The Passover Seder Meal is something that even the evangelical church, to some degree, play with. Those leaving the pagan church are drawn to the Seder as a legitimate Torah practice. Is it Biblical? I don't think so. The evidence is that this Talmudic practice is in replacement of the Passover as given by Yahweh.
When the temple was destroyed and sacrifice ceased the Rabbis, attempting to keep themselves in the position they had held for millenia, determined a way to continue. This was the Seder. Messiah is our Passover Lamb. HE is the sacrifice, and the Great High Priest who serves in the true Tabernacle not made with human hands. The fault, as the writer of Hebrews states, is with them; the Levitical priesthood, whom I believe was put in place because the people refused to come to the Great High Priest and hear HIS Voice. Instead they sent Moses and would not draw near themselves. Then came the priesthood. Yeshua is the Eternal Great High Priest. HE is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Check out this article concerning the origin of the Seder. Compare it to Scripture. Does it fit the pattern shown on the mountain? If it doesn't.... throw it out.
Here is an excerpt from the article. The link to the page is below it so you can read more. Let Yah be true and every man a liar.
What is the Passover Haggadah based on? (Origin of the Passover Haggadah)
The Passover Haggadah is based on the Passover Seder as outlined in Pesachim 10 of the Talmud. This Passover Seder is a description of the Seder conducted in Bnai Berak (or Bnei Brak) during the time of the Roman occupation of Israel where Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Elazar Ben Azaryah, Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Tarfon were reclining and discussing the Exodus from Egypt. The order of this Seder was a Rabbinic version of 1st-century C.E. Greco-Roman ritualized meals called "Symposia". The original Rabbinic version of the Seder began with serving and eating the meal, followed by spontaneous questions among the Seder participants to prompt discussion, a Midrashic recounting of the Exodus from Egypt told in Exodus 13:8, and finally, a recitation of the ten plagues. By 200 C.E., the Seder meal was postponed until after the liturgy was recited and set questions I.E. the "Ma Nishtanah" ("The Four Questions" in Hebrew) replaced the spontaneous questions. The narrative to the Seder meal - the Haggadah - means "to tell" in Hebrew and refers to telling the story of the Exodus from Egypt as told in Exodus 13:8 which accompanies the ritual meal called the "Seder" ("Seder" means "order" in Hebrew). Over time, the narrative to the meal - the Haggadah - grew larger and more varied, reflecting different rabbinical streams of thought and cultural influences in the Jewish religion. For instance, in Morocco, the Seder evening is referred to as "Layl al-rass" ("Night of the Heads" in Arabic) because it was customary among Moroccan Jews to eat the heads of sheep in commemoration of the paschal offering in the First and Second Temple in Jerusalem in biblical times."
Joe's article about this non-existent evil chick called Easter is an excellent expose on the pagan Easter feast that has the evangelical church firmly in her lying grasp. Published at WorldNetDaily, Joe is the Chief News Editor at WND. His book, Shocked by the Bible, is a must read.
Dr Kent Hunter, known as The Church Doctor is located in Corunna, IN and plys his trade among churches internationally. He seems to be a proponent of the so-called "emergent church" heresy sweeping evangelical Christianity. An edited version, greatly abridged, appeared in the March 15th Religion section of the KPC family of newspapers in Northeast Indiana.
Did God say churches shouldn’t forget the Easter Bunny?
By Banner Kidd
A recent article in the religion section of the Sunday edition of the KPC daily suggested that “Churches shouldn’t forget the Easter Bunny.” The opening statement, by author Kent Hunter; The Church Doctor, says, “Easter is coming soon. The church across town has an Easter egg hunt. Your leadership team is talking about how this diminishes the focus on the true meaning of Easter. The culture is taking over the church.” Would, or did God say this? I don’t believe so.
This, based on what I read in Scripture, is so fundamentally, biblically flawed that it must be addressed. I mean no disrespect of any person, but I do disrespect the lie that permeates the professing body of the Messiah.
Let me say that I do agree that culture has taken over the church. In fact the church of the Messiah was hijacked long ago, beginning in the garden. In the beginning God, in the person of Jesus/Yeshua the Messiah, Creator, Redeemer, created all the earth and everything in it, including mankind, and gave us all that we needed for life and godliness in HIM. John tells us that HE, Yeshua, was in the beginning, was God, and was and is the Word of God. Paul tells us plainly in Colossians that Yeshua/Jesus was the Creator. Paul makes it clear that Yeshua was the one speaking to Moses and the people from the mountain, speaking the Torah to them. Yeshua is the Lawgiver. Evidence in Scripture, prior to the giving of the Decalogue in stone, shows that Torah was in existence from creation, and can be found in Genesis 26:5 as well as references to Torah in Exodus prior to Sinai.
In the garden we see the clear Commandment of God twisted by the liar to deceive Eve. God said, “Do not eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil for in the day you eat of it you shall surely die.” The liar from the beginning, the serpent, Satan, asks the question, “Did God really say….?” Eve answers, by adding to the Commandment, “God said we should not eat of the tree nor touch it lest we die.” This was all the opening the liar needed. When he saw that Eve was not committed to exactly what God had said he suggested that the result of disobedience is not exactly as God said it as well. Satan replied to her, “Surely you will not die. God knows that when you eat of the tree you will be like HIM.” Eve believes the lie, eats from the forbidden tree, and then Adam, who knew better, ate from the tree to please his wife, and thus sin came to all mankind. Paul tells us that by this one man’s disobedience sin came to all mankind.
God knows that the reason men are deceived and disobey God is because they choose to hear the lie instead of the Truth. Men and women, inspired by the liar, add to and/or take away from God’s Word. These lies are passed down from generation to generation and become traditions. These traditions begin to replace the Truth of God’s Word because they have such an emotional hold on people, with the connection to family and heritage. The result is that these additions and subtractions, by way of tradition, make God’s commandments of no effect. Yeshua says this clearly in Matthew 15. Paul says that God sends strong delusion upon those who do not receive a love for the Truth. Paul also tells us that “faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.” Yeshua and Paul both recall the Torah Commandment of Deuteronomy 4:2, which commands us, “You shall not add to the Word which I command you, nor take from it, that you keep the Commandments of the LORD (Yahweh) your God (Elohim) which I command you.”
Faith is essential to being a Christian. Faith is how we access grace. Ephesians tells us we are saved by grace through faith. Ephesians 2:8-9 is often quoted and used to substantiate living in opposition to God’s Word. “We’re under grace, not the Law. We don’t have to obey.” But Ephesians 2:10 is overlooked in that it says, because of this grace, accessed by our believing HIS Word, “We are HIS workmanship (grace), created in Christ (Messiah) Jesus (Yeshua) for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” Grace comes from the Greek word, Charis – Strong’s G5485, which defines it as “graciousness… especially the divine influence on the heart, and it’s reflection in the life.” Grace is the work of the Spirit in the life of a believer; writing God’s Torah on the heart and putting it in the mind and causing the true believer, as he or she submits, to walk in HIS Statutes and keep HIS Commandments. This is the New Covenant spoken of in Ezekiel 36, Jeremiah 31 and Hebrews 8. The reflection of His work of grace is proven, or seen by what we do. It’s simple; we do what we believe.
We know from Scripture that “without faith it is impossible to please God.” Biblical faith comes from believing and doing what the Bible says. Apart from the pure Scripture biblical faith is impossible. It comes down to who you believe. Will you believe and follow what God’s Word says, or will you believe and follow the traditions handed down from generation to generation? The answer to this question shows where one’s heart really is. Yeshua/Jesus said, “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” The opposite is true, I believe, in that man says, “If you love me, keep my commandments.” Who do you love more? It’s the question Yeshua was getting at with Peter, when HE asked repeatedly, “Peter, do you love me?” Finally saying to Peter, “Then feed My sheep.” What was Peter to feed the flock? The answer is clear, the pure Word of God, the Manna that came down from Heaven, who spoke His Torah/Teaching/Instruction from the beginning. Those who eat of this Living Bread, HIS Word, will never die.
So who should we hear? The Word of God says that we are not to worship God with the abominable practices of the pagans. Man says, “We’ve redeemed these pagan worship practices that were dedicated to pagan deities. We will use them to further the kingdom of God and make them all about Jesus.” But the Word of God says, “Keep My Feasts” because they give us the pattern for the real Messiah/Redeemer, and what HIS plan is for HIS creation. Man says, “We must be relevant to the culture. God knows our heart and HE knows we’re doing this for HIM.” God’s Word says, “I know your heart that it is desperately wicked.” HE even suggests that we don’t know our own heart. HIS Commandments are designed to expose our heart to us! HE already knows our heart. Remember what Jesus/Yeshua said, “If you love Me” you will “keep My Commandments.” It is the same God with the same message from the beginning. Exodus 20, the Decalogue tells us that His mercy is reserved for those who love Him and keep, or guard His Commandments.
Yeshua’s death and resurrection cannot be understood by egg laying rabbits and ancient, pagan fertility rites that are condemned by Yeshua in HIS Word. Yeshua/Jesus is the Passover Lamb of Yahweh/the LORD, not the Easter Ham. What a travesty that on every level the practice of Eostre/Ashtarte/Easter flies in the face of the Truth of God’s Word in perpetually putting the name of another god in HIS Face and in HIS place, along with it’s abominable practices, even to eating what is unclean and not food, according to HIS Word. I’m not asking you to believe me. I’m praying you will search the Scriptures and believe what HE said. This is Biblical faith.
In the beginning Yeshua/God gave the choice between two trees. One was the Tree of Life that Adam and Eve seemingly had no interest in. The other was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. This tree held some fascination to them. It found a lodging place in their heart that ensnared them and drew them away from the Truth of what God said. Believing God’s Word keeps us free. Believing the lie is bondage to sin. Sin is defined as lawlessness by John in 2 Chapter 3, and by Yeshua in Matthew 7. Paul tells us that Yeshua set us free from the bondage of sin, if we believe Yeshua’s Word. Paul, nor Yeshua, nor any other writer in the Bible says or implies that we have been set free from God’s Word/Torah! How ludicrous is it to believe that we were convicted of breaking the Law of God, and then we were covered in HIS blood and set free so that we can continue in lawlessness? Why do perfectly logical people accept this illogical conclusion, when they would laugh at an illogical and incongruous thought process in any other situation? I suggest it because we are ensnared by the lie that has found a lodging place in our heart.
Revelation 22 closes out the Word of God by going back to the beginning. We read, “Blessed are those who do HIS Commandments that they may have the right to the Tree of Life, and may enter through the gates into the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.”
Jeremiah 16:19-21 says, “O LORD (Yahweh), my Strength, and my Fortress, my Refuge in the Day of Affliction, the Gentiles shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, ‘Surely our fathers have inherited lies, worthlessness and unprofitable things.’ Will a man make gods for himself, which are not gods? Therefore behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know My hand and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh (LORD).”
Malachi 4:4-6, the very last chapter of the book preceding Matthew warns us, “Remember the Torah (Law) of Moses, My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, with the Statutes and judgments. Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful Day of the LORD (Yahweh). And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to the fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.” Friends, in the very next book of the Bible, Matthew, we see that John the Baptist came preaching repentance to the people, in the Spirit of Elijah. All around the world, today, the Spirit of Elijah is seen at work. The Spirit of Elijah is not Elijah’s spirit. The Spirit of Elijah is the Holy Ruach (Spirit) of the LIVING ELOHIM; the Spirit of the Living God is still speaking the Truth to those who will hear it. Peter says that it was the Spirit of Yeshua, the Messiah (who is God) that spoke through the prophets. The prophets, including Elijah, preached repentance to Torah. So did Yeshua when HE came as a man, and so did all the writers of the Apostolic Scriptures, including, and specifically the Apostle Paul.
I am in contact with people all over the world and there is an awakening to the Truth of Torah. We are learning, from the Scripture, that the commandments and doctrines of man do nothing to free us from sin and the indulgences of our flesh. –Colossians 2. The commandments and doctrines of men are sin-lawless and they cater to our flesh. The commandments and doctrines of men are embraced by the professing church today, while they reject the Commandments of the Almighty Creator, Yeshua, and make HIS Commandments of no positive effect in our lives. HE said if we do what HE has established in HIS Word - in Torah we will live. Why do we believe the liar who says if we do what God said we will be in bondage and die?
Ask yourself, do you have the Spirit of God dwelling in you? This is a vital question that can be easily answered based on what you purpose in your heart to do. Paul says, in Romans 8:5-9, “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally (flesh) minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal (flesh) mind is enmity (hostile) against God; for it is not subject to the Law (Torah) of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Messiah (Christ), he is not the HIS.”
Why do we find it hard to submit to the delightful, easy, pure, Spiritual Torah/Teaching of God? Paul tells us that it is because we are in the flesh, instead of being in the Spirit. Are we quenching the Spirit of God who is telling us to submit to HIS Word, and providing HIS grace to enable us to do so? Do we quench the Voice of the Holy Spirit when we shut our ears to HIM and choose to listen to the commandments and doctrines of men, inspired by the liar from the beginning? I think so. As the Scripture tells us, “Let them who have ears to hear, hear” the Voice of the LORD (Yahweh).”
"I remember hearing years ago of a very famous pastor/teacher/author who had taught on the subject of tithing at a pastor’s convention. After he finished he was thronged by pastors who were pleading with him NOT to make that teaching available to the public. You see, instead of confirming what these pastors were teaching about tithing, he in fact refuted it as a New Testament practice! These pastors were afraid that if his teaching were made available to their congregations that their churches would cease to exist!"
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