“We… are one bread…” (1 Cor. 10:17).
The Feast of Passover on the 14th day of the first Biblical month, and the weeklong Feast of UNleavened Bread from the 15th day to the 21st day –with its two annual Sabbaths on the first and last day— these two Feasts are well known but poorly honored.
In most cases, Christians only honor these holy times as inefficacious relics and artifacts of a dead dispensation long past, now replaced by the transubstantiated “sacrifice of the Mass,” “Eucharist,” “communion,” “Lord’s Supper,” etc, or they honor them as dematerialized allegories that offer us different lessons that can be applied to modern life.
In solidarity with the Sabbatarian Waldenses (who suffered much cruelty from Roman Brothelicism) and noble Mrs. Traske (that suffered the pains of persecution by Catholic-lite Anglicans with pious perseverance), in solidarity with them both, who both rejected all Feasts that are imposed without Biblical sanction, I reject the idea of the “Mass” or “Eucharist” as a replacement or update of the Passover. I believe in keeping the Mosaic date of Passover; I reject Nicea’s apostasy from it. I also reject the Byzantine heresy that presumes to damn men to hell if they obey God’s Law that requires the Lord’s Last Passover Supper to be celebrated with unleavened bread. In short, I believe in keeping the Biblical Feasts the way the prophets, Christ, and the Apostles would have, as literally as possible.
However, a slight paradox must be understood: the material substances of the Feasts are only shadows of the substantial Spirituality of the Feasts. The literal, external, material, temporal elements of the Feasts are symbolic types and shadows of the nature of God’s character, and the saving work that flows from His character: the internal, emotional, mentally transforming work of God’s Spirit, the whole-person-sanctifying work of God’s Spirit. Truly, just as faith without works is dead like a body without a soul is dead, likewise, the external, material, literal, temporal times and elements of the Feasts are dead if they’re not accompanied by an observance of the Spiritual substance of the Feasts. In Christ, the Spirit and flesh were one without measure. Therefore, those who are in Christ do not view the material shadow and the spiritual substance as adverse opposites, as if matter is evil. Rather, those who are in Christ know that even shadows become alive with Spiritual power, as was the case with Peter’s healing shadow (Acts 5:15,16). In Christ, “all things are made new, and all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ” (2 Cor. 5:17,18). In Christ, material is spiritualized and the Spirit materialized. As it is written: “The word became flesh” (Jn. 1:14). It is for this reason we read that the Lord will destroy those who defile their physical body, for it is the Temple of His Spirit (1 Cor. 3:16,17). Indeed, this is the sole reason souls go to hell: they do not deal with material in a spiritual way; their material and the spiritual are not integrated but compartmentalized; God’s Spirit is cordoned off from their material existence. When the Spirit of Christ is fenced off, blocked, isolated, segregated, blockaded, from the center of our lives, and the matters of our life are quarantined from God as if His Spirit were a disease, then surely we have swallowed a medicine more deadly than the disease. “Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Cor. 10:31).
The Spirit of the Law must take precedence over the letter of the Law. If the Spirit of the Law isn’t equitably applied then the letter of the Law may prove to cause more trouble than it solves.
Now, as to the Spirit of the Feasts of Passover and Unleavened Bread:
I. COMPANY
The word company is commonly understood to mean a collection, association, or union, of workers who work together to earn their daily bread.
Technically, the word company comes from a Latin compound: com (with) + panis (bread). It refers to those who eat bread together.
Bread is commonly used as a metaphor, to refer to necessary things. When we pray for “daily bread,” we don’t only mean a wheat product. We mean the essentials of life. In this sense, men refer to money as bread since it is the necessary means of exchange in society; and, above all, it is in this sense that Christ calls Himself the “bread of life” (Jn. 6:35,63), because He is absolutely necessary for anyone who wants to sustain their life for eternity.
Civil government has long been considered necessary for preserving the state of civilization. A static sense of regulated behavior is necessary to maintain a state of civilization. If people can’t reliably sense from day to day that the essentials of life are being cultivated in their culture, and the diminishing powers of misbehavior guarded against, then their culture is uncivilized; and that uncivilized culture shows symptoms of a ruling death cult at its core. The basis of civilizational stasis is a common Christianity, a common language, fixed habitations bounded by property lines, cultivated agriculture, and domesticated animals. Such a state of civilization makes its citizens a strong, proper, healthy company. Their religion, language, territory, and goods, are the daily bread they share. In their exchange one with another, based around the same highest ideals, they become one with each other.
Sadly, our political constitution has formed a national company made up of religiously diverse, contrary, adversarial people, with different religions and languages. We are bound together with bad company, and “do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good character” (1 Cor. 15:33). The highest ideals of the people, people as diverse as iron and clay, disagree on the deepest levels. “Can two walk together without agreeing where to go?” (Amos 3:3)? America’s constitution of leviathan pluralism has unequally yoked together in one national company both light and darkness, Belial and the Lord. Surely, the words of the king Messiah stand true: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand” (Matt. 12:25). The post-Puritan, post- Confederacy, constitutional Freemasons injected an aggressive leaven of “tolerant pluralism” into the dough of the nation. America’s Freemasonic constitution yokes together in one company the Church who loves Christ as God incarnate with the pseudo synagogue that hates Christ and blasphemes Him as a damned whoreson, with the mosque that offers some diminished honor to Christ as a prophet who didn’t die or rise, with Hindu pantheism, with the atheistic Buddhists, Darwinists, and Marxists, with animist shamans, with every cult of every kind, with white witches, with black magicians, with Satanists of the lowest sort.
II. LEAVEN
As we see in 1 Cor. 10:17, Apostle Paul referred to Apostolic Judaism as he knew it, the Church, the totality of all believers, he referred to us as one loaf of bread. We all partake of each other’s gifts and abilities. We are one company with one ultimate means of salvation with one heaven to hope for; but we should hope so passionately for the next world that we can’t help but strive for its manifestation in this world. We should pray not just for “daily bread” but for God’s kingdom to come and God’s will to be “done on earth as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6:10). That kingdom is more than a matter of bread: it is a matter of “righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit” (Rom.14:17). Let us strive with narrowed attention to that end!
That end foreshadows the end of every counter-kingdom. It spells the end of all the tyranny of the void darkness of nothingness. Therefore, the children of light who find themselves yoked to darkness have a duty to illuminate or expell that darkness. Idolatry is the keynote of heathen darkness. In Hebrew, the word for idol (אֱלִיל) means “nothing.” Idols are nothings. In a loaf of bread, leaven produces inflated pockets of nothingness, emptiness, spots void of life-giving substance. There is an idolatrous impulse in the heart of fallen men that injects vanity into whatever they do. The unregenerate heart is an idol factory. It is ever puffed up, swollen big with emptiness, making much of nothing, or making nothing of much. As it is in the moral economy of man, so it is in the financial economy, but wealth is no proof of virtue and poverty is no proof of sin. “All have sinned fallen short of God’s glory” (Rom. 3:23).
Among fallen men, some have fallen further than others. The poor, weak, and unlearned, can be ignorant idolaters with vain folk customs based on irrational superstitious fear of natural things they don’t understand. Also, it’s possible they suffer from fears and engage in rites to relieve those fears which were truly provoked and provided by demons, but the wretched rarely influence the land as much as kings, presidents, governors, those in authority, or the standing constitution itself. The Good News is that God is willing to save wretches, royalty, and rulers of republics.
III. PURGING OUT LEAVEN
Lostness is always the worst “leaven” in any national company. It reduces cosmos to chaos, and disorientation spreads like entropic heat in every direction— diffused, dissipated, and useless. He that converts a sinner to the discipline of Christ purges out this worst of leavens. The Gospel is the purging power of God.
Let us pray for lost souls of every condition —rich, poor, free, bound. Let us pray for God’s help in leading souls to Him, the Savior.
Thankfully, God saves men and nations by knowledge of the Truth. Truly, His people perish for a lack of knowledge (Hos. 4:6); and if the widespread leaven of damnable vanity is to be purged from a land then God might use the king or president to do it, as was the case with David, Hezekiah, and Josiah. If so, the ruler will have to learn the central Truth that there is one mediator between God and man. The mediator between God and men is not the king, even if his scribes and priests tell him he is a demi-god; and the king must do more than shepherd the wind.
If the leader aims to save his own soul and best serve his nation then he must know that Christ is the only mediator between God and men, and he must seek Christ (1 Tim. 2:1-8). He must intercede in prayer to Christ the mediator. He must call on Christ to fill every void in the heart of the nation. If the king doesn’t want to un-king himself and risk the ruin of his reign, he must not allow men to inflate him as a god with the leaven of their flattery, or pump nothingness through the media. He must cast down wandering stars whose fame for vain causes conjures idolatrous awe in the people. His success must not be valued in quantities of accumulated silver and gold, for these are often merely graven nothings, things without value. Gold can’t work the land. Gold can’t make men love to work or stretch forth living hands to produce works of love. No. Gold itself must be worked up from the land, but it can be put to work in truly good deeds done in love.
The Prophet-Poet King David:
An Educator’s Heart
King David knew the Law of Yah is worth more than all the gold in the world, and he treasured the Torah in his heart. God loved king David for pursuing His heart. David loved of worship God and pray. King David set God’s Laws to music, praised God’s Law in songs. In song, he lamented the problems bred by lawless men and glorified God’s Law as the solution to those problems. The Law of God was the continual meditation of David’s music. King David was a physical and spiritual guardian, a soldier and artful spiritual teacher. His songs were a seminary for the sons of Israel: and in this David was a man after God’s own heart, for God’s heart desires that human hearts will learn to love Him and His holy ways.
If a political leader aims to lead like David then he must lead his people to worship, but not worship of a pluralistic nondescript deity, not the natural man’s God of Nature, not the “God of Nature” of the darkly enlightened constitutional-era freemasons who wickedly attempted to equally yoke together unequal religions in one national company. A leader worth having will lead the people to worship the crucified Christ who was risen according to the Gospel, who enforced every jot and tittle of the Law. That’s what David did.
Graduation:
The Ascent of Worship
King David wrote 15 songs of ascent. They were sung during the upward trek of the pilgrimage feasts, as the people walked the road up to the Jerusalem Temple. In David’s day, he personally showed his people how to worship in song, dance, bowing, and shouting; but David went further. He launched a worship mission among the heathen, not militant but ministerial. He personally vowed to “give thanks unto” the “LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto [His] name” (Psalm 18:49). David commissioned his student subjects to join him in the mission, commanding them to “Declare [God’s] glory among the heathen, His wonders among all people” (Psalm 96:1-3).
The gospel as David sang it, was to directed at the high and low, kings and the lowly. He didn’t keep the poor ignorant and reserve knowledge of the Truth like some secret gnostic mystery. He cried out for the gates of knowledge to be lifted wide open: “Open up, ancient gates! Open up, ancient doors, and let the King of glory enter” (Psalm 24:9). David urged the whole world to repent and be saved. As it is written in Psalm 138: 4-6,
4 Let all the kings of the earth give thanks to you, O Lord,
when they hear the words you speak.
5 Let them sing about the Lord’s deeds,
for the Lord’s splendor is magnificent.
6 Though the Lord is exalted,
He takes note of the lowly,
and recognizes the proud from far away.
About 300 years later, Isaiah the prophet wrote about the same mountain. He saw the mountain during the Messiah’s thousand year reign on earth and the eternity beyond the millennial reign, when heaven will be fixed unmovable on the newly glorified earth that will be inhabited by glorified believers, all immortalized.
Isaiah saw and spoke, saying:
2:2 “It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, 3 and many peoples shall come, and say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that He may teach us His ways and that we may walk in his paths.’ For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem…. 5 O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!”
On this mountain “The LORD your God…will rejoice over you with singing” (Zeph. 3:17).
No Leader is more perfect than God, and His heart shall overflow with musical instruction. He will drive the leaven of ignorance out of His people with instructive teaching and singing. King David confirmed himself to God’s heart in this way. Again, let us pray for leaders with that same heart and Spirit.
Returning to Isaiah, he saw into future eternity and spoke, saying:
25:6 On this mountain… [the mountain filled with didactic worship, instructive song] 7 [Yah] will swallow up the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations; 8 He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people, from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken. 9 And in that day it will be said, “Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited. Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation [בִּישׁוּעָתֽוֹ].”
Yet, Isaiah revealed in the same chapter why, in the latter days, those of Israel who were called to be His people will be purged from the company of His people like leaven during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Isaiah saw and spoke, saying:
2:6 You have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. 7 Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots. 8 Their land is filled with idols.”
Even up to the edge of Armageddon, Israel will be addicted to witchcraft. God faults the apostates for their tolerant religious pluralism by which they “strike hands with the children of foreigners.” Surely, it isn’t their foreignness which is criminal but their “eastern ways,” and the “eastern ways” are only despised because they are full of occultism, witchcraft, the energy and art of demons. The prophet Isaiah affirms that the practitioners of “Eastern ways” have won gold, great riches, wild wealth thereby, but it is much nothingness in The End and will not profit. Rather, the terror of the Lord shall shall purged them like leaven from the company of the earth, but not before they themselves cast all their horded treasures away to vermin…. their fitting heirs.
2:12 “The Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;… 17 And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day. 18 And the idols shall utterly pass away. 20 In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats, 21 to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.“
Lord, have mercy on us poor, blind, miserable, naked wretches! Touch our eyes with salve. Help us see how deeply we need you! Keep us from the hour of ruin, or strengthen us to endure it.
Now, with this in view, it should be clear that we must give ourselves to continual fervent pray. Let us faithfully lift our hands and hearts to pray, ask, seek, knock, and keep praying, that the Holy Spirit will illuminate the minds of our leaders so that they will have the strength of character to refuse to give or take bribes to curse the deaf, or set trip wires before the blind, or oppress with exploitive taxes, or condemn the innocent, or reward the wicked, and generally lead their nation into a ditch. Let us pray they will learn to imitate king David and slay the giant troubles of the day.
Apostle Paul:
Conqueror by Appeal
&
Nero
The Animal of Tragic Political Theater
Apostle Paul knew who and what the Giants cyclops of his day was.
Apostle Paul explicitly tells us Christ is our Passover lamb and he tells us to keep the Passover with unleavened bread ( 1 Cor. 5:7,8), and he does so as a preacher should: he interprets and applies the term “leaven” as sin, because that’s what it is in the context of Passover, contrary to the Byzantines who foolishly superimpose over Passover a parable that uses leaven in the opposite sense. On that note, purge out from your hearts the leaven of the Byzantine Pharisees if the grain has taken hold. Now, consider Apostle Pauls dealings with a source of many woeful sins and much suffering: emperor Nero.
Now, in the company of Rome, Nero was a knight of nothingness and vanity. He would not be reformed. He would not renounce the darkness for light. Apostle Paul knew it was his own duty to at least try to cast down the strength of the confidence of the demonic principalities that energized the ruling prince.
When persecuted by Jews, Apostle Paul appealed to Nero Caesar. He was shackled to the very stronghold of imperial darkness. While there, Apostle Paul was empowered by his chains to freely evangelize the entire body guard of Nero (Phil. 1:13). Apostle Paul converted some of Nero’s body guard to Christ. We know this from his ending salutation in Philippians 4:22— “All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar’s household.”
History tells us that Nero, like leaven, was purged from the loaf of the Roman company by his own body guard when they abandoned him to his death in 68 AD, 4 years after Nero killed their brother Paul (Tacitus, Histories, 1.4–1.5). Cassius Dio’s (c. 165–235 AD) Roman History (63.27) says:
“Being abandoned by all without exception he [Nero] began forming plans to kill the senators, burn the city to the ground, and sail to Alexandria. He dropped this hint in regard to his future course: ‘Even though we be driven from our empire, yet this little artistic gift of ours shall support us there.’ …
He was on the point of putting those measures into effect when the senate first withdrew the guard that surrounded Nero, then entered the camp, and declared Nero an enemy but chose Galba in his place as emperor.
But when he perceived that he had been deserted also by his body-guards (he happened to be asleep in some garden), he undertook to make his escape [after which he sent himself to hell with one final act of murder for which no man can repent afterward, self-murder].”
Apostle Paul taught that legitimate authorities exist to terrorize evil doers (Rom. 13:3). It is evil for a leader or a constitution to spiritually reduce, or yoke a nation to nothingness. ,
Nero, like a leader at a witch sabbat, was a “furry”! He was a cheerleader of sex-change surgery for young boys, pederasty, and sodomite marriage. Again, Dio tells us (Roman History, 63.13):
Apostle Peter lived under the misrule of Nero. Apostle Peter said men such as Nero are
“like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed” (2 Pet. 2:12).
The political philosopher John Locke agreed with Apostle Peter. In chapter 2, section 11 of Locke’s Second Treatise of Government (1689), he says that any criminal like Nero
“hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tyger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.”
The intentional shedding of innocent blood is among the worst of evils. The corruption, the sexual abuse of youths is a twin evil: it is the murder of their innocence. The Law of God (Numbers 35:19–21) teaches that the Avenger of Blood has a duty to execute such a murderer. Generally, the default Avenger of Blood was the nearest male relative.
The Wisdom of Solomon
Some believe that the first 10 chapters of Proverbs were actually king David’s instructions to Solomon. In that case, David’s wisdom was the basis of Solomon’s unsurpassed wisdom. Before King David died, he gave Solomon a mission. This is the mission David gave to Solomon from his death bed:
“Now you yourself know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to the two commanders of Israel’s armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. He killed them, shedding their blood in peacetime as if in battle, and with that blood stained the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet. Deal with him according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to the grave in peace.”
— 1 Kings 2:5–6.
The very wisdom of Solomon, the highest practical God-pleasing wisdom of Solomon, was to be employed to ensure the death of a man whose crimes were long overdue for justice. David was the immediate superior of Joab. After David’s death, Solomon would become Joab’s nearest point of accountability.
If we equitably apply the spirit of these laws and this wisdom, then we conclude that the men who are nearest to the trouble-makers in our city, state, and national company, are most duty bound to purge out those evil doers.
Purge out all inflationary leaven that puffs up!
Purge out pride, self-indulgent gluttony, laziness, indifference to the urgent needs of legitimately poorer believers, with all boastful perversity of the flesh and mind! Purge out whatever injects pockets of nothingness, vanity, emptiness, void into the life of the family.
Purge out abortion and the abortionists according to your wisdom.
Purge out murderers from the earth!
Purge judges who acquit murders!
Purge child molestors from the earth!
Purge rapists!
Purge kidnappers!
Purge the Witches!
Purge liars from the halls of power!
May God be with your strivings for the glory of Christ!
NEW PURITAN