Posted on 04/14/2017 1:06:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A British exchange student was fatally stabbed Friday by a Palestinian attacker just steps from Jerusalem’s Old City, where thousands of Jews and Christians gathered for religious holidays at one of the busiest times of the year, officials said.
Thousands of people filled parts of the ancient city: Jews to celebrate Passover, which ends Monday, and Christian pilgrims for Good Friday. The attack took place inside a car of the city’s light-rail train not far from the entrance to the Old City’s Christian Quarter.
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[ A British exchange student was fatally stabbed Friday by a Palestinian ]
Has anyone informed Rachel Corrie? She’ll be thrilled. Oh, wait....
I wonder which is greater....Jews that celebrate Easter, or Christians that celebrate Passover.
The two events are not related in any way.
what a tragedy
and on such a special time for this important city, I bet she was looking forward to the weekend and the joy of being there
The Last Supper was a Passover seder, so they are connected, in a chain of history
Maybe we should lend GB a MOAB to take out Mecca as payback?
Only in your western gentile mind.
He probably thought she was Jewish.
But, the fact that she was Christian meant that the murder wasn’t a total loss.
Hyenas. Worse than most animals.
The last supper was Passover seder.
Okay...got a question for you.
How many days and nights does the Word of God state that Jesus would be in the heart of the earth?
Matt 12:40
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly ; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
three days and three nights???? does that equal 72 hours? yes
you will never come up with three days and three nights, or 72 hours from good friday to sunday sunrise service no matter how you do your math.
And you must remember that He was taken off the stake before the sabbath began at sun down and laid in the grave...this begins the clock...and their days begin at sun down not at mid night.
the math...friday to saturday is one day, saturday to sunday is two days....arent you all missing a day???
Even though the large majority of christians celebrate a pagan holiday named after the babylonian bare breasted fertility goddess named Easter doesn’t make it a holy day like Passover.
You can not prove that the first century church celebrated Easter, because they didn’t. They knew it was an abomination to worship other gods and say they were doing it in the name of the one true God.
You should really learn about the pagan roots of Easter, but don’t forget to honor God in the way that He commanded.
Lev 23:4-5
4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s passover .
God called the Passover HIS passover (many times)...not a jewish passover or feast.
Never are we commanded to celebrate easter in the word of God...but we are commanded to honor Passover.
the Scriptures are a bit contradictory so there are differences of interpretation
The last Supper may have been a ceremonial dinner that occurred after the Passover preps were made but before the actual Passover Seder- Jesus knew it was to be his last meal with them
Jesus was involved in directing his disciples when and how to prepare for the Passover meal even though indicating he might not be with them to eat it. To say there is no connection between Easter and Passover is disconnecting the chain of events that affected Jesus up until his last day..... I think this is why so many “gentiles” now celebrate some type of seder meal to recognize the Jewishness of Jesus in his end day
I have been to the room where that meal supposedly occurred...it lies above the ceremonial tomb of King David
You’d have a point if the Jews were concerned with 72 hours elapsing.
They weren’t, it wasn’t a technological society like the modern West, and any portion of a day was considered a day.
It helps if you know the culture that you are dealing with, and in this instance it is an ancient agrarian one with a different idea about time than what we use.
Of course the text doesn’t explicitly say that it was a Passover meal so there is room for dispute. A German Lutheran wrote a scholarly book arguing for it being a Passover meal:
https://www.amazon.com/Eucharistic-Words-Jesus-Joachim-Jeremias/dp/0334004144
May God grant eternal rest, joy, and salvation to Hannah Bladon and comfort all who love and mourn her.
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You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified. -- Matthew 26:2
Now on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?” And He said, “Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at your house with My disciples.”’” So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them; and they prepared the Passover. -- Matthew 26:17-19
Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom He had raised from the dead. -- John 12:1
There are many other examples. Beyond any question, the events commemorated at Easter occurred at Passover, and the Last Supper was a seder.
You might be interested in googling
Exsultet
the prayer that begins the Christian Easter Vigil liturgy. It makes the profound and beautiful connections between Passover and Pascha (which in most languages is the ancient term for the Lord’s Resurrection, his “passing over,” from death to life.)
Pascha is the eternal and universal fulfillment of Passover.
Okay!....so Passover it is.
Most overyone on this post celebrates Easter because we were part of a man made religion that taught us about the Easter Bunny, Easter egg hunts, dying eggs, eating ham and dressing up children in costums.
What do any of these things have to do with Holy Scripture?
Not one thing.
Wake up people...even the women weeping for Tammuz, mentioned in Ezekiel 8:14 was a forty day practice to honor 1 day for every year of his 40 years on this earth until he was acidentally killed by a wild boar while hunting. This is where 40 days of lent came from...another very pagan tradition.
Ezek 8:14
4 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’s house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz .
Tammuz’s father was Nimrod who was worshipped as the SUN. Noahs son Shem killed Nimrod and had his body cut up and spread to far parts of their region as a sign that the religion they were creating was against the One True God.
Ezek 8:16
And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
These women and men were all sun god worshippers and practiced pagan rituals of which most christians partake of during the time of Passover and think they are celebrating a holiday to honor God when in reality it was birthed in pagan roots and has absolutelt nothing to do with Christ or the Lord’s Passover.
When Jesus Christ returns and sets up His Kingdom in the earth He will not be issuing any decrees to celebrate Easter. He himself celebrated Passover just as His Father had commanded all of His people to do many years earlier in the time of Moses...and than fulfilled that pattern as The sacrificial Lamb at the crucifixion.
Just try hard as you can to connect Jesus to easter bunnies, candy, ham, baby birds, egg laying rabbits, dyeing eggs etc. It is utter foolishness.
These are pagan sun god practices pure and simple.
Have nothing to do with them.
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