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This is not a stand alone blog.  A reader asked a great question in reference to the Passover / Threshold blog.  It and the answer are worthy to be shared with all readers. Q: Why would YHVH use a pagan ritual to covenant with His people?  Excellent question! He did not. The threshold covenant was His ritual. As man forgot his Creator and began to worship other gods, man took the ritual with him. When YHVH used the threshold covenant with Israel, we see Him reclaiming something that was already His. 1) He is reclaiming a people for Himself (Israel) 2) He is reclaiming His ritual sacrifice (the threshold covenant) You see, Deuteronomy 4:19-20 tells us that the world had been divided up among the "little g gods."  And that YHVH took Israel as His special inheritance.  He allowed the seed of Abraham to be isolated in captivity in order to grow them into a nation.  At the first Passover, He claimed His inheritance, the newly formed nation of Israel.  And with His new nation, He

Hello Friends, and welcome back for this second installment in our Passover series.  In part one, we explored that the idea of passover was not invented by YHVH in Exodus.  Rather YHVH used a well-known rite, known as the threshold covenant in order to communicate His superiority and authority to both the people of Israel and Egypt.  If you are just now joining us, you may want to go back and review part 1  before continuing.  Before we go much further down this path, I think it's important to talk about the elephants at the table  🐘🐘🐘 Yep, we all know they are there (and aren't the cute!)  Let's just go ahead and call them out. Why would believers in Yeshua be concerned about a deep study of Passover?  Isn't Passover for the Jews?  Debbie, we know you aren't Jewish...are you trying to pretend to be?  Let's take them one at a time: 1) Why would believers in Yeshua be concerned about a deep study of Passover?   As I shared in part 1 from Exodus 12:17 , YHVH co

Hello Dear Readers!  So good to be with you today as I have some thoughts to pen about Passover.  As usual, I'm using this space as a scrapbook to gather my thoughts, as I have been following a trail of breadcrumbs that need to be formed into a loaf 🍞. I am always honored that anyone would want to be part of my exploration.  I do not promise expertise on this trail, but perhaps you will find some breadcrumbs of your own as we journey together.  This is a topic that I tend to get longwinded about, so my plan is to break it down into a few separate posts.  We begin with a practice, already ancient at the time of the Biblical exodus, and will end with Messiah Yeshua, our Chief Cornerstone and High Priest.  That's a lot of ground to cover, so we had better get started.  Ready?  Let's go! References Exodus 12:1-20    The Threshold Covenant , by H. Clay Trumbull Did YHVH use a pagan rite to communicate with Israel?  -- added by Debbie in response to a great question Because our