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Passover
& the connecting Feast of the Unleavened Bread (Pascha)

14 Nisan; Passover ánd crucifixionday at the same time; the biblical day ends with sundown and the new biblical day starts with that same sundown. 14 Nisan Passover starts after sundown (Passover and Holy Supper) and ends the next day (Exodus ánd crucifixion of Jesus).

All biblical Feasts for all Children of GOD are founded on Passover; the day Jesus died at the cross; also the day the last plaque was set over Egypt and just before the Exodus of the Jewish people started. The Exodus ended their life in slavery. Also for Christians a lifetime in slavery came to an end when Jesus died at the cross for all sin.

Consequently a correctly determined Passover is very important, because all remaining Feasts and their dates depend on it. Of course not the Sabbath and the New Moon Feast, because these days are on fixed days of the week and month; not connecting directly with Passover. Only the pinpointing of the first New Moon is very important, because Passover is calculated on this first New Moon.

How to determine the first New Moon and the connecting Feasts
• The new moon closest to the Spring-Equinox [before or after] is the first day of the first month

• Passover lays 13 days ahead and starts in 'the end-evening' of that 14 Nisan [evening 14 on 15 Nisan].

• The Feast of the Unleavened Bread [=Pascha] starts on the morning of 15 Nisan untill the 21st Nisan.
• 15 Nisan cannot/maynot fall before- or on the Spring-Equinox!
• The Firstfruit-Feast; is the Sunday laying in the week 15-21 Nisan. This Sunday is important, because Pentecost connects with that Sunday.

• Pentecost is the Sunday exactly 7 weeks plus 1 day after the Firstfruit-Feast.

Above the true chronological order of the Lords Supper, Crucifixion and Resurrection; also how Passover and the FOB-Feast related to that. Of course you do have to keep in mind, that the Last Supper had to be before the Crucifixion-day, because the Supper symbolizes that Crucifixion. And Jesus couldnot have both Supper and Crucixion at the same time... But now we do keep both the Lords Supper / the rememberance of the Crucifixion on the same day/time: Passover!

Connection between Passover, Firstfruit-Feast and Pentecost is no coincidence at all!
The Gospel tells us, that GOD sent us Jesus so we can come to GOD again, because only by Jesus we can come to GOD again. Coming to Jesus is done by the baptism by immersion. In that way people become a clean- and worthy temple themselves. It was the Passover-crucifixion of Christ that enabled just that!

But the Gospel of course also is about eternal life; Jesus stood up from the dead and received a new body. In that way Jesus is the Firstfruit of GOD and by his example all Christians will receive a new body and eternal life as well. The Firstfruit-Feast reminds Christians about their eternal future.

Still: the Gospel tells us Christians are able to come to GOD again after becoming a Christian by baptism. And joining GOD is done by means of the laying on of hands, because in that way Christians receive both the Spirit and the Spiritual Gifts. Before the apostles could teach and do the laying on of hands the Spirit had to be poured out over the Earth and Pentecost is all about that.

Now you know why Passover, Firstfruit-Feast and Pentecost connect; they cannot stay seperately. The Gospel needs all three Feasts to enable an eternal future with GOD! Also all the other Feasts point towards the future; in that way the biblical-Feasts are no 'church-history-feasts' at all.

Church-Easter: pagan day based on Ishtar
Christ and his crucifixion are the foundation of the heart of the Gospel and startingpoint for all Christians ánd the biblical Feasts.

In church however pagan Easter-day for the babylonian goddess Ishtar [=Astarte; Easter is old-English for Ishtar] is the foundation. Also the other pagan churchfeasts are interconnecting with that pagan foundation. The church makes these feasts look biblical because they make them refer to biblical happenings in the past.

Clearly a pagan church-foundation willnot shape Christians. Besides that: Christians need to be ready for a certain future; looking back at biblical history only willnot shape them- and willnot make them ready for that future at all!

Finally this Sunday-keeping: doesnot equal keeping the Sabbath according to the 4th Commandment of GOD;the Sunday-keeping also is a pagan institution of the 4th century-Roman Catholic church for the same babylonian pagan sungod.

Only Gods Sabbath -Friday sundown till Saturday sundown received Gods Special Blessings (Genesis 2:3). And only that Sabbath was appointed by GOD (Exodus 20).

High Sabbath & weekly Sabbath between crucifixion & resurrection
Churches often claim, that 'a High Sabbath' is when a common weekly Sabbath falls together with a first day of a biblical Feast of GOD. And in order to underwrite that churchvision they translated Matthew 28:1 wrongly.

Matthew 28:1 wrongly translated says 'Now after the Sabbath...', but the original Greek Scripture mentions 'Sabbatton'; the plural form of Sabbath. And plural means plural, so it should be translated with 'After the Sabbaths' instead! Multiple Sabbaths are falling between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection!

Of course we also know from John 19:31 that Jesus was crucified and burried just before a High Sabbath -being the first day of the Uneavened Bread-Feast-. Also that Jesus rose from the dead 3 days and 3 nights after the common weekly Sabbath (John 20:1). Clearly 2 Sabbaths instead of just one!

Incorrect translation of Matthew 26:17 and Mark 14:12
Because of a (deliberately) incorrect translation of Matthew 26:17 and Mark 14:12 ['On the first day of Unleavened Bread'] there is total confusion about the chronology of the Last Supper, Crucufixion and Resurrection. Totally not necessary when you (1) look at the translations in detail, when you (2) compare these translation with other parts of the Bible and when you (3) look at the Last Supper as a meal.

1. The 2 words translated with 'on' -the words kai <2532> and th <3588> used together actually mean 'Because of' or 'concerning', which would translate: 'Because of the first day of the Unleavened Bread...'.

'The Unleavened Bread'-part isnot correct either; Mark 14:12 identifies that particular piece of the day 'when they sacrificed the passover lamb'. That lamb was slaughtered according to the Law (Exodus 12:6) just before Passover on the 14th of Nisan starting-evening (13 on 14 Nisan).

The first day of the Unleavened Bread however starts afterwards on the morning of the 15 Nisan. Clearly the Jews in the time of Jesus connected Passover and Feast Unleavened Bread as one Feast ('Pascha'); and that is probably why Mark and others mention the preparing of the sheepmeat being the first day of the Unleavened Bread-Feast. It actually should read: 'Because of the Passoverfeast -the day when they sacrifice the passover lamb...'.

2. Because of John 13:1, John 18:28 and John 19:14 we know that the last Supper fell before Pascha/before the Paschameal.

John 18:28 and John 19:14 tell about the capture- and leading before priests and state/charging of Jesus; clearly happening before Pascha, and Pascha-meal and before the Crucufixion. Clearly Matthew 26:17 and Mark 14:12 werenot translated accurately.

John 18:28 - Arraigned before Passover and before Passover-meal
Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not enter the praetorium, so that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.

John 19:14-16 Crucifixion was before Passover-meal
Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold your King!" They cried out, "Away with him, away with him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar." Then he handed him over to them to be crucified.

3. We know from the Last Supper that the meal wasnot consistent with the Passover-meal, because Jesus and the disciples ate bread and soup/sauce. The Passover-meal by Law (Ex 12:5-9) had to consist of sheeproast, bitter herbs and unleavened bread; quite different from what they ate at the Last Supper!

Passover-meal: roasted lamb with bitter herbs and unleavened bread

Exodus 12:5-9 - Passover-meal: sheeproast with bitter herbs and bread
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old; you shall take it from the sheep or from the goats; and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs in the evening. Then they shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat them. They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled with water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.

The Last Supper: bread, soup/sauce and wine
John 13:18 - Bread is the main course of the meal
I am not speaking of you all; I know whom I have chosen; it is that the scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.

John 13:26 - bread was dipped into soup/sauce
Jesus answered, "It is he to whom I shall give this morsel when I have dipped it." So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.