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| Dr. Erez Soref: The Hidden Story of Passover | One For Israel | March 26, 2026

The passover story is not just remembering an event.
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For the first time, the bible came alive to me.
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And the question is,
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Which lamb is isaiah referring to?
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It's like god carved a message in eternity,
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A message that history continues to live out.
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And what the father did with israel,
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This is exactly what he sent his son to do for all of us.
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I am dr. erez soref.
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I was born and raised in the heart of israel,
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But i never heard the gospel message
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Until on a journey abroad,
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My eyes were opened to the jewish messiah.
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From that point,
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My life has been dedicated
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To bringing this gospel back to my people israel,
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Equipping them to reach israel
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And the world.
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Together, as jews and gentiles,
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We are one in messiah, one for israel.
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Passover, or pesach,
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Is one of the most important holidays here in israel,
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And for jewish people all over the world.
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This is the time when families gather together
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And remember how god redeemed us from slavery in egypt.
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We sing songs, act out the story,
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And read scriptures,
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All over a meal that goes long into the night.
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But the passover story
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Is not just remembering an event.
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It points to a greater fulfillment,
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A greater deliverance,
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Brought about by someone even greater than moses.
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And surprisingly, the passover story
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Also has roots that branch back before the exodus event.
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It's like god carved a message in eternity,
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A message that history continues to live out,
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A love letter, wrapped in our calendar,
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Where he continues to reveal more of his plan
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For my people and the world.
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Scripture tells us to remember the passover each year,
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So we celebrate with unleavened bread,
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Matzah, with bitter herbs,
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With four cups of wine, and a great meal.
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Wait, we forgot the most important part of passover.
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Where's the lamb?
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It's the same thing isaac asked his father.
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Remember genesis 22?
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God asked abraham to take his only beloved son
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On mount moriah, exactly the same place
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The temple was to be built on.
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It might seem like the story
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Of abraham's binding of isaac
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Is out of place in a passover narrative.
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But our forefathers had a different perspective.
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The book of jubilees,
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A jewish book written in the 2nd century bc,
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Traces this pivotal event to the day of passover.
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In fact, this book attributes
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Much of the memorial of passover day,
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Not to the exodus, but to the story
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Of abraham and isaac.
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Not only that,
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The great sages perceived great messianic significance
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In abraham and isaac's great test.
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As abraham took the donkey in verse 3,
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Malbim, which was a jewish commentator
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From the 19th century,
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Insisted that this donkey was prepared for the messiah.
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To prove this point, the zohar
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Even quotes zechariah 9:9
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In reference to this verse.
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"your king will come lowly, riding on the donkey."
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Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering
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And placed it on his son isaac,
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And he himself carried the fire and the knife.
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It's here in this section
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That the rabbis see something very interesting.
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They described in this scene that isaac
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Was like a man carrying his cross.
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In verse 7, isaac was asking his father the same question
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We asked in the beginning.
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He said: "abba, where is the lamb?"
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Abraham responded that god will reveal the lamb.
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As we read in verse 9,
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Abraham is tying isaac to the altar.
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In the rabbinic commentary, midrash tanchuma,
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They said:
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"isaac asked his father to bind him tightly,
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"so he wouldn't break a bone,
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"so he would be a fit sacrifice
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"for our people."
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This is a clear allusion to exodus 12:46,
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Where god commands
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Not the bone of the passover lamb could be broken.
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All of this culminates with god's intervention.
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According to rabbinic commentary
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And the jewish book of jubilees,
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The one sent to stop abraham was, and i quote,
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Yeshua, the angel of his face.
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This wonderful angel, according to the book,
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Stopped abraham from sacrificing his son
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And provided a ram in his stead.
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But we're still looking for the lamb.
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It's clear that the sages of old
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Saw this akedah passage as a reference
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To the story and sacrifice of the passover lamb.
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As the ram took the place of isaac,
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The blood of the lamb redeemed the firstborn in egypt.
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God saw the blood of the passover lamb
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And saved israel's firstborn.
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The passover lamb may have been the final blow
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That released our people from the clutches of pharaoh.
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But as we read on the promised lamb of the messiah,
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As isaiah 53 describes,
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Would do more than release us from egypt,
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But deliver us from sin and death.
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Even though god had delivered our people physically,
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We were still in need of a deeper deliverance.
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Prophets like isaiah spoke of another lamb,
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A new exodus, a greater deliverance,
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Not to take us out of egypt,
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But a lamb to take away our sin.
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But this all sounds a bit familiar, right?
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It was first john the baptist that proclaimed
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This truth plainly.
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He saw yeshua as a fulfillment of this promise,
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As he shouts out:
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Just as abraham saddled his donkey
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On his way to mount moriah,
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Yeshua entered jerusalem riding on a donkey.
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Like the rabbis saw with abraham,
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Yeshua's disciples also saw the fulfillment
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Of zechariah 9:9, as matthew 21 says:
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Just as isaac carried the wood
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That the rabbis surprisingly compared to isaac's cross,
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So yeshua carried the wooden cross
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Ascending the hill,
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Just like isaac in the city of jerusalem.
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It was on the same date of passover,
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Riding on a donkey, carrying the cross
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In the same mountain isaac and abraham ascended,
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That yeshua himself completed this sacrifice.
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Yeshua, many times referred to
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As the angel of the lord, didn't stop
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The spear that pierced his side.
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Driven by his love for us, he became the holy sacrifice,
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And as isaiah prophesied, bore the sins of many.
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And just as exodus 12:46 states,
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So the eyewitnesses state,
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That not a bone of his was broken on the cross.
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He was a fit sacrifice for the sins of our people.
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In the exodus story,
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It's clear that god took israel out of egypt,
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But he didn't take egypt, the sin,
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Out of our forefathers' hearts.
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As history goes on, we see clearly
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There needed to be a greater redemption to come.
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The sacrificed lamb of exodus,
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And the sacrifice of bulls and goats,
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Couldn't deliver and didn't take
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The sins of israel,
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Let alone the sins of the world.
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That's why our prophets,
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Like isaiah, talked about a new exodus,
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A second moses.
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And this is where the lamb shows up again.
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So who has believed our report?
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As isaiah states so clearly,
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This messiah would be rejected,
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Just like moses, just like david,
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Just like joseph.
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But a remnant would have eyes to see.
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The key point here is, the text clearly says
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In hebrew "like the lamb."
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Isaiah is referring to the passover lamb,
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As he describes the suffering servant.
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So is the lamb at your table this passover?
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At the end of our passover seder in every home,
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Our kids run to the door to look for elijah,
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The forerunner of the messiah.
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But this year, instead of looking for elijah,
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Open your heart to the lamb of god,
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Yeshua the messiah.
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As he said:
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Will you open the door?
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Will you allow the lamb to deliver you?
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He spilled his blood so precious
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To pay for your freedom.
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Trust him. follow him.
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The lamb of god is the lion of judah.
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He has become king and lord.
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In the book of revelation,
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John recorded the song he heard heaven sing:
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"worthy is the lamb."
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"worthy is the lamb."
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On passover, we remember our deliverance from egypt
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And we look forward to god's deeper deliverance to come.
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Thousands of years ago god paid for our redemption
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By the blood of a lamb.
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And now, the true lamb of god
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Has been revealed.
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He has redeemed us from the slavery of sin
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By his blood.
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John the baptist was a cousin of yeshua,
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A preacher and prophet that began his ministry before him,
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Preparing the way for the coming messiah.
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John grew up his whole life knowing yeshua
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As a close relative.
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Maybe their mothers had told them how their callings
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And even their births were connected.
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But one day, while john was preaching,
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Something suddenly clicked.
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A revealing, a connection took place.
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God opened john's eyes
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And he realized something for the first time.
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His cousin yeshua
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Was the deliverance israel was looking for,
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The fulfillment of god's plan.
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He saw yeshua with new eyes and declared:
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"behold, the lamb that takes away the sins of the world."
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The veil came off.
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Yeshua was revealed to him as the messiah,
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The lamb of god.
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Today, we are seeing the veil coming off
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For many of my people.
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They are seeing yeshua as he really is.
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Not just a christian icon,
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But the true deliverer for the jewish people,
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The passover lamb.
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When i was nine years old,
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We moved to the united states from jerusalem.
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And the number one song in the country was anne marie,
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One day at a time, sweet jesus.
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And i'll never forget,
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My mom comes into the car and i'm like,
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"one day at a time,
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"sweet jesus."
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My mom says: "what did you say?"
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And i'm singing the song. she's like,
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"we don't say jesus."
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"but why?"
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In hebrew, she says: "it's yeshua."
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I grew up not being able to say that name.
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My son at the age of five was diagnosed with asperger's.
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He was not verbal. he was very distant.
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He was the cause of me going back to school
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And becoming a special education teacher.
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I knew a lot about science.
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I studied a lot about everything.
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But i really never even opened the bible.
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Ironically, i was teaching hebrew school as a side job.
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Teaching the prayers, teaching the liturgy.
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I mean, i knew everything.
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I had seen my father pray the prayers
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And put on the tallit.
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And i know all of the rhetoric
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And everything that, you know,
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Goes along with being jewish.
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But i didn't feel any connection to god.
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I would sit at synagogue
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And i tried to feel something.
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I tried to feel god.
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And it wasn't. it was like the chagall
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Stained glass windows
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And everybody around me
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And the bima and the ark
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And the torah being taken out.
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And i felt, i remember feeling nothing.
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At my school, i worked at an after-school program
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And there was a woman
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That had written a book called
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"jesus, can i talk to you?"
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So she said to me: "i don't have money
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"to hire an editor.
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"would you help me edit my book?"
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And i said: "well, i don't know anything about jesus."
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So i do know about writing. i know about english.
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I know about commas. i know about semicolons.
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I just don't know anything about jesus.
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It was a lot of stuff from the old testament.
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And i'm like... and i would see things like, you know,
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This is from ecclesiastes
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Or this is from, you know, samuel or kings.
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And i was like, these are our books?
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This came from the jewish bible?
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I never read the bible.
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I read about the fact that we would be pierced.
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And that's exactly what happened to jesus.
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And for the first time, the bible came alive to me.
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And it's isaiah 53.
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And, you know, i said, how can you miss this?
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It's like right there.
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It's right there in the scripture,
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In our book.
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Saying the prayer
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And asking for him to come into my life.
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And i accepted him as my savior.
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Even though i just became a believer
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In the jewish messiah, but in jesus,
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Whose name i can't even say
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At the private jewish school.
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Whoa, this is too weird.
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The grandson of the head of our judaics program.
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And the first year that he was there,
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He, you know, would talk to me and i would say:
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"oh, it's time to go to tefillah.
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"you know, students were required to go to prayer
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"and you must go to tefillah."
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He's like: "i hate tefillah."
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I'm like: "your grandfather
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"is the head of the judaics program
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"of the school."
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And so he comes up and he puts a kippah
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On my head and he's like: "you're like a rabbi."
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Because rabbi in hebrew means teacher.
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He goes: "i could just see it.
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"one day you're going to become hasidic."
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And i said: "no, no, no, joshua.
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"totally the furthest thing i'm going to become."
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He says to me, he goes: "i don't understand you.
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"what kind... like, do you keep shabbat?
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"what kind of a jew are you?"
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"what do you mean, what kind of a jew am i?"
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And he goes:
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"there's something different about you.
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"i don't know what it is. there's something different
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"about you."
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And i said: "joshua, sit down.
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"i really respect you.
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"and i'm going to tell you what's different about me
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"is that i believe that jesus is the messiah."
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And his eyes got wide
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And he stood up and he pointed at me.
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He's like: "i knew it. i knew it!
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"you're always talking about love and stuff."
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And the students know.
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They know, i can talk about god all day.
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See, i couldn't do that in public school.
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Public school, you can't talk about god.
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But at a private jewish school,
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I could talk about god all day.
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And, you know, sometimes they'll go,
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You know, they test me.
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And sometimes i get really close
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And they really question, like,
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What am i really saying?
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But if they ever come to me and say:
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"what do you really believe?" like joshua does or did,
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I would tell them:
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"i believe that jesus is my messiah."
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Coming out of the messianic closet,
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That's pretty much a good way to put this.
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I've gone against, completely against the grain.
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You know, when you go against the grain,
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Like, you get splinters.
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It's not easy.
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It's not been an easy path for me,
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Especially knowing what i know
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And hearing what i hear,
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How the rabbis talk about him,
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How the students mock him.
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And i say, okay, i'm here for you.
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I want to stay here.
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You know, and people ask me:
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"aren't you afraid if they find out at your school
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"that you believe that jesus is the messiah
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"that you'll get fired?"
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So...
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God will always provide.
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He has through everything and he always delivers.
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He took it on the cross for me.
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Jesus died so that i could be born again.
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The greatest pain is to give up your own child.
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How much god must have loved us
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To give up his only son for us.
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We want to help you discover
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How the jewish holidays
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Can deepen your relationship with god.
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This enlightening book
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Uncovers the profound connection
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Between each biblical feast or holy day
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And god's grand plan of salvation
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Through our messiah, yeshua.
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These sacred appointed days
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Not only commemorate past events,
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They also unveil insights
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Into future promises to come.
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It's a double revelation,
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In the biblical calendar.
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In the biblical calendar.
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Where is the lamb?
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From genesis to revelation,
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This idea of the lamb
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Has been sprinkled throughout god's history
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Of redeeming his people.
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Why a lamb?
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Why not a bull or a warhorse?
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Why is god's redeeming power
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Symbolized in the humble and gentle lamb?
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In the book of revelation,
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The apostle john is taken to heaven in a vision.
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There he sees heaven's throne
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Surrounded by elders,
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Creatures, and angels.
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The rainbow,
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Thunder and lightning,
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And a sea of glass.
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All very majestic.
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John then saw god's plan for history
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Being unfolded in a scroll.
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And there was only one who could unfold it.
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He heard an angel declare:
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When john looked for the lion,
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He saw in the middle of the heavenly court
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A lamb.
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A lamb that has been slain, but is alive.
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Shalom, everyone.
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We are here to discuss the foundational holiday
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Of the jewish people, the passover.
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And to ask the question,
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Well, what does the passover
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Have to do with yeshua, with jesus?
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And i have here with me dr. golan broshi.
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Shalom, golan. -hi, shalom.
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Thank you so much for coming.
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And so, i think the first question
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We want to ask and discuss is, well,
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Why did jesus have to be crucified on the passover?
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I mean, isn't that like our holiday
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As the jewish people?
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Yeah, and we have so many other holidays.
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Why crucify on passover?
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And i think, you know, even the prophets,
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The prophets of the old testament,
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When they looked at the exodus stories,
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At exodus 12,
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They interpreted the last salvation,
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The bigger salvation,
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In light of the first salvation.
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So the prophets, the prophets like isaiah,
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They saw the salvation out of egypt from bondage.
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They saw it as a picture of the bigger salvation,
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The final salvation from sin with the messiah.
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So there's a famous saying,
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A very well-known rabbi from the 13th century,
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On his commentary to the book of genesis, he said:
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In other words, what happened,
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What happened in the past
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Points to an event in the future.
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This is really what you're talking about.
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Exactly, and what the father did with israel,
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This is exactly what he sent his son
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To do for all of us.
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Golan, when we see that when john the baptist
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Saw his cousin, yeshua,
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Coming up from the river jordan, he said:
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"here is the lamb of god
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"who takes away the sin of the world."
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And we know that the passover lamb,
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Which is a very central part of the passover,
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Has been a sacrifice,
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But the question is begged to be asked
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When we make the connection to the new testament,
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Is the passover lamb or can the passover lamb
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Be a sin offering?
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Yes, so when john sees yeshua, he says,
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"behold, the lamb of god that takes the sin."
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"takes away the sin of the world." -exactly.
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Where did he get that from? -if john is referring,
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And i think he is referring
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To the lamb in exodus 12,
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The lamb in exodus 12 doesn't refer to it
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As taking the sins of anybody.
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So a really famous rabbi, which is also a professor,
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A scholar of the hebrew bible,
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Asked that question.
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Can the lamb of passover be considered
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As a sin offering?
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And he said, well,
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In first glance, obviously not,
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Because you don't hear anything in exodus 12
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About taking the sins of anybody,
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Not israel, let alone the world.
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But then he says, but wait,
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If you look closely at the text,
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This rabbi is saying, the language,
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The language that moses uses in exodus 12
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Resembles the sin offering in the book of leviticus.
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And therefore... -no blemish...
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One year old, no blemish,
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Not a bone broken. -yeah.
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He said, by the language,
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You see, this rabbi is saying,
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Not only that we should consider
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The passover lamb as a sin offering,
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Is the head of all sin offering.
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So golan, we talked a little bit beforehand
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And we discussed the potential similarities
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Between the sacrifice or the attempt
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To sacrifice isaac
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And the passover lamb.
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Can you talk a little about that
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And tell us why is it important?
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When abram took isaac to the mount of moriah
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To sacrifice him, the day,
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The day that he put them on the altar
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Was the 15th of nissan. -that's the passover.
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That's exactly the passover.
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So first we see a book that comes
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Before the new testament. -right.
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And the book even says,
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This is why israel is celebrating passover,
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To remember abraham putting isaac on the altar,
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To remember that.
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So what god told isaac,
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"take your son,
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"your only son,"
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Which is a very unique way of saying it in hebrew,
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"whom you have loved, isaac,
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"and sacrifice him to me on a mountain i will show you."
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So a father is taking his beloved son
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To sacrifice him as a lamb.
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And now a different jewish tradition says
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That when abraham put the wood,
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The wood on isaac,
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The midrash, rabbinic midrash is saying
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When isaac took the wood,
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He was like a man carrying his cross.
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So golan, i want to ask you about isaiah 53.
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Isaiah 53, many people view it
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As the confession of the nation of israel
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Once we recognize the messiah.
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Now within that passage, it's also a component
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Of a wonderful description of the suffering messiah,
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A wonderful description of the lamb.
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So i want to ask you specifically about verse 7,
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About the lamb.
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What's that about? -so, you know,
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We started by saying that the prophets,
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And especially isaiah, saw the first redemption.
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They read the first redemption in exodus 12
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And they depicted, they pictured,
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They saw the last redemption
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In light of that first redemption.
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And in the first redemption in exodus 12,
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They're talking about the lamb.
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So of course, we expect isaiah
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To mention the lamb.
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Now, sadly, in many translations,
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Most translations in english,
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There's a little bit of a change.
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And i want you to please read one of the translations.
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That's, you know, one translation,
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But it's most of them.
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Isaiah 53:7.
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See how it says that isaiah depicts
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The lamb or a lamb.
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And the key here is "a lamb",
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In most english translations, "a lamb."
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Not a specific lamb, but any lamb.
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But in hebrew, isaiah is saying, "the."
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"as the lamb." -exactly.
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As the lamb. -and the question is,
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Which lamb is isaiah referring to
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If it's not the same lamb that isaac was looking for?
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Father, where's the lamb?
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Here, everything is ready. where's the lamb?
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And the lamb of exodus 12.
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So i think, specifically, isaiah is using
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The lamb to again, to point us,
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Also to point us back,
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But to point us to the future.
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And therefore, when john sees yeshua,
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John connects all the dots.
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And he says: "behold, the..."
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Not any lamb of god, the lamb of god.
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That's beautiful. thank you, golan.
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This has been fascinating and enlightening.
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And for you, our viewers,
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We are praying for you that you will see
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The depth of the love of god in the messiah.
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That even this discussion about the messiah
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In the hebrew bible will give you great depth
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And encouragement to your faith in the messiah
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This passover season.
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Shalom and god bless you.
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This passover, we have deliverance from sin
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And from the devil's bondage because of a lamb,
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One that paid for our freedom with his own blood.
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In revelation, heaven worships this lamb
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That had been slain.
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It reigns now and forever.
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Living and giving life.
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Next time, we look at how the feast of passover
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Points to the greatest miracle in history,
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The resurrection.
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Dr. Erez Soref: The Hidden Story of Passover | One For Israel

March 26, 2026 | 27:24

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