The Messiah, 290A

~ Jesus Christ and The Feast of Passover ~

Background  ~ “Search the Scriptures—they testify of Me” — Jesus Christ (John 5:39).

“And beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, Jesus explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures” (Luke 24:27).  “Let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.  Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body [the true Church of Jesus Christ], nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God” (Colossians 2:16-19).

The Scripture  ~  …  “These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times.  On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord’s Passover” (Leviticus 23:4-5).  …

note:  Additional Scripture for your review is found in Numbers 28:16-25.

The Messiah  ~  “Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?  Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened.  For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us” (1 Corinthians 5:6-7). 

The Feast of Passover (April)  ~  Remember that the origin of the Passover was the last plague in Egypt with the slaying of the firstborn.  The blood of a lamb on the doorpost would give safety.  Jesus Christ is the ultimate lamb—the Lamb of God.  With the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ—The Messiah fulfills the need once and for all for a blood sacrifice.  His was the perfect life and the only death that could permanently atone for our sins.

“Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, but also for us.  It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification” (Romans 4:23-25).  “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.  Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation” (2 Corinthians 5:17-19).  “There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.  For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.  Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience” (Hebrews 4:8-11).  Jesus said, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW

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