Here are some overdue yet necessary pics from passover 2011.
This is me and my wife at passover held at the renaissance hotel in Charlotte, NC
Hey did you know that at the last supper da vinci wasnt invited? And did you know the last supper was actually the passover seder? Yes that crazy holiday that Jews celebrate applies to Jesus and Christians as well. Thats because Jesus was a Jew. Shocking I know! This seems crazy that I would be saying this in this way but many in church history have tried to ignore this and some in church history have tried to deny the claim spreading hate and accusing the jewish people of killing Jesus. This is a dark part of the churches history but it happened. Christian churches used to celebrate the jewish holidays alongside the Jewish people. Until the council of nicea in which our sometimes esteemed Emporer Constantine said these words..
". . .relative to the sacred festival of Easter. . . it was declared to be particularly unworthy for this holiest of all festivals to follow the custom of the Jews. We ought not therefore, to have anything in common with the Jews. We desire to separate ourselves from the detestable company of the Jews for it is surely shameful for us to hear the Jews boast that without their direction we could not keep this feast. In their blindness, they frequently celebrate two Passovers in the same year. . . How then could we follow these Jews. . . for to celebrate the Passover twice in one year is totally inadmissible ."
This was also the council that changed the worship day from saturday to sunday, established December 25th as the birthday of Christ, established Easter, and established the Universal (Catholic) church of the Holy Roman Empire. There is a lot of history we won't go into dealing with the way the past church treated the Jews Including accusing them of deicide and using that to get them to either renounce their jewishness and become catholic or die. The inquisition was where the Catholic church decided to crack down on the jews who had only said they converted to save their lives but really didnt. They used torture on the Jews in order to find out the false converts and purge the church of evil.
There is a lot of bad history between the church and the jews. First Jesus was jewish, if anything needed to be repented of it was the catholicness not jewishness. Jesus(yeshua) was raised on the Torah and lived and breathed in the judaism of his time. Second, the Jewish people didn't Kill Jesus...... Jesus willingly laid down his life for all mankind.
So, theres a lot of bad history in the church and Its is good to see when christian churches and congregations like the one who did the passover seder embrace a Jewish messiah and the jewish roots of our faith.
This passover I went to was one done by a local messianic Jewish congregation here in Charlotte. Messianic congregations believe in Jesus but approach him as the Jewish messiah. The leader of the congregation is Dr. Sam Nadler.
Sam is a very humorous and intelligent guy who speaks to churches and speaks at conferences all around the globe but his base is in Charlotte. His preaching is done in english but the songs that are sung and the scripture reading is done in Hebrew. They even have Davidic dancing which is said to be the same type of dancing done at the time of King David.
The place was crowded.........
Overall it was a great experience, I learned so much about how passover relates to Jesus the messiah and the history of our faith. Theres so much info I cannot fit on a whole blog but if you have any questions visit www.hopeofisrael.info or www.wordofmessiah.org. Those are Sams websites.
If you have more questions on the history and violence between the christian church I recommend the bood "Our hands are stained with blood" By Dr. Michael L. Brown
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_49?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=our+hands+are+stained+with+blood+by+michael+brown&x=0&y=0&sprefix=our+hands+are+stained+with+blood+by+michael+brown.
By the way does anyone know how to make charoset? It is an apple dip made traditionally for passover and it is delicious.
". . .relative to the sacred festival of Easter. . . it was declared to be particularly unworthy for this holiest of all festivals to follow the custom of the Jews. We ought not therefore, to have anything in common with the Jews. We desire to separate ourselves from the detestable company of the Jews for it is surely shameful for us to hear the Jews boast that without their direction we could not keep this feast. In their blindness, they frequently celebrate two Passovers in the same year. . . How then could we follow these Jews. . . for to celebrate the Passover twice in one year is totally inadmissible ."
This was also the council that changed the worship day from saturday to sunday, established December 25th as the birthday of Christ, established Easter, and established the Universal (Catholic) church of the Holy Roman Empire. There is a lot of history we won't go into dealing with the way the past church treated the Jews Including accusing them of deicide and using that to get them to either renounce their jewishness and become catholic or die. The inquisition was where the Catholic church decided to crack down on the jews who had only said they converted to save their lives but really didnt. They used torture on the Jews in order to find out the false converts and purge the church of evil.
There is a lot of bad history between the church and the jews. First Jesus was jewish, if anything needed to be repented of it was the catholicness not jewishness. Jesus(yeshua) was raised on the Torah and lived and breathed in the judaism of his time. Second, the Jewish people didn't Kill Jesus...... Jesus willingly laid down his life for all mankind.
So, theres a lot of bad history in the church and Its is good to see when christian churches and congregations like the one who did the passover seder embrace a Jewish messiah and the jewish roots of our faith.
This passover I went to was one done by a local messianic Jewish congregation here in Charlotte. Messianic congregations believe in Jesus but approach him as the Jewish messiah. The leader of the congregation is Dr. Sam Nadler.
Sam is a very humorous and intelligent guy who speaks to churches and speaks at conferences all around the globe but his base is in Charlotte. His preaching is done in english but the songs that are sung and the scripture reading is done in Hebrew. They even have Davidic dancing which is said to be the same type of dancing done at the time of King David.
The place was crowded.........
....and the food was good...and I think I swallowed my permanent crown that night as well.(thats another story though).
If you have more questions on the history and violence between the christian church I recommend the bood "Our hands are stained with blood" By Dr. Michael L. Brown
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_49?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=our+hands+are+stained+with+blood+by+michael+brown&x=0&y=0&sprefix=our+hands+are+stained+with+blood+by+michael+brown.
By the way does anyone know how to make charoset? It is an apple dip made traditionally for passover and it is delicious.
