Why I Disagree with Maria Merola Wold AKA MariYah Arielle Wold About Passover

 

I just saw a post by Maria Merola Wold/MariYah Arielle Wold where she says, "I am seeing a number of ministries falsely claiming that our Messiah did not eat a Passover Meal, thus causing the Briyth Chadasha (New Testament) Scriptures to appear less credible!"

 

Despite all of Maria's excellent research, I have to wholeheartedly disagree with this statement.

 

It not only DOESN’T make the B'rit Chadasha less credible, it agrees with the prophetic timing of each part of the Passover/Unleavened Bread/First Fruits events.

I have read her description of the option of sitting for a Passover meal on the evening of the 14^th day of Aviv based on the date that Israel left Egypt. This cannot be proven. Also, once Israel left Egypt, Yah gave Israel specific instructions for the timing of future Passover observances. Even if they had eaten Passover on the 14^th in Egypt, Yah’s future perpetual instructions say to prepare the lambs on the 14^th in which case, it would NOT be a “Shabbat” because of the mass amount of work it takes to kill lambs, prepare them, and then roast them and to distribute the meat. Imagine killing and preparing all those lambs for an entire nation. The Passover memorial meal on the first day of Unleavened Bread IS a high Shabbat.

The instruction to prepare the Passover "between the evenings" is between sunset on the 14^th and sunset on the 15^th so that the meal of lamb, bitter herbs, and unleavened bread could be eaten after sunset on the 15^th, the first day of Unleavened Bread, which, as I said, IS a “High Shabbat.” This is the “Shabbat” that was the reason that they had to get Yashua’s body in the grave as quickly as possible. He died on the 14^th at the same time as the lambs were killed and was in the grave just in time for the memorial Passover meal to begin. Anyone who had been with His dead body could not sit for that particular Passover meal! Yashua couldn’t sit for that meal because He was in the grave! We don’t know how many others couldn’t but we know that Yochanan and Yashua’s mother, Miryam could not sit for a Passover meal. They would have had to wait for the Pesach Sheni!

One thing that I have learned from studying Torah is that you are not permitted to ‘add to or diminish from.’ To add optional date to eat a Passover meal would break Torah. The ONLY option other than the actual day is Pesach Sheni! The “second-chance” Passover where anyone who couldn’t make it to Israel OR they had been around a dead body could observe the Father’s instruction as He had given it to all Israel. If they had the memorial meal on the 13^th or 14^th of Aviv, He and His disciples would have been breaking Torah.

Over time, the entire week from the 14^th through the 21^st has come to be called "Passover" or "Passover week." But "Passover" is only on the 14^th day of Aviv. Counting 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, these are the 7 days of Unleavened Bread. The 14^th is not. I agree with Michael Rood that the meal that the disciples shared on the 14^th was the reenactment of the meal that Abraham had with Melchizedek and it was the last leavened bread in Israel (artos).

And as they were eating, יֵשׁוּעַ took bread [G740 artos - a loaf of bread, raised], having blessed (Yah), broke it, gave it to them and said, “Take, eat, this is My body.”
Marqos (Mark) 14:22

If you have Michael Rood’s Chronological Gospels, the outline is on page I-14 through I-18, numbers 221-275.

Maria also says this:

“In 1st Century Jerusalem, there were TWO EVENINGS for slaughtering lambs. But why? Some of you might think this is a violation of the Torah. However, consider this: I believe YaHuWaH purposely designed Passover to be “Between the two evenings,” because he knew that in 1st Century Jerusalem, the two kingdoms would be divided, and thus, would've needed two evenings for slaughtering lambs.”

• Ø  The part about not doing it on the correct day being a violation of Torah is pertinent to the prophetic shadow picture.
• Ø  Yehovah would NOT change from one evening to two separate evenings for the divided kingdoms. I agree with Hollisa Alewine, there has only ever been “Plan A; there is no Plan B.” Yashua knew full well that one day Ephraim and Judah would be ONE stick in His hand. [Ezekiel 37] He would not manipulate Yehovah’s instructions to appease a divided nation!

“Also, YaHuWaH knew that our Messiah had to eat the Passover out of obedience to the Torah, so as not be “cut off from his people” (Exodus 12:15). He had to obey the Torah in every way, in order to be the spotless lamb without blemish.”

• Ø  Yashua DID eat the Passover memorial meal every year of His life up to that point when He fulfilled it by dying on the same day that the lambs did. I know that I’m repeating myself when I say that in His human form, He could not be in 2 places at the same time, sitting for a Passover memorial meal on the first night of Unleavened Bread and be in the grave at the same time.

 I realize that this isn’t in the B’rit Chadasha but I believe that to be in obedience to Torah, Yochanan, Miryam and Yashua had a Pesach Sheni as He was on the earth in His resurrected body for 40 days after His resurrection. Within that time frame, 30 days after the first Pesach, a Pesach Sheni would be taking place for anyone in the same situation [i.e. couldn’t be in Jerusalem or had been around a dead body].

Can you imagine the elation of THAT PESACH SHENI!?

Shalom,
Marie Schryver
April 26, 2024