Yom Shabbat, Nisan 13, 6003 – March 31, 2018
Thoughts For The Sabbath
Sitting here this morning I cannot help but think about that first Passover in Egypt. Depending on what you believe, Passover is either tonight just before the sun goes down or tomorrow just before the sun goes down. Some people keep it both days. It is likely important for us to spend time trying to figure out what is right, not to get it right, but to spend the time. Anyway, I think about what happened back then, and I am very impacted in thinking what that must have been like. Slaves that were not given enough to do their jobs, and then treated badly for not doing them. But they had seen the miracles of the nine previous plagues. Now Moses was telling them to kill a lamb an wipe the blood around the door of their homes. They had been caring for this lamb for a few days. What must have been in their minds about everything that was to die that evening?
Exodus 12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord’s passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.
13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
They were obedient because they had seen it, so they believed. But they had to wonder what was about to happen.
Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are King. Praise the name YAH! Let Your kingdom come here in the hearts and minds of men. Let Your will be done here, perfectly, just like the sun rise and set. Send us now Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our trespasses and transgressions, and help us all to forgive those that have trespassed or transgressed against us. Wipe away all the evil from our hearts and minds. Send in quickly the $424,523,962.53 that we might help the needs of many. Restore unto Your people one thousandfold all that has been eaten, destroyed, carried away, or stolen by the enemy of that which is good, and the more besides. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). We ask all these things of You, Father, in Your name YAH. We ask all these things of You in the name YAH Yeshuah. Amen.