Dear John, Steve, and all doves,
      Thank you for your postings, Steve. It is great to hear from you. I am wondering which pattern could be more associated with the Master with the 1-4-7. Would it be the First or Second Passover?  His example of the last week of His life was the 1-4-7. The month after would have altered the pattern by 2 days, at 30 days rather than 28. This year there is a calender which gives us a 1-4-7 pattern, if Nisan 13 was 4-18 going to 19. The Unleavened Bread for days 15 to 21 would be the 1-4-7. Would that calender be the one to follow? That will give us a Pentecost of  6-7 to 8.
      It is important to remember that First Passover/Unleavened Bread is a commanded pilgrimage festival and appointment time. The Second Passover is a request and answer to a petition by defiled men. Which seems the greater pattern? The Second Passover is important, essentially for those defiled and unable to participate in the earlier commanded one. The Second one is a response to request. They are not the same. It is a second chance but not an exact duplicate. Otherwise, why would it not be commanded as such with the other commands for appointment times in the Torah, in the book of Leviticus?
      To see an extended period of a Second Passover with the additional 7 days from Hezekiah's Second Passover of 2 Chronicles 30 is perhaps the altering of pattern for that specific year with its unusual circumstances. In returning from exile, there was not enough time to celebrate the First. The Second was celebrated as if it was the First. Was there a one day or 7-8 day pattern for Second Passover from the times of Moses? Was there one pattern or the other in the times of the Christ/ Messiah? To interpret the events of that specific year in the times of Hezekiah may be changing the pattern . These events may have been specific to that year only. I wish we had access to temple records to solve which pattern would be Scripturally correct going back to the times of Moses and then Messiah.
      Lastly, I do not consider the Last Passover seder/siddur of the Messiah to be about His being defiled in any way. He was not a corpse that evening and the phrase "in the cup of My blood" was a standard phrase for the would be groom to propose to His would be bride. In accepting the cup and drinking from it, the 11 friends/apostles agreed to be bride. As I have said in earlier postings, the only person who never needed the Second Passover because of defilement or sins was the Master. You stated it was "the same day those under Moses became defiled." Only a few were defiled, not each and all. It was not everyone. Not every person each year touched a corpse and was therefore defiled. Not everyone needed the Second Passover.
      Thanks again Steve, we have much to ponder and pray about in the few and precious days ahead. May we be watching attentively each day.

With Love and Shalom,
Jean Stepnoski