Passover 2018

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We have spoken many times in past blasts about the feasts of God and how they are not to be just celebrated, but experienced in our lives as well. God's knowledge, His Word, the Lamb is served at each of His feasts and if obeyed would start man on the road to restoration. This road is called the Highway to Holiness.

The feasts of God are served in what we might imagine as spiritual restaurants found along the King's highway. Restoration is a part of the menu at the feast of Passover starting with salvation as the first course. You see God knew Adam and Eve would fall into the hands of the enemy before He created them. Although created perfect in every detail He gave them a free will to choose the one they wanted to follow. It was never Father's desire for His children to experience any wicked or evil thing. He warned them to not touch or taste the knowledge of Satan knowing it would bring sin and death into their lives. They made the wrong choice, now they became perishable, no longer immortal, they Passed over from eternity to time, life to death, from he image of God to reflecting the nature of Satant. In the sixth chapter of Genesis we see a further aftermath of their association with the anointed cherub, Satan. Man passed over from being a unique species after his own kind to an altered race, half angel half man, from a creature of love to one that lusted after the flesh and preferred the things Satan instigated rather than God's creation. Taught by angels, they began to think like them and act like them. In fact they were in many ways uncaring even cruel concerning God's creation and interested only in them for their personal use. They preferred the things made with their own hands. Man began to lay up treasures for himself, pride of life entered to satisfy lust of the eye, lust of the flesh and pride of life.

As time went on Satan's plans were fulfilled, God's name profaned and His will ignored. Out of order, programmed with the wrong knowledge they also both abandoned and violated God's spiritual laws. What mayhem, chaos and turmoil this has caused! The earth and all on it Passed over from the Kingdom of God to the kingdom of darkness! The works of the flesh replaced the fruit of the spirit. Man's soul was now motivated through the urging of their flesh connected to the world. They passed over from spirit beings with submissive souls and perfect bodies that adapted them to life on earth, to a half-breed soulish race making Satan their creator and god! Money, power and sex became their goal and to accumulate it made them personally influential and powerful. Out of order with the rest of the universe however, lawless humanity stumbled continuously making more and more degenerative mistakes, creating problem after problem creating irreversible deterioration down through history. At odds with God, out from under His covering, man has been beaten down by the resulting circumstances of sin and rebellion. Sickness, decay, wars and death have become everyday occurrences all because of greed and lust for power. So we can see the horrific conditions of the world today are the result of Adam and Eve Passing over from paradise to Satan's world! Thank God for His plan! Thank Him for the Feast of Passover which serves man the salvation message and the hope of restoration! Now let me introduce one that has a huge part in that plan as well as the , His name is Jesus!

Side Note: When we ask the Lord into our hearts and choose Him to become the source of our being, we experience the feast of Passover and pass over from death to life. When baptized into His death and resurrected into His resurrection we are no longer of the altered race, but new creatures. No longer descendants of Adam, but a baby in the family of God. Now you can see what I meant when I said we don't just celebrate the Feast of Passover, we experience it! All the other feasts of God are just as life changing. They help us mature and grow, metamorphose into a completely different kind through the knowledge revealed in them yet the world's churches teach very little about them if they are mentioned at all!

So as we see Jesus is the only solution that can address the world's problems and restore creation back to its original state. All people must understand the key to a better existence is not going to be found in the world's leaders, in acquiring wealth and power as an individual or even a nation. God said He will destroy the world and all that love and serve it will share in His wrath, He doesn't make statements He doesn't mean!

Without humanity partaking of the feast of Passover, separating from the world and entering into God's rest man is doomed. There is no security in this world, it is a mess and yet how can any man fix the world! How can we mend what God says He will annihilate? We cannot! We have tried over and over again to better the world and things just got worse! For instance, what was considered sinful ten years ago is the accepted norm now. Think about this. Man's dress, their speech, their manners and morals have degenerated drastically and they think they can change things for the better? When is humanity going to understand the hopelessness of our condition? Man in whatever position he occupies cannot nullify what God has announced He will do! That is a fact and a spiritual law! Let us look at a man that years ago tried to change God's declaration. Josiah, who was a good man, a righteous king, one that wanted to keep God's law and walk in His will and lead the people back into God's grace. But here is what happened. First let us look at God's decree.

But .. did this change anything?

What happened to Josiah? He died fighting for what he thought was a good cause.

Will men today see it? Will they understand this world belongs to Satan, God is no part of it nor responsible for what happens in it? Will man finally see the light and pray for God's intervention and stop trying to fix it? Will they in prayer let God know they see Him as the only answer, admit mankind is helpless, and hope is lost without His plan? Or will humanity refuse to change and continue to seek answers from altered Adam?

Spiritual laws cannot be changed any more than the physical law of the universe. With that in mind, let's look at how God sees the world today and how He instructs man in this age.

God wants His people to separate from the unclean world and the people that refuse Him and walk in the world's ways.

Again, to be a part of the world's systems or in support of them, to look to them for answers to the world's problems or personal dilemma's is to commit the same sin Adam and Eve partook of. They chose the wrong knowledge, asked for counsel from the author of that knowledge, making him their god and his world their home. They passed over from the peace and security of God's order and rest to the chaos of Satan's world, they passed over from righteousness to debauchery and wickedness, sickness, pain and death! Satan has cleverly bound man's minds to his knowledge making the basis of all their thinking, their reasoning, a reflection of his will. They are therefore blind to truth and in many cases, blinded even to God!

Once again we see our only hope is in Jesus! Without the Passover Lamb we are condemned and hopeless.

But most of the world knows only what has been taught in the world's church concerning Him and we understand now the basis of their knowledge! We see the truth has been watered down by false doctrines that have their origin in this knowledge with the resulting pagan religions. For instance, this season's colored eggs, bunnies, and candy baskets add to the world's corruption and if a religious group includes them in the worship of God they are completely out of order with the Lord! We are to worship God in spirit and in truth not carnality and lies. It is however God's plan for us to Passover from time to eternity, from this world to the Kingdom of God. So as a righteous culture is established the earth will be renewed, all creation restored and will Passover to its former state. This beautiful promise has been decreed by the Lord as well and will happen!

In closing, we do not need to fix the world, God has His own plan. He did all things and then He rested before the foundation of the earth so all evil and wickedness is under control. We just need to separate from it so that we do not experience its promised outcome. Let's get on the King's highway and not just celebrate God's feast, but experience it with all our heart and mind as we dine on the Passover Lamb. Perhaps now we will better understand this closing scripture.