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THE PASSOVER – PART 5 OF 7
It must be evident to you now that the description of the Passover service mentioned in Parts 1 thru 4 of this study are NOT mentioned in the Passover instructions recorded for us by Moshe in Torah, Exodus Chapter 12. In the Torah account there is NO mention of wine, or four (4) special glasses of wine, or an egg. Instead of a dry shinbone, the main feature of the original Jewish Passover was the roast lamb. And certainly there is no mention of three (3) special unleavened cakes and the ceremony of burying or hiding away half of the middle cake and bringing it forth at the end of the feast.
This marks a radical change from the feast initiated by Moshe. When and how did this change come about? Nowhere in the writings of Moshe, nor in those of the Rabbis during the 1500 years that followed the days of Moshe, is there any question of wine as being necessary for the keeping of the Passover, or that it MUST BE RED! Who substituted the bread for the Passover lamb? Who made the wine an essential part, and why should it be RED like BLOOD? And why do we today, while eating of the middle cake called APHIKOMEN, believe that we are eating the Passover lamb?
Although most Jewish people do not realize it, the origin of the use of the bread comes from the Brit Chadashah (the Hebrew New Testament). The Jewish followers of Messiah made the change during the immediate years after the Lord’s resurrection. It is because the Messiah Yeshua took bread and said: “This is my body.” It is He who gave His talmidim bread and told them, as they were eating it, to believe that they were eating the sacrifice of the Passover.
The half piece of cake called APHIKOMEN is wrapped in a cloth and hidden, because when Yeshua died on the cross-stake, His talmidim took His body down, wrapped it in grave clothes and placed it in the tomb. The APHIKOMEN is later brought forth from its hiding place because on the third day G-d raised Yeshua from the grave.
The APHIKOMEN is eaten as the last act of the Passover feast because the institution of the Lord’s supper took place at the close of the meal in the upper room in Jerusalem. The members of the family share it because the followers of Messiah were regarded as the family of G-d. Yeshua is the bread of life to all that believe in Him!
Every single act done to the middle cake by the Jewish people today is descriptive of what happened to Messiah Yeshua. It is therefore He whom the APHIKOMEN represents. And, all the three (3) cakes are really symbolic of the Holy Trinity, the threefold revelation of the G-dhead: G-d, the Father and Creator; G-d, the Savior or Redeemer; and G-d, the Ruach Ha Chodesh (the Holy Spirit). The middle cake, which represents Yeshua Ha Meschiach, is the one that is broken. He was broken and He was crucified.
Notice, also, the fashion of the Passover cakes: with the stripes and holes pierced in them. There was no Brit Chadashah (Hebrew New Testament) during the early messianic synagogue years, and only a few copies of the Tanakh were in the hands of the leaders. The early followers of Messiah wanted to impress and perpetuate the story of Messiah for their children and children’s children. They wanted to teach them that Yeshua Ha Meshiach, was the One Who fulfilled the prophecy in Tanakh, Isaiah Chapter 53: “Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.”
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