Thank you for your interesting
comments. Ray, you always have a way
with words that I wish that I could. It
was because of Dr. Missler classes that cause me to do an in-depth study and
made it one of my 15 min presentations for Gold, called “14th or the
15th, Passover.“
One of the main
reason why an amicable compromise was made because the Christians who observed
the Passover, did it on the night of the 14th and the Jews did
Passover on the night of the 15th and Christians did Passover (later
changed to Easter) on Sunday (remember, the day starts at sunset in God’s calendar.)
night our Lord Jesus took of the Passover was on the night of the 14th.The
disciples ask the Lord where would he like to observe the Passover (they called
it Passover. Jews could not take of the
Passover until the bodies were taken down from the crosses and if they enter
the gentile hall, for they would not be clean for the Passover (main reason).
There is a very
good reason why the Jews, even until today, still observe the Passover on the
night of the 15th and not on the 14th. The Jews observe the Passover on the First
day of Unleavened Bread during the evening hours (Friday night) whereas the
Lord Jesus, the disciples and those followed their teachings observe the
Passover on the night of the 14th.
The New Testament
Church would observe the Passover this year on Thursday night, not Friday night
like the Jews do today. It is somewhat
different for the New Testament Church, bread and wine as Paul and John
explains and footwashing service as John explains.
If we remember, Dr
Missler said in the Ezekiel Teachings, which the Temple will only be open on
the Sabbath and Feast Days and we all know that at the start of the Millennium,
all nations will observe the Feast of Tabernacles.
Below is from one
of Dr. Missler lectures.
Quartodecimanism
(“fourteenism,” derived from Latin) refers to the practice of fixing the
celebration of Pass-over for Christians on the fourteenth day of Nisan in the
Old Testament Calendar (Lev 23:5). This was the original method of fixing the
date of the Passover, which is to be a “perpetual ordinance” (Ex 12:14).
115-125 A.D.: The
Roman church celebrated Passover on a Sunday at least since the time of Bishop
Xystus or Sixtus I (Eusebius H.E.
5.24.14).
In 154 A.D.
Polycarp visited Rome to discuss the difference in Paschal calculation with
Bishop Anisettes and reached an amicable compromise.
Polycrates of
Ephesus and Irenaeus wrote in support of the Quartodecimans (Eusebius H.E.
5.24.17).
The Easter Story:
What Really Happened by Dr. Missler
Council of Nicea
The council
unanimously ruled that the Easter festival should be celebrated throughout the
Christian world on the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal
equinox; and that if the full moon should occur on a Sunday, and thereby
coincide with the Passover festival, Easter should be commemorated on the
following Sunday. As result of the
Council of Nicea, and amended by numerous subsequent meetings the formal church
deliberately attempted to design a formula for “Easter” which would avoid any
possibility of falling on the Jewish Passover, even accidentally! …and Quartodecimans were excommunicated!
…and Quartodecimans
were excommunicated! (when those who observed the Passover were killed by the
armies of the western church).
Lecture by Dr.
Missler from the Book of Acts
In their zeal to
separate from Jewishness, “Quatrodecimans” were excommunicated by the early
church.
1Co 5:7 NKJV Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you
may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
1Co 11:23 NKJV For I received from the Lord that which I
also delivered to you: that the Lord
Jesus on the same night in which He was
betrayed took bread;
Joh 18:28 NKJV Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the
Praetorium, and it was early morning. But they
themselves did not go into the Praetorium, lest they should be defiled, but
that they might eat the Passover.
Luk 22:8 NKJV And He sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare
the Passover for us, that we may eat."
Luk 22:15-16 NKJV Then He said to them, "With fervent desire I have desired
to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; (16) for I say to you, I
will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God."
Joh 13:4-5 NKJV rose from supper and laid aside His garments,
took a towel and girded
Himself. (5) After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet, and
to wipe them with the towel with which
He was girded.
Joh 13:14-15 NKJV If I then, your Lord and Teacher,
have washed your feet, you also ought to
wash one another's feet. (15) For I have given you
an example, that you should do as I have done to you.
Zec 14:16-19 NKJV And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations
which came against Jerusalem shall go up
from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast
of Tabernacles. (17) And it
shall be that whichever of the families
of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of
hosts, on them there will be no rain. (18) If the
family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall
have no rain; they shall
receive the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not come up
to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. (19) This
shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do
not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
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