The Spring Feast of Israel - Bible Verse Handbook

Our Journey starts in Bethany!

Nisan 9th
Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany... (John 12:1)

Nisan 10th
Moses handed over to Joshua and on Nisan 10th Joshua took the people over the River Jordan to the Promised land

And the people came up out of Jordan on the  tenth day  of the first month, (Nisan) and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho. (Joshua 4:19)

Nisan 10th  the Israelites selected a male lamb without blemish

• As on the tenth day of this month (Nisan) each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household.

6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. (Exodus 12: 3a; 6)

• So too on Nissan 10th Jesus of Nazareth rode into the city of Jerusalem on the young colt of a donkey.

1 Now when they drew near Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,  2  saying to them,  “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loose  them  and bring  them  to Me.   3  And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,' and immediately he will send them.”

4  All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:

5  “Tell   the daughter of Zion,
‘Behold, your King is coming to you,
Lowly, and sitting on a donkey,
A colt, the foal of a donkey.' ”

6  So the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them.  7  They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes on them,  and set  Him  on them.  8  And a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road; others cut down branches from the trees and spread  them  on the road.  9  Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying:

“Hosanna to the Son of David!
‘Blessed   is   He who comes in the name of the   Lord !'
Hosanna in the highest!”

10  And when He had come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, “Who is this?”

11  So the multitudes said, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee.” (Matt 21:1-11)

Now when they drew near Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, He sent two of His disciples;  2  and He said to them,  “Go into the village opposite you; and as soon as you have entered it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has sat. Loose it and bring  it.   3  And if anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?' say, ‘The Lord has need of it,' and immediately he will send it here.”

4  So they went their way, and found  the colt tied by the door outside on the street, and they loosed it.  5  But some of those who stood there said to them, “What are you doing, loosing the colt?”

6  And they spoke to them just as Jesus had commanded. So they let them go.  7  Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their clothes on it, and He sat on it.  8  And many spread their clothes on the road, and others cut down leafy branches from the trees and spread  them  on the road.  9  Then those who went before and those who followed cried out, saying:

“Hosanna!
‘Blessed   is   He who comes in the name of the   Lord !'
10  Blessed  is  the kingdom of our father David
That comes in the name of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest!”

11  And Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the temple. So when He had looked around at all things, as the hour was already late, He went out to Bethany with the twelve. (Mk 11:1-11)

28  When He had said this, He went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.  29  And it came to pass, when He drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mountain called Olivet,  that  He sent two of His disciples,  30  saying,  “Go into the village opposite  you,  where as you enter you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Loose it and bring  it here.   31  And if anyone asks you, ‘Why are you loosing  it? ' thus you shall say to him, ‘Because the Lord has need of it.' ”

32  So those who were sent went their way and found  it  just as He had said to them.  33  But as they were loosing the colt, the owners of it said to them, “Why are you loosing the colt?”

34  And they said, “The Lord has need of him.”  35  Then they brought him to Jesus. And they threw their own clothes on the colt, and they set Jesus on him.  36  And as He went,  many  spread their clothes on the road.

37  Then, as He was now drawing near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen,  38  saying:

“  ‘Blessed   is   the King who comes in the name of the   Lord !'
Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” ( Lk 19:28-38)

12  The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,  13  took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out:

“Hosanna!
‘Blessed   is   He who comes in the name of the   Lord !'
The King of Israel!”

14  Then Jesus, when He had found a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written:

15  “Fear   not, daughter of Zion;
Behold, your King is coming,
Sitting on a donkey's colt.”

16  His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about Him and  that  they had done these things to Him. ( Jn 12:12-16)

The Feast of Lambs:

God sent the unblemished Lamb and He was rejected.

Prophesied in the Old Testament

9  “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your King is coming to you;
He  is  just and having salvation,
Lowly and riding on a donkey,
A colt, the foal of a donkey. (Zech 9:9)

This is the day we call ‘Psalm Sunday'

•  As on the 10th day of Nisan, the Israelites selected a male lamb without blemish.

3  Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of  his  father, a lamb for a household.  4  And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take  it  according to the number of the persons; according to each man's need you shall make your count for the lamb.  5  Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male  of the first year. You may take  it  from the sheep or from the goats.  6  Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.  (Exod 12: 3-6)

• So Jesus was the lamb without blemish.

19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. (1 Peter 1: 19)

• As God provided the Lamb for Abraham. A shadow of the Lamb that would come

Abraham answered,   “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” (Genesis 22:8)

• So God provided the Lamb of God.  (Jesus)

“Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
(John 1:29)

Yeshua is in Jerusalem

• As the Jews in preparation of the Passover, would go through their house in search for leaven to be removed.   (Leaven represents sin)

6  Then Jesus said to them,  “Take heed and beware of the   leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”

7  And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “ It is  because we have taken no bread.”

8  But Jesus, being aware of  it,  said to them,  “O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you   [ d ] have brought no bread?   9  Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up?   10  Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up?   11  How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?— but  to beware of the   leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”   12  Then they understood that He did not tell  them  to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees. (Matthew 16:6-12)

1In the meantime, when an innumerable multitude of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, He began to say to His disciples first  of all,   “Beware of the   leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. ( Luke 12:1)

2  And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.  3  For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed.  4  In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,  5  deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6  Your glorying  is  not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?  7  Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.  8  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened  bread  of sincerity and truth.
( 1 Corinthians 5:2-8)

• So at the same time the Jews were cleaning the leaven from their houses, Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. (Matthew 21:12-13)

Yeshua the Passover lamb

5  The Lord's  (not the Jewish)  Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.  (Nisan 14th)   (Leviticus 23:5)

Nisan 14th  It was on this evening that Jesus had His Last Supper

The Passover symbols would now represent Christ's complete sacrifice—the unleavened bread representing His sinless body that was beaten for us…

Jesus is arrested the night of Nisan 14 which is the evening of Nisan 13. (Remember Hebrew days start from sunset the evening before.)

3 So Judas came to the garden … They were carrying torches, lanterns and weapons. (John 18:3)

• As God commanded the sheep to be brought into the temple courtyard on the early morning of Passover;

•  1 So in the early morning of Passover, Jesus was brought into the temple courtyard;
Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, made their plans. So they bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate. (Mark 15: 1)

• As the Passover lamb had to be killed in Jerusalem, but outside of the city gates.

5  “You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the  Lord  your God gives you;  6  but at the place where the  Lord  your God chooses to make His name abide, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt. (Deuteronomy 16:5-6)

• So Christ was killed in Jerusalem, but outside of the city gates.

16  Then he delivered Him to them to be crucified. Then they took Jesus and led  Him  away.

17  And He, bearing His cross, went out to a place called  the Place  of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha,  18  where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on either side, and Jesus in the center.  19  Now Pilate wrote a title and put  it  on the cross. And the writing was:

JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

(John 19:16-19)

10  We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.  11  For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.  12  Therefore Jesus also, that He might  sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.  13  Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach. 
( Hebrews 13:10-13)

The Exodus Passover was the landmark event for Israel and a shadow of the Gospel, the Good News. That lamb foreshadowed the spotless Lamb of God, who without sin, carried in His body the transgressions of the whole world to a hill called Golgotha.

The hour of Jesus' Crucifixion

The 3rd hour – 9 am in the morning

• As God commanded the sheep to be bound at 9am, for preparation for their sacrifice;

• So Jesus was bound to the cross at 9am.

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. (Isaiah 53:7)

The 6th hour – 12 noon

45 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. (Matt. 27: 45)

The 9th hour – 3pm in the afternoon
• As God commanded the priest to sacrifice the lamb at 3pm and say “It is finished”

• So Jesus took His last breath at 3pm and said “It is finished.”

At the same time, (the ninth hour – 3.00pm) the veil of the Temple tore from top to bottom - representing a removal of the separation between God and man.

• As the Passover lamb roasted in fire, and none of its bones were broken.

8  Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread  and  with bitter  herbs  they shall eat it. 

46  In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break one of its bones. 
(Exod 12:8, 46)

• So Jesus had no bones broken

But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. (John 19: 33)

• As the Passover was to be eaten in haste.

• So Christ's hasty burial before sunset on Nisan 14th  (Before the High Sabbath)

The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, for that Sabbath day was an high day.  (Not necessary Saturday)  

31  Therefore, because it was the Preparation  Day,  that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day) (John 19:31a)

42 It was Preparation Day  (that is, the day before the Sabbath). So as evening approached, 43 Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body. (Mark 15: 42-43)

His burial took place on Nisan 14th before sunset which would have been the start of the High Sabbath.

• As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish.

• So the Son of Man will be  three days and three nights  in the heart of the earth.

40  For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.   (Matthew 12:40)

Resurrection took place early Sunday morning on Nisan 17th the Firstfruit Festival

Apostle Paul said:  For Christ, our Passover lamb .

For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.  8  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened  bread  of sincerity and truth.
(1 Cor. 5: 7b-8)

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