This is a study of the dates mentioned in the Bible and whether they have any prophetic significance for today.

 

 

Peter Spends Passover in Prison

45 A.D. - Acts 12:3 "...(then were the days of unleavened bread) and when he (Herod) had apprehended him, he put him in prison.., intending after Easter (Passover) to bring him forth to the people."

The rest of this chapter tells of how Peter  was released from prison by an angel during  the days of unleavened bread! Easter in verse 4 is the same word translated Passover in Matthew 26:2, 17, 18 and 19.

Paul's Passover Letter

Remove sinful people from your churches.
Do not keep company with sinners.

 57 A.D.

1 Corinthians 5

1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

8 Therefore let us keep the feast., not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
 

Notice above the Passover and days of unleavened bread related words.

In verse 8 Paul tells us to keep the feast. Today's clergy tell us they are Jewish and besides 'done away at the cross'. But Paul is speaking in 57 A.D. Long after the crucifixion! If all this were done away, Paul surely would have known!

They're Jewish!  Yes, but only when observed according to the Jewish lunar calendar.

But Christian when observed by the solar calendar.

And Paul told us. "Therefore let us keep the feast."

Removing leaven from our homes represents removing sin from our lives. We don't realize how much leaven is in our home till we start to remove it. Likewise, lesson learned, we have more sin in our lives than we realize.

Notice that the immoral believer was removed from the church just as we remove sin from our lives. Allowing a sinner to remain corrupts the balance of the church. It is like a rotten apple in the bushel basket.

Some read right over this New Testament command to observer the days of unleavened bread and the two annual feast days, the one on the 15th and the other on the 21st.

Let's not apply to the Passover what applies to the Feast. The Passover is not the feast. The Passover is a remembrance of Christ's death till he returns.

Paul continues his Passover message in Chapters 6-10. In verse 16 of Chapter 10 he says, "the cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?

The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?"

Paul continues his Passover letter thru Chapters 11-!5. In Chapter 15 he explains in verse 23 how Christ is "the Firstfruits."

The "firstfruits" have to do with the Wave Sheaf offering. The Wave Sheaf offering represented Christ and this ceremony occurred on the day following the weekly Sabbath during the days of unleavened bread. More about the wave sheaf later.

Paul's whole letter called 1 Corinthians is a Passover letter to the Church at Corinth! In that letter he told them to keep the feast!

Paul sailed away from Philippi "after the days of unleavened bread." Acts 20:6

6 Acts 20

And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.

If the Apostles and early church were not observing these holy days, why would Paul wait? Wouldn't he observe Easter instead and leave the Monday after Easter Sunday? Why would the days of unleavened bread even be mentioned?

ALL of 1 Corinthians is a Holiday Letter. It is subject material for Passover pulpit sermons and days of unleavened bread sermons. If your minister believes the Bible Holy Days are 'done away' then 1 Corinthians is likewise 'done away'.

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The Wave Sheaf

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Bible Holidays are statutes under the law Thou shalt keep holy the Sabbath day.