Christ: Our Passover
Today, as Christians we celebrate Passover. For the Old Testament believer, the event had its root in the ancient story of God's deliverance of His people from Egypt in the fifteenth century BC. On that momentous night Jews were to slay and eat a fresh, young lamb without blemish along with bitter herbs and bread without leaven. The lamb, chosen by the family for its purity, had been living in the house with them for four days. On that fourth night, after the lamb had been slaughtered, its blood was to be applied to the outside of the front door frame on the sides and top. God had told them that later in the night, a death angel would pass through Egypt to judge the nation for its evil treatment of God's chosen people. That night those who had applied the blood to the doors of their homes would be spared from the death of their firstborn sons, and at the same time were delivered from the tyranny of Egyptian bondage. It was the most glorious occasion the nation would e