Preparing for Passover (Pesach פסח) 2025 – are you ready?
By now, and if you have studied the Sabbatical & Jubilee Calendar series under End-Times, you will now know about God’s Holy Days, His set-apart days, that we are called to remember.
Have you ever explored your Bible and understood the Six Days To Passover with Jesus or have you just accepted the Easter timings taught to most Christians?
When is Passover?
As of today, the Barley Report from Israel is that the barley will not be AVIV in time for a Wave Sheaf Day in February.
This means we will complete an Adar Bet month, a 13th Month before the New Biblical year begins. Remember from my post,#05 So many Calendars exist!, that this is Yehovah’s way for us to take into account:
…the synodic month, or complete cycle of phases of the Moon as seen from Earth, averages 29.530588 mean solar days in length (i.e., 29 days 12 hours 44 minutes 3 seconds); because of perturbations in the Moon’s orbit, the lengths of all astronomical months vary slightly. The sidereal month is the time needed for the Moon to return to the same place against the background of the stars, 27.321661 days (i.e., 27 days 7 hours 43 minutes 12 seconds); the difference between synodic and sidereal lengths is due to the orbital movement of the Earth–Moon system around the Sun. The tropical month, 27.321582 days (i.e., 27 days 7 hours 43 minutes 5 seconds), only 7 seconds shorter than the sidereal month, is the time between passages of the Moon through the same celestial longitude. The draconic, or nodical, month of 27.212220 days (i.e., 27 days 5 hours 5 minutes 35.8 seconds) is the time between the Moon’s passages through the same node, or intersection of its orbit with the ecliptic, the apparent pathway of the Sun.
As a calendrical period, the month is derived from the lunation—i.e., the time elapsing between successive new moons (or other phases of the moon). A total of 12 lunations amounts to 354 days and is, roughly, a year. A period of 12 lunations was therefore used by some primitive peoples to make their calendrical year. As is obvious, the lunar-based year (and a calendar derived from it) cannot be accurately correlated with a solar-based year, and the month’s continued use in the Gregorian calendar of modern times is merely a recognition of its convenience as a calendar division.
Every 4 years, our Gregorian Calendar uses the Leap Year in an attempt to correct this same thing. Deeper explanation is found in the posts, Years and Months.
Yehovah’s timing ties His provision of Aviv Barley AND the new Crescent moon, together, to determine the beginning of a New Year. His timing, not ours.
Because we cannot extend past 13 months, that means Month One, this year, will be as early as March 1st, 2025 based on the sighted moon after sunset on February 28.
It will be:
Saturday, March 1, 2025
The 2nd Year of the 5th Sabbatical Cycle of the Red Heifer, Famine, Curse of Captivity & Judgement, and The 2 Witnesses.
The 5th Sabbatical Cycle after the 119th Jubilee Cycle.
The 30th Year of the 120th Year of the Jubilee Cycle.
The 1st day of the 1st Month,
5861 years after the creation of Adam.
As I mentioned in the post, The Door:
Leviticus 23:1-3 MKJV
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
(2) Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, The feasts H4150 of Jehovah, which you shall proclaim, holy convocations H4744, even these are My appointed feastsH4150.
Let’s look at the words and define them even more.
The first word I am going to look at is Convocations, which the MKJV translates as “appointed.”
H4744 מקרא miqrâ’ BDB Definition: 1) convocation, convoking, reading, a calling together, 1a) convocation, sacred assembly, 1b) convoking, 1c) reading
Strongs: H4744 מקרא miqrâ’ (mik-raw’) From H7121; something called out, that is, a public meeting (the act, the persons, or the palce); also a rehearsal: – assembly, calling, convocation, reading.
These are His convocations in which we are to assemble together, publicly, for reading and rehearsals.
Let’s look at the word translated, Feast:
H4150 מועדה / מעד / מועד mô‛êd / mô‛êd / mô‛âdâh BDB Definition: 1) appointed place, appointed time, meeting, 1a) appointed time, 1a1) appointed time (general), 1a2) sacred season, set feast, appointed season, 1b) appointed meeting, 1c) appointed place, 1d) appointed sign or signal, 1e) tent of meeting
Strongs: H4150 מוֹעָדָה מֹעֵד מוֹעֵד mô‛êd mô‛êd mô‛âdâh mo-ade’, mo-ade’, mo-aw-daw’ From H3259; properly an appointment, that is, a fixed time or season; specifically a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand): – appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn (-ity), synagogue, (set) time (appointed).
Yehovah tells us to assemble at a fixed time to read and rehearse something on the seventh day, Sabbath, and each of the seven annual Holy Days.
Let me now share with you the ancient meaning of the Paleo for the Hebrew word, mô‛êd:
Strongs #4150: AHLB#: 1349-L (a)
1349) Do% (עד AhD) ac: Repeat co: ? ab: Witness: The pictograph o is a picture of the eye, the d is a picture of the door. Combined these mean “see the door”. As coming to a tent a tent of meeting and entering in. A place, time or event that is repeated again and again.
L) Doi% (יעד YAhD) ac: Meet co: Appointment ab: ?: An appointed place, time or event that is repeated such as the monthly and yearly feasts. The word Moed, translated in English as Feasts, means to be a repeated witness.
am) Dofm% (מןעד MW-AhD) – I. Appointment: A time that is repeated time after time. II. Company: A group that meet at specific times. [freq. 224] |kjv: congregation, feast, season, appointed, time, assembly, solemnity, solemn, days, sign, synagogue| {str: 4150, 4151}
af1) Edofm% (מןעדח MW-Ah-DH) – Appointed: A place appointed for as a witness. [freq. 1] |kjv: appointed| {str: 4152}
Yehovah is telling us to convocate, or assemble, on these Holy times of meeting to witness what He is going to do on them and to be His witness to some event He will bring about. But we must be there on those proper days in order to witness these events. If we are not there, or keeping the wrong days, we will not see them, and we will not be witnesses.
Therefore, based on the Biblical instructions, we can now:
Remember the significant event of the Last Supper
Matthew 26:26-29 MKJV
(26) And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat, this is My body.
(27) And He took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink all of it.
(28) For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
(29) But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.
Remember the Foot Washing ceremony that Yeshua (Jesus) performed
John 13:1-17 MKJV
(1) And before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come when He should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own in the world, He loved them to the end.
(2) And when supper had ended, the Devil now having put into the heart of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon to betray Him,
(3) Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and went to God,
(4) He rose up from supper and laid aside His garments. And He took a towel and girded Himself.
(5) After that He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.
(6) Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, Lord, do You wash my feet?
(7) Jesus answered and said to him, You do not know what I do now, but you shall know hereafter.
(8) Peter said to Him, You shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me.
(9) Simon Peter said to Him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and head.
(10) Jesus said to him, He who is bathed has no need except to wash his feet, but is clean every whit. And you are clean, but not all.
(11) For He knew who would betray Him. Therefore He said, You are not all clean.
(12) So after He had washed their feet and had taken His garments and had reclined again, He said to them, Do you know what I have done to you?
(13) You call Me the Teacher, and Lord, and you say well, for I AM.
(14) If then I, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
(15) For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.
(16) Truly, truly, I say to you, A servant is not greater than his master, neither is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.
(17) If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
Preparation Day itself
This is when the final preparations for the Passover meal is completed… before sunset.
It is the last time to remove all the leaven from our homes. Even as Christians, this is a wonderful exercise to engage in. It starts several weeks before and if you have ever attempted it, you will realise why it takes so long! A powerful and enlightening time to intentionally look into our lives each year and consider where sin has entered our lives like leaven has entered our homes.
How often do we take the time to reflect upon this?
When I did it for the first time, I was shocked. As I did the ‘Spring Clean’ in the physical by removing leaven in the home (have you ever look under the couch or fridge for crumbs?!), I began to see how sin (leaven) had creeped into my life in different and subtle ways. My eyes were opened! I was mortified. I’m glad I started early so as not to rush… I thought I could easily do it in a day. Yet, it took me 3 weeks to work through it all and I had just completed it by Preparation Day. My advice, start early!
And we can pause to remember that Yeshua died, as the sacrificial lamb, on the cross at ~3PM on Preparation Day.
Exodus 12:6 MKJV
(6) And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month. And the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.Matthew 27:45-50 MKJV
(45) And from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
(46) And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is, My God, My God, why have You forsaken me?
(47) Some of those who stood there, when they heard, said, This one calls for Elijah.
(48) And immediately one of them ran and took a sponge and filled it with vinegar, and he put it on a reed and gave it to Him to drink.
(49) The rest said, Let Him alone, let us see whether Elijah will come to save Him.
(50) And crying again with a loud voice, Jesus released His spirit.
Lambs were always slaughtered for Passover at ~3pm (the 9th hour) Wednesday, Nisan 14th, on the Preparation Day. The word “evening” is explained in the Six Days To Passover with Jesus.
As a memorial, eat the Passover (Exodus 12:1-14)
This is one of the Seven Feasts (mô‛êd). We have already seen how it has commemorated the Passover of the Angel of Death before the Exodus from Egypt. We have seen how Yeshua (Jesus) was selected on the 10th Day of Nissan as the Passover Lamb and was sacrificed on Preparation Day for our sins. And there is a coming third event at Passover
Exodus 12:1-14 MKJV
(1) And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
(2) This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
(3) Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month they shall take to them each man a lamb for a father’s house, a lamb for a house.
(4) And if the household is too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take according to the number of the souls, each one, according to the eating of his mouth, you shall count concerning the lamb.
(5) Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You shall take from the sheep or from the goats.
(6) And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month. And the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
(7) And they shall take some of the blood and strike on the two side posts and upon the upper door post of the houses in which they shall eat it.
(8) And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
(9) Do not eat of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs, and with its inward parts.
(10) And you shall not let any of it remain until the morning. And that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.
(11) And you shall eat of it this way, with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in a hurry. It is Jehovah’s passover.
(12) For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am Jehovah.
(13) And the blood shall be a sign to you upon the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you. And the plague shall not be upon you for a destruction when I smite in the land of Egypt.
(14) And this day shall be a memorial to you. And you shall keep it as a feast to Jehovah throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by a law forever.
“Forever” means just that, forever. And that ends only when time ceases at the end of the 7th Millenium and Eternity is ushered in.
Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread (Exodus 12:15-20) as commanded for us to do so forever (Exodus 12:17)
The lead up to this Feast is a very interesting experience as I testified above. I also made my own unleavened bread… I actually liked it.
It was the eating of unleavened meals over the 7 days and eating unleavened bread was a disciplined challenge (especially being on a church camp with others preparing food; I took my own unleavened bread). Do you realise just how much of our meals have leaven in them?! What I learnt over those 7 days was profound.
Exodus 12:15-20 MKJV
(15) You shall eat unleavened bread seven days; even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
(16) And on the first day shall be a holy gathering, and in the seventh day there shall be a holy gathering for you. No manner of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.
(17) And you shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall keep this day in your generations by a law forever.
(18) In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
(19) Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses. For whoever eats that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, among the aliens and among the natives of the land.
(20) You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your dwelling-places you shall eat unleavened bread.
The Calendar for you to prepare for 2025
Remember: it depends on the sighted moon in Jerusalem on 1st March, 2025 or 2nd March, 2025.
If 1st March, 2025:
If 2nd March, 2025:
Did you notice how just one day impacts when Shavuot (Pentecost) is to be observed. This is a good example why we must understand the appointed days and how to calculate them correctly. It was the same for the Disciples… imagine if they were a week out and missed the appointed time and subsequently the Gift of the Holy Spirit!!
Shavuot (Pentecost) is the next significant event that is directly linked to the timing of Passover… and if you have done the work and studied the posts in the End-Times series, you will understand ‘types and shadows’ and why it will be very important you get the timing of this correct; especially in 2030A.D.
Now is the time to practice so you are prepared.
If you want to know more about God’s Festivals, read Leviticus 23 and Deuteronomy 16.
I also have written papers on How To Observe Passover, Fasts of the Firstborn, Passover – De-Leavening Your Home, and even Making Unleavened Bread.
Sometime in the future I may, if time permits, post these papers on this site… meanwhile, contact me if you want any of them emailed to you.
