From: ljmorly@polaris.utu.fi (Laura Johanna Manninen)
Newsgroups: alt.messianic
Subject: Pesach
Date: 16 Apr 92 10:48:09 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: University of Turku


 

                  CHAG  PESACH  SAMEACH!                           *
      
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         ILOISTA  PAASIAISTA!                              *

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              FROELICHE  OSTERN!                      *
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Ex. 12:3-13 'Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this
month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. If
any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their
nearest neighbour, having taken into account the number of people there are.
You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each 
person will eat. The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect,
and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. Take care of them until the
fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the community of Israel 
must slaughter them at twilight. Then they are to take some of the blood and
put it on the sides and tops of the door-frames of the houses where they eat
the lambs. That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire,
along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. Do not eat the meat raw
or cooked in water, but roast it over the fire -- head, legs and inner parts.
Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must
burn it. This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt,
your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is
the LORD's Passover.
  On the same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn
-- both men and animals -- and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt.
I'm the LORD. 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.'

Mark 15:33-39: 'At the sixth hour darkness came over the whole land until the
ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi
lama sabachthani?" -- which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
When some of those standing near heard this, they said, "Listen, he's calling
Elijah." One man ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a stick, 
and offered it to Jesus to drink. "Now, leave him alone. Let's see if Elijah
comes to take him down," he said. With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.
The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. And when the 
centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, heard his cry and saw how he 
died, he said, "Surely this man was the Son of God!"'
John 19:31-35: ' Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to
be a special Sabbath. Because the Jews did not want the bodies left on the
crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the
bodies taken down. The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first
man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. But when
they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his 
legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing
a sudden flow of blood and water. The man who saw it has given testimony, and 
his testimony is true.'


BTW, in Finland it's still snowing...  :-(

Laura
--
"Ve'ahavta et YHVH Eloheicha bechol-levavcha uv'chol-nafshecha
uv'chol-me'odecha" (Deut. 6:5)

Loving truth is loving God.