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What is the Christian Passover?
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Is it possible for there to
be a Christian Passover?
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Or, is that a contradiction?
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Most people think,
"Jews keep Passover,
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Christians keep Easter.
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Case closed."
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No further discussion.
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But there is such a thing
as a Christian Passover.
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And that's revealed in the
pages of the Bible.
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If you're surprised by that, then stick with us, as we
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explore what the Bible really says about this vitally
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important topic.
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And be sure to get a pen and paper because later on in the
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program, you'll have the chance to request your free copy of
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God's Master Plan.
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So, join us today on Tomorrow's World, as we ask--and answer--
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three questions about
the Christian Passover.
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I'll be right back.
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Welcome to Tomorrow's World, where we make sense of your
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world through the
pages of the Bible.
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There are more than two
billion people on this earth
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who identify themselves
as Christians.
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And most of them observe the holidays usually associated
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with Christianity, such
as Christmas and Easter.
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But a growing number of
people are discovering
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that the Bible has something different to say about
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Christian Holy days.
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And it may not be
what you think.
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You see, most people today
think of the biblical
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Holy Days as exclusively Jewish.
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But are they?
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Let's examine that topic
today as we explore
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"Three Questions About the
Christian Passover."
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We'll start with the
first question:
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1. Did Jesus keep and teach
the Christian Passover?
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When we speak of religious
observances in the
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Springtime, the Jews keep Passover as a remembrance
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of their sojourn and
deliverance from Egypt.
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On the other hand, most
Christians keep Easter to
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commemorate the resurrection of the Savior, Jesus Christ.
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Let's talk briefly about the
Old Testament Passover.
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Actually, it wasn't just the Jews who kept the Passover--
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they were just one tribe in
the nation of people called
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the Israelites, the children
of the patriarch Israel.
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God gave the Israelites
instructions, in Exodus 12
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verses 3, and 5-8...
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"Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying:
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'On the tenth day of this
month every man shall take
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for himself a lamb..."
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Your lamb shall be without
blemish, a male of the
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first year.
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You may take it from the
sheep or from the goats.
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Now you shall keep it until
the fourteenth day of the
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same month.
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Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall
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kill it at twilight.
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And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two
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doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.
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Then they shall eat the
flesh on that night;
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roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs
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they shall eat it."
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You see, the Passover, in ancient times, was kept
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as a memorial of how God delivered the Israelites
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from the Egyptians.
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God struck the firstborn
of the Egyptians on the
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night of the Passover.
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But the Israelites marked
their door posts with
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some of the blood from the
Passover lamb, and God
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"passed over" the households of the Israelites, and protected
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them from harm.
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Fast forward to the time
of Jesus Christ.
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Jesus Christ was an Israelite, from the tribe of Judah,
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Who observed the Passover
during His lifetime.
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But as our Savior, He
not only came to earth
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to live the life of an
obedient Jew, He also
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came to die for our sins
and establish His Church.
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But on the night before He died, notice something very special
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that Jesus did with
His disciples.
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He instituted the New Testament Passover, which we may also
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call the Christian Passover.
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In Luke 22:14-15 we read
of that last Passover
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He observed with
His disciples...
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"When the hour had come,
He sat down, and the
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twelve apostles with Him.
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Then He said to them,
"With fervent desire I have
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desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer;"
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Yes, Jesus kept the Passover.
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And that involved a meal
including roasted lamb,
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unleavened bread, and bitter herbs, in keeping with the
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Old Testament statute.
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But He also did something
new that night.
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He instituted New Testament Passover symbols.
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Let's read, in
Matthew 26:26-28...
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And as they were eating,
Jesus took bread, blessed
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and broke it, and gave it
to the disciples and said,
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"Take, eat; this is My body."
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Then He took the cup,
and gave thanks, and
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gave it to them, saying,
"Drink from it, all of you.
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For this is My blood of
the new covenant, which
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is shed for many for the remission of sins."
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What Jesus did was take
the two elements of the
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bread and wine, and
institute new symbols.
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The unleavened bread
represented how His
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body would be broken in
the beating He would
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suffer through, leading
up to His crucifixion.
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The wine represented how
He poured out His blood,
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and died, from a spear wound while hanging on the stake.
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As the true Lamb of God--
which the Old Testament
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Passover was foreshadowing--
He was going to give His
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life for the salvation
of all mankind.
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These symbols He established had tremendous meaning--and awesome
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significance for the future
of every human being.
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Now, before we go any
further, don't be
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confused by the language.
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The bread did not mysteriously become Christ's literal body.
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And the wine did
not miraculously
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become His literal blood.
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No, both were symbols,
representing His broken
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body, and His shed blood.
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And again, those symbols
have tremendous meaning.
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But let's notice
one more thing.
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As He taught His disciples
that night, He introduced
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one more element.
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And this is found
in John 13:3-5...
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"Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His
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hands, and that He had come
from God and was going to God,
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rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel
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and girded Himself.
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After that, He poured
water into a basin
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and began to wash the
disciples' feet, and
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to wipe them with the towel
with which He was girded."
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Here Jesus instituted
another element in the
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Christian Passover: the washing of your brother's feet.
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This was designed to teach Jesus's disciples to humble
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themselves, and serve one another, as Christ had
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served them.
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Notice, in John 13:12-15...
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"So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments,
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and sat down again,
He said to them,
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"Do you know what I
have done to you?
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You call Me Teacher and
Lord, and you say well,
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for so I am.
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If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your
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feet, you also ought to
wash one another's feet.
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For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have
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done to you."
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All three symbols--the bread, the wine, and the foot washing--
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would constitute a new observance, a New Testament
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Christian Passover.
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And He instituted it on the night before He died.
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Jesus explained the importance of this new observance,
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in John 6:53-54...
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Then Jesus said to them,
"Most assuredly, I say to you,
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unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood,
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you have no life in you.
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Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life,
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and I will raise him up
at the last day."
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Again, not ingesting His
literal body and blood,
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but taking the symbols that represented His dying
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for mankind.
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So, did Jesus keep the Passover?
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Yes.
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He kept the ancient Passover observed by the Jews and
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all the Israelites.
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But even more significantly
for us, He also instituted a
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New Testament Christian
Passover for His followers.
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And He specifically told
them, follow My example
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and do as I have done.
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That leads to some other
questions, and we'll get
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to those in a moment.
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Written by the late Roderick
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will help you see that the
true Christian Passover
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"pictures the fact that we
are being justified freely
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by the grace of God."
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You'll come to see that
the Christian Passover
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represents the "awesome
sacrifice that God's Son,
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Jesus Christ" made on
behalf of all humanity.
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Welcome back.
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In the first segment of our program, we saw that Jesus
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Himself kept the Passover
as an obedient Israelite.
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And He also instituted the
Christian Passover for
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His disciples.
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In other words, the early Church kept the Christian Passover.
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After His death and resurrection, as the
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Church grew, Gentiles were called into the Church as well.
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And so that brings up
a logical question.
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Our "second question about
the Christian Passover."
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And we'll address that in the next section of this program.
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2. Were Gentiles expected
to observe the Christian
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Passover as well?
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This is an important question.
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Because many people believe
that as the Church grew,
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God allowed the rules
to change, so to speak.
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They believe that somehow
the Gentiles coming into
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the Church didn't have to
follow the same rules and
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laws as the Jews who were
in the Church already.
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The Apostle Paul's writings are often used to try to show that
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the rules changed for Gentiles coming into the Church.
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But let's examine what
Paul taught about the
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Christian Passover.
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In 1 Corinthians 11 we find a quite enlightening passage about
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what Paul taught about
the Christian Passover.
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1 Corinthians 11:23-25...
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"For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered
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to you: that the Lord Jesus
on the same night in which
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He was betrayed took bread;
and when He had given thanks,
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He broke it and said,
"Take, eat; this is My body
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which is broken for you; do
this in remembrance of Me."
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In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying,
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"This cup is the new
covenant in My blood.
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This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."
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Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, who supposedly
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did away with all the Jewish laws, was describing the
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Christian Passover.
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And he was describing this in his letter to a Gentile church,
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the Corinthians.
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Notice further in verse 26...
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"For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup,
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you proclaim the Lord's
death till He comes."
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Some believe this means we
should take the symbols of
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the bread and wine multiple times a year, or perhaps
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every time we worship God.
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But notice: that's
not what He said.
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He just said, when you take
it, you're proclaiming or
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memorializing the death of
your Lord, until He comes.
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Now there's a lot in there.
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For one, it's a reminder
that Jesus Christ is
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coming back to earth.
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And we're approaching that time; it's closer than ever.
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But the other thing we note here is he explained the Passover
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is a memorial of Christ's death.
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It's the anniversary
of Christ's death.
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Now, why would you keep
an anniversary on any
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old day you want?
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On a different day from
the day in which the
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original event happened?
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In the United States, we celebrate July 4th as
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Independence Day, going
back to the publishing
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of the Declaration of
Independence in 1776.
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In France, Bastille
Day is July 14.
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It's the national day of France, because it hearkens back to
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the storming of the Bastille,
on July 14th, 1789.
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In Mexico, September 16th is
observed as independence day,
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the day the Catholic priest
and patriot, Miguel Hidalgo
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delivered his famous summons
to his parishioners to
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rise up in Revolution.
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It's observed on September 16, the very day these
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events happened.
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Most other countries also
have specific days to honor
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a special event that
happened on that day.
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Married couples often
celebrate the anniversary
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of their wedding.
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When do they do it?
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Well, on the day when
they were married.
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Every man knows that his wife would not be very happy
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if he forgot the day
of their anniversary.
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So, why would we think God would be pleased if we take symbols
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representing Christ's sacrifice on any old day we want,
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regardless of the timing?
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Timing is very important to God.
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And in this case, the timing of the Christian Passover reminds
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us of the importance and significance of the event
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that took place on that day.
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The crucifixion and death
of Jesus on the stake,
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for our sins.
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Going further, Paul even
described how to prepare
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for taking that Passover.
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Notice in 1 Corinthians
chapter 11, verses 27-28...
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"Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of
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the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body
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and blood of the Lord.
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But let a man examine himself,
and so let him eat of the bread
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and drink of the cup."
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Paul said, there's even a
proper way to prepare for
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taking the Christian Passover.
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That is, self-examination.
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Self-reflection.
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An honest evaluation of
how one is living his life,
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in light of God's laws
and God's direction.
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And an acknowledgement
of the need for Christ's
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sacrifice and God's
forgiveness in our life.
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Remember, Paul was writing
to the Corinthians, who
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were Gentiles, not Jewish.
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This Passover was not just
for the Jews or Israelites.
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It was for all Christians.
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Notice in 1 Corinthians 5:7...
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"Therefore purge out the
old leaven, that you may
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be a new lump, since you
truly are unleavened.
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For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us."
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When the ancient Israelites
were keeping the Passover,
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they were actually, without knowing it, foreshadowing
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the Lamb of God dying for
the sins of mankind.
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And that's exactly what
Paul was explaining.
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Notice then, in verse 8
Paul said this...
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"Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven,
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nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with
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the unleavened bread of
sincerity and truth."
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So, we've already seen
that the disciples were
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taught to keep the
Christian Passover.
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Now, we see the Apostle Paul taught the symbolic significance
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of the Passover, and explained how to prepare for it.
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How can we come to any
other conclusion, than
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this was intended for all New Testament Christians to keep?
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So, why don't more people
keep the New Testament
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Christian Passover today?
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And why do most mainstream Christians keep Easter instead
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of the Christian Passover?
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We'll get to that question, but before we do, let me again offer
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In it you'll begin to see that the Christian Passover symbols,
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the bread and the wine, represent the broken body
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of Jesus Christ, and His precious blood, shed for us.
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This is not an unimportant
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In the last two segments, we
saw that Jesus instituted the
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Christian Passover and the apostle Paul taught it to
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His Gentile audience as well.
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But with all of that
in mind, let's look at
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our third question:
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3. Why do most professing
Christians keep Easter,
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instead of the
Christian Passover?
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Isn't it remarkable, that there's no single instruction
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or command to keep an
observance commemorating
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the resurrection of Christ?
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On the other hand, the
Bible speaks a lot about
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the Christian Passover.
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Now don't get me wrong,
the resurrection is
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extremely important.
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We base our hope of eternal
life on that fact.
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We read in Romans 8:11...
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"But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead
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dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also
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give life to your mortal
bodies through His Spirit
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who dwells in you."
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The resurrection is
supremely important.
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But you can search the New
Testament from beginning to end,
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and you'll find no instruction or command to keep it as an
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observance or a holy day.
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So, why do so many people observe Easter?
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Long time Tomorrow's World
viewers know that most of
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the holidays of mainstream
Christianity today come from
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blatantly pagan roots.
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Such is the case for Easter.
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In the booklet Easter,
the Untold Story,
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Tomorrow's World presenter
and evangelist Gerald Weston
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explains this:
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"The Oxford Companion to World Mythology explains this about
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Easter: 'The holiday comes in the early Spring and is clearly
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related to ancient fertility myths of reborn heroes....
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For many, Easter is synonymous with fertility symbols such as
19:43.882 --> 19:47.519
the Easter Rabbit, Easter
eggs, and the Easter lily.'
19:47.586 --> 19:50.989
So, why do people keep Easter, if it comes from ancient
19:51.056 --> 19:52.491
pagan traditions?
19:52.558 --> 19:56.194
The facts of history reveal that after the Church was founded
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in the first century, the mainstream visible church
19:59.831 --> 20:02.134
underwent profound changes.
20:02.200 --> 20:06.104
As new generations arose,
the pressure to conform to
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the pagans around them grew immensely--including keeping
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the Springtime fertility festival to the goddess Ishtar.
20:14.846 --> 20:19.318
By contrast, faithful Christians held to the doctrines of Christ
20:19.384 --> 20:21.320
and the apostles.
20:21.386 --> 20:24.756
Tomorrow's World writer Dexter Wakefield explains this
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in his article in the March-
April 2013 issue, entitled,
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"Are You a Quarto-Deciman? Should You Be?"
20:32.864 --> 20:34.032
Notice:
20:34.099 --> 20:37.769
"In the second century AD,
a controversy raged in
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early Christianity.
20:39.438 --> 20:43.508
The Roman church under Pope Sixtus I had established the
20:43.575 --> 20:47.245
keeping of an early version
of Easter on a Sunday.
20:47.312 --> 20:50.315
But it had long been the practice of the Middle Eastern
20:50.382 --> 20:54.486
(Asiatic) churches to keep the Christian Passover as Jesus
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and the apostles did on the 14th day of Nisan, the first month
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of the Jewish calendar
(Leviticus 23:5)...."
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He mentions the Christian
Passover was on the
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14th day of Nisan.
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The term "Quarto-deciman"
is Latin for "14th."
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It would come to be a name for those who continued to keep the
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Christian Passover, on the 14th of Nisan, as Jesus did, even as
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many in the visible church
had abandoned it for Easter.
21:26.151 --> 21:27.786
Mr. Wakefield continues:
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"The Catholic Encyclopedia
reports, 'While Anicetus was
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Pope, St. Polycarp, then in extreme old age, came to confer
21:36.795 --> 21:42.401
with him (160-162) about
the Paschal controversy;
21:42.467 --> 21:45.937
Polycarp and others in the East celebrating the feast on the
21:46.004 --> 21:49.141
fourteenth of the month of Nisan, no matter on what day
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of the week it fell; whereas
in Rome it was always observed
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on Sunday.'
21:54.513 --> 21:57.916
Polycarp was a direct disciple of the apostle John.
21:57.983 --> 22:01.253
Anicetus and Polycarp did not come to an agreement on the
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subject, and several decades later, another bishop in Rome,
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Victor, attempted to force all the churches of Asia minor to
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reject the Christian Passover
on the 14th of Nisan.
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But they did not buckle
to the pressure.
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Mr. Wakefield continues:
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"The early church historian Eusebius wrote: 'But the bishops
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of Asia, led by Polycrates, decided to hold to the old
22:26.545 --> 22:28.914
custom handed down to them.
22:28.980 --> 22:31.983
He himself, in a letter which
he addressed to Victor and
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the church of Rome, set
forth in the following
22:34.586 --> 22:37.856
words the tradition which
had come down to him:
22:37.923 --> 22:42.127
'We observe the exact day; neither adding, nor taking away.
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For in Asia also great lights have fallen asleep...
22:45.764 --> 22:48.734
Among these are Philip, one
of the twelve apostles...
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moreover, John, who was both
a witness and a teacher,
22:52.504 --> 22:55.540
who reclined upon the
bosom of the Lord...
22:55.607 --> 22:58.076
All these observed the
fourteenth day of the
22:58.143 --> 23:01.646
Passover according to the
Gospel, deviating in no
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respect, but following
the rule of faith'...
23:04.816 --> 23:08.120
'Thereupon Victor, who presided over the church at Rome,
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immediately attempted to cut
off from the common unity the
23:12.124 --> 23:16.061
parishes of all Asia, with the churches that agreed with them,
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as heterodox; and he wrote letters and declared
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all the brethren there
wholly excommunicate.'"
23:22.801 --> 23:27.139
So, those keeping the Christian Passover were excommunicated
23:27.205 --> 23:30.308
from what was becoming
the mainstream church.
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Mr. Wakefield concludes:
23:32.911 --> 23:36.615
"But the practice [that is,
the keeping of the Christian
23:36.681 --> 23:40.218
Passover] continued with the Asiatic churches, and in the
23:40.285 --> 23:45.023
year 325 AD at the Council of Nicea, those who were faithful
23:45.090 --> 23:49.761
to the Quartodeciman Passover were declared anathema.
23:49.828 --> 23:54.766
The Catholic Pasch--Easter--was set as the orthodox practice
23:54.833 --> 23:56.468
of the Catholic Church."
23:56.535 --> 23:59.538
So, the practice of keeping the Christian Passover didn't
23:59.604 --> 24:03.809
disappear, it just was dwarfed by the more common practice
24:03.875 --> 24:07.646
of Easter, because Constantine decreed that Easter should
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be the official doctrine
of the Roman Empire.
24:10.515 --> 24:14.119
Jesus didn't abandon
the Passover.
24:14.186 --> 24:17.489
On the contrary, He, His
disciples, and others that
24:17.556 --> 24:20.425
followed continued to
observe the Christian
24:20.492 --> 24:22.360
Passover for centuries.
24:22.427 --> 24:25.664
And a growing number of
Christians still keep
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that same biblical
observance today.
24:28.600 --> 24:32.637
Once again, let me pause to offer you our free study guide
24:32.704 --> 24:36.408
today, The Holy Days:
God's Master Plan.
24:36.474 --> 24:39.811
In it you'll learn that most
of mainstream Christianity has
24:39.878 --> 24:43.915
simply "rejected the example
of Christ and the Apostles."
24:43.982 --> 24:46.751
And we have a responsibility
to answer the question,
24:46.818 --> 24:49.554
"Which will you
choose?"--traditions?
24:49.621 --> 24:52.457
Or the direct teaching
of the Bible?
24:52.524 --> 24:55.060
This is a vital topic,
and you need to prove
24:55.126 --> 24:56.061
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In today's program, we've
been discussing
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Three Questions About the
Christian Passover.
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We've seen that Jesus taught it.
26:13.471 --> 26:15.307
The Apostle Paul taught it.
26:15.373 --> 26:19.344
And faithful followers of the apostles zealously held on to
26:19.411 --> 26:23.615
this teaching for centuries, despite intense persecution.
26:23.682 --> 26:25.450
So what about you?
26:25.517 --> 26:28.153
Maybe you've never considered the New Testament, Christian
26:28.219 --> 26:29.888
Passover before.
26:29.955 --> 26:32.757
Maybe you assumed the
Passover is only Jewish.
26:32.824 --> 26:35.427
Maybe you've always been
taught that Christians
26:35.493 --> 26:37.162
should keep Easter.
26:37.228 --> 26:39.798
You need to study this
and prove it to yourself.
26:39.864 --> 26:43.802
It concerns the very life
and death of our Savior,
26:43.868 --> 26:47.105
and our obedience to
following His instructions.
26:47.172 --> 26:49.841
It even concerns our being
forgiven of sins, and our
26:49.908 --> 26:51.977
hope of eternal life.
26:52.043 --> 26:55.680
You might even be interested in how to observe the Christian
26:55.747 --> 26:57.515
Passover for yourself.
26:57.582 --> 27:01.152
Many thousands of people just like you have come to the same
27:01.219 --> 27:04.756
conclusion, and have learned to faithfully keep this important
27:04.823 --> 27:06.358
feast day each year.
27:06.424 --> 27:09.227
You can learn more by requesting your free study guide,
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27:15.467 --> 27:18.636
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They will be happy to
answer any questions you
27:26.845 --> 27:30.682
might have about this
fundamental practice of
27:30.749 --> 27:34.052
the faithful 1st century
Church, a practice that
27:34.119 --> 27:38.390
is still done today,
the Christian Passover.
27:38.456 --> 27:40.058
Thank you for watching.
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And be sure to join us next time, as Gerald Weston,
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Wallace Smith, and I explain
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