Was the Passover a Sin Offering? — in Ancient Israel
Almost all of us read the Passover as being about sin. But open Exodus 12 and notice what the lamb is never once called. The whole account is pointing somewhere else.
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Does Leaven Really Mean Sin?
“The kingdom of heaven is like leaven.” The sentence should stop us — because most of us were handed a reading that makes it impossible. What if leaven was never sin at all?
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Through What Lens Do We View the Feasts?
There’s more than one way to look at God’s feasts — and most of us never notice we’ve already chosen one. Change the lens, and what looked like rules and a calendar starts pointing somewhere.
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The Same Shape at Every Scale
The week has a shape — six and a seventh, then a new beginning. Watch that same shape turn up in the years, the Jubilee, Pentecost — until you notice you’re standing inside several at once.
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Where Does the Week Come From?
Every unit of time — the day, the month, the year — has a celestial anchor. The week doesn’t. That absence points somewhere specific.
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Who Are The Nicolaitans?
Revelation 2:6 says God hates the deeds of the Nicolaitans — but who were they? The name was never translated into English, only carried over by sound. Translate it and it speaks plainly: “conquest over the people.” The deed Christ hates is lording over others.
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A People, Not a Place
“Church” isn’t a translation of the word Jesus used. It’s a substitution — one that points toward a building instead of a people. What the original word actually means is worth a closer look.
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When Do Days Begin & End?
When does a day begin? Since the clock, we say midnight. The Bible says evening — sunset. But it never pins down the exact minute — and that quiet imprecision is worth sitting with.
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Does God Have A Plan?
Does God have a plan? Most of the world assumes not. Scripture says yes — and that the plan has a center: everything in heaven and on earth gathered under Christ. The feasts were the shadow of it, sketched in advance. The body casting the shadow was always him.
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What Is Sourdough Bread?
When the Bible talks about leaven, it isn’t talking about the little packet of dry yeast from the grocery store. It’s talking about sourdough — a living culture you maintain and feed. Make sourdough once, and the leaven texts will never read the same way again.
