From Egypt to Eternity: How Passover Foreshadows Jesus

The Passover is a feast from God meant to celebrate God's deliverance, not just for Jews, but for all people. It serves as a reminder of God's power to save and foreshadows the death of Jesus. During Passover, Jesus established the Lord’s Supper, linking the Israelites' freedom from slavery to spiritual freedom from sin through His blood.

Passover, or Pesach, commemorates the Israelites' escape from Egyptian slavery as detailed in Exodus. God instructed them to sacrifice a lamb and mark their doorposts with its blood to protect them from the Angel of Death. This meal is an annual reminder of God's deliverance. The food served holds significant meanings representing both their struggles and hopes.

The connections between Jesus and Passover are evident in the Gospels, especially during the Last Supper, which coincided with the Passover meal. Jesus transformed this feast of remembrance into a symbol of His sacrifice for humanity. He fulfilled over 300 prophecies and established a New Covenant through His death and resurrection, offering redemption and new life.

Passover is a time meant for unity and remembrance, but in some Christian circles, it has become divisive. The essence of Passover is to reflect on God's love shown through Jesus, the Lamb who delivers us from sin and death. It is a time for gratitude and reflection on our faith. Jesus is central to the meaning of this Passover season.

 

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Episode Transcript

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Passover, known by many as a Jewish feast, is a feast of God, not just for the Jews.
It was given to all sons and daughters of God to remember that only God can save, deliver,
and foreshadow the death of Jesus in the Old Testament.
It's also during the Passover when Jesus instituted the Lord's Supper, and through

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His words and actions, He tied the Israelites' freedom from slavery in Egypt to all of our
freedom from sin and death.
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Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew, was a command family gathering, commemorating the Israelites'
liberation from slavery in Egypt as outlined in the Book of Exodus.

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For 400 years the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt.
God instructed the Israelites to sacrifice a lamb, smear its blood on the doorposts of
their home, and to stay inside.
As they obeyed, the angel of death passed over their houses as it took the life of all
firstborn males in the homes that did not obey.

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The Passover meal has become an annual remembrance to reflect on the deliverance of God for His
people.
The unleavened bread, the lamb, the bitter herbs, and the other elements all hold a symbolic
meaning representing both hardship and hope.

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Throughout the Old Testament the feast and the prophet spoke and foretold of one who
would come.
That would be the fulfillment of all things.
That connection between Jesus and the Passover is one of the most important ones that we
see throughout the Gospel writings on the Last Supper, which took place during the Passover

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meal in Jerusalem.
Matthew, Mark, and Luke all record the Passover meal where Jesus gathered together with His
disciples and transitioned from what was a feast of remembrance from the deliverance
of Egypt into a feast that would remind people of Jesus' atoning work through the giving

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of His life for the sins of many.
Paul then tells us as often as we do this, both keep the Passover and what is commonly
known as the Eucharist or Communion, we should do this in remembrance of Jesus.
It was during the first century Passover that Jesus had tied the prophecies of deliverance

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in the book of Exodus to His prophetic symbolism of His body and His blood.
It was through His death and the resurrection that Jesus fulfilled the prophets who not
only spoke of a new covenant seen in Jeremiah, but a second and greater Exodus, the Exodus

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of sin and death, one that the prophets said would be so great that it would cause us to
not remember the first Exodus.
This Passover or Last Supper was unlike any before.
The bread in the cup held significant meaning during the Passover, one that all Hebrews,

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all Jews, all Israelites would clearly understand.
They were key and crucial elements to a Pesach Passover Seder.
So it was no coincidence when Jesus utilized those two elements to represent and implement
the new covenant.
Just like the lamb's blood that was on the doorpost centuries earlier saved the children

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of Israel, the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God, would cover all who had sinned from creation
till the end of the age.
Just as the Passover lamb had to be brought into the house, kept and expected before the
sacrifice under the Mosaic covenant, Jesus came to Jerusalem.

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He stayed there, was inspected by all of the religious leaders, both Pharisees and Sadducees.
Jesus presented himself to Jerusalem, symbolizing the Passover lamb, a new Exodus, and the deliverance
and mercy of God.
Jesus was the fulfillment of over 300 prophecies.

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He was the Word, the Way, the Truth, the Son, the Greater Moses, the Lamb, and the cup of
wrath.
By his blood, he freed us from the curse found in the Mosaic law.
Jesus' death was the greatest act of redemption, offering forgiveness and passing into a new

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life and becoming a new creation.
Joseph had told the Israelites to take his bones out of Egypt, to not leave him there.
When they laid Jesus in a tomb named after Joseph, they should have already known he
wasn't going to stay there either.
A divine mission, a divine conqueror who conquered death and restored the rightful honor to Yahweh

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Elohim, God our Father.
Jesus' sacrifice of his life and institution of a new covenant were not just historical
revolutions, they are theological pillars of the Christian faith.
The transition from humanity foreshadowing to Christ, to Christ himself, marks the fulfillment

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and goal of the previous covenants and wraps them all up in the completion and greatness
of the new covenant, which is embodied in Jesus liberating humanity from the curse of sin
and death.
Passover was supposed to be a unifying time for the Hebrews.

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It was supposed to be a time where all came, all remembered, and all brought their lamb.
They took the focus off themselves and remembered what God had done for them.
Yet, just like what we see in the first centuries, where men had raised themselves up through
their own hypocrisy and narcissism, some in the corners of Christianity today spend Passover

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season as a time of arguing, contending, and pontificating on what day and time certain
things happen.
People will go as far as saying, "None of Christianity, Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical,
none of them know what this actually means.

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None of them are doing it right."
And they completely miss the point of Passover.
They completely miss the point of Jesus.
Every year they had to bring a lamb to sacrifice.
Today we know we have a lamb who once and for all passed through heaven, hell, all of

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the earth and was slain even before the foundations of the earth that through him we have passed
from death to life.
The Passover breaches the heritage still upheld by Judaism today with the remembrance of
our final deliverance through our Jewish Messiah Jesus Christ, the ultimate deliverer.

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The culmination of the greatest act of redemption has happened and it should be a time of great
reflection, humility, and gratitude.
For we know a God who so loved the world that he gave his Son that was mocked, beaten, that

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was given the weight of the sins of all humanity as a burden, that whosoever believes in him,
in him, shall not perish but shall pass into everlasting life.
This Passover season, Jesus is the reason for this Passover season.

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Hag Sameach.

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