April 2, 2018 at 1:12 am
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Thank you so much David for this understanding of the Chagigah you have shared with me! It makes perfect sense and harmonizes the scriptures as well. While studying out the Chagigah, I learned that for Passover, men would give lambs as a “festival offering”. How beautiful and poetic was it that our Messiah Yahusha could not give a lamb as his “festival offering” because he was “the Passover lamb”! Yahusha symbolically gave his body (bread) and blood (the cup) as his “festival offering”! Blessed be the lamb of Elohim! How powerful and moving is this? It’s understandings like this (through cultural/historical/verbal expressions) that truly help us to understand and harmonize scripture where there “seems” to be disharmony. The Jewish expression “3 days and 3 nights” is another great example of this. The Bible is perfect! If there ever seems to be any disharmony in anything one maybe be studying, it is because we lack the understanding. I have learned so much through your studies and I thank you again for sharing the understandings and truth found on your website! They have truly blessed my life!!! 😀 I pray blessings upon your life and ministry in the name of Yahusha! Stay strong!!!
Ann, here’s more information that I found:
They were, in fact, keeping the hagigah (sometimes also transliterated chagigah) on the eve of the 14th of Abib before the Passover Day of Preparation and Yahusha was elevating the “remembrance meal” that begins Passover to its spiritual fulfillment!
A Chagigah literally means a “Festival Offering”, and they were held before the Three Pilgrimage Festivals (Passover, Shavuot, Sukkot).