Text Box: At Passover every Jewish and many believing households have gathered around the Passover meal: Y In commemoration of the past; Y In celebration of the present; Y In anticipation of the future; Y And in fellowship of the Lamb. The Apostle Paul’s teacher, Rabban Gamaliel the Elder taught that three things were needed and needed to be explained to properly celebrate Passover: Lamb ~ Matzah (Unleavened Bread) ~ Maror (Bitter Herbs) In the centre of your table you should have: Y Three pieces of Matzah (covered by two knapkins) Y Bitter Herbs ~ e.g. Horseradish Sauce Y Parsley Y Salt Water Y Charoset, ~ i.e. Dates, Chooped Nuts & Honey mixed into a heavy mud-like consistency. You will also need sufficient Wine/Red Grape Juice for each person to fill/refill their glasses four times. These four Cups of Wine are vital and express Israel’s joy and are based upon / named after the four words used about Israel’s redemption in Exodus 6v6-7: “Bringing Out”, “Deliverance”, “Redeeming” & “Taking/Accepting” Bowls of water & towels are needed for foot & hand washing.

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Text Box: For Jewish and believing households the Passover Meal has annually been the most important family meal for over 3,500 years. It is as important as Thanksgiving & Christmas is to those who celebrate them. The Rabbis have summarised the three most important Bible requirements for those celebrating the Feasts of YHVH as: Y Presence, actually being there; Y Chagigah, or Peace Offering ~ Yeshua is our Peace Offering; Y Joyousness, so much so they say a minimum of four cups of wine be drunk (that’s 2.5 pints!!). All three pilgrim Feasts of YHVH in the Bible have a three-fold significance: Y Harvest Festivals ~ enjoying the fruit of the Land given to the chosen, yet still owned by YHVH; Y Historical ~ we remember the historical events of a people miraculously preserved, set free & becoming a nation, all through the direct intervention of YHVH; Y Typical/Prophetic ~ YHVH bound up the future of all nations in Abraham & his seed, thus their history becomes prophetic (cf.Gen.22:15-18). It is because of this typical/prophetic element that Satan has sought to rob believers of these Feasts of YHVH ~ for they tell us in minute detail more of our Saviour, Yeshua. Passover reaches back to the first and points forward to the final Deliverance. You can learn more about Passover and its background by reading Exodus ch.1-13. For a summary of the Feasts of YHVH read Leviticus ch. 23.

Introduction & Preparation

 

Passover Seder / Order of Service

Very often the orders of service for the Passover Seder (Haggadah) contains a lot of extra traditions  -  some useful, some not.  Here we present a Messianic Haggadah that can easily be used by anyone.  All that is needed is to give a basic introduction based on this page and then simply read through the following page.