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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, March 21, 1980
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TRUTH!
Now was this the late afternoon near the end of the 14th day,
sunset and dark (dusk) at the beginning? The following
make this abundantly CLEAR for those willing to receive GOD'S
Next, verse 7, they were to strike the lamb's blood on the two side
posts and upper doorpost of each house.
That night the death angel was to come by striking dead the first
born in all Egypt except where the blood was on the housefront. The angel
was to "PASS OVER" all those houses protected by this blood.
They were to eat the roast lamb that 'night with bitter herbs and
unleavened bread. They were to eat it with staff in hand and prepared
to flee.
Nothing was to remain until the morning (daylight), yet in the morn
ing they were still there, for then they were to burn what remained with
fire (verse 10). Again (NOTE CAREFULLY!) on that night none of the
Israelites were to go outside his house: "and none of you shall go out of
the door of his house until the morning" (verse 22).
IF, as some would TWIST God's sacred Word, they killed the lamb late
afternoon near the end of the 14th day, then they were to remain in their
houses all the night of the 15th, until morning, and in the morning burn
what was left of the lamb. HOW, then, could they have gone out of Egypt
on the 15th of Nisan (or Abib) BY NIGHT? "For in the month of Abib the
LORD thy God brought thee forth()Ut of Egypt BY NIGHT" (Deut. 16:1).
Notice Numbers 33:3: "They departed from Rameses in the first month,
on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover
the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the
Egyptians."
They went out of Egypt on the morrow after the Passover, on the 15th,
and BY NIGHT!
Put this together. At dusk, the beginning of the 14th, they killed
the lamb and sprinkled its blood on the doorposts outside their houses.
They remained in their houses all that night. Their only protection was
remaining IN THE HOUSE WHERE THE BLOOD was sprinkled on the outside door.
They DID NOT DEPART FROM EGYPT ON THE SAME NIGHT THEY KILLED THE PASSOVER�
Next morning, daylight the 14th, they burned the leavings of the
lamb, then spoiled the Egyptians, gathering their gold and silver. Then
that night, after sunset, beginning of the 15th, the morrow after the
Passover, they started out of Egypt BY NIGHT!
Notice Numbers 28:16-17: "And in the fourteenth day of the first
month is the passover of the LORD. And in (not after) the fifteenth day
of this month is the feast:. seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten."
Now to the New Testament.
Obviously it was IMPOSSIBLE for Jesus to be crucified at dusk on the
beginning of the 14th day of Abib and also take the Passover--when He
changed it into the NEW Testament Passover--at one and the same time. So