JEWS FOR JESUS’ FAKE PASSOVER

JEWS FOR JESUS’ “FAKE PASSOVER”

Hugh Fogelman

An evening with Jews for Jesus: Imagine a lonely, unaffiliated Jew accepting a friendly invitation to a free Passover Seder dinner. Entering the catering hall of a local hotel, he is greeted warmly and offered a yarmulke, a head covering. The tables are draped with white tablecloths and set with traditional Passover items: wine, matzah (unleavened bread), saltwater, Haggadahs (the Passover prayer book) and a Seder plate with hardboiled egg, shank bone, horseradish, charoset and greens. Lively Jewish music is playing in the background. This sure looks and sounds Jewish.

The so-called “rabbi” calls the group to order, and the Seder begins with everyone lifting a goblet of wine and someone reciting the Kiddush (the ritual accompanied by a cup of wine proclaiming the holiness of the day) in both Hebrew and English. What happens next catches the unsuspecting guest completely off guard.

The “rabbi” begins to explain to those assembled their version of the “Passover ceremony.” The rabbi says, “Passover is the Jewish holiday of freedom. And tonight, we can feel truly free, because Yeshua (the Hebrew name these Christians in Jewish clothing give Jesus) took our sins upon himself. He was the ultimate Paschal lamb that was foreshadowed when the Jewish people left Egypt 3,300 years ago. The four cups of wine we drink tonight represent his blood that was shed on our behalf. Of course, the three Matzah’s (crackers) on our Seder plates represent the Av, the Ben and the Ruach HaKodesh (Hebrew for the father, the son and the holy spirit.) The middle matzah, representing the son, Yeshua, is broken in half because he was crucified. You'll notice that the matzah has small holes in it because Yeshua (Jesus) was pierced, and it is wrapped in a white cloth because he was buried in a white shroud. Finally, the broken piece called the Afikoman is hidden until the end of the Seder and brought back, representing the burial and resurrection of our Messiah.”

With cleaver manipulation of the Passover story and Jesus being called the Passover Lamb and Jesus dying for the sins of the world, some unlearned and unsuspecting Jews may be converted to Jesus―the Jews for Jesus brand of paganism. But these Jews overlook the fact there has never been any association of sin with the Passover story. This grotesquely twisted Seder may even be a first step in a too short journey from Judaism to Christianity if one is vulnerable.

Jews know the real Passover story through the words of the Torah given by God to the Children of Israel (the Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible). Passover occurred in the month of April; the month the Egyptians worshipped the “lamb” god. God told the Jewish people “that the blood on the houses in which you dwell shall be a token (sign)” (Exodus 12:13). This token or sign was to show God their faith and obedience to Him, to show their worthiness to God because it took much courage to kill the Egyptian god of April and to smear its blood upon the door posts of their homes for all Egyptians to see. This was a deliberate act of defiance. Nowhere was the concept of sin attached to Passover.

Do you think God needed to be shown which house was a Jewish house by the blood sign? He already knew! Therefore, the blood was not needed for that purpose. The “Angel of Death” passed over the Jewish homes who defied the Egyptian god, thus saving the Jewish first-borns while the Egyptian’s first-born died, as Moses had predicted. This would make sense because if the blood was only used to save the first born of the Jewish home, what good was it to smear the blood if the Jewish family did not have any children? Not every home had children.

And what happened to the dead lamb? The Jews were instructed to eat it and if, in the morning there should be any remains, it had to be consumed with fire (Exodus 12:10). Later, in the desert, after Mt. Sinai, when God told the Jewish nation to celebrate the Passover, they were instructed to sacrifice an unblemished lamb. Unblemished means no cuts or malformations―NO BLEMISH.

Does this sound anything like Jesus???? Jesus was whipped, cut, circumcised and speared. Anyone can see that he was not unblemished! Jesus, no how, no way could have been a perfect sacrifice. Besides, according to Torah, the sacrifice had to be killed on the altar. Was Jesus killed on any type of an altar? NO!

This is just another example of how Christians take one sentence out of context and apply it to Jesus. This is also another example how Christians will change the “rules” which God laid down for His Chosen People, and make up their own silly pagan dead-man god game.

So what is the “Bottom line?” Passover means defiance against the Egyptians. Passover means the Angel of Death passing over Jewish homes. Passover means the liberation from Egyptian bondage.

PASSOVER HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SIN.

Christians are mistaken, if they associate Jesus being the sacrificial lamb and dying for peoples’ sins and salvation. This just shows us how little they know about Torah. Whenever a lamb is used for a sin offering, it was ALWAYS a female lamb, under a year old. Does this sound like Jesus?

Jews, throughout the world know that during Yom Kippur, the sins of the people were forgiven in the Temple by the blood of goats, ALONG with deep, spiritual (teshuvah) prayers of repentance. Does this sound like Jesus? NO!

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