The way of the tabernacle paints a picture of the path to salvation, which is to be indwelt by the Holy Spirit. Priests would enter through the gate, present the sacrifice on the brazen altar, and then purify themselves at the laver (baptism of John).

This is where the "church" typically stops in its teaching of salvation; but, like the Samaritans in Acts 8 had done before Peter and John came to them, the churchian model stops short of the most important aspect of this progression, which is entering the Holy of Holies.

The lighted menorah, altar of incense, and the bread of the presence in the Holy Place represent guidance and nourishment from the Holy Spirit as He leads the believer into the Holy of Holies, which is to receive the covenant of marriage as Messiah Yahoshua's bride.

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The thief on the cross manifestly understood the path to salvation better than the highly educated pharisees. He provided the example of what is necessary to be born again, and he received his confirmation of that salvation directly from the Messiah Himself.

Passover:The Path to SAlvation

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Passover is also called “the preparation day;” but, preparation for what? It was actually the preparation day for the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and by that name, we can know that that signifies the removal of leaven, which is a symbol of sin. So, how does one prepare, through the Passover, for sin to be removed? Here, we will examine the essential parts of that preparation, and see the accompanying scriptures that apply.

In 1 Corinthians 5:7-8, we're told, “Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”

What are the steps to doing that?

1. Baptize: Ceremonial cleansing for redemption.
   

• John 3:5 Christ answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of Yah.

• John 15:3:  You are already clean because of the Word (logos) I have spoken to you.

• John 11:55:  When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover.

• Ephesians 5:26: that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the Word (logos).

2. Remove All Leaven: Remove Sin by Confession.
   

• 1 Corinthians 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

• 1 John 1:9  If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

• Romans 2:16: All this will happen on the day when Yah will judge people’s secret thoughts through Christ. This is part of the Good News that I tell everyone.

• James 5:16: Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

3. Sacrifice the Lamb: Identify with the Lamb.
   

• Matthew 10:32:  “Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

• Luke 12:8:  “I tell you, whoever publicly acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of Yah.

• Romans 10:9:  If you declare with your mouth, “Christ Yahoshua is Lord,” and believe in your heart that Yah raised him from the dead, you will be (future tense) saved.

The three steps above are what are taught through the Passover meal, called the Seder, which merely means “order.” So, the meal lays out the order of the preparation for salvation, or being declared righteous, which is to be free from the sin of disbelief—the unpardonable sin—or, the leaven whereby one is deemed eternally unrighteous by Yah.

Passover Begins

1 Corinthians 6:11: And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Messiah and by the Spirit of our God.

1 Corinthians 6:17: But whoever is united with Christ is one with him in the Spirit.

Romans 2:28-29: A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.  No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from Yah.

Hebrews 10:15-17: The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: “This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds.” Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts
I will remember no more.”

Romans 3:25: Yah displayed publicly as a propitiation [substitutionary sacrifice of atonement] in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of Yah, He passed over the sins previously committed; for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Yahoshua.

Note: The Greek for “sacrifice of atonement” refers to the atonement cover on the Ark of the Covenant, also called the Mercy Seat (see Leviticus 16:15-16).

Romans 3:31: Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.

The Passover Seder

Father Opens the Door: The father opens the door as an invitation for the prophet Elijah to proclaim Messiah has come.

• Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. [Passover meal]

Lighting of the Candle (Spirit of Yah): The bride of the house lights the candle and says a prayer inviting the Spirit into her and the house.

• Romans 8:9-11: But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of Yah dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.  And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Christ from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

• 1 John 5:12:  Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of Yah does not have life.
  

Cup of Sanctification (Cleansing): Cup of Joy—Mix water (water cleanses) and wine (alcohol purifies) in the cup, which represents the Holy Spirit.

The father of the house says a prayer.

• John 17:17-19: Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.

• Ephesians 5:26: to make her holy, having cleansed her by the washing with water through the Word [Holy Spirit].
  
  

Washing of the Hands: Purification

• Titus 2:14: 14: who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.
  

• 1 John 3:2-3: Dear friends, now we are children of Yah, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears [or when it is made known], we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. All who have this hope in Him purify themselves, just as Christ is pure.

Herbs are given and dipped in salt water: First fruits of new life. Passing through the Red Sea from the world (Egypt). Salt is a symbol for covenant.

• Mark 9:49-50: For every man shall be salted with fire: and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt is good: but if the salt be unsavory, with what will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. (note: we must be seasoned and powered by Yah, both to be acceptable sacrifices unto him: and also that we, being knit together, may season one another.)
  

• II Corinthians 5:17: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

• Romans 7:6: But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

• Romans 8:21: that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of Yah.
  

Three Loaves of Bread: Prayer, showing the Matzah Tash (linen pouch with three sections), and the three loaves of bread (Yah the Father, Son, and Spirit). Remove the middle loaf of bread and break it into two pieces. Return the smaller part of the loaf back to the pouch. The larger piece is wrapped in linen (this larger piece is called the Afikoman, which is eaten after dinner) and it is hidden somewhere in the house (burial).

• 1 John 5:7: For there are three that testify:

Show the Lamb on the Seder Plate.

• Philippians 2:6-8: who, being in the form of Yah, thought it not robbery to be equal with the Father, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, made in the likeness of men, and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross (stake).

• Hebrews 2:9: But we see this same Christ Yahoshua, crowned with glory and honor, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, that He by the grace of Yah should taste death for every man.
  

• John 19:33: But when they came to Yahoshua and saw that He was dead already, they did not break His legs,
  

• John 19:40: And they took the body of Christ and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as is the manner of the Jews to bury.
  

• Mark 15:45-47: When he learned from the centurion that it was so, he gave the body to Joseph. So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.  Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where he was laid.
  

• Matthew 28:7: Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.
  

• Revelation 2:17: He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the ekklesia [the called out ones: the people who have the Holy Spirit indwelling them]. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.’

  Note: The word ekklesia was used 114 times in the NT and was replaced with “church”. Not everyone that goes to church is called out—has the Holy Spirit.
  

Cup of Justification: Deliverance. Prayer, and the telling of the deliverance story (this is called the Haggadah—which was the telling, or testimony, of being physically brought out of Egypt. That was a foreshadow of the real substance, which is the telling, or testimony, of one's confirmation from the Holy Spirit, through dreams and/or visions, that one was spiritually brought out of the world.)

• Romans 8:16: The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of Yah. [more later about the actual Greek word for “testifies with”]

• Romans 8:33:  Who will bring a charge against Yah’s elect? Yah is the one who justifies;

• Romans 4:24-25:  but also for us, to whom the Father will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Yahoshua our Lord from the dead. He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.

• Romans 5:1: Therefore, having been justified by faith, let us have peace with Yah through our Messiah Yahoshua.

• 1 John 5:10-12: He that believes in the Son of Yah has the witness of Yah in himself [the witness is the Holy Spirit]; he that does not believe Yah has made Yah a liar; because he does not believe the witness [Holy Spirit] that Yah has testified of his Son. And this is the witness that Yah has given eternal life to us, and this life is in his Son. He that has the Son has life; and he that does not have the Son of Yah does not have life.
  

The story of the four sons:

The first son is wise and wants to know all about the Passover in detail.

The second son is indifferent, but asks in general terms about all that he sees at the Passover table.

The third son is rebellious and wicked and wants no part of the Passover and does not need it. Additionally, he challenges the others and asks why they do it.

The fourth son is young and does not know enough about the Passover to ask questions and is instructed in all the teachings of the Passover.

Note: this is just as prevalent today as it was during the Old Testament, as these are still the typical responses to the Passover as well as the other traditions of Yah.

Take a piece of the middle loaf with herbs: Symbols of slavery and the misery of sin.

• Hebrews 2:14-15: Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
  

Break a piece of the upper or lower loaf with Lamb: Prayer. All make a sandwich of the bread and bitter herbs (this is called the hillel).

• John 6:53: Then Christ said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.

This shows how the GOD Head was involved in your redemption.

• Galatians 1:4: who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.

• John 3:16:  For Yah so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Find the hidden loaf: (“This is My Body”) The children look for the previously hidden loaf and whoever finds it brings it to the father to redeem a reward—money.

• Matthew 26:26:  While they were eating, Yahoshua took bread, and when he had given thanks, He broke it and gave it to His disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.”

• Luke 22:19: And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you; *do this in remembrance of Me.” (*Yahoshua was speaking of the Passover)

• Revelation 4:10:   The twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say: “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and by Your will they were created and have their being.” [We will lay down our crowns and receive eternal life.]

  Cup of Redemption: (“This is My Blood”) Prayer. This is the New Covenant. “I will not drink until we are in my Father’s Kingdom.” Yahoshua did not drink. He did not need to be redeemed.

• Matthew 26:27-28: Then He took a cup, and when He had given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

• Ephesians 1:7:  In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of Yah’s grace.

• Hebrews 9:12: Neither by the blood of goats and calves: but by his own blood entered He in once unto the holy place, and obtained eternal redemption for us.

Cup of Unification, Restoration: Elijah cup, prayer, eat nuts and fruit dessert. We will drink this cup with Christ in our Father’s House.

• I Peter 3:18: For Christ also suffered once for sins,the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to the Father. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.

• John 17:21: that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.

• Revelation 4: The Throne in Heaven

• Revelation 5: The Scroll and the Lamb

Cup of Glorification: Prayer. This cup will be presented at the revealing of the Bride (those who receive the Holy Spirit from after Christ's resurrection until the rapture)

• Romans 8:30: And unto those whom he did mark out beforehand the way, to these he also called; and to whom he called, these he also justified; and to whom he justified, these he also glorified.

Note: Yah knew us before time and knew who would respond to His voice and believe.

• Revelation 21: A New Heaven and a New Earth, The New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb

Singing of Songs and Hymns

• Matthew 26:30: And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
  

• Revelation 5:9: And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because You were slain, and with Your blood You purchased for Yah persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.”

Items for the Passover meal:

• Unleavened Bread

• Herbs, horseradish

• Fruit, nuts, or dessert

• Lamb or lamb shank

• Wine

Excerpted from “From Christian to Believer.” To download a pdf copy of this, click here.

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