God instructed Israel they were to keep Passover a memorial, by an ordinance forever. Since that night in Egypt the Jews have kept the feast of Passover, and I was once able to experience it firsthand.
Some time ago, I spent Passover with a religious family on what the world calls “the West Bank.” The Bible calls the particular place where I was “the mountains of Israel,” or “Samaria.” Because it is considered by many to be dangerous territory, my host family’s relatives would not come to their home.
A Tradition Of Obedience And Blessing
So I was the only guest at the special Seder Meal. The smallest child asked the question, “How is this night different from all other nights?” (See Ex. 12:26). In answer, the English-speaking father throughout the long night’s observance related the account of the Exodus to the children as if it had been their very own family which was delivered from Egypt.
I watched with interest when the middle of the three pieces of unleavened bread was hidden in the household and the children went to search for it. There was great joy when the bread was brought forth from its hiding place.
How precious is the blessing over the bread: Blessed art Thou, Oh, Lord, King of the Universe Who brings forth bread from the earth. Of course, I thought of Jesus. As a Jewish boy, He kept the law.
Every year of his life He kept Passover. He kept Passover those years He was training His disciples. But when He came to the last Passover He would keep, the Bible emphasizes His intense desire to eat it with them.
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God instructed Israel they were to keep Passover a memorial, by an ordinance forever. Since that night in Egypt the Jews have kept the feast of Passover, and I was once able to experience it firsthand.
Some time ago, I spent Passover with a religious family on what the world calls “the West Bank.” The Bible calls the particular place where I was “the mountains of Israel,” or “Samaria.” Because it is considered by many to be dangerous territory, my host family’s relatives would not come to their home.
A Tradition Of Obedience And Blessing
So I was the only guest at the special Seder Meal. The smallest child asked the question, “How is this night different from all other nights?” (See Ex. 12:26). In answer, the English-speaking father throughout the long night’s observance related the account of the Exodus to the children as if it had been their very own family which was delivered from Egypt.
I watched with interest when the middle of the three pieces of unleavened bread was hidden in the household and the children went to search for it. There was great joy when the bread was brought forth from its hiding place.
How precious is the blessing over the bread: Blessed art Thou, Oh, Lord, King of the Universe Who brings forth bread from the earth. Of course, I thought of Jesus. As a Jewish boy, He kept the law.
Every year of his life He kept Passover. He kept Passover those years He was training His disciples. But when He came to the last Passover He would keep, the Bible emphasizes His intense desire to eat it with them.
The King James Version translates it, “I have earnestly and intensely desired….” Knox translates it, “I have longed and longed….” You see, the time had come when He could reveal that He was the bread without leaven (sin) which would be broken for man and come forth from the earth.
He could reveal that He was the Lamb whose Blood was shed for man.
With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer…. And he took the bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
(Luke 22:15,19-20)
A Better Covenant
Believers living under the New Covenant have the right to enter the communion of the Blood “which is shed for you” and to draw a Blood line Satan cannot cross.
If we do not have that right, we do not have a better covenant based on better promises. But we do! (Heb. 8:6).
In Egypt at the first Passover, they applied the blood with a hyssop branch. Since the Lord’s Passion, we apply the Blood by faith.
Because we believe in the power of the Blood in our hearts, we apply the Blood with our mouths over the doorposts of our lives for divine protection and so that evil will pass by our lives once again.
Be sure you are speaking and relying on the precious blood of Jesus in your daily walk with the Lord!
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers
Billye Brim's Christian heritage is rich. She sensed the call of God in early childhood. However, it was only after an encounter with the Holy Spirit in 1967, that she as a young wife and mother of four began to follow Him to walk out her call. For almost ten years she served as Editor of Publications for Kenneth E. Hagin Ministries where she also taught at Rhema Bible Training Center.
Immediately after ordination in 1980, she traveled to Soviet Russia in what proved to be ongoing ministry there. Since then she has literally ministered around the world several times over.
Kent and Billye Brim with Lee and Jan Morgans founded a local church in Collinsville, Oklahoma. A Glorious Church Fellowship is the foundation of Billye Brim Ministries and Prayer Mountain in the Ozarks in Branson, Missouri, and the soon-to-be-built Migdal Arbel Prayer and Study Center in Israel.
When Kent passed away in 1986, Billye was led to "study Hebrew in the Land." Studying at Ulpan Akiva in Israel led to the unique Seminar Tours she has guided in the Land from 1986 to now. It also provided a pattern for the Prayer and Study Center in Israel.
"Helping Pray-ers" is a God-given directive in her life. One place this happens is at Prayer Mountain in the Ozarks near Branson, Missouri. On 200 plus acres log cabins provide places for individual prayer or small prayer groups. Corporate prayer meetings are held twice a week in the chapel.
On Wednesdays at 12 Noon Central Time, the meeting is streamed live. Pray-ers (who have named themselves World-Wide Pray-ers) join in united prayer via thousands of computers in more than 60 nations. This prayer is focused primarily on an Awakening to God. For in a corporate prayer meeting in June 2008, Billye Brim and the pray-ers were impressed with these words: One thing will save America…an Awakening to God. One thing will avail for Israel and the nations, An Awakening to God. Several thousand pray-ers from around the world gather in Branson for an Autumn Assembly of Prayer she hosts.
Billye Brim is blessed to work with others across the Body of Christ. She strongly believes in walking out what Scripture teaches that we are one Body, with one Head, one Spirit, one Lord.
First Corinthians 10:32 is foundational in Billye Brim's ministry. The "good works that He has ordained that she should walk in" involve activity among the Jews, the Nations, and the Church-all to the Glory of God.