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Luke 22:7-16: Wonderful, very wonderful event 7 Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed. 8 And JESUS sent Peter and John, saying, Go and PREPARE us the PASSOVER, THAT WE MAY EAT. 9 And they said unto JESUS, Where wilt thou that we prepare? 10 And JESUS said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in. 11 And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples? 12 And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready. 13 And they went, and found as JESUS had said unto them: and they made ready the passover. 14 And when the hour was come, JESUS sat down, and the twelve apostles with Him. 15 And JESUS said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: 16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, UNTIL IT BE FULFILLED IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.->Matthew 25:6 combined with Revelation 11:15-18, take a look. Be prepared or else get ready. May our Lord GOD bless and keep us, and give us His protection Amen Happy Easter for all my brothers in Christ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unAarn9nIFQ

After Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Nisan 10, there were certain Greeks who came to worship at the Feast of Passover. They had heard of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead and wished to see Jesus. Jesus answered them and said, “The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified. Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.  He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.  If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor” (John 12:23-26). Jesus had to die so that others like him (those who serve the LORD) could live again and have eternal life. He was the seed that was placed in the ground and rose from death with a glorious body made for eternity. "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept" (1 Corinthians 15:20). His death and subsequent resurrection have produced much grain. The watering of this crop by the Holy Spirit and the word of God has produced a bountiful harvest of souls. Our job, like farmers who grow crops, is merely to plant the seed (the word of God). God will make sure it gets plenty of water (the Holy spirit). He will also supply the light (of illumination) necessary for growth. “For indeed Christ, our Passover Lamb, was sacrificed for us” (1 Corinthians 5:7). Indeed, Jesus was crucified on Nisan 14, the very day of the Feast of Passover. Then for the seven days that followed Passover, the Israelites ate bread without yeast in celebration of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and in fact, went to great lengths to rid their homes of any trace of leaven. Leven represents sin in the Bible. That is why the Feast of First Fruits cannot occur outside of the seven days of Unleavened Bread. There is to be no representation of sin during this Holy week (eight days counting Passover) when Jesus was crucified and resurrected. If the Feast of First Fruits occurred outside of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, then leaven, symbolic of sin, would be allowed, and thus the first fruits, symbolic of Jesus’ resurrection, would be corrupted. This Feast of Unleavened Bread symbolizes a promise that the sin of man, represented by the leaven, would be completely taken away. The Lord’s death fulfilled this one as well, for He’s the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29). And take it away He did, as far as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:12). The ultimate fulfillment of the Feast of Unleavened Bread will be after the Millennium when God creates a new heaven and earth after 7000 years of the original creation. After 7000 years (seven days for the LORD), no trace of sin will be found in heaven or earth.

Before the beginning of creation, there was God. It's hard for our finite human minds to comprehend, but God has always existed and always will. Some time (we don't know how long) before God created the universe, He created the angels.  Job 38:7 says they were there at creation. "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"  God (Elohim in Hebrew) consists of three distinct eternal Persons, or centers of consciousness. In the first three verses in the Bible, we see the plurality of God with the three Persons or manifestations of God: God the Father, God the Son (also known as the Word), and God the Holy Spirit. “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light” (Genesis 1:1-3). God, the Father, is mentioned in the first verse. God, the Spirit, is mentioned in the second verse, and God, the Son, is mentioned in the third verse.  Although not fully revealed in Genesis 1:3, when God said, "Let there be light," it is as "the Word," the second Person of the Trinity. The Word uttered these four words, and there was light. He then divided the light from the darkness, and the first day of creation began. In John 1, we see the progressive revelation of God's word regarding the Creator. We know from John 1:1-5 and verses 14-17 that the "Word" (Λόγοςis or Logos in Greek) is the second Person of the Trinity, the pre-incarnate Jesus Christ. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ" (John 1:1-5,14,17-KJV). John 1:1-3 is not the only scripture that speaks of the Word's work at creation. The sub-heading of Proverbs 8 is called "The Blessing of Wisdom." Proverbs 8:22-30 tells of the Lord Jesus' existence before (and during) the Creation, which is confirmed in Micah 5:2. "The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was" (Psalm 8:22-23 - KJV). The LORD (Yahweh) is the pre-incarnate Jesus Christ, the Word, and the "me" (and "I") is "wisdom." Proverbs 8:22-26 speaks of the time before creation, and verses 27-31 speak of the LORD's work at creation. These verses speak of wisdom as if it were a companion or witness of the LORD; however, it is Jesus Himself who is the embodiment of wisdom. "For he who finds me finds life and obtains favor from Yahweh" (Proverbs 8:35). It is not merely wisdom that finds eternal life, but wisdom in knowing Jesus Christ as Lord and savior that brings eternal life. Some scholars believe the phrase, "in the beginning," of John 1:1 matches "the beginning" of Proverbs 8:22-23 and refers to pre-creation, and John 1:2-3 matches Proverbs 8:27-31 (and Genesis 1:1-3) and refers to creation. John 17:5 is another scripture that refers to the pre-incarnate Jesus, the Word, before creation. "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was."