Everybody has calendars. Whether paper or digital, everyone can know what day it is. Calendars tell us of holidays, some of which are celebrated in other nations. Jesus knew the calendar. In fact the Essenes kept several calendars, mapping the exact days and holy days in the Enoch/Zadok solar calendars compared to the Greek calendars, the Persian calendars, and the Babylonian lunar calendar. Moses was warned, as recorded in Jubilees, that changing the Enoch solar calendar would change holy days that were also celebrated in the heavens among the sons of the Elohim. Many people misunderstand Jesus celebrating the passover with his disciples before he was crucified. Some speculate that he knew he was going to die so he celebrated passover early. That is simply false. There is no provision to move the passover except for a one month extension for those traveling. Hezekiah used this provision because he was having a hard time getting all the people purified. It is striking, the humility of Hezekiah to clean up the temple and purify it so that a passover could be celebrated for the benefit of the people, not only of Judah but of Israel which was under Assyrian control. Hezekiah’s son defiled the temple and the nation until he was humbled by Yahweh Elohim, then Manasseh tried to clean up the mess that was made. The passover was to commemorate the passing over of the angel of death, sparing the first born of Jacob’s heirs, which then allowed the exodus to take place. Today, Jesus purifies us and he cleanses us so that we can enter the presence of the Father in heaven. We do not need the covering of bulls and goats to be cleansed from sin. Even if a new temple was constructed today, Jesus Messiah’s blood would still be the only way to atone for sins because Israel broke the covenant with Yahweh Elohim. They cannot do over, or redo, the previous rituals to make themselves clean. The prophecy is that a Messiah, who opened blind eyes, is the only one who can purify us.
The Israelites kept a passover in the wilderness. We do not know if they kept 40 passovers in the wilderness but it is recorded that they kept this one.
Jos 5:10 And the children of Israel kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, to the westward of Jericho on the opposite side of the Jordan in the plain.
Jos 5:11 And they ate of the grain of the earth unleavened and new corn.
Jos 5:12 In this day the manna failed, after they had eaten of the corn of the land, and the children of Israel no longer had manna: and they took the fruits of the land of the Phoenicians in that year.
This is what Jesus did, he kept the passover on the evening of the 14th.
Jesus Messiah was crucified on a Wednesday just before sundown. He rose up after midnight Saturday night. Sunday morning the grave was found opened and empty. The week that Jesus died there were technically three Sabbaths, two recognized by the Pharisees. The Pharisaical calendar was a lunar calendar in which the days began at sundown and ended at sundown, while the Essene calendar, better known as the Zadok priest’s calendar, was a solar calendar, morning to evening like as we use today. Jesus kept the original passover on the fourteenth, while that year the Pharisaical passover was the fifteenth at sundown. Tuesday the fourteenth day of the year is always the day of the passover on the Zadok calendar, which the Essenes followed. It is a fixed day that never changes. Jesus was an Essene. Jesus kept the Zadok priest passover on Tuesday the fourteenth with the disciples, washed their feet, and then went out to pray. That evening the Pharisees sent the guards to arrest him. They wanted him crucified before their passover at sundown on Wednesday the fifteenth. They twisted the arm of Pilate, the Roman guards beat and tortured him, and then tore out his beard.
Jesus died sometime around 3pm. They took his body down and put it in a new tomb, but they did not have time to anoint the body because sundown started a holy day. Thursday the sixteenth at sundown started a new day. It was still a holy day so they could not go shop for oils and spices until Friday morning the seventeenth. They gathered all the things they needed on Friday, but Friday at sundown was the weekly Sabbath. By sundown they had to stay inside until Saturday night. They could not go to anoint the body at night on Saturday the eighteenth so the women rose up early on Sunday the nineteenth to anoint Jesus’ body, but he wasn’t in the tomb.
14th Tuesday Jesus and Disciples have passover, then Jesus is arrested
15th Wednesday at 3 pm Jesus dies, sundown starts the Pharisaical lunar passover
16th Thursday evening passover is over
17th Friday Women buy oils and spices, sundown is weekly sabbath
18th Saturday evening weekly Sabbath is over
19th Sunday women rise early to anoint Jesus but he is not there
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2023/04/jesus-death-three-days-keys-to-hades.html
The Enoch calendar is clearly written in The Book of Enoch, chapters 72-75, and was used by all the patriarchs and Israelites until Judah came out of captivity and started using the lunar calendar as Babylon did. We add the holy days from the Zadok calendar as in Enoch’s day through to the exodus, there was no passover holy day.
To summarize the calendar for this year, the first day of the year is March 18, 2026. To understand the calendar we start with the equilux (equal light and darkness ) 3/16/2026, a few days before the vernal equinox, which this year is 3/20/2026. The equilux is the 24 hour period when the day and night are equal length,12 hours each. Depending on one’s proximity to the equator will make this either accurate or off by one or two minutes. We then look for the fourth day of the week after the vernal equilux. The fourth day of the week is always on a Wednesday, this was the fourth day of creation (Genesis 1:14-19) when lights divided the days and nights. This is why March 18th, the first Wednesday after the equilux, is the first day of the year. The days between the equilux and the first day of the year, 16th-17th, are called intercalary days. Every third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth month has one intercalary day, (the thirty-first day of those months) bringing the calendar to 360 counted days, and 364 in total, with the adjustment at the end of the year instead of a leap year. Daniel 9 uses a 360 day year calendar. The Enoch/Zadok calendar is sunrise to sunrise, while the lunar Pharisaical calendar is sunset to sunset. The Essenes, Assideans, Nazarenes, Therapeutaes, and Damascus Community, the prophets and the Zedek/Zadok priests all kept the Enoch/Zadok calendar.
The point of this is that the holy days are the same number day every year. The 14th day of the year is always passover. This year passover is 3/31/2026. Day 15 is unleavened bread, day 26 is first fruits, day 75 is shavuot, day 124 is new wine, day 173 is new oil, day 183 is rosh hashannah/yom teruah, day 192 is yom kippur, and day 197 is sukkot.
We see that the fourteenth day of the year is supposed to always be passover. This is the day that everyone was to celebrate the angel of death/Abaddon passing over them in Egypt. Jesus kept the true passover. The Pharisees were celebrating passover on a different day, the 15th, this is what makes the dates surrounding Jesus’ death very confusing. Satanas is happy to confuse people who somehow think that there are three days and three nights from Friday night to Sunday morning. While this is not a hinge point to salvation, it is better to be accurate and understand that Jesus died before the Pharisaical lunar passover, but that he also kept the Mosaic Law passover with his disciples.
Another calendar alteration is the yearly calendar. Accuracy can be reestablished on the yearly calendar by tracking Sabbatical and Jubilee years which is how we find the 243 missing years in the Bible. We are now in the year 6,030/6,031, from the adam to 2026/2027. Why was the Bible dating changed? It was an attempt to make someone else the Messiah, other than Jesus. For many years the Jews kept announcing a different Messiah, but since none of them opened blind eyes they had to change Isaiah’s prophecy as well. Many people have untangled Satanas’ lies and reordered the proper years and the proper dates.
There was a very large population that kept the solar calendar and celebrated passover on the fourteenth. They called themselves quartodecimans.
We don’t have a lot of information on the passovers that were kept in Israel, there were not many as the temple defilement meant people did not care to keep the passover. But a few individuals did make a great effort to cleanse the nation of Judah. Hezekiah started his reign at 25 years old.
2Ki 18:1 (Brenton) And it came to pass in the third year of Osee son of Ela king of Israel that Ezekias son of Achaz king of Juda began to reign.
2Ki 18:2 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abu, daughter of Zacharias.
2Ki 18:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David did.
2Ki 18:4 He removed the high places, and broke in pieces the pillars, and utterly destroyed the groves, and the brazen serpent which Moses made: because until those days the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called it Neesthan.
2Ki 18:5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; and after him there was not any like him among the kings of Juda, nor among those that were before him.
2Ki 18:6 And he clave to the Lord, he departed not from following him; and he kept his commandments, as many as he commanded Moses.
2Ki 18:7 And the Lord was with him; and he was wise in all that he undertook: and he revolted from the king of the Assyrians, and served him not.
The book of Kings gives us the cliff note version, while Chronicles gives us the detailed version. We attribute Kings to Jeremiah while we attribute Chronicles to Ezra.
2Ch 29:1 And Ezekias began to reign at the age of twenty-five years, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abia, daughter of Zacharias.
2Ch 29:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done.
2Ch 29:3 And it came to pass, when he was established over his kingdom, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.
2Ch 29:4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and put them on the east side,
2Ch 29:5 and said to them, Hear, ye Levites: now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and cast out the impurity from the holy places.
2Ch 29:6 For our fathers have revolted, and done that which was evil before the Lord our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their face from the tabernacle of the Lord, and have turned their back.
2Ch 29:7 And they have shut up the doors of the temple, and put out the lamps, and have not burnt incense, and have not offered whole-burnt-offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.
Hezekiah as a young man attempts to establish Yahweh’s temple service again. Why did the people or the priests and levites shut up the doors of the temple, put out the lamps, and stop offering holocaust offerings? What happened in the temple that no one used it anymore?
2Ch 29:8 And the Lord was very angry with Juda and Jerusalem, and made them an astonishment, and a desolation, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
2Ch 29:9 And, behold, your fathers have been smitten with the sword, and your sons and your daughters and your wives are in captivity in a land not their own, as it is even now.
2Ch 29:10 Therefore it is now in my heart to make a covenant, a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that he may turn away his fierce wrath from us.
Hezekiah wants to make a new covenant with Yahweh Elohim. It is interesting that Hezekiah has compassion for those who are in captivity in the northern kingdom, he wants them to come back to Yahweh as well. The people did not vote for Hezekiah, nor did they have a choice in his leadership.Yet here he is bringing the nation back to Yahweh Elohim.
I have heard some very angry people ask to see where the Elohim broke the covenant with his people. Yahweh Elohim did not break the covenant with his people, the people broke the covenant with Yahweh Elohim, over and over. They broke it in the wilderness, twice, then out of Moab, and now after Hezekiah, which lasted a short time until Manasseh. The people broke the covenant and Yahweh Elohim is not obligated to enforce it. It was conditional, remember the “if”.
2Ch 29:11 And now be not wanting to your duty, for the Lord has chosen you to stand before him to minister, and to be ministers and burners of incense to him.
2Ch 29:12 Then the Levites rose up, Maath the son of Amasi, and Joel the son of Azarias, of the sons of Caath: and of the sons of Merari, Kis the son of Abdi, and Azarias the son of Haelel: and of the sons of Gedsoni, Jodaad the son of Zemmath, and Joadam: these were the sons of Joacha.
2Ch 29:13 And of the sons of Elisaphan; Zambri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zacharias, and Matthanias:
2Ch 29:14 and of the sons of Æman; Jeiel, and Semei: and of the sons of Idithun; Samaisa, and Oziel.
He must have been a very inspirational 25 year old. He got all the priests and levites to act appropriately.
2Ch 29:15 And they gathered their brethren, and they purified themselves according to the king's command by the order of the Lord, to purify the house of the Lord.
2Ch 29:16 And the priests entered into the house of the Lord, to purify it, and they cast out all the uncleanness that was found in the house of the Lord, even into the court of the house of the Lord: and the Levites received it to cast into the brook of Kedron without.
2Ch 29:17 And Ezekias began on the first day, even on the new moon of the first month, to purify, and on the eighth day of the month they entered into the temple of the Lord: and they purified the house of the Lord in eight days; and on the thirteenth day of the first month they finished the work.
2Ch 29:18 And they went in to king Ezekias, and said, We have purified all the things in the house of the Lord, the altar of whole-burnt-offering, and its vessels, and the table of shew-bread, and its vessels;
2Ch 29:19 and all the vessels which king Achaz polluted in his reign, in his apostasy, we have prepared and purified: behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.
Achaz made idols and sacrifices to the idols of the northern kingdom. He passed children through the fire and burnt incense in high places. He sought after the gods of Damascus to appease them. Achaz took the vessels from the temple and cut them in pieces, and shut up the temple. He then made altars all over Jerusalem and high places everywhere.
2Ch 29:20 And king Ezekias rose early in the morning, and gathered the chief men of the city, and went up to the house of the Lord.
2Ch 29:21 And he brought seven calves, seven rams, seven lambs, seven kids of goats for a sin-offering, for the kingdom, and for the holy things, and for Israel: and he told the priests the sons of Aaron to go up to the altar of the Lord.
2Ch 29:22 And they slew the calves, and the priests received the blood, and poured it on the altar: and they slew the rams, and poured the blood upon the altar: also they slew the lambs, and poured the blood round the altar.
2Ch 29:23 And they brought the goats for a sin-offering before the king and the congregation; and laid their hands upon them.
2Ch 29:24 And the priests slew them, and offered their blood as a propitiation on the altar; and they made atonement for all Israel: for the king said, The whole-burnt-offering, and the sin-offering are for all Israel.
2Ch 29:25 And he stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, and lutes, and harps, according to the commandment of king David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for by the commandment of the Lord the order was in the hand of the prophets.
2Ch 29:26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
2Ch 29:27 And Ezekias told them to offer up the whole-burnt-offering on the altar: and when they began to offer the whole-burnt-offering, they began to sing to the Lord, and the trumpets accompanied the instruments of David king of Israel.
2Ch 29:28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the psalm-singers were singing, and the trumpets sounding, until the whole-burnt-sacrifice had been completely offered.
The levites and the congregation of people sang and worshipped Yahweh until the entire offering was completely burnt. Then they worshipped again.
2Ch 29:29 And when they had done offering it, the king and all that were present bowed, and worshipped.
2Ch 29:30 And king Ezekias and the princes told the Levites to sing hymns to the Lord in the words of David, and of Asaph the prophet: and they sang hymns with gladness, and fell down and worshipped.
2Ch 29:31 Then Ezekias answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves to the Lord, bring near and offer sacrifices of praise in the house of the Lord. And the congregation brought sacrifices and thank-offerings into the house of the Lord; and every one who was ready in his heart brought whole-burnt-offerings.
2Ch 29:32 And the number of the whole-burnt-offerings which the congregation brought, was seventy calves, a hundred rams, two hundred lambs: all these were for a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord.
2Ch 29:33 And the consecrated calves were six hundred, and the sheep three thousand.
2Ch 29:34 But the priests were few, and could not flay the whole-burnt-offering, so their brethren the Levites helped them, until the work was finished, and until the priests had purified themselves: for the Levites more zealously purified themselves than the priests.
2Ch 29:35 And the whole-burnt-offering was abundant, with the fat of the complete peace-offering, and the drink-offerings of the whole-burnt-sacrifice. So the service was established in the house of the Lord.
2Ch 29:36 And Ezekias and all the people rejoiced, because God has prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
Now Hezekiah sends letters to the northern tribes for them to come for passover. Now that they got the temple ready they had to cleanse the people. They didn’t have enough time to cleanse everyone by the 14th day of the first month so they used the levitical provision to celebrate passover on the 14th day of the second month.
2Ch 30:1 And Ezekias sent to all Israel and Juda, and wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasse, that they should come into the house of the Lord to Jerusalem, to keep the passover to the Lord God of Israel.
2Ch 30:2 For the king, and the princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, designed to keep the passover in the second month.
2Ch 30:3 For they could not keep it at that time, because a sufficient number of priest had not purified themselves, and the people was not gathered to Jerusalem.
2Ch 30:4 And the proposal pleased the king and the congregation.
This was an important thing to do as there were too many people and not enough priests. Hezekiah now invites the people in the northern kingdom.
2Ch 30:5 And they established a decree that a proclamation should go through all Israel, from Bersabee to Dan, that they should come and keep the passover to the Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem: for the multitude had not done it lately according to the scripture.
2Ch 30:6 And the posts went with the letters from the king and the princes to all Israel and Juda, according to the command of the king, saying, Children of Israel, return to the Lord God of Abraam, and Isaac, and Israel, and bring back them that have escaped even those that were left of the hand of the king of Assyria.
2Ch 30:7 And be not as your fathers, and your brethren, who revolted from the Lord God of their fathers, and he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
2Ch 30:8 And now harden not your hearts, as your fathers did: give glory to the Lord God, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever: and serve the Lord your God, and he shall turn away his fierce anger from you.
2Ch 30:9 For when ye turn to the Lord, your brethren and your children shall be pitied before all that have carried them captives, and he will restore you to this land: for the Lord our God is merciful and pitiful, and will not turn away his face from you, if we return to him.
2Ch 30:10 So the posts went through from city to city in mount Ephraim, and Manasse, and as far as Zabulon: and they as it were laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
2Ch 30:11 But the men of Aser, and some of Manasses and of Zabulon, were ashamed, and came to Jerusalem and Juda.
2Ch 30:12 And the hand of the Lord was present to give them one heart to come, to do according to the commands of the king and of the princes, by the word of the Lord.
2Ch 30:13 And a great multitude were gathered to Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
This is interesting as the northern kingdom was under Assyrian rule but the people were allowed to travel to Judah and worship in the temple.
2Ch 30:14 And they arose, and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all on which they burnt incense to false gods they tore down and cast into the brook Kedron.
2Ch 30:15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites repented, and purified themselves, and brought whole-burnt-offerings into the house of the Lord.
2Ch 30:16 And they stood at their post, according to their ordinance, according to the commandment of Moses the man of God: and the priests received the blood from the hand of the Levites.
2Ch 30:17 For a great part of the congregation was not sanctified; and the Levites were ready to kill the passover for every one who could not sanctify himself to the Lord.
2Ch 30:18 For the greatest part of the people of Ephraim, and Manasse, and Issachar, and Zabulon, had not purified themselves, but ate the passover contrary to the scripture. On this account also Ezekias prayed concerning them, saying,
2Ch 30:19 The good Lord be merciful with regard to every heart that sincerely seeks the Lord God of their fathers, and is not purified according to the purification of the sanctuary.
2Ch 30:20 And the Lord hearkened to Ezekias, and healed the people.
Good thing Hezekiah prayed for the un-purified people. Yahweh Elohim is merciful. However this does not re-enact the first covenant. That covenant was broken by the people and no longer in effect. Today Jesus’ shed blood, as our passover lamb, cleanses us from our sin. Jesus Messiah established a new covenant.
2Ch 30:21 And the children of Israel who were present in Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great joy; and they continued to sing hymns to the Lord daily, and the priests and the Levites played on instruments to the Lord.
2Ch 30:22 And Ezekias encouraged all the Levites, and those that had good understanding of the Lord: and they completely kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days, offering peace-offerings, and confessing to the Lord God of their fathers.
2Ch 30:23 And the congregation purposed together to keep other seven days: and they kept seven days with gladness.
2Ch 30:24 For Ezekias set apart for Juda, even for the congregation, a thousand calves and seven thousand sheep; and the princes set apart for the people a thousand calves and ten thousand sheep: and the holy things of the priests abundantly.
2Ch 30:25 And all the congregation, the priests and the Levites, rejoiced, and all the congregation of Juda, and they that were present of Jerusalem, and the strangers that came from the land of Israel, and the dwellers in Juda.
2Ch 30:26 And there was great joy in Jerusalem: from the days of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not such a feast in Jerusalem.
2Ch 30:27 Then the priests the Levites rose up and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came into his holy dwelling-place, even into heaven.
While this was a great celebration, one that the people would have remembered, it seems that as soon as Hezekiah died and Manasseh took over, the temple became defiled again. Manasseh was twelve when he took over Judah, and we should realize that his advisers were the ones who pushed an occultic idolatrous agenda on Judah. Hezekiah reigned 29 years but Manasseh reigned 55 years. We can assume the people were not crying out over the defilement of the temple and were not concerned for their own purity. Again the people were not choosing their leaders, but they got the leaders they deserved.
2Ki 21:1 Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Apsiba.
2Ki 21:2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
2Ki 21:3 And he built again the high places, which Ezekias his father had demolished; and set up an altar to Baal, and made groves as Achaab king of Israel made them; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
2Ki 21:4 And he built an altar in the house of the Lord, whereas he had said, In Jerusalem I will place my name.
2Ki 21:5 And he built an altar to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
2Ki 21:6 And he caused his sons to pass through the fire, and used divination and auspices, and made groves, and multiplied wizards, so as to do that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
2Ki 21:7 And he set up the graven image of the grove in the house of which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I even place my name for ever.
2Ki 21:8 And I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I gave to their fathers, even of those who shall keep all that I commanded, according to all the commandments which my servant Moses commanded them.
2Ki 21:9 But they hearkened not; and Manasses led them astray to do evil in the sight of the Lord, beyond the nations whom the Lord utterly destroyed from before the children of Israel.
2Ki 21:10 And the Lord spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,
2Ki 21:11 Forasmuch as Manasses the king of Juda has wrought all these evil abominations, beyond all that the Amorite did, who lived before him, and has led Juda also into sin by their idols,
2Ki 21:12 it shall not be so. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I bring calamities upon Jerusalem and Juda, so that both the ears of every one that hears shall tingle.
2Ki 21:13 And I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measure of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Achaab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a jar is wiped, and turned upside down in the wiping.
2Ki 21:14 And I will reject the remnant of my inheritance, and will deliver them into the hands of their enemies; and they shall be for a plunder and for a spoil to all their enemies:
2Ki 21:15 forasmuch as they have done wickedly in my sight, and have provoked me from the day that I brought out their fathers out of Egypt, even until this day.
2Ki 21:16 Moreover Manasses shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to the other, beside his sins with which he caused Juda to sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord.
2Ki 21:17 And the rest of the acts of Manasses, and all that he did, and his sin which he sinned, are not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?
2Ki 21:18 And Manasses slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his house, even in the garden of Oza: and Amos his son reigned in his stead.
It was at this time that Yahweh Elohim determined to deliver Judah to Babylon. While that did not happen immediately, ultimately Yahweh tried to give them space to repent. Both Jeremiah and Ezra’s account are the same. Manasseh did a reversal. He prayed and repented.
2Ch 33:12 And when he was afflicted, he sought the face of the Lord his God, and was greatly humbled before the face of the God of his fathers;
2Ch 33:13 and he prayed to him: and he hearkened to him, and listened to his cry, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom: and Manasses knew that the Lord he is God.
2Ch 33:14 And afterward he built a wall without the city of David, from the southwest southward in the valleys and at the entrance through the fish-gate, as men go out by the gate round about, even as far as Opel: and he raised it much, and set captains of the host in all the fortified cities in Juda.
2Ch 33:15 And he removed the strange gods, and the graven image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars which he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and without the city.
2Ch 33:16 And he repaired the altar of the Lord, and offered upon it a sacrifice of peace-offering and thank-offering, and he told Juda to serve the Lord God of Israel.
2Ch 33:17 Nevertheless the people still sacrificed on the high places, only to the Lord their God.
2Ch 33:18 And the rest of the acts of Manasses, and his prayer to God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the God of Israel,
Manasseh told the people to serve Yahweh Elohim. Hezekiah’s passover was a success but as soon as Hezekiah was gone Manasseh allowed Satanas into the temple. Judah has such a problem with idolatry that the temple became a magnet for occult worship. Even when people cleaned up the temple the nation went back to idolatry.
One of the reasons the Zadok priests will minister in the millennial temple is because they were of the line of Shem/Melchizedek. They had served in the first temple, the temple of Shem, and were then merged by David and Solomon to serve in Solomons temple. Ezekiel explains that the passover will be celebrated in the first month on the fourteenth day, just as Jesus and his disciples celebrated.
Ezk 45:21 And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the feast of the passover; seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread.
We might wonder about this new millennial temple. Will there be artifacts from Solomons temple? We know that there are people who were entrusted with some of those artifacts, and it is prophesied that they will bring these back to the temple for Yahweh Jesus Messiah. After the battle on the Day of the Lord, the Messiah will bring His people back to Jerusalem.
Zep 3:9 For then will I turn to the peoples a tongue for her generation, that all may call on the name of the Lord, to serve him under one yoke.
Zep 3:10 From the boundaries of the rivers of Ethiopia will I receive my dispersed ones; they shall offer sacrifices to me.
Zep 3:11 In that day thou shalt not be ashamed of all thy practices, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then will I take away from thee thy disdainful pride, and thou shalt no more magnify thyself upon my holy mountain.
Zep 3:12 And I will leave in thee a meek and lowly people;
Zep 3:13 and the remnant of Israel shall fear the name of the Lord, and shall do no iniquity, neither shall they speak vanity; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed, and lie down, and there shall be none to terrify them.
This is good news. The people who were truly heirs of Jacob, who were scattered, will be brought back and they will not be ashamed of their sins. Jesus is the root of Jesse.
Isa 11:10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall arise to rule over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust, and his rest shall be glorious.
Isa 11:11 And it shall be in that day, that the Lord shall again shew his hand, to be zealous for the remnant that is left of the people, which shall be left by the Assyrians, and that from Egypt, and from the country of Babylon, and from Ethiopia, and from the Elamites, and from the rising of the sun, and out of Arabia.
Isa 11:12 And he shall lift up a standard for the nations, and he shall gather the lost ones of Israel, and he shall gather the dispersed of Juda from the four corners of the earth.
Moses said Yahweh would bring his people back from the four corners of heaven and earth.
Deu 30:4 If thy dispersion be from one end of heaven to the other, thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and thence will the Lord thy God take thee.
Mat 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
But there is something else. What will the Ethiopians bring?
Isa 18:1 (Brenton) Woe to you, ye wings of the land of ships, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia.
Isa 18:2 He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water: for swift messengers shall go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? a nation not looked for, and trodden down.
People, messengers, will be sent to Ethiopia, a lofty nation, to strange people. This is a hiding place, heirs of Judah are not looked for there, they are trodden down. Remember, Judah is not in captivity at this time. This is far in the future.
Isa 18:3 Now all the rivers of the land shall be inhabited as an inhabited country; their land shall be as when a signal is raised from a mountain; it shall be audible as the sound of a trumpet.
They will hear the sound of a trumpet. There will be security in this city.
Isa 18:4 For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be security in my city, as the light of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.
Isa 18:5 Before the reaping time, when the flower has been completely formed, and the unripe grape has put forth its flower and blossomed, then shall he take away the little clusters with pruning-hooks, and shall take away the small branches, and cut them off;
Isa 18:6 And he shall leave them together to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth: and the fowls of the sky shall be gathered upon them, and all the beasts of the land shall come upon him.
Before the trumpet sounds, there will be safety, but after it sounds, it is the time of reaping. The trumpet signals the harpazo. The tribulation is a time of reaping. At the end of the tribulation people will be left for the birds, Revelation 19. But the remnant will start their journey.
Isa 18:7 In that time shall presents be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people afflicted and peeled, and from a people great from henceforth and for ever; a nation hoping and yet trodden down, which is in a part of a river of his land, to the place where is the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Sion.
Certainly there are not going to be many presents people can bring at the end of the tribulation. What things of value will come from people hiding in Ethiopia? Some believe the ark of the covenant. Maybe there will be other temple furnishings.
The 14th day of the year will always be the passover, even in the millennial kingdom, just as Jesus celebrated it with his disciples. Yahweh was willing to overlook the un-pure who made the effort to celebrate Him, but today our confession of Yahweh Jesus Messiah cleanses us. In the millennial he will bring the remnant back and they won’t be ashamed of their sin. The event that triggers the tribulation is not the building of the temple, it is the harpazo, the rising up and away, the above congregation. The hidden remnant is safe until the trumpet sounds. We should look at the nations that the remnant comes out of. Why aren’t the remnant in Israel? Yahweh Messiah determines the timing according to the number of nations entering in. Yet when we look at a map of where Christians are living, we see a very small number of Christians in the middle east. Jesus kept the true passover for us and he welcomes anyone who wishes to join him. The bridegroom is coming for his bride.
