456 Passover is about the deliverance

Passover is about the deliverance of the first born.

The original Passover the night before Israel were exiled out of Egypt had to do with the salvation of the first-born children of Israel from death. Similarly has Messiah’s memorial Passover that we partake of in the evening of the 14th of Nissan (also known as Aviv) annually, to do with the redemption of the first fruits of Elohim’s Spiritual harvest into His Kingdom, thus ensuring that the second death has no power over them as recorded in Revelation 20: 6, as follows: ‘Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of Elohim, and of Messiah and will reign with Him for a thousand years.’ Those who will be in the first resurrection will have been saved by partaking of Messiah’s memorial Passover and will become kings and priests under Messiah during His millennial rule.

To show that the prophecies by both Messiah’s and Rav Shaul’sabout Elohim’s coming kingdom will occur, we turn to the book of Ezekiel to see how this will actually happen. The book of Ezekiel can be divided into four sections, namely the prophecies on the destruction of Jerusalem in chapters 1 – 24; the prophecies about retribution of nearby nations in chapters 25 – 32; and thirdly, there is a transition chapter (33) instructing Israel to repent and return back to the ways of Elohim. Finally there is the prophecy about the way Elohim is planning to restore the ancient nation of Israel, or the coming kingdom of Elohim in chapters 34 – 48. The book of Ezekiel is a marvelous prophesy, totally overlooked by Churchianity, about the exile of a remnant of the children of Israel, who if they return to YHVH in response to His call, will eventually be part of the rebuilding of the TABERNACLE OF DAVID WHICH HAS FALLEN. This means that King David will one day in the foreseeable future be ruling all twelve tribes of Israel, consisting of both the house of Judah and the house of Israel as also witnessed in Isaiah 11: 11 & 12, in this way: ‘Then it will happen on that day that YHVH will again recover the second time with His hand the remnant of His people who will remain, from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam Shinar, Hamath, and from the islands (or coastlands) of the sea. (12) And He will lift up a standard (this is talking about both Torah and Yahshua, since Yahshua is the embodiment of Torah) for the nations, and will assemble the banished ones of Israel, and will gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.’ As much as prophecies about Messiah’s first advent have already come to fruition, so shall prophecies about His second advent come true.

Starting in Ezekiel 34: 8 - 12 we see that Ezekiel’s prophesy about the end time has already started happening, where YHVH warns false shepherds (wolves in sheep’s clothing), saying: “As I live,” declares YHVH Elohim, “surely because My flock has become a prey, My flock has even become food for all the beasts of the field for lack of a shepherd, and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but rather the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock; (9) therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of YHVH: (10) ‘Thus says YHVH Elohim, “Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I shall demand My sheep from them and make them cease from feeding sheep. So the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore, but I shall deliver My flock from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.”’ (11) For thus says YHVH Elohim, “Behold I myself will search for My sheep and seek them out. (12) As a shepherd cares for his herd in the day when he is among the scattered sheep, so I will care for My sheep and will deliver them from all the places to which they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day.”This again is a reminder of Yahshua’s parable in Matthew 18: 11 – 14, where He taught His disciples, saying: “For the son of man has come to save that which was lost. (12) What do you think? If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety–nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying? (13) And if it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. (14)Thus it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish.”

Continuing in Ezekiel 34: 13 – 15 we read: “And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams, and in all the inhabited places of the land. (14) I will feed them in a good pasture, and their grazing ground will be on the mountain heights of Israel. There they will lie down in good grazing ground, and they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. (15) I will feed My flock and I will lead them to rest,” declares YHVH Elohim.” Jumping ahead to chapter 36, YHVH tells Ezekiel to prophesy to the mountains of Israel in verses 2 – 10, saying: “Because the enemy has spoken against you. ‘Aha!’ and, ‘The everlasting heights have become our possession,(3)therefore, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says YHVH Elohim, “For good cause they have made you desolate and crushed you from every side, that you should become a possession of the rest of the nations, and you have been taken up in the talk and the whispering of the people.” (4)Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of YHVH Elohim. Thus says YHVH Elohim to themountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys,to the desolate wastes and to the forsaken cities, which have become a prey and a derision to the rest of the nations which are round about, (5)therefore, thus says YHVH Elohim, ‘Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who appropriated My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with scorn of soul, to drive it out for a prey.’ (6)Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, ‘Thus says YHVH Elohim, “Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My wrath because you have endured the insults of the nations.” (7)Therefore, thus says YHVH Elohim, ‘I have sworn that surely the nations which are aroundyou will themselves endure their insults. (8)But you, O mountains of Israel, you will put forth your branches and bear your fruit for My people Israel; for they will soon come. (9)For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be cultivated and sown. (10)And I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities will be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt.”This prophecy is being fulfilled at this very time, since the Arab nations around the small nation in the Middle East have actually expressed publicly what Ezekiel predicted about 2,600 years ago.However, YHVH tells us through Ezekiel in chapter 36: 15, ‘“And I will not let you hear insults from the nations anymore, nor will you bear disgrace from the peoples any longer, nor will you cause your nation to stumble any longer,”declares YHVH Elohim.’

Next YHVH tells us through Ezekiel why He punished Israel over the past 2730 years and why He is going to bring us back to be His people once again as in verses 17 – 28, saying: “Son of man, when the house of Israel was living in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. (18) Therefore, I poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they had shed on the land, because they had defiled it with their idols. (19) Also I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the lands. According to their ways and their deeds I judged them. (20) When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of YHVH; yet they have come out of His land.’ (21) But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went. (22) Therefore, say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says YHVH Elohim, “It is not for your sake. O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.(23) And I will vindicate the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. Then the nations will know that I am YHVH," declares YHVH Elohim, “when I prove Myself holy among you in their sight. (24) For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands, and bring you into your own land. (25) Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. (26)Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. (27) And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances. (28) And you will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be My people, and I will be your Elohim.”

If we truly have faith in YHVH our Elohim’s faithfulness we will know for certain that this prophecy by Ezekiel will happen in the near future. We need to understand that YHVH is going to do what He promised our fathers in the faith, even though we did not earn His favor. YHVH being Elohim cannot lie and tells us through Malachi in chapter 3: 6, saying: “For I, YHVH, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.”Ezekiel continues in verses 31 – 33 of Ezekiel 36, saying: “Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves in their own sight for your iniquities and your abominations. (32) I am not doing this for your sake,” declares YHVH Elohim, “let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel!” (33) ‘Thus says YHVH Elohim, “On the day that I cleanse you from your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt.’”Ezekiel 37 deals with firstly the second resurrection in verses 1 - 14 where those Israelites who have neglected Elohim’s Torah in the past and were not called during this age will be resurrected as flesh and blood human beings after the great white throne judgment spoken about in Revelation 20: 11 – 13. They will also live in their own land and after YHVH opened the Scriptures to their understanding, andwhen they accept Messiah as their Passover, they will be given a portion of Elohim’s Spirit and live according to Elohim’s way, as witnessed in verses 13 & 14: “Then you will know that I am YHVH, when I have opened your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, My people. (14) And I will put My Spirit within you, and you will come to life, and I will place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, YHVH, have spoken and done it,” declares YHVH.’” Even though the first resurrection will occur at least a thousand years prior to the second resurrection, it is discussed in the second half of Ezekiel 37.

It is because most of the house of Judah is familiar with Ezekiel 37, the gospel of the kingdom of Elohim that Yahshua proclaimed in the Renewed Covenant is old hat to them. Yes, they know that Messiah is coming to establish the kingdom of Elohim, which is according to first Chronicles 28: 4 & 5, the kingdom of Israel, ruled by King David, as follows: “Yet, YHVH, the Elohim of Israel, chose me from all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For He has chosen Judah to be a leader; and in the house of Judah, my father’s house, and among the sons of my father He took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel. (5) And of all my sons (for YHVH has given me many sons), He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of YHVH over Israel.” YHVH has promised King David that he will never lack a man (or woman) to sit on his throne during this era, but also that one of his offspring will rule the restored nation of Israel, consisting of both the house of Judah and the house of Israel for all eternity. King David wrote about this promise in Psalm 89: 3,4, 28 & 29 and 34 – 37, in this way: “I have made a covenant with My chosen; I have sworn to David My servant, (4) I will established your seed forever, and build up your throne to all generations.” [Selah. (28) My lovingkindness I will keep for him forever, and My covenant shall be confirmed to him. (29) So I will establish his descendants forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. (34) My covenant I will not violate, nor will I alter the utterance of My lips. (35)Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David. (36) His descendants shall endure forever, and His throne as the sun before Me. (37)It shall be established forever like the moon, and the witness in the sky is faithful.”

Because we know that YHVH cannot lie, the promises that He made to King David is in fact true today, as it will be in the world tomorrow (Olam Haba), despite most being unaware of it. We read about the coming kingdom of Elohim in Ezekiel 37: 21 – 25 in this way: “And say to them, ‘Thus says YHVH Elohim, “Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; (22) and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations, and they will no longer be divided into two kingdoms. (23) And they will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people and I will be their Elohim. (24) And My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances, and keep My statutes, and observe them. (25) And they shall live on the land that I gave to Jacob My servant, in which your fathers lived; and they will live on it, they, and their sons, and their sons’ sons, forever; and David My servant shall be their prince forever.” The word ‘forever’ used in verse 25 shows that the sons of Israel and their prince David will have been resurrected or changed from physical flesh and blood human beings to Spiritual children of Elohim at this stage, since that is the only way in which they will be able to live forever. Even so, there will at this time also be survivors who lived through the great tribulation into the coming millennium, where Yahshua will rule the world for a thousand years. These people will like normal human beings have children and live normal lives during the millennium rule of Messiah; the only difference is that they will not have Satan and his demons to contend with during that time, since he will be sealed in the bottomless pit for a thousand years as recorded in Revelation 20: 1 – 3. The human survivors of the great tribulation will be taught the way of Elohim by those of us who were resurrected at Messiah’s return to become kings and priests under Messiah. Most of those who accept Messiah as their personal Passover and Savior during the millennium will be changed into Spiritual children of Elohim, but again it will be according to their own free will, since no one will ever be forced to follow Elohim’s way. Those who don’t will obviously be coming up in the second resurrection, together with the rest of mankind who were not in the first resurrection, and those of us who did not make it after receiving all knowledge about Elohim’s kingdom in this life. All those called at this time who did not qualify to be resurrected as Spiritual children of Elohim, who returned to their old ways as well as those who received all the knowledge required to attain salvation during the millennium, but did not accept it, and those who will be given their chance to accept Messiah during the great white throne judgment period, but will not, will simply be burnt to ashes at that time. Those who bow the knee before Yahshua after the great white throne judgment, after the Scriptures will have been opened to their understanding, will become the second harvest of human souls into Elohim’s eternal kingdom.

However, let’s backtrack to the prophecy of Ezekiel after Messiah already returned and saved a remnant from both the house of Israel and the house Judah; who will at that time dwell securely on the mountains of Israel in accordance with the promise that YHVH made to our fathers in the faith, and as prophesied by the prophets. Ezekiel tells us here how prophecies from ancient times are about to be fulfilled in our time. But, this also gives us the opportunity to explain something which caused many true believers to fall away from the faith once delivered to the saints.It is true there have in the recent past been believers who turned away from the faith, because they came to believe that the war involving Gog and Magog discussed in Ezekiel 38 & 39 to be the same war as the war in Revelation 20: 8 & 9.We need to be aware of such occurrences, since Satan uses many ways into sidetracking Elohim’s people. Both the wars discussed in these two books will take place in the present location of the land of Israel in the Middle East. However, the war involving Gog and Magog discussed in Ezekiel 38 &39 is the final great rebellion this earth will experience during the thousand year rule of Messiah and His elect. The war involving Gog and Magog recorded in Revelation 20: 7 -9 will be another war after the millennial rule of Messiah and His saints have ended, when Satan will be loosed from his prison for a short while. He will again deceive the descendants of these nations, at the ends of the earth, who even though they lived through the millennium, to attack the camp of those who live in and around the mountains of Israel and Jerusalem. At that time YHVH will totally destroy all the people of those nations, except for those who repented and turned to Him during the Millennium. The reason why He will destroy these people at that time is because they lived throughout the millennium and received all knowledge required for salvation, but again fell for Satan’s deception.

We commence reading from verses 2 - 7 of Ezekiel 38 how YHVH is enticing the Gentile nations who lived during the millennium with the children of Israel, to attack them, saying: “Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh (Russia), Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, (3) and say, ‘Thus says YHVH Elohim, “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. (4) And I will turn you about, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them splendidly attired, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them wielding swords; (5) Persia (Iran & Iraq), Ethiopia, and Put (Africa) with them all of them with shield and helmet; (6)Gomer (China) with all its troops; Beth-togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops—many peoples with you. (7) Be prepared, and prepare yourself, you and all your companies, that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.” Immediately prior to Messiah’s return, Elohim will use the Russians and Chinese to punish the beast power in Europe, known as Babylon the Great. The beast power or the king of the north will have attacked the king of the south, made up of the Arab nations in Africa and the Middle East as discussed in Daniel 11 and Revelation 9 killing millions of people. This will enrage an army of two hundred million made up of people from the North (Russia), and the East (China) who will attack the beast power of Europe, and will devastate its cities and armies. According to Revelation 9: 15 this Asian horde will kill a third of mankind.

But since this is not the topic under discussion, let’s get back to Ezekiel 38 where in verse 8, we see that this is the prophesied time when Messiah will have started ruling the united nation of Israel on the mountains of Israel, in this way: ‘After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but its people were brought out from the nations, and they are living securely, all of them.’The reason why YHVH is against Gog and Magog is because of their rebellious nature. Elohim even urge them to prepare for a war against Him. Continuing in verses 9 – 14, we see that those who dwell on the mountains of Israel are totally unprepared for any dangers against them, as follows: ‘And you will go up, you will come like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your troops, and many peoples with you. (10)Thus says YHVH Elohim, “It will come about on that day, that thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan, (11)and you will say, ‘I will go up against the land of un walled villages. I will go against those who are at rest, that live securely, all of them living without walls, and having no bars or gates, (12)to capture spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who live at the center of the world.’ (13)Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all its villages, will say to you, ‘Have you come to capture spoil? Have you assembled your company to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great spoil?’’ (14)Therefore, prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, “Thus says YHVH Elohim, “On that day when My people Israel are living securely, will you not know it?”’

We need to understand that this battle will not take place before, but after the second coming of Messiah – after He has rescued His people and restored them to the land of Israel, and after Judah and Israel will have been united in Ezekiel 37. YHVH will not only defend His people at that time again, but will make a final visible declaration that He is Almighty YHVH the Elohim of Israel. He will absolutely prove to His people Israel, and to Gog and Magog and their cohorts that He fights our battles for us. At that time the immense wrath of YHVH our Elohim will be felt throughout the world, as recorded in Ezekiel 38: 18 – 20, in this way: “And it will come about on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” declares YHVH Elohim, “that My fury will mount up in My anger.(19) And in My zeal and in My blazing wrath I declare that on that day there will surely be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. (20)And the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all the creeping things that creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth will shake at My presence; the mountains also will be thrown down, the steep pathways will collapse, and every wall will fall to the ground.’In fact we see from verse 21 that Elohim will get the nations of Gog and Magog to defeat themselves, as follows: “And I shall call for a sword against him on all My mountains,” declares YHVH Elohim. Every man’s sword will be against his brother.” YHVH used to plead with the inhabitants of the world, before Yahshua returned to rule in His Kingdom, but now speaks to these nations in verses 22 & 23, in the only language they understand, in this way: “And with pestilence and with blood I shall enter into judgment with him; and I shall rain on him, and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with hailstones, fire and brimstone. (23) And I shall magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am YHVH.”’

The fact that all people will finally get to know that YHVH is Elohim, tells us that this will be at the commencement of Messiah’s millennium rule, after He saved the first-fruits of Elohim’s plan of salvation and they became His first-born again, Spiritual children. Ezekiel 39 gives more details about the defeat of Gog and Magog; the end result will be absolutely horrific and the dead will be innumerable. But, the fact that there will be survivors of this war is proven by the second war of Gog and Magog at the end of the millennium recorded in Revelation 20: 8. The people of Israel will use the weapons used by this mighty army as firewood for seven years. However, in order for the physical human beings who survived the great tribulation, who will by then live on the mountains of Israel, under rulership of Messiah and His saints, to finally learn what rebellion against YHVH could cost them, it will take seven months to bury the bodies of the nations who came up against Israel. Halleluyah!