Worthy is the LAMB+... worthy is the LAMB+... worthy is the LAMB+ that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing! Blessing and honor and glory and power be unto HIM that sitteth on the throne and unto The LAMB+ for ever and ever. Amen.
4/14/2017
They Have Stripped ME+ of My+ Garments
This is a 3-minute chant from the English Orthodox Byzantine Church, traditionally done on Holy Thursday before the Crucifixion of CHRIST JESUS.
( It has a surprise ending; be sure to listen to the last stanza. )
While we can only count "3 nights and 3 days" from a Wednesday Crucifixion, with two Sabbaths in that Passover week, we join with other Christians in the Commemoration of The LORD'S Crucifixion on the western Christian world's "Good Friday" ... since the commemoration itself is not a matter of Salvation.
They Have Stripped ME+
of My+ Garments
English Orthodox Byzantine Chant
EnglishOrthodox Chants
Holy Thursday, They Have Stripped Me of My Garments - English Orthodox Byzantine Chant Published on Jul 18, 2014
Chanted by Vassilis Hadjinicolaou.
They Have Stripped ME+
of My+ Garments ...
for the LAST TIME !
+ + +
MARANATHA!
Come, LORD JESUS !
* We have portrayed in this video Christian ART; we do not worship images nor icons. / Sr. Judith Hannah + + +
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4/12/2017
" GOOD " WEDNESDAY
HOLY
WEEK
in
commemoration of
The
Great --- and Final --- Passover
.
CHRIST our Passover+
is sacrificed for us;
therefore, let us keep the feast.
not with old leaven,
neither with the leaven
of malice and wickedness;
but with the unleavened bread
of purity (Gk) and truth.
1
Corinthians 5:7,8
.
.
The Crucifixion
... on "Good" Wednesday
.
The LORD JESUS had sanctified the
Bread and the Cup as His+ Body and Blood for the disciples.
.
HE+ had taken the Cup --- perhaps,
His+ own Cup --- and passed it around at the Table, telling His+ disciples to
divide it among themselves.
.
His+ prayers in the Garden of
Gethsemane along with His+ first drops of blood, shed in agony, were finished.
.
The mockery of a trial by the
unrighteous authorities, both civilian and religious, had been endured, along
with the bruising dealt HIM+ by the goyim, the unclean.
.
Some more of His+ Blood was shed.
.
The crown
of thorns pierced His+ brow.
.
More
shedding of that Precious Blood.
.
Then the scourging, with leather
whips embedded with metal and sharp objects, was administered by the men of
war. At this point His+ Blood was flowing . The skin on His+ backside was in tatters.
Very likely His+ arms and legs felt the lash as well; the Romans were not known
to be gentle.
.
And HE+ had not come to the Cross yet.
.
Crucifixion would have taken place
( on our Wednesday ) at the hour of the morning
sacrifice in the Temple, the 3rd hour ... our 9 a.m.
.
As the LAMB+ of GOD, the LORD JESUS CHRIST fulfilled the entire pattern presented to Israel in the Temple
sacrifices, for they were precisely ordained of old for this reason exactly.
.
This Carpenter, this LAMB+ of GOD,
had likely carried many a beam of wood hewn from the forest. Likely HE+ had
walked many a mile in His+ 3.5 years of ministry. HE+ was hardy.
.
After His+ Agony, His+ bruisings,
His+ scourging, The LAMB+ was so depleted of blood, of His+ natural strength,
that HE+ could not carry the beam of His+ Cross and walk a mile. It would seem HE+ had super-natural strength,
though, or else medical shock would have set it.
.
Thus, they crucified the SON+ of
GOD. All the unclean... the unclean goyim...
the unclean religious leaders ... the unclean public who cried with insatiable
lust for blood:
.
" Crucify HIM+ ! "
" Crucify HIM+ ! "
.
HE+ Who+
showed mercy, had none given to HIM+.
.
.
Thus, at 9 a.m., mid-week, the day
before a High Holy Sabbath, they crucified our LORD JESUS CHRIST at the time of
the morning sacrifice in the Temple.
.
His+ words
recorded were:
.
" FATHER,
forgive them,
for they know not
what they do."
..
Do we
suppose The FATHER answered this prayer ?
.
At noon, the 6th hour, the world
went dark. It was a darkness which could be felt and NO... it was NOT an
eclipse. None had been recorded by the astronomers. Only darkness was recorded
as HE+ endured the agonies of the Cross.
.
The world is going to go dark
again soon as we prepare for His+ return to planet earth and this time, with a DIVINE
ROD of IRON.
.
The Agony of the Cross
.
Let's look at some of it. It is
written that every muscle in the body of a crucified victim locks into a muscle
spasm. We call them "a charlie horse."
.
Normally, it is only one
painful muscle which tightens and locks. Normally, it is over in minutes. HIS+
lasted hours, and there was no pulling out of them. It affected His+ entire
body.
.
Then, at the 9th hour ... 3 p.m.
our time ... HE+ said,
.
" It is finished, FATHER;
into Thy Hands
I+ commend My+ Spirit."
.
As HE+ gave the sop to Judas at
the Table, the LORD JESUS gave permission to be crucified to the Unclean.
HE+ set in motion the final act to do His+ Heavenly FATHER'S will, a plan that
was agreed upon before the foundation of the earth, Revelation 13:8.
.
HE+ did the Will of The FATHER
to bring many sons to HIM.
.
As it is written:
For it became HIM,
for Whom are all things,
and by Whom are all things,
in bringing many sons unto glory,
to make
the Captain+ of their Salvation
perfect through sufferings.
Hebrews 2:10
.
As it is written:
For it became HIM,
for Whom are all things,
and by Whom are all things,
in bringing many sons unto glory,
to make
the Captain+ of their Salvation
perfect through sufferings.
Hebrews 2:10
.
The count-down of three days and
three nights HE+ would spend in the heart of the earth began.
.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT:
.
Night one
in the heart
of the earth.
+ + +
.
Worthy is the LAMB+
that was slain
from the foundation
of the world.
4/11/2017
The FIRST Supper... The LAST Passover+
HOLY
WEEK
in
commemoration of
The
Great --- and Final --- Passover
CHRIST our Passover+
is sacrificed for us;
therefore, let us keep the feast.
not with old leaven,
neither with the leaven
of malice and wickedness;
but with the unleavened bread
of purity (Gk) and truth.
1
Corinthians 5:7,8
+ + +
The FIRST
Supper
The disciples made ready
the Passover for The LORD and His+ disciples to eat. It was indeed the LAST Passover The LORD
JESUS would eat.
However, for the disciples, it was
their FIRST Supper, their first Communion with the Body and Blood of The
LORD CHRIST.
At this time, The LORD instituted
His+ Holy Communion, or as the Early Christians called it, the GREAT THANKSGIVING , the
Eucharist ( GK ).
From
Matthew's account, chapter 26:
And as they were eating, JESUS
took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and
said,
Take, eat;
this is My+ body.
And
HE+ took the Cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying,
Drink ye all of it;
For this is My+ Blood
of the New Covenant,
Which is shed for many
for the remission of sins.
.
From
Mark 14:
Take, eat:
this is My+ Body.
And HE+ took the Cup, and when
HE+ had given thanks, HE+ gave it to them: and they all drank of it.
This is My+ Blood
of the New Covenant,
Which is shed for many.
And
from Luke 22:
.
And HE+ took the Cup, and gave
thanks, and said,
Take this,
and divide it
among yourselves:
For I+ say unto you, I+ will
not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the Kingdom of GOD shall come.
And HE+ took 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 Covenant
in My+ Blood,
Which is shed for you.
But, behold, the hand of him
that betrayeth ME+ is with ME+ on the table.
+ + +
Thus, HE+ gave them their FIRST Communion
at the LAST and Final Passover.
This Final Passover was no mere
"remembrance." No. It was the actual thing which GOD had prepared for His+ people all
along.
During any ACTUAL
Passover which is NOT a mere remembrance, there must be
blood shed to cover us so that we are not destroyed with the unbelievers.
The blood COVERS the sinner who has repented before GOD.
( Heb. = kippor = covering, or, Gk =
hilasterion, a Divine lid covering the Ark of the Covenant )
In one sense, GOD performed a
precursor to the first Passover when HE slew animals to COVER Adam and Eve's
nakedness, Genesis 3:21.
Did HE also cover their sin that
day, so that the satan could not destroy them? The satan was certainly upon
earth at that time because through his wiles, Adam and Eve brought sin into the
entire Adamic race of men.
Some say the animals slain for
their coverings were Lambs. It could have been, but Scripture is silent on
this. No blood had been shed on planet earth before that time.
No blood at all,
of either animal or man.
Would that HE+ would return
and restore planet earth
to that pristine state !
Thus, as our LORD prepared to
enter into GETHSEMANE's garden after eating the Passover Meal, HE+ prepared
His+ disciples with His+
Body and Blood to face their battle of great fear, horrifying doubt, and immense
sorrow that would soon follow.
Gethsemane,
a word from the Chaldean / Aramaic language, was the place for pressing out oil
by crushing the olives. Somehow, the "gath" root of this word also
means a treading of grapes to produce wine.
Both meanings show us Whose+ Life
was being crushed, treaded down, and wrung out during this Final Passover night in the garden
of "Gethsemane."
From Luke
22:
Saying, FATHER, if THOU be willing,
remove this cup from ME+:
nevertheless not My+ will,
but Thine, be done.
And there appeared
an angel unto HIM+ from Heaven,
strengthening HIM+.***
And being in an Agony
HE+ prayed more earnestly:
and His+ sweat was
as it were great drops of blood
falling down to the ground.***
+ + +
For even
CHRIST our Passover+
is sacrificed for us:
+ + +
*** Modern versions have removed those last two verses from
their Bibles, which is totally unjustified editing. Those Bibles are faulty and not to
be trusted as the ACCURATE Word of GOD.
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