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 ever experience, and the celebration found its ultimate fulfillment over 1400 years later when a man named John would see the nation's Messiah coming to him for baptism in the Jordan river and proclaim, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.  Every Jewish priest, along with every man, woman, and child who heard John the Baptist proclaim this that day knew exactly what he meant.

Here was the true Passover lamb whom God had sent into the world to save it and deliver it from sin and its ultimate judgement on a cruel Roman cross of crucifixion.   

Today we think about and reflect on these momentous events and, more importantly, that one event two millennia ago which changed the trajectory of history.  Now every time we sign and date a paper we subtly admit that the prophesies have been fulfilled, the Messiah has truly come and that as Paul said in I Corinthians 5:7:

Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us........








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