The date of the memorial
Friday, April 11th, 2025 (14th Nisan) after 7:30 pm.
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This year Memorial study will include four articles from The Herald Publication. These are:
From Exodus Until Memorial
Questions for the March/ April – The Herald article: “From Exodus until Memorial”
1) What did the first Passover Lamb accomplish?
2) The Passover Lamb was an allegory of Jesus who did what for mankind?
3) What was the “opening of the Temple” in Paragraph 3
4) Aaron spoke for Moses to Pharaoh in the first three plagues. Why?
5) In the note #1 (bottom of page 8) what does the number 7 symbolize?6) How does God separate His people?
7) What is the Feast of Unleavened Bread?
8) What does the seven days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread represent in Para. 3 on page 9?
9) What was the 10th plague that changed Pharaoh’s mind?
10) Why was the lamb to be roasted and what the unleavened bread and the bitter herbs represent?
11) The slaying of the Passover Lamb represented what?
12) The Passover Day at the Exodus is a good explanation of the calendar timing of the Jewish Passover.
Nisan 10
Israel’s Passover Celebrations
Resurrection of Jesus – An Open Tomb
History of Easter
1) What is the origin of the word “Easter,” and how has it come to be applied to the Passover season?
2) To what day, rather than a period, has the name “Easter” been attached?
3) What should we consider the most appropriate day for celebrating our Lord’s Resurrection?
4) What is the larger view of the term “Easter,” as held by Catholics, and what superseded the celebration of the Memorial Supper at its appropriate time?
5) What was the change in method of counting the date of our Lord’s death and when was it instituted? How does this differ from the Jewish reckoning? For more information on the disagreements amongst the brethren regarding the calculation method see:
a) Charles Redeker’s article in the March/April 2005 issue of the Herald
(http://www.heraldmag.org/2005/05ma_10.htm)
b) P.S.L. Johnson’s note in the LHMM edition of Studies in the Scriptures, vol. 6, pgs. 733-736 (https://www.biblestandard.com/uploads/2/1/4/9/21496142/sits6_-
the_new_creation[web].pdf)
c) The Watchtower, February 15, 1990, pgs. 13-15 https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lpe/1990124#h=25:0-33:88)
6) What was the special appropriateness of our Lord’s being crucified at the full moon?
7) What statements from McClintock and Strong’s Encyclopedia and other recognized religious and secular authorities corroborate the foregoing positions?
Link to the American Cyclopædia, vol. 6 (1879). Article on Easter, its customs and date controversies is found on pgs. 373, 374:
https://ia800904.us.archive.org/24/items/americancyclopae06ripluoft/americancyclopae06ripluoft.pdf
Link to McClintock & Strong’s Cyclopædia, vol. 3 (1891). Articles on Easter and the Easter Controversies are found on pgs. 12-14:
https://ia600202.us.archive.org/5/items/CyclopaediaBiblicalTheologicalEcclesiasticalLiterature.Mcclintock.Strong/03.CyclopaediaBiblicalTheologicalEcclesiasticalLiterature.v3.EF-.Suppl.McClintock.Strong.NY.HarpBroth.1891..pdf
“THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME” (Luke 22:19)
Memorial Study – March 17, 2024
Anton Frey’s “Notes on the Passover and the Memorial”, pgs. 25-29 (up to the Hebrews 10:21-24 subheading)
Read 1 Corinthians 11:23-29 and answer the questions.
The Passover and the Memorial by Anton Frey
The Passover in the New Testament Study
Passover Reviewed Passover included a series of actions or steps leading to the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Passover meal (Exo 12:2-3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14-15, 17-18). Based upon these scriptures, the Passover meal is included within the seven (7) day Feast of Unleavened Bread. They are two separate but related events (Mar 14:1) often called Passover. …study questions
Israel’s Passover Celebrations
The Old Testament describes six specific accounts of the Passover and its future celebrations, though more are briefly referenced. These instances include:
- The actual passing over of the first born, the eating of the lamb before their journey out of Egypt, and the command to keep the Passover “throughout your generations” (Exodus Chapter 12).
- In the wilderness of Sinai with Moses (Numbers Chapter 9).
- When they reached the promised land at Gilgal with Joshua (Joshua Chapter 5).
- During the reign of Judah’s King Hezekiah (2 Chronicles Chapter 30).
- During the reign of King Josiah (2 Chronicles 35).
- Ezra’s return to Israel from the Babylonian exile and the restoring of Solomon’s Temple (Ezra Chapter 6). There were others mentioned in passing during the description of the celebration under King Josiah in 2 Chronicles 35:18 that were not detailed to an event or king (“No Passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet; none of the kings of Israel had kept such a passover as was kept by Josiah… “).
Memorial Study – EXODUS 12: 1- 29
1) What does the term ‘Passover’ mean?
Exo 12:11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’S passover.
Exo 12:27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
2) Why is the Passover in the 1st month of the Hebrew year?
Exo 12:2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
3) What was the 1st feature of the law given Israel?
Exo 12:14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
4) What did each lamb sacrificed represent?
It was a type of the lamb of God, Jesus (Jn 1:29), who shed his blood for the household of faith in order to give them life from out of death and sin. Specifically, beyond the general salvation, his sacrifice gives those faithful spirit- begotten, his first fruits or representative first borns from among the dead, the opportunity to be chosen as his body, much like the Jewish first-borns became represented in the tribe of Levi – where the tabernacle services and priesthood came. (1 Cor 5:6, Rev 5:12)
5) Why was Jesus compared to a lamb?
(Joh 1:29, 36, 1Pe 1:19, Rev5:6) His blood shed was related to the pascal lamb’s, whose blood was put one the post (similar to the heave) and the lintel, (similar to the wave) of blood of sin offering sacrifices in the tabernacle.
6) Why were the animals (lamb or goat) to be without defects?
Signify without sin as Christ). (Heb 5:6, 1 Pet 1:19, Heb 7:26, 1 Jn 3:5)
7) What did the blood signify?
(Heb 9:13-14, 1 Pet 1:2) Exo 12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
8) How long were the Israelites to commemorate the Passover?
Exo 12:14 … ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
Exo 12:15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
Memorial Study – Studies in the Scriptures Volume 6, pages 457- 461
Page 457
1) What did the Passover signify?
2) What did the passing over signify looking back on this momentous event?
3) What interest does the New Creation have in what happened to Israel back
4) What does the ‘mystery’ refer to at bottom of the page?
Page 458
5) At the time of the Passover, what does fleshly Israel and components of Egypt refer to?
6) Can men and women extricate themselves from sin and death?
Page 459
7) What does the Red Sea represent?
8) In type and antitype who were the firstborn?
9) In the type, the firstborn of Israel were subject to the second death but are the firstborn in in New Creation subject to the second death also?
Page 460
10) Who are the sons of God?
11) The passed over houses in that Passover night represented who or what?
12) The bitter herbs represented what?
Page 461
13) Why was each household on Passover night to eat with staff in hand and girded for a journey?
14) What is the ‘liberty’ spoken of for the Sons of God?
Vesper Meditation
Most studies will be from Memorial Meditations book.
