In continuing to prepare ourselves for the Passover this coming spring, let’s look at the

first time the word Pesach – Passover is actually recorded in the scriptures and seek to

understand this word in order to understand the meaning of this Feast Day.

Exodus 12:1-14

12 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 “This month is to be for you the first

month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the

tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb[a] for his family, one for each

household. 4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with

their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You

are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will

eat. 5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take

them from the sheep or the goats. 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. 7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of

the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. 8 That same night they are to

eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without

yeast. 9 Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head,

legs and internal organs. 10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till

morning, you must burn it. 11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into

your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the

Lord’s Passover.

12 “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both

people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13

The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I

will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.

14 “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall

celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance.

Why are we talking about the Passover again? Because each year it needs to be

retaught. Even this chapter of Exodus tells us we will need to explain it to our children

what we are doing and why over and over again. Exodus 12:26-27 26 And when your

children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ 27 then tell them, ‘It is the

Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and

spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’” Then the people bowed down

and worshiped.

Chapter 11 of Exodus tells us about the First Born of those who are not covered by the

blood and what will happen to them. Exodus 11:4-6 4 So Moses said, “This is what theLORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. 5 Every firstborn son in Egypt will

die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the

female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well. 6 There

will be loud wailing throughout Egypt—worse than there has ever been or ever will be

again. 7 But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any person or animal.’ Then you

will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.

This is Yehovah telling the people through Moses in advance what to expect – therefore

Ch 11 is prophetic, about what will happen in the very short future before the Greater

Exodus we read about in:

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Jeremiah 23:7-8: “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD,

“when they

shall no longer say,

‘As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of

the land of Egypt,’ but, ‘As the LORD lives who brought up and led the

descendants of the house of Israel out of the north country and from all the

countries where he had driven them.'”

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Ezekiel 36:24-28: “I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the

countries… I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you… and

you shall be my people, and I will be your God.”

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Isaiah 11:11-12:11 In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to

reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from

Upper Egypt, from Cush,[a] from Elam, from Babylonia,[b] from Hamath and from

the islands of the Mediterranean. 12 He will raise a banner for the nations

and gather the exiles of Israel;

he will assemble the scattered people of Judah

from the four quarters of the earth.

According to the timeline we see in the SightedMoon Charts, we expect this Greater

Exodus to begin at Passover 2030. That is just 5 short years away. This is why we are

preparing for Passover this year months before the event, so that you are prepared to

keep this rehearsal, understanding it’s meanings for the future.

Ch 13 is prophetic about the First Born of those who ARE covered by the blood, and this

is a long term prophecy, for all of time. Exodus 13:8-10 8 On that day tell your son, ‘I do

this because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ 9 This observance

will be for you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that this law ofthe LORD is to be on your lips. For the LORD brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand.

10 You must keep this ordinance at the appointed time year after year.

Year after Year.

So this word Passover פסח – Pasach means to Hop: To hop from one place or another.

Also to be lame as one who hops on one leg. to hop, that is, (figuratively) skip over (or

spare); by implication to hesitate; also (literally) to limp, to dance: – halt, become lame,

leap, pass over.

But we use it, in reference to this feast day – Pesach, in this context used only technically

of the Passover (the festival or the victim): – passover (offering). It is both an event and

a sacrifice, meaning an animal, namely a lamb or a goat, dies in place of the firstborn.

Do you have in your culture this concept of the grim reaper?

Imagine a person out scything the grasses. If he’s doing a good job, it all gets cut down

and no blades of grass are left standing.But here is a picture of a section of grass that was hopped over, or skipped over. This is

the same thing that happened with those Israelites in Egypt when the Blood was on the

doorposts of their houses. They were skipped over, left to continue.

We see this same picture in Matthew 24. These verses are often used to preach the

Rapture Theory saying that those taken were taken up in the Rapture. They say that

those left are the ones “left behind” or left without the blessing of eternal relationship

with Yehovah. But given the picture we have of the Passover, where those who are

covered by the blood are hopped over, skipped over, left to continue, is this really what

these verses are trying to portray to us? Let’s read in Matthew 24: 36-41 36 “But about

that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the

Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving

in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what

would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at thecoming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the

other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the

other left.

Now this phrase “No one knows the day or the hour” is a phrase, an idiom, referencing

the Feast of Trumpts, but there is a reason