Passover’s End-Time Significance
Passover’s End-Time Significance
by Kerrie French
The purpose of this article is to inspire all those seeking to be faithful and obedient followers of the Messiah to begin their journey by entering at the door of Rosh Hashanah (New Year’s Day) in the spring. And by so doing, you may harmonize your soul temple by humbly returning to His ordained Temple calendar model and its unique lunar rhythm. It is only by this method that anyone may “follow the Lamb whithersoever He goes.” Strikingly, if you are not utilizing the correct start of the year (Rosh Hashanah), when you show up at the door, it will be shut, just as with the five foolish virgins.
Here, you will discover the Scriptural method of finding the original New Year, the authentic New Moon, and the correct placement of Passover. Thus, you are invited to Passover. How do you celebrate it? Refer to the article, Passover and How to Celebrate It.
Unprecedented Times in which We are Living
In these last days, all that was once an acceptable norm is now turned upside down as the Luciferian Government (New World Order) is taking shape all around us to force upon the world Satan’s Mark of the Beast agenda. It began publicly with the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing, mask-wearing, closure and foreclosure of small businesses, lockdowns, and cancel culture. But YAHUAH Alahim (Eternal Father) and His Son, YAHUSHA haMashiach (the Messiah), remain in control and are calling the faithful to restore their truths in their lives that they may escape the coming Mark of the Beast and, in its place, receive His SIGN & SEAL of His Kingdom vetting guidelines. These include the Torah Law and the Testimony of Yahusha HaMashiach. (Revelation 14:12). Both find their fulfillment in PASSOVER, the original and authentic SIGN & SEAL of YAHUAH Alahim. Refer to the article, The Mark of the Beast and the Seal of YAHUAH Alahim.
So, in keeping with the Passover (Pasch) theme, this article will include Scriptural guidelines on how to keep it Kadosh (Holy) in honor of YAHUAH Alahim and YAHUSHA haMashiach (the Messiah) who paid it all for you and me.
The Bridal Covenant
The Bridal Covenant remains the same from Genesis to Revelation, as recorded by Moses in the Torah Law through to the time of YAHUSHA haMashiach’s first coming, His Second Coming, and to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and beyond. The idea of a “NEW” TESTAMENT (NEW COVENANT) is better stated as the “RENEWED COVENANT. This is because it is not changed, but the sacrifice of our Messiah upon the cross/stake gives it far greater gravity than could be understood previously. The very nature of a Bridal Covenant (Ketubah) is that it is an unchangeable contract that remains steadfast and fixed from its inception through to the Bridegroom’s return for His Bride. But it doesn’t even end there. It continues for the duration of the Marriage. Simply, nothing changes! So it is that you are invited to enter through obedience.
Because the Ketubah’s (Bridal Covenant’s) role is to illustrate the harmonious, fulfilling characteristics of both the First and Second Coming of the Messiah accurately, the Brit Hadasha (N.T.) must remain in complete harmony with the Tanakh Torah Law of the (O.T.). But if it honors a messiah by another name, such as “Jesus Christ,” on a day other than that ordained by the Creator, such as a Friday, Sunday, Christmas, or Easter, it identifies him as a false messiah of a counterfeit storyline on a day of a pagan solar calendar.
Presented below is the required recipe of the Bridal Covenant containing the five major ingredients, which are 1) the Bridegroom, 2) the Bride, 3) the Ketubah (betrothal and rules of engagement), which includes 4) Torah Law, and 5) the Testimony of the Messiah. These five have been the foundation BLUEPRINT of the PLAN OF SALVATION from the Beginning. The Torah Law is the umbrella term for the Statutes (calendar, New Moon Days, and lunar Sabbaths), the Judgments, and the Ten Commandments. The Testimony is the prophetic work of salvation born out in the time-centric work of the Messiah unto salvation according to the order of His sacred Feast Days. Refer to the article, Restored Prophetic Feast Days of Yahusha the Messiah.
Written by Isaiah of the Tanakh (O.T.)
“To the TORAH LAW [of instruction] and to the TESTIMONY [promise of the Messiah] if they speak not according to this WORD, it is because there is NO LIGHT in them.” YeshaYAHU (Isaiah) 8:20
Written by John the Revelator (N.T.)
“Here is the PEACE of the RIGHTEOUS (zadok), here are they who keep the TORAH LAW [of instruction] and have the TESTIMONY of YAHUSHA haMashiach (the Messiah). Revelation 14:12
Isaiah 8:20 presents the two-fold prescription of YAHUSHA HaMashiach’s Bridal Covenant. Revelation 14:12 punctuates this by identifying His remnant Bride in the last days who remain faithful to the same betrothal recipe for a successful marriage. Those alone who adhere to the Bridal Covenant will be victorious over the Beast and its image. These will receive His peace, righteousness, and assurance of salvation.
Passover Among the Rabbinical Jews Today
The modern Rabbinical and Karaite Jews consistently ignore the most important element of Passover. It was designed to be all about the promised Messiah. It is the Messiah for whom the slain lamb has been represented from the fall of Eden to this very day. The New Testament bears out that He has come, laid down His life, and has risen again.
Yasharal (Israel) has a long history with Passover, marking their release from Egyptian captivity, and illustrates a stunning display of YAHUAH’s deliverance and grace. But that storyline was to be the passing of a baton in a relay, with continued assurance to them of the coming promised Messiah as echoed from Eden. And the promise always pales in comparison to reality. Yet, to this day, the Jews continue the tradition of slaying a lamb as a symbol of their Exodus from Egypt and continue their nearly 2,000 years of denial that the Messiah has already come. Refer to the article Our Messiah’s True Prophetic Birthday.
No doubt, their blatant ignoring of the fact that the Messiah has already come is driven by the guilt imparted by their historic actions that placed Him on the cross/stake. The additional part they played in removing Yahusha’s authoritative sacred name (Acts 4:17) and changing their calendar was designed to disconnect them from reproach in every way. To their mind’s eye, it ensured they would never be tied to YAHUSHA haMashiach in the recorded word or to that historic mid-day event of the dark conjunction lunar phase and its solar eclipse that marked the 14th of Abib and His crucifixion on that beautiful yet terrible cross. Refer to the article, The Sun Was Darkened from the Sixth to the Ninth Hour.
So their denial that YAHUSHA, the Messiah, has already come is evidence that they don’t meet the twofold requirement of the Bridal Covenant found in both the Tanakh (Isaiah of the O.T.) and the Brit Hadasha (Revelation of the N.T.). Therefore, YAHUSHA haMashiach never celebrates Passover with them because He is not part of their equation in concept or at the correct appointed time. For all those who deny half of the required covenant, they are neither His Bride nor His covenanted people and entirely fall short.
Unless there is a conversion and reversal of beliefs, the Rabbinical and Karaite Jews will never discover YAHUSHA haMashiach, who died for them. And, by extension, will never receive the pre-appointed SIGN & SEAL specifically designed to immunize the faithful and obedient followers from receiving the MARK OF THE BEAST at the end of time.
In reality, these are heading toward that fateful day when they will hear those words, “I never knew you, depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness [a denial of the Torah Law recorded by Moses]!” (Matthew 7:23).
Passover Among the Christian Churches
Passover is not celebrated among Christian Churches for the most part. Instead, the majority celebrate Easter with an Easter Ham instead of honoring the LAMB, YAHUSHA haMashiach. They keep in step with their Mother Roman Catholic Church, with her replacement solar calendar, and her pagan holidays to avoid all things Jewish. They have refused to restore the authentic sacred names of the Father and Son, preferring their long-held traditions that turn from the truth.
Interestingly, from the time Easter was first instituted in the 4th century A.D., it has been located on the first Sunday after the full moon that follows the Vernal Equinox in the spring. Emperor Constantine utilized the ancient lunar calendar system to ensure that Easter Sunday (His witty invention) would never occur upon the Scriptural lunar dates of Passover, Unleavened Bread, and the First Fruits Offering (14th, 15th, and 16th of Abib), of the hated Jews. This remains pragmatic evidence to this day that the Scriptural calendar has always been beaconed by the full moon of the lunar cycle, which in turn marks the current ruling constellation for the lunar New Year (Rosh HaShanah). All this has been lost sight of and hidden under the rubble of traditions and commandments of men (Titus 1:14), these past 1,700 years. Refer to Rosh Hashanah, Yahuah’s New Year’s Day in Spring.
The church I was raised in celebrates neither Passover nor Easter. They keep what they call “The Lord’s Supper,” often called “communion.” But, rather than celebrating it on the preordained and required lunar date of the 14th counted from the New Moon in the spring as Scripture specifies, they celebrate it quarterly, every thirteenth Saturday throughout the year. Strikingly, this conflicts with the whole of Scripture. It undermines and disconnects the naive parishioners from being synchronized to the Creator’s prophetically appointed times. This tradition prevents the Messiah from ever celebrating Passover with them.
They miss out on the anticipation of counting to Passover from the full New Moon in spring. Although they claim to be a “protestant” church, they continue to march to the beat of their Roman mother’s calendar invention, all the while claiming Rome is the Beast power of Revelation. Go figure.
Commandments of Men
A specific commandment of men has become foundational to most Christian traditions. Of a truth, it has become the mantra of all the denominations that joined the Christian church movement these past 1,700 years, having its beginning with Emperor Constantine. It declares, “We are no longer under the TORAH LAW but under GRACE.” It can also be said that “the TORAH LAW WAS NAILED TO THE CROSS/STAKE.” Either way, this lie was born out of Constantine’s hatred for all things Jewish and has become the standard of all Christian churches. (Titus 1:14.)
Evidence that the TORAH LAW never ended at the cross/stake is that the Messiah’s disciples continued to faithfully honor and keep all the Feast Days until their deaths. History even records that in the fourth century A.D., all the true followers of the Messiah (referred to as Natsarim) were called heretics by the Romans because they remained obedient to the TORAH LAW. They kept the original lunar calendar and counted Passover as the 14th day from Rosh Hashanah (the full moon lunar New Year’s Day) in the spring. These faithful were known in the Roman circles as the Quartodecimen, which literally means “fourteeners,” the term that references their faithfulness in keeping Passover by counting “fourteen days” from the full New Moon of Rosh Hashanah. Refer to the article, The Christian Creed, the Forgotten Foundation of All Christian Churches.
But because all these church denominations deny the TORAH LAW instructions of the O.T., this is evidence that they also don’t meet the two-fold requirement of the Bridal Covenant found in both the Tanakh (O.T.) and the Brit Hadasha (N.T.), as shown above. They all claim to have the TESTIMONY (of the Messiah) but call YAHUSHA the Messiah by the Roman replacement name of “Jesus Christ,” which was never His name, and deny the testimony born out in the prophetic lunar appointed Feast Days. Have you ever considered that the name “Jesus Christ” may even be the name of the anti-Messiah (anti-Christ)? For all the Christian denominations that deny half of the required covenant, they are neither the authentic Bride nor His covenanted people, as they completely fall short of His standard. No matter how sincere, all those who continue to disregard the still, small voice of the Ruach ha Kadosh (voice of Yahuah Alahim, the Most High) will grieve Him away and commit the unpardonable sin.
Like the foolish virgins who awaken but have no oil of the spirit nor the light of truth, they will not arrive at the door at the APPOINTED TIME and will also hear those fateful words, “I never knew you, depart from Me, you who PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS [denial of the Torah Law recorded by Moses]!” (Matthew 7:23).
Lawlessness Runs Rampant
What is Lawlessness? Lawlessness is the denial of the TORAH LAW of instruction. Confoundingly, all the Christian churches specifically deny the TORAH LAW that contains their sacred appointments unto Salvation, with its calendar, full New Moons, lunar seventh-day Sabbaths, and lunar Feast Days. So unless there is a conversion into the two-part truth of the Torah Law & the Testimony, the Christian church folks will NEVER locate PASSOVER, the designated SIGN & SEAL specifically designed to immunize the faithful and obedient followers from receiving the MARK OF THE BEAST. Stunningly, they have swapped YAHUAH Alahim’s SIGN and SEAL for Satan’s Mark and kingdom laws. Like the foolish virgins, they will be off purchasing oil and light instead of meeting their Bridegroom on His sacred appointments of New Moon Days, lunar Sabbaths, and Feast Days, with the full light of truth He has provided in the heavens. When they do arrive, the door will already be shut. Refer to the article, Worship at the East Gate.
“AND IN VAIN THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN.” Matthew 15:9
Leavening is Symbolic of Sin and Lawlessness
When a symbol is used consistently in Scripture, it is not difficult to conclude its metaphorical meaning. This is true for all the symbolic uses of leaven. In the Tanakh (O.T.), leaven represents sin, false doctrines, evil, and lawlessness. In the Brit Hadasha (N.T.), Yahusha haMashiach (the Messiah) used leaven as an example to represent the Pharisees’ false doctrines and the unbelief (spiritual blindness) of the Sadducees. (Matthew 16:6-12; Mark 8:14-21).
Paul warns that “a little leaven leavens the whole lump.” A popular phrase today as a reference to decay and the spread of rottenness is “One bad apple spoils the whole bunch.” So, about Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, we are to remove leaven as a symbol of rottenness and sin, entirely from our homes for the one-week duration of Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, all the while representing our obedience and confession of sin, and its removal from our lives.
Yahusha, our Messiah, held up matzah (unleavened bread) at the Last Supper on the 13th, the night before Passover, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.” This bread was symbolic of his body and was required to have NO LEAVEN IN IT. This ILLUSTRATED THAT HE WAS WITHOUT SIN. Paul supports this by describing the unleavened bread as being fulfilled in Yahusha haMashiach. (1Corinthians 5:7-8).
Among the parables of the kingdom in Matthew 13:33 is the one that depicts a woman hiding leaven in three measures of meal “until the whole was leavened.” The woman in the parable represents a lawless response during the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. She did something Yahuah Alahim prohibited; she hid the leaven in the meal rather than removing it from her house, so that what was good was now entirely tainted. She mingled a foreign ingredient of willful disobedience into the body of believers. The assembly of believers is to be like unleavened bread. Leaven, in this case, represents rebellion, false teaching, and disobedience. This is speaking of the corrupting influence that can infiltrate all parts of the body of believers.
Leaven can do several things; the most obvious is that it puffs up, represents pride, and does the opposite of the humbling effect of truth. It makes the assemblies appear to be growing but not correctly. But the good news is that YAHUAH Alahim, through His Son, will restore His TRUTHS in those who seek Him with all their hearts. Jeremiah 29:13
Who is His Covenant Bride at the End of Time?
They are represented as the WISE VIRGINS, who have their lamps (Menorah lamps) trimmed and burning to commence their year in the spring in the constellation Bethulah (meaning Virgin). (Matthew 25:1-11) What? Menorah lamps? Yes, the Menorah orrery locates and synchronizes the faithful with all the Feast Day appointments beginning on the full moon as the New Moon of the true Rosh Hashanah (New Year’s Day). HalleluYAH!
The Menorah is the unadulterated road map and KEY for correctly locating all the lunar-based Feast Days. In contrast, those who continue with the Roman solar Beast calendar will NEVER be able to harmonize the Menorah orrery with their counterfeit calendar model. They will consistently arrive on the wrong day for YAHUAH’S SET-APART HOLY DAYS, and the door will be shut. Utilizing the wrong lunar phase for the New Moon, as do all factions of the Jews today, will produce the same results. Refer to the article, THE MENORAH, The Gold Standard of Our Creator’s Eternal Timepiece.
Why does the Covenant Bride Have Peace (Shalom)?
These humble and faithful followers, referred to as the Bride, have peace because they follow the LAMB wherever He goes and have the assurance of salvation. They also know the schedule of prophetic events. The Menorah reveals its secrets, locating all the prophetic Feast Day fulfillments as the Blueprint of the Plan of Salvation and the REMEDY for sin, according to astro-luni-solar time. Additionally, PASSOVER is in the second position on the Menorah and not first. It is the Menorah that single-handedly identifies seven prophetic and pragmatic facts about Passover simultaneously. The Menorah and the Feast Days are the road map of YAHUAH’S and YAHUSHA’S plan to save you and me:
- Passover fulfills the Torah Law of the (O.T.) promise of the coming Messiah.
- Passover fulfills the Brit Hadasha (N.T.) narrative of the life, death, and resurrection of the Messiah.
- Passover identifies the true New Moon as the full moon, all because on the crucifixion Passover, like all others is counted 14 days from the New Moon. On that day the sun was darkened from the sixth to the ninth hour in a three hour extended solar eclipse. Link.
- Passover identifies that the authentic seventh-day Sabbath has always been lunar, as counted from the full New Moon. Every time Passover the 14th is mentioned in Scripture it occurs the day prior to the seventh day Sabbath, the 15th, as counted from the New Moon. Thus all other Sabbaths of every month and year are located on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and the 29th. Link.
- When we locate Passover correctly, as counted from the full New Moon, all other prophetic Feast Days come into clear focus, and are located accurately.
- Passover identifies the true Messiah as Hebrew, living in a Hebrew town, with Hebrew parents, studied Hebrew, and only has a Hebrew name. YAHUSHA haMashiach is the only authentic Messiah, and He came in the name of His Father, YAHUAH Alahim of Appointed Times. Only the prophetic Hebrew Messiah died on Passover the 14th of Abib, as counted from the full New Moon in spring. His crucifixion was marked by a three hour total eclipse of the sun, of enhanced proportions, to draw the attention of all the world to that epic event, and for all generations. Link.
“Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, by which we must be saved.” Phillipians 2:10
- PASSOVER alone, is the antidote to receiving THE MARK OF THE BEAST! No matter what you were taught previously, it was PASSOVER that was instituted after the fall in Eden, and again in Egypt, as the eternal BLOOD COVENANT, with its SIGN and SEAL of the MOST HIGH FATHER OF LIGHTS (James 1:17). It identifies redemption’s benefactor, YAHUSHA haMashiach (the Messiah) as the LAMB slain from the foundation of the earth. Also, it is only PASSOVER that identifies the prophetic lunar date upon which it was to be accomplished 4,000 years later upon the cross/stake.
STUNNINGLY, the SEAL OF YAHUAH is an invisible covering of protection over His people, similar to the blood on the doorpost signifying the presence of the atoning blood of the PASSOVER LAMB, ensuring these will not receive the MARK. When a believer accepts the principles of PASSOVER they receive YAHUAH’S SEAL in their forehead as a sign of their choice. When they obediently keep PASSOVER they are SEALED on their hand, illustrating their actions are in line with their testimony. As a result, no place can be found for the MARK of the BEAST in their hand or on their forehead.
While there are other signs of obedience, such as faithfully keeping the lunar seventh-day Sabbath, and other Feast Days, none come close to matching the purifying blood sacrifice provided by our Messiah for the sins of all mankind on PASSOVER. There is no other sign of obedience that can fulfill all these points for ensuring the peace of salvation, and its fundamental protection from receiving the MARK OF THE BEAST. Compare the following Mark of the Beast verse with the Seal of the MOST HIGH (
PASSOVER) verse. Mark of the Beast
“And he [the Beast] causes ALL, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a MARK in their RIGHT HAND, or in their FOREHEADS: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that has the MARK, or the name of the Beast, or the number of his name.” Revelation 13:16-17
Passover Seal
“It [PASSOVER] shall be as a SIGN to you on your HAND and as a memorial between your eyes (FOREHEAD) that YAHUAH’S TORAH LAW may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand YAHUAH has brought you out of Egypt [New World Order]. You shall, therefore, keep this ordinance [PASSOVER] in its season (#4150 mo’edah – lunar appointed time) from year to year.” Shemot (Exodus) 13:9-10
“Here is the PEACE of the RIGHTEOUS (zadok), here are they who keep the TORAH LAW [of instruction] and have the TESTIMONY of YAHUSHA haMashiach (the Messiah). Revelation 14:12
This last verse in Revelation reveals that these are they who honor and faithfully keep the TORAH LAW [of instruction] with its full New Moon Days, lunar seventh-day Sabbaths, and prophetic annual Feast Days. But also, they have the TESTIMONY of YAHUSHA, their Messiah. As a result, they can locate Passover every year without fail, counting 14 days from the full New Moon Day of Rosh Hashanah in spring, within the constellation of Bethulah (Virgo), the virgin. This single correct response in following the guiding LIGHT OF THE MENORAH allows them to locate all the other sacred days.
Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Yahusha the Messiah. Philippians 1:6
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. Revelation 3:20
Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not Yahuah chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? James 2:5
If we follow on to know Yahuah: His going forth is prepared as the morning. Hosea 6:3
But He knows the way that I take: when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold. Job 23:10
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THE MENORAH, the Gold Standard.
Passover, the True Sign, and Seal of Yahuah
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The Mark of the Beast or the Seal of Yahuah Alahim?
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