The Original Passover

Living in Covenant

A Fulfilled Covenant

Live in the light of God (Isaiah 2:5) 

Jesus Institutes the New Covenant

Deuteronomy 16:1-8 The Message

16 1-4 Observe the month of Abib by celebrating the Passover to God, your God. It was in the month of Abib that God, your God, delivered you by night from Egypt. Offer the Passover-Sacrifice to God, your God, at the place God chooses to be worshiped by establishing his name there. Don’t eat yeast bread with it; for seven days eat it with unraised bread, hard-times bread, because you left Egypt in a hurry—that bread will keep the memory fresh of how you left Egypt for as long as you live. There is to be no sign of yeast anywhere for seven days. And don’t let any of the meat that you sacrifice in the evening be left over until morning.
5-7 Don’t sacrifice the Passover in any of the towns that God, your God, gives you other than the one God, your God, designates for worship; there and there only you will offer the Passover-Sacrifice at evening as the sun goes down, marking the time that you left Egypt. Boil and eat it at the place designated by God, your God. Then, at daybreak, turn around and go home.
8 Eat unraised bread for six days. Set aside the seventh day as a holiday; don’t do any work.

For Reflection

As a hedge against failing to worship God and perhaps to fall into idolatry, Moses initiated three commemorative festivals.  To be celebrated at the place of national worship, the Passover feast was filled with symbols to encourage the memory of God saving Israel from captivity.

Think about the way we as Christians celebrate the saving grace of the Life of Jesus to help us avoid descending into idolatrous practice.

Pray

Pray, so you may remember the God whom you worship is full of Grace and leads you to righteous living.

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