Forgiveness in the Feast of Passover
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The Passover lamb also taught forgiveness to Old Testament Israel.
Exodus chapter twelve presents the details concerning the culmination of the ten plagues that the Lord struck Egypt with to bring about the deliverance of the Israelites from Egyptian bondage.
This great deliverance was to be marked by a celebration annually in Israel.
This chapter presents the Lord establishing the Passover festival to be celebrated in Israel throughout successive generations.
Exodus 12:1 Now the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 “This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a lamb for each household. 4 Now if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the number of persons in them; according to what each man should eat, you are to divide the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6 You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight. 7 Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails. 10 And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire. 11 Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is the Lord’s Passover. 12 For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—I am the Lord. 13 The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.’” 14 ‘Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance. 15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you. 17 You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent ordinance. 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19 Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land. 20 You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’” (NASB95)
Passover is one of seven feasts of Israel.
The Leviticus chapter 23 gives us an account of these feasts.
They were a prophecy and foreshadowing of future events, part of which have been fulfilled and part, are yet to be.
They are the “shadow of things to come,” of which Christ is the “body” or substance (Col. 2:16-17).
They were “holy convocations” of the people and were instituted by the Lord.
The following Feasts were literally fulfilled by the Lord Jesus Christ during the dispensation of the hypostatic union:
(1) Passover: His voluntary substitutionary spiritual and physical deaths on the cross in April of 33 A.D.
(2) Unleavened Bread: His impeccability as a Person.
(3) Pentecost was literally fulfilled when the Baptism of the Spirit took place in June of 33 A.D. which marked the beginning of the church age.
The following Feasts are eschatological in nature and thus have yet to be literally fulfilled: (1) Trumpets: Rapture or resurrection of the church terminating the church age. (2) Atonement: Second Advent of Christ ending the Tribulation dispensation. (3) Tabernacles: Millennial Reign of Christ on planet earth.
Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread as a unit constituted the most important of the three great annual feasts or festivals of Israel.
The Passover commemorated the final plague in Egypt in which the first born of the Egyptians died but the Israelites were spared by the blood on the doorposts and lintel (Ex. 12:11, 21, 27, 43, 48).
Thereafter the event was observed as a feast to the Lord (12:14).
The second Passover was observed in the wilderness of Sinai (Num. 9:1-5).
The Passover marked the birth of Israel as a nation adopted by God (Ex. 12:2) and was to be observed by them forever as a memorial.
It was observed in the first month (Abib; Deut. 16:1; the first month is called Nisan in post-exilic times: Neh. 2:1; Esth. 3:7) on the fourteenth day at twilight between 3-6pm (Lev. 23:5).
The head of every Jewish family chose a male lamb without blemish on the tenth Abib (Ex. 12:3l; 1 Pet. 1:18-19) and killing it on the fourteenth Abib (12:6) with none of its bones broken (literally fulfilled at the cross by Christ).
The lamb typified the impeccable humanity of Christ in hypostatic union who was proclaimed by John the Baptist as “the lamb of God” (John 1:29).
The blood was to be sprinkled on the doorposts and lintel of the house with hyssop (typifying the sinner being cleansed from sin through faith alone in Christ alone since hyssop was a symbol of purification) so that when the Lord passed over that night and saw the blood He would spare the firstborn in the house.
The lamb was to be roasted and served up whole (portraying the perfect obedience of Christ to the Father’s plan for the Incarnation which was the cross), and eaten with unleavened bread (typifying the impeccability of the humanity of Christ in hypostatic union) and bitter herbs (portraying the bitterness of slavery in Egypt), and none of it left until the morning.
The shedding of the blood of the lamb typified the substitutionary spiritual and physical deaths of Christ which was to take place approximately 1400 years later at Calvary.
The application of the blood of the animal to the doorposts and lintel demonstrated the Jew’s faith in the yet future work of the coming Messiah on the cross thus portraying faith alone in Christ alone.
The unblemished lamb typified the impeccability of Christ.
The historical Personage of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is thus our literal Passover (1 Cor. 5:7).
Egypt typified the cosmic system of Satan and eschatologically, the world during the Tribulation period.