GOD’S PASSOVERSOLOMON APPIAH

Passover Tradition, NT Realities and the Heavens

24 April 2016

TABLE OF CONTENTS

i. INTRO TO REAL JEWS, JEWISH DAY, WEEK, MONTH, YEAR & 7 MAJOR FEASTS

ii. PASSOVER: DATE, COMPUTATIONS & CONNECTIONS

iii. PASSOVER AND THE HEAVENS

iv. WHAT SEASON ARE WE IN NOW DURING THE PASSOVER?

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WHO IS A REAL JEW?

Rom 2:28-29 AMP

(28) For he is not a [real] Jew who is only one outwardly and publicly, nor is [true] circumcision something external and physical.

(29) But he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and [true] circumcision is of the heart, a spiritual and not a literal [matter]…

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JEWISH DAY

• The Jewish day (yom) begins at sundown.

•A Jewish holiday begins on the night before the day listed in a Jewish calendar.

•For example, Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) occurs on Nisan 27, which actually begins after sundown, Nisan 26

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JEWISH WEEK

The Jewish week (shavu'a) begins on 1st

day of the week and ends on the 7th(Shabbat).

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THE JEWISH MONTH

•Hebrew calendar → lunar one

•Rosh Chodesh ("Head of the Month") symbolizes renewal of the new moon (month)

•Rosh Chodesh symbolizes renewal and restoration.

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JEWISH NEW YEAR

•God actually tells us the beginning of the Year

•Exo 12:2 This month shall be to you the beginning of months, the first month of the year to you.

• The month is Nisan.

•Real New Year → Nisan 1 or April 9, 2016

•Spring is the start of the Biblical Year7

2 types of Jewish Calendars:

1) Civil Calendar: official calendar of kings, childbirth, and contracts – Begins in Tisheri (Sept/Oct)

2) Sacred Calendar: from which festivals were computed – Nisan 1 or April 9, 2016

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ARE THEY GOD’S FEASTS OR JEWISH FEASTS ?Leviticus 23:1-4 NKJV

1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

2. "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'The feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts.

4. 'These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times.

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QUESTION: Who gave the FEASTS?

ANSWER: THE LORD

QUESTION: What relation have they to me?

ANSWER: Every relation! The entire NT is a fulfilment of the LORD’s feasts—shadows of things to come

The 7 Feasts begin with the death & sacrifice of the lamb & concludes with the Feast foreshadowing GOD being poured out of us into society

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ARE THE FEASTS IMPORTANT TO BELIEVERS?

Col 2:16-17 AMP

(16) Therefore let no one sit in judgment on you in matters of food and drink, or with regard to a feast day or a New Moon or a Sabbath.

(17) Such [things] are only the shadow of things that are to come, and they have only a symbolic value. But the reality (the substance, the solid fact of what is foreshadowed, the body of it) belongs to Christ.

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ARE THE FEASTS IMPORTANT TO BELIEVERS?

They are important because:

1) A feast day, New Moon, Sabbaths are a shadow of things to come whose reality is Christ

2) Paul asks us to keep them (1 Cor 5:8 AMP)

3) Till today GOD makes the governors/rulers of day and night proclaim their realities

4) They reveal different aspects of the nature of GOD

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THE 7 FEASTS UNVEILED

There are seven (7) major feasts divided into:

1. Four (4) Spring time feasts

2. Three (3) Fall feasts

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SPRING FEASTS

HEBREW ENGLISH

1) PESACH PASSOVER

2) Hag

haMatzah

Unleavened Bread

3) Yom

HaBikkurim

First Fruits

4. Shavuot Feast of Weeks, Pentecost15

FALL FEASTS

HEBREW ENGLISH

5) Yom T'ruah Trumpets (also called Rosh

HaShanah)

6) Yom Kippur Day of Atonement (also called

Yom haDin)

7) Sukkot Tabernacles (also called

Booths)

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CHRIST REVEALED IN ALL 7 FEASTS - SUMMARY

THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD

Lev 23:6 AMP On the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. [I Cor. 5:7, 8.]

1Co 5:7 AMP Purge (clean out) the old leaven that you may be fresh (new) dough, still uncontaminated [as you are], for Christ, our Passover [Lamb], has been sacrificed

We were leavened. He is UN-leavened 17

•Leaven is connected to sin and teaching of Pharisees

•Wages of sin is death

•Unleavened bread = Bread without sin

•Unleavened bread = Bread of Life

•Healing is the Children’s Bread

•His Body broken for your healing

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FEAST OF FIRST FRUITS

•Lev 23:10 KJV Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the FIRSTFRUITS of your harvest unto the priest:

•Jesus—FIRST born amongst many brethren i.e. from the dead (I Corinthians 15:20-23) 19

Rom 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren

Col 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence

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FEAST OF WEEKS (PENTECOST / HARVEST)

Lev 23:15-16 AMP

• (15) And you shall count from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, seven Sabbaths; [seven full weeks] shall they be.

• (16) Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a cereal offering of new grain to the Lord.

• INFILLING of the Holy Spirit—God in us 21

Act 2:1-4 AMP

(1) AND WHEN the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all assembled together in one place,

(4) And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other (different, foreign) languages (tongues), as the Spirit kept giving them clear and loud expression [in each tongue in appropriate words]. 22

FEAST OF TRUMPETS (ROSH HASHANAH)

•Lev 23:24 KJV Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.

•Jesus the Word preached and then the end shall come

•His word covers earth as waters the sea

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1Co 15:52-54 AMP

(52) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the [sound of the] last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead [in Christ] will be raised imperishable (free and immune from decay), and we shall be changed (transformed).

(53) For this perishable [part of us] must put on the imperishable [nature], and this mortal [part of us, this nature that is capable of dying] must put on immortality (freedom from death).

(54) And when this perishable puts on the imperishable and this that was capable of dying puts on freedom from death, then shall be fulfilled the Scripture that says, Death is swallowed up (utterly vanquished forever) in and unto victory. [Isa. 25:8.] 24

FEAST OF DAY OF ATONEMENT (YOM KIPPUR)

• Lev 23:27 AMP Also the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement...

• Jewish eschatology: Day in which the people of Israel are to be judged and sins of nation atoned

• Day of Atonement referred to as also "Day of Redemption" and "Day of Judgment". On this day, God would either grant or deny atonement for the coming year.

• Jesus made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption (1 COR 1:30)

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FEAST OF TABERNACLES

Lev 23:34 AMP Say to the Israelites, The fifteenth day of this seventh month, and for seven days, is the Feast of Tabernacles or Booths to the Lord.

Joh 7:2,10 KJV

(2) Now the Jews' Feast of tabernacles was at hand.

(10) But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.

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Joh 7:37-39 KJV

(37) In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

(38) He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

(39) (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

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PENTECOST → INFILLING

TABERNACLES → OUTPOURING

(Jn 7:2,10, 37-39)

… of the Holy Spirit

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FEASTS & YOUR LIFE

1) PASSOVER results in us being born again

2) UNLEVENED BREAD: After new birth we take part in the divine nature by eating bread of life

i. Unleavened bread = bread of life; bread without sin. Wages of sin is death. In absence of sin is life

3) FIRST FRUITS: We live a life where we give GOD our first fruit—children, business, salary etc. 29

5) TRUMPETS: Jesus is the proclamation of GOD’s teachings. He is the Word of GOD

6) ATONEMENT: Jesus our redemption & positive judgment

7) TABERNACLES: OUTPOURING of HOLY GHOST from where? OUT of YOUR BELLY

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PASSOVER DATE, COMPUTATION, CONNECTIONS

FIRST FEAST - PESACH (PASSOVER)

Pesach April 23 – April 30, 2016

Nisan 15 – Nisan 22, 5776

Passover is the FOUNDATION upon which

all 7 feasts stand

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MATERIALS NEEDED TO KEEP PASSOVER

1. UN-Leavened Bread

2. Lamb with no bones broken

3. Blood

Jesus became the sacrificial lamb. He was our unleavened bread and he shed his blood for us. Our Passover is complete

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WHEN WAS THE SACRIFICE MADE FOR YOU? IN THE WORLD OR IN PROMISED LAND

•OT—In Egypt

•NT—In the World when we were sinners

•Rom 5:8 AMP But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.

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SIGNIFICANCE

•Passover is the season for the demonstration of the LOVE of GOD

• This is when we tackle Fear, Insecurity

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WHEN IS GOD’S PASSOVER?

Exo 12:3 AMP Tell all the congregation of Israel, On the tenth day of this month they shall take every man a lamb or kid, according to [the size of] the family of which he is the father, a lamb or kid for each house.

Exo 12:6 AMP And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall [each] kill [his] lamb in the evening.

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SIGNIFICANCE

Ex 12: 2-3*: The season of Fathers taking their place—in selection and application of the true Passover Jesus - 1 Co 5:7—Guarding homes

Season of Protection of Children by Fathers incl.: GOD the King - Heb 11:23

Protection for everything you produce:

•physical and spiritual children, businesses, career

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DURATION OF PASSOVER

• Exo 12:15 KJV Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread…

• New Year is Nissan 1

• Passover’s duration is 7 days

• First day of Passover: Nisan 1 + 14 days = Nisan 15 i.e. April 23

• Add 7 days to get last day of Passover: Nisan 15 + 7days = Nisan 22 i.e. April 30

• April 23 + 7days = April 30; Pesach 2016 is Apr 23-3038

1Co 5:7-8 AMP

(7) Purge (clean out) the old leaven that you may be fresh (new) dough, still uncontaminated [as you are], for Christ, our Passover [Lamb], has been sacrificed

(8) Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of vice and malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened [bread] of purity (nobility, honor) and sincerity and [unadulterated] truth. [Exod. 12:19; 13:7; Deut. 16:3.] 39

• Leaven: vice, malice and wickedness

•Unleavened [bread] of purity (nobility, honor) and sincerity and [unadulterated] truth

•Unleavened Bread also stands for Bread of Life

• Leaven also has to do with false teaching

•Mat 16:12 AMP Then they discerned that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees 40

QUESTION: Who was Paul speaking to?

ANSWER: Believers in Corinth

Meaning believers are to keep the feast the way Apostle Paul instructed

QUESTION: How ?

ANSWER: Keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of vice and malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened [bread] of purity (nobility, honor) and sincerity and [unadulterated] truth.

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PASSOVER AND THE HEAVENS

UNDERSTANDING TIMES AND SEASONS

Why did GOD create the Sun, Moon & Stars?

Gen 1:16 AMP And God made the two great lights--the greater light (the sun) to rule the day and the lesser light (the moon) to rule the night. He also made the stars.

Gen 1:14 AMP And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs and tokens [of God's provident care], and [to mark] seasons, days, and years, [Gen. 8:22.]

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Psa 136:8-9 AMP

• (8) The sun to rule over the day, for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever;

• (9) The moon and stars to rule by night, for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever;

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•God created the Sun to rule the day

•God created the Moon & Stars to govern the night

•God created the lights (Sun, Moon, Stars):1) To separate the day from the night 2) To be signs or signposts3) As tokens of God's provident care4) To mark seasons5) To mark days6) To mark years

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• You can only know what to do—live purposely—when you have UNDERSTANDING of the TIMES

• 1Ch 12:32 AMP And of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs; and all their kinsmen were under their command;

• Command given to those who understood the TIMES

• How can one understand TIMES?

• By understanding the lights which marks seasons etc. 46

•Understand the lights and you’ll understand the TIMES

• If evil persons do not want God’s SEASONS/TIMES for a person, they simpltattempt to change the times and seasons—re-program them

•QUESTION: How can this be done?

•ANSWER: Through the sun, moon, star(s)

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•GOD is the one with power to CHANGE times & seasons legally• Dan 2:21 AMP He [GOD] changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding! [Dan. 4:35.]

• The Dragon and its surrogates also try to change the time of the feasts• Dan 7:25 AMP And he shall speak words against the Most High [God] and shall wear out the saints of the Most High and think to change the time [of sacred feasts and holy days] … 48

•Q: Why did enemy want to change TIMES and SEASONS?

•A: To change the PLAN of GOD

• Sacred feasts numbered from the lunar calendar i.e. moon

•Gregorian Calendar and other calendars before → Attempts at changing TIMES

•Q: Why understand the heavenly bodies?

•A: SO you can understand the Times49

Job 38:32-33 AMP

(32) Can you lead forth the signs of the zodiac in their season? Or can you guide [the stars of] the Bear with her young?

(33) Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule upon the earth?

•What is the Zodiac?

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BIBLICAL DEFINITION OF ZODIAC

mazza ̂ra ̂h

BDB Definition:

1) Mazzaroth

1a) the 12 signs of the Zodiac and their 36 associated constellations

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• Psa 19:1-4 KJV

• (1) The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

• (2) Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

• (3) There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

• (4) Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

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•Each of the 12 and 36 declare the GLORYof GOD

•What is this GLORY?

• It is GOD’s weightiness, power, honor, dignity, authority, magnificence, fame, excellence, abundance

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Constellations are mentioned in the bible in Job 38:32 and in other passages. We must understand them

A Constellation is defined as a group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure.

There are 12 major Gates → 12 Constellations

When the Sun runs though all 12 Constellations (Group of Stars), ONE year is complete

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ECLIPTIC

The ecliptic is the apparent path of the Sun on the celestial sphere, and is the basis for the eclipticcoordinate system. It also refers to the plane of this path, which is coplanar with the orbit of Earth around the Sun (and hence the apparent orbit of

the Sun around Earth).

Ps 19 speaks of the ecliptic when it says, their line has gone through all the earth

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• The Bible tells us:•And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for SIGNS, and for seasons, and for days, and years Genesis 1:14

•Signs point to something much like a signboard

• The Constellations are signs that tell us about the GLORY of GOD

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•What SIGN is GOD showing in the heavens above now?

• In which of the 12 Gates is the Sun moving now?

•What is the heavens declaring now i.e. which part of God’s Glory?\

•ANSWER: Aries the Lamb/Ram61

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• Is it not interesting that in Passover season, the sun has entered Aries the sacrificial lamb

• The heavens truly declare the GLORY of GOD

•When did sun enter Aries?

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Constellation Date

Aries –

Lamb/RamApril 19 - May 13

Taurus –

Bull/Wild OxMay 14 - June 19

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• Job 38:33 NIV Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God's dominion over the earth?

•Dominion has to do with King’dom

•What are the ordinances of the heavens in this season?

•W/o knowing them, we cannot set up God's dominion over the earth

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QUESTION: What are the heavens declaring?

From April 19 - May 13, they’ll be declaring the lamb/ram sacrificed and the consequences and mysteries thereof

QUESTION: What are some of the mysteries of the Passover being declared? In other words, what season are we in?

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1) Spring Season: Rebirth of creation—old dies and new comes out. Lamb planted, Lion resurrects! NEW BEGINNINGS

2) Destroyer released at head of months

3) Passover – Season of release of GOD’s armed forces—making sure destroyer does not exceed bounds

4) Firstborn of Egypt/World System is judged/killed/destroyed. What does this mean ?

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• In this season, the LORD caps his judgments with its finale—death of all firstborns of the dragon that lived in the rivers Ez 29, 32

•Gen 49:3 KJV Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

• In this season, the LORD kills the beginning of the strength of the dragon fighting you, its might and the excellency of its dignity & power

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EGYPIAN CROWN

The real king of Egypt is the dragon/serpent on the crown

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• In this season, the LORD judges the firstborn of the dragon but leaves the slaughter and dismemberment of the Dragon to Moses i.e. YOU

•QUESTION: How did this happen?

•ANSWER: Passover is the season of application of SCEPTERS in judgment

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Exo 14:16-21

(16) But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

(17) And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

(18) And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honourupon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

(19) And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:

(20) And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.

(21) And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 72

5) V16 Season of lifting up scepters

6) V17 Season of hardening of evil hearts so GOD gets honor over them

7) V18 Season of KNOWing that HE is the LORD

8) V19 Season of the repositioning of Angels for your protection

9) Season of removal of obstacles including seas and mountains

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QUESTION: How did the sea divide?

ANSWER 1: Principalities were judged & by a strong east wind (EX 14:20)

ANSWER 2: Drawn out of rivers by hooks and cast onto wilderness, fed to spirit birds and beasts (Eze 29:3-6)

ANSWER 3: Caught in GOD’s net, cast on open field, scattered flesh and fed to birds and beats spiritually (Eze 32:2-8 )

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ANSWER 4: Broke the heads of the Egyptian dragons in the waters.

Crushed the heads of Leviathan. Gave it as food for the creatures inhabiting the wilderness.

This is spiritual wilderness and spiritual inhabitants

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Eze 29:3-6 AMP

(3) Say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster [of sluggish and unwieldy strength] that lies in the midst of his [delta] streams, [boastfully] declaring, My river Nile is my own and I have made it for myself.

(4) But I will put hooks in your jaws [O Egyptian dragon] and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales, and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams with all the fish of your streams which stick to your scales.

(5) And I will cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers; you shall fall upon the open field and not be gathered up or buried. I have given you for food to the [wild] beasts of the earth and the birds of the heavens.

(6) And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord [the Sovereign Ruler, Who calls forth loyalty and obedient service], because they have been a [deceitful] staff [made of fragile] reeds to the house of Israel

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Eze 32:2-8 AMP

(2) Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him, You have likened [yourself] to a young lion, leader of the nations, but you are like a [monster] dragon in the seas; you break forth in your rivers and trouble the waters with your feet, and you make foul their rivers [the sources of their prosperity].

(3) Thus says the Lord God: I will therefore throw out My net over you with a host of many peoples, and they shall bring you up in My dragnet.

(4) Then I will leave you [Egypt] upon the shore; I will cast you on the open field and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle upon you, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with you.

(5) And I will scatter your flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with your high heap of corpses and their worms.

(6) I will also water with your flowing blood the land, even to the mountains, and the hollows and water channels shall be full of you.

(7) And when I have extinguished you, I will cover the heavens [of Egypt] and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud and the moon shall not give her light.

(8) All the bright lights of the heavens I will make dark over you and set darkness upon your land, says the Lord God.

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Psa 74:13-14 AMP

(13) You did divide the [Red] Sea by Your might; You broke the heads of the [Egyptian] dragons in the waters. [Exod. 14:21.]

(14) You crushed the heads of Leviathan (Egypt); You did give him as food for the creatures inhabiting the wilderness.

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• Season of HOOKING and casting NET by fishers, smashing the head of principalities

•QUESTION: What does GOD mean by heads of the dragons?

•ANSWER 1: Jesus is head of church—our FOUNDATION, cornerstone, support structure

• Strike the head and the body will die

• Strike the legs and head will live

•Heads are judged in this season79

11.Season of breaking GENERATIONAL bondages—430 years in slavery—broken with sacrifice of lamb and the application of blood on gates

12.Season of supernatural open doors to riches and wealth—wealth to serve GOD with

13.Season when predator becomes prey

14.Passover season of healing—unleavened bread

15.Judging of civilizations/hegemons 80

• JESUS is our PASSOVER

•He has opened a way out of every Egypt, given us the wealth of Egypt and given us Angels to protect us and convey us to our promised land

• The chief purpose of the Passover is restoration of relationship with GOD—discipling a nation to once again walk with GOD in his ways—transforming them in a kingdom of priest OR making them priest and kings unto our GOD 81

THANK YOU

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