THE FOUR
CUPS
Bnai Avraham Messianic Congregation
Rabbi Edward Levi Nydle 4-06-01
Shabbat
Shalom., may Yahweh truly bless your understanding of this
teaching.
This is
Shabbat haGadol, the Sabbath before Passover (Pesach), and it is
traditional that on the Shabbat, before Passover, that the rabbi does a
discourse upon the halachah of Passover. I have chosen as the rabbis discourse
for this Shabbat haGadol The Four Cups of Passover.
According to the Passover
Haggadah we partake of four cups throughout the Seder meal, with each cup
representing a different stage of Yahwehs redemption for Yisrael. In the
Mishnah Pesach 10.1 we are told that no matter how destitute a man
is, that he must partake, and is required to drink of the four cups of the
Passover. Therefore, if it even be necessary for the synagogue itself to
purchase the wine for the man to partake of these four cups, they are to do so.
Because we are told whenever we partake of Passover that we are to observe the
Passover as if we ourselves personally are being redeemed from Mitsrayim.
There is a reason Yahweh did that, and commanded the rabbis to teach us that,
and it is because, the Feasts have not yet been fulfilled as some teach. Rav
Shaul said in Colossians 2, that these are shadows of things
which are to come. Therefore, we can conclude that there is a redemption yet to
come in the future for all Yisrael. Every time we partake of the Passover,
Yahweh is preparing us for that coming redemption. Just our forefathers
experienced the redemption from Mitsrayim, we as Messianic Yisrael have
experienced a redemption in Moshiach Yahshua. But, there is yet another greater
redemption coming for us, and that GREAT REDEMPTION is what these four cups
signify to us.
These four cups are found in the Torah in the Parashah of
Vaera or And I Appeared. We are going to open the Torah
to Shemot [Exodus] 6.1, page 62 of
the Scriptures as it sets the context in which the four cups are
found.
- SHEMOTH [Exodus] 6: [1] And Yahweh said to Mosheh, Now see what I do to
Pharaoh, for with a strong hand he is going to let them go, and with a strong
hand he is going to drive them out of his land. [2] And Elohim spoke to
Mosheh and said to him, I am Yahweh. [3] And I appeared to Avraham,
to Yitshaq, and to Yaaqob, as El Shaddai. And by My Name, Yahweh, was I not
known to them? [4] And I also established My covenant with them, to give them
the land of Kenaan, the land of their sojournings, in which they have
sojourned.
If
this statement is the basis of everything Yahweh is getting ready to do for
Yisrael in the Exodus, and it is the basis of what Yahweh is doing for us, then
it is the total basis of why Moshiach came. It is His covenant, His brit
that He established with our father Avraham that every other covenant pivots
upon. Within the Scriptures we have seven covenants, its a picture of the
menorah, and the center stem, the Shamash servant being
the Avrahamic covenant. In a true menorah we have three covenants
pointing towards the Shamash this way; we have three covenants pointing
towards the Shamash the other way. Everything pointing to the center
stem, the center covenant, the covenant of Avraham. Everything that Yahweh has
done since He established that covenant with our father Abraham was to see it
fulfilled, and for Him to perform the promise to His people
Yisrael.
- [5] And I
also heard the groaning of the children of Yisrael whom the Mitsrites are
enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant.
Yahweh heard the groaning and through there groaning of His people in
bondage, He remembered His covenant with Avraham. What did Rav Shaul write in
Romans 8?
In
this body we groan, and all Creation is groaning for the revelation of the sons
of Elohim. Why? He is yet to bring about the fulfillment of that covenant He
made with father Abraham.
- [6] Say,
therefore, to the children of Yisrael, I am Yahweh, and I shall bring you
out from under the burdens of the Mitsrites, and shall deliver you from their
enslaving, and shall redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great
judgments, [7] and shall take you as My people, and I shall be your Elohim.
And you shall know that I am Yahweh your Elohim who is bringing you out from
under the burdens of the Mitsrites.
But
lets not end there. Lets keep reading.
- [8] And I shall bring you into the land which I swore
to give to Abraham, to Yitshaq, and to Yaaqob, to give it to you as in
inheritance. I am Yahweh.
We are to personally receive these four cups.Verse 8: Yahweh is speaking
to you And I shall bring you into the land which I swore to
give to Avraham, Yitshaq, and to Yaaqob, to give it to you as an
inheritance. I am Yahweh.
Lets look
at the first cup.
We always
recite Kaddush, we do it here on Shabbat. Kaddush means sanctification, the setting apart.
1. The first cup is Kaddush
setting apart - sanctification.
In verse 6 He says I am Yahweh, and I shall bring you out from under the
burdens of the Mitsrites. Bring you out veh hotzi (sp). That
word is #3318 the root of that word, yatsa. Yahweh says, I am
Yahweh, I am going to bring you out, I am going to veh hotzi; I
am going to have you go out -to go forth. I am going to take you out, I am
going to lead you out, I am going to carry you out. It means to go free . BUT,
in the Syric Chaldean it means
to germinate.
Yahweh says to Yisrael, I am going to
bring you out from under the burdens of the Mitsrites in this first cup kaddush of setting apart
becoming kodesh Yahweh says here, The first thing I am going to do is
remove the burden that the Mitsrites have put upon you. Now this is very
important, because this runs against the grain of what we have been taught. We
have always been taught that Yahweh delivers you first and then He makes you
kodesh holy. According to the cups in the Passover, the first step of
redemption is for Yahweh to make you kaddush, holy. He is going to bring
you out, He is going to lift the burdens off of you first. Now why is that?
We have to be fit and prepared and redeemed spiritually before we can be
redeemed physically. This is the reason why we are experiencing so many
problems with people coming to the knowledge of the Two-Houses, into the Torah,
and into the knowledge of the Name.
They have been taught that they have been
delivered, and then they are to made holy. The problem is they are trying to get
delivered while they are still under the burdens of the Mitsrites. They
are still held in bondage to the burdens that has been placed upon them by the
world. And you cannot experience deliverance until those burdens are lifted off
of you. This is why Yahweh set it up this way, this is why He said to them,
First I am going to bring you out! We must understand that the initial step
to redemption is an inner Exodus. We must experience an inner Exodus in
our minds, and in our hearts first, to experience the
deliverance.
The
word Mitsrayim [Egypt] has the connotations of limitations and boundaries put
upon a person, or bondage. It also has the connotations of the word
conformity.
We try to share these truths with people who are still under a burden of
Egypt, and therefore they cannot receive the deliverance that
Yahweh has for them. In the first step of redemption,Yahweh was trying to reach
the Yisraelites and pull Egypt out of them first, before He could physically deliver
them from the land of Egypt. Because what happened after they left? They looked
back. After the first step they looked back. They didnt cross the
Red Sea before they were looking back and complaining to
Mosheh, and saying, Have you brought us here to be killed by Pharaoh? Is there
not enough graves in Egypt ? They
never experienced that inner Exodus that Yahweh wanted them to experience by
partaking of the Passover. They hadnt received that.
The
first cup I will bring you out from under the burdens, is that we personally
to prepare our hearts for Passover- must experience a freedom from the
constraints of the bondage of conformity. What is the number one reason people
will not embrace the truths of Torah? It doesnt conform with what everybody
else is doing. The majority is always right after all. But there is a bondage
within society of conformity that is a burden from Mitsrayim that has
been put upon you, and upon others.
We have to understand that Yahweh, in
His initial step of redemption, on the PASHAT level, is that the Yisraelites
are to experience and inner redemption first. ALL of us are in bondage to an
Egypt. Why? Because it is in our minds. This is why Rav Shaul
wrote in Romans 12.1-2,, Be ye not conformed to this
world, but rather be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. A
renewal of the mind is renewing the mind to the Hebraic mind-set, the renewing
of our mind to the Word of Yahweh, His Torah.
But why must our minds be renewed? Why
must our minds experience true freedom? Because it is in your mind through which
your eyes see. And if your mind is still held in bondage by
Egypt, you will see with clouded eyes, you will only see what
your mind allows you to see, from your past experiences and your past teachings.
You will be seeing through the glasses of the world! You will never be set free
on the inside to experience the deliverance Yahweh has for you through His
Torah.We have to renew our minds, and we all have areas of our minds that are
not renewed. We all have areas of
our minds in which we are still in the old mind-set that the world and religion
programmed into us, and it is clouding our vision and the understanding of the
Word. Many within Messianic
Yisrael still are interpreting the Word with the Greek-Roman mindset. They are
not renewed to the Hebraic mindset. They will never understand the Torah until
they are willing to go back to the very foundation and the blueprint that Yahweh
has given us, which is His Torah. Everything is rooted in the Torah, then you go
forward.
We know that in Moshiach Yahshua we have
experienced a bringing out.
- ROMANS 8:
[1] There is, then, now no condemnation to those who are in Messiah Yahshua,
who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Ruach
[Spirit]. [2] For the Torah of the Ruach [Spirit] of the life
[chai, chayim] in Messiah Yahshua has set me free from the law
of sin and death.
This verse is not saying it is the Torah that you have
been set free from, but it is saying you have been set free from the law of sin
and death.
- [3] For the Torah being powerless, in that it was weak
through the flesh, Elohim, having His own Son in the likeness of flesh of sin,
and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh, [4] so that they righteousness
of the Torah should be completed in us who do not walk according to the flesh
but according to the Ruach [Spirit]. [5] For those who live according
to the flesh set their minds on the matters of the flesh, but those
who live according to the Ruach [Spirit], the matters of the
Ruach [Spirit]. [6] For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of
the Ruach [Spirit] is life and peace.
There has already, when we received Yahshua Messiah,
taken place within us a setting free from this law of sin and death, and our
mind has been set free to think on spiritual matters, things of the
Ruach.
- SHEMOTH [Exodus] 19: [4] You have seen what I did to the
Mitsrites, and how I bore you on eagles wings and brought you to
Myself.
Do you
remember the definition of the word yatsa? To carry out. Yahweh said, I
actually bore you on wings of an eagle, out of
Egypt. I did it, I bore you out. I brought you out. It was
on the wings of an eagle that we experience this inner release of the burdens
that have been placed upon us. We experience that in Messiah Yahshua. He has
already lifted us up, lifted those burdens off of us, He bore us out, if we
allow Him to do so. But what I saw here lets go to Revelation 12.14, page
1202 of the Scriptures. There is yet a future bringing out of Yisrael on
eagles wings.
- REVELATION 12:[14] And the woman [Yisrael] was given two
wings of a great eagle, to fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is
nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the
serpent [haSatan/Helel.]
For three and a half years Yahweh says
that Yisrael is going to be given two great wings of an eagle, and He is going
to take them into the wilderness. There is yet a future bringing out into the
wilderness by Yahweh on the wings of eagles. He is going to actually lift us up
and bring us out. Its going to be ALL Him! We are not going to have to get on
ships or planes to go there. He is going to do it! Somehow He is going to lift
us up and bring us out! He will provide the way.
The first cup we are going to partake of
in the Passover is kaddush, or I will bring you out from under your
burdens.
Yahweh is
teaching us a spiritual truth here, because when we go to drink that cup there
should be a release of inner burdens that have been placed upon you. See, we
have learned that by doing physical, tangible things in the world of action,
something happens in the Spirit or upper worlds. There is a connection to
Yahweh by doing a mitzvah. It is an action that brings His life
into our life, and makes the connection. It is by the guarding of the
mitzvah, and doing of the mitzvah, that we make that connection to
Yahweh. We are going to take that first cup, we are going to drink it, and we
are going to experience the bringing out. I am going to bring you out from
under your burdens.
I
believe this Passover is going to be a time of eye-opening for many people. A
lot of people are going to have their eyes opened to their Yisraelite heritage
and inheritance. Not just here at Bnai Avraham, but everywhere where people are
celebrating the Passover correctly. Why? Because Yahweh is preparing His people
for a future redemption. Our redemption is not here yet. Redemption is not
salvation.
Shemoth [Exodus] 6 the second
cup.
- SHEMOTH [Exodus] 6:[6]
.and shall deliver you from their
enslaving,
Some translations you have may read, I
will rid you. The King James says: I will rid you of their
enslaving.
This word
is - veh hitzar athy natsal - #H5337 in your
Strongs. I will deliver you from their enslaving. I will draw you out, I will
pull you out, I will take you away, I will strip off their enslaving. I will
snatch you, I will pluck you out, I will preserve you, and save you from
danger.
Yahweh cannot deliver you from the
enslaving of Mitsrayim until you, through His power of His Ruach,
take the burdens off. When the burdens roll are taken off, then He can snatch
you, then He can take you out from under that burden. But when we willingly
allow that yoke to be placed back upon us, He is powerless to deliver you.
You must choose your redemption.
There is
something that you have to do. You have to choose or make the choice to allow
Yahweh to perform the redemption. How do I know that? Because if you were an
Yisraelite, and you were in Egypt, if you didnt obey what He had told you
about putting the blood on your doorpost you would die with the Egyptians. You
made the choice. There is something you must do, and that is choose [we have all
been given the gift of free will].
He is going to snatch them out, to pluck
them out, to preserve them and bring them out from under these burdens. When we
see that in Moshiach Yahshua in the Brit Chadashah in the
book of Colossians 1.12-13, page
1142.
- COLOSSIANS 1:[12] giving thanks to the Father who has made us fit
to share in the inheritance of the set-apart ones in the light,
What is our inheritance? We were just told in
Shemoth 6.6-8. I shall bring you into the land, which I swore to
Abraham, Yitshaq, and Yaaqob for your inheritance. He has made us fit for an
inheritance of the set-apart ones in the light,
- [13] who has delivered us from the authority of
darkness and transferred us into the reign [kingdom] of the Son of His love,
The Greek
conveys the concept of Yahweh actually snatching you up from one kingdom and
placing you into another kingdom. There are only two kingdoms in this world.
There are not three, there is not one in-between kingdom. There are two
kingdoms:
1.
The kingdom of
this world.
2.
The
Kingdom of Yahweh.
There is
not a third kingdom. There are two kingdoms. And by receiving Yahshua the
Messiah, and choosing to accept our deliverance in Him, Yahweh says that the Son
has actually plucked you up, Elohim has plucked you up out of the kingdom of
darkness, the kingdom of this world[ the satan], and He placed you into the
Kingdom of His Son. He has snatched you up, He has placed you there. You have
experienced that, but yet there will be a further and a future redemption for us
in this.
- The Second Cup: second part of the redemption.
This is the second part of the redemption: a
deliverance, a snatching up, or rooting up, or a pulling out from under the
burdens that we are under. That is the second cup that we are going to partake
of in the Pesach.
The third cup in Shemoth 6.6
says this:
- SHEMOTH [Exodus] 6:[6]
and shall redeem you with an outstretched arm,
and with great judgments,
I
shall redeem you, veh gaalti - #1350 gaal now this
word you have to understand, because we have to understand the Passover Lamb is
not a sin offering. The partaking of the Passover has nothing to do with your
salvation, but it has everything to do with your redemption.There is a
difference between salvation and redemption. The Lamb of the Pesach offering was
a redemptive offering. Redemption gaal to redeem to buy back, to
require bloodshed, to require bloodshed by a near kinsman. LISTEN to this and it
will help you to understand what the word redemption means.
Yahweh did not redeem you for your sake! And the
redemption that He has for Yisrael is not for your sake! By the time you finish
this teaching you will have a greater understanding of why He redeemed you.
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The
word gaal in the Hebrew denotes the assumption of an obligation incumbent upon
someone, originally to another person, or in favour of another person.
Yahweh raised up a deliverer Mosheh, to
deliver Yisrael out of Mitsrayim because of His covenant that He swore
with an outstretched arm to our Father Avraham. He had Moshiach Yahshua
come and redeem you, because of the Avrahamic covenant. He had made an oath and
swore in blood between the pieces to our Father Avraham a blood covenant that He
would give him THE land; and that land would belong to his seed forever, and no
matter what it would take for Yahweh to fulfill that covenant that He swore with
an outstretched arm to give to Avraham, He would perform it.He raised, and has
always raised up, a deliverer, a Moshiach. Mosheh is a type of
Moshiach, he was an anointed deliverer to bring Yisrael out of
Mitzrayim. He prophesied that Yahweh would raise up another deliverer
like unto Mosheh to speak to Yisrael. And if you hear His voice, and do what He
says, you will obtain redemption. That prophetic word is speaking of
Moshiach Yahshua.
Everything centers around the center
Shamash (Servant) covenant. Everything before it was leading up to that,
and everything after that is pointing back to that [look at the Menorah-7
branches]. He says right in Shemoth 6.8, I shall bring you into the land
which I swore to give to Avraham, Yitshaq, and to Yaaqob, to give it to you for
an inheritance. It will come to pass. Yahweh swore it, and no matter what it
takes for that covenant to be fulfilled, He will perform it. That is why I know
there must be a future redemption for Yisrael, because we are still in the
Galuth [Diaspora].
There is yet a future redemption for us,
our redemption is not complete. Right now Yahweh, through Moshiach
Yahshua, is gathering Yisraelites into Himself as one renewed man both
Yehudah and Ephrayim into Moshiach Yahshua to make us one
renewed man, but He has yet to get us into the land. Those that He has redeemed
and is redeeming and will redeem, they are saved for and in the Messianic
Kingdom.
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1
Kepha [Peter] 1.13-21, page 1178.[13] Therefore, having girded up
the loins of your mind, being sober, set your expectation perfectly upon the
favour that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Yahshua
Messiah,
There is yet a future revelation of
Yahshua the Messiah. We are supposed to gird up the loins of our mind, being
sober, and we set our hope on the grace [favour] that is to be brought to you
at the coming of Yahshua.
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[14] as obedient children, not
conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance, [15] instead, as
the One who called you is set-apart, so you should become set-apart in all
behaviour, [16] because it has been written, Be set-apart, for I am set-apart.
[17] And if you call on the Father [Yahweh], who without partiality judges
according to each ones work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear, [18]
knowing that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your
fathers, not with what is corruptible, silver or gold, [19] but with the
precious blood of Moshiach, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless,
This redemption that Kepha is
speaking of here is the Passover Lamb, not the sin offering lamb. He is speaking
of the redemption of the Passover Lamb that was unblemished and
spotless.
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[20] foreknown, indeed, before the
foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times fro your sakes, [21]
who through Him believe in Elohim who raised Him from the dead and gave Him
esteem, so that your belief and expectation are in
Elohim.
There is yet a future expectation
or hope at the coming of Moshiach Yahshua, and THAT is what we have been
redeemed for! So our redemption is not complete.
We were redeemed, delivered, for
the Messianic Kingdom! This is what we have missed! Its not to float around
heaven all day on a cloud and play harps! We have been redeemed for a Kingdom!
Yahshua said to His talmidim, Go forth, and teach this Good News of the
Kingdom! He didnt say, Teach the Good News of heaven. He said, Preach the
Good News of the Kingdom!
Not, Raise your hand, say a prayer, fly
off to heaven. How many have made a choice for heaven today? You have been
saved and redeemed for a Kingdom, and He said He will not return until this Good
News of the Kingdom has been preached to every nation. Its a coming Kingdom we
have been redeemed for.
3. The Third Cup: I shall
redeem you (future).
There is an enormous
difference between salvation and redemption. A redemption is a buying back that
requires blood. Remember the blood avenger in the Torah, who would hunt down
someone and actually slay them? This is what Yahweh was doing to redeem
Yisrael. This is why He used this word gaal. We say goel. He was the blood avenger for
everything that had been done wrong to Yisrael, and He was going to shed blood
to get them out. Why does he do this? To perform what He had sworn to father
Avraham. This is how seriously He takes His covenants. Its all about THE
covenant, and its all about His obligation. He obligated Himself to Father
Avraham. Not only that, its the obligation of father Avraham made to YHWH by
the covenant of circumcision. Avraham was willing to bring every one of his seed
into that covenant so they could experience YHWHs redemption. This is why I
teach the covenant of brit milah!
We are getting ready to study the fourth
cup.It is the last cup that we partake in the Passover. And He says here to the
people of Yisrael:
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SHEMOTH [Exodus]
6:
[7] and shall take you as My people, and I shall be your Elohim. And you shall
know that I am Yahweh your Elohim who is bringing you out from under the burdens
of the Mitsrites.
4. The Fourth Cup: I shall
take you.
The word in Hebrew is the idea of
an exile, of leaving, take you, veh laqachati - #3947
laqach
-
Laqach to take. I will take you, I will send after you, I will fetch
you, I will take possession of you, but here is what it really means, and if you
get this you will understand Passover, you will understand why you were
redeemed, you will understand what Torah is all about, you will understand the
tzitzit, you will understand tefilin, you will understand every
remembrance that Yahweh has given us. He says, I will take you. But He cannot
take you until He brings you out, He delivers you, and redeems you, once He has
paid the bride price, He has received you, He says, Then I can take you. He
says, I can take you laqach I will take you for Myself as a wife.I
will take you for Myself, you will become My possession.
Women, when you are married to a man you
become his prized possession! And you might not like that, but when He takes
you, in the Hebrew sense of the term, you are his possession. He has
taken you, he has laqach you! This is a matter of renewing your mind to
the Hebraic sense of the term. Young ladies, when you marry a man, when he takes
you under the chuppah you become his possession. He has
taken you to himself. Why? So that you may become one-ECHAD.
Now2nd. Corinthians 11.2,
page 1124. Rav Shaul is speaking to the assembly in
Corinth.
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2ND. CORINTHIANS
11: [2] For I am jealous for you with
jealousy according to Elohim. For I gave you in marriage to one husband, to
present you as an innocent maiden [virgin] to Messiah. [3] But I am afraid,
lest, as the serpent deceived Hawwah by his trickery, so your minds should be corrupted from the
simplicity that is in Moshiach [Messiah].
Rav Shaul spoke to the assembly at
Corinth, he said, I have given you as a
virgin to one husband, Moshiach. And I presented you as a virgin, as a
pure maiden.
- Hoshea 2, page 600[13] And I shall punish her for the days of the
Baals to which she burned incense and adorned herself with her rings and
jewelry, and went after her lovers, and forgot Me, declares
Yahweh.
Yisrael
had played the harlot, Ephrayim had gone after strange gods, even though
they were betrothed to Yahweh at Mount Sinai at the giving of Torah at Shavuot. They played
the harlot. Fornicated with other mighty ones of the goyim! NOTICE here
in this verse that their lovers gave them all kinds of jewelry, all kinds of
things that sparkle and look good. Gold dust from heaven. Looks good, harlotry.
Because of her lovers she forgot Me, Yahweh said. And I shall punish her, He
says.
- [14] Therefore I am alluring her, and shall lead her
into the wilderness, and shall speak to her heart, [15] and give to her
vineyards from there, and the Valley of Akor as a door of expectation [hope]. And there she shall
respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day when she came up from the
land of Mitsrayim.
It was in
the wilderness that Yisrael had a chance to respond to
Yahweh.
- [16] And it shall be, in that day, declares
Yahweh, that you call Me My Husband, and no longer call Me My Baal. [17]
And I shall remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall no
more be remembered by their name. [18] And in that day I shall make a
covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the
heavens, and with the creeping creatures of the ground, when bow, and sword,
and battle I break from the earth. And I shall make them lie down in
safety.
This is
probably one of the most beautiful verses within Hoshea.When we wrap tefillin
around our middle finger, when you wrap that strap around there, this is what
you recite:
- [19] And I shall take you as a bride unto Me forever,
and take you as a bride unto Me in righteousness, and in right-ruling, and
kindness and compassion. [20] And I shall take you as a bride unto Me in
trustworthiness, and you shall know Yahweh.
And you shall know yada Yahweh.
Yahweh says that in the last days He is going to take Yisrael into the
wilderness, He is going to speak to her heart, He is going to marry her, and He
is going to marry her forever. And no more will Yisrael Ephrayim
remember her harlotry and her lovers, and the Name of Yahweh will be in their
mouth, and they will no longer call Him LORD [Baal], but they will call
Him, My Husband Ishah. And He says here, And when I marry
you, its all typology And when I marry you and take you unto Myself, then
you will know Me. I got to be very explicit with what that word means. That
means to know in the biblical sense of the term that means you know
them intimately through sexual intercourse.
Back to Shemoth
6. Yahweh is wanting to teach Yisrael some deep truths in the Passover,
and if you just show up, and you think you are going to eat a little
matzah, drink a little wine, have a little lamb, and go home, you are
going to miss what Yahweh desires to teach you.
This is why they have rehearsed it for thousands of
years, and why we are to teach our children, why we are to teach every one of
these young men and young ladies here, the meaning of Passover. Its not for our
benefit, its for their benefit that they learn this. It is for our children.
Why do you think in the ShMAH we always say, Teach these to your children
diligently?
- SHEMOTH [Exodus] 6: [7] and shall take you as My people, and I shall be
your Elohim. And you shall know that I am Yahweh
--
This is
the same thing that He says in Hoshea 2. You shall know that I am
Yahweh. You shall know Me, You shall yada Me. You can only know, in the most intimate
sense of the word, Yahweh through His redemption, by personally experiencing
His redemption. He said to Yisrael, that by experiencing this Exodus, this
Passover our ancestors have been doing for thousands of years, He says, By
doing this remembrance of your redemption you will know Me as Yahweh.What did
He say in the beginning of this reading? I revealed Myself to them as El
Shaddai. Did they not know Me as Yahweh? The Fathers knew Him as Yahweh,
because He revealed His Name to Avraham, Yitshaq, and Yaaqob. That is in the Torah. Do you know how they didnt know Him?
They did not know Him in the sense of the term of redemption, they had never
experienced the redemption that He promised them, that the Yisraelites would
experience. They would know Him, Yahweh, in a way that Avraham, Yitshaq, and
Yaaqob did not know Him, and YOU know Yahweh in a way by knowing
Moshiach Yahshua, that they do not know. And we will know Yahweh in even
a deeper aspect in our total redemption when He takes us out of
Mitsrayim.
Some of the rabbis have
said, The Seder is not complete until we have a fifth cup. You know at the
Seder we will have a fifth cup, we wont drink of it, but it will be there on
the Seder table.It is the cup of Eliyahu, the fifth cup. It will
be filled with wine, it will be setting at the table, his place will be set for
him, but Elijah is not sitting there at his place.This is the cup of verse
8:
- [8] And I shall bring [bo I shall
bring bo in Hebrew] you into the land which I swore to give to
Avraham, to Yitshaq, and to Yaaqob, to give it to you as an inheritance. I am
Yahweh.
Yahweh says, In the Eliyahu cup (which we will not be
drinking) I will bring you into the land. Bo to come, to enter the
house of a husband, to be brought in, to return. He says, And I will bring you
into the land.BUT, there is another inheritance besides the land.
- Debarim [Deuteronomy] 33.4, page 222.
[4] Moshe commanded us a Torah,
an inheritance of the assembly of
Yaaqob.
5.
The
fifth cup: the cup of
Eliyahu.
The
cup of Eliyahu is not only to bring us into the land, which He swore by covenant
to give us, but it is the cup of Eliyahu in which He has promised to give us our
inheritance of Torah.
Why in the last days must an
Eliyahu be raised up? Is it one person or a company of people? It is to bring us
into our inheritance. Remember, Yahshua said of Yohanan haMatvil [Yohanan
the Immerser], he is Eliyahu. He is coming before Moshiach. Eliyahu came in the spirit of Yochanan to
call Yisrael back to Torah and to Yahweh, before the coming of Moshiach. But
Messiah also said, He is Eliyahu, but Eliyahu will yet come. And we are told
by the Prophet Malaki 4.4, page 646, there is yet an Eliyahu to
come.
- MALAKI [Malachi] 4:[4] Remember the Torah of Mosheh, My servant, which I
commanded him in Horeb for all Yisrael
He is speaking not just to the Jews! We hear, Oh the
Torah, well that is just for Jews. You keep Shabbath, you keep kosher, all that
Jewish stuff is for the Jews. Torah is for ALL Yisrael. He says
here:
- [4]
.laws and right-rulings. [5] See, I am sending
you Eliyah haNavi [the prophet] before the coming of the great and awesome day
of Yahweh.
We
know that is not talking about the first coming of Moshiach, it is
talking about the second coming of Moshiach!
- [6] And he [Eliyahu] shall turn the hearts of the
fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest
I come and smite the earth with utter destruction.
This fifth
cup of Eliyahu is symbolic of a cup we have not yet partaken of this cup of
our inheritance of the land. I will bo, I will bring you into your
inheritance of the land, but also it is symbolic of a cup that is now being
drunk and emptied by Yisrael, and that is the return of ALL Yisrael to Torah.
The call of Eliyahu is going out now to Yisrael. What was the original message
of Eliyahu? Choose ye this day whom you will serve. And the last days Eliyahu
message is to call Yisrael back to Yahweh and back to Torah. Why? Because
that redemption, that obtaining of the inheritance must take place
before we go into the land. It was because, as Rav Shaul wrote, by giving up the
Torah that they [ALL Yisrael] went into the Diaspora, but it will be the
embracing of the Torah that will bring them back to the land! How can He bring
us back into our inheritance to receive the first inheritance which is Torah?
There is always a time in
the Seder, where we send a young person out to check the door to see if
Eliyahu is there. And they look, and they look puzzled and No, there is no one
there. And I say, Good! Hes not
there. He is not supposed to be there. Because if he is there we are in
trouble. But why is that there in the Seder? It was to remind Yisrael
about the coming Eliyahu that was to turn the hearts of the fathers to the
children, and the hearts of the children to the fathers.That is what Yahweh is
doing with the restoration of Torah, He is turning our hearts back to the hearts
of the fathers, our fathers, our inheritance of Torah.
The fifth
cup, which we will see there at the Seder, is the cup of Eliyahu. And
you will know that I am Yahweh.
Can
we just do a little sod here real fast?
In the Passover the number four is very
prevalent.
- We have the four questions.
- We have the four sons.
- We have the four cups.
But
they also tell us that the number four of the four cups is symbolic the four
mitzvahs concerning Passover.
1. The mitzvah of sacrifice.
2. The mitzvah of Matzah.
3. The mitzvah of the bitter herbs.
4. The mitzvah of the telling of the story.
We
are also told that these four cups symbolic there are four sins, four deadly
sins for Yisrael.
1.
Idolatry.
2.
Adultery.
3.
Murder.
4.
Lashon harah
(evil speaking).
We
are told that the sacrificial lamb atones for the sin of idolatry. Otherwise, it
redeems them from that, and it is taken up in the I will take you.
The Matzah is for the sin of adultery. I will
redeem you.
The bitter herbs are for the sin of murder, the
bitterness, the most bitter sin there is of murder. I will save [deliver]
you.
Lashon harah, the telling of the good story of
the Exodus. I will unite you.
It is also of the four kingdoms.
It is also of the four lashon, four tongues, of the
river that came out of Eden.
It
is also symbolic of the four faculties:
1.
Sight.
2.
Hearing.
3.
Remembering.
4.
Knowing.
·
Shemoth
[Exodus] 3.7, page 59. [7]
And Yahweh said [to Mosheh], I have indeed seen [faculty] the oppression
of My people who are in Mitsrayim, and have heard [faculty] their cry
because of their slave-drivers, for I know [faculty] their sorrows. [8]
And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Mitsrites, and to
bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with
milk and honey, to the place of the Kenaanites and the Hittites and the
Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hiwwites and the
Yebusites.
He
remembered His covenant that He had made with Avraham. Yahweh, He saw, He heard, He knew, He
remembered.
Its symbolic of the four senses.
1.
Hearing.
2.
Seeing.
3.
Tasting.
4.
Smelling.
Now
I want you to NOTICE where those all are they are all in your head. All
four of those senses are in your head. The rabbis teach us that is why the
tefilin are placed upon your head, because those four senses are all in your
head, and by putting Yahwehs Name on your forehead it helps you to sanctify, or
make kodesh, those senses.
The
four cups, we know, are symbolic of the four directions: Yahweh promised that He
would gather all of Yisrael from
1.
North.
2.
South.
3.
East.
4.
West.
·
. Debarim [Deuteronomy]
30.1-5, page 217-218.[1] And it shall be, when all these words come
upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you shall
bring them back to your heart among all the gentiles [nations] where Yahweh your
Elohim drives you,
NOTICE this is
not speaking to Yisrael, that it would happen to them at that time, it is
speaking of the last days. It says that, When you bring all these words back to
your heart when you are in the Diaspora, when you have been scattered
into all the nations, in to which Yahweh will drive you, because of your Torah
breaking, it says here:
·
[2] and shall
turn back [ do teshuvah] to Yahweh your Elohim and obey His voice,
according to all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your
being,
With all your heart and with all your
being, not only us children, .Listen, young people, I am telling you things
that may make a difference in your lives between life and death. It says that
when we are in these nations, and we bring these words that Yahweh gave to
Mosheh back to our hearts [the hearts of the fathers], but
also:
·
[2]
you and
your children [the hearts of the children turning to the fathers], [3] then
Yahweh your Elohim shall turn back your captivity, and shall have compassion on
you, and He shall turn back and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh
your Elohim has scattered you. [4] If any of you are driven out to the farthest
parts under the heavens, from there Yahweh your Elohim does gather you, and
from there He does take you. [5] And Yahweh your Elohim shall bring you
to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it.
The
Palestinians and the UN can do what they want, we shall possess the land!
·
[5]
And He
shall do well to you, and increase you more than your fathers. [6] And Yahweh your Elohim shall
circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed [children], to love Yahweh your
Elohim with all your heart and with all your being, so that you might live, [7]
and Yahweh your Elohim shall put these curses on your enemies and on those who
hate you, who persecuted you. [8] And you shall turn back and obey the voice of
Yahweh and do all His commands which I command you
today.
This
Passover theme of redemption weaves all throughout this Book. Its throughout
the Prophets, Its throughout your Torah, and throughout your Brit
Chadashah. Yahweh wants a redeemed people for the
Kingdom.
For
two weeks we have been talking about preparing our selves for the Passover, and
a lot of us have been working very hard getting our houses ready looking for hametz,
cleaning, doing all the physical things necessary to prepare our dwelling places
for Pesach. But through these messages the last few weeks, I have been trying to
prepare your hearts to partake of this Passover, and to give you truths from the
Word of Yahweh, to help you prepare yourself to partake of the Passover in
this dwelling place[your body], to start getting the leaven
out!
Every year Yahweh is revealing more to me about the secret truth of
Passover and what it is really all about. Its not about its not about getting a
bunch of Xtians into a building and someone teaching about their Jewish roots
by having them observe a Passover. That is profaning the Passover. Its
different, like I am going to go into a community and teach them about
Pesach in a teaching Seder. But, I am not going to reveal
to them these deep truths, and I am not going to do a Seder on the correct day
for them.Its about Yisrael gathering together as a people, as Yahweh
commanded, where He had placed His Name, and to gather together, and to observe
the Passover as a community, as a nation. Thats what it is about. We as the
physical seed [physical sperma] of Avraham can experience some of that
redemption, and prepare our minds and our hearts for the future redemption that
is coming. We have received our redemption in Moshiach Yahshua, but the
event we need to prepare for is the coming redemption that is coming. Because if
our hearts are not prepared when it is time to make that Exodus out, you are not
going to be ready. Why? Just what Shemoth 6 says in the very first cup, you will
still be under your burdens from Egypt. Your mind will still be in bondage to the tentacles of
Babylon, and you wont come out when Yahweh says, Come out.
You would rather hold on to the conformity than to make that Exodus out. And I
have a feeling that when we do go into the wilderness we are going to hear the
same griping and complaining that Mosheh heard. And if that happens we may not
be the generation that enters into the land. It may be our children, or it may
be those that are born in the wilderness. I dont know.
This is why Yahshua did a rabbis seduah (meal) the night before
Pesach, to prepare His talmidim to take the Passover. My prayer is
that when we gather to do the Passover Yahwehs presence is going to saturate
that place. You know why? Because His children gather together to do what He has
commanded us to do.
May Yahweh bless you understanding of
this teaching! Rabbi Edward L. Nydle Bnai Avraham