Passover Feast
1 Cor. 5:7; Ex. 12
One of the most important feast of the Israelites is the Passover Feast. When the Israelites were about to be freed from their slavery and toil in Egypt, the LORD commanded them to observe this feast. On that night, they were to take a lamb without blemish for every family, and kill it without breaking its bones, to burn it over the fire and to have it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Then, they were to take its blood and smear it on the sides of their doors as well as above it.
As they did what the LORD told them to so, the LORD went out to punish the Egyptians with the lives of every firstborn. When this happened, all those who had the blood smeared on their doors were saved as the LORD passed over them. None of the Israelites were lost, while to the Egyptians, “there was not a house without someone dead” (Ex. 12:30).
Thinking about the importance and significance of this event and feast is very important today. Mankind had been under sin, under the yoke of slavery. But the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ came to save us from sin. Like the lamb that was slain, His bones were not broken (Ex. 12:46; Ps. 34:20; Jn. 19:33, 36). All who believe in Him, through His blood have been saved from the punishment of God, being ‘passed over.’
1 Corinthians 5:7 tells us, “Our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed.” Jesus is the Lamb of God that John the Baptist described, saying, “Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” (Jn. 1:29). Likewise, Isaiah had also foretold these things (Is. 53:7).
Like it said in Exodus 12:13, “The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt,” we have also been saved (through faith) by Jesus Christ, the unblemished Lamb.
What about you?
