Christ Our Passover

 

Passover celebrates the deliverance of the Israelites from their bitter bondage in Egypt. The Hebrew word for Passover is “Pesach,” which means “to pass over.” On the night of Passover, God passed over the Jewish houses that applied the blood of the Passover lamb to their doorposts, while killing the firstborn in the Egyptian houses that had not applied the blood. Passover this year begins on Good Friday.

"Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:" - 1 Corinthians 5:7 KJV [Leaven is symbolic of sin.]

Just as a lamb was killed and the blood of the Passover lamb had to be applied to their house in order for the firstborn males to be saved from the death angel, Jesus the Lamb of God was killed and the blood of Christ our Passover has to be applied to our house in order to save us. We apply His blood by baptism in His name Jesus (Acts 2:38).

It is said that Jesus was crucified at the same time the Passover lamb was being killed in the temple, (3pm).

The bones of the Passover lamb were not to be broken. (Exodus 12:46) "But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs…For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken." (see: John 19:31-36).

God told Moses, “Your lamb shall be without blemish…” Jesus was the Lamb of God without blemish. (Exodus 12:5, John 1:29, 1Peter 1:19).

Bitter herbs were eaten with the Passover lamb to remind them of their bitter bondage from which God delivered them. (Exodus 12:8). Jesus our Passover Lamb was given vinegar to drink to remind us of the bitter bondage of sin that He delivered us from. (John 19:29-30, Hebrews 2:14-15).

"When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." - John 19:30 KJV

By Christ’s death and shedding of blood, the bitterness and bondage of sin is finished. We are set free by the blood of Jesus when we apply His blood.