Objective
The word Passover is the theme of this document, and the document will be written in an expository outline that will be carried out with instances of revelation in the text.
Meaning(s) of The Passover at First Glance for Old Testament and New Testament of the Holy Bible
In the Old Testament of the Holy Bible, The Passover is usually seen the name of the event during which the children of Israel prepared a meal and offering for their Exodus from Egypt, written beginning in the book of Exodus.
Events culminating in the Passover include the following; the ten plagues God placed upon Egypt, the death of the first born being the last of the plagues.
Events following the Passover include the miracle of the Exodus of the Israelites through a dried pathway made open and possible by God through The Red Sea.
The ultimate event following the Passover is the freedom of the once Egyptian-enslaved Israelites, although they struggle (Moffic, 2015).
In the New Testament of the Holy Bible, The Passover is the name of the commemoration feast of the meal and offering written beginning in in the book of Exodus. The event of the Passover feast is written in the four Gospels, the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Lexicon Meaning(s) of Passover in The Old Testament and New Testament of the Holy Bible
In Hebrew, the following terms and observations apply; Passover has a number of H6453 (Strong’s Concordance Number), and the word for Passover is pecach, in Hebrew, pronounced as peh'-sakh, and means Passover offerings.
In Greek, the following terms and observations apply; Passover has a number of G3597 (Strong’s Concordance Number), and the word for Passover is pascha in Greek, pronounced as pä'-skhä, and means Passover, Easter.
Purpose in Depth of the Old Testament Passover
The purpose of the Passover event is seven-fold
God’s first flesh creation sided with evil to eat fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, despite the warning from God that death would result (Bible Gateway, 2016)
The fruit of this tree was desired by flesh over God, and life, because the tree of life was a choice, just as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was a choice.
As a consequence of eating the fruit, death came from the desire of the man, not the God who warned him.
The fruit contained a seed.
The Holy Bible is a seedtime and harvest book; it is the word of God himself.
Adam sowed the seed of the desire to know good and evil.
God, in return, who cannot lie, has to allow a sowing and harvest of good and evil to run its course together, because of what flesh wanted through the sowing of the seed.
God, being a God of absolute love, had to let Lucifer do what he did, because any other measure would have been a controlling measure. Therefore Lucifer tempted Adam, and Adam fell from grace (Bible Gateway, 2016)
The Passover marks a judgment of God because of what flesh wanted, which is to know that flesh is innately evil.
Adam turned from God, and left all God offered.
Pharaoh and his people worshipped 23 other gods.
This is not a weak work in God, in that he is allowing this; The entire history of man in flesh is being set for the arrival of Jesus Christ in the flesh, the new seed of life everlasting, because God knew what man would do before the beginning of creation. In essence, God is Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit, and allowed his people of flesh, which he loved, to choose.
The Passover marks the setting of the fruit seed sown by Adam, in that God will, through the Passover and the Exodus, establish what Adam wanted, which is to know good, rather than God, which is the 10 Commandments; in essence, the 613 laws of Moses set in stone (rock) to show man what good is (Bible Gateway, 2016).
Through the Passover, Exodus, and the 10 Commandments/613 laws of Moses, God will show man what he wanted; though he is evil, it will show him what good is.
The events and document in stone will also show man that now that he knows good for himself (a mirror of God himself), man’s flesh cannot follow what he knows is good, even after he desired the fruit of it.
The Passover is an enactment of the acceptance of the flesh of the lamb, which is a semblance of obedience to God in the Old Testament.
The Lamb is the flesh sacrificed.
Jesus Christ is the same.
The flesh of the lamb will set a standard of sacrifice for the flesh because of the evil forces Adam loosed with the eating of the fruit, and the sowing of the seed of the knowledge of good and evil.
The Passover is an enactment of the acceptance of the bread of God’s word.
The bread is unleavened, because God needs no leaven.
Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, will also require no leaven.
This bread will set a standard of sacrifice for cleansing, not only for flesh to be presented as clean, but to protect from the evil forces Adam loosed with the eating of the fruit, and the sowing of the seed.
The Passover is an enactment of the acceptance of the covering of God through the blood of a flesh lamb
The lamb’s blood marks their door and protects the families of the Israelites of the effect of the 10th plague, which is the death of the first born.
This blood sacrifice will set a standard of sacrifice for cleansing, not only to be presented as cleansed, but to protect from the evil forces Adam loosed with the eating of the fruit, and the sowing of the seed.
This enactment will set a precedent for the means of cleansing of man from his sins, and will be reenacted to another scale by priests after the Commandments are established.
Passover Instructions from God from The Old Testament
The Passover will mark the first month of God’s “calendar year” for the Israelites
On the tenth day, bring a lamb into each home.
Smaller families will share a lamb with another smaller family.
Choose a lamb, a male with no blemishes that is a year old.
Keep it until the 14 day of the first month.
Slay the lamb with the rest of the congregation of Israelites.
Take the blood of the lamb and put it on the doorposts, both side posts, and the top of the doorpost.
Eat it when night comes, cooked in the fire with bitter herbs, and unleavened bread.
Eat all of it, even the head and internal organs.
Burn the leftovers with fire. Do not eat or leave leftovers.
Eat it with clothes on, and shoes, and with your staff in hand, and quickly.
Continue to observe the feast of unleavened bread to remember the Passover (Bible Gateway, 2016).
Books of The Holy Bible in which the Passover is Mentioned in the Old and New Testament, and Context (if Different from the Strong’s definitions)
Exodus 12:21 (defined as the lamb), 12:27 (passed over the houses and protected the Israelites) (Bible Gateway, 2016), Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, and Ezekiel, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, I Corinthians, and Hebrews (Bible Gateway, 2016). In each of these, the Passover is either an event, a mention of the event, the sacrifice, or the lamb, either of a lamb as an animal or The Lamb of God, Jesus Christ.
Purpose in Depth of the New Testament Passover
Commemoration of the Passover of the Old Testament with an actual flesh body.
This commemoration is performed as the Last Supper before the sacrifice of The Lamb of God, Jesus Christ.
In Matthew 26, Jesus’ disciples ask him what to do in regard to the feast.
This is the result of flesh men having learned to respect the leader, which is the difference between fallen man who followed his own desires. Although it does not perfect man’s flesh, it is a semblance seeking God first through Jesus Christ, who is the author of faith. In essence, among most of Jesus’ followers, except one, they desire to do as he asks, even if they do not completely carry out his wishes (falling asleep as he goes to trial) (Bible Gateway, 2016).
The Passover of Jesus Christ who is the seed of God, replaces the seed sown by Adam, who brought death.
Jesus Christ who cannot die, because he is life, must be willing to give his life as a seed to God, and does this.
The Passover of Jesus Christ satisfies the requirements of the new Passover, because he is the Lamb and the Shepherd at once, in a human body, the same kind of flesh body that desired the aforementioned things, namely, to follow Lucifer’s temptation, to desire to know good and evil, and to sow a seed.
The Passover of Jesus Christ will cease the need to make sacrifices again, with the exception of the commemoration of the Passover feasts.
Passover Instructions from Jesus Christ as the Passover in The New Testament
Jesus Christ, knowing that his time (sacrifice) is at hand, answers his disciples by giving instructions that the disciples go to have the Passover at “such a man”’(s) house, a man whose house, or name is not given in Matthew 26 (Bible Gateway, 2016).
Jesus blessed the bread, then asked the disciples to eat the unleavened bread as a sign of his body.
Jesus then gave thanks for the wine, and asked the disciples to drink the wine as his blood of the New Testament,” shed for many for the remission of sins” (Bible Gateway, 2016).
Jesus will later be tried, beaten and crucified as the Passover Lamb of the New Testament to the glory of God, for the forgiveness of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, and all other sins, as he becomes everything, including sin, and the New Testament Passover.
This act will make null and void any attempt of Lucifer to deter
a believer of Jesus Christ from salvation, because Jesus Christ becomes the author of faith, the seed, the rock, and the sure foundation for those who will believe
Other Instruction from Jesus Christ as the Passover in the New Testament
Jesus says (paraphrased) that that the work of God is to believe in the one God sent, Jesus Christ in John 6:29 (Bible Gateway, 2016).
Jesus says (paraphrased) that love of him, self, and others as people love themselves is the greatest commandment, allowing ease in God through his love.
Jesus says (paraphrased) that if he is believed, the believer will not perish in hell, which was the intent of Lucifer for fallen man, but man shall have everlasting life reunited with God (since Adam brought death, Jesus brought the resurrection of the dead) (Bible Gateway, 2016).
Results of Jesus as the Passover, The Lamb, The Meal, and The Sacrifice, and The Good Shepherd who gives his life for his sheep (Bible Gateway, 2016).
The requirement is belief (faith), hope, and love, and confession to God of faults, and confession of who Jesus is for salvation from evil.
All else is supplied by the seed of The Passover, Jesus, sown by his death, and harvested as the Holy Spirit, which has several fruits, among them love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, and meekness (Bible Gateway, 2016).
The believer, is restored from death to life with Christ, and is no longer a prisoner to death, but free to live in the love and salvation of God by the Passover of Jesus Christ.
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