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THE PASSOVER

Leviticus. 23:4+5; Deuteronomy. 16:1
1. A lamb of one year old was selected without blemish signifying Jesus Christ on the 10th of the 1st month before the actual Passover. Exodus. 12:3-6; John. 11:47-57.
2. On the 14th day of the first month the Lamb signifying Jesus Christ, who was slain from the foundation of the world. Leviticus. 23:5; 1 Corinthians. 5:7.
3. Christ died at the ninth hour or at 3 ‘o’ clock on Friday evening, the preparation day. Mark. 15:34-37; John 19:30+31.
4. The Lamb was roasted entire and eaten, not a bone broken. Exodus. 12:46-49; John. 19:33-36.
5. The flesh was eaten to show fellowship with God through meditation on His word which gives life an experience of God's love in the heart. John. 6:53-56,63.
6. Those partaking of the feast were to leave nothing until the morning. The morning was to bring a new experience-freedom from bondage. The soul that partakes of Christ's word which is faith will have a new experience- freedom from the experience of sin.
7. Unleaven bread and bitter herbs were also taken. Exodus. 12:8. Unleaven bread without yeast was eaten. It was not mixed with yeast which would necessitate waiting for it to be raised, Israel's flight was very urgent. The bitter herbs were a reminder to them of their cruel bondage in Egypt. When convictions come to us through the work of the Holy Spirit, we are to obey instantly and not delay, for delay might cost us our spiritual life. When the call is given, today when you hear His voice, you must harden not your heart. Psalms. 95:7+8; Hebrews. 3:7+8; Hebrews. 4:7. Sin brings destruction, and God's will is that none should perish, but that all should have Eternal Life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
8. Unleaven bread symbolizes sincerity and truth. Theleaven bread is malice and wickedness (sin). When a person gives up sin and accepts the truth in sincerity he becomes a partaker of eternal life. 1 Corinthians. 5:8.
9. How are we to get sincerity and truth?. They only come through the blood of Christ which cleanses us from all sin. 1 John. 1:7+9. Israel was to keep the Passover feast without sin.
10. They were to take the blood of the slain lamb and strike it on the two door posts and the lintel of the house. Exodus. 12:7.
11. The blood symbolizes life. Leviticus. 17:11,14 When Christ investigates our lives in the Judgment, He shall see the blood, His life, the Divine Nature in us; and so our names would not be blotted out of the book of life, and we shall not be destroyed. Exodus. 12:13. Just as the destroying angel passed through Egypt, and put to death every first born child of the Egyptians, so it will be in the second resurrection upon the wicked who were not cleansed through the blood of Christ. Revelation. 20: 12+14+15.
12. Christ died on the 14th day of the month of Nisan or Abib, on a Friday evening. The following day was the Seventh-day Sabbath according to the Commandment. He rose on the first day of the week which is Sunday. Luke. 23:52-56; Luke. 24:1-7.
13. Christ the lamb gave up Himself an offering for sinful man. He cried, it is finished, and then yielded up the ghost. His physical body died, God is Life, thus His Divine Nature cannot die. Unseen hands rented the veil from top to bottom, this was a sign that type had met antitype so that now a physical lamb was no longer needed to point to Christ, for Christ Himself had already come. 1 Peter. 3:18; John. 11:25; 2 Peter. 1:1+4; John. 19:30; Matthew. 27:50+51.
14. No stranger were freely to partake of the Passover feast; but there were provisions made in the old Levitical service, whereby a stranger, if he were to partake in the feasts and ceremonies, could become a spiritual Israelite through circumcision. For he is a Jew which is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, whose praise is not of men but of God. Exodus. 12:48+49; Galatians. 3:16,22; Romans. 2:28+29.

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