Behold, the Lamb of Yahweh!
LAMB G286- amnos, a lamb.
John 1:29, 36; Acts 8:32; 1 Peter 1:19
LAMB G721- arneeon, diminutive form of G704 (arane, male lamb): lambkin.
This is the word used for, “lamb” all throughout Revelation.
Luke 2:6-12 (Read)
Summary: Miriam’s first-born, [Yahweh’s second born, like Abraham, Haggar (Ishmael) and Sarah (Isaac)] Adam was created by Yahweh FIRST, in the BEGINNING/SPRING. Genesis 22:7-8, 13 Yahweh will provide a Lamb. A Ram was at the time, provided. A foreshadow of Messiah.
Swaddling clothes- Swaddling clothes described in the Bible consisted of a cloth tied together by bandage-like strips. After an infant was born, the umbilical cord was cut and tied, and then the baby was washed, rubbed with salt and oil, and wrapped with strips of cloth. These strips kept the newborn child warm and also ensured that the child's limbs would grow straight. Ezekiel 16:4 describes Israel as unswaddled, a metaphor for abandonment.
Manger- A feeding and/or water trough, for animals. Messiah feeds us the Bread of Life, as well as the Living Water.
“Man can not live on BREAD alone, but by every WORD that comes from the Mouth of Yahweh.”
(Not just the Torah/Instructions, but the Psalms, Proverbs, and Prophets.)
Messiah taught us ALL of these things!
Shepherds watching the flocks at night- The Sheep are seriously being attended, by night. Lambs traditionally are born in the Spring, and are more closely watched due to wolves attacking, as well as attending births.
In the town of David (Bethlehem)- David is a Priest King. So is Melchizedek, whom Yahoshua is in the “order” of (Hebrews 7:13-17). Many events, and prophecies with Bethlehem. Messiah fulfilled prophecy, by being born there.
Messiah of Yah- Kings and Priests, are “Anointed.” (See Exodus 29:1-9 and 1 Samuel 16:13)
Melchizedek is a Priest King.
Image of the new Adam, the New Beginning:
Clues from the past, and prophecy~
Genesis 8:5-13 (Read)
Summary: Tenth month, mountain tops appeared. 40+7+7 (54 days) leads you to near Aviv 1 (first month). The sign of life outside the protection of the ark, is a “olive leaf.” Significance to Aviv 1 given in verse 13.
Isaiah 11:1; Jeremiah 23:5; 33:15; Zechariah 3:8; 6:13 (Read)
All these refer to the image of what the Olive leaf shows us, in the story of the Ark. A New Beginning.
The first Earthly Tabernacle- Exodus 40 (Read)
Month of Aviv, to be “observed”- Deuteronomy 16:1 “Shawmar the month of Aviv, and celebrate the Passover for Yahweh your Elohim…..”
H8104 shawmar- to hedge about (as with thorns), guard, protect, attend to.
Redeeming Time- Numbers 18:16 “You will redeem it in the month in which it is born….”
H2320 Chodesh- used for “Month. This means a new moon, or the month itself.
Bread, Wine, Lambs and Rams (etc):
Offerings~
Numbers 28 (Read)
Summary: Daily- Morning and night, 1/10 ephah flour and ¼ hin crushed Olive Oil (see Leviticus 24:12 Menorah). “Fermented liquor” offered to Yahweh is Sanctuary. A lamb offered morning, and evening. Sabbath- flour increases to 2/10 ephah. The rest is the same. New Moon (Month)- a Goat is added, for sin offering (pointing to Atonement); 2 Bulls added, 1 Ram added ( 7 yearling Lambs; 15th of Aviv, Unleavened Bread: same offering scenario as New Moon, but for 7 days straight. (Can we conclude, that the bread in these cases, are unleavened or leavened?)
Shewbread~
Leviticus 24:5-9 (Read)
Summary: This bread belongs to the Priests. There are 2 rows of 6 (12). Represents 12 Moons, Time before the Flood (Adam to Noah), Tribes of Israel….. They are to be made of 2/10 ratio of wheat flour. The loaves are a “memorial” to Yahweh. (Can we conclude that the bread in this case, is unleavened or leavened?)
Genesis 14:18-20- “Melchizedek KING of Salem, BROUGHT BREAD AND WINE; HE WAS A PRIEST OF ELOHIM MOST HIGH ….and ABRAHAM GAVE HIM 1/10 OF EVERYTHING.”
The stories of Abraham and Isaac, and Abraham and Melchizedek~
In the stories, we see keys to OFFERINGS (Ram/Lamb, Wine/Bread), before the Israelites came into being.
~ We can see offerings made out to the Levite/Aaron Priesthood. (Numbers 28 and Leviticus 24)
We also see the significance of 7, throughout, and the added knowledge, of the importance of Aviv as the head of the Year (Exodus 12:1-3, and Deuteronomy 16:1). ~
Snipits~
Matthew 6:11 “Give us this day, our Daily BREAD….”
Luke 14:15 “….Blessed is anyone who will shear the BREAD, in the Kingdom of Yahweh!”
Mark 14 and Luke 22 (Read)
Question: What kind of Bread did he eat?
STUDY TIME!
How long is this time period?
Deuteronomy 16
1 Observe the month of Aviv and celebrate the Passover of the Lord your God, because in the month of Aviv he brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 Sacrifice as the Passover to the Lord your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the Lord will choose as a dwelling for his Name. 3 Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt. 4 Let no yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until morning.
5 You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the Lord your God gives you 6 except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary (at the time of day) of your departure from Egypt. 7 Roast it and eat it at the place the Lord your God will choose. Then in the morning return to your tents. 8 For six days eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day hold an assembly to the Lord your God and do no work.
Exodus 12
5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. 7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. 8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.
12 “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
14 “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance. 15 For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.
17 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. 18 In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. 19 For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel. 20 Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.”
22 “……None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning.”
29 “ At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt…”
31 During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have requested. 32 Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.”
33 The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. “For otherwise,” they said, “we will all die!” 34 So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing. 35 The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing. 36 The Lord had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.
Exodus 13
The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Consecrate to me every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal.”
3 Then Moses said to the people, “Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery, because the Lord brought you out of it with a mighty hand. Eat nothing containing yeast. 4 Today, in the month of Aviv, you are leaving.
6 For seven days eat bread made without yeast and on the seventh day hold a festival to the Lord. 7 Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders.
8 On that day tell your son, ‘I do this because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ 9 This observance will be for you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that this law of the Lord is to be on your lips. For the Lord brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand. 10 You must keep this ordinance at the appointed time year after year.
Leviticus 23
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. 7 On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work. 8 But you shall present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.”
23 “For seven days present food offerings to the LORD, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the LORD. It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work.”
Numbers 28:16-25
“16 “‘On the fourteenth day of the first month the Lord’s Passover is to be held. 17 On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a festival; for seven days eat bread made without yeast. 18 On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.
24 In this way present the food offering every day for seven days as an aroma pleasing to the Lord; it is to be offered in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. 25 On the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.”
Mind Boggling….isn’t it?!
Yahoshua was born in Aviv, hands down. This study looked at some of the reasons this is so, as well as some things to consider. Like; what kind of bread did he have at the Passover meal? Was it the Passover meal? Are there two? (John 18:28; Luke 22:15)
Aviv is the true head of the Year. It represents when things were created new, in the beginning. It is also the season of Lambs, and other animals, to be BORN. Messiah is from the Tribe of Judah, as is also known as a “Lion.” So is Passover the ONLY REASON he is called, the “Lamb”?
Aviv IS the month of Birth. The Feast Days in Leviticus 23, are in ORDER, and they are fulfilled in ORDER.
Yahoshua Messiah, was most likely born on the first of Aviv, because it is the only thing on the calendar, before he was chosen on the 10th day, and died the 14th day; buried in a tomb, the 15th day, and presented himself, on the day after the Sabbath (First- Fruits). Later, on the day we call, “Count 50” or “Pentecost”, the Spirit was sent to all who hear and believe.
Now we wait…..