The LORD our Passover

From here on is the discourse of the events during and just after this last meal. John carries these things on in much depth and brevity of conciseness, under the influence of the Holy Spirit for our learning of Him, Christ Jesus and ultimate understanding of His revelation. I will only do through chapter 14 to keep this short because of the depth of meaning and revelation of Christ Jesus as our LORD, revealed by John through the rest of his account of the events as they followed.
Jesus' washing of the disciple's feet before the partaking of the Last Supper (in chapter 13 through 14) after which He foretells of His impending betrayal and death and His preparing of a place for those who do as He is about to do, by way of example, in the physical to remove the stain and chains of mans natural estate. This action is another one of those which expose us to becoming united through washing away the dirt of the world which clings to the outside of the cup or vessel.

“Before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world to return to the Father, having loved His own which were in the world, for He loved them to the end. And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him; Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He was come from God, and went (return) to God; He rose from supper, and laid aside His garments; and took a towel, and girded Himself. After that He poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith He was girded. When He came to Simon Peter: and Peter said to Him, Lord, do You wash my feet? Jesus answering said to him, What I do you know not now (you do not now understand); but you shall know hereafter. To this Peter said to him, You shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash you not, you have no part with Me. Then Simon Peter said to Him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. Jesus then said to him, He that is washed needs not save to wash his feet, but is clean every bit: and you are clean, but not all. For He knew who should betray Him; therefore He said, You are not all clean. (Ezekiel 36:(25-26) 22-32) 

After He had washed their feet, and had taken His garments, and was set down again, He said to them, Know you what I have done to you? Because you call Me Master and LORD: and you say well; for I AM. (signifying what Exodus 3:14-15 reveals Him) If I then, I AM your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. Verily, verily, I say to you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither is He who is sent greater than He that sent Him.(signifying that He is indeed both the LORD and Father in Elohim) If you know these things, happy are you if you do them. I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen (Heb. 4:13, Rom. 11:25-36, Rev. 2:23): but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me. (Psalm 41:9) Now I tell you before it comes, that, when it is come to pass, you may believe that I am He. Verily, verily, I say to you, He that receives whomever I send receives Me; and he that receives Me receives Him that sent Me.

When Jesus had thus spoken these things, He was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say to you, that one of you shall betray Me. Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom He spoke of. Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom He had spoken of. He then lying on Jesus' breast said to Him, Lord, who is it? Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. When He had dipped the sop, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. Immediately after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus to him, That which you do, do quickly. No man at the table knew for what intent He spoke this to him. For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said to him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor. He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night. 

Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God be glorified in Him, God shall also glorify Him in Himself, and shall straightway glorify Him. Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek Me: and as I said to the Jews, Where I go, you cannot come; so now I say to you. A new commandment (Jeremiah 31:31-33, 34, Galatians 6:2, 1John 2:8-10) I give to you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all know that you are My disciples, if you have love one to another.(John 15:13, 17:21, 1John 4:7-11, 20-21)  

The LORD our Passover

Here is John's account of this event as found in chapter 13 and beginning with verse 21 through 30 and again to get the full impact I must begin in chapter 12 verse 20. Because of the weight of what is from here on revealed by the Greek's who sought after Jesus and His final discourse with the people; “There were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethesda of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would seek Jesus. Philip came and told this to Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. Jesus answering says, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say to you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it die, it brings forth much fruit. (Jesus being the seed of woman as promised man in Gen. 3:15 makes this statement a revelation of Himself) He that loves his life (in mans sin and death estate of separation from GOD) shall lose it; and he that hates (move than he loves Me is here implied) his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal. (the root of the promise of Gen. 3:15 and 12:1-3, Isaiah 7:14, Jeremiah 31:22, Matthew 1:23, 25) If any man serve Me, let him follow (do as I AM doing under My yoke Mat. 11:29) Me; and where I am, there shall also My servant be: if any man serve Me, him will Father honor.

Now is My soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour: but for this cause came I to this hour. Father, glorify Your name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, 'I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.' The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spoke to Him. Jesus said, This voice came not because of Me, but for your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Me. This He said, signifying what death He should die. The people answered Him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abides forever: and how say You, that The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? Then Jesus said them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walks in darkness knows not where he going. (Here is the revelation of the parable of the old and new cloth and old wine skin and the new wine in that dried dead skin of Mat. 9:16-17, Mar. 2:21-22 and John 16:12) While you have light, believe in the light, that you may be the children of light. These things spoke Jesus, and departed, and did hide Himself from them.

Though many believe they are afraid of the Priest's

But though He had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on Him: That the saying of Esaias (Isaiah) the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, 'Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?' Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, 'He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, and be converted, and I should heal them.' (given them My Salvation as a yoke) These things said Esaias, when he saw His glory, and spoke of Him. Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess (or recognize) Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. 

Jesus cried out and said, He that believes Me, believes not on Me, but on Him that sent Me. And he that sees Me sees Him that sent Me.(recognizing GOD as His authority and power) I am come a light into the world, that whoever believes Me should not abide in darkness.(mans natural estate of sin in the fear of death, because of his separation from GOD) If any man hears My words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save (Redeem) the world. He that rejects Me, and receives not My words, there is one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. For I have not spoken of Myself; but the Father who sent Me, He gave Me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that His commandment is life everlasting: whatever I speak therefore, even as the Father said to Me, so I speak.  

The LORD our Passover

Again listen for the words and terms related to our key words of yoke and LORD, words like Master, vine and Father in the following text. In Mark 14 beginning at verse 1, sets the stage for what follows in verse 12 through 26; “After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: (the metiphoric simbolizism used for the Body of Christ Jesus, the Lamb of God) and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by craft, and put Him to death. But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people........The first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, His disciples asked Him, Where would You that we go and prepare for You to eat the passover? And He sent two of His disciples, and said, Go into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him. And where ever he shall go in, say to the good man of the house, The Master said, Where is the guest chamber, where I shall eat the passover with My disciples? And he will show you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us. And His disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as He had said to them: and they made ready the passover. 

When it was evening He came with the twelve. And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say to you, One of you which eats with Me shall betray Me. And they began to be sorrowful, and to say to Him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I? And He answering said to them, It is one of the twelve, that dips with Me in the dish. The Son of man indeed goes, as it is written of Him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born. As they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave to them, and saying, Take, eat: this is My body. And He took the cup, and when He had given thanks, He gave it to them: and they all drank of it. And He said to them, This is My blood of the new testament, which is shed for many. Verily I say to you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God. And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.”

In Luke 22 beginning with verse 7 through to 23, in 24 we find this; “Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed. And He sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat. And they said to Him, Where will You that we prepare? And He said to them, Behold, when you are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he enters in. And you shall say to the good man of the house, The Master says to you, Where is the guest chamber, where I shall eat the passover with My disciples? And he shall show you a large upper room furnished: there make ready. And they went, and found as He had said to them: and they made ready the passover. 

When the hour was come, He sat down, and the twelve apostles with Him. And He said to them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: For I say to you, I will not any more eat thereof it, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. And He took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves: For I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come. And He took bread, and gave thanks, and broke it, and gave to them, saying, This is My body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of Me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in My blood, which is shed for you. But, behold, the hand of him that betrays Me is with Me on the table. And truly the Son of man goes, as it was determined: but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed! And they began to enquirer among themselves, which of them it was that should do this thing. 
 
And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.”

 
 
 
 

The LORD our Passover

Picking up the rest of the story, as it ties together in chapter 22 of Matthew, where we find this in verses 1 through 14; “Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables, and said, The kingdom of heaven is like to a certain king (GOD), which made a marriage for His son (Jesus), and sent out His servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. Again, He sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared My dinner: My oxen and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come to the marriage. But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: And the remnant took his servants, and treated them spitefully, and slew them. But when the king heard this, He was wroth: and He sent forth His armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. Then He said to His servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go out therefore into the highways, and as many as you shall find, bid to the marriage. So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found (these stewards proclaimed His revelation to), both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

When the king came in to see the guests, He saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: And He said to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a wedding garment (not clothed in and with Christ)? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few (?are or have) chosen.” (the chosen Mat. 24:34, Luke 24:44, John 19:28, Acts 13:32-33; Romans 9:25-30, 15:9-13, 16:25-26) 

My question for this is, have we now a clearer picture of what is about to take place at the Passover table and there following? Because you see the events are but one continuous event from the evening meal through the LORD's ascension (as seen in Psalm 68:18, Ephesians 4:8-10, Colossians 1:19-20, 21-29, 2:15), and return. For it is after He return that He opens the hearts of His disciple to receive the greater revelation of Himself as witnessed to within the context of the now old parchments (OT) which fore told of Him and all that He would bring about as the completion as the forever one, the end of days and other such phrases. This He does in His second ascension which takes place as recorded in Acts 1:9. Then after the forty days He again returns as the Spirit of Holiness and Truth to indwell all receptive ones, who believe Him. YES! believe Him not just believe in Him. Okay enough, I must get to the Last Supper this as found in Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 22, John 13:21-30 and 1Corinthians 5:7 and chapter 11. Before I get ahead of myself allow me first to look at what Jesus tells us in Luke 20 about those married in the discussion with the priest's about the resurrection of the dead, the Sadducee's, remember they are a Jewish sect that denied the resurrection and an after life, are speaking to Him here and asking Him a question; “Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife. Jesus answering said to them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world (kingdom of heaven and of GOD in spirit, not yet seen), and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage*: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal to the angels; and are the children (Son's) of God, being the children of the resurrection (having passed from death while in the world and are no longer of this world). Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he called the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to (or in) Him. Then certain of the scribes answering asked, Master, You have well stated. After that they dared not ask Him any question at all.”

*Here is a clue for us all to get hold of and it is this, as a seed which has a hard shell of callousness around it, our soul/heart and spirit have this hardness in our flesh which God's hand circumcises through a metaphoric death to sin and the flesh. In what is known and called a dieing “to self”, a surrendering of our flesh and its new nature of sin acquired in the fall of man through woman and Adams actions as recorded in Gen. 3:1-15. Where and when the exchange took place from a life in and with GOD to that of Satan's nature now predominate and mans ruling force as a strongman within, encapsulating our heart, soul and spirit. Which speaks through our flesh as the voice of mans flesh as an abundance of the heart, which reveals mans true state of being and which is to be judged or made known as false. Paul calls this a discerning of spirits in Corinthians. Listen closely to what is revealed in the passages dealing with the Last Supper or Passover meal. Because hidden within its language are many terms which the word LORD reveal as belonging to it. Beginning at verse 17 of Matthew 26 through 30; “The first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, asking, Where will You that we prepare for You to eat the passover? Jesus answering said, Go into the city to such a man, and say to him, The Master said, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at your house with My disciples. And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.

When the even was come, He sat down with the twelve. And as they did eat, He said, Verily I say to you, that one of you shall betray me. And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say to Him, Lord, is it I? He answering said, He that dips his hand with Me in the dish, the same shall betray Me. The Son of man goes as it is written of Him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born. Then Judas, which betrayed him, said, Master, is it I? He said to him, you have said.

As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is My body. And He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink all of it; For this is My blood of the new testament, (Jeremiah 31:31-32, 33-34, 32:40, Ezekiel 37:26) which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But I say to you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom. And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.”     

The LORD our Passover

Jesus in His way of teaching used many parables which referenced marriage to prove a point though they were in a veiled language with hidden meaning. They keep the outsiders out and those in the know within. This gives them an even deeper understanding, in revelation of Him. Who is the Faithful One, and creates a deeper love of Him through which trust is turned to faith and faith now works in receptivity as Son's of God, being the restored ones. God in His own counsel knew that man would indeed fall pry to His nemesis Satan and his counter part and then be influenced by their host of fallen angels from which He would rescue through Redemption many of His creation of Love. Also in His own counsel He established that man alone would be faced with choice of free will to choose Him or remain in darkness by denying the Light of His revelation through which he would restore within man His Likeness in Christ, the promised seed of woman. This can be seen within the text of the first three chapters of Genesis, the book of beginnings. For example in Gen. 2 we find the marriage relationship of God with Man and Man the spirit being with God as God intended just after He took from man to create woman and then Adam said this in verses 23 and 24; “Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” Herein is the secret of the similitudes and metaphoric language used by the LORD God throughout the OT and the NT known only by His revelation. Upon which He is about building His family. As separated people unto Himself.

Our first encounter is in Matthew 22 to get the flow we must look also at what had been going on before this passage in chapter 21 where we find Him after the entry into Jerusalem upon the colt picking up at verse 18 we have this; “In the morning as He returned into the city, He hungered. And when He saw a fig tree in the way, He came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said to it, Let no fruit grow on you henceforward forever. And presently the fig tree withered away. And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away! Jesus answering said to them, Verily I say to you, If you have faith, and doubt not, you shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if you shall say to this mountain, Be removed, and be cast into the sea; it shall be done. All things, whatever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.

When He was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to Him as He was teaching, and said, By what authority do You these things? and who gave You this authority? And Jesus answering said to them, I also will ask you one thing, which if you tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; He will say to us, Why did you not then believe him? But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all held John as a prophet. So they answered Jesus, saying, We cannot tell. And He said to them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

But what think you? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. He answering said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answering said, I go, sir: and went not. Which of the two did the will of his father? They answered Him, The first. Jesus said to them, Verily I say to you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believed him: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and you, when you had seen, repented not afterward, that you might believe him.

Hear another parable: There was a certain householder (GOD), which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen (the priesthood from Ezra's day forward), and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants (the prophets) to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did to them likewise. But last of all he sent to them his son (Jesus), saying, They will reverence my son. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance (the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force). And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard (Jerusalem representative of the nation bond by unbelief in mans false Religion), and slew him. When the lord therefore of the vineyard comes, what will He do to those husbandmen? They said to Him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out His vineyard to other husbandmen, which shall render Him the fruits in their seasons.

Jesus said to them, Did you never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes? Therefore say I to you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. (Daniel 9:24-27) And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard His parables, they perceived that He spoke of them. But when they sought to lay hands on Him, they feared the multitude, because they took Him for a prophet.    

The LORD our Passover

In Leviticus it is further revealed that the lamb is for a peace (3:6-7) and also a sin offering (4:32, 35) and the rest of the rituals, such as the washings, by commandment that accompany this sacrifice follow in what will become the Mosaic Law.

Then in what is titled the New Testament, which is actually the continuing of the Old until after Jesus' ascension, we pick up on the Passover but with this one hidden difference it is the betrothal feast of the LORD or the Marriage (Mat. 22:2, 4, 9 and 30) feast of the Lamb of God, with those who will become His as promised in Gen. 3:15, 12:3 and Psalm 2. Jesus and His disciples for the first two years of His ministry to Israel practice this rite in all of its pomp and ceremony until something happens which begins the beginning of the end, which happens just before the last Passover. Up until that moment in time Jesus sent His disciples among only the Hebrews to proclaim the coming kingdom message, the acceptable year of the LORD (Leviticus 25:9-13, Isaiah 49:8, 61:2, Luke 4:19 and 2Corinthians 6:2) with all authority to do as He has been about doing, as a witness of just Who He was. The promised seed of woman (Gen 3:15), prophet like to Moses the true prophet (Deuteronomy 18:15, 18-19), and more. But what was it that caused the change, after all Jesus from the beginning had set His face as flint toward the day appointed Him? As a husband (a term used in the word LORD of) the betrothed bridegroom, when He has passed away leaves his wife (betrothed) free to remarry, the very metaphoric symbolism of Matthew 22. For the answer we will look at John 12 beginning at verse 20; “There were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethesda of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. Philip came and told this to Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip told it to Jesus. And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.”

Then it is recorded in the following statement of verses 24 through 36, the secret of death; “Verily, verily, I say to you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit. He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If any man serve Me, let him follow Me; and where I AM, there shall also My servant be: if any man serve Me, him will Father honor.

Now is My soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour: but for this cause came I to this hour. Father, glorify Your name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, 'I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.' The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered (in the sound of a trumpet blast or clap of thunder): others said, An angel spoke to Him. Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of Me, but for your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Me. This He said, signifying what death He should die. The people answered Him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abides forever: and how say You, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walks in darkness knows not where he goes. While you have light, believe the light, that you may be the children of light. These things spoke Jesus, and departed, and did hide Himself from them.”

Now He reveals and proclaims His soon coming way of death and this still remains a mystery to the people even though they heard they did not perceive by way of understanding or revelation, what was said. This is the way for those who remain in darkness just as Jesus has here said. We can read the words but do we have the capacity for perception which brings understanding or revelation of Light? It is this that the house of His Body is to be built upon as on solid bedrock, unshakable and sound. From here I will progress into the LORD's Last Supper, Passover and yes the Marriage Feast (betrothal) of the Lamb of God for all those who become the betrothed of the LORD in His righteousness, as hinted to in the beginning.

We must of necessity know what LORD means; the most common is the self existing one (I AM that I AM), the possessor of supreme power and authority, ruler, husband, husbandman, Master and Father. And the Webster's 1828 Dictionary has this to say; “In scripture, the Supreme Being; Jehovah. When Lord, in the Old Testament, is printed in capitals, it is the translation of JEHOVAH, (Yehovah, YHWH, LORD God) and so might, with more propriety, be rendered. The word is applied to Christ, Psa 110. Col 3. and to the Holy Spirit, 2 Th 3. As a title of respect, it is applied to kings, Gen 40. 2 Sam 19. to princes and nobles, Gen 42. Dan 4. to a husband, Gen 18. to a prophet, 1 Ki 18. 2 Ki 2. and to a respectable person, Gen 24. Christ is called the Lord of glory, 1 Cor 2. and Lord of lords, Rev 19.”   

The LORD our Passover

The LORD our Passover

By the leading and unchion of the Holy Spirit, which is the ontological essence of Christ's own Spirit within me do I write the following. With all humility, in a humbol attempt on my part, to bring to light the hidden meaning of the Passover which had its beginnings before Genesis 3:20-23. Where it is recorded; “Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she is now the mother of all living. To Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them (mans first blood covering of his new nature of sin and death brought about by a rebirthing into the rule of Satan, in strife and deception). And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever. Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.”

In the New Covenant we hear that the LORD, Christ Jesus had been the offering of sacrifice from before the foundations of the world were laid. In Genesis 1-3 is the foundation of the world laid, now in a type of darkness because it is under the shadow of sin and death from the time on out, in the knowledge of the tree of good and evil. We also find that those who have chosen Him as their LORD had their names already written in the book of Life, from before this foundation was laid. And that those same people will be the ones to open the understanding of all things prioraly hidden from sight though they be in the sight of all. (Deut 29:29, Mat. 13:35, 12:34, Luke 6:48-49, John 17:24; 1Cor. 3:11-12, Eph. 1:4, 2:20, 1Tim. 6:19, 2Tim. 2:19) It is from this point of veiw and consideration that I bring out the following revelation to you. This revelation is found in the collection of both the old and the new Covenants as they are the storehouses of revelation, of all things pertaining and the revealing of Christ.

For a full and correct understanding in what has been a mystery or secret of God in the term, “the LORD our Passover” will require a beginning in Genesis and our learning of Him from that point forward (the question asked of us all as stated in Mat. 11:29). God or Elohim (is a plural word, having more than one part but still being one at the same time, the supreme being or angel) in Genesis 1:1, where it means: of strong authority, it also carries the shepherds staff on the shoulder in its pictorial expression, this yoke is the binding of two as being one in covenant by an oath, where one party acquires the character of the stronger party, Master and Father. Who is Yehovah (God) throughout the scriptures and Jehovah (YHWH) is the LORD form the beginning on. He is the every present and ever revealing one of Exodus 3:14 in the “I Am that I AM” Who was revealed to Moses. 

In Genesis 3:15 we find the first promise given to mankind through Adam and woman, the promised seed of woman which is carried by all from that moment onward to the end of the ages or time. This seed will become the seed, Jesus, as the promised Redeemer and through Who Salvation will come for those who receive His Light and Life restored within them, as promised in Gen. 3:15. It is also in Genesis 3 where we first encounter God covering man and woman with the skin of an animal, to do so required first a sacrificing or the letting of the animals blood in which life is found, as the sacrifice which covers. This is in verse 21 where it states this in the KJV; “ To Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.” in both the CEV and ESV it states this; “the LORD God made clothes (garments) out of animal skins for the man and his wife.” 

Then after the flood and after God's covenant promise to Abram and his seed, in chapter 12:1-3, where God promises that the families (nations) of the world who would trust Him as Abram trusted will become Abram's heirs (seeds of trust and faith). We find in chapter 14 and verse 18 where it states this in the CEV; “King Melchizedek of Salem was the priest of God Most High. He brought out some bread and wine and said to Abram: "I bless you in the name of God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. All praise belongs to God Most High for helping you defeat your enemies." Along with the first mention of bread and wine as an offering of praise we have a purely gentile phrase used, a “Priest of God Most High.” This distinguishes what God is being the priest's Master. Where bread is for the body and wine for the blood of that body used as substitutes, for the body of Abram who unselfishly offered his physical death in battle for the life of the ransomed people (the first example of Christ Jesus' own offering).

Then we have Abraham and Isaac catching a wild ram caught in a thicket and sacrifice it upon the alter in place of Isaac, in Gen. 22:7-8. Then we come to the time just before Israel's exodus from bondage and extreme slavery in Egypt, where Egypt is a type of mans false religion and the evils of the world. In Exodus 12:3-5, 21 then in chapter 29 we find that to this they were to add the meal offering from which bread is made in verses 39 through 41. Also in Exodus 12 we find a statement from which our title is taken in verse 27 but to keep the continuity I will start with verses 23-30; “The LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in to your houses to smite you. You shall observe this thing for an ordinance for you and to your sons forever. And it shall come to pass, when you have come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as He has promised, that you shall keep this service. And it shall come to pass, when your children shall ask you, What means this service? That you shall tell them, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, Who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshiped. And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. It came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.” Still in chapter 12 looking back at verse 18 we find this picking up at verse 17 through 21; “You 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 you observe this day in your generations by an ordinance forever. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even. Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whoever eats that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land. You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall you eat unleavened bread. Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.” So even here we have both bread, blood and the lamb tied together in the feast.