The Feast Of Passover
As
Ordained By God
By
Holy Moses
Chapter 1
The Meaning And Importance Of
Passover
The Meaning Of Passover
1. The feast refers to the
great of salvation, which God performed on earth, when He delivered the
Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
2. It symbolizes the
death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, by which He used His blood to save
mankind from eternal death and destruction, which are separation form God and endless torment inside the hell fire.
3. It shows humanity that
there is no other saviour or salvation, apart from
Jesus.
4. The blood of Jesus is
the very blood of God Almighty. It is the power and victory which God has shed
for His children.
5. It refers to Isaiah
61:1-3, which shows that “not by power nor by might, but by my spirit,” says
the Lord.
The Importance Of The
Passover
1. It is a time of great
deliverance.
2. It is a time to
celebrate our redemption by God Almighty through Jesus Christ.
3. It is one of the paths
of righteousness, in which God leads His people to everlasting life.
4. It is a time for
thanksgiving and praises to God Almighty.
5. It is a time to wash
ourselves in the precious blood of Jesus.
6. It reminds the
children of God of their journey from earth to heaven.
7. The earth is God’s own
school. You enter it by birth, leave it at death and come back to it through
reincarnation.
The Passover As The Pilgrim’s Journey
These are the journeys of the
children of Israel, who went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the
hand of Moses and Aaron. 2 Now Moses wrote down the starting points of their
journeys at the command of the Lord. And these are their journeys according to
their starting points:
They
departed from Rameses in the first month, on the
fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of
Israel went out with boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians. 4 For the
Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had killed among
them. Also on their gods the Lord had executed judgments. Numbers 33:1-4
As
the Israelites left Egypt with boldness and riches and honour, so shall you
journey through the world not be at the mercy of fate, but with the blessings,
prosperity and protection of God.
Chapter 2
The Institution Of Passover
Now the Lord poke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2
"This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month
of the year to you. 3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: 'On the
tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the
house of his father, a lamb for a household. 4 And if the household is too
small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it
according to the number of the persons; according to each man's need you shall
make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of
the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6 Now you
shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. 7 And they
shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel
of the houses where they eat it. 8 Then they shall eat the flesh on that night;
roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
More Passover
Regulations
(Genesis 17:9-14;
Exodus 12:1-13)
Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all
with water, but roasted in fire — its head with its legs and its entrails. 10
You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until
morning you shall burn with fire. 11 And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on
your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you
shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover.
'For I will pass through the land of
Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment:
I am the Lord. 13 Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you
are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not
be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
So this day shall be to you a memorial;
and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You
shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.
Seven days you shall eat unleavened
bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats
leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be
cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and
on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner of work
shall be done on them; but that which everyone must eat — that only may be
prepared by you. 17 So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on
this same day I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt.
Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an
everlasting ordinance.
In the first month, on the
fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until
the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19 For seven days no leaven shall
be found in your houses, since whoever eats what is leavened, that same person
shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a
native of the land. 20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings
you shall eat unleavened bread.'"
Then Moses called for all the elders
of Israel and said to them,” Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according
to your families, and kill the Passover lamb.
22 And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in
the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is
in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until
morning. 23 For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He
sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over
the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.
And you shall observe this thing as
an ordinance for you and your sons forever. 25 It will come to pass when you
come to the land which the Lord will give you, just as He promised, that you
shall keep this service. 26 And it shall be, when your children say to you,
'What do you mean by this service?' 27 that you shall say, ‘It
is the Passover sacrifice of the Lord, who passed over the houses of the
children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our
households.'" So the people bowed their heads and worshiped. 28 Then the
children of Israel went away and did so; just as the Lord had commanded Moses
and Aaron, so they did. Exodus 12:1-28
And
the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover:
No foreigner shall eat it. 44 But every man's servant who is bought for money,
when you have circumcised him, then he may eat it. 45 A sojourner and a hired
servant shall not eat it. 46 In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not
carry any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break one of its bones.
47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. 48 And when a stranger dwells
with you and wants to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be
circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as a
native of the land. For no uncircumcised person shall eat it. 49 One law shall
be for the native-born and for the stranger who dwells among you."
Thus all the children of Israel did;
as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. 51 And it came to pass, on
that very same day, that the Lord brought the children of Israel out of the
land of Egypt according to their armies. Exodus 12:43-13:1
"You shall not offer the blood
of My sacrifice with leaven, nor shall the sacrifice
of the Feast of the Passover be left until morning. Exodus 34:25
The Passover And Unleavened Bread
(Numbers 28:16-25)
'These are the feasts of the Lord,
holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times. 5 On the
fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord's Passover. 6 And on
the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the
Lord; seven days you must eat unleavened bread. 7 On the first day you shall
have a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it. 8 But you shall
offer an offering made by fire to the Lord for seven days. The seventh day
shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.'"
Leviticus 23:4-8
The Second Passover
(Exodus 12:1-20)
Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the
Wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come
out of the land of Egypt, saying: 2 "Let the children of Israel keep the
Passover at its appointed time. 3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at
twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time. According to all its rites
and ceremonies you shall keep it." 4 So Moses told the children of Israel
that they should keep the Passover . 5 And they kept
the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, in the
Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the
children of Israel did.
Now there were certain men who were
defiled by a human corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that
day; and they came before Moses and Aaron that day. 7 And those men said to
him, "We became defiled by a human corpse. Why are we kept from presenting
the offering of the Lord at its appointed time among the children of
Israel?"
And Moses said to them, "Stand
still, that I may hear what the Lord will command concerning you."
Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying, 10 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'If anyone of you or
your posterity is unclean because of a corpse, or is far away on a journey, he
may still keep the Lord's Passover . 11 On the fourteenth day of the second
month, at twilight, they may keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread
and bitter herbs. 12 They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break one
of its bones. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep
it. 13 But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and ceases to keep the
Passover, that same person shall be cut off from among his people, because he
did not bring the offering of the Lord at its appointed time; that man shall
bear his sin.
And if a stranger dwells among you,
and would keep the Lord's Passover , he must do so
according to the rite of the Passover and according to its ceremony; you shall
have one ordinance, both for the stranger and the native of the land.'"
Numbers 9:1-14
Offerings At Passover
(Leviticus 23:5-14)
'On the fourteenth day of the first
month is the Passover of the Lord. 17 And on the fifteenth day of this month is
the feast; unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days. 18 On the first day
you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. 19 And you
shall present an offering made by fire as a burnt offering to the Lord: two
young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year. Be sure they are
without blemish. 20 Their grain offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil:
three-tenths of an ephah you shall offer for a bull,
and two-tenths for a ram; 21 you shall offer one-tenth of an ephah for each of the seven lambs; 22 also one goat as a
sin offering, to make atonement for you. 23 You shall offer these besides the
burnt offering of the morning, which is for a regular burnt offering. 24 In
this manner you shall offer the food of the offering made by fire daily for
seven days, as a sweet aroma to the Lord; it shall be offered besides the
regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
And on the seventh day you shall
have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. Numbers 28:16-25