Palm Sabbath: The Day Judah Chose Their Passover Lamb

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Noel Joshua Hadley

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THE OCCASION BY WHICH JESUS MOUNTED upon the foal of a donkey and descended down the southeastern slope of the Mount of Olives was no ordinary day. It was the tenth of Nissan, a Sabbath—or Saturday, April 21, 31 AD by the Gregorian calendar. We can quickly deduce that the timing of His triumphant entry into Jerusalem was no accident—nor was it a literary coincidence. This was the day in which the Passover lamb was selected. After culling a lamb free of any blemish, the children of Israel were commanded to bring the coming sacrifice into their house. In Exodus we read:

Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a lamb for each household.

Exodus 12:3

By entering Jerusalem on this day and in such a manner as to fulfill the prophetic words of Zechariah, Jesus announced His anointing. Their Messiah had arrived. It was as if the words of John the Baptizer whistled in the breeze: “Behold, the lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world!” And the throngs of pilgrims, likely pouring in from every corner of the Roman world, perhaps a million in number, clearly understood His message. They gave Him the royal treatment He deserved. Many spread their garments in the way, and others stripped branches from the trees in order that the final leg of his two mile procession from Bethany might be met with a pathway of salutations.

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Actually, heir convergence was defined by groans for salvation.

“Hosanna!” they cried. “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

Essentially, Judah greeted their king by rehearsing a psalm of David.

25 O Lord, do save, we beseech You;

O Yahweh, we beseech You, do send prosperity!

26 Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Yahweh;

We have blessed you from the house of Yahweh.

Psalm 118:25-26

The house of Judah, it seems, selected Yeshua as their sacrificial lamb, even if they failed to imagine His blood spread over their doorposts. In an apparent paradox, the chief priests did too. All of Jerusalem would have heard the clamor, particularly the scandal to follow, when Messiah immediately entered the Temple and executed His authority. He overturned the tables of the money-changers. This did not bode well with Judah’s shepherds. An ordinary lamb doesn’t do that. A lamb marked for sacrifice doesn’t enter someone’s home on the 10th of Nissan wreaking havoc, capsizing furniture, invalidating their every business practice—essentially, demanding that they repent of their sins and change their ways. 

This is why they selected Jesus as their Passover lamb along with the people—and why no accusation against Him stuck. If the Pharisees and the Sadducees failed to trap Him, it is simply because He was without blemish, and by His blood we have braved the next great Exodus—another Red Sea altogether. We have moved from the enemy’s kingdom, spiritual Egypt, into the ownership of God’s kingdom. On that very day—Saturday, April 21, 31 AD according to the Gregorian calendar—they brought Him into their house, and plotted His slaughter.

-Noel

IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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