Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. 1 Corinthians 5:7
Yeshua is our Passover. Once each year, Jewish families celebrated their deliverance from Egypt by eating a special Passover meal and by sacrificing a lamb to make atonement for the sins of the family. The father would place his hands on the head of the lamb to confess the sins of the family members. That was symbolic of transferring the family sins to the lamb; then the blood of the lamb was shed, a prototype of Yeshua’s becoming the Lamb of God who would come to take away our sin. Yeshua became the fulfillment of the Passover. The lamb had to be perfect, without blemish, which is a picture of the perfect life of Yeshua. Because Jesus did not sin, He was qualified to take away the sin of the world.
(The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! John 1:29; He who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth; 1 Peter 2:22).
Yeshua is your Passover. Just as each Jewish family looked back in gratitude for deliverance from the death angel that passed over their home, you should look back in gratitude that judgement has passed over you. (Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel [a]of the houses in which they eat it. Exodus 12:7) Then you should look forward to the return of Yeshua to take you home to live with Him (And if I go and prepare a place for you, I am coming again and will take you to Myself, so that where I am, there you also will be. John 14:3). His future coming is just as sure as His past sacrificial death. You can have faith in both of them.
“Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. John 14:1
Lord, I look back and remember Your death, and I look forward, waiting for Your return, Amén
Author -Myrym Arrus
Editor- Joanie Schumacher
Go Deeper:
Exodus 12:1-13
Isaiah 53
John 14
John 17:6:26
*All cited Scriptures are from the NASB.