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Luke 22:1-6 (KJV) 1 Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
2 And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
3 Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
4 And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.
5 And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
6 And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude.
3 QUESTIONS WHAT IS PASSOVER AND THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD.
THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD IS CALLED PASSOVER WAS 1 OF THE 3 MAJOR FEASTS IN ISRAEL, ALONG WITH PENTECOST AND THE FEAST OF BOOTHS.
THIS CELEBRATION FOCUSED ON GOD'S DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL FROM EGYPT AS DESCRIBED IN THE BOOK OF EXODUS. THIS HAPPENS FROM THE 15TH TO THE 21ST DAY OF NISAN WHICH IS OUR MONTH OF APRIL.
THE PASSOVER WAS THE FINAL PLAGUE THAT GOD PLAGUED EGYPT WITH WHICH CAUSED PHAROAH TO LET MOSES AND THE PEOPLE LEAVE EGYPT.
MOSES HAD BEEN GIVEN INSTRUCTION THAT THE PEOPLE WERE TO PREPARE A LAMB FOR SACRIFICE WHICH THEY WOULD EAT AT EVENING WITH THEIR CLOTHES , COATS AND SHOES ON AND THEY WERE TO EAT FAST BECAUSE GOD'S DELIVERANCE WAS SOON.
GOD HAD TOLD MOSES THAT ALL THE FAMILIES WERE TO STAY IN THEIR HOUSES ON THIS NIGHT. THEY WERE TO KILL THEIR LAMB AND CATCH THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND PLACE IT AROUND THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE AND THAT AT MIDNIGHT THE DEATH ANGEL WOULD COME INTO EGYPT AND ALL THE HOUSES WHICH DIDN'T HAVE THE BLOOD ON THE DOOR WOULD EXPERIENCE THE DEATH OF THE FIRST BORN. THE FIRST BORN WOULD DIE OF ANIMALS AND CHILDREN.
THE NEXT MORNING ALL OF EGYPT WAS MOURNING AND THEY ALL WANTED ISRAEL TO LEAVE BEFORE GOD KILLED THEM ALL.
THE EGYPTIAN FAMILIES EVEN GAVE THE ISRAELITE FAMILIES ALL THEIR JEWELS AND GOLD AND PRECIOUS THINGS TO GET THEM TO LEAVE.
AFTER THEIR DELIVERANCE FROM SLAVERY IN EGYPT GOD THEN CALLED FOR THE CELEBRATION OF PASSOVER THAT WAS TO CONTINUE.
JESUS EVEN SAID
Luke 22:15 (KJV) 15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
I BELIEVE THAT JESUS HAD THE INTENTION TO CALL ATTENTION TO A MUCH GREATER SACRIFICE THAT WAS SOON TO HAPPEN WITH MUCH GREATER DELIVERANCE THAN PHYSICAL PROTECTION FROM DEATH.
WHO IS JUDAS?
HE IS CALLED JUDAS ISCARIOT. THE NEW TESTAMENT SAYS LITTLE ABOUT HIM. IT IS INTERESTING THAT HIS SURNAME OR LAST NAME PLACES HIS ORIGIN FROM THE VILLAGE OF KERIOTH IN THE FAR SOUTHERN REGION OF ISRAEL. JUDAS WAS THE ONLY ONE OF THE 12 WHO WAS NOT FROM GALILEE
THIS MADE JUDAS AND HIS FAMILY UNKNOWN TO THE OTHER DISCIPLES WHICH WERE FROM GALILEE SO THEY HAD NO REASON TO SUSPECT HIS MOTIVES OR DECEPTIONS.
ALTHOUGH JESUS KNEW ALL ABOUT JUDAS
John 6:64 (KJV) 64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
John 6:70 (KJV) 70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
WHO ARE THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE SCRIBES.
THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE SCRIBES RAN THE TEMPLE OPERATIONS
THESE WERE MENTIONED WITH THE ELDERS TOGETHER IN MANY OTHER SCRIPTURES.
THE CHIEF PRIESTS INCLUDED THE HIGH PRIEST CAIPHAS AND THE FORMER HIGH PRIEST HIS FATHER IN LAW ANNAS WHO HAD GREAT INFLUENCE IN THE POLITICAL REALM.
THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEMPLE WOULD BE INCLUDED IN THIS GROUP WITH OTHERS MAINLY SADUCEES. THE SCRIBES WERE MAINLY PHARISEES WHO WERE THE BIBLICAL EXPERTS AND TAUGHT THE LAW OF MOSES AND ALSO THE RABINICLE TRADITIONS WHICH WERE PUT TOGETHER BY THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS. THESE TRADITIONS WERE WHAT JESUS REBUKED THEM FOR MANY TIMES.
THESE FOLKS THOUGHT THEY WERE THE MOST PIOUS AND RELIGIOUS FOLKS AND THEY HELD THE LEADERSHIP ROLE IN ISRAEL'S RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL REALMS, UNDER ROMAN BLESSING. THEY HAD TO KEEP ROME HAPPY SO THEY WOULD BE LEFT ALONE.
THEY HATED JESUS BECAUSE HE WAS A THREAT TO THEIR POWER AND AUTHORITY.
JESUS WAS ALSO WINNING THE POPULARITY CONTEST AMONG THE PEOPLE.
BUT NOT FOR THE RIGHT REASON THOUGH
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Luke 21:37-38 (KJV) 37 And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.
38 And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.
I MENTIONED THAT THIS FEAST OF PASSOVER WAS ONE OF THE 3 MOST IMPORTANT FEASTS IN ISRAEL. ALL JEWISH MEN WERE INSTRUCTED TO COME TO JERUSALEM 3 TIMES A YEAR.
AND BECAUSE THE JEWS HAD BEEN SCATTERED ALL OVER THE WORLD; THERE COULD POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN 200,000 AND A MILLION PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM FOR THIS PASSOVER.
CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW THREATENED THE CHIEF PRIEST AND OTHER RELIGIOUS LEADER FELT WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE CAME TO HEAR JESUS.
THAT IS WHY TO THEM JESUS HAD TO DIE
AND WE READ AGAIN
3 Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
4 And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.
5 And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
6 And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude.
JUDAS PROMISED TO DELIVER JESUS TO THEM IN THE ABSENCE OF THE CROWDS OF PEOPLE.
Luke 22:7-13 (KJV) 7 Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.
8 And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.
9 And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare?
10 And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in.
11 And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
12 And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready.
13 And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
JESUS SENT PETER AND JOHN TO PREPARE THE PASSOVER WHICH JESUS DESIRED TO EAT WITH HIS DISCIPLES BEFORE HIS ARREST DEATH AND RESURRECTION.
ON THIS NIGHT JESUS CHANGED THE MEMORIAL FROM PASSOVER TO A NEW MEMORIAL THE LORD'S SUPPER.
INSTEAD OF CELEBRATING THE PHYSICAL DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL FROM SLAVERY IN EGYPT; JESUS WAS CHANGING THIS UP A BIT AND START A CELEBRATION OF NOT JUST ISRAEL DELIVERANCE BUT ALL WHO WOULD COME TO CHRIST THE SAVIOR HE WOULD DELIVER THEM FROM SIN AND ETERNAL DEATH AND SEPARATION FROM GOD.
I WANT TO READ YOU A QUOTE FROM JOHN MACARTHUR.
"DESPITE CLAIMS OF UNBELIEVING SKEPTICS AND CRITICS, CHRIST'S DEATH WAS NOT AN UNPLANNED, UNEXPECTED, UNFORTUNATE EVENT. HE WAS NOT A MISGUIDED MARTYR, A WELL INTENTIONED SPIRITUAL VISIONARY WHOSE IDEALS WERE AHEAD OF HIS TIME. NEITHER WAS HE A DELUSIONARY MADMAN WHO WHRONGLY BELIEVED HE WAS GOD, NOR A FAILED POLITICAL REVOLUTIONARY. ALL OF THESE BLASPHEMOUS NOTIONS ARE FALSE."
JESUS KNEW EXACTLY AND EXPLICITLY WHAT WAS COMING AND TOLD HIS DISCIPLES SO.
JESUS PREDICTED HIS DEATH
.Mark 8:31 (KJV) 31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
JESUS HAD ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY AND POWER OVER HIS OWN LIFE.
John 10:17-18 (KJV) 17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
JESUS DIDN'T SURVIVE THE NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS ON HIS LIFE, OR ESCAPE DEATH BEFORE GOD'S APPOINTED TIME. HE SOARED ABOVE THE ATTEMPTS ON HIS LIFE THERE WERE NO CLOSE CALLS THERE WERE NO INJURIES TO JESUS.
BECAUSE JESUS IS GOD WHO CAME AND PUT ON FLESH TO BE THE SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS AND MAKE A WAY FOR US TO BE FORGIVEN AND BE RESTORED INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD.
NOW LISTEN TO THIS
JESUS WAS GOD'S SACRIFICIAL LAMB WHOSE BLOOD IS AVAILABLE TO US FOR OUR FORGIVENESS AND CLEANSING FROM OUR SIN. WHICH BRINGS ABOUT OUR ADOPTION INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD.
THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB IS NOW SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER IN HEAVEN MAKING INTERCESSION FOR US TO GOD THE FATHER.
HE IS DIRECTING US HIS SERVANTS AND WHAT WE ARE TO DO AND HOW WE ARE TO LIVE THAT WILL HELP OTHERS TO COME TO HIM.
Luke 22:7-13 (KJV) 7 Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.
8 And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.
9 And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare?
10 And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in.
11 And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
12 And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready.
13 And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
Matthew 21:1-3 (KJV) 1 And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,
2 Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.
3 And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.
MY QUESTION TO MY LORD.
WHERE'S THE MULE AND WHAT DO I SAY?
JESUS HAD EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION TO HIS DISCIPLES ABOUT THINGS HE WANTED THEM TO DO EVEN TELLING THEM WHAT TO SAY
THIS IS VERY ENCOURAGING TO ME BECAUSE THIS IS THE KIND OF INSTRUTION I NEED
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Matthew 6:33 (KJV) 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
WHEN OUR FIRST GOAL IN LIFE IS TO LIVE FOR JESUS WE CAN EXPECT AND LOOK FOR CLEAR DEFINED DIRECTIONS.
IF YOU HAVE NEVER TRUSTED CHRIST YOU NEED TO TODAY. YOU MUST RECOGNIZE THAT YOU ARE A SINNER AND NEED TO BE FORGIVEN. IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME HERE IS A QUESTION FOR YOU . HAVE YOU EVER TOLD A LIE? IN REVELATION SCRIPTURE SAYS ALL LIARS WILL HAVE THEIR PLACE IN THE LAKE OF FIRE WHICH IS HELL.
SCRIPTURE ALSO SAYS THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS. ROM 3:23 FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALLEN SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD.
ROMANS 6:23 FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.
WHAT WE EARN FOR OUR SIN IS ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM GOD FOREVER IN HELL.
ROMANS 5:8 BUT GOD COMMENDED HIS LOVE TOWARD US IN THAT WHILE WE WERE YET SINNERS CHRIST DIED FOR US.
JESUS CAME TO EARTH BORN OF A VIRGIN LIVED A PERFECT SINLESS LIFE SO THAT HE COULD BE THE PERFECT SINNLESS SACRIFICE FOR OUR SIN.
HE TOOK GOD'S ANGER AND WRATH AGAINST SIN AND SINNERS UPON HIMSELF SO THAT SALVATION COULD BE MADE AVAILABLE TO ALL WHO WOULD ASK.
ASK JESUS TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS. HE WILL FORGIVE ALL YOUR SIN AND CLEANSEYOU FROM ALL YOUR INIQUITY. PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE.
HE WILL DECLARE YOU FOREVER ACCEPTABLE TO GOD THE FATHER AND GIVE YOU THE HOLY SPIRIT TO HELP YOU LIVE FOR HIM IN THIS LIFE.
PLEASE THINK ABOUT THIS.
IF YOU HAVE CHRIST AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR; WE MUST SEEK HIS WILL FIRST AND EXPECT AND LOOK FOR INSTRUCTION. THEY WILL COME!
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