Day 2: FEAST of PASSOVER (Pesach)

Day 2: FEAST of PASSOVER (Pesach)

‘These are the Lord’s appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times: The Lord’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Leviticus 23:4-5

Approximately 10th of the month of Nisan (Usually April)

Of course for us, it mean Easter. The day Christ rose from the dead, which actually happened 3 days AFTER Passover. If He should be connected to a feast day based on His resurrection, it really should be Feast of Unleaven Bread. But that’s for tomorrow.

The Passover celebration was a reminder of the ‘passing over’ of the death angel right before the Exodus from Egypt. The Hebrews were instructed to sacrifice a lamb and to spread it’s blood over the doorpost as a sign. For us, it symbolizes the death of OUR “Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world’. (John 1:29). It points DIRECTLY to the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.

There were many things that happen at this feast-what to wear, where to eat, how to prepare it. All designed to give the anticipation-the warning to be ready to go at a moment’s notice. It was both a sacrifice for sins-the blood-and the anticipation that they were going to be moving out of bondage at any moment. What a great vision for us-our sacrificial lamb has spilt His blood, and now we are ready-dressed, staff in hand, shoes on-just WAITING for Him to say “Come up here’ and we are off-out of the bondage of this world and into the eternal ‘Promised Land’ of His eternity! 

Of corse we can’t go without talking about the Holy Grail-the cup that Jesus drank from at the end of the meal, the one called the ‘cup of consumption’, the one He asked His Father if there was anyway to save us WITHOUT Him having to drink it, the cup that Joseph of Aramathea supposedly gathered His blood from ( that’s a story from the 11th Century) and-to the best of my knowledge-is in Spain currently. Or Brazil. Maybe Ethiopia. Or at the Vatican. I mean there are over 200 of these ‘guaranteed-for-sure-this-is-the-very-one’ cup floating around. This was the fourth cup-the ‘cup of consumption’.

Jesus didn’t drink from that cup. He GAVE that cup to the disciples using it as an example of His blood-His sacrifice. He said He would not drink ‘of the vine’ again until He drinks it with us in Heaven. Because HE was the one whom was about to be consumed-not physically, but spiritually as the ‘living sacrifice’. It is one of the reasons He cried out ‘It Is Finished’. Because the passover was complete. The sacrifice spilt His blood and died. Finishing the work that the Passover demanded-a blood sacrifice so that eternal death would never touch us.

It also began a fulfillment of what Jeremiah was told about in his book. Jeremiah 31:31-34 where God promises a NEW covenant. One where He would make it so that it was always on our hearts-we won’t have to spread the ‘good news’ of the gospel, because everyone will know it. And we shall be His people, and He shall be our God. Passover was a scary thing for the Hebrews, waiting that night as the Death Angel went through, but for us Passover means eternal salvation, never again having to even consider the death angel.

I Corinthians 5:7
Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.