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What is a seder?

A meal- used in the Bible as a way to come together— to reconcile and to resolve differences— between God and the people; between people and people

a seder is a time to remember

matzo & wine- unleavened bread (leaven a picture of sin)

leaven of the Pharisees- hypocrisy

leaven of Herod- worldliness

leaven of the Sadducees- did not believe in resurrection; intellectual and political power to the neglect of the Holy Spirit’s work

I Corinthians 5:6-7: “Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:”

singing of a hymn

they reclined at the table

in Exodus 12, they stood

in Canaan, they reclined— the work of redemption was complete

THREE STREAMS OF INFORMATION:

The Scriptures— this is what God said about the Passover

Jewish tradition— found in the Haggadah (a Jewish text that outlines the Seder)

Kadeish: A blessing is recited over wine in honor of the holiday. The wine is then drunk and a second cup is poured.

Urchatz: Participants wash their hands without a blessing in preparation for eating the Karpas.

Karpas: A vegetable (typically parsley, celery, or potato) is dipped into salt water and eaten. The salt water is symbolic of the tears shed by the Jews during the Egyptian slavery.

Yachatz: Three matzot have been set up on the Seder table. At Yachatz, the middle matzo is broken in half. The larger piece is set aside as the afikoman, which will be eaten at Tzafun.

Maggid: Maggid is the bulk of the Haggadah. It includes the retelling of the Passover story, the recital of the four questions, and drinking of the second cup of wine.

Rachtzah: Participants wash their hands for a second time in preparation for eating the Matzo.

Motzei: A blessing is recited before eating matzo.

Matzah: Some matzo is eaten.

Maror: A bitter vegetable is eaten (typically raw horseradish, endives, or romaine lettuce), symbolizing the bitterness of slavery. The bitter vegetable is dipped into charoset, a traditional food that combines apples, wine, nuts, and cinnamon, symbolizing the mortar for the bricks used by the slaves.

Korech: A sandwich made of matzo and maror is eaten.

Shulchan Orech: means “set table”; Dinner, which includes traditional Passover foods, is eaten.

Tzafun: The matzo that was set aside earlier, the afikoman, is now eaten as dessert.

Bareich: Participants recite birkat ha-mazon, Grace after Meals, and they drink the third cup of wine. The fourth cup is poured, as well as a cup set aside for Elijah the Prophet, who is supposed to herald in the Messiah on Passover. The door is opened to invite Elijah in

Hallel: The Hallel prayer, traditionally recited on festivals, is recited (and often sung) at this point. Finally, the fourth cup of wine is drunk.

Nirtzach: The seder is now completed with the wish that next year the holiday will be celebrated in Jerusalem. This is often followed by various traditional songs, hymns and stories.

Jesus— how Jesus took non-Scriptural, Jewish traditions and used them as objects lessons to teach on the nature of the gospel

THE WHOLE MEAL IS BASED UPON FOUR PROMISES

Exodus 6:5-8: “And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord.”

Notice these four promises-

I will bring you out

I will ride you out of their bondage

I will redeem you with a stretched out arm

I will take you for a people and be to you a God

Put another way, the meal speaks of the people’s

SANCTIFICATION

DELIVERANCE

REDEMPTION

PROTECTION

In time, each of the four promises was associated with a cup of wine.

4 CUPS OF WINE

The Meal began and ended with a cup of wine (most likely 1 cup but four drinks of wine)

Did Jesus drink the cup of Elijah?

Elijah's cup, in Judaism, the fifth ceremonial cup of wine poured during the family seder dinner on Passover (Pesaḥ). It is left untouched in honour of Elijah, who, according to tradition, will arrive one day as an unknown guest to herald the advent of the messiah.

And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God [CUP OF PROTECTION]

Matthew 26:29: “But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord.”

There was another cup, however, that Jesus drank- It’s the 5th cup- It’s a cup full of wrath against the nations.

Jeremiah 25:15-17: “For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. Then took I the cup at the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me:”

CUP OF WRATH-

Malachi 4:5: “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:”

In the Jewish tradition, this cup was filled but not drunk- and the idea is that it will not be drunk until the coming of Elijah.

Matthew 26:39-42: “And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.”