Prophetic Rehearsals

The Feasts of יהוה are Prophetic rehearsals that are shadow
pictures of our Messiah, His Ministry in detail both first and
second coming. The Spring Feasts are completed with His
First Coming, as the Fall Feasts will at His Second Coming.

Three of the four Spring Feasts are celebrated within eight
days; Pesach - פסח - Passover which begins with the killing of
the lamb between the evenings on Aviv 14, the first Hebrew
month, and putting the lambs blood on the doorpost and lentil.

The Fourth Spring Feast is
Hag HaShavuot - חג השבועות (Hag Ha sha-voo-ote) and is identified in the Pre-Messianic Scriptures as Festival of Shavua - שבוע.  Feast of Sevens, and Feast of Harvest EX. 23:16

Concerning the beginning of Months for Yisra'el.
Shemot 12:2 (Exodus) This is the beginning of months for you, it is the first month of the year for you. V:14 And this day is to become a remembrance. And you shall observe it as a festival to יהוה throughout your generations -- observe it as a festival, an everlasting law.

Feast of Unleavened Bread חג המצות,
was declared a memorial to be kept forever.

Exodus 12:17.
And you shall guard חג המצות, for on this same day I brought your divisions out of the land of Mitsrayim. And you shall guard this day throughout your generations, an everlasting law.

Wayyiqra 23:5, (Leviticus-He Called)
In the first month, on the 14th day of the month, between the evenings, is פסח to יהוה. And on the 15th day of the month is חג המצות to יהוה seven days you are to eat unleavened bread.

Shemot 12:17, Exodus
And you shall guard the Festival of Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I brought your divisions out of the land of Mitsrayim. And you shall guard this day throughout your generations, an everlasting law.

New Beginnings

The Yisralites were instructed to take a lamb according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household, on the Tenth day of the month. It had to be a perfect one, a year old male, from the sheep or the goats. They were to keep it until the fourteenth of the same month and kill it between the evenings. The Blood of it was to be put upon the doorpost and on the lentil of the house in which they ate it. It was to be roasted and eaten with bitter herbs and Unleavened Bread, not raw, nor boiled at all with water, and any leftovers the next day were to be burned with fire. Although the Passover lamb was killed between the evenings before the Feast of Unleavened Bread, it was eaten at the close of the day and the beginning of 15th, the first day of unleavened bread א' חג המצות.

The Yisralites made their dough before Exodus 12:34, And the people took their dough before it was leavened, having their kneading bowls bound up in their garments on their shoulders. V:39 And they baked מצה - matza (unleavened cakes of the dough) which they had brought out of Mitsrayim, for it was not leavened, since they were driven out of Mitsrayim, and they had not been able to delay, nor had they prepared food for themselves.

Exodus 12:11.
And this is how you are to eat it: your loins girded,
your sandals on your feet, and your staff in
your hand. And you shall eat it in haste.
It is the פסח - Pesach of יהוה.

Our Passover Lamb is our Messiah, the WORD of יהוה.  We are to eat His Words with our loins girded, our shoes on our feet, and our staff in our hands. We are to take the Word of יהוה, as we are on our feet in haste, and live by every Word that comes out of His mouth forever. We are to have no leaven - nothing added to His Word. We are to accept what He says unselfishly with all that we are and all that He will make us, that we honor Him and worship Him in the manner prescribed at origin, TORAH - תורה and change not one precept. His Word is to be forever as frontlets to our eyes, written on our hearts and hands and minds. We are to touch not the unclean thing, and follow not after gods made by man. We are to Esteem Him in all that we do.

Plan of Redemption

This is YHVH's eternal redemption plan and cannot be over
emphasized. Although all other cycles are important to life it is
the Sacrifice of the Lamb that gives life its meaning. Had it not
been for the sacrifice of the lamb and the blood on the doorpost,
the promise to Avraham, Yitshaq, and Yisra'el would have been
void, no Torah given and no Celebrations to follow, no basis for
Messiah our Passover sacrificed on its anniversary, and we would
have been dead in our rebellion, without hope. Our Spiritual life
began on that day, and our celebrations thereafter commemorate
both the promise and the sacrifice that gave life to a sinful people. We can look back to this Feast as the very beginning of life for us, life in the Spirit 'by which we can only come and worship our Creator.' But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father does seek such to Worship Him. יהוה is a Spirit, those who come to Him must come in Spirit and in Truth. John 4:23-24.

Within days Moshe (Moses) and the Yisraelites were at the Gulf
of Aqoba before them and the chariots of Pharaoh behind,
And Moshe said to the people, 'Do not be afraid. Stand still,
and see the deliverance of יהוה which He does for you today.
For the Mitsrites whom you see today, you are never, never
to see again. יהוה does fight for you and you keep still.'

The Red Sea Crossing was the Baptism of millions of His people.
Death faced them on every side. Soldiers behind, mountains of
water on both sides, with only one escape, directly forward to
the other side. Life awaited them according to the plan of יהוה,
all it took was Faith to get there. Compare this to immersion in
Baptism, because to turn back they faced the enemy with swords, to stay meant certain death, coming out of the water was life, freedom, peace, and a long period of testing. On the 10th of the month we took the lamb, on the 14th we killed it and placing the
blood on our doorpost saved us, we ate it in haste at sunset and into the 15th which gave us the strength for the journey, we were immersed in the sea, and found life on the other side.

Compare Messiah's Ministry

Compare this Festival to the ministry of our Messiah. Mashiach Yahoshua - משיח יהושע had just raised El'azar from
the dead in Beyth Anyah (Bethany), which is north of Jerusalem
through the Damascus gate to the East about three kilometers,
15 furlongs, and on the way to Jerusalem gave instructions
for a colt to be brought to Him.

He would bring the lamb back to the Temple and tie it to one of
the pillars to be left for three days for all to examine, that no
spot or imperfection be found, that it be worthy for sacrifice in
the Temple Service of Passover. The City and surrounding area
would have been filled past capacity for this event, filling the
streets and shops and every space available. They were waiting
for the High Priest to walk through the Damascus Gate back into
the City, down the Tyropoeon Valley, up the steps to the
Temple Mount, to tie the Lamb, for examination.

is what His taught ones would have been
shouting, and the entire City of perhaps
half a million followed in shouting.

Remember, The Name יהוה was forbidden to be spoken by the
religious leaders, they honored the pagan Ineffable Name doctrine.
The religious leaders then began to say to יהושע, something like,
'Can't you hear what they are saying, tell them to stop,' but
Yahshua replied, I say unto you, if these should be silent, the
rocks would cry out. Luke 19:40. And the rocks are today crying
out with every archaeological dig. Carved in stone are His Name
and His Words by the prophets of old. Most who think they are
believers continue in that same pagan doctrine; They have lost
The Key Of Wisdom. So the rocks continue to cry out as one of
the few witnesses today, preserved for us that we be reminded.
The True Wonderful Light from Above, השמ יהוה, The Beginning
Of Wisdom, Must come from the Rocks Crying Out because
there are not enough believers that Love The Truth, and
Reverence His Name, in the lawlessness of this generation.

The City would have sounded like a Hurricane, with everyone crying out Peace in Heaven and esteem in the highest. Waving their palms and shouting all pandemonium would be breaking out as this was the beginning moment they had come for, to celebrate the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread as commanded in the TORAH - תורה.

This happened on the Tenth of Aviv (Nissan) and in the evening of
day Thirteenth, after three days of being examined, the Last
Supper would be taking place, and that was the beginning of the
day of preparation. That was also the day He passed the
Cup of Betrothal to His taught ones in the upper room, and renewed the Covenant. This was not a Passover Seder,
because it was the beginning of the day of preparation;
the Passover Meal was to be the following night
after the killing of the Lamb.
John 19:14, And it was the Preparation
of the Passover, and about the sixth hour.
Luke 23:54 And it was the preparation day,
and the Sabbath was approaching.

Our High Priest

Yahoshua was taken before Qayapha (Caiaphas) who put Him to
the oath. יהושע was standing before the high priest who said to
Him, 'I put you to the oath, by the Living Elohim that You say
to us if you are the Messiah, the Son of Elohim.'
Matt26:63, Luke 22:70, Mark 14:63.

This oath was by the High Priest, and to not answer would mean
the throne, so Yahoshua confirmed by the words, You have said it.
When the high priest tore his garments an amazing thing happened. Imagine you were to tear your clothing in haste and anger, where would be the easiest place to tear it? The collar of the priest was reinforced that his collar not be torn by accident, for tearing of his collar would do the same as יהושע not answering the oath. The high priest would lose his office and there would be no high priest for the Passover service. That is what happened and the only qualified High Priest left for the True Temple Service was יהושע.

Could that have happened at a more appropriate time? Scripture
is full of Works of יהוה that happen at split second timing.
Pilate examined Yahoshua just after Qayapha, and said I find no
fault in Him. This is exactly what the high priest would have said
after the lamb in the Temple was found without fault, and it
was said by Pilate exactly at the right moment.

There is no way that a comprehensive study
can be done here, but there are books written
for that purpose. What we are here doing is an
overview and perhaps to bring up a few things
that are not well known among the Brethren.