• The significance of understanding First Fruits

    The significance of understanding First Fruits

    We have now entered the season of the spring festivals as described in Leviticus 23. In our previous post we highlighted some of the facts regarding the first two feasts of the year, namely Pesach and the feast of Unleavened bread. In this article we will be discussing about the next appointed time that is…

  • How to celebrate Pesach and the Feast of Unleavened Bread

    How to celebrate Pesach and the Feast of Unleavened Bread

    Abba YHVH, in His greatness, has given us seven festivals to celebrate throughout the year. These are His appointed times. We are, in this study, going to focus on the practical observation of the feasts of Pesach and Unleavened bread. In Ex 12:2-29 we find the instructions for the very first time these feasts were…

  • Is the search for abib barley scriptural?

    Is the search for abib barley scriptural?

    Every year during the start of the annual cycle of biblical feasts, as determined in Leviticus 23, there is a question that starts to show up in all the Messianic circles – “Will the barley be abib?” For people new to this walk it is at first a very strange way of determining the year.…

  • Circumcision and the blood of the Pesach Lamb

    Circumcision and the blood of the Pesach Lamb

    Why is the story of the circumcision of the son of Moses in the middle of the story of the Exodus? This is not small diversion but a very well thought through placement of related text. It is linked to the exodus via the Pesach lamb.

  • Origin of New Year on January 1st

    Origin of New Year on January 1st

    What is the origin of the New Years celebrations on 1 January?