with leaven.. That means the Passover should be in the beginning of the unleavened bread feast, and Scripture proves so ….
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Exo 34:25 You shall not slaughter the blood of my sacrifice with leaven, nor shall the sacrifice of the Passover Feast pass the night until morning. }}}… Passover, (a “FEAST”) meal, should be taken WITHOUT LEAVEN. Then, how could there be another day between the Passover and first day of Unleavened bread as HWA taught? Also how could we eat bread on this day as HWA taught?
Lev 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S Passover.
Lev 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. (Num 9: 5)
“Even” means H6153, which means ‘dusk’…., night. This day begins not on the previous day as HWA taught. As we go along, we will see there isn’t a day in between.
Num 33:3 And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians…}}}…. They departed… on the 15TH day of the month, the day “after” Passover, night part of 14th. When they went out, it is 14th night, which leads to 15th day. We know as exo 12 says, they went at night. The Passover is to be on the 14th dusk, which is the beginning of the 15th. This is when CHRIST also kept the Passover as we shall see. The night to be much observed, is the same night they came out. That is the Passover night. There is no other day in between Passover and first day of Unleavened bread which is called the night to be as HWA taught.
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As HWA taught, if we are to keep the Passover on the previous night, which is on the 13th night, then, there after, 14th night and as he says, to 15th night, there are two nights. (He wrote – “after nightfall again, during the night part of the fifteenth”), But the Scripture says, ON THE SELF SAME DAY” (night of Passover) they went out… ( Exo. 12: 17, 41, 51, ).
Exo 12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. ..}}}… You are to keep it till the 14th day… ‘day’ means the ‘light’ part of the day, which begins at sunrise. AFTER KEEPING TILL THE DAY, YOU SHALL KILL IT IN THE EVENING. Then, they are to kill it at night…CHRIST also died on the 14th, around 3 p m. But in another 3 hours, it is sunset and the beginning of the 15th. If we are to take the Passover on the previous evening as HWA said, it would be the 13th night. But, the Scripture says to keep it till the 14th day, and then kill in the even.
Exo 12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. }}}… they are to eat the Passover, with Unleavened bread … so the feast ( to eat Unleavened bread ) begins at the Passover, even though an assembly is not called, and it is not a Holy day, like the feast day. But the 15th, is a feast. If Passover is a holyday, they would not have traveled. If Passover mean coming out of sin, could we eat bread “WITH LEAVEN” as it pictures sin??
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Exo 12:11 And you shall eat it this way: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Passover to Jehovah. …}}}… Why do they have to be girded and have to wear sandals and eat it in haste if they are going to leave the next day as HWA teaches ??? Because, that night, the 14th night, is the Passover…to WALK OUT… it is called ‘LORD’S Passover. Now remember, it is the same night…which you are supposed to keep the Lamb till the 14th day, and kill at night. Only the antichrists, false apostles and false prophets who would change the ordinances of ‘LORD’S Passover.
NOW DO YOU SEE WHY CHRIST SAY HE WILL NOT EAT Passover TILL THE KINGDOM COMES ??? DO YOU SEE THIS IS WHY, Israel NEED TO “REPENT” BEFORE THE KINGDOM COMES ??? Also THEIR GOSPEL IS TO ‘REPENT” before and WHEN THE KINGDOM IS TO COME????…. It is because they have not repented… their sins were NEVER FORGIVEN AS THEY HAVE NOT KEPT THE ONLY ORDINANCE WHICH GOD SAYS THAT WOULD TAKE THEIR SINS A WAY, the way GOD Has ordained…. THEY HAVE NOT TAKEN THE Passover SYMBOLS ON THE CORRRECT DAY OR THE CORRECT WAY… THEY STILL HAVE SIN OF BREAD OF LEAVEN…. also do you see why no one in Israel, who believes and follows the dead man’s teachings never entered in to the kingdom and needed to be judged??? This is why GOD caused HWA to preach repentance before the kingdom of GOD comes, even though he, himself did not understand,… This is why they need to REPENT!!!! They need to be ruled by CHRIST, HIMSELF. Do you see that they have NOT WORSHIPED THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD UNTIL NOW??? If you deny HIS BLOOD, how could you be passed over??? If you keep the wrong day, and eat leaven when you are to come out of leaven, WOULD YOU BE SAVED, FORGIVEN. PASSED OVER???
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V 12 says, GOD will execute judgments on the gods of Egypt. Now, we are to witness the second exodus, when they are to come out of spiritual Egypt. It is also the judgments. But the gods are His own leaders working as Egyptians, pharaoh, who have taken His people captives by teaching lies. That is malice and wickedness which the spiritual Jews should get rid of, just as we did.
Who are these spiritual gods?? Who is in spiritual Egypt??? Which leader is Pharaoh who is to go through the same length of captivity??? Let GOD say ;…..
Exo 12:41 And it happened, from the end of four hundred and thirty years, it happened on this day, all the armies of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt. }}}… who ever are in spiritual Egypt also, should come out after 430 years…
Eze 4:5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
Eze 4:6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year….}}} ….
390 + 40 = 430. Remember, both houses are to go in to captivity in the end ??? If the leader is in captivity, then the whole church under Him are in captivity also. Eze 12 proves this further. Eze 13, the wall is broken. House of Israel, is likened now to all the churches who are divided from the same mother, and Judah is PCG as PROVEN….
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Ezekiel is to go through the suffering for iniquity of Israel and Judah… during this siege, Ezekiel’s arm is to be uncovered, which means he will not have any work… His wickedness will be exposed. And what he is to go through is explained in the following verses. If he is to go in to captivity, it is then, in Ezekiel’s time only, they will come out of spiritual Egypt as well. And now, you see all these prophecies are being fulfilled!!
Continue from Exo. 12….
Exo 12:12 And I will pass through in the land of Egypt in this night. And I will strike every first-born in the land of Egypt, from man even to livestock. And I will execute judgments on all the gods of Egypt. I am Jehovah!
Exo 12:13 And the blood shall be a sign to you, on the houses where you are. And I will see the blood, and I will pass over you. And the plague shall not be on you to destroy, when I strike in the land of Egypt. }}}… all the gods of Egypt…? GOD Is not judging the gods of Egypt, but spiritually, now the dead gods of spiritual Egypt.
Exo 12:14 And the day shall be a memorial for you. And you shall celebrate it as a feast to Jehovah, for your generations. You shall celebrate it as a law forever. }}}… Which day is a memorial?? It is the night, which they came out, and not the first day of Unleavened bread. The first day, is a Holy day, they are to assemble, but the memorial is the Passover. It is also a part of the feast. New Testament proves so. Now, v 15 says, these seven days you shall not eat leavened bread. But as written above, we are not to eat leaven, even on the Passover. We must eat with bitter herbs and Unleavened bread. V 8. If we are eating Passover to get rid of leavening, why would we eat it on the day we are to put away sin? One can be sincerely deceived, but when CHRIST shows the truth, one must accept, admit and repent and change.
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HWA taught you can eat bread with leaven on the Passover. So you can see that he has been teaching against the ordinances of LORD’S Passover. Is it any wonder why CHRIST our LORD said that He would not eat till the KINGDOM comes??? Until the kingdom came, it is such false teachings which are leading the people. LORD says not to eat, HWA says we can eat…. You be the judge. We cannot keep any of other feasts of the LORD, if we do not keep the Passover with its full meaning… our salvation stops right there. We ate the Passover Lamb on the wrong day and the LORD passed over. NO ONE IS SAVED. THEY ARE, TO THIS DAY, STILL IN SPIRITUAL Egypt. This is why CHRIST said that He will not eat of it till the kingdom comes. Kingdom means the judgments…as PROVEN.
JUST THINK…. IF CHRIST ASKS YOU TO COME ON THE 14TH, AND IF YOU COME ON THE 13TH, WOULD HE BE THERE ??? OR,…. IF HE TELLS YOU TO NOT TO EAT LEAVEND BREAD, AND IF YOU EAT BECAUSE YOUR LEADER TELLS YOU, WHOSE COMMANDS DO YOU BREAK??? ISN’T CHRIST our LORD WHO GIVES US THE SALVATION?? AREN’T WE SUPPOSE TO EAT HIS BLOOD??? Then, why should you fear a dead man and go against the LORD??? Almost all of GOD’s people follow HWA’s teachings. Is it any wonder why the Scripture says the harvest is past and no one is saved???
GOD set them free FROM Egypt to give them the SALVATION… ( EXO 14: 13). But, we know the Jews refused to know Him. (Jer 2: 8, 9:3, 6,) But now, GOD Has to bring them a second time to give them salvation and make them know Him. (Jer 24: 7, 31: 34). (Remember salvation is to KNOW GOD??? Joh 17: 3) if HWA had known GOD, AS HE CLAIMS, that includes GF as well, would they teach such lies??? This man changes the times and the Law…. they are the gates of hell…. But let GOD’s true followers rejoice, because then these gates of hell are doing their works, ONLY, CHRIST WILL CALL OUT HIS TRUE CHURCH!!!
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Exo 12:27 Then you shall say, A sacrifice of a passover of Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He struck Egypt. And He delivered our houses. And the people bowed and worshiped. …}}…. If you did not offer the Passover sacrifice on the commanded day, would your house be delivered??? This is why the firstfruits could not be harvested and are dead… they were found without blood on their door posts, so the LORD could not Passover but KILLED THEM… GOD will not look at your face and say “Oh this is one of My own, I should save him”…”BUT HE LOOKS AT BLOOD”. But you have not done according to the requirements of the LORD…. so HE KILLED YOU… this is why the dead are judged… no matter how sincere you are to keep the Passover on the 13th, and then night to be on the 14th and feast of Unleavened bread on the 15th and all the feasts there after, you are SPIRITUALLY KILLED as you were not there when THE LORD PASSED OVER….!!! Do you see the SERIOUSNESS OF NOT KEEPING THE Passover IN IT’S APPOINTED SEASON with proper ordinances according to GOD??? Could HWA save you?
And the people bowed and worshiped. …}}…. Since no one has kept the Passover on the proper day, you could not have worshiped the true GOD in Spirit and in truth. KEEPING Passover WITH UN – LEAVEN IS WORSHIPING THE TRUE GOD WITH SINCERITY AND TRUTH, which all Jews failed. Unless your sins are forgiven and you are passed over from spiritual Egypt, GOD will not live in you and you will not have Holy Spirit, which leads you to the TRUTH…. and this is why CHRIST our LORD said to the gentile woman that the Jews, His own will NOT WORSHIP GOD IN Spirit AND IN TRUTH !!!…. Now, can you blame the ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD??? This is why they are dead and the dead are judged…. THE JUDGMENTS ARE TO GIVE LIGHT… TO BRING THEM OUT OF SUCH MALICE AND WICKEDNESS OF THE LEADERS…. THE BLIND WHO LEADS THE BLIND. ! So they can correct all things. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, THEY CAN BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP THE LORD IN TRUTH!!!!
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No wonder GOD says that EVERY VISION SHALL FAIL…. If a leader cannot figure out when is the true Passover… and all other leaders blindly allowed the blind to lead them…. they are not only the dumb dogs as GOD says, but their every vision , every teaching should fail there after…. Not even one stone should stand in a false wall. It has to break down. No Passover… no GOD… no Holy Spirit… and …. YOU ARE DEAD. !!!
This is directly teaching against CHRIST our LORD’S teachings. This is why the true followers of CHRIST our LORD would fight with such antichrists to set all free from such false teachings. THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS TO COME OUT OF “SPIRITUAL” Egypt…. The CLEAR LIP, the clear language, which is the truth, is spoken by those who speak with stammering lips…. The donkey and the foolish nation is to see what the prophet could not…. It all have to be fulfilled…. Haven’t we proven all???
In Exo. 12, it is clear, so far, it is the NIGHT, which they came out of Egypt, which is to be a “memorial”, but the first day and the last days of the feast of Unleavened bread, are to assemble as holidays. On the Holydays, you are not supposed to travel. Since they had to come out, they traveled on the feast of Unleavened bread first day also. But, in the second year, GOD spoke to Moses, and gave same ordinances as Exo 40:2, Num. 1: 1, and 9: 1— explains, WHEN THE REAL TABERNACLE IS TO BE ERECTED.
In Exo. 13: 3… Moses says, “REMEMBER THIS DAY WHICH YOU WENT OUT FROM Egypt…”. That is the first day of the feast. After telling them to remember the day which ‘THEY CAME OUT”, in v 6, he spoke about the seven day feast. But in this verse, Moses tells “ only the seventh day, a feast to GOD”. He mentions only the 7th day because it is already the first day Unleavened bread. . (it is already the 15th). )
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This is why the tabernacle could not be erected till the second year. Also may be GOD purposely caused Moses to write it so that we will observe the NIGHT, and give reverence to that night, more than the feast itself, as there wont be a feast of Unleavened bread, IF NOT THE LORD BROUGHT US OUT. The importance is in the ‘NIGHT” which is the Passover of the ‘LORD’S”. The spiritual Israel never gave honor to the EVERLASTING FATHER, WHO IS CHRIST our LORD .
JUST THINK….; WHICH DAY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ??? IS IT THE PASSING OVER OF THE LORD OR THE Unleavened bread feast which is no use if the LORD did not bring us out ??? No wonder why GOD commanded us to STONE such liars…! Exo. 13: 8-9 proves it further that it is the night we CAME OUT, should be a SIGN and a MEMORIAL and it is to be kept as a Law, (to offer the first fruits, because of this night ) .
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Moses wrote ‘for with a strong hand GOD brought you out from Egypt… v 10… and you shall keep this ordinance at its appointed time…”. read v 14, all of these , because GOD BROUGHT US OUT FROM Egypt… that is the memorial , the night, our LORD is to give His life, shedding the blood is the most important event of a Christian… v 16 repeats the importance of bringing us out… THE ALMIGHTY GOD, TOOK THE FORM OF A PHYSICAL MAN TO COME AND DIE TO PAY FOR OUR SINS. THAT SHOULD BE THE GREATEST SACRIFICE ON THIS UNIVERSE AND WHERE-EVER. In our writing “Israel denied the blood of CHRIST” shows how HWA taught that the blood of CHRIST is less important, and we have life in His life.
Another important thing worth mentioning is… Joseph said…
Exo 13:19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him. For he had made the sons of Israel certainly swear, saying, visiting God will visit you, and you shall cause my bones to go from here with you” }}}….Is not this prophecy being fulfilled now ??? The two witnesses are also the LORD’s hands as PROVEN. Now, they are SPIRITUALLY carrying the bones of Joseph… ( all spiritual Israel ) out of Egypt. NOW, GOD IS VISITING … it is the LORD Who passed over back then and also now…. (the valley of the dry bones – the Spirit of life will enter in to them, after we carry them out of Egypt )…. (At that time, declares Jehovah, they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of those living in Jerusalem, out of their graves…(Jer 8: 1. all because they rejected the Word of GOD… v9 )…now this is being fulfilled spiritually.
Exo 12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month, at evening. }}}… Count how many days it would be from 14th to 21st. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. = 8. Passover is a different day with different ordinances of killing a Lamb, blood, eating etc, which also to eat Unleavened bread. Then, the rest of the seven days are to continue. We can feast and rejoice AFTER WE ARE BROUGHT OUT OF SIN. What happens when you do not keep these LORD’S ORDINANCES the way THE LORD WANTS??? You are cut off… GOD purposely blinded “His own” and not the “world”… but, the judgments are to CORRECT ALL FALSE MATTERS. The judgments bring LIGHT. ( Hos 6: 5) That light comes from the two witnesses…. The second time to Passover, is to happen SPIRITUALLY, to come out of the LIES. This is why CHRIST IS VISITING again. Did He not say “ behold I come as a thief”???
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Exo 12:24 And you shall observe this Word for an ordinance for you, and for your sons forever.
Exo 12:25 And it shall be, when you come into the land which Jehovah shall give to you, as He has spoken, you shall observe this service…}}}…It is the Passover…GOD was talking about. Can you keep the feast of Unleavened bread, if your sins are not removed? If we did not have the Passover Lamb killed and blood put on, which removes our sins, what use is it to keep the Unleavened bread??? Passover removes our sins so that we can continue to stay away from sins…. so the most important night, is the Passover.
Exo 12:26 And it shall be, when your sons say to you, What is this service to you?
Exo 12:27 Then you shall say, A sacrifice of a passover of Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He struck Egypt. And He delivered our houses. And the people bowed and worshiped. }}}… Now only, when they come out of spiritual Egypt, they will bow down to the ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD, who PASSED OVER and The GOD Who brings us out again, is the CHRIST our LORD …. The judgments are to make all bow down to HIM… and not to a God The Father, or to a dead man….
Exo 12:42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
Exo 12:43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof: }}}… It is the LORD’S Passover. It is the LORD, who passed over and it is called the LORD’s Passover, as HE IS VISITING, and we do not go right or to the left from GOD’s ordinances….
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It is the PCG, who is the end time church which was married to GOD who invited strangers to eat the Passover , in the Sanctuary of the ministry…. And this is the abomination of desolation, which caused GOD to leave the Sanctuary, as we have proven… and this is what caused GOD to raise the two witnesses , to witness against this treachery which PCG leader committed… all these false teachings and hidden sins have to be exposed to correct and clean the house of GOD…. this is the second time the LORD is visiting to set all free from sins, from false teachings, from false practices of worship, and from lies, from dead men’s teachings, from the traditions of men, from false gods. This time all will worship the ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD IN Spirit AND IN TRUTH !!! The remnant, the daughter who comes from beyond Ethiopia, (this should happen after the church went to Ethiopia, which is the "Bamah matter" ) would bring GOD’s offering, and they do not speak lies… no deceitful tongue found in them… ( Zeph 3: 7-13). This is when the clear lip, the pure language, which is the truth will be made known. The truth about the TRUE GOD was not revealed till then. So all those who spoke before are liars. GOD allowed that to humble the proud Jews… as PROVEN .
They could not be forgiven of their uncleanness or their spiritual adultery, as they were not keeping the Passover. If they had blood on the proper day ‘GOD ordained’, He would Have cleansed and forgiven them… year after year, they sinned and sinned and multiplied their sins. can you see why GOD says, their sins are like crimson, and high as the heavens are high than the earth ???
The high hand, who are the two witnesses, also are fulfilling the duty of Moses ,once again is to establish the Passover and are brining the bones of Israel, as the LORD is Visiting .That is when CHRIST came and prepared a body as PROVEN, the body which was sacrificed in the evening or night sacrifice.
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Here is what Moses taught them afterwards…
Deu 16:1 Observe the month Abib, and perform the Passover to Jehovah your God. For in the month of Abib Jehovah your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
Deu 16:2 And you shall sacrifice a Passover to Jehovah your God of the flock, and of the herd, in the place which He shall choose to cause His name to dwell there.
Deu 16:3 You shall eat with it no leaven. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction. For you came out of the land of Egypt in haste, so that you may remember the day that you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
Deu 16:4 And there shall be no leaven seen with you in your borders seven days; nor shall any of the flesh which you sacrificed the first day at evening remain all night until the morning.
Deu 16:5 You may not sacrifice the Passover offering inside any of your gates, which Jehovah your God gives you.
Deu 16:6 But at the place which He shall choose to cause His name to dwell there, you shall sacrifice the Passover offering at evening, at the going of the sun, at the time when you came out of Egypt. }}}… As you can see, it is not on the 15th they came out as HWA teaches, but on the same night, on the 14th they are to come out in HASTE… that is why they are to wear sandals and girded and eat the Passover in a haste… and did not have time for the bread to be leavened. They took their loaves and ate before it is leavened, on the first day of Unleavened bread, without knowing.
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( vs 5 – 6 says, you are not to kill it INSIDE the gates… but at the place GOD will choose to cause His name to dwell… but, on the first Passover which they came out, they were to kill it inside the gates and put the blood on the door so their house could be saved. It is now only, GOD Has put His name in a place as CHRIST HAS COME… read the following verses… Exo. 12: 4, 7, 22, 27 ) Only the first Passover they came out they were allowed to kill the Lamb inside their gates, and now, one must keep it where GOD chooses and Has put His name… That is where CHRIST is, among the two witnesses… )
Deu 16:7 And you shall cook and eat in the place which Jehovah your God shall choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go into your tents. ..}}}.. at this time, they have already come out of Egypt, so they are to return to their tents. They are to cook and eat the offering WHERE GOD CHOOSES. If GOD Has chosen a mountain in Galilee, then they should come to that mountain.
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Deu 16:8 You shall eat unleavened bread six days, and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Jehovah your God. You shall do no work. }}}… ( read Exo. 13: 6…. “Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day keep a feast to Jehovah”……. Even though the first day is to be feast also, when they came out, part of the first day is gone. The importance is to establish the Passover and first and last days at feast to be observed or celebrated thereafter. TO TEACH THE SPIRITUAL Israel to observe properly the way the LORD wants. THAT IS THE LESSON IN ALL THESE, to OBEY. So Deut 16 : 8 is taken from Exo. 13, when they came out, which the first day they were still coming out . ).at this time, it says ‘six’ days as Passover is the 14th night which is the 15th beginning. As HWA taught, “you can eat bread with leaven even in the Passover night, and only on the night to be , which is a day between the Passover and first of the feast you have to stop eating’, is false. Understanding all these as “GOD SAYS’ is what is to come out of Egypt “SPIRITUALLY’ with sincerity and truth.
Exo 14: 12- 13 says, Israel wanted to serve the Egyptians as they were afraid of dying in the wilderness. Even all GOD’s people want to serve the leaders who teach lies in fear of death. ( as they will be cast out of church if you do not obey them ) But, all these lessons are to see THE SALVATION OF THE LORD as v 13. To come out of Egypt means they are to receive SALVATION. ( the truth about the true GOD ) Even Jer 8 says, when the bones are brought, the rest of the people choose death. GOD wants to bring them out … but they want to go back to Egypt and die. This is the covenant with death, Israel love to make. This is why it says in the revelation, ( 9: 6) that they are trying to find death, but they will not. GOD wants all to be saved… this is what happens when you look at spiritual things physically. (1Co 2:13 Which things we also speak, not in words taught in human wisdom, but in Words taught of the Holy Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.) GF and SF are building humanly as written below.
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We are to keep the Passover Lamb, till 14th day. ( Exo 12: 6). And deu 16: 6 says, it is to be offered at evening, or dusk at the going down of the sun… AND NOT THE 13TH going down of the sun AS HWA SAYS ) that definitely means 14th night. This night is followed by the first day of Unleavened bread. This is why, their dough was not allowed to be leavened. ( Exo. 12: 34, 39 ). HWA said we can eat bread on the day of the Passover because he wrote that there is another day in between , which we were asked to observe the night to be. The Passover is NOT TO BE KEPT ON THE DAY BEFORE. This is one reason why GOD cut off all spiritual Israel and blinded them. They are hard to believe what GOD says… and they have their own traditions of men. Does not PCG follows everything as HWA , and his traditions ??
IT IS IMPORTANT TO REPEAT ALL THESE AS IT IS DIFFICULT TO “UNLEARN” THE FALSE TEACHINGS AND TRADITIONS OF MEN. This is why GOD chose the little children…. Their minds are not stuffed with false teachings. It is easy to teach a child than to teach a big man who is stubborn and have set their ways.
We know that CHRIST comes as a thief in the ‘NIGHT” which HE HAS come as PROVEN. Also we know that the SECOND time Israel is to come out of Egypt, it will be SPIRITUALLY. So do not look up to real clouds or fire to take you away from Egypt. But, one must look , where GOD would be, ….”after the “SPIRITUAL” sun went down” ,…. to spiritual clouds and fire, and to the place WHERE GOD CHOOSES, and where He Has placed HIS NAME. ( Rev 3: 9 – 12 says, after the leaders were condemned as the synagogue of satan, those who kept the Word, those who keep the Passover on the correct day have GOD’s name ).
It is to the spiritual New Jerusalem, ( Rev 3: 12 certainly not to the synagogue of satan ) which GOD Has chosen, in Heavens where you should look in to . Remember the LORD is supposed to come in ‘CLOUDS” , FIRE AND RAIN, thunder ,eagles etc ?? as GOD bore them on eagles’ wings, this time the spiritual eagles will bring them out. When the ‘SPIRITUAL” Sun went down only the night and the darkness came. That is the judgment. but the judgments are to bring light. Now, ….
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When did the SUN GO DOWN SPIRITUALLY ???
Mic 3:6 So a night shall be for you apart from vision; and darkness apart from divining. And the sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. }}}… This happened in the VERY LAST END, when the wife turned away as an enemy of GOD. Or when PCG broke the covenant. ( Amo 8: 9) . There are no prophets in Israel… ( Psa 74:9) that is why CHRIST is to Visit… They are just bones…
Now what does it mean “sun shall go down on prophets”??? That means their visions will be false. Teachings will be false and not from GOD… the prophets or the leaders will teach lies. This is why GF is lying after the dead man’s traditions… There will be false apostles and false prophets.
Now , since we know spiritually ‘WHEN” the night would be. When this night came, ‘WHERE” did GOD put HIS NAME ??? It is in the ‘EAST”, ( Mic 5: 7- 9 ) or in the ‘RIGHT HAND”, or in the ‘CLOUDS” or in the ‘FIRE”, or in the little children , beyond Ethiopia . Remember, they are in Egypt the second time to be delivered ‘SPIRITUALLY’. The spiritual Sun has gone down WHO IS GOD and HE would not reveal these things to a “prophet”. GOD’s Word says, they will come out, when the two witnesses are prophesying. It is they who are the right hand, clouds, fire, and they work in the night. These few years we judged, are all ONE NIGHT, which is like THOUSAND YEARS TO GOD. ( Psa 90: 4 ) The judgments lasts only THREE AND HALF YEARS, then the year of redeem has to come. The SECOND Passover had to be observed to those who were defiled by a dead body.
After the witness, the two witnesses died and are risen up again by the Spirit of life, which is the knowledge of the MYSTERY OF GOD which is salvation, which was given to them , just before the last Passover, as PROVEN. Those who were defiled at the first Passover should come to the place where GOD Has appointed to place His name , at the second Passover. Don’t forget to look at these spiritually. Please read ; “House of Prayer “ to see where GOD Has put His name. It is in Galilee of the Gentiles… that is where the light is to come from. That is where our LORD went and asked apostles to come to meet Him after the resurrection. ( Isa. 42: 1 – 10, 56: 3- 8 , 60: 3—Mat 4: 15 ) . Who are the people who are defiled by a “DEAD” man ‘SPIRITUALLY” now ??? All those who are defiled by going after the false teachings of dead HWA… ( Num 9: 6).
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Jos 5:10 And the sons of Israel camped in Gilgal, and prepared the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the plains of Jericho.
Jos 5:11 And they ate the old grain of the land on the morrow of the Passover, unleavened bread and roasted grain, in this same day..}}}… this Scripture further proves, that there is no other day between Passover and the Unleavened bread…. 14th night, leads to 15th morning which is the Unleavened bread…
When the NEW temple will be built, still the Passover would be on the 14th day of the month , together with seven days of Unleavened bread. In the New Testament, the Passover is also mentioned with the feast of Unleavened bread. Modern day Ezekiel should learn this now.
Eze 45:21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, the Passover shall be to you, a feast of seven days, unleavened bread is eaten. }}}… it is the modern-day Ezekiel who will have to build the new temple after he is pulled out of fire. ( Cyrus ) So he should learn the truth now. The Passover is a part of Unleavened bread.
Notice in the New Testament, the Passover is a part of the feast of Unleavened bread.
Joh 6:4 And the Passover was near, the feast of the Jews. }}}}… Passover is called a feast, as it is the beginning of the UB, which is a feast.
Mat 26:17 And on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, Where do you desire we should prepare for You to eat the Passover? ..}}}… the first day to eat Unleavened bread, is the day of the Passover. (Exo. 12: 8). This is on the 14th morning, they are to prepare the Passover meal.
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Mat 26:19 And the disciples did as Jesus ordered them, and prepared the Passover.
Mat 26:20 And evening having come, He reclined with the Twelve….}}}…. There is no day in between which HWA taught to observe as the ‘night to be’. On the 14th, when the EVENING, or dusk came, CHRIST sat down to have the last Passover…. NOW IS IT ON THE 13TH ??? Passover, which we are to eat Unleavened bread, is the beginning of the feast of Unleavened bread.
“Evening” Thayer Definition: G3798 – ὄψίος – opsios
1) late
2) evening
2a) either from three to six o’clock p.m.
2b) from six o’clock p.m. to the beginning of night.
Strong’s…”late’, afternoon, or nightfall, evening….
This agrees with Deut 16: at the going DOWN OF THE SUN… they are to keep the Lamb till the 14th day…. To see whether it has blemishes… and then kill it in the evening. Now spiritually, as the sun has gone down, CHRIST is eating with us…
This further proves, that on the day of Passover, we should observe at evening, or dusk on that day, and not the previous day, or the 13th night.
Mar 14:12 And on the first day of the Unleavened Bread, when they killed the Passover, His disciples said to Him, Where do You desire that going we may prepare that You may eat the Passover?
Mar 14:13 And He sent two of His disciples, and said to them, Go into the city. And you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him.
Mar 14:14 And wherever he goes in, say to the housemaster, The Teacher says, Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with My disciples? ..}}}… why would CHRIST choose a guest room ????
Mar 14:15 And he will show you a large upper room, having been spread and made ready. Prepare for us there. }}}…. DON’T FORGET TO LOOK AT THESE SPIRITUALLY NOW. The Passover is killed, on the first day of Unleavened bread, which is the previous night of 15th… , the 14th night of our time.
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He said, to go in to the ‘CITY’….. (Thayer ) “one’s native city, the city in which one lives, the heavenly Jerusalem,…. the abode of the blessed in heaven…, of the visible capital in the heavenly kingdom, to come down to earth after the renovation of the world by fire,”…}}}…. Who are in the heavenly Jerusalem ??? WHO EVER IS MADE READY BY CHRIST . …. spiritually, the clouds, the two witnesses… remember CHRIST did not eat Passover where the Jews are. He chose a Guest’s house. So look for some people who are SPIRITUALLY IN HEAVEN, who are the guests, who came to the supper in the end of the day to labor with CHRIST , as all the invitees have refused . also the fire which is the true Word of GOD, ALREADY HAS GONE OUT….
Strong’s …..’city’ … a town (properly with walls,). Spiritually, who are the city with walls ??? we know in Ezekiel’s time the walls are to be broken down. But the Gentiles are to built upon. The Gentiles, have control over the Spirit, which is pictured by water and they are a city with walls, while a man who has no control to Spirit , a “broken down city”. ( Pro 25: 28). So as CHRIST is visiting, the heavenly Jerusalem, is a city with walls and where the Passover is this year. ( Isa. 56… the name, walls, place , etc…. are promised to those Gentiles, who obeyed, better than sons and daughters…) You see the Word of GOD is fulfilled as it is written ??? Did not our LORD JESUS CHRIST say that all things will be fulfilled during the days of vengeance, which are the ‘JUDGMENTS”?? ??? Luke 21: 22??? Now do you see that those who did better than sons are now already have eaten supper once with CHRIST our LORD ??? and as their obedience is fulfilled or proven that they are teaching those who have false teachings ???
“Pitcher” is a earthen vessel, which carries WATER. So this means, CHRIST said to look for some one “carrying water “….means spiritually,… the vessels of the Spirit… where the two witnesses are now. GOD commanded them to be separated from those who are disobedient and we obeyed. ( Isa. 52: 11, Mal 3: 15 – 18 ) Remember Israel is in Egypt “spiritually”…and we must come out “spiritually”.?? If so, we must look for the “SPIRITUAL” water pitchers. ( heavenly Jerusalem, which GOD HAS CHOSEN ALREADY. ) It is also the mountain which GOD Has prepared.
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Carrying a pitcher of water…”…. so who carries the waters which is the Spirit ??? In the end time when Israel is in Egypt spiritually ??? It is the two witnesses, and the Gentiles. That is where CHRIST is now, ( also they being the cloud, fire, right hand etc)…. Israel have holes in their pitchers ( Jer 2: 13 broken cisterns and that is why they are in the Bottomless pit. Please read: “Bottomless pit” in www.gentileassembly.org .) so they cannot hold water.
In v 15, the ‘upper room’ also means above the ground. That spiritually means the heavens AND DEFINITELY NOT THE EARTH.
having been spread and made ready “Prepared”… means; made ready… prepared… Where is the pitcher of water which is already PREPARED “SPIRITUALLY’, in a ‘city” where CHRIST ’s guests are ?? As our two witnesses part 5 says, it is the PREPARED body, prepared by CHRIST , Himself, Having come down as PROVEN , who are the two witnesses and the few Gentiles…. they are the New Jerusalem, as PROVEN, …who have the water which is the Spirit… CHRIST would not come PHYSICALLY, but SPIRITUALLY. So the spiritually blind Israel, cannot see Him. He is supposed to come down as ‘rain, clouds, eagles, lions, lambs , fire, floods , etc… as our writing “CHRIST Has come down” proves. This is why, A PHYSICAL body was PREPARED by CHRIST , Himself, as PROVEN in the part 5, so spiritually blind can see this body and see that CHRIST Has come. they are HIS FLESH AND BONES… ( Eph 5: 30). Remember, CHRIST showed His hands and feet and flesh and bones, when opening the Scripture to His apostles ??? This is what is being fulfilled SPIRITUALLY. ( Luke 24: 39) .
Also , only a body of believers after they were prepared that they can have the supper with CHRIST . It should be some people already OBEYED , tested and prepared. 2 Cor 10: 5- 6…, Rom 1: 5, 16: 26. The bride does not have clothes and is naked at this time. The Groom knocks on their door asking them to come to supper. But, only after the judgments, she will be granted to wear fine linen. ( Rev 19: 7.) She would receive light during the judgments… But we are Blessed as we are already at the supper Rev 19: 9.
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2Co 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
2Co 10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled…}}}…we know GOD is trying to make all His people to obey Him. That is what the second Passover is all about as PROVEN. But, as the first fruits, the poor passed over, and they were already prepared. Now, since our obedience to CHRIST is already fulfilled, we are ready to revenge all disobedience , who exalts against the knowledge of GOD. if we are prepared to be ready to “revenge”, definitely, we are the ones who are used by GOD, during the days of vengeance… !!! GOD Has appointed us to make all others to obey Him. This is the ‘elect lady”, who has the TRUTH.
Our obedience is FULFILLED, when there are others who are disobedient, who is the synagogue of satan. You see, they are exalting AGAINST, THE ‘KNOWLEDGE’ OF GOD. (This is GF, as PROVEN, who is a type of Cyrus, who even ask GOD about the things to come, and about His sons, and the works of GOD’S hand, Isa. 45, which we have written before.) They have their own imaginations. They have their own Passover dates, night to be etc set, other than what GOD ordained. Now, these are the things we have to bring under the submission of CHRIST … this is where CHRIST Is taking the Passover, With us, who are already prepared as we obeyed. So, one should come to us, to keep the second Passover.
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Mar 14:16 And His disciples went out and came into the city and found it as He told them. And they prepared the Passover.
Mar 14:17 And evening having come, He came with the Twelve. …}}}… The Passover was kept, after they found as HE TOLD THEM. Now, Israel can find His PREPARED body, carrying water in the two witnesses. And then, the same day, (on the 14th) evening, they sat at the table to eat Passover.
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Luk 22:7 And the day of the Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover must be killed.
Luk 22:14 And when the hour came, He reclined, and the twelve apostles with Him. …}}} …( Mat 26: 20, Mar 14: 17).
The Passover is preceded by the Unleavened bread. It is a part of Unleavened bread, as that is when the penalty for the sins are paid and to be continued with unleavened which is pictured by complete removal of sin after the penalty is paid. THERE CANNOT BE ANTOHTER DAY IN BETWEEN WHICH HWA TAUGHT AS A NIGHT TO BE. BESIDES ONE CANNOT EAT BREAD EVEN ON THE Passover as we can see. Passover is the beginning of the removal of sins.
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CHRIST took the Passover meal in the night before the first day of Unleavened bread. He died around 3 pm, on the 14th, Jerusalem time. On the same day, when the sun sets in (a few hours, may be in Jerusalem around 6 p m, that is after 3 hours, began the first day of Unleavened bread.) That is the high day, as we all know. So, is there a another day in between which we were taught to observe as the night to be???
Here is what HWA wrote in “Pagan holidays”… pg 9
“Now some believe that they killed the Lamb between noon and sunset the 14th, about 3.00 p m., near the end of the day : ate it that night – the 15th (claiming that is when the Passover was eaten, and when we should take it today ) and then went on out 0f Egypt that same night.”. }}} This is what the New Testament teaches also, as He died in the 9th hour, when there was the darkness till the 9th hour. (Mat 27: 45 – 46 ) 9th hour is 6pm. That is the time He died, and He was buried before the Sabbath, which is the first day of Unleavened bread.
Joh 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. }}}… the high Sabbath here is the Unleavened bread. CHRIST died the 14th evening, which is followed by first day of Unleavened bread. Now all these Scripture proves HWA’s dates are wrong. This is why CHRIST our LORD said ….
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Luk 22:16 For I say to you that no more, I will not eat of it until when it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God, never!
Luk 22:18 For I say to you that I will not drink from the produce of the vine until the kingdom of God comes, never! ….}}}…. Why would CHRIST eat and drink; only when it will be fulfilled in the KINGDOM ??? Why did He not eat and drink before the kingdom came ??? Because, the true church, His own, observed all these wrongly. That means they never kept the Passover, nor ate His body, or drank His blood on the correct day. So they observed another day and worshiped GOD , NOT IN TRUTH. HOW COULD THE Holy Spirit DWELL IN THEM??? Now, as PROVEN, the kingdom came, the judgments, so now He is eating and drinking with us, and knocking on their door to come in to eat and drink with them…. CHRIST our LORD said, “EXCEPT YOU EAT THE FLESH, AND DRINK HIS BLOOD… YOU DO NOT HAVE LIFE IN YOURSELVES”!!! ( Joh 6: 53 ). Is it any wonder why GOD says all are dead??? ONE MUST EAT HIS FLESH AND BLOOD, ON THE DAY WHICH CHRIST our LORD ORDAINED… It is the prepared body, who has fulfilled the obedience , who will stand up against these teachings…
1 Cor 11: 26… when we eat and drink, we solemnly proclaim the DEATH OF THE LORD, UNTIL HE COMES…” … THEY have not been eating and drinking on the correct day, until CHRIST and the kingdom came.! That means they have not solemnly proclaimed the DEATH OF THE LORD…. Therefore,
V 27… “So that whoever should eat this bread, or drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, that one will be…… “ guilty”…. of the body and of the blood of the LORD”. !!!! INSTEAD OF THEY ARE SAVED, THEY BECAME GUILTY !!!
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HWA has never written that we are saved by the blood of CHRIST. Please read: Israel denied CHRIST‘S blood” in our web site…. All these years, we have been eating just Unleavened bread and drank just wine… !!! These people are NOT SAVED, but guilty of CHRIST’S blood as they took it unworthily. By keeping it on the wrong day, they were not only; NOT MADE FREE FROM SIN, BUT BECAME GUILTY EVEN MORE !!! This is why the PREPARED body also HAD TO DIE, TO PAY THE SINS AS CHRIST COULD NOT DIE AGAIN. … THIS IS WHY WHOM THEY PIERCED ARE LOOKING AT HIM WAILING WHEN CHRIST OUR LORD COMES IN THE ‘CLOUDS’… ( Rev 1: 7) As the clouds are prepared… the proud, exalted ones would not like to admit that they have been keeping the wrong Passover day….. and they do not want to learn it from a foolish people…
When CHRIST ate the Passover on the 14th beginning , and died on the same day even, and if Israel came out on the 14th night, which is 15th morning, and if we observe another day, would CHRIST be in it ??
To Laodiceans CHRIST said in Rev 3: 20… “If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will enter to him, and I will dine with him, and he with Me”…..}}} ‘dine’ is strong’s G1172. …” From G1173; to dine, that is, take the principal (or evening) meal: – sup….
G1173 means “dinner, that is the chief meal, usually in the evening, supper”. …
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Why did He say to Laodiceans that He would “sup” with them, if He Has not come ?? If He Has come, and are eating, then the kingdom too has come as PROVEN…. He said He will not eat of it until the kingdom comes… !!! Now, He Has eaten with the prepared body, and wants all to come to the second Passover… One other thing, the Laodicean era means it is darkness and therefore it is ‘NIGHT’. But they will come out !!!
1Co 9:13 Do you not know that those laboring about the holy things of the temple eat? Those attending on the altar partake with the altar.
1Co 9:14 So also the Lord ordained those proclaiming the gospel to live from the gospel. ..}}}…. Who are in GOD’s altar now who proclaim the gospel which Apostle Paul is talking about in this verse ?? it is the two witnesses, and the Gentiles… they are eating at the altar now…. the synagogue of satan failed to live by the gospel which they preached… we are now the laborers…who are eating , and at the altar… ( Mal 1: 11).
The 9th Hour prophecy …
CHRIST died in the 9th hour. That is the hour of prayer. ( act 3: 1). This is the time Apostle Peter learned that not to say what GOD Has cleansed “unclean”… and when the first gentiles to receive Holy Spirit, which now spiritually is fulfilled… ( Act 10: 3 – 48 ) Cornelius received Holy Spirit, even before he was baptized because GOD saw the heart… When CHRIST died, the veil is torn, opening the altar for all, including the gentiles. that is when the gentiles are called, in the 9th hour. Apostle Peter , learned this as he prayed in the 6th hour. ( v (9). So, we proved, we are made the House of Prayer also. Please read.
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Act 10:15 And again a voice came to him a second time, What things God made clean, you do not make common. }}}… CHRIST’S blood cleansed us. Can you ask GOD why Has He made us clean??? His Name is “I AM”… He could have mercy on any one He wishes… we entered the by the narrow gate. We knew CHRIST, is the way, the truth and life. Israel tried to enter the way HWA and GF taught. Remember GF said that HWA is the chariot which will take us in to eternity??
V 22… we were made just by CHRIST our LORD, as we FEARED as Cornelius was. He was known among the Jews to be a GOD fearing man. Who are the GOD fearing men now??? V 24… He has invited his relatives, just as the gentile woman at the well of Jacob did in Joh 4. Her people and now Cornelius’ people, all believed CHRIST … and now this is spiritually fulfilled .
V 28…. Apostle Peter said GOD showed me not to call a man common or unclean… there is no Jew nor Greek now. HWA taught that GOD will never make a covenant with Gentiles. Now GOD Has made us clean and the priests… a ‘ROYAL” priesthood…. The real, godly royal priesthood!!! We are bound to the tribe of JUDAH, which tribe is to have the “SCEPTER”… ( Gen. 49: 10- 12)…. So it is GOD’S doing as His own failed.
V 30… it was in the 9th hour the angel came to him as he was praying. In this 9th hour, as the ordained House of Prayer, we are praying to GOD that He will bring all spiritual Israel back from spiritual Egypt the second time… so GOD will answer our prayers as He did to Cornelius. He too was fasting. And we too fasted as the ‘NEW” priesthood is to do as GOD commands. Those fasts were done to ‘GOD”..
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The darkness came over the land in the 6th hour, and lasted till 9th hour. that is fulfilled now, as the darkness is the Laodicean era , or the judgments. We judged them( as the prepared body to take revenge as above ) for three years and now, the darkness is to end, and we are to bring light, ( Isa. 60: 3), and the judgments also are to bring light, …. and in the 9th hour, we are made a House of Prayer , after the darkness , to bring the dead back and to cause them to Passover.
Zec 7:5 Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, even those seventy years, did you truly fast to Me, even to Me?
Zec 7:6 And when you ate, and when you drank, was it not for those eating, and for those drinking?
Zec 8:19 So says Jehovah of Hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall become for joy and gladness and cheerful feasts to the house of Judah. Therefore, love truth and peace….}}}… You ate and drank for your selves, not the LORD’s Passover. This happen during the prophesied “SEVENTY YEARS”, when GOD is to end transgressions as He spoke through Daniel and Jeremiah. We are the ones who did these fasts for GOD, after we are made the House of Prayer as PROVEN. Just as Apostle Paul knew that his work would bear fruits, we know our fasts also will bear fruits. Remember, the kingdom was given to a nation which will bear fruits as CHRIST said??? So, we are glad and we rejoice as we will see the salvation of the LORD comes to Israel, after our fasts… (Isa 52:10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. .}}… We are already saved as the following verse say, as we departed from the defiled )
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Joh 2 is a prophecy for us… when CHRIST came to clean the house of GOD… ( we know He should come on the donkey ) . This is after CHRIST gave the new wine which the slaves knew…
After He made a whip, chased all, specially those who sold the ‘doves’. Spiritually, they are the two witnesses as PROVEN, who are a symbol of peace. He cleansed the ‘house of GOD’ and not the catholic church or Holy roman empire. This, He did when the Passover was near as v 13.
Then, the Jews, His own asked for a sign… CHRIST said…
“Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up”. But He was not referring to the real physical house of GOD, but as v 21 says, to HIS OWN BODY… Now, THE “SPIRITUAL” body. Then, after He was risen, they remembered and believed the Scripture… until He was risen, no one believed. But how would this be a prophecy for our day ??? Would CHRIST die again??? Yes…. They trampled Him again by willfully sinning. We saw by keeping Passover UNWORTHILY they became guilty again. But….
As Hebrews says, at the completion of the age, CHRIST came and PREPARED a body of believers, allowing them to die and rise up again. (THE LEADERS KILLED THEM AS THEY PROVED THEIR OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST-) They are called HIS OWN FLESH AND BONES AND HANDS AND FEET. NOW THE SPIRITUAL Jews can see that body, which they killed …. As PROVEN, CHRIST caused this body to rise, as the Spirit of life ( Rev 11: 11 ) entered in to them and gave them the salvation which is to know the ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD…. ( Joh 17: 3).
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Israel too will rise, as they are just bones, in the valley of the dry bones, having no Holy Spirit…. V 23 says, at the Passover, at the feast, many believed in to His name… now, we declare His name as PROVEN. Passover is a time when they came out of Egypt the first time also. We pray that CHRIST our LORD will open the eyes of His people now as well, as all things are to be fulfilled these days of vengeance … Luke 21: 22. Do you see these miracles which CHRIST is doing SPIRITUALLY ??? GOD said He will search the hearts. But now, He Has searched, and judged and made them blind spiritually… but He will not be angry forever. The time has to come for all His people to Passover to the promised land…
What happens when you take the Passover on the wrong day??? CHRIST would not pass you over… only in the kingdom, WHEN THE TRUTH IS MADE KNOWN, which now is; as the poor whom GOD Has chosen are in it ( Jam 2: 5) declaring…. Then GOD will Passover.
Remember, CHRIST said all things will be fulfilled during the days of vengeance. If the vengeance are taken from the leaders, the Laodiceans , then they cannot be working with CHRIST .., but those who proved their obedience !!! It is they who will see all things which are fulfilled.
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When CHRIST was to die, the darkness came over the land in the sixth hour. Also, in this hour, CHRIST met the Samaritan woman at “JACOB’S well, and asked for water. Apostle Peter also learned that GOD Has chosen the Gentiles, to be just, and GOD fearing and given the Holy Spirit, even before they are baptized. Apostle Peter knew that it is unlawful, for a Jew to keep company with Gentiles. The apostle wondered why CHRIST is talking to a gentile woman. The Gentiles, became just as they FEARED GOD. But the Jews, did they fear GOD??? Malachi says it all… Now, spiritually, the gentile woman is giving water to CHRIST, and she believed CHRIST and she was given the “gift of GOD”… ( JOh 4: 10 ) “which is Everlasting life,” or to know the ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD , and when we drink that water, the gift of GOD, it will become a fountain of water …. SPRINING UP IN TO Everlasting life … V 14.
After their conversation, CHRIST said to her … the Jews WILL NOT WORSHIP GOD, … AND THE SALVATION IS OF THE Jews… BUT, since they do not worship GOD, they will not be offered this gift of GOD, which is to become a fountain of water which springs up to Everlasting life, and the true worshipers will worship the Father “IN Spirit AND IN TRUTH”. Now since the Gentiles have become the fountains, OR THE GUESTS WHO CARRY THE WATER PITCHER, the Everlasting life , is given to them and they will teach it to others who still need this gift…
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Joh 4:24 God is a spirit, and the ones worshiping Him must worship in spirit and truth…}}}… well, the Laodicean era means they do not worship GOD in Spirit and truth, but we, who are the Gentiles, in this sixth hour, are worshiping GOD, in Spirit and truth, as we are made the ministry of Holy Spirit, as PROVEN.
Then, His apostles marveled that He was speaking with a woman.. and also a gentile… do you , who build according to the best of the ‘HUMAN” spirit, also marvel that CHRIST Has given the gift of GOD to a gentile woman ???
Well… COME AND SEE…. Is this Not CHRIST ??? v 29. But this work, is the FINISHING WORK… but ….“One sows and another reaps”…
As you can see, all these are now fulfilled SPIRITUALLY. True worshipers are now worshiping CHRIST …His own has stopped worshiping Him. And they were offered the gift of GOD first, WHILE HIS OWN HAVE NOT HONORED HIM !!!
A nobleman, from Capernaum, knew that CHRIST Has come to Cana of Galilee, where He made wine and said his son is sick and dying. (Capernaum, is a high and exalted city ( Mat 11: 23) but thrown in to hell. CHRIST dwelt there. That is where His own are . Remember it is the prepared body as Apostle Paul said who will oppose such exalted ones?) That means these noblemen also will be in the hell. These are the gates of hell, the synagogue of satan. But it means a “village of comfort”. Also, a nobleman, a rich man,… came to a city of gentiles, to seek CHRIST …. And CHRIST said…. “Unless you see signs and wonders…. You will not at all believe” (v 48). So the rich, would not believe CHRIST or those who are in Galilee, unless they see signs and wonders… This man believed what CHRIST said…. And this miracle happened at the ‘SEVENTH HOUR”… ( v 52). So the work of the sixth hour, spiritually now fulfilled …. IT IS TIME TO SEE THE SIGNS AND WONDERS WHICH THE LITTLE CHILDREN ARE DOING , BUT ‘SPIRITUALLY”… look for the spiritual signs… clouds, heavenly Jerusalem, fire, water , light etc…
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To the Jewish leader who came in the night to CHRIST , was told that “If one is not generated from above, …. ….and out of water and Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God. …. The Spirit breathes where He desires, and you hear His voice; but you do not know from where He comes, and where He goes; so is everyone having been generated from the Spirit”…. ( Joh 3).
Do the synagogue of satan who failed to worship GOD , … know what it means to be generated out of water and Spirit ??? You are teachers of Israel… and you do not know these things ??? V 10.
The Spirit goes where He desires… you can hear His voice… but you do not know He is in the water and the Spirit which comes from the two witnesses…. From heaven… only the two witnesses are made Spirit as Spirit of life entered in to them after they were killed as CHRIST was … they are the two loaves which were offered first.
“Generated” means (G1080), “to be born, begotten, true conversion, metaphorically; God making men his sons through faith in Christ’s work, to procreate, bear, beget, be born, etc…
If Israel is to be born again, they have to be washed by this water, and Spirit, which is also the fire … the overflowing flood which came from the Gentiles ( Isa. 66: 12). It is not because of our righteousness, that we are made sons of GOD, but CHRIST saved us through washing and by Holy Spirit… (Tit 3: 5). Unless all repent, as a whole church, (as the whole church is in Egypt together and they should come out at once, and not one by one) and turn to GOD, DURING THE "Times of Refreshing" , one cannot be born again.( Act 3: 17 – 22). This is spoken through all the prophets.
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This verse say that all the rulers are ignorant of this fact. This is why CHRIST Had to come at the completion of the age. He promised, and He came. Now CHRIST is correcting all the false teachings. You can hear His voice, but you cannot see where it comes from… the Voice is heard in the wind… and who is the wind??? It is the ‘east wind”… who are the two witnesses, who are speaking for CHRIST. Just as GOD condemns all the rulers, CHRIST said to Nicademus also, that teachers do not know these things… ( Joh 3: 10.) It is the ‘east wind’ which opened the sea for Israel to come out of the sea… exo 14: 21… and it blew all night long. And GOD came in the morning watch… in the fire and cloud. All these things are fulfilled spiritually…
Joh 3:19 And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the Light, for their works were evil. }}… also as Hos 6: 5…
Joh 3:20 For everyone practicing wickedness hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, that his works may not be exposed.
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Joh 3:21 But the one doing the truth comes to the Light, that his works may be revealed, that they exist, having been worked in God. }}}…. The ‘JUDGMENT” of GOD, is to give LIGHT. (TO MAKE THEM KNOW THE TRUTH) Why do they need light during the judgments??? Because they loved their evil works. 1 cor 4: 5 says, one reason why CHRIST came is to expose these evilness, then the truth will be made known, so all can be set free. CHRIST Has come to set all free. But one has to believe the truth.. This is why He came, to witness to the truth. Passover cannot be fulfilled SPIRITUALLY, unless they are given the truth to set them free. This time they are to come out SPIRITUALLY…. so you cannot see where you hear the voice, but do not harden your hearts when you hear it , no matter you do not see from where it comes. Scripture says, the judgments are to redeem all. That is coming out of Egypt spiritually. To redeem, one has to learn the truth. It is the ‘elect’ lady, who have the truth.
2 Joh 1. … “many deceivers… who DOES NOT CONFESS JESUS CHRIST TO HAVE COME IN THE FLESH”… Apostle John warned this lady. But at this time, when there are deceivers in the world ( Jewish world as PROVEN , in GOD’S very own Sanctuary ) this lady and her children are ALREADY ‘ELECTED”. Remember this lady is not in the temple where the abomination of desolation has taken place. She is to watch these deceivers and she has the DOCTRINE OF CHRIST , and they have Father and Son ( v 9). The synagogue of satan denies the Son, and they do not even have the Father either… ( 1 Jn 2: 23). CHRIST said, those who are of the truth Hear His voice and they are ONE WITH GOD. They are the prepared body…
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GOD Has appointed a DEFINITE time for SPIRITUAL Israel to Passover…. That is the "Times of Refreshing",.. when all have to repent of not having the doctrine of JESUS CHRIST…. He is the Lamb. He brings light… He sends it through the NEW MOON, which shines in the night, who are the two witnesses, whom you trampled ( Rev12:1).
To Nicademus, CHRIST said,” even though we speak, you do not receive our testimony…and when earthly things are told, if they cant believe, how could they believe ‘HEAVENLY” things”? ( Joh 3: 11)
The “Heaven” and “earth” were separated as PROVEN, in judgment. Devil, and those who worship him are cast down, together with Zion ( lamentations 2: 1, Rev 12: 9 ). That is when THE HEAVEN AND EARTH WAS SEPERATED. THE ELECT LADY IS TO BE IN HEAVEN, AND OTHERS IN THE EARTH. This is when Holy Spirit speaks to witness , where you cannot see Him, but you can hear.,… ( also when the ‘heavens’ reveal the iniquity ) and that is when…..
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Rev 12:10 And I heard a great voice saying in Heaven, Now has come the salvation and power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers is thrown down, the one accusing them before our God day and night.
Rev 12:11 And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the Word of their testimony. And they did not love their soul even until death. }}}… they died for the Word.
The Lamb knows the little lambs. They hear His voice. He knows them. There are a few PHYSICAL Israel also are among us … they are the ‘elders’ who worship “CHRIST ”. When the salvation comes, the voice is heard from the ‘heavens’, and authority of CHRIST , the kingdom, all comes together to make all worship “CHRIST our LORD” as He said in Rev 3: 9 – 12. Rom 16: 20, Mal 4: 3
Mr D Fisher, Mr E Lofton, Mr J Stephenson, Mr J Snyder, among few others, are PROVEN MEN in Israel . They fought for GOD, and they did not love their lives unto death. CHRIST our LORD KNOWS THEM… They are HIS OWN FLESH, who heard the voice of the LORD. They heard the voice which came from the heavens.
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Mr Fisher, was an engineer , Mr Snyder was an ambassador graduate. Mr Fisher was a watchman, and he had a chart of events writing according to the prophecies he heard and things are to be fulfilled. He had prepared it from the words of the leaders in the church. When he heard our witness, he knew his chart was wrong. He stopped it right away. Being an educated man PHYSICALLY, it must have been a very humbling experience for him to submit to GOD’s Word, the truth and ADMIT THAT HE HAS BEEN WRONG. The truth HAS SET HIM FREE. He rejoiced , he encouraged us as GOD commands ( Isa. 41: 6). He died for the Word…. that is for our LORD…
Mr Snyder… to be a graduate in HWA’s college, he would have digested HWA’s teachings from top of his head to the toe. (Most of the PCG ministers are not graduates from HWA’s college.) That did not stop him from hearing GOD’s voice. He did not know who was writing, but proved them. He took a turn to the exact opposite of what he has been hearing. He noticed all the lies his own people were teaching. He would have known that their tongues are murdering arrows… ( Jer 9:8). He OBEYED GOD and the truth set him free. He has been a tool which is used by GOD to spread this Word to those who still needs to Passover…
These two sons of GOD, together with others mentioned and not mentioned,… GOD knows, PROVEN AND OBEYED AND LISTENED TO THE VOICE OF THE LORD. If physically and spiritually educated men like these could hear the voice of the LORD, and repent and Passover to GOD’s Holy mountain, why cant others do also ??? Because, they heard their leaders who came in “their” names. But CHRIST came in Father ’s name, fulfilling the “words” . NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD… the tribulation to test GOD’s people are over. GOD found them having other gods. Now, to Passover to GOD’s promised land, one has to learn the TRUTH. Israel did not come to the promised land ONE BY ONE. The positions in the kingdom are filled one by one. But those who failed , who were murdered by the arrows of deceit of the leaders, now should have salvation together, and must come out and Passover during the "Times of Refreshing"…. It will be done…
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Those who have the testimony, will prove that GOD is true… Joh 3: 33. Unless you see the truth about CHRIST, that He is the ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD, no one can Passover. V 36. So, to Passover spiritually, one must learn the truth. they are to be free from the spirit of pharaoh …
Joh 6 is another prophecy for us. It happened in the Passover season. Only a LITTLE BOY had brought food… should this not be a prophecy??? Do little children remember to bring food when they go after religious leaders ?? This is the prophecy of Isa. 60: 22… ( to be fulfilled when Gentiles, the little children are to be a light to Israel, and would bring gold and silver from far away ). The same way He blessed the food, He could Have created. But He wants the Jews to know, when it is fulfilled spiritually, it is a little boy whom He will send to feed and will become a thousand to feed all Israel…
CHRIST blessed the two loaves and fed all. He commanded that to collect even the leftovers, so that nothing will be lost. V 12. Now, the two witnesses are feeding the first thousands of people. the little one will become a strong nation.
When Israel came out of Egypt, GOD told them to take gold and silver from the Egyptians. ( just as we are to bring )
Exo. 11: 2… let each man ask for gold and silver… v 4… in the middle of the NIGHT…
V 7… ‘’not even a dog move its tongue against Israel, and all should know that the LORD has put a difference between Egyptians and Israel’’. But now, the leaders are the dogs, while the Gentiles are in GOD’S Holy mountain, having become the Israel of GOD as PROVEN. ( Isa. 56: 1 – 10). The dumb dogs are the leaders.
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Exo 12:35 And the sons of Israel did according to the word of Moses. And they asked from the Egyptians articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing. …}}} … Why did GOD ask them to take silver and gold from Egypt ?? Could not GOD give it to them??? It is because, it is a prophecy for our time, when they are to come out of ‘SPIRITUAL” Egypt, now, the Gentiles will have gold and silver, which are the SPIRITUAL WEALTH, which should Israel take from us… ( Isa. 60) .
As Apostle John 12, Mat 21 says, it was when the Passover, that the multitude took ‘palm’ branches ( palm is a symbol of righteousness ) and caused CHRIST to sit on the donkey and brought to Jerusalem. They knew He was the King of Israel. Not even the apostles knew what this multitiude was doing ( Joh 12: 16). Now, when Israel is to glorify JESUS CHRIST, they will also recall these things we are writing. He is coming on the donkey, to DELIVER Zion. This is a prophecy which Jacob said in Gen. 49: 10- 12. Look for the SPIRITUAL donkey…
Joh 12:23 But Jesus answered them, saying, The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified…}}}… Jews did not glorify Him till the judgments. Now, they will know Him…
Joh 13:19 From this time I tell you before it happens, that when it happens you may believe that I AM.
Joh 13:20 Truly, truly, I say to you, The one who receives whomever I may send receives Me; and the one who receives Me receives the One who sent Me. …}}}… Who is being sent now, when they are in Egypt ??? Who ever comes in the name of the LORD, Israel must receive. That is the donkey and the foolish nation. The wisdom of the wise has perished. This is why they are spiritually in Egypt. That is the night now Israel is in. At that time, it is the Gentiles, who will bring light, gold and silver, and the wealth ( spiritual ) to Israel… ( Isa. 60). It is also the little children…
Second Passover….
Moses said, the second Passover ( if they are defiled or unclean ) also to be taken at dusk, or even with Unleavened bread and bitter herbs. ( Num 9: 11).
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If any one does not keep and offer the Passover, IN ITS APPOINTED SEASON, they will be cut off. Who are the defiled and unclean ??? It is who did not take the Passover properly, who followed the teachings of the dead and were defiled by this dead man. It is all Israel as you will see.
( Num 9: 13). Therefore, if any one , who think they are GOD’s true people, should keep the Passover on the correct day. If not, GOD Has not appointed that day and that man will be cut off. This is one of the reasons why HWA and GF are cut off. The ordinance of the Passover, should be same for Jews and to Gentiles… v 14. In the end, GOD judged the leaders in Israel, to be dumb dogs, and brought the Gentiles, to His Holy mountain and to the house of prayer , with walls and a place and a name given… Isa. 56
Num 9:15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tabernacle of the testimony. And at evening there was on the tabernacle the appearance of fire, until morning. …}}}… This is the SECOND year ( v 1 ) they are to keep the Passover and that day the tabernacle was reared up… and the ‘cloud’ covered and even the tabernacle of the testimony there. And at ‘even’ ( or dusk) there was fire…
Now spiritually, the cloud and fire are here, including the tabernacle of testimony. (from the two witnesses , as PROVEN ). Now all these are being fulfilled SPIRITUALLY. Remember the Laodiceans are blind SPIRITUALLY. So they will not see the spiritual clouds and fire until GOD opens their minds… that is why we, who have already passed over are praying for GOD.
Also When they are to assemble, the two trumpets will be blown. Spiritually, the two trumpets are the two witnesses. So it is the two witnesses, who alone stand by GOD in the whole earth, will be the ones to lead them out of Egypt. This time the tabernacle is set up in HEAVEN. ( Rev 11: 19).
It is the two witnesses who would be revealed the truth about the Passover to Israel as CHRIST Has come to reveal. Heb 1 and 1 Joh 2: 27 says, in the last days, CHRIST will come to teach… it is time to get rid off all the teachings of dead men, less you will be defiled and will not be able to Passover.
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Exo 23:20 Behold, I am about to send an Angel before you, to guard you in the way, and to bring you to the place which I have prepared.
Exo 23:21 Be on guard before Him, and listen to His voice. Do not be rebellious against Him, for He will not forgive your transgressions; for My name is in Him….}}}… even now, the second time when they are to come out of Egypt spiritually, the angel is sent as zech 12: 8 says… they are the feeble and the weak…( In that day Jehovah shall protect around those living in Jerusalem. And it will be, he who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of Jehovah before them). This is whom , GOD WILL SEND. THE WEAK AND THE FEEBLE. Therefore, do not look up to a prophet. The Sun has gone down on them. Look for the weak and the feeble…they are the angel of the LORD, IN THIS DAY. V 10 says, it is a time to have GRACE of GOD… and they will look at Him whom they have pierced….
1Co 5:7 Then purge out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us.
1Co 5:8 So let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and of evil, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1Co 5:9 I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with fornicators;
1Co 5:11 But now I wrote to you not to associate intimately; if anyone is called a brother and is either a fornicator, or a covetous one, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a plunderer, with such a one not to eat. …}}}…WE ARE UNLEAVENED. Because of CHRIST , our Passover was sacrificed and we accepted. We are to keep the feast with sincerity and truth. if Israel are to come out , they too must keep the feast with SINCERITY AND TRUTH as they do not worship GOD in Spirit and truth.
We did not associate with fornicators. It is PCG who fornicated while we witnessed. But we withdrew from them heeding GOD’S Word. These fornicators are not in the world, but our own brothers. We are not eating with them, but with CHRIST … no matter what sin we find in the Word of GOD, we come to the sin of "Bamah matter". We are told to judge those who are in side who does such evil works of fornication. V 12 – 13. At least now when the grace is available, we hope and pray that our Israel brethren would heed GOD’S Word and believe CHRIST and us… and repent and come out of spiritual Egypt, by getting rid of such lies and false teachings which are against CHRIST our LORD ….
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With the Passover, we must have the bread of sincerity and truth. That was simply not available till GOD judged the sinners, those who ate leavened bread or had sin of wickedness and lies. This is why, only when CHRIST came, the truth is revealed in the judgments…. This is why GOD did not reveal Himself to anyone till the MYSTERY OF GOD is to be finished at Rev 10: 7. This is why the bride was not ready to wear fine linen of righteousness till the end of the judgments… Rev 19: 7 . Exo. 6: 6, 7:4, 12: 12,
Exo 15:2 The LORD is my strength and song, and He is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him!!!
All these signs are done among you is to cause you know that CHRIST is the LORD… (Exo. 10: 2). Those who were not defiled with fornication, are following the Lamb … they were redeemed by the blood and they are the first fruits. They are without blemish… as they were kept till the Passover as the Lamb is to be kept till the 14th …. And they have the everlasting gospel to preach to say to all how they are saved… and they say…
, “Fear God, and give glory to Him, because the hour of His judgment has come; also, Worship "Him who has made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea," and the springs of waters” ( Rev 14: 3 – 7 )
The end time spiritual Jews are fighting against CHRIST. He is trying to build them spiritually. But they are building physically. Here is what GF and SF has written and said;…
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Book of Apostle James written by GF ;..
“The Philadelphia Church of God “has” a lot invested in our property. We “are” raising up the ruins. Having an auditorium and hosting concerts with great performers-featuring the best that the human spirit can achieve-is impressive to the world.”…
James discussed the rich Laodiceans (James 1:10; 2:6). They were rich because they “had” a lot of expensive property, including the Ambassador Auditorium, God's house. When they sold that, they received many millions of dollars…}}}… WCG sold them and now they are not rich. But GF says, he has lot invested in his property… so who is rich now???
JAMES IS TELLING US THAT SOMETHING TERRIBLE HAS HAPPENED TO GOD'S TEACHERS IN THIS END TIME
What a tragedy this is! Even with all the calamities coming on the land of Israel, THE GREATEST CALAMITY EVER IS OCCURRING AMONG THE TEACHERS OF GOD
The Apostle John discusses the same problem, and he uses the term ANTICHRIST! Among the teachers of God, there are people fighting against CHRIST …. (they are the ones who are fighting CHRIST and His true followers as they have no understanding and have become beasts.. Rev 17: 12 – 18)
James says these individuals are prioritizing objects ahead of GOD-AND IT IS KILLING THEM SPIRITUALLY. The expression "desire to have" means covet. They are lusting and simply trying to take whatever they want…..
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"Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God" (verse 4). Again-this isn't about physical war: It is about "friendship of the world" -that is, the people
of God becoming too close with the ways of this world!…
God isn't just talking about physical adultery here. If He were, He surely would have included both genders in the verse.
Who are these "adulteresses"?
The Bible always uses a woman as a symbol for a church. This verse is talking about the churches of God in the end time. James is directing this severe condemnation to churches that are SPIRITUAL ADULTERESSES
We live in a period of monstrous apostasy. The people of God are turning from Him and splitting into various groups. They have demon started enmity, or hatred, toward God and become His enemy. In doing so, they have willfully rejected their marriage vows and trampled on their marriage covenant with God!…”.
SF said recently to the fox 25 anchor man ; that he is building to the best of the HUMAN Spirit. He is just following what his father is teaching him. So you can see which church has more malice and wickedness against CHRIST and true followers.
Who rejected the marriage vows in the end time if not PCG ??? It is PCG who was married to GOD in the end time as Eze 16 says. That is when GOD’s prophecies are to end. Then the judgments began, and now Grace is given. Get rid off the malice and wickeness at least now and open your eyes to the truth …GF should read his own writings and take heed!!!
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Here is what GF wrote in a PGR…
February 25, 2006 | Vol. 3, No. 8
“Joshua was clothed with filthy garments. These were taken from him, and a “fair mitre” set on his head and new garments given him (verses 3-5). The mitre, or turban, is a symbol of authority. When Joseph Tkach worked with Mr. Armstrong for the last seven years, he fulfilled the Joshua role…..}}}…. According to this statement, Mr Tkach was given a fair mitre. So he must be the high priest now, because GOD will take the real Joshua back after cleansing him. GF does not want to admit that he is the Joshua. But, either way, he becomes the loser. If Mr Tkach will be taken by GOD, then GF will be out. If he admits that he is Joshua, he will lose all his followers and all wealth. No matter what he says, GOD’S WILL BE DONE!!! That is all to come out of such spiritual madness…. GOD will establish and teach to live and worship Him in Spirit and in truth… then all will be sincere…
April 29, 2006 | Vol. 3, No. 14
“Peter,” He asked, “do you love Me more than all these?”
Remember, Peter had said that, “Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended”
(Matthew 26:33). In other words, These other guys may reject you, but I won’t. Christ then prophesied that
Peter would deny him three times that very night. When the prophecy proved true, Peter wept bitterly…}}}… this is the same thing what will happen to GF as well. He has already denied our LORD many times. But, as GOD says, He will give a clean mitre, GF also will be taken back to build the spiritual temple. !!!
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HWA taught many false doctrines, as you can see, one major false teaching being the ‘Passover”. He believed GOD does not find fault with him and the Philadelphia era. But CHRIST says, they are a synagogue of satan, who LIE. If HWA is the leader in that era, we know he is the leader of the synagogue of satan. Then, as his teachings are followed totally by GF, he is the Laodicean era leader.
Here is what HWA wrote in 1978 June, PGR pg 8 ;…
“You know that this church is the only one of seven that GOD doesn’t attribute any faults to”… }}} … IS THIS STATEMENT true according to ‘CHRIST our LORD ’???
Rev 3:9 Behold, I give out of the synagogue of Satan those saying themselves to be Jews, and they are not, but they lie. Behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they shall know that I loved you. }}}…Who says we are Jews ??? Who are the two leaders (beasts as GOD says) who traced their lineage to the tribe of JUDAH? They are the ones CHRIST is addressing here. Do you believe CHRIST or these liars??? This is what is coming out of spiritual Egypt means…. Get rid off all the old leaven of malice and wickedness and adopt the SINCERITY AND TRUTH.!!!
May GOD opens the minds of the blind… and the prisoners could hurry up and repent and be set free from all malice and wickedness of their disobedience to CHRIST our LORD … !!!