Thesis: The movie The Ten Commandments by Cecil B. Demille has created lots of original plots out of the texts of Exodus and by its various exclusive inventions, there were both shortcomings and merits of this movie. The shortcomings were that the movie was secularized compared with the narrat...
What is now Christmas is the rebirth of the sun-god -- and what is now Easter was the worship of the moon goddess Ishtar and the resurrection of the sun-god (see Easter vs Passover). That the initiates of the ancient mystery religions were called Christians prior to the time of ...
26 When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples, 2 “As you know, Passover begins in two days, and the Son of Man[h] will be handed over to be crucified.” 3 At that same time the leading priests and elders were meeting at the residence of Caiaphas, ...
” The Israelites were given the Passover and various “holydays” that had specific application to them and the coming of the Messiah. When the Messiah came and was sacrificed, these remnants of the ceremonial law were no longer in effect. They also had various rest days that were called ...
26When Jesus had finished saying all these things,he said to his disciples,2“As you know, the Passoveris two days away—and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.” 3Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembledin the palace of the high priest, whose ...
And I ponder the problem. In previous years I’ve simply moved our Passover celebration to a different, more accommodating day.It’s the thought that counts; as long as we tell the Exodus story it really doesn’t signify which day we choose – does it?
it was a reminder that One would come and die for our sin. When the true Passover Lamb bowed His head and died and cried out, “It is finished”, the old Ceremonial Law that pointed the people to His sacrificial death was nailed to the cross. Colossians 2:14-17 says; “Blotting out...
The Israelites went forth from Egypt on the eve of the fifteenth of Nissan; on this same night, many years later, the army of Sennacherib, encamped before Jerusalem, was slain by the Lord. King Hezekiah, and the inhabitants of the besieged city, celebrated the feast of Passover according ...
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Hezekiah Celebrates the Passover…23The whole assembly agreed to observe seven more days, so they observed seven days with joy. 24For Hezekiah king of Judah contributed a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep for the assembly, and the officials contributed a thousand bulls and ten thousand ...