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4 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course Lesson 12

ceased with the sacrifice of the Messiah. kept the Passover, but also the Feast of
4. How long were YEHOVAH’s people Unleavened Bread which followed it? Verse 43.
to continue keeping this Festival? Exodus Was Yeshua the Messiah OLD ENOUGH at this
12:17. time to thoroughly understand whether or not
COMMENT: Notice this verse in the YEHOVAH God expects His people TO KEEP
modern wording of the Ferrar Fenton THIS ANNUAL FESTIVAL IN NEW
translation, “consequently keep this period as an TESTAMENT TIMES? Verses 42, 46-47.
EVERLASTING INSTITUTION." 7. Later on when the Messiah came to
5. Did YEHOVAH God instruct the FULL MATURITY, was he STILL KEEPING
Israelites to explain the significance of this the Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread?
festival to their children so that each succeeding Mark 14:12-16.
generation would remember its special 8. In the year that Yeshua was crucified,
meaning? Exodus 13:8. What were they to tell did his enemies expect him to be keeping the
their children about the Days of Unleavened Feast of Unleavened Bread? Mark 14:1-2.
Bread? Verses 6-7, 9-10. COMMENT: The Messiah’s enemies
6. Did Yeshua keep the seven days of knew that he would surely be keeping the Feast,
Unleavened Bread, leaving true Christians HIS but they were AFRAID to try to take him when
OWN EXAMPLE to follow? Luke 2:41-43. so many of the citizens would be gathered
Does the Bible show that Yeshua NOT ONLY together. Yeshua was popular because of the
miracles he had performed. So, the
The 12th Dynasty pyramid of Amenemhet III -- built Judahites captured him during the night of
during the time the Israelites were in Egypt. They left the 14th, just after the LAST MEAL he ate
Egypt on the first of the Days of Unleavened Bread. with the disciples.
9. After the tree -- after Yeshua had been
crucified, buried and resurrected -- did his
disciples know that THEY WERE STILL
EXPECTED TO KEEP the Feast of
Unleavened Bread? Acts 12:3.
COMMENT: Why should Luke, years
after the crucifixion, use the Feast of
Unleavened Bread to indicate the time of
Peter’s imprisonment? Because Christians
WERE STILL KEEPING THIS AN-
NUAL FESTIVAL!
10. Didn’t Paul, THE APOSTLE TO
THE GENTILES (dispersed Israelites),
wait until after he had observed the Feast
of Unleavened Bread with the Christians at
Philippi before he sailed for Troas? Acts
20:6.
COMMENT: Throughout the history of
the early New Testament Church of
YEHOVAH God in the book of Acts, we
find faithful Christians KEEPING the
Days of Unleavened Bread.
11. Does Paul, under the inspiration of

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