"From now on, this month will be the first and most important of the entire year (Exodus 12:2)." The Lord spoke these words to Moses and Aaron, referring to the month Israel was delivered from Egypt, where they had been slaves for hundreds of years. The account of the exodus involves a sting of events that all contributed to the Israelites being freed. There, however, was one catastrophic event that changed the course of Israelite history. This event was the Passover; the night the Lord passed through Egypt and took the first-born son of every household that did not obey his commands. The Passover is very significant, as this paper will reflect.
In the first verses of Exodus 12, the Lord tells Moses what will happen the night of the Passover. He also gives instructions to Moses for the people of Israel to follow so that when the Passover occurs, their houses will be passed by and theirs son's lives spared. The instructions were very specific and it was clear that they took all of the stipulations into account when preparing for the Passover.
On the fourteenth day of the month, all lambs and goats and their blood smeared on the frames to the doors of the Israelite homes. Each animal chosen was to be one-year-old male with out defect. This could have been symbolic of Christ, who was without defect, and later came and gave Himself as a sacrifice. At the time He was sacrificed, He was considered to be in His prime, much like the one-year-old lamb would have been. .
There is a question to whether the Passover was considered a sacrifice. Evidence that suggests it was thought to be so can be found in I Corinthians. Jesus Christ is referred to as "the Lamb of God." And not just any lamb, but the Passover lamb, slain for the sins of the world. The Bible says, " our Passover is sacrificed for us (I Corinthians 5:7)." This was referring to Christ. Christ gave His life so that we may live, just as the Passover animals were sacrificed to save the first-born sons of the Israelite people.
The Passover was in the time of Moses and Pharaoh and Aaron. ... Moses told the elders of Egypt this and that they will go to a ceremony and when their children ask them what the ceremony is all about they will tell them that it is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians. ...
The Passover meal itself was and still is, for orthodox Jews, a remembering of the Passover meal which the Israelites ate on the last night before release from slavery in Egypt, 1500 years earlier. ... The Passover Seder is celebrated on the first and second nights of the eight-day holiday. ... In my opinion, the last supper was extremely similar to the Passover meal. As in question one I have outlined what is exactly involved in the Passover meal. ... When Jesus said, "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer," It proves as evidence that the meal Jesus and his di...
The story of Passover is in the Bible in the book of Exodus. ... Jews all over the world celebrate Passover with a ceremony called a sedar. ... All who are needy - let them come and celebrate Passover with us. ... LEADER: In the traditional story of Passover Moses begs Pharaoh for freedom for the slaves. ... ENJOY OUR MEAL AFTER THE MEAL LEADER: We have eaten our Passover meal as free people. ...
In the Gospel passage Mark 14:21 (from the Passover Meal) Jesus is explaining that he will die as prophesised by the "Old Testament", " the Son of Man will die as the Scriptures say he will- Jesus died at the time of the Passover Festival. This is why many Christians argue that he sacrificed himself for them, because at a Passover Festival they would keep the covenant by worshipping God- and especially by the animal sacrifices. ...
Deuteronomy is the only book to describe the national Passover sacrifice in a national shrine. ... (Finkelstein & Silberman, 2002 p.280) Lastly, Josiah hosted the Passover celebration; memorializing God's will in liberating Israel from slavery in Egypt. YHWH had instructed his people to commemorate Passover annually; however this had not been obeyed. ... The whole of Judah arrived and many people from Israel- those who had not been expelled in the Assyrian Captivity, making this the most complete Passover festivity since the time of the prophet Samuel, 400 years prior. ... J...
On Passover Eve Sholem goes on a journey and falls asleep in a train station that is filthy and dirty and has a horrendous dream. He dreams that he has paid a porter he knows to wake him up when his train comes so that he can make it home in time to spend Passover with his wife and children. ... Because Sholem has this awkward dream that he is a Gentile, he does not make it home for Passover in time and is stuck having Seder with a family that he does know. ... He causes his character to become a Gentile in his dreams and as a result misses the Passover, a holy event. Incidentally one can m...
