Another year of 14 Nisan with restricted access

For two years, our services could not continue physically. Fortunately, we had Zoom and Jitsi to reach our members via the internet.

For months, Bible students have been prevented from going to the houses to bring the Good News. Like last year, no leaflets have been put in the mailboxes to invite people to the 14 Nisan celebration. This year too, that highlight of the church year will be a day of silence or modesty. But for the first time in a long time, our baptised members, in limited numbers, will also be able to meet in the Kingdom Hall, this Friday evening at 20:15 (in English). Baptised members will also be able to follow the memorial service on the net via a video stream from the auditorium.

Unfortunately, for security reasons, as we are so often attacked, we have to limit access to the service via the internet to those we know well and to family members present at the baptisms. Those who are not baptised can therefore unfortunately not take part in this highlight of the year.

But we are hopeful that in the coming months the situation around Covid will gradually improve and that in a few months (after the summer) we will be able to meet again in the Ecclesia hall, Bible study room and/or Kingdom Hall.

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Dutch version / Nederlandstalige versie: Nog een jaartje 14 Nisan met beperkte toegang

Preceding

Preparing for 14 Nisan

14 Nisan a day to remember #1 Inception

14 Nisan a day to remember #2 Time of Jesus

14 Nisan a day to remember #3 Before the Passover-feast

14 Nisan a day to remember #4 A Lamb slain

14 Nisan a day to remember #5 The Day to celebrate

Fellowship over meals

Coming together for a meal to remember a special lamb

When Belonging to the escaped ones gathering in Jesus name

Most important weekend of the year 2016

Preparing for the most important weekend of the year 2018

The Most important weekend of the year 2018

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Additional reading

1. Coronavirus, Vaccinations and an Old and New World
2. A Holy week in remembrance of the Blood of life
3. Catholics facing a totally different Holy Week
4. Celebrations pointing to events of ultimate meaning
5. The son of David and the first day of the feast of unleavened bread
6. High Holidays not only for Israel (Our World) + High Holidays not only for Israel (Some View on the World)
7. Deliverance and establishement of a theocracy
8. Days of Nisan, Pesach, Pasach, Pascha and Easter
9. 14-15 Nisan and Easter
10. Seven days of Passover
11. Most important day in Christian year
12. Vayikra after its opening word וַיִּקְרָא, which means and He called
13. Observance of the Lord’s Evening Meal
14. Solution for Willing hearts filled with gifts
15. Actions to be a reflection of openness of heart (Our World) + Actions to be a reflection of openness of heart (Some view on the World)
16. Eostre, Easter, White god, chocolate eggs, Easter bunnies and metaphorical resurrection
17. Preparation for Passover
18. Shabbat Pesach service reading 1/2
19. Yom Hey, Eve of Passover and liberation of many people
20. Observance of the Lord’s Evening Meal
21. This day shall be unto you for a memorial and you shall keep it a feast to the Most High God
22. Celebrations pointing to events of ultimate meaning
23. Lost senses or a clear focus on the one at the stake
24. Inauguration of the New Covenant
25. Not dragged unwillingly to death
26. Spoken in the name of Jehovah God for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience
27. A particular night to share unleavened bread and red wine
28. The Memorial Supper
29. Asking to come under the Wings of God
30. Memorial Observance 1909
31. Fraternal week-end at Easter in Paris
32. A night different from all other nights and days to remember
33. Worthy partakers of the body of Christ
34. Making sure we express kedusha for 14-16 Nisan
35. Wednesday 5 April 2017 – Sunday 9 April 30 CE Pesach or Passover versus Easter
36. Thinking about fear for the Loving God and an Invitation for 14 Nisan
37. Only a few days left before 14 Nisan
38. Able to celebrate the Passover in all of its prophetic fulfilment
39. The Most special weekend of the year 2018
40. At the Shabbat HaChodesh: readings about blood, liberation and purification
41. Purification and perfection
42. Soon it shall be Erev Pesach and Passover 2019
43. A great evening and special days to look forward in 2019
44. Not daring to show a connection (Our World) + Not daring to show a connection (Some View on the World)
45. Terwijl wij in Isolatie zijn: Beste wensen op dit Feest van Bevrijding – From our isolation best wishes on this Feast of Liberation
46. Even in Corona time You are called on to have the seder
47. Hosting a Virtual Seder During a Pandemic
48. One Passover tradition asking to provide the less fortunate with foods and help
49. In a time when we must remain in our place

 

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Related

1. A Simple Easter Passover Lesson for Kids
2. Learn About Passover With Books, Recipes & More!
3. Passover: A Sign to Remember
4. Significance of Passover (repost)
5. Passover: What Does Freedom Even Mean?
6. The medieval history of Passover: libel, conspiracy, and hope for freedom
7. Three Things About Passover
8. Passover and the Church
9. Passover, Easter and the Christian
10. The Lamb of God
11. He is Our Passover Sacrifice!
12. BE DeliveredAll In: Remember, We Won, Let’s Eat!
13. Interested in Exploring a Jewish Passover Seder?
14. First Two Days of Pesach
15. The Passover Celebration and Jag Hamatzot
16. Jesus and the PassoverA Story and A Prayer for Passover
17. Blood Poured Out
18. Passover Circa 33 AD; Hallel
19. It was yet another Passover meal–or was it? (Maundy Thursday, Year C)
20. Passover vs. Easter [where the writer wrongly insinuate that in Christianity (where he means Christendom), the easter egg became associated with Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection. Real Christians always have kept away from those heaten symbols and the pagan feast Easter].
21. 4/13/2022 Passover Observation at Even
22. Do Not Pass-Over Sabbaths

Preparing for 14 Nisan

Mankind received God’s commandments so that they could have something to hold on to and have some guidance to build up their life.

Man had chosen to go his own way. Lots of people thought they could do without God,though as soon as time proved too difficult for them they were always fast to ask God for help or even for blaming Him for their problems.

On several occasions God came to help man. For the liberation of the Egyptian slavery God asked them to cleanse themselves and to remember that night of slaughtering the lambs.

Passover (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Many years later when the Holy Temple stood in Jerusalem, every Jew had to be in a state of Tohorah or ritual purity in time for the bringing of the Passover offering in the Temple. Today, though we’re unable to fulfil the Temple-related rituals in practice. In a way we should fulfil them spiritually by studying the given laws in the Torah. As such, Jews for example study and read the section of Parah (treatise in the Mishnah and the Tosefta, included in the order Tohorot) in preparation for the upcoming festival of Passover.

We do have to struggle here on earth with the restrictions and challenges of our world. Though we try to build up our life, when we love God we want to do that according to the bible, God’s infallible Word. These coming days, coming closer to 14 Nisan, we should take time to question ourselves if we could manage to live according to the Will of God.

Let us wonder if we really all the time believed in only One God, or did our thoughts wander about some other gods? Did we do no get carried away by idols? Did we keep a regular day of rest and did we take a regular time to think about God and to praise Him? Have we shown the respect we should show to our parents, teachers and those above us, but also to those lower than us? Where we ,at all times be willing to share our love with others? Where we willing to forgive the people who did something wrong against us?

These coming days the above questions should be in our head and have us to examine the attitude we took over the year against others.

Always remembering that when we are lovers of God we should not be part of this world but part of the Body of Christ, living up to the Will of God, which we can get to know by reading the Bible regularly. Only that way we can stay on the path of purity.

“9  [Beth] How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

10  I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. 11  I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. 12  Praise be to you, O LORD; teach me your decrees. 13  With my lips I recount all the laws that come from your mouth. 14 I rejoice in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches. 15 I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways. 16 I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word.

17  [Gimel] Do good to your servant, and I will live; I will obey your word. 18  Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law. 19  I am a stranger on earth; do not hide your commands from me.” (Psalms 119:9-19 NIV)

Today those commandments are not hidden for us. They are at our disposal.
It is that Word of God we should allow us to cleanse us. As spiritual water it should run over us and wash down all the dirt which may have come over us. Every day, over and over again, we should let ourselves be inspired by that heavenly Word that purifies those who are willing to give themselves in the Hands of the Most High. Allowing ourselves being guided by that Word of God, we shall find the right directives for our actions and attitudes, thereby keeping us steady on the right path.

When we do come to the memorial meeting of 14 Nisan, (April 10, 2017) we should be clean to come before our Most High, to show our gratefulness for the ransom offer His only begotten son gave. Let us prepare for that special occasion.

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Preceding articles

Christians, secularism, morals and values

Pesach and a lot of brokenness in the world

On the first day for matzah

14 Nisan a day to remember #3 Before the Passover-feast

14 Nisan a day to remember #4 A Lamb slain

14 Nisan a day to remember #5 The Day to celebrate

 

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Additional reading

1. What shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits
2. Getting fate in your change to positiveness
3. Flowing out from a genuine spiritual “heart”
4. Cleanliness and worrying or not about purity
5. Making sure we express kedusha for 14-16 Nisan
6. Reciting the Aleinu as a warning against temptation of idolatry
7. What Does The Bible Say About….Fornication?
8. Sukkoth, Gog, Magog, Armageddon, a covenant and Jerusalem
9. Christianity like Judaism God’s call to human responsibility
10. Without God no purpose, no goal, no hope
11. See God’s wonderworks and hear His Voice
12. Commemorating the escape from slavery
13. Festival of Freedom and persecutions
14. Seven Bible Feasts of JHWH
15. Holidays, holy days and traditions
16. Redemption #4 The Passover Lamb
17. Remember the day
18. Shabbat Pesach service reading 1/2
19. Shabbat Pesach service reading 2/2
20. Easter holiday, fun and rejoicing
21. Why we do not keep to a Sabbath or a Sunday or Lord’s Day #2 Testimony
22. Why we do not keep to a Sabbath or a Sunday or Lord’s Day #3 Days to be kept holy or set apart
23. Yom Hey, Eve of Passover and liberation of many people
24. A Passover for unity in God’s community
25. A Great Gift commemorated
26. Anointing of Christ as Prophetic Rehearsal of the Burial rites
27. A Messiah to die
28. An unblemished and spotless lamb foreknown
29. The Song of The Lamb #5 Revelation 5
30. The Song of The Lamb #7 Revelation 15
31. This day shall be unto you for a memorial and you shall keep it a feast to the Most High God
32. Exodus 9: Liar Liar

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Further reading

1. ‘Choose purity…are you asking me or telling me?’
2. How can you be an ardent lover of truth?
3. Purity
4. Pursing Purity
5. How to Overcome the Sin in Your Life
6. A Healthy spiritual heart
7. Today’s fragrance: keeping your ways pure
8. Available
9. Core values part 2
10. Passport to Purity
11. “Pure In Heart And Life” 03/21
12. The Window Cleaner
13. Pleasure of God, Part 2
14. The Rosary- Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart

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