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Leviticus 23:5

The Passover, the first of God's commanded annual festivals, pictures the beginning—the very first step—in God's great Master Plan of salvation for mankind.

The Passover was to be a yearly reminder of God's intervention in delivering the Israelites' firstborn from death. It also pictured, in advance, the great sacrifice of Jesus Christ, "our Passover" lamb (I Corinthians 5:7; I Peter 1:18-19), for the sins of mankind. The sparing of the Israelites' firstborn from the death angel through the shed blood of lambs on that first Passover is a symbolic type of our being spared today from the eternal penalty of sin (Romans 6:23) through Christ's sacrifice.

After Jesus' death, the Passover, celebrated with the new symbols of unleavened bread and wine, became a yearly memorial of His sacrifice, for Jesus became the reality that the Passover lamb had foreshadowed.

Why Christians Should Keep God's Holy Days

Related Topics: Bread and Wine | Bread and Wine as Symbols | Bread, Symbolism of | God's Holy Days | God's Master Plan | God's Plan | Passover | Passover , Symbols of | Passover as Memorial of Christ's Death | Passover, Changing the Symbols of | Unleavened Bread, Symbolism of | Wine , Symbolism of

Leviticus 23:4-5

Passover is a feast of the LORD, not a feast of Israel or the Jews! He instituted it and commands us to keep it.

Earl L. Henn (1934-1997)
Holy Days: Passover

Related Topics: Feasts of God | Holy Days | Holy Days "Done Away" | Holy Days: Passover | Passover | Passover as a Feast of the Lord

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