Passover - there was always only oneAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2020-12-06 | Some people wonder if Passover has always been the same. Some are confused as believe that Easter is Passover and some think that Christ's Passover is different from the one given to Israel. Could that be so?

Passover and Shavuot linkedAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2023-05-23 | If you were God and you wanted to establish a momentous event, would you leave it to speculation and human interpretation or would you align it with some irrefutable event? I would do the later so therefore we should look for that irrefutable event in establishing the first Month Nisan, just as there was a cataclysmic event to establish Passover and another Shavuot.

Passover and the Night to be Much ObservedAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2025-02-01 | In the Old Testament Passover is easily seen as a single event by the death angel that caused the release of Israel from certain death and suffering in Egypt. Pharaoh intended to exterminate them by killing the males. It is the same in the New Testament because the actual transaction that killed Christ took place just before Judas pointed him out in the garden of Gethsemane. His actual death occurred the following evening when He said "It is finished". The events surrounding those incidents link Passover and the Night to be Much Observed.

Passover service exampleAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2025-04-14 | At Passover we celebrate Christ's death and more. Before Christ died He rejected the existing Passover ceremony and instituted what He wanted us to focus on as Christians. Passover has always been a test. The first Israelites had to choose a lamb on the tenth day of the month to even have a chance to be saved on the fourteenth. In our time Paul points out that we must test ourselves especially with regard to the body and blood.

Passover to ShavuotAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2023-09-06 | What happened to Israel is a synopsis of what our lives are like. In this article I want to summarize what I believe are the most pertinent concerns.

Passover was from the beginningAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2020-11-18 | One of the things that Christians are surprised at is that the New Covenant is actually the older covenant. The covenant that was from Adam is the New Covenant. One of the steps towards that understanding is Passover. In reality there was the New Covenant then the Old Covenant and back to the New Covenant. It is pretty clear in the Bible "But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: [20] Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you", 1 Peter 1:19-20 (KJV) and also "And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world", Revelation 13:8 (KJV).

Passover with Leavened or Unleavened BreadAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2025-04-14 | In this article I propose that leaven is most appropriate for Passover because the context in which the New Testament Passover occurs naturally demonstrates that to be the case. In the New Testament there is a deviation from what was the norm for ancient Passover in terms of the timing as well as the instruments. All of the disciples demonstrate and awareness of the distinction between leavened bread and unleavened bread and yet chose to speak of leavened bread. There is no historical state of affairs that impose unleavened bread on the ceremony. Far from that the symbols of the Lord's Supper are best suited to leavened bread.

Pentecost - significant elementsAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2025-04-19 | Significant elements of Pentecost can be distilled by comparing and contrasting Pentecost of the Old with Pentecost of the New Testament. A study like this is very humbling because, just as I believe that I have seen improvements on what I was taught, it means that others have been doing the same and someone else will improve on what I am saying. To me it seems blatantly obvious that the Holy Spirit was not first made available at Pentecost but is was SHED ABROAD at Pentecost. That is what Paul was explaining to the gentile Romans (Romans 5:5). Before that it was confined to a select group.

Pentecost - when did Christ celebrate itAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2025-07-05 | There are two commonly held views on the timing of the Wave Sheaf. One is that it was presented on the day following the first weekly Sabbath during the Days of Unleavened Bread and the other is that it is waved on the first working day following the first Day of Unleavened Bread. This composition supports the day following the first Day of Unleavened Bread. Did Christ leave us a way to distinguish?

Pentecost - why countAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2025-05-20 | If you have been reading the articles in the order set out by the article that I call the Pattern for Life, then the answer to this question may be obvious by now but we will explore it nevertheless, so bear with me. In short the harvest, the bride/wedding, the jubilee. I am sure that you would have seen that the only method of actually requires counting for Pentecost is when it is done from the First Omer, because that causes the timing to change when the First day of unleavened bread is the weekly Sabbath. All other methods can be fixed. We have already looked at the highlights of the birthright. Christ of course died to leave us an inheritance in His Last Will and Testament at Passover. It was redeemed by Him as the elder at His resurrection, and shared with us for a new life in Him. The process starts with the birthright passed on to the new creature by the Passover sacrifice. This new creature has God present in it and all others like it, similar to having a common DNA, and it begins to grow accordingly. I covered the elements relating to this: the redeeming Law in our hearts by the presence of God, the Holy Spirit. What does that growth lead to?