Yeshua Hamaschiach is risen, indeed. He arose on the third day (of Passover) which comes on a different calendar day each year. At the end of the Seder meal celebration, we sing the Hallel. This is the English spelling of the Hebrew word which, when translated into English, means Halleluya. We praise Him as the risen Messiah, who, as one posting here puts it, is in Heaven. He there ministers to us before His Father in the Most Holy Place in the Heavenly Sanctuary. He spinkles the Blood of His earthly sacrifice on the cross, when we pray to Him for forgiveness of our sins, and ask Him for power to overcome our sins. This is what the earthly priesthood did in the Temple at Jerusalem, which exists no more. That happened in AD 70, just as prophecied it would.
Many Jews want to rebuild it, which would be the cause of the last great earthly battle, Armageddon, which precedes Christ’s (Yeshua’s) Second Coming at the time of the Feast of Trumpets. Aterward, and throughout the ages of eternity says Isaiah the prophet, “shall all flesh come before Me to worship Me from one Shabbat to another and from one New Moon to another.” (Isaiah 66) There He said “all the nations shall gather before Me to celebrate Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot).” As is the case now, there will be no slaying of an innocent little lamb to be cooked and eaten at the Seder. We will celebrate the Pesach with the Lamb.
Feast of Tabernacles will mean, to everyone who is there, saved, a remembrance of how He was with us through many “trials, temptations and snares,” as the song says. John, the revelator says that Yeshua will say to His Father, “Here are they which keep the Commandments of God and have the faith and testimony of Yeshua Hamaschiach (Himself).”
The religion that the pre-incarnate Son of God gave to Moshe (Moses) at Mt. Sinai in Horeb, which is in northern Saudi Arabia, not the “Sinai Peninsula,” was then, and has always been a Messianic religion. Only the people to whom He gave it, failed to see Jesus in their earthly sacrifices and oblations for sin. The religion calls upon all men to be loving and peaceful. It calls on all of us to honor the Son of God by keeping His “Law and the Prophets” from which He said, “Not one jot or tittle shall pass away before all is fulfilled in the Kingdom.” He said, “I shall not celebrate this Passover with you again until all is fulfilled in the Kingdom of Heaven.” That is just after He comes to gather His flock together at the Second Coming.
He is the Rock. Peter, who represents all of us humans, is Petros, the rolling stone who seems to change what he believes every time he feels the need for the approval of men.
Jesus, on the day of Shavuout (Pentecost in Greek)left us the Holy Spirit to be our guide. If we study the Torah (first five books of the Bible), and the prophets and Yeshua (Jesus) who defended the Law He, Himself, gave to Moses at Sinai, then we will want to keep His Law (the one the earthly, ethnic Jews failed to keep when they stopped observing His Laws, Statutues and Judgements because they failed to see Him in the daily, weekly, monthly and yearly animal sacrifices. They failed because if they had seen the first coming of Messiah in the animal sacrifices, then they would have had to start loving and caring and sharing with their neighbors (something that has always been hard for the ethnic Jews to do. Only the truly observant ethnic Jews of today do so, especially at times when people are losing their jobs and homes, etc.
Christians learned that from the observant ethnic Jews. They learned it from Jesus. He is, after all, God the Son. He said, “I and My Father are One.”
Shalom alechem
