JEWISH PASSOVER
CHRISTIANITY OASIS HAS PROVIDED YOU WITH THIS JEWISH PASSOVER STUDY. MANY HAVE HEARD OF THE JEWISH PASSOVER BUT MOST ARE NOT AWARE OF HOW THE JEWISH PASSOVER STILL AFFECTS OUR FUTURE. LET US SEEK AND FIND THE TRUTH OF THE STORY OF JEWISH PASSOVER TOGETHER, SHALL WE?

BOOK OF EXODUS

CHAPTER 12:1-20

            We’re happy to have you with us for today’s Daily Bread.  We’re studying the book of Exodus and when we left off, Moses had just given Pharaoh the message from God that every firstborn of both man and beast of the Egyptians will die if he doesn’t let the children of Israel go.  Pharaoh, although he has seen nine plagues from God, one by one destroying his kingdom, still has a heart of stone and will not let God’s people go.

            The Lord talked to Moses and Aaron in Egypt saying, This month will be the beginning of the year to you.  Tell all the children of Israel that on the tenth day of this month, every man will take a lamb for his house, and if one lamb is too much for your family to eat, you will share with your neighbor.  The lamb should be without spot, a male of the first year and you will separate it from the sheep and the goats and keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month.  Then the whole congregation of Israel will kill it in the evening. 

            Take the blood of the lamb and put it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses where you will eat it.  Eat it that same night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread and with bitter herbs.  Don’t eat it raw or boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire, with his head and his legs and organs included.  Don’t leave any for the morning, and whatever is left over in the morning, burn it with fire.  Eat it fully dressed, with shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand and you will eat it quickly, it is the Lord’s Passover.  I will pass through the land of Egypt that night and will kill all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast and against all the gods of Egypt, I will perform justice, I am the Lord. 

            The blood will be a sign on the houses where you are and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague will not destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.  This day will be a memorial for you and you will keep it a holy day to the Lord throughout all your generations for ever.

            For seven days you will eat unleavened bread.  The first day you will take all leaven out of your houses and whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person will be cut off from Israel.

            On the first day and on the seventh day you will hold a holy ceremony.  No manner of work will be done on those days except for cooking what you will eat.  That is the only work that may be done.

            And you will celebrate the feast of unleavened bread because on that day I have brought your crowds of people out of the land of Egypt, so you will keep this day holy in your generations by a law for ever.

            In the first month on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, you will eat unleavened bread until the twenty first day of the month at evening.  For seven days, no leaven will be in your houses because whoever eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or born in the land.  You will eat nothing leavened, in all your homes you will eat unleavened bread.

            Did you ever notice that the children of Israel were saved by the blood of the lamb, and we as Christians are saved by the blood of the Lamb of God?  It is not a coincidence that Jesus died for us at Passover, and that He, like the sheep in the Passover was unblemished.  The Lord’s Passover was a shadow of things to come and to show you how important that is, God even told them that it was a law to observe this holy day and whoever didn’t, that soul would be cut off from the children of Israel.  That’s a pretty serious consequence. 

            When we return with our next segment, we’ll find out more about the Passover as Moses guides the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.  Join us again as we study the book of Exodus at Daily Bread.

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