God's Passover

GOD’S PASSOVER
SOLOMON APPIAH
Passover Tradition, NT Realities and the Heavens
24 April 2016

TABLE OF CONTENTS
i. INTRO TO REAL JEWS, JEWISH DAY, WEEK,
MONTH, YEAR & 7 MAJOR FEASTS
ii. PASSOVER: DATE, COMPUTATIONS &
CONNECTIONS
iii. PASSOVER AND THE HEAVENS
iv. WHAT SEASON ARE WE IN NOW DURING THE
PASSOVER?
2

WHO IS A REAL JEW?
Rom 2:28-29 AMP
(28) For he is not a [real] Jew who is only
one outwardly and publicly, nor is [true]
circumcision something external and
physical.
(29) But he is a Jew who is one inwardly,
and [true] circumcision is of the heart, a
spiritual and not a literal [matter]… 3

JEWISH DAY
• The Jewish day (yom) begins at
sundown.
• A Jewish holiday begins on the night
before the day listed in a Jewish
calendar.
• For example, Yom HaShoah (Holocaust
Memorial Day) occurs on Nisan 27, which
actually begins after sundown, Nisan 26
4

JEWISH WEEK
The Jewish week (shavu'a) begins on 1st
day of the week and ends on the
7th(Shabbat).
5

THE JEWISH MONTH
• Hebrew calendar → lunar one
• Rosh Chodesh ("Head of the Month")
symbolizes renewal of the new moon
(month)
• Rosh Chodesh symbolizes renewal and
restoration.
6

JEWISH NEW YEAR
• God actually tells us the beginning of the
Year
• Exo 12:2 This month shall be to you the
beginning of months, the first month of
the year to you.
• The month is Nisan.
• Real New Year → Nisan 1 or April 9, 2016
• Spring is the start of the Biblical Year 7

2 types of Jewish Calendars:
1) Civil Calendar: official calendar of
kings, childbirth, and contracts – Begins
in Tisheri (Sept/Oct)
2) Sacred Calendar: from which festivals
were computed – Nisan 1 or April 9,
2016
8

ARE THEY GOD’S FEASTS OR JEWISH FEASTS ?
Leviticus 23:1-4 NKJV
1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2. "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to
them: 'The feasts of the Lord, which you shall
proclaim to be holy convocations, these are
My feasts.
4. 'These are the feasts of the Lord, holy
convocations which you shall proclaim at their
appointed times.
9

QUESTION: Who gave the FEASTS?
ANSWER: THE LORD
QUESTION: What relation have they to me?
ANSWER: Every relation! The entire NT is a
fulfilment of the LORD’s feasts—shadows of
things to come
The 7 Feasts begin with the death & sacrifice
of the lamb & concludes with the Feast
foreshadowing GOD being poured out of us
into society 10

ARE THE FEASTS IMPORTANT TO BELIEVERS?
Col 2:16-17 AMP
(16) Therefore let no one sit in judgment on
you in matters of food and drink, or with
regard to a feast day or a New Moon or a
Sabbath.
(17) Such [things] are only the shadow of
things that are to come, and they have only a
symbolic value. But the reality (the substance,
the solid fact of what is foreshadowed, the
body of it) belongs to Christ.
11

ARE THE FEASTS IMPORTANT TO BELIEVERS?
They are important because:
1) A feast day, New Moon, Sabbaths are a
shadow of things to come whose reality is
Christ
2) Paul asks us to keep them (1 Cor 5:8 AMP)
3) Till today GOD makes the governors/rulers
of day and night proclaim their realities
4) They reveal different aspects of the
nature of GOD 12

There are seven (7) major feasts divided
into:
1. Four (4) Spring time feasts
2. Three (3) Fall feasts
14

SPRING FEASTS
HEBREW ENGLISH
1) PESACH PASSOVER
2) Hag
haMatzah
Unleavened Bread
3) Yom
HaBikkurim
First Fruits
4. Shavuot Feast of Weeks, Pentecost15

FALL FEASTS
HEBREW ENGLISH
5) Yom T'ruah Trumpets (also called Rosh
HaShanah)
6) Yom Kippur Day of Atonement (also called
Yom haDin)
7) Sukkot Tabernacles (also called
Booths)
16

CHRIST REVEALED IN ALL 7 FEASTS - SUMMARY
THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD
Lev 23:6 AMP On the fifteenth day of the same
month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the
Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened
bread. [I Cor. 5:7, 8.]
1Co 5:7 AMP Purge (clean out) the old leaven
that you may be fresh (new) dough, still
uncontaminated [as you are], for Christ, our
Passover [Lamb], has been sacrificed
We were leavened. He is UN-leavened 17

• Leaven is connected to sin and teaching
of Pharisees
• Wages of sin is death
• Unleavened bread = Bread without sin
• Unleavened bread = Bread of Life
• Healing is the Children’s Bread
• His Body broken for your healing
18

FEAST OF FIRST FRUITS
• Lev 23:10 KJV Speak unto the children of
Israel, and say unto them, When ye be
come into the land which I give unto you,
and shall reap the harvest thereof, then
ye shall bring a sheaf of the FIRSTFRUITS of
your harvest unto the priest:
• Jesus—FIRST born amongst many
brethren i.e. from the dead (I Corinthians
15:20-23) 19

Rom 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he
also did predestinate to be conformed to
the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren
Col 1:18 And he is the head of the body,
the church: who is the beginning, the
firstborn from the dead; that in all things he
might have the preeminence
20

FEAST OF WEEKS (PENTECOST / HARVEST)
Lev 23:15-16 AMP
• (15) And you shall count from the day after
the Sabbath, from the day that you brought
the sheaf of the wave offering, seven
Sabbaths; [seven full weeks] shall they be.
• (16) Count fifty days to the day after the
seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a
cereal offering of new grain to the Lord.
• INFILLING of the Holy Spirit—God in us 21

Act 2:1-4 AMP
(1) AND WHEN the day of Pentecost had
fully come, they were all assembled
together in one place,
(4) And they were all filled with the Holy
Spirit and began to speak in other
(different, foreign) languages (tongues),
as the Spirit kept giving them clear and
loud expression [in each tongue in
appropriate words]. 22

FEAST OF TRUMPETS (ROSH HASHANAH)
• Lev 23:24 KJV Speak unto the children of
Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the
first day of the month, shall ye have a
sabbath, a memorial of blowing of
trumpets, an holy convocation.
• Jesus the Word preached and then the
end shall come
• His word covers earth as waters the sea
23

1Co 15:52-54 AMP
(52) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the [sound of
the] last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead
[in Christ] will be raised imperishable (free and immune from
decay), and we shall be changed (transformed).
(53) For this perishable [part of us] must put on the
imperishable [nature], and this mortal [part of us, this nature
that is capable of dying] must put on immortality (freedom
from death).
(54) And when this perishable puts on the imperishable and
this that was capable of dying puts on freedom from death,
then shall be fulfilled the Scripture that says, Death is
swallowed up (utterly vanquished forever) in and unto victory.
[Isa. 25:8.] 24

FEAST OF DAY OF ATONEMENT (YOM KIPPUR)
• Lev 23:27 AMP Also the tenth day of this seventh
month is the Day of Atonement...
• Jewish eschatology: Day in which the people of
Israel are to be judged and sins of nation atoned
• Day of Atonement referred to as also "Day of
Redemption" and "Day of Judgment". On this day,
God would either grant or deny atonement for the
coming year.
• Jesus made unto us wisdom, and righteousness,
and sanctification, and redemption (1 COR 1:30)25

FEAST OF TABERNACLES
Lev 23:34 AMP Say to the Israelites, The
fifteenth day of this seventh month, and for
seven days, is the Feast of Tabernacles or
Booths to the Lord.
Joh 7:2,10 KJV
(2) Now the Jews' Feast of tabernacles was at
hand.
(10) But when his brethren were gone up, then
went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but
as it were in secret. 26

Joh 7:37-39 KJV
(37) In the last day, that great day of the feast,
Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst,
let him come unto me, and drink.
(38) He that believeth on me, as the scripture
hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of
living water.
(39) (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they
that believe on him should receive: for the Holy
Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus
was not yet glorified.)
27

PENTECOST → INFILLING
TABERNACLES → OUTPOURING
(Jn 7:2,10, 37-39)
… of the Holy Spirit
28

FEASTS & YOUR LIFE
1) PASSOVER results in us being born again
2) UNLEVENED BREAD: After new birth we take
part in the divine nature by eating bread of
life
i. Unleavened bread = bread of life; bread
without sin. Wages of sin is death. In absence of
sin is life
3) FIRST FRUITS: We live a life where we give
GOD our first fruit—children, business, salary
etc. 29

5) TRUMPETS: Jesus is the proclamation of
GOD’s teachings. He is the Word of
GOD
6) ATONEMENT: Jesus our redemption &
positive judgment
7) TABERNACLES: OUTPOURING of HOLY
GHOST from where? OUT of YOUR BELLY
30

PASSOVER
DATE, COMPUTATION, CONNECTIONS

FIRST FEAST - PESACH (PASSOVER)
Pesach April 23 – April 30, 2016
Nisan 15 – Nisan 22, 5776
Passover is the FOUNDATION upon which
all 7 feasts stand
32

MATERIALS NEEDED TO KEEP PASSOVER
1. UN-Leavened Bread
2. Lamb with no bones broken
3. Blood
Jesus became the sacrificial lamb. He
was our unleavened bread and he shed
his blood for us. Our Passover is complete
33

WHEN WAS THE SACRIFICE MADE FOR YOU?
IN THE WORLD OR IN PROMISED LAND
• OT—In Egypt
• NT—In the World when we were sinners
• Rom 5:8 AMP But God shows and clearly
proves His [own] love for us by the fact
that while we were still sinners, Christ (the
Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.
34

SIGNIFICANCE
• Passover is the season for the
demonstration of the LOVE of GOD
• This is when we tackle Fear, Insecurity
35

WHEN IS GOD’S PASSOVER?
Exo 12:3 AMP Tell all the congregation of Israel,
On the tenth day of this month they shall take
every man a lamb or kid, according to [the size
of] the family of which he is the father, a lamb
or kid for each house.
Exo 12:6 AMP And you shall keep it until the
fourteenth day of the same month; and the
whole assembly of the congregation of Israel
shall [each] kill [his] lamb in the evening.
36

SIGNIFICANCE
Ex 12: 2-3*: The season of Fathers taking their
place—in selection and application of the true
Passover Jesus - 1 Co 5:7—Guarding homes
Season of Protection of Children by Fathers
incl.: GOD the King - Heb 11:23
Protection for everything you produce:
• physical and spiritual children, businesses,
career
37

DURATION OF PASSOVER
• Exo 12:15 KJV Seven days shall ye eat unleavened
bread…
• New Year is Nissan 1
• Passover’s duration is 7 days
• First day of Passover: Nisan 1 + 14 days = Nisan 15
i.e. April 23
• Add 7 days to get last day of Passover: Nisan 15 +
7days = Nisan 22 i.e. April 30
• April 23 + 7days = April 30; Pesach 2016 is Apr 23-3038

1Co 5:7-8 AMP
(7) Purge (clean out) the old leaven that you
may be fresh (new) dough, still
uncontaminated [as you are], for Christ, our
Passover [Lamb], has been sacrificed
(8) Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old
leaven, nor with leaven of vice and malice
and wickedness, but with the unleavened
[bread] of purity (nobility, honor) and sincerity
and [unadulterated] truth. [Exod. 12:19; 13:7;
Deut. 16:3.] 39

• Leaven: vice, malice and wickedness
• Unleavened [bread] of purity (nobility, honor)
and sincerity and [unadulterated] truth
• Unleavened Bread also stands for Bread of
Life
• Leaven also has to do with false teaching
• Mat 16:12 AMP Then they discerned that He
did not tell them to beware of the leaven of
bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees
and Sadducees 40

QUESTION: Who was Paul speaking to?
ANSWER: Believers in Corinth
Meaning believers are to keep the feast the
way Apostle Paul instructed
QUESTION: How ?
ANSWER: Keep the feast, not with old leaven,
nor with leaven of vice and malice and
wickedness, but with the unleavened [bread]
of purity (nobility, honor) and sincerity and
[unadulterated] truth. 41

PASSOVER AND THE HEAVENS
UNDERSTANDING TIMES AND SEASONS

Why did GOD create the Sun, Moon & Stars?
Gen 1:16 AMP And God made the two great lights-
-the greater light (the sun) to rule the day and the
lesser light (the moon) to rule the night. He also
made the stars.
Gen 1:14 AMP And God said, Let there be lights in
the expanse of the heavens to separate the day
from the night, and let them be signs and tokens [of
God's provident care], and [to mark] seasons, days,
and years, [Gen. 8:22.]
43

Psa 136:8-9 AMP
• (8) The sun to rule over the day, for His
mercy and loving-kindness endure
forever;
• (9) The moon and stars to rule by night,
for His mercy and loving-kindness endure
forever;
44

• God created the Sun to rule the day
• God created the Moon & Stars to govern the
night
• God created the lights (Sun, Moon, Stars):
1) To separate the day from the night
2) To be signs or signposts
3) As tokens of God's provident care
4) To mark seasons
5) To mark days
6) To mark years
45

• You can only know what to do—live purposely—
when you have UNDERSTANDING of the TIMES
• 1Ch 12:32 AMP And of Issachar, men who had
understanding of the times to know what Israel
ought to do, 200 chiefs; and all their kinsmen
were under their command;
• Command given to those who understood the
TIMES
• How can one understand TIMES?
• By understanding the lights which marks seasons
etc. 46

•Understand the lights and you’ll
understand the TIMES
• If evil persons do not want God’s
SEASONS/TIMES for a person, they simplt
attempt to change the times and
seasons—re-program them
• QUESTION: How can this be done?
• ANSWER: Through the sun, moon, star(s)
47

• GOD is the one with power to CHANGE times
& seasons legally
• Dan 2:21 AMP He [GOD] changes the times and
the seasons; He removes kings and sets up kings.
He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to
those who have understanding! [Dan. 4:35.]
• The Dragon and its surrogates also try to
change the time of the feasts
• Dan 7:25 AMP And he shall speak words against
the Most High [God] and shall wear out the saints
of the Most High and think to change the time [of
sacred feasts and holy days] … 48

• Q: Why did enemy want to change TIMES and
SEASONS?
• A: To change the PLAN of GOD
• Sacred feasts numbered from the lunar
calendar i.e. moon
• Gregorian Calendar and other calendars
before → Attempts at changing TIMES
• Q: Why understand the heavenly bodies?
• A: SO you can understand the Times
49

Job 38:32-33 AMP
(32) Can you lead forth the signs of the
zodiac in their season? Or can you guide [the
stars of] the Bear with her young?
(33) Do you know the ordinances of the
heavens? Can you establish their rule upon
the earth?
• What is the Zodiac?
50

BIBLICAL DEFINITION OF ZODIAC
mazzârâh
BDB Definition:
1) Mazzaroth
1a) the 12 signs of the Zodiac and their 36
associated constellations
51

• Psa 19:1-4 KJV
• (1) The heavens declare the glory of God; and the
firmament sheweth his handywork.
• (2) Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto
night sheweth knowledge.
• (3) There is no speech nor language, where their
voice is not heard.
• (4) Their line is gone out through all the earth, and
their words to the end of the world. In them hath
he set a tabernacle for the sun,
52

• Each of the 12 and 36 declare the GLORY
of GOD
• What is this GLORY?
• It is GOD’s weightiness, power, honor,
dignity, authority, magnificence, fame,
excellence, abundance
53

Constellations are mentioned in the bible in Job
38:32 and in other passages. We must understand
them
A Constellation is defined as a group of stars forming
a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named
after its apparent form or identified with a
mythological figure.
There are 12 major Gates → 12 Constellations
When the Sun runs though all 12 Constellations
(Group of Stars), ONE year is complete
54

ECLIPTIC
The ecliptic is the apparent path of the Sun on the
celestial sphere, and is the basis for the ecliptic
coordinate system. It also refers to the plane of this
path, which is coplanar with the orbit of Earth
around the Sun (and hence the apparent orbit of
the Sun around Earth).
Ps 19 speaks of the ecliptic when it says,
their line has gone through all the earth
55

• The Bible tells us:
• And God said, Let there be lights in the
firmament of the heaven to divide the day
from the night; and let them be for SIGNS,
and for seasons, and for days, and years
Genesis 1:14
• Signs point to something much like a
signboard
• The Constellations are signs that tell us
about the GLORY of GOD 60

• What SIGN is GOD showing in the
heavens above now?
• In which of the 12 Gates is the Sun
moving now?
• What is the heavens declaring now i.e.
which part of God’s Glory?
• ANSWER: Aries the Lamb/Ram
61

• Is it not interesting that in Passover
season, the sun has entered Aries the
sacrificial lamb
• The heavens truly declare the GLORY of
GOD
• When did sun enter Aries?
64

Constellation Date
Aries –
Lamb/Ram
April 19 - May 13
Taurus –
Bull/Wild Ox
May 14 - June 19
65

• Job 38:33 NIV Do you know the laws of the
heavens? Can you set up God's dominion
over the earth?
• Dominion has to do with King’dom
• What are the ordinances of the heavens in
this season?
• W/o knowing them, we cannot set up God's
dominion over the earth
66

QUESTION: What are the heavens declaring?
From April 19 - May 13, they’ll be declaring
the lamb/ram sacrificed and the
consequences and mysteries thereof
QUESTION: What are some of the mysteries of
the Passover being declared? In other words,
what season are we in?
67

1) Spring Season: Rebirth of creation—old dies
and new comes out. Lamb planted, Lion
resurrects! NEW BEGINNINGS
2) Destroyer released at head of months
3) Passover – Season of release of GOD’s
armed forces—making sure destroyer does
not exceed bounds
4) Firstborn of Egypt/World System is
judged/killed/destroyed. What does this
mean ? 68

• In this season, the LORD caps his judgments
with its finale—death of all firstborns of the
dragon that lived in the rivers Ez 29, 32
• Gen 49:3 KJV Reuben, thou art my firstborn,
my might, and the beginning of my strength,
the excellency of dignity, and the excellency
of power:
• In this season, the LORD kills the beginning of
the strength of the dragon fighting you, its
might and the excellency of its dignity &
power
69

EGYPIAN CROWN
The real king of
Egypt is the
dragon/serpent
on the crown
70

• In this season, the LORD judges the
firstborn of the dragon but leaves the
slaughter and dismemberment of the
Dragon to Moses i.e. YOU
• QUESTION: How did this happen?
• ANSWER: Passover is the season of
application of SCEPTERS in judgment
71

Exo 14:16-21
(16) But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it:
and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
(17) And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow
them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots,
and upon his horsemen.
(18) And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour
upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
(19) And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and
went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood
behind them:
(20) And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it
was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one
came not near the other all the night.
(21) And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to
go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the
waters were divided. 72

5) V16 Season of lifting up scepters
6) V17 Season of hardening of evil hearts so
GOD gets honor over them
7) V18 Season of KNOWing that HE is the LORD
8) V19 Season of the repositioning of Angels
for your protection
9) Season of removal of obstacles including
seas and mountains
10) Season of slaying the Dragon i.e. princes
73

QUESTION: How did the sea divide?
ANSWER 1: Principalities were judged & by
a strong east wind (EX 14:20)
ANSWER 2: Drawn out of rivers by hooks
and cast onto wilderness, fed to spirit birds
and beasts (Eze 29:3-6)
ANSWER 3: Caught in GOD’s net, cast on
open field, scattered flesh and fed to
birds and beats spiritually (Eze 32:2-8 )
74

ANSWER 4: Broke the heads of the
Egyptian dragons in the waters.
Crushed the heads of Leviathan. Gave it
as food for the creatures inhabiting the
wilderness.
This is spiritual wilderness and spiritual
inhabitants
75

Eze 29:3-6 AMP
(3) Say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh
king of Egypt, the great monster [of sluggish and unwieldy
strength] that lies in the midst of his [delta] streams, [boastfully]
declaring, My river Nile is my own and I have made it for myself.
(4) But I will put hooks in your jaws [O Egyptian dragon] and I will
cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales, and I will draw
you up out of the midst of your streams with all the fish of your
streams which stick to your scales.
(5) And I will cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish
of your rivers; you shall fall upon the open field and not be
gathered up or buried. I have given you for food to the [wild]
beasts of the earth and the birds of the heavens.
(6) And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know (understand and
realize) that I am the Lord [the Sovereign Ruler, Who calls forth
loyalty and obedient service], because they have been a
[deceitful] staff [made of fragile] reeds to the house of Israel
76

Eze 32:2-8 AMP
(2) Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him, You have
likened [yourself] to a young lion, leader of the nations, but you are like a [monster] dragon in
the seas; you break forth in your rivers and trouble the waters with your feet, and you make foul
their rivers [the sources of their prosperity].
(3) Thus says the Lord God: I will therefore throw out My net over you with a host of many
peoples, and they shall bring you up in My dragnet.
(4) Then I will leave you [Egypt] upon the shore; I will cast you on the open field and will cause
all the birds of the heavens to settle upon you, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with
you.
(5) And I will scatter your flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with your high heap of
corpses and their worms.
(6) I will also water with your flowing blood the land, even to the mountains, and the hollows
and water channels shall be full of you.
(7) And when I have extinguished you, I will cover the heavens [of Egypt] and make their stars
dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud and the moon shall not give her light.
(8) All the bright lights of the heavens I will make dark over you and set darkness upon your
land, says the Lord God.
77

Psa 74:13-14 AMP
(13) You did divide the [Red] Sea by Your
might; You broke the heads of the
[Egyptian] dragons in the waters. [Exod.
14:21.]
(14) You crushed the heads of Leviathan
(Egypt); You did give him as food for the
creatures inhabiting the wilderness.
78

• Season of HOOKING and casting NET by
fishers, smashing the head of principalities
• QUESTION: What does GOD mean by heads
of the dragons?
• ANSWER 1: Jesus is head of church—our
FOUNDATION, cornerstone, support structure
• Strike the head and the body will die
• Strike the legs and head will live
• Heads are judged in this season
79

11.Season of breaking GENERATIONAL
bondages—430 years in slavery—broken with
sacrifice of lamb and the application of
blood on gates
12.Season of supernatural open doors to riches
and wealth—wealth to serve GOD with
13.Season when predator becomes prey
14.Passover season of healing—unleavened
bread
15.Judging of civilizations/hegemons 80

• JESUS is our PASSOVER
• He has opened a way out of every Egypt,
given us the wealth of Egypt and given us
Angels to protect us and convey us to our
promised land
• The chief purpose of the Passover is
restoration of relationship with GOD—
discipling a nation to once again walk with
GOD in his ways—transforming them in a
kingdom of priest OR making them priest and
kings unto our GOD 81

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