Yeshua - Ultimate Passover Sacrifice

Growing up in the United Church, we learned about Passover. However.,I do not recall anyone ever linking it to the death of Christ on the cross. Maybe they did, and I just didn't hear it. Perhaps this concept may be new to you too. 

We grew up calling the day Christ died on the cross "Good Friday" and the day he rose from the grave "Easter". The linkage between chocolate rabbits and eggs with the death of Christ were loosely woven into this in fictional , folk-lorish Easter stories to gloss over the why of hiding eggs and consuming copious amounts of the aphrodisiacs- chocolate and sugar.

Jesus The Ultimate Passover Sacrifice

So what is the connection between Passover and the death of Christ?

Rabbi Johnathan Bernis of Jewish Voice Ministeries explains it this way in his latest email:

The night of the first Passover, when God brought the last deadly plague upon Egypt, He instructed the Israelites to eat unleavened bread and paint their doors with the blood of an unblemished lamb to be "passed over" when the Angel of Death came through to kill every firstborn. This ultimately became the breaking point that caused Pharaoh's heart to relent and let the people of Israel go.

Centuries later, Yeshua celebrated the Passover Seder at His Last Supper with His disciples before He was sacrificed as the ultimate Passover Lamb (1 Corinthians 5:7).

Through Yeshua's death and resurrection, God's promise of sending a Messiah to deliver Israel (and all who would believe in Him) from sin and death, was fulfilled. 

I regret having been part and parcel of perpetuating strange pagan ideas and customs rather than magnifying the amazing miracle of Christ being resurrected from the dead and exposing the pagan roots of Easter.

I am so grateful for that final request of Christ on the cross to His Father- the Great "I Am" - Father, forgive them - for they know not what they do."

When Christ groaned from the cross "It is finished!" apparently the word  recorded in the original writing  was used for msrking a bill paid in full.

I am so grateful that Christ  chose to endure the pain and torture in order to mark the bill for my many sins "paid in full".

Happy Passover!

Rejoice for Christ has marked the bill for our foolish actions 

" paid in full.".

-Su