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169Deut. 4 :3 "Your eyes have seenwhat Jehovah did because ofBaal-peor ; for all the men thatfollowed Baal-peor, Jehovah thyGod hath destroyed them fromthe midst of thee."Hos . 9 :10 "They came to Baalpeor,and consecrated themselvesunto the shameful thing, andbecame abominable like thatwhich they loved."Jude 10, 11 "Yet these menare speaking abusively of all thethings they really do not know,but all the things they do understandnaturally like the unreasoninganimals, in these thingsthey go on corrupting themselves .Too bad for them, because theyhave gone in the path of Cain,and have rushed into the erroneouscourse of Balaam for reward."Christ's death on Nisan 14 to beobserved by Memorial eveningmeal, not his resurrection onNisan 16, A .D . 33Ex . 12 :2, 6, 14 "This month[Abib or Nisan] shall be unto youthe beginning of months : it shallbe the first month of the year toyou . And ye shall keep it [thelamb] until the fourteenth dayof the same month ; and thewhole assembly of the congregationof Israel shall kill it at even .And this day shall be unto youfor a memorial, and ye shall keepit a feast to Jehovah : throughoutyour generations ye shall keep ita feast by an ordinance for ever ."Matt. 26 :17-27 "On the first dayof the unfermented cakes thedisciples came up to Jesus, saying: 'Where do you want us toprepare for you to eat the passover?'. . . As they continued eating,Jesus took a loaf and, aftersaying a blessing, he broke it and,giving it to the disciples, he said :'Take, eat. This means my body .'Also he took a cup and, havinggiven thanks, he gave it to them,saying : 'Drink out of it, all ofyou .' "Holidays1 Cor . 11 :25, 26 "[Jesus said] :'Keep doing this, as often as youdrink it, in remembrance of me .'For as often as you eat this loafand drink this cup, you keep proclaimingthe death of the Lord,until he arrives ."John 20 :1 "On the first dayof the week Mary Magdalenecame to the memorial tomb earlyin the day, while there was stilldarkness, and she beheld thestone already taken away fromthe memorial tomb." [This wasSunday, Nisan 16, A .D. 33, whileJesus was put to death Friday,Nisan 14 . ]Day of Memorial on Nisan 14(so-called "Good Friday") doesnot always fall on the same dayof the weekJohn 19:31 "Then the Jews,since it was Preparation, in orderthat the bodies might not remainupon the torture stakes on thesabbath, (for the day of thatsabbath was a great one, [adouble sabbath, which did nothappen every Passover time]) requestedPilate to have their legsbroken and the bodies takenaway ."[Also, Nisan 14 is not alwayson a Friday, but is the night offull moon .]The meal on the first day of theweek at Acts 20:7 not the Memorial,but eating of anordinary mealActs 20 :7 "On the first day ofthe week, when we were gatheredtogether to have a meal, Paulbegan discoursing to them ."Acts 2 :42, 46 "And they continueddevoting themselves to theteaching of the apostles and toassociation together, to taking ofmeals and to prayers . . . . and theytook their meals in privatehomes ."Acts 6 :1-6 "Their widows werebeing overlooked in the daily distribution. So the twelve . . . said :'It is not pleasing for us to aban-