Happy Easter Not

This is not what you think. This is not me saying it is not a happy time. This is me saying it isn't Happy Ishtar but something far far awesomely greater.

If you can't see the pictures I include the text separately, and the teaching on the Waving of the First fruit barley Harvest from this website.







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• Illustration 1  Like two separate lost chemical compounds waiting 

to be combined in one giant explosion the Jews don’t currently celebrate Temple worship
and don’t celebrate “Waving the Firstfruit Barley
Harvest”(see description below)and the Gentiles?well they have disappeared up their own backside
celebrating Ishtar and Eggs and fluffy fertility bunnies

and stuffing a wooden Cross on top to celebrateJesus, the “out there” God resurrecting.

So what would happen if we put

the two real compounds together?

you see,the day Jesus rose was

the precise time Jews were

waving the first harvest!!

• Illustration 2

Jesus, the Divinely Begotten Son of God who came here

in the likeness of flesh but without sin being injected

into Adam’s line, suffered and died as a first fruit seed,

to be resurrected as pioneer and first among many

brethren. Today on this day He was waved before 

principalities and powers as one who overcame Death

for all time. To all who believe on Him they receive the 

same Divinely Begotten Son Life of Jesus Christ at their

spirit centre.The equivalent of any”waving “ today is as we outwardly 

take the Bread and the Wine to show forth the Victory of Christ, and inwardly we now constantly reckon ourselvesto have co-died and co-resurrected with the Son and are

members of His Body on earth.

• Illustration 3

John in his gospel takes us through the  Tabernacle, showing how first Jesus ,then His offer of life to us works itself through. Chapter 3 is on being born again.Chapter 4 is on water or the baptisms. Chapter 6 and 7 is on the Bread and the water of life and how this will BECOME us in the third mature level.Chapter 8 and 9 is on Light (the candlestick) and
how this trains us to “see inwardly” with a new
single eye, and be blind nolongerChapter 10 ends on identity and who does Jesus say He is and who do we say we now are by new
birth. This is the battle as we enter the thirdlevel
and the cause of such friction with others who do
not see yet. Chapter 11 concludes this walk through with the raising of Lazarus. From now on      Jesus is involved for real with His own body

• Illustration 4

He who believes in the Son has eternal life Jn3.36 ….whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.Jn.4.14
For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life Jn6.40  BEHOLD the Son raised today, the firstfruit
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
Heb.6.19More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,  and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,  that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Paul’s take on waving the firstfruit!!!! Philipp 3:8-10

Waving the First Fruits Feast- Notes
THE SERVICE OF FIRST FRUITS
Firstfruits requires the Temple, and since the Temple is no longer available, Firstfruits is not celebrated in the same sense as it was in the past. In the Temple days both the people and the priest would celebrate First Fruits. The priests would set aside a portion of their barley field to be the sheaves used for the harvest on Nisan 16. This barley field was cultivated solely to be used for the first fruits harvest. The Sanhedrin, the ruling council of seventy who headed the nation, would have been responsible for the field.
In the evening of Nisan 15, at the start of Nisan 16, three Sanhedrin came from the Temple to cut the First Fruit Barley harvest. With three sickles and three baskets the men would prepare to cut down the harvest to be presented in the Temple. The bundles of barley had already been prepared for the Sanhedrin members chosen to harvest the crop. As the Sun was setting, and the new day began, (Nisan 16) the men ask questions to those present.
Has the sun set?
With this sickle?
Into this basket?
On this Sabbath?
Shall I reap (now)?
On the positive response from the crowd the men would repeat the harvesting two more times as a safeguard. The reaping would continue until 2/3 of a bushel was reaped.
THE PRESENTATION OF FIRSTFRUITS
The three baskets of Barley were then taken to the Temple to be threshed with rods, as opposed to ox powered sledges, to preserve the barley heads. The barley was then parched in a flame and winnowed in the wind to remove the chaff. The barley was then milled and sifted until it was very fine. According to the Talmud the inspectors should be able to stick their hands into the barley flour without any flour sticking to the hands when they were removed. (Menahot 8:2)
On the morning of Nisan 16 the work of the barley harvest firstfruits were presented to the Lord in the Temple. One “Omer” (5 pints) or barley was mixed with ¾ pint of olive oil, along with some frankincense. This was the firstfruits offering. The priest would wave this before the Lord, burning some and giving the rest to the Levites.
http://www.truthnet.org/Feasts-of-Israel/6-Feast-Firstfruits/Index.htm

The End of the End by Kay Fairchild EASTER CLARIFIED

The BIRTH of death was the fall of Adam (at least in our minds). The DEATH of death was Christ's resurrection. We do not normally rejoice in a death, but this is a death in which we do rejoice. The reason for saying that is because death is not a friend but the Scriptures say that it is an enemy. Yes, God receives the spirit of a person who dies, but God is not the One who brings death. I Corinthians 15:26 says that the last ENEMY that shall be destroyed is death. The word 'destroyed' means, to render useless and powerless. Many today believe that this is only relevant after one dies physically, that the spirit of the person lives on; and of course I agree, but there is so much more to the truth of the matter at hand. What we fail to understand is that our Father sees us as one. He does not view us as spirit, and soul, and body. He has declared the end from the beginning. He sees heaven (our spirit) and earth (our body) as one. I Thessalonians 5:23 in the Amp says that we have been redeemed through and through. We are the Body of Christ through and through. I John 3:8 says that 'for this purpose the Son of God was manifested that He might destroy (render useless and powerless) the works of the devil'.
Death thought it had Jesus beaten, but death was only on life-support and on death row until the resurrection.

The works being, sin, sickness, poverty and death. If Jesus destroyed all manner of sin, then He destroyed all manner of death. When we see people raising the dead in the O.T. as well as in the N. T. that is a picture to us that death has NO POWER! If death has any power, no one, including Jesus, could have raised anyone from the dead. We are commissioned in the Gospel to go forth and raise the dead as well. Until we realize that death and sickness have no power we will never be able to fulfill that commission. Hebrews 2:9 says that by the grace of God Jesus tasted (experienced and became) death for EVERY man. Philippians 2:8 says that Jesus was found in fashion as a man, humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross. Death thought it had Jesus beaten, but death was only on life-support and on death row until the resurrection. Why? Because death has never had any power! Jesus came to reveal that fact to us in His resurrection. Everything that Jesus did in all of His incarnational events revealed what was already true about every man.

Romans 6:9-11 says, "Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more, death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: BUT in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. LIKEWISE (just like Jesus) RECKON YE ALSO YOURSELVES TO BE DEAD INDEED UNTO SIN, BUT ALIVE UNTO GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD." So since He defeated death once and then was raised with a glorified, immortal, indestructible, imperishable body, and since Romans 6:11 said that the same thing happened to US, we must begin to discern the body and see that our bodies are spirit slowed down to visibility, and it always was. Jesus came to reveal that reality in all of His incarnational events including His death, burial and resurrection! Most people are waiting to experience this AFTER they die in their body, but Romans 8:17 says that when He was glorified in His body at the resurrection we also were glorified TOGETHER WITH Him! Why do we put off until a future date what we have today? Hope deferred makes the heart sick the Word tells us. Our hope is not in our future, but we have and are (because He is as us) the living hope according to I Peter 1:3.



The resurrection of Christ reveals to us that we have always been SPIRIT slowed down to visibility or tangibility. I look at my body as being just as spirit (sorry if that offends some) as my spirit is. The resurrection also shows us that He has always been the health of our bodies. The stripes Jesus bore on His back was to remind us of that reality. In the resurrection I hear the words: "Who told you that you were a sinner, who told you that death has power, who told you that you were ever perishing, who told you that you were naked and ever unrighteous--who told you all of those lies about yourself?" Colossians 1:21 says that we were alienated (had a sense of separation) and enemies (sinners) IN OUT MIND! Jesus' death and resurrection reveals something totally different unto us. It reveals to us that we were NEVER separate, nor sinners, nor perishing, nor unrighteous, nor unholy; only in our minds were we that, and therefore we lived out of the SENSE of the adamic life. Several years ago after my husband passed away I had an inner vision of people who died in their physical bodies, and when they came in contact with the full-blown light and life of God they had the thought: "Wow, my body was redeemed all along, but no one ever told me that!" How sad it is that most are waiting for something ELSE to happen, when the resurrection was the most powerful event that ever happened, or ever will happen, revealing the greatest reality of all about all mankind! HE IS RISEN, AS US!

Happy Waving of The Sheaf Day

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Chris writes on Facebook:


Easter or better said the waving of the Sheaf festival directly after Passover is the hinge around which the universe turns. But some of you may have noticed that the tomb leaving bit was only marked by two main parties. Jesus mum and one of the most thoroughly converted at this point. Mary.

The waving of the sheaf of resurrection life by the Jews at that precise moment in the Temple festival just about summed up what Passover is......the bare beginnings of a leaven that will fill the universe. If not even the disciples were there to witness it and Jesus had to hunt them down later and encourage them all later in person.....you start to realise wherever you currently are in your journey with Jesus......if the thing relied on you you would be pretty much stuck wherever you are now. But Jesus comes to us. He does the lifting. He does all the sharing about all He accomplished. Today is about waving one sheaf before the Enemy to say......Ok the first one is out of your clutches of Death. But now in our own Passover Pentecost and Feast of Tabernacles ( the three almost unknown feasts among gentiles) the sheaf moves on to become 12 bread loaves at Pentecost to one huge loaf at the Day of Atonement in the third Feast. And you can't know these things until Jesus resurrection is first known inside you. Without the sheafwaving there can be no loaves and without the individual tribal loaves there is nothing to meld into the BIG thing which was what Jesus described as the Kingdom leaven filling the earth. But beware the leaven of the scribes and the Pharisees. They have a different father.


How many of you were teenagers or twenty year olds and your life was a hopeless mess.?Nobody looking would ever think you would ever believe in God? In fact you cursed Him continually...........
So WORLD.....sometimes SONSHIP REALITY comes by way of LAWLESSNESS and 
a Proverbs 1 - type crash.
Don't give up on the world just yet.....they have chosen to live the Illuminati Crash Land version.....but however it looks SONSHIP IS ON ITS WAY ,do not be fooled.
Happy WAVING OF THE FIRST SHEAF DAY!!!

On Celebrating Pesach with the glory

from the blogpost by Velveteen Rabbi - Rachel Barenblatt
I always get caught up in the details of Pesach. The recipes, the matzah balls, the groceries, the cooking, the haggadah, the psalms, the songs. I always want to create a perfectly meaningful seder: for myself, for my family, for my guests. I love this holiday so fiercely that I want to share that love with everyone. I want everyone to come away from the table feeling nourished in all four worlds of body, heart, mind, and soul. I want to experience the spiritual peak of being magically swept up to the top of the mountain with God at Pesach -- so that as I begin the long climb back up to the spiritual heights of Shavuot, I'm inspired and enlivened by knowing just what joys await me once I get there again.

In my haggadah there is a poem by Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, who is now a friend and colleague but who was known to me only by reputation when I first discovered her work many years ago. That poem speaks of the process of bedikat chametz, removing the leaven from our homes on the eve of Pesach. (Here's a short ritual for bedikat chametz, which also includes that poem: BedikatChametz.pdf) After we read that poem, at my seder, we sometimes go around the table and share an emotional or internal hametz which we want to relinquish as Pesach begins. Often, what I need to relinquish is my fantasy of the perfect seder -- my fantasy that I can create an experience which will sweep everyone up into ecstasy, which will wholly connect all who are present with our ancestors and our community and our God. 
I want to experience the spiritual peak of being magically swept up to the top of the mountain with God at Pesach -- so that as I begin the long climb back up to the spiritual heights of Shavuot, I'm inspired and enlivened by knowing just what joys await me once I get there again. 

 This yearning for seder perfection, bumping up against the inevitable realities of the world's natural imperfection, is something I've wrestled with for years. And it is, if anything, even more true now that we are parents. I want to create the perfect seder -- and I know the odds are good that at some point during the evening, our three-year-old will have an entirely age-appropriate tantrum because his usual routines are disrupted, or because we won't let him watch cartoons during the seder, or because he's overstimulated and up too late. I want to create the perfect seder -- and I know that there is no such thing; that the childhood seders I've enshrined in memory weren't perfect; that even if I could fill my table with scholars and sages who love the tradition even more than I do, the seder wouldn't achieve perfection.
Far better to learn to find the perfection in what is, instead of wishing for a kind of perfection we can never attain. The seder isn't just about doing, although there are certainly a lot of things to do in order for the evening to be complete. (The fifteen steps from kadesh to nirtzah, the songs and prayers and psalms, the food rituals of hardboiled egg and matzah ball soup...) The seder is also about being. It's a chance to experience being free. To be in the moment, to be with friends and family, to be blessed by the light of the full moon of Nisan in 5773 which will never shine again after this night. It's a chance to be joyful even when the glass breaks, or the kugel burns, or the children don't pay attention. After all the flurry of work and preparations -- cleaning, cooking, studying, readying -- it's a chance to just be.
Chag Pesach sameach to one and all. May this holiday be whatever you need it to be.

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Celebrating Pesach together doesn't get any easier in Christ either. But at this stage, periodically we hit a zapper of a seder. I think once Jews fully "get it" and Christians fully "get what it was" we'll probably continually have fantastic seders from thereon in. Each without the other is currently incomplete. A bit like the two loaves at Pentecost. Not only Israel and Judah were divided, like two original denominations or something, but Jews and Christians have been two divided houses around the same table, around the same God.

All we ever need to know about the "code" that unlocks everything are in the two passages...the original in Exodus 12 which describes the first flight from Egypt, and the second which is in the New Testament chapters John 13 through 17, and in particular John 15 to 17.

At the moment Jews are afraid to look into the second sequence because they think in terms of an angry God....if they get that far....usually long before that they have dismissed the Christian's God as another God entirely anyway and therefore pitched the necessity of ever looking into it.

If you speak to your average Jew on the street, it hasn't occurred to them that each and every one of the first ever disciples of Jesus IS EXACTLY THE SAME as everyone else at the second main Pesach. The Pesach that was really what the first Pesach was the mirror of.  What do I mean?
Everybody. I mean everybody....except perhaps Jesus mother and John....upped and walked out on Jesus as he was condemned to death.If the whole thing had been staged in England now. Or the USA now. Or Russia now. The same thing would have happened. If God had chosen China to be the sovereign country carrying His Name in all the earth, then Jesus Himself as God the son had been Chinese....the Chinese would have been just the same.
Isaiah 53 and psalm 22 indicate that there was nothing different about the man Jesus. He just looked normal. He didn't look like Robert Redford or Brad Pitt.

Whichever nation God had chosen, and had they been expecting a Messiah, there is no possible way for anyone to make the leap of the imagination required from whatever a "Messiah" should look like and then how Jesus "looked". Which was pretty much as your next rabbi.  And nobody aligned the suffering servant figure of Isaiah 53 with Jesus, and the concept of a Messiah. And Jews still don't. And secular people don't either.

But in the first church, every single leader had to face the fact that he had walked away from Jesus at precisely that time. That they hadn't done a thing to stop it all. Peter did initially. With a sword. Because Jesus was messing with his idea of a freedomfighter Messiah. But later, as Darkness squashed in....(much the same as later in Nazi Germany...when the lights went out of that once Christian nation) even Peter just tossed it all away. "Me...I never knew the guy". And he became the leader of the first church of Jesus Christ.

So we see that God is not an angry God. He was fully cognizant from the beginning that this would happen. He had to use a nation to demonstrate it. In the end it was Israel. But some nation somewhere had to be chosen to demonstrate the utter uselessness of religion to ever be up to the task of recognising a God who refers to Himself in the Old Testament scriptures in these words...

'Behold it says of me in the Book...."I come to do thy will....a body thou hast prepared for me".'
And David making a Trinity reference, well, Father to Son conversation..."The Lord said to my Lord..."

Every year the Pesach had been celebrated the same.
Every year Jesus had celebrated the Pesach in the same way with His disciples.
But the third year He changed the words. The disciples didn't really pick it up, but they remembered later.
This one time Jesus said...of the bread as He picked it up...This is My Body and of the cup...This is my Blood. Eat and drink of them.

And that was it.......
 Within hours and precisely coincident with the Pesach as celebrated as usual that year, that was Jesus killed as the Lamb, a sacrifice for every individual that has ever lived. It had to be somewhere at some time...but really He was the Lamb slain from before creation....the only difference was now it was enacted in spacetime. The whole sequence really began when a man, completely by faith, called Abraham, picked up a knife and was prepared to slaughter his own son Isaac. The son he had believed for against all odds for decades. And now he was fully grown. And precisely at this instant of willingness, a snapshot in heaven of total faithfulness and submissiveness was created, and God through an angel called to him to say....OK...that's far enough...now I know I've got a man, after whom to pattern a people...called Israel.
"Stay your hand Abraham and slaughter that sheep stuck in the bushes!"

Why would God then having chosen Jews, then allow them to fluff it up so badly?
OK...let's answer with another question.
Why would the main logo for a people be a circumcised penis?

Because God's calling just isnt in the pride of man. It is birthed...in the flesh...
as a sign that we could never boast off. We LIVE the STORY of GOD, but we must never boast
in the STORY OF GOD. Like a freshly hatched chicken, we can hardly boast in the way we have come.
We stand by one wrecked chicken egg shell that we have just bust. Can we say...hey....look at
how beautifully formed was my eggshell! It was one of the best! Errr....oooops....I just smashed it
to smithereens escaping to tell you.

See, that is circumcision. No one can go to another man of another faith and show them the Jewish logo! Rothschild may have invented the hexagram to get around that one. But the genuine Jewish logo is just
not something to show people. The importance of God's story is not the emblem of the story as it has been written. As it says in scripture...."lest any man should boast"....and "that every mouth should be stopped".
For in the end, dear Rachel...
what remains is the glory of the seder.You are absolutely right.
True seder's are God events.
We had one once, at the wrong time of year for a Jew. But we felt to have one on one summer's day on the grass outside someone's farmhouse. The presence of God....all but the Shekinah of God, came down amongst us, and I had a German penfriend with me. His Dad was a Lutheran pastor but in those days of the 70s all the youth were so cut off from their parents that he was a total atheist. None of the youth could identify with what their parents were even thinking about, honouring such a man as Hitler, so every youth made sure there was a complete break in all their values. And as the Lutheran church had been so instrumental in welcoming Hitler, as had the Catholics...nearly nobody was a Christian anymore. And into his vacuum of belief, suddenly that afternoon, in our little Pesach,outside all churchianity, on a lawn in Chesham Vale,Bucks  NW London, the glory of God came down and his whole frame broke.

Tears poured down his face. In that instance he knew this God, that had seemed so absent in a youth growing up in the shadow of 25 years previous, was real. He was the same God. Manifesting Himself in the same way, as countless years in Christian's breaking bread, and countless years before that among Jews in the seder. The same God. Faithful to His Word. Faithful to His promises.But the means by which we all got here...
the circumcised penis
the disciples' complete abandonment of Jesus
the rest of Israel being manipulated by chief priests in the crowd shouting "Let his blood
be upon us all our generations"
the complete fiasco of the church over centuries as Jesus prophesied it would be
in the parable of the farmer, and the rogue enemy sowing rogue seed...
all this total embarrassment of our "pride of life"....

but after all the shambles....the Presence of the Lord. And everyone just knows it's all OK.