It happens that the last day of the Jewish Passover falls on Resurrection Sunday this year, so last night me, my brother Keith, and my Dad went to a Messianic Jewish meal, called the Meal of the Messiah. It was awesome! I've never been to a Passover sedar so I can't compare them, besides that I know a sedar looks back to the past and the Meal of the Messiah looks to the future; Christ's coming. There are so many things that were completely foreign to me, like the music for example.....
Some of it was in English, and some in Hebrew. I tell you, trying to twist my tongue around some of those Hebrew words took some doing, and some of them I didn't even get. But I tried!
During the Passover, the Jews cannot eat anything that is leavened...so we had matza instead of bread.
We ate a lot of it! I really enjoyed the taking of the bread, well matza, and of the wine...which is really Kedem grape juice lol. We sat at a table with five other people. Our bottle of grape juice was only 32 ounces, the leader of the meal said, "Pace yourselves so they'll be enough for you each to have 4 cups." The cups were not very big. He also said, "In a traditional Jewish home, they wouldn't be drinking Kedem's grape juice, and they wouldn't be pacing themselves." lol
There were many songs we sang, but my favorite was called Nishmat Kol Chai. This is an English translation. It was absolutely beautiful!
All in all, I really enjoyed the evening. There were a lot of things that were a little, no a lot, foreign to me. But there was just something about being in a company of with some of God's chosen people, and participating in their tradition. Who knows? In Heaven we might be worshiping like the Jews did then and a little like they do now. We may be worshipping in Jerusalem next year! That's is the statement they ended the evening with, "Jerusalem next year!"
Amaiyn!
