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About the Passover FeastBy studying the Passover Feast, we can learn more about communion, for as one might expect, it is no coincidence that communion was instituted during the Passover Feast. The Passover Feast reflects salvation to all those were partakers of the lamb, whose blood was shed (and sprinkled on the doorways) saving the partakers when the destroyer passed through the land. When the blood of the lamb was found on the doorway, the destroyer passed by that house and left the inhabitants therein unharmed.
Jesus is the Lamb of GOD, and his blood was shed for the remission of our sins. GOD brought salvation to all those who are partakers of the Lamb of GOD through faith and belief in Him. Jesus brought us into right relationship with GOD when he laid down His life and shed his blood for us. And so we are saved through the shed Blood of Jesus. When GOD looks at us, he no longer sees our sins, but instead he sees the righteousness of Christ which has been inputted unto us.
Under the old covenant the blood of the Passover lamb delivered those who were partakers of if from physical death. Under the New Covenant the blood of The Lamb of GOD (Jesus) has delivered us from spiritual death so that now we can actually live forever.
GOD COMMANDS THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO KEEP THE PASSOVER:
1 ¶ And the LORD spoke unto
Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of
the year to you.
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of
Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them
every man a lamb, according to the house of their
fathers, a lamb for an house:
4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his
neighbor next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man
according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
5
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take
it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 And ye
shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7 And they shall take of the blood, and
strike it on the
two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat
it.
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast
with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his
head with his legs, and with the pertinence thereof.
10 And ye shall let
nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remains of it until the
morning ye shall burn with fire.
11 And thus shall ye eat it; with
your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye
shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’S Passover.
12 For I will pass
through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the
land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will
execute judgment: I am the LORD.
13 And the blood shall be to you for a
token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass
over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a
feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an
ordinance for ever.
15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the
first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eats
leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut
off from Israel.
16 And in the first day there shall be
an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation
to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of
you.
17 And ye shall observe the feast
of
unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the
land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an
ordinance for ever.
18 In the first month, on the
fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the
one and twentieth day of the month at even.
19 Seven days shall there be no
leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eats that which is leavened, even
that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a
stranger, or born in the land.
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your
habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
21 ¶ Then Moses called for all
the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according
to your families, and kill the Passover.
22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood
that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with
the blood that is in the basin; and none
of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the
Egyptians; and when he sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side
posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to
come in unto your houses to smite you.
24 And ye shall observe this thing for an
ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
25 And it shall come to pass,
when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath
promised, that ye shall keep this service. 26 And it shall come to pass, when
your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
27 That ye shall
say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’S
Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he
smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and
worshipped.
28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had
commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
29 ¶ And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his
throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of
cattle.
30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his
servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for
there was not a house where there was not one dead.
31 And he
called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my
people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have
said.
32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone;
and bless me also.
33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the
people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We
be all dead men.
34 And
the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being
bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
35 And the children of
Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians
jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
36 And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians,
so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the
Egyptians.
(Exodus 12:1-36 AV)
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