COMMENTARY & OPINION

From the desk of

Bill Ramey

2/19/18

COMMENTARY & OPINION 

PASSOVER

DID THE MESSIAH REALLY CHANGE THE SYMBOLS OF THE PASSOVER --- DID HE SAY THAT? --- OR IS THIS MERELY THE PRIVATE DOCTRINE OF SOME RELIGIONIST WITH AN AGENDA --- ANOTHER WELL KNOWN RELIGIOUS FACT THAT SIMPLY ISN'T TRUE?

WE HAVE LEARNED IN THE PAST FEW YEARS THAT THE BREAD AND WINE CEREMONY THOSE WHO WORDSMITHED THE NEW TESTAMENT TRIED TO PAINT AS THE PASSOVER WAS NOT CONDUCTED ON THE BEGINNING OF NISAN 14 AS COMMANDED IN THE BOOK OF EXODUS FOR THE PASSOVER CEREMONY.

If we read the accounts in the gospels, we will find that the Messiah was nailed to the stake on mid morning of Nisan 14.  And He spent the previous night portion of Nisan 14 in prison being taunted and tortured so He couldn't have been participating in a Passover with His disciples at that time.  And the day preceding the eve of Nisan 14, (the day portion of Nisan 13), He spent the entire day in and out of various courts.  So it could have been no later than the beginning of Nisan 13 when He shared the Kiddush, (which was not the Passover), with his apostles.  Therefore, if we accept the myth of the change of the Passover symbols, should we be keeping it on that night? 

And what about footwashing?  Is that really a part of the Passover ceremony or is that more Christian mythology based on the assumption that Christ kept the Passover with His disciples that year?  The agenda for the Passover ceremony was set forth in Exodus 12 as an ordinance for Israel to be kept throughout their generations forever!

There are those who will say, "But we are not Israel; we are a gentile nation."  Those folks have missed some basics in their educational process.

But wait --- there's more, much more.  If we study the book of Exodus, we find that in order for the lamb to be roasted and ready to eat in the beginning of, (the evening portion of), Nisan 14, it must be killed sometime in the afternoon of the day portion of Nisan 13.  (Three and one half days after Nisan 10).  

Now, applying our God given right to think for ourselves, and reviewing the gospel accounts, we can see that the Messiah WAS the Passover that year!  Doesn't it go without saying that He would have been killed at the time the lambs were slain?  And this would have been the afternoon of Nisan 13 which would mean that he was in prison on the evening portion of Nisan 13 which would push back His day in and out of various courts to Nisan 12.  Can we believe what we are seeing?  But there's more and at this point we need to again put on our thinking cap.  Why?  Because the Passover saga in the gospels would have us believe that the Messiah died 24 hours after the Passover lambs were slain. Is this logical?   I did not find it saying exactly that but we were led to believe that by the haste that the body was to be entombed because of the approaching Sabbath.  You see, at this time the Jews still realized that the Passover and the first day of Unleavened Bread were two separate observances on two separate days --- although today they have either lost or buried that knowledge.  Exodus 12 makes it perfectly clear. 

Could it be that this entire N/T Passover saga is but another Christian fairy tale concocted by the "scholars" at the Vatican?

It begins to look as if the "Passover SCAM" we bought into years ago was but a Vatican back up plan for those who refused to buy into the Easter myth they were actively pushing in the 7th century.  You can read Pope Vitalian's letter to Oswy, king of the Brits, which accompanied the bones of the apostles Peter and Paul and others, in "Bede's Ecclesiastical History", book III, chapter 29.  This was in 656 AD and it app-ears, from my research into this, that these bones, (quite valuable to the Vatican), were to buy Oswy's endorsement of the Easter myth.  An interesting side note is, that Oswy's wife continued to observe the P/O. 

Can we begin to see why the Jewish opposition to what Christ was teaching was so violent?  It would have destroyed Judaism.

It still will --- along with Christianity, Islam and all the other myriad of religions. 

The account we have in the gospels has Christ telling the Pharisees, "You are of your father the devil..."  Many Christians dispute this and say Satan and his demons cannot sire children.  So was Christ lying?

Can we begin to see the many fables and rituals promoted by religion and that it is the only forum in the whole world that has been created by Lucifer for the deception of the "...whole world"? 

Having said this, let me be clear that I hereby reject, not only the Christian Easter SCAM, but the Passover SCAM of Christianity as well, which contends that Christ changed the Passover symbols.  I find no convincing evidence of this having happened.

Christ did not keep the Passover with His disciples the last year of His physical life --- He was in prison and not allowed to.  He told them beforehand that He "desired" to keep that Passover with them but if we check out the term used there in the Greek dictionary of Strong's Concordance, we find it comes from a term meaning "...a longing for something forbidden". 

It is doubtful that any of us have kept the Passover as it was intended --- nor will we this upcoming one.  Seems that, we too, are imprisoned in a society created and commanded by Satan which progressively precludes keeping the ordinances of the Creator.  The plunge into idolatry and open Satan worship in this end time, with growing acceptance of child sacrifices is but the wedge Satan is driving between Israel and their God.  And we shall not be keeping the Passover as it was intended until we keep it in the Kingdom, in Jerusalem, with the Creator Himself officiating. 

So I will not be doing the bread and wine ritual this year as a part of the Passover ceremony on the eve of Nissan 14, (which, as nearly as I can determine begins at sunset March 30 this year).  I will be observing the time, to the best of my knowledge, with a simple meal as much in keeping with the Passover theme as my means and prison status allows.  I will review that fearful night in Egypt some 3500 years ago that foreshadowed an even greater event some 1500 years down the prophetic road of time.  I shall also review the last supper the Messiah had with His disciples that the masters of deceit try to paint as the Passover. 

And I shall pray "Thy Kingdom come..." when all the ordinances will be restored in all their intent and glory, when the new and greater Israel is established with borders restored to those given Abraham some 4000 years ago, and when the earth can begin to heal under new leadership. 

Is this heresy or new understanding?  Can this really be true?  "Let each be persuaded in his/her own mind".  I wish you the most enlightened Passover ever.  It would seem that world conditions are shaping up to make it also the most exciting.