Happy Passover?1 Cor 5:7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.
You might be thinking "Happy Passover? Didn't we already celebrate Easter?" Well yeah but someone many years ago decided to separate the celebrations. Bright idea right? Well this Saturday at sundown begins the week long celebration of Passover (including the feast of unleavened bread and the feast of first fruits).
This was the feast that Jesus shared with His disciples that we call the Last Supper and it was in this Passover meal that He gave us the rite of communion. During the meal Jesus took the “middle matzoh” that was unleavened, striped and pierced, and He broke it saying to us that it represented His body which was broken for us (Luke 22:19). This body was given that our old self might be crucified and that we could be reconciled to God (Rom 5:10, Col 1:22). Then after the meal Christ took the third cup called the “Cup of Redemption” and said this is my blood (Luke 22:20). This blood was shed for the total forgiveness of our sins. That night Jesus was taken and the next morning, Passover day, He was sacrificed.
Jesus was our Passover Lamb (1 Cor 5:6-7) and He fulfilled the feast of Passover on the actual day of the feast. Passover was a type or a picture of the final deliverance God had promised for the people of Israel and indeed for the whole world when He would offer His Son as the ultimate sacrifice. Each person need only apply the Blood of this Lamb to the doorposts of his their hearts and they will be delivered from bondage to sin and spiritual death.
Rejoice dear saint that the final sacrifice has been made and that you are now completely free from sin and death. Celebrate our Passover and walk in the truth.
Check out this video explaining the matzoh by Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum.
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