Preparation for the Passover was from Nissan 10th through the 14th.  The Passover lamb was sacrificed to Yahweh on the 14th, between the evenings. High noon is when the Sun begins to set, then at about 6 PM it seems to speed up as it slips below the horizon. Those were considered the two ‘evenings’ or the two ‘settings’. Sacrificing the lamb at 3 PM allowed 3 hours for prep time prior to the sunset. Sunset is when the Great Sabbath began.  Jesus breathed out His last old covenant breath at 3PM. Jesus then spent the last three daylight hours of the 14th in the place of the dead, without His breathing body. His body was taken off the post and placed into a tomb before dusk. 

The sacrifice of the lamb was part of the preparation for the passing over. The passing over took place in the middle of the night, for all households who had the faith to outline their doorway in their personal lamb’s blood. The feast of lamb and unleavened bread began at dusk, behind the blood stained door frames of each individual home. It was safely marked as a household that believed, so the death angel passed by that door and their firstborn was spared; the executor of that household heritage lived on. 

They began to eat the lamb at nightfall of the 14th, as the 15th day of Nissan began. At the same time they started the seven days of unleavened bread. The count to seven days became an annual commemoration of their cleansing from the old leaven of Egyptian culture, as they left their life of slavery and embarked on their journey to the promised land. It actually took them 40 years to complete (seven) their journey. 

Passover Sacrifice Day
Leviticus 23:5  In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between evenings is the passover to Yahweh.

Jesus entered Jerusalem on the 10th. He was sacrificed on the 14th as the Passover Lamb of God that would bring them into their new covenant world with a living firstborn. He was fulfilment of the Passover lamb typology. His body was carried to the tomb and placed out of sight before they feasted on lamb. Their fulfilment sacrifice was beyond their sight as they continued to indulge the types that night, behind their blood stained doorways. The Lamb of God, who took away the sin of the house of Israel, had to be resurrected into a new covenant and then ascend to the true temple in heaven, before they could become spiritual and leave their old covenant world of corruption. The Passover sacrifice was the day before the Passover meal.

Matthew 26:1-5 LITV 1 And it happened, when Jesus finished all these sayings, He said to His disciples, 2 You know that the Passover is coming after two days, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified. 3 Then the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people were assembled to the court of the high priest, the one named Caiaphas. 4 And they plotted together in order that they might seize Jesus by guile and kill Him. 5 But they said, Not during the feast, that there be no uproar among the people.

Matthew 26:14-18 Then one of the twelve going to the chief priests, the one named Judas Iscariot, 15 said, What will you give to me, if I deliver Him up to you? “And they weighed to him thirty silver pieces.” Zech. 11:12 16 And from then he sought an opportunity to betray Him. 17 As the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread approached, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, Where do you desire we should prepare for You to eat the Passover? 18 And He said, Go into the city to a certain one and say to him, The Teacher says, My time is near; with you I will keep the Passover with My disciples. 

Jesus was preparing for the Passover with His disciples. It was not lamb that they had together when they broke bread. It wasn’t even time to eat unleavened bread yet. Bread is the preliminary food before the main meal, even at restaurants today. It was specifically the sacrificial lamb that caused God to ‘pass over’ their firstborn just prior to the first exodus. Unleavening portrayed a purification from their old culture of slavery to sin. Maybe they were planning on eating lamb and unleavened bread with Jesus, at the same place they ate the last of the old covenant bread together. Maybe His disciples did eat lamb and unleavened bread there, with the owner of the house, after Jesus died. Jesus said, “With you I will keep the Passover with my disciples.” That would have been in the night of the 15th. Jesus was taken off the cross on the 14th and placed into a tomb. He would not be at that man’s house to eat lamb with them as the 14th dusked into the night of the 15th. The broken bread, the poured out wine, and the sacrificial lamb were all in preparation for the day of exodus feast. Jesus was sacrificing His old covenant life.

The feast of Lamb was on the 15th. Sacrificing the lamb was part of the preparation. They took the lamb into their house on the 10th and prepared it for the Passover for days, while still consuming old bread and wine, but the Passover meal itself includes the lamb and the unleavened bread. Jesus used the old leavened bread and wine to portray His old covenant sacrifice. He gave up His old covenant spiritual life so they could eat unleavened bread with the lamb. As old covenant bread He was broken. As old covenant wine His blood was poured out. He didn’t need new life. They did. That’s why His old covenant sacrifice was greater.

He had no problem seeing logical metaphors in His creation. He didn’t really become bread or wine at a meal or a lamb on the cross. He fulfilled what all the types pointed to; Himself being sacrificed. He died as the sinless human to end the insufficient animal and food sacrifices. He is portrayed as the sufficient animal, bread and wine sacrifice. He sacrificed His old covenant life as the only begotten of Yahweh. He was begotten again by the same Holy Spirit that conceived His flesh body, as the new firstborn executor of the heritage, so they could inherit His new leaven (breath, Life, rising to stand from flat dead) in the renewed humanity of God.

HIS NEW CREATION BREATH WAS SENT TO THEM FROM HEAVEN AFTER HIS DEATH, BURIAL AND RESURRECTION 

John 20:22 YLT and this having said, he breathed on them, and saith to them, `Receive the Holy Spirit;

Adam Clarke Commentary He breathed on them – Intimating, by this, that they were to be made new men, in order to be properly qualified for the work to which he had called them; for in this breathing he evidently alluded to the first creation of man, when God breathed into him the breath of lives, and he became a living soul: the breath or Spirit of God (אלהים רוח ruach Elohim ) being the grand principle and cause of his spiritual and Divine life.

Luke 22:7 YLT And the day of the unleavened food came, in which it was behoving the passover to be sacrificed,

We know the first day of unleavened bread starts on the 15th after the old leaven is buried. Then they eat flat bread for 7 days. After they ate the lamb they awoke and left Egypt in haste taking only  unleavened bread from Egypt. 

The word translated in the past tense as ‘came’, in Young’s Literal Translation, doesn’t make sense to us. ‘It is coming and it continues to come’, makes sense. The first day of unleavened bread doesn’t arrive until the old leaven is buried. The Exegesis Companion Bible translates it this way.

THE FINAL PASACH OF YAH SHUA
Luke 22:7 ECB And the day of matsah comes, to sacrifice the pasach:

The day of unleavening was coming. The lifeless lamb and the lifeless bread would be eaten together. They were both sacrificed on the same day. The old yeast was sacrificed the same day the lamb was sacrificed. The 14th became the day to rid the house of leaven and bury it prior to the first day of unleavened bread. At the evening of the 14th is when the 15th began. Jesus fulfilled all the metaphors that pointed to Him.

John 1:36 And looking at Jesus as he walked, he said, Behold the Lamb of God!

Jesus applied His blood to the house of Israel. They were then instructed to pick up their post and follow Him outside the earthly city gates. They were not instructed to apply His blood to their house. The Passover was already done when Jesus told them to pick up their post and follow Him. The spiritual exodus was at hand. 

Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and pick up his post and be following Me.

They didn’t really have to carry a timber outside the city like Jesus did. If they did, it would either come from the doorway of their home or from the same Roman government who supplied Jesus with one. The house of Israel, who called for Jesus blood to be upon them and their children, wanted to stay in ‘Egypt’. They actually called for His blood liability on their households, rather than apply the Passover pardon from the true Lamb of God. They did not want His spiritual life. They preferred their temporary breath. They did not want to give up their typical stake in old covenant Jerusalem under Roman rule. They could not give up their status with the old husbandman. They chose to remain in Egypt rather than participate in the second exodus.

The term Christian antisemitism is also an oxymoronic juxtaposition. Not only was Christ a Jew, He came and saved the Jews first. The ones who rejected Him were Semitic antichrists. They arrogantly called for the destruction of the old covenant types they were so attached to rather than participate in it’s spiritual fulfillment. What comes 53 days after the Passover sacrifice of Christ if not the Holy Spirit filled Jews? 

N.T. Wright, an Anglican New Testament scholar and theologian, said, “The tragic and horrible later use of Mt. 27.25 (‘his blood be on us, and on our children’) as an excuse for soi-disant ‘Christian’ anti-semitism is a gross distortion of its original meaning, where the reference is surely to the fall of Jerusalem.”

The common view, until recently, saw the new covenant church as the new yeast and new wine Jerusalem. Jews in Jerusalem received the Holy Spirit on the anniversary of Israel’s typical birth as a nation. What better day for the nation to be born spiritually? The Jews were given their new soul 53 days after Jesus was sacrificed as their fulfillment Passover Lamb. He took the place of the firstborn. But death couldn’t hold Him. His resurrection was on first fruit of barley harvest. It was in the third day, after the sacrifice of lamb and leaven took place. Jesus was sacrificed so He could send the new leaven from heaven to insure the spiritual life of the firstborn humanity. Pentecost resurrection was fifty days after Jesus’ resurrection; by the same Holy Spirit that put breath back into His human body.  

Jesus was the first fruit of barley harvest. Barley malt was then used to make the wheat rise. The first fruit of wheat harvest was on Pentecost. Out with the old leaven and in with the new. Jesus was 40 days in the land and ten days in heaven before sending the new leaven. The seven days of unleavened bread insured that none of the old yeast was reintroduced while the first fruit of the new harvest malted. Under the United Kingdom’s Scotch Whiskey Laws, a “Single Malt Scotch Whisky” must be made exclusively from malted barley.

Wine, like whiskey, is already antiseptic. Yeast is on the grape skins of every new harvest, but that yeast all dies when the sugar turns to alcohol. So metaphorically it was the old wine skins that had to be discarded after the wine was poured out. They expanded when the yeast fermented the grape juice. Old skins would burst if reused to hold the new wine. The old covenant skins had already been stretched to their limit and had to be discarded. 

Hebrews 8:7-13 CLV 7 For if that first one were unblamable, no place would have been sought for a second. ” 8 For, blaming them, He is saying, “Lo! the days are coming, the Lord is saying, “And I shall be concluding with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant, 9 Not in accord with the covenant which I make with their fathers In the day of My taking hold of their hand To be leading them out of the land of Egypt, Seeing that they do not remain in My covenant, And I neglect them, the Lord is saying, 10 For this is the covenant which I shall be covenanting with the house of Israel after those days, the Lord is saying: “Imparting My laws to their comprehension, On their hearts, also, shall I be inscribing them, And I shall be to them for a God, And they shall be to Me for a people.” 11 And by no means should each be teaching his fellow citizen, And each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord!’ For all shall be acquainted with Me, From their little to their great, 12 For I shall be propitious to their injustices, And of their sins and their lawlessnesses should I under no circumstances still be reminded.” 13 In saying “new, He has made the former old. Now that which is growing old and decrepit is near its disappearance.”

Verses 8 through 12 reference Jeremiah 31:31–34.  God’s intent was to use the new covenant in the order of the Melchisidec priesthood (without genealogy) —to secure the salvation of humanity. Their rituals and laws pointed to a Messiah without beginning or ending. Even the tabernacle was an earthy pattern, of the real altar in heaven. 

God is the one who completed the old covenant with the new covenant, because the old system was flawed and imperfect. The new is better, because it is not made with earthly things but rather a heavenly fulfillment.  This awareness of a replacement for the Levitical priesthood was well known in the Jewish Scriptures.

Psalm 110:4 Yahweh has sworn, and does not change His mind, `You are a priest unto the age, According to the order of Melchizedek.’

He was able to become a priest for His people and bring them into the new covenant age that never ends, only after He ascended to heaven. He couldn’t be a typical priest. The old creation firstborn was indeed redeemed by eschaton Adam and reborn as the new creation firstborn. The priesthood of Adam became the priesthood of Christ. The old covenant people of Yahweh were moved into the new covenant. The chosen ones were not replaced by others or obliterated. They were given the life of Christ. They were resurrected. As The Passover Lamb, Jesus took the place of the first born individual of the household (Adam) and the first born nation (Israel) so they could inherit eternal life. Now He is the first born in the new covenant household of Yahweh in the order of Melchisidec. He is the executor of the heritage.

Yeshua in Hebrew is a verbal derivative from “to rescue”, “to deliver”.

1 Peter 1:1,18-19  Peter, an apostle of Yeshua Messiah: To the chosen pilgrims of diaspora… in sanctification of Spirit… ECB knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptibles as silver or gold of your vain patriarchal traditions; but with the precious blood of Messiah, as of a lamb, unblemished and unstained:

Ezekiel 36:26-27 ECB 26 and I give you a new heart and a new spirit I give within you: and I turn aside the stony heart from your flesh and I give you an heart of flesh: 27 and I give my spirit within you so that you work to walk in my statutes and guard my judgments and work them.

Replacement of the priesthood was still partially prophetic when Hebrews was written. The sacrifices by the Levitical priests were ongoing when the book of Hebrews was written to the Hebrews in transition. Their temple was still standing and animal sacrifice was still being offered in it. The old priesthood was, “ready to vanish away” then, but it hadn’t vanished yet. The Jewish temple was yet to be obliterated by the Romans, in that generation. The Levites are no longer sacrificing animals in the old covenant, just as predicted. 

The completion/shalom (teleos) was not even possible under the old covenant law mode.

Hebrews 7:11 ECB 11 So indeed, if completion/shalom were through the Levitical priesthood, – for under it the people set the torah – what need was still there that another priest rise after the order of Malki Sedeq and not worded after the order of Aharon?