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Passover to Pentecost – Ephesians 4:22

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Passover to Pentecost – Ephesians 4:22    Week 5 Day 6

Put your old man away, get a new attitude in your mind, and become a new you that is becoming like God – right and holy.  Ephesians 4:22 +23 (My paraphrase)

Peter was given a second chance.  Moses was given a second chance.  The good news is that we can have a second chance.

Romans 10: 9 tells us what we need to do to be saved.  But chapter 4 in Ephesians is telling us to go on in Jesus.  We are new creations with old habits.  Get the new attitude; if you got saved why hang on to any of that old life.

Peter had to leave things behind with his second chance.  The guilt of what he had done must have been very humbling to him.  Moses had to put on a new mind set in order to work the miracles he did and lead all those people.  Second chances mean you need to change.  Jesus helps with the process but you still need to work toward your new life.

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Passover to Pentecost – Moses and His Second Chance

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Passover to Pentecost – Moses and His Second Chance    Week 5 Day 5

So now, go.  I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.  Exodus 3: 10 (NIV)

When I read the accolades of Moses in Deuteronomy 34: 10 + 11 I forget that he was not always like that.  He knew God face-to-face, he did miraculous signs and wonders, and he led a captive people out of their bondage.  But that is not the Moses you meet in Exodus 3 when he first talks to God at the burning bush.  When he left Egypt at the head of a million people he was a different man than when he left ahead of an execution squad.

Moses left Egypt the first time when he was forty so he may have lived in the palace or among the royals for thirty-five years.  He should have received a royal education and knew the Pharaoh who tried to kill him. Whatever his intent was he apparently had not forgotten the five or six years he spent with his family as a child.  Jochebed, his mother, surely told him of his miraculous beginning and told him that God had something important for him to do.

The next forty years of education/living must have been a shock for the “prince” of Egypt. Instead of leading people he was leading sheep.  But by the time he was eighty he had settled in; so when God called him he did not want to go.  He had left Egypt and the Hebrews and seemed to have made no plans to go back.  He was circumcised but had not performed the rite on his sons.

In Exodus 2: 14 a man asked Moses who made you ruler and judge over us, by chapter 5 Moses could say God did.  It truly was a second chance for Moses.  How do you go from Exodus 3 to Deuteronomy 34?  Every time Moses performed one of his signs, every plague started and stopped, every test and trial the Israelites did against God, and that cloud over his head day and night transformed him from fainthearted to fearless.

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Passover to Pentecost – John 21

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Passover to Pentecost – John 21    Week 5 Day 4

He called out to them, “Friends, haven’t you any fish?” John 21: 5 (NIV)

This entire chapter is about Peter.  It is in the Counting of the Omer time period and before Jesus’ ascension.  I am going to set this on the day of the “second” Passover.  One reason is it was the full moon, they could see to fish.  My second reason is Peter “missed” the first one; between cutting off ears, running away, and the three denials at the High Priest house Peter needed a mulligan.  What better way to do it than on the “second Passover.”

It could be that Peter was choosing his fishing business over his apostolic calling, and this was not going to be a onetime thing.    The list of names in 21:2 is familiar but it was not all of the remaining Eleven.  As for Jesus’s command all of the disciples should have been somewhere in Galilee.

Much has been written on the number of fish caught (153), the different words for love used by Jesus (agape) and Peter (phileo), and the variations of the questions.  I want to focus on the public denial and the public reinstatement, and that Jesus was giving Peter a second chance.

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Passover to Pentecost – Hezekiah’s Passover

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Passover to Pentecost – Hezekiah’s Passover     Week 5 Day 3

A very large crowd of people assembled in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month. 2 Chronicles 30:13 (NIV)

     Hezekiah was reviving the worship of God in Israel.  The Temple was still there and so were the priest; they just were not being used according to God’s Word.  The priests were not ready to do their job at the first month Passover, which was to slaughter the lamb and sprinkle the blood.  Another reason was “all” of the people were not together.  This is why it was decided to use the second Passover date.  Hezekiah used this delay to invite the rest of Israel to join Judah in Jerusalem.

To put this story in the “big picture” of Passover we need to look at Chapter 29.  Hezekiah had just reopened the Temple, and the priest had to clean it out.  This started on the first day of the first month and was not finished until the sixteenth of the month; they had cleaned all the way through the “first Passover.”  This cleaning is the “removing of the yeast” that would have taken place normally before Passover.

It is recorded that members from five tribes joined Judah and Benjamin in Jerusalem.  There were aliens with them so the crowd may have been very large.  Hezekiah had to pray for these people because they had not “purified” themselves and was facing problems.  The pray acknowledged the goodness of God and prayed for mercy on those who were seeking God.  The “purification” may have been yeast or circumcision.  God heard the prayer and healed them.

God showed up and showed out as the people were so overwhelmed with His presence that they finished the first week and wanted to stay for a second week.  This led the people to destroy sacred stones, Asherah poles, high places, and altars that were in the country.

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Passover to Pentecost – The Second Passover

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Passover to Pentecost – The Second Passover    Week 5 Day 2

They are to celebrate it on the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight. Numbers 9: 11 (NIV)

Numbers 9 verse one through fourteen is about the second time Passover was celebrated.  But a family was denied the opportunity to partake in Passover because of a death in the family.  So Father God gave a second chance to celebrate and sacrifice the Lord’s Passover.  The rules are the same as the first month’s regulations and there is a warning about not taking part in the first one if you can.

This “second chance” idea is part of Israel’s history, and I will put some other stories in that may have happened at this time.