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20 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course Lesson 10

This merciless STONING tore his flesh COMMENT: The word “Easter” here is
open, disfigured him, caused him to bleed from a flagrant MISTRANSLATION. The original
dozens and even HUNDREDS of open gashes Greek word is “pascha” which means
and cuts! PASSOVER! It is the SAME WORD translated
The Messiah died a hideous, merciless, “Passover” in Matthew 26:2, 17-19. You should
brutal death such as a normal man would not STRIKE OUT the mistranslated word “Easter”
think of inflicting upon a rabid dog! in Acts 12:4 and write in its place the TRUE
And Yeshua did this VOLUNTARILY! MEANING, “PASSOVER.”
He did this FOR US -- FOR THE WHOLE 3. Did the apostle Paul carefully teach
WORLD! New Testament Christians to KEEP the Old
2. Did Yeshua suffer this excruciatingly Testament Passover -- but with a new
painful torture of his body so we might receive understanding of the symbology of the
physical HEALING of our bodies through faith unleavened bread? I Corinthians 5:8.
in him? Isaiah 53:5; I Peter 2:24 and Psalm COMMENT: Paul was the apostle to
103:2-3. the Gentiles (dispersed Israelites). Here is
COMMENT: Yeshua the Messiah ABSOLUTE PROOF that he taught baptized
allowed his body to be literally RIPPED OPEN ISRAELITE CORINTHIANS to KEEP THE
in hundreds of places until he could not even be PASSOVER!
recognized! He suffered this torture so you and I, 4. But did Christians CONTINUE to
through faith in his broken body for us, may have keep the Passover after the death of the apostles?
the FORGIVENESS of our PHYSICAL SINS -- Let’s notice. To whom did the apostle John write
the healing of our bodies when we are sick -- as the book of Revelation? Revelation 1:4. Was
well as the FORGIVENESS of our SPIRITUAL the Church of Smyrna one of those seven
SINS by his shed blood! Churches? Revelation 2:8. Did the members of
That is why Yeshua emphasized the that Church follow Paul’s inspired command to
breaking of leavened bread at his last meal with KEEP the Passover? See comment.
his disciples. It is a SYMBOL of his broken body COMMENT: The apostles who spent
given to the tormentors for our healing and a time in Asia Minor -- among whom was the
REMINDER to us that it is by “his STRIPES we apostle John -- appointed Polycarp over the
are healed.” Church of YEHOVAH God in Smyrna. Notice
Just think of the tremendous PRICE that what early Catholic historians admit about him.
was paid that YOU might have your guilty past “But Polycarp also was not only
blotted out, and the slate wiped clean! INSTRUCTED BY THE APOSTLES, and
Can you grasp it? conversed with many who had seen Christ, but
What are you going to DO about it? was also, by apostles in Asia, APPOINTED
BISHOP OF THE CHURCH OF SMYRNA...
Kept by the New Testament Church He it was who, coming to Rome in the time of
Anicetus, bishop of Rome around 154 A.D.,
1. After Yeshua the Messiah had fulfilled caused many to turn away from the...heretics to
the symbol of THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB for the CHURCH OF GOD, proclaiming that he had
the Old Testament Passover, DID HE COM- received this one and sole truth from the
MAND HIS disciples -- through Paul -- to keep apostles..."
it in memory of his death? I Corinthians 5:8. While at Rome, Polycarp discussed with
2. Did the New Testament Church of the Roman bishop the matter of the introduction
YEHOVAH God continue to keep the Passover of the pagan Easter in place of the Passover.
after the Messiah’s crucifixion? Acts 12:4. “For neither could Anicetus persuade

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