The Passover Is on the 14th – Not on the 15th

As we approach the Passover, it is a time to examine ourselves.

In 1 Corinthians 11 verse 23, and if you just turn there with me, please, 1 Corinthians 11 verse 23, 1 Corinthians 11 verse 23 says, For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread. And when he had given thanks, he broke it and says, Take it. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me. In like manner, he also took the cup off the supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Thus do as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till he comes. Therefore, who eats this bread and drinks this cup of the Lord in unworthy manner, will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in unworthy manner, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. I have covered in a previous sermon about examining ourselves and discerning the body spiritually, because I believe one of the most important areas of examining ourselves and discerning the Lord's body is the spiritual body of Christ, of course, but the physical body as well. So it's both, but clearly we need to examine ourselves, and that is in relationship to the body which is the Church. But we also need to discern his body physically. And one of the ways to discern his body physically is to really understand what he went through. So I do recommend you to go through various prophecies about his death in Isaiah and see what his body went through, and be grateful for the physical sacrifice of Jesus Christ. But if we are not celebrating or commemorating it or remembering it on the right day, we are not discerning it in a way. We're not discerning it correctly. Now Paul is very clear in the section in verse 23, where he says that on the same night in which he was betrayed, he took bread. That is absolutely clear, absolutely clear when the Passover is to be observed. However sad as it may be, there continues to be year after year, year after year, some people that question whether the Passover was on the 14th or the 15th.

And some have left the Church for that reason. And so today, brethren, I want to look at it from in first place from the Old Testament, from the original instruction in Exodus 12. I want to look at that carefully and see that that was indeed on the 14th. Secondly, I want to look at Christ's example, and lastly, we're going to bring back Paul's instruction here in 1 Corinthians 11. The conclusion of the matter is that the Passover is on the 14th, and we are observing it at the correct date, annual date and time.

So that is important, but let's go at the Old Testament and look at that. And it is important that you and I understand this, because regrettably, they could one day, somebody come to you and say, oh no, it's on the 15th, don't you know, blah, blah, this, that and the other. And you need to have the capability to prove to yourself that indeed it is on the 14th. So that is important. So let's start in Exodus. So we're going to go to Exodus 11, right at the beginning in Exodus 11, because we know, yeah, in Exodus 11 it's towards the end of the ninth plague, and then in verse Exodus 11, verse, well, in fact, at the end of verse 29 of Exodus 10, you see, verse 28 and 29 says, Pharaoh said to Moses, get away from me, I don't want to see your face anymore.

And then in verse 29, Moses said, you have spoken well, I'll never see your face. And then the next statement related to that is at the end of verse 8 of chapter 11, where it says, then he went out from Pharaoh in great anger. You see, so Pharaoh said to Moses, get out, you won't see my face again. And Moses said, you're right, I won't see your face again. You see that at the end of verse 29 in chapter 10. And then at the end of verse 8 in chapter 11, it says, then he, Moses, went out from Pharaoh in great anger.

So that section between 11 verse 1 through to 11 verse 8, just before what it says, then he went out. So from verse 1, which begins, and the Lord said to Moses, to the middle of verse 8, where it says, after that I'll go out. That section is like a section in parentheses.

It's in parentheses saying, this is what the Lord said to Moses, in fact, had said, because Moses knew about that. And therefore, Moses, most probably told these things to Pharaoh. And then Pharaoh got upset, and he says, get out, and then Moses left in great anger.

But part of what God had told Moses is in verse 4. And this is what Moses said, very probably to Pharaoh in that discussion. Verse says the Lord, about midnight, I will go out into the midst of Egypt, and all the first born in the land of Egypt shall die. So Moses warned Pharaoh this was going to happen, and this would happen at midnight. And you know, the rest of those few verses there, that the Israelites would be protected, but the Egyptians would die.

The Passover brethren is actually at midnight. The actual passing over is at midnight. Right? That's when the Lord passed over the Israelites' houses, not allowing the destroyer to destroy the people or the Israelites in the houses that had the blood. So let's go through that in little detail, because we are really trying to understand the day that this happened. Because it happened at midnight, so what day was it? Right. So let's go to Exodus 12, and we start in verse 3, and it says, speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, on the 10th of this month, so on the 10th, they were to put out a lamb, to set it aside a lamb, and they were to keep that lamb till the 14th.

Now, this is important you understand, you keep that lamb till the 14th, which means Yah is the 10th, Yah is the 11th, Yah is the 12th, Yah is the 13th, as soon as the 14th happened, they've kept it till the 14th. Right now, they need to act. What they need to do, as soon as the day begins.

That obviously makes sense. So, look at now the next one is verse 5. Exodus 12 verse 5. Your lamb shall be without blemish, so that lamb was without any blemish, symbolizing the Lord Christ, which is our lamb, which had no sin. Right? A male of the first year, you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. Now, this is an important point.

You take it from the sheep, but if you don't have a lamb, you could have a goat.

But it does not say you can take it from the amongst the cattle from a bull or a bullock. It's not a bull, not a bullock. And I think that is fairly logical. You can understand that very clearly. Why do I emphasize? Because I'm going to bring that point later when we look at Deuteronomy 16. But let's just leave it at that. It was not a bull from the herd. Right now, verse 6. And you shall keep it, keep that lamb, until the fourteenth of the same lamb. So, as soon as the fourteenth comes up, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. So, the whole assembly shall kill it at twilight. Now, twilight is when it starts getting darker, but it's not pitch dark around sunset time. And at that period, sunset, the fourteenth starts, it's twilight, and then the fourteenth starts.

What some people say is, well, the twilight was at the end of the fourteenth. Well, if it was at the end of the fourteenth, if it was the following night, then the killing and the blood to be put on the door, and the midnight would have to be on the fifteenth, right? If it was the following day, then the passover at midnight would have been on the fifteenth. But it was not the passover on the fifteenth, the passover is on the fourteenth. So, it had to be the twilight at the beginning of the day, not the twilight at the end of the day. It had to be the twilight at the beginning of the fourteenth, so that all the events that follow are still on the fourteenth, because the passover at midnight was on the fourteenth.

Okay, let's move on. Verse 7, And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses. So, they kill and they take the blood and put it on the doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.

Now, they were to kill the lamb around their houses or in their houses, around their houses, and if maybe it was a small family, maybe they would go to a relative and they would keep staying in that house. But the focus here is to be there and eat there and to stay in that house. And they were to stay in that house.

The focus again, and we're going to see the focus quite often here, is on the eating. The word eating comes up a number of times. Let's move on now in verse 8. And they shall eat the flesh on that night roasted in fire. Now, remember, what are you going to do? I mean, you've got to kill the lamb. You've got to drain the blood. You've got to skin it. And I mean, in the blood, you've got to put it on the door, you've got to skin it. Now you've got to roast it. It is important to understand that it was roasted.

The Hebrew word is sali, which means roasted. It's like a barbecue. It's not boiled or cooked. It's roasted. Important point. Why do I emphasize that? Because when you come back to Deuteronomy 16, they cooked it, boiled it, not roasted it.

So it's important to see, yeah, that it was roasted. So let's continue. And then it says they roasted in fire with unleavened bread, obviously symbolizing Christ, no sin. And we've put to herbs, but to herbs, because life in Egypt was bitter. And symbolically, our life to Christ comes. It's got a lot of trials, a lot of health issues, and it is difficult. It's not sweet. It's hard. And so there is a meaning there. And then it reads now, verse 9, it says, they're not eating raw nor boiled.

Don't boil it! Right? At all.

It's head with its legs and its entrails.

And it shall none of it remain until morning. And what remains until morning, it must burn with fire. So they had to eat it. They had to barbecue it.

And whatever they did not eat, they had to burn it. That means the bones had to burn. That head bone had to burn. That means that fire had to be pretty hot. To burn that, whatever was left over, there was nothing to be left over in the morning. They had to burn everything.

And so we see. They had a lot of things to do that evening. They had a lot of things to do that evening. Now let's read verse 11. Thus you shall eat it. Oh, again, the water eat, right? With a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. In other words, with a sense of urgency, it is the Lord's Passover. And we know you read Leviticus 23 verse 4. It says the Lord's Passover is on the 14th. No questions about it. Now let's jump a little bit forwards to verse 22, because now it kind of restates some of the facts, but with a little bit more detail. Exodus 12 verse 22. And it says, and you shall take a bunch of hyssop, the petite and the blood, in the basin, and the two-door posts with the blood. Okay, so it's restated with a little bit more detail. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning. Now, there are a lot of things to do. At the beginning of the evening, they are to kill it. They are to skin it, drain the blood, skin it. They are to eat it in the sense of urgency. At midnight, as you'll see just now, shortly, we're going to read again, that at midnight, that's when the Lord passed over the houses that had the blood. And then, whatever was left, they had to burn everything. And they were not, they were not to leave their homes until the morning. None of you shall go out of the house, out of his house, until morning.

That's a strict instruction there. And again, we see the emphasis here that they had to stay in house. Now, let's move on. Verse 23. For the Lord shall pass through... You see the passing, the passing over, passing through to strike the Egyptians. And when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the door of the house, the Lord will pass over the house that has the blood, and not allow the destroyer.

So that's probably why people sometimes call it the death angel, or whatever it was, the destroyer. Well, they're not allowed the destroyer. Okay. Now, let's move on. That's why people sometimes call it the death angel, or whatever it was, the destroyer. Well, they're not allowed the destroyer. Okay. Where am I? Verse 23. To come into your houses to strike you. Now, look at verse 24 through verse 27. It brings here now an importance of keeping the ceremony annually for your children's psych as a lesson for your children. And it says in verse 24, And you shall observe this thing. Well, it's not talking about a burnt offering. I mean, in the end, to eat it's not talking about a burnt offering. You shall observe this thing, this ceremony as an ordinance for you and your sons forever. It'll come to pass when you come to the land which the Lord will give you, just as He promised. Then you shall keep this service. So it's a service. It's a ceremony that they're going to do. They're going to eat, which has got a lot of symbolism behind it. And it shall be when your children say to you, what do you mean by this service? Then you shall say it is the possible sacrifice of the Lord who passed over the houses of the children of Israel. And as we know, and we're going to see in a short while at midnight, passed over at midnight, and houses children of Israel in Egypt, when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our hassles. And then look at verse 28. Now, verse, when you read the story of the Israelites, what keeps in your mind a bunch of stubborn, disobedient people. Isn't that?

When you read the story of the Israelites, time and time again, you see these people just disobeyed God, disobeyed God, and they were part of the people of the First Suity Na, and then the children of Israel went away and did their job. In other words, do you think they left their houses before the morning? No! No! They did so! This is the miracle of miracles! They obeyed! It's one of the rare occasions they actually obeyed.

They were pretty scared at that moment. They did so just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. And so what do we have?

Let's look at verse 29. And it came to pass at midnight, at midnight, the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt. The actual time of the passing over over the houses of the Israelites was at midnight, because at midnight was when that destroyer went out, and the Lord passed over the houses of the Israelites that had the blood, and did not allow them to die. So the pass over was at midnight.

That is the meaning of pass over at midnight.

And then look at verse 33 through verse 37. And it says, and the Egyptians urged the people, hey, get out! Okay, and they didn't get out. They said, now don't get out in the morning. So yeah, maybe they told them in the morning, but they didn't. Because we saw they did so in verse 28. So they waited till morning. And it says, and the people took their dough, verse 34. And verse 35, they spoiled the Egyptians. And then look at verse 37, because verse 37 says that when they left, or rather, how many they were when they left. Because in verse 37 says, there were 600,000 men on foot. Now, just do a little bit of maths. 600,000 men. So I could probably guess there'll be 600,000 women about. Okay, so that's 1.2 million people, adults, men and women. How many children? Now, assume there were two children per family, per couple, assume, okay, fair and more. So you are talking about what? Another? You know, 1.2 million. So we're talking about 2.4 million. The next multitude that went with them. So how many people were there? Probably maybe, somewhere, to be conservative between 2 million and to be maybe a little bit more realistic, 3 million. Now, you know how difficult it is to get 100 brethren together to move.

Not to get 3 million. It must have been quite a challenge. But they were prepared, they were organized, they all went into their tribes, into their groups, if they owned flags for each group, etc., and they left. But when did they actually start leaving Egypt? Because it says they left from Rameses, yeah, where they were basically there in that town. So they left from that area. So when did they actually start leaving? Remember, the 14th at night, they had a lot to do. They could not leave until the morning. They had to get themselves, they had to spoil the Egyptians, or maybe they already spoiled part of them, but they had to get themselves into little catavans and little sheep and whatever it is, and the little children and the mother's breastfeeding and all the other things, get them together to slowly move. So to get this together, it surely took a little time. So when did they actually leave? A very good scripture to go to see when they actually left. So I'm asking you to keep tabs here on Exodus, because we can come back to it, but now I'm asking you to turn to Numbers 33 verse 3. Very easy to remember. 33 verse 3. 3 3 3, right? So Numbers 33 verse 3. And Numbers 33 says, and they departed from Rameses in the first month on the 15th. So when did they leave Rameses, which is when did they start the, let's call it, the truck, the truck out of that town on the 15th of the first month? So if they left on the 15th, the day of the Passover was the 14th. Simple maths.

The day after the Passover. So they left on the 15th.

And they went out of baldness in the sight of the Egyptians. They were encouraged, we're leaving and the Egyptians were there and seeing them going.

Now let's go back to Exodus chapter 12.

In Exodus chapter 12 verse 42, we say, it is a of solemn observance to the Lord for bringing them out of the land of Ibtut. So they left on the 15th at night, which is what we call a night of solemn observance, or as we call it, a night to be much observed.

The beginning of the 15th.

Very simple. And when you put the facts and analyze them carefully, the Passover was on the 14th. The killing of the lamb was at the beginning of that 14th, which is a twilight when sun was setting, start getting dark. Then they did all those things at midnight, still on the 14th. The actual passing over occurred. They were not to leave their homes until the morning. The day portion of the 14th, they got three million people together, women, children, baby, cots, whatever they had, and the sheep, and all the goods and jewelry, everything into their caravans, you can imagine. And they went out in the tribes, well organized. Surely, in just 12 hours to do all that, I find it amazing. I find it amazing. Three million people organized to move in that short period of time. It is amazing. But they did it because they did it in haste. They had a sense of urgency, and they got going. So, therefore, the Passover lamb was killed the previous night, the 14th, because they left on the night to be much observed on the 15th, as we saw clearly comparing Exodus 12 42 with Numbers 33 verse 3.

Right. So now, let's look at Numbers 28. Keep still a marker on Exodus. Let's look at Numbers 28. Numbers 28 verse 16. Numbers 28. The reason I go to the scripture is because normally, when we talk about the Passover on the 14th, we look at Leviticus 23 verse 4. But look at Numbers 28 verse 16. On the 14th day of the first month is the Passover of the Lord. I think it's so clear. It's black and white.

And on the 15th of this month is the feast. It starts on the 15th, feast of 11 bread.

And as you do that, you eat 11 bread for seven days.

And as you do offerings, like you see in verse 19, you do special offerings on the beginning of the 15th. You do special offerings. In verse 19, you shall present an offering made by fire as a burnt offering to the Lord, to young bulls, one ram and seven lambs of the first year. So there was a burnt offering with other offerings, sweet-smelling offerings and others. So it was a combination.

So, scripture is absolutely clear from the Old Testament that the Passover is on the 14th. If the killing of the Passover lamb in Exodus 12 would have been late in afternoon of the 14th, shortly before the 15th, then the Passover going over the houses would have to be at midnight of the 15th. So the Passover would have not been on the 14th. You see, it's very clear. It's very plain. So the Bible is explicit that the Passover is on the 14th, and it starts at the beginning of the day, the way God looks at it, which is at sunset, when there is that twilight. It's not dark yet, but sunset. That's when it starts.

Now, some questions, some people may now say, all right, Exodus 12, clear. But people may ask now questions about Deuteronomy 16. It is important for us to look at Deuteronomy 16.

We're going to look at Deuteronomy 16, and we need to look at it attentively and carefully, because this is one of the, let's call it, trip or stumbling blocks, scripture area, that people have. And so it is important to look at it carefully. But before we go to Deuteronomy 16, let's look at an instruction in Deuteronomy 12.

So let's start by looking at Deuteronomy 12. In Deuteronomy 12, verse 13 and 14, Deuteronomy 12, verse 13 and 14, says, take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see. Be careful. You're not allowed to do burnt offerings in every place that you see.

But, verse 14, in the place which the Lord chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you. And so you know that later, at the time of David and then also at the time of Solomon thereafter, was where the temple was built. And that was in the area of the tribe of Judah, in the area of the Temple Mount, where today is an area of serious debate, not to talk about the red ifa and the red cows and all that stuff. I'm not going into that, but it was in that area that God then says, that's where you do your burnt offerings. And you know from Leviticus, between Leviticus 1 to Leviticus 5, talks about five types of offerings. The first three are sweet smelling, the first one being a burnt offering, which means you burn the whole thing in that bull or cow. You burn the whole thing, it's completely burnt, and then you've got others where the people are to eat. But those type of sacrifices or offerings are to be done in the place where the Lord chooses, not all over the place, not over the countryside. All right, now let's look at Deuteronomy 16. Deuteronomy 16. We're going to start with verse 2. Deuteronomy 16 verse 2. It says, therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God from the flock and the herd.

From the flock and the herd. The herd means it's a bull or a cow or a bullock from the flock and herd. It's not just a lamb. And so we have here a colloquialism that people started calling it a Passover, but it was a dien or a Passover at the beginning of the day of an even bread at that time, and it's a colloquialism they start calling it. Even today the Jews call the 15th the Passover. That colloquialism stuck, but let's look at it in more detail. We looked, so keep your tabs on Deuteronomy 16. Let's go back to Numbers 28. We were reading Numbers 28 a little while ago. Numbers 28, and you remember we quoted Numbers 28 verse 16. It says on the 14th day or the first month is the Passover.

Verse 17, then it says on the 15th day is the feast. And then verse 18, on the first day you shall have a holy convocation. Shall do no customary work. So it's actually talking about the first day of a living bread, right? And then look at verse 19, and you shall present an offering made by fire as a burnt offering to the Lord, two young bulls, one ram, seven bulls, and the first year, be sure they are without blemish. So at the beginning of the 15th, so at the end of the 14th, they were to now offer this sacrifice, which it appears it then became called the Passover sacrifice. But it was not at the beginning of the 14th, it was at the end of the 14th, and now they were offering it because the eyes says it's got bulls, two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs. And so it is from your, as it says in Deuteronomy 16 verse 2, it's from the flock and the herd.

But how do we prove that? Well, the next one to prove that. The first one is in 16 verse 2, is not just lamb, it was from the herd, which included a bull. But the second one is Deuteronomy 16 verse 7. Deuteronomy 16 verse 7, it's very interesting, and you can be thrown out because of the New King James Version translation. Deuteronomy 16 verse 7, it says, and you shall roast and eat it in a place which the Lord your God chooses.

But you know, or did you know, that that word, which is translated as roast in the New King James, is a different word, is bashal. And the word bashal, Hebrews 1310, means to boil or to cook.

If you look at a Dabi, which is a literal translation, or if you look at YHAN's literal translation, or if you look at the English Standard Version, it says, cook it. You see, but the parselvah was to be roasted, which is the Hebrew word H6748, Sali. But this is bashal, was boiled. And we know the parselvah was not to be boiled, was to be roasted. Parselvah was to be roasted in fire. And so now we have, number one, this offering here, in Deuteronomy 16, included both from the field, from as we see in verse 2, it was from the herd as well, not just from the flock. Number two, we see was boiled, the proper translation for the word bashal is boiled or cooked.

And then, and let's read in verse 6. In verse 6, at the end of verse 6, so Deuteronomy 16, so Deuteronomy says, you shall sacrifice the parselvah in the evening. The King James Version says evening. The New King James Version says twilight. So at the end of the sun, you came out of Egypt. When did you come out of Egypt? On the 15th. So this was a sacrifice at the end of the 14th, which included lambs, but also included bowls. And the food, part of it was a burnt offering, but part of it wasn't. The food component was to be boiled, not roasted. So, and it says, yeah, it is at the end of the 14th because it's when, at the time, when you came out of Egypt, which is at the beginning of the 15th.

So we have here a sacrifice that is actually not talking about the parselvah lamb, but it's talking about a sacrifice at the end of the 14th, at the beginning of the days of leavened bread. In fact, when you look at Deuteronomy 16, Deuteronomy 16, you quite often go to Deuteronomy 16, 16, three times a year, right? And it's basically talking about those three times, unleavened bread, Pentecost, and the fall seasons, that you'll come three times a year, three seasons a year. And so Deuteronomy 16 is actually talking about those three main seasons, unleavened bread, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles around that time when you come to the Lord, and you don't come empty-ended. So we have seen that Exodus 12 is very clear, Exodus 12 is very clear that the parcel of the raison did, the 14th, at the beginning of the 14th. We see that Deuteronomy 16 is talking about a different sacrifice, which had to be done at the temple because he included a burnt offering. Burnt offerings had to be done at the place where the Lord chose. And now let's look at what did Jesus Christ do. What did Christ do? And what Christ did, we can look at it in Luke chapter 22. Luke chapter 22. Luke chapter 22. And let's start reading in verse 8. And he went, Saint Peter and John, saying, It didn't say to Peter and John, God's offering. It said, going, prepare the parcel, which is the meal that they had to do. The Jews call that today a seder, a meal that they had to do with lamb.

For us, that we may eat. Again, the focus is on eating that parcel. And look at verse 11. Then you shall say to the master of the house, you know, and they went and you know the story, so I'm not reading every detail. And he says, the teacher says to you, where is the guest room? Where I'm at, the focus is on eating the parcel with my disciples. So it was eating it at a house.

And then you read also in verse 15, when Christ said, Christ said when he was having the actual Passover, he said, with fervent desire, I am going to eat the Passover with you before I suffer. And so we know that he had the Passover meal, then he changed the symbols from the Old Testament Passover meal to the New Testament, the New Covenant symbols, because he said, I won't eat anymore to the kingdom. So that is stopped. Now we got the New Covenant symbols. Then as part of that, included the fruit washing, the bread and wine. Then we know he gave a lecture. Then we know he went out and he prayed for three times and then and the disciples fell asleep. You know that part of the story. Then you know that he was betrayed by Judas. And then he suffered. That was the night. But it's still on the 14th. And then he was taken before Pilate and and the the Sanhedrin leaders, etc. He was falsely accused. He was crucified and he ended up dying at round about 3 p.m. Still on the 14th.

Still on the 14th. But Christ said, I desire to eat this Passover. It was doing it a day before. He was doing the Passover, this Passover. But look at verse 14.

Look 22 verse 14. When the hour had come.

It was not just that that was the hour had come. It was at the right time. And so if we are remembering the Lord's body, well, if you're discerning the Lord's body, we better discern it.

Because if we discern it on the right, on the wrong day, and at the right time, we could, I think, be doing it in an unworthy manner.

And so it was at the right hour. So what did Christ do? Christ kept the Passover on the right day exactly at the right time. It was done in Exodus 12 at the anniversary, the same day, the same hour.

So we've seen the Old Testament. We've seen Christ's example. And let's see Paul's instruction to the church, which is what I started reading at the beginning of the sermon in 1 Corinthians 11, verse 23. So let's go back to that 1 Corinthians 11, verse 23. For I received from the Lord that which I delivered to you. When did Paul receive it from the Lord?

You see, he wasn't going around with the disciples when Christ was living. In fact, you and I know that after Christ died, he tried to kill Christians.

And you know that then he was struck blind. And then he was conversed. And when you read Galatians 12, verse 23, that he had, and Paul himself says, I don't know how, but he had an interaction with Christ.

And the Lord instructed him directly because Paul says, I was not taught by man. I was told by the Lord himself. And so the Lord instructed him after he had died, after he had resurrected, in fact, a decaligous resurrection, crying to Paul. And Paul is now instructing us, the Church, to say, for I received from the Lord, which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the same night he was betrayed. And we looked at Luke 22. It was not just the same night, it was the same hour.

And he did that before he was betrayed. And so that, Paul's silver, is not after he had died, was before he died. You see, some of you may not take the Paul silver before he died because the Paul silver ceremony symbolizes Christ's death. You see, brethren, the Paul silver ceremony has got three symbols, not just one. You see, the blood, yes, symbolizes Christ's death. But before the blood, which is the wine, you have the foot washing, which represents service and sacrifice.

You have the bread, which represents suffering for our healing. And Christ suffered for our healing. And thirdly, he then died for the remission of our sins. So the Paul silver ceremony is a memory after his death. And if we're going to do it after he died, no, Christ told us, yeah, in 1 Corinthians 11 verse 23, to do like he did, which is on the same night in which he was betrayed. That is when Christ threw Paul after Christ had resurrected and been in heaven for maybe a decade, the father. Brethren, the Paul silver ceremony is not after his death because he died about three o'clock in afternoon. So we don't do the Paul silver ceremony after his death on the 15th because it was on the night that he was betrayed at the Paul silver. So it's before his death. And you know, in Hebrews 13 verse 8, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And you and I know from John 1 verse 29 that when John the Baptist saw Christ to baptize him, he says, yeah, he is the Lamb of God. You see, the Paul silver's three symbols point to Christ's service for washing, to his suffering, the bread, and to his death, the wine. Brethren, we need to discern his body, physically speaking, carefully. And physically speaking, one of the ways to discern his body correctly is do it on the day that is the anniversary of these events. Yes, spiritually, the body, as the Church of God, we also have to discern how we treat one another, but physically, we need to remember the Paul silver is on the 14th and not on the 15th.