My wife and I are hosting Passover in our home this year. The seats are all filled and God is being good to us.
The upper-classist dislikes things that are strange or grim: it isn't "proper" or "elegant". Because they believe "Christianity = upper-classism", therefore they conclude whatever upper-classism dislikes must be intrinsically unchristian and wrong. To this the lower-classists agree, exulting in everything that upper-classists dislike, thinking that by doing so they are attacking Christianity - because, again, they make the same error as upper-classists, the idea that "Christianity = upper-classism". So the upper-classist forever condemns, and even falls into superstitious fear of what is not to their upper-classist taste; the lower-classist mocks and revels, and Satan laughs at the rat-race he has crafted.
The truth is that this whole strife is man-made and Satanically inspired. The answer is to step out of it, leave the lie which both sides hold, and to open one's eyes to the truth: the faith of Abraham has nothing to do with upper-classism, which is not of heaven but of men.
As the blossom need not declare "I am of Yahweh" to glorify him, neither does the thorn. As the blossom glorifies Yahweh by being a blossom, the thorn glorifies Yahweh by being a thorn.
The specific passion and purpose of my life is the application of this in the arts, specifically in the Strange: the grim, the surreal, the gritty. Every night your mind creates the Strange and the surreal in dreams: I believe it is essential to the human spirit, in the image of Yahweh. Forever let the Strange live to the glory of Yahweh, its Maker.
TL;DR: some hate spiders, God likes them, I agree with God.
2023/08/05
The inaugural grain offering was to be deep fried according to Leviticus 6:21. Tradition says boiled, baked, and then fried. I can't decide if that's interesting or just...weird.
This is interesting, though: the grain offering makes anyone who touches it holy, and it is restricted to holy people by statute and nature. It may only be eaten by a priest, unless the one bringing the offering is, himself, a priest, in which case the whole thing must be burned, as if a grain offering can only be consumed by someone holier than the one who brings it. (Leviticus 6:23)
This week's Torah reading is Tzav ("Command", #leviticus 6:8-8:36). Here are some related New Testament passages, articles, and videos.
https://www.americantorah.com/....2021/11/22/parsha-tz
Observing the death and resurrection of Yeshua in the proper biblical context is important. If you'd like to join us in KC this year, here are the times. Please RSVP by April 9 if you want to attend.
"A righteous man falling down before the wicked, is a troubled well and a corrupt spring."
Pr 25
The second Passover is recorded this way; Numbers 9:4 — 5, “So Moses told the Israelites to observe the Passover, and they did so in the Wilderness of Sinai, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.”
QUARTODECIMISM
One of the oldest and longest running controversies in Christianity was (and still is - though little known today) the Quartodeciman Controversy. It is older than the initial arguments for trinitarianism, older than the the notion of “church”, older even than Arianism.
And the Quartodeciman Controversy carried on for over 200 years until the very same ecumenical council which is known for having crushed the aforementioned form of Christianity aswell, also dead ended this biblical practice.
The Council of Nicaea settled a number of matters by democratic vote, the popular demand of the West against the East, and that in extreme ignorance of Hebraic matters and with a bias toward Greco-Roman norms.
Quartodecimism believed (believes) that the Passover should be celebrated on the 14th day of the first month of the new year, as was practiced in the East, as ever it had been done since the beginning, and as the Scriptures command it must be.
Contrariwise, Western Christendom held to several different traditions but predominantly celebrating Passover on whatever Sunday followed the 14th day.
Until AD 325 it was debated which manner of behavior was proper practice, but despite what your modern Christian pastor may say on Sunday in church, it was not a settled issue until the time of Constantine, nor even a very serious issue until the Emperor brought it to the forefront demanding uniformity in Christianity.
And so as part of the purpose of bishops’ gathering at Nicaea, the official Christian position was to settle this matter aswell as many others the believers were diverging over.
Thereafter as so often happens the majority not only dictates to the minority what they should do, but in time the dominant party begins to demand of the lesser group what they must do aswell and soon after to command what they will do too…or else!
And this was no different with Christendom from Nicaea onward. The Passover was officially moved by the authority of the council to the first Sunday following the “Jewish Passover”. (Eventually the date would come to be settled as the “first Sunday following the full moon that falls on or after the vernal equinox”. But that’s much later.)
The decision was never made based on Biblical practice or original intent or the need for obedience. The bishops were not set upon maintaining behavior like the Savior or His disciples or any of the first century sect. The goal was never to try to do what is right, to be pleasing to the Heavenly Father, or to hold to the truth.
Instead the decision of the council was entirely focused upon being different from the Jews.
Under the assumption that the Passover as commanded in Scripture to be remembered on the 14th day of the first month of the year, was a Jewish practice, as opposed to simply the biblical commandment, the council opposed it. And they ruled that any who continued in obedience to the biblical commandment were Judaizing and therefore heretical.
In the begining these were deemed merely divergent and shamed by the rest of nominal Christendom that declared differently. But eventually that disapproval became disgust and disdain and demanding destruction of the “other”. Quartodecimism was outlawed on pain of death in the worst way and thus driven underground or out of the reach of the Roman Empire, which was fast becoming the Catholic Church.
So what are you doing this passover season? Are you following blindly the lies of long ago and later replacements, or are you getting back to the basics long branded baleful by biased bishops and cowardly councils?
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