Depends if you want to follow the Catholic model of the mass (multiple times a day eucharist), or the Protestant anytime communion, or the Biblical Apostolic Passover model.
The false interpretation of “often” in 1Cor 11:26 is where most give their reason for their whim days and events. They often take the word to mean any time and as much as a person, church, or pastor wants. Why is it that none of the whim days include the right day/evening on which Jesus instituted it? They will fight for the word "often" to justify their whim event, but let us use it for the Passover evening and they go stark raving mad. So we have every Sunday, first Sunday, Christmas, new years eve, Easter, weddings, baptisms, revivals, and many other whim days. To justify this they apply their false interpretation to “often.” They claim “often” cannot mean one time a year. It means many times during the year.
I refuted this many years ago with the following questions:
1) How often do you celebrate your birthday?
2) How often do you celebrate your wedding anniversary?
3) How often do you celebrate 4th of July?
4) How often do you celebrate new years?
5) How often do you celebrate Christmas?
6) How often do you celebrate Easter?
7) How often do you celebrate Valentine’s Day?
8) How often do you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day?
9) How often do you celebrate Thanksgiving?
Obviously the answers to all these proves that “often” can mean one time annually.
If you ask a Jew how often they celebrate Passover they will tell you one time a year. What is so hard to grasp that?
When Jesus observed his last annual Passover, it was on that night he gave the Church their memorial of him. He was giving the Church an annual memorial of his death on Calvary. This was to replace the old Passover. If it replaced the old Passover, then it replaced it on a specific day, on a specific evening, and in a specific month.
We have no evidence of an anytime Lord’s Supper by the early Church. They observed it on the evening of Abib 15, having prepared for it on Abib 14.
What we do find in history is the fight between Rome and the Catholics and the Eastern Asia Apostolic Churches. The fight was over the observance of Passover and Easter. In history this is called the Easter Controversy. It is also called the Quartodeciman Controversy. The argument was whether or not to observe Easter and the resurrection, or observe the Lord’s Supper on the same night the Jews observed their ancient Passover. The Asian Apostolic Churches claimed they were following the example taught to them by the Apostle John. Polycrates was a Pastor of the Asian group and he wrote that they followed the ancient practice of the Apostles. The Catholic and Nicaea monks claimed their practice of celebrating Easter came from the Apostles Peter and Paul. We know this is all false. But the fight was settled at Nicaea where 318 monks voted for Easter and no Lord’s Supper just observance of the resurrection. Oh, yes, they had a mass, but it was not the real Lord’s Supper. They voted against the annual Passover celebration and made it illegal. From that time the doctrine of “often” meaning any time has been the Roman model. It is the Protestant model. And for most Jesus Name people they are not far from their mama.
So, we have a choice, accept the work of the Nicaea monks or accept the ancient practice of the Asian and Israel Apostolic Churches.
Passover was always an annual event. It was the type and shadow of the real Passover on Calvary. The type and shadow was fulfilled on Calvary on Passover. And Paul said Jesus was our Passover (1Cor 5:7). Since this is the words of an Apostle we do not need two, three or a dozen witnesses to verify this fact. If he said it once it is the Word of God. If Christ is our Passover on what day shall we observe it? On pagan new years eve? On some whim day. On any day but the right day?
The choice is yours to make. If you can accept the Nicaea monks on this one, you can accept all their other changes also. If you reject their other changes on baptism and the trinity, why resist rejecting their Easter falsehood to replace the Lord’s Supper on Passover?
Because the Apostles were all Jewish and they were in the habit of annual Passover celebrations, there is no need for this to be a contention among them and it was not. Paul gave the Gentiles the Lord’s Supper teaching in 1Cor 11:23. I want you to notice the words of Paul that he said he delivered to them what he had received from Jesus himself (from the Lord). And he said Jesus told him “THE SAME NIGHT.” The same night Judas betrayed him and the same night he served them unleavened bread and the cup. I cannot express the importance of “THE SAME NIGHT.”
Well what was that night?
If you are honest you will admit it was Passover night.
And if you are honest, you will give up all those pagan days the Lord’s Supper is forced on people. You will no longer accept whim days and events. You will respect the day of Passover not as do the Jews, but yes, on the same day they observe their old Passover, because it was on this one day of the year, Jesus gave us his memorial, shed his blood, and became our Passover Lamb. The Jews do not want us to celebrate this on their Passover. It will remind them of the one day in eternity they rejected their Messieh.
Shall we give more respect to our annual birthdays and other annual days?
I cannot at this time give you any other reasons to observe the Passover of Jesus, than what I have given you. There is more, but until you accept this you do not need the rest. In fact it will do you no good. Even this is putting new wine in an old bottle. And it can cause you to explode on me.
Passover this year is the evening after sundown on April 7th. If you have never done it right, how about this year doing it right?
Passover begins in Jerusalem and then goes around the world. For those west of the international date line, do not go by the Gregorian calendar. Abib Passover begins in Jerusalem and ends when that day is over in Jerusalem. Those west of the international date line (180 degrees) will observe Passover on the evening of April 8th. This includes all those islands and land areas falling west between 180 and 40 degrees longitude. While it will be April 8th according to the Gregorian calendar, it will still be April 7th and Abib 15 according to the Passover Jerusalem calendar. The Catholic church knows how to mess up a beautiful annual event and make it confusing. If our days started in Jerusalem instead of out in the Pacific along the 180 degree longitude lines, this confusion would end. For those who cannot figure this out, follow my instructions and you will be in perfect harmony with the annual Passover that begins in Jerusalem.
Do not allow others to deceived you that it is on some other night. There are many perverters out there and they cease not to pervert the right ways of God. Some of these perverters read my blog and my web site and pervert the right evening on purpose to deceive others and cause them not to observe the Lord’s Passover on the right evening. They have their reward. Follow me as I follow Christ.
If you fall in with these perverters, you just as well follow the Catholic church who also has selected their own false days.
All God's children should be gathered to the Table on the evening of April 7th.
Jesus bless you more,
Bishop Reckart
Made by God, for God
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This year let us observe the Passover of Jesus with honor. We are planning a great evening here in Tampa, Florida. It will be our greatest Passover ever. I am preparing my 2012 video presentation now. If you plan to attend here in Tampa, please let me know. I screen everyone who will attend.
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Lord willing I will be in Ireland a few days after the Passover. Please pray for me....
We will be doing it April 7th here also Bishop
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