The Passover

THE PASSOVER

● Gen 15:12-16

12 ​As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. ​13 ​Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for ​four hundred years​ your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. ​14 ​But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.​15 ​You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. ​16 ​In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”

■ God tells Abram that his people will be slaves for 400 years.

Back Story

Abraham has Isaac, Isaac has Joseph, Joseph brothers sell him as a slave. Joseph begins interpreting dreams for the pharaoh and Joseph is eventually reunited with his family. His family moves to Egypt with Joseph and after years pass a new pharaoh turns them into slaves for about 400 years until God sends Moses.

TYPE

● Exodus 7:17

17 ​This is what the Lord says: By this you will know that I am the Lord: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be ​changed into blood​.

■ Turn water into blood

• Frogs, Lice, Flies, Disease, Boils, Hail, Locus, Darkness

● Exodus 11:4-5

4 ​So Moses said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. ​5 ​Every ​firstborn son in Egypt will die​, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

• Firstborn dies 

● Exodus 12:3-13

3 ​Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a ​lamb for his family​, one for each household. ​4 ​If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. ​5 ​The animals you choose must be year-old males ​without defect​, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. ​6 ​Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. 7 ​Then they are to take some of the ​blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes​ of the houses where they eat the lambs. ​8 ​That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. ​9 ​Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs. 10 ​Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. ​11 ​This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover. ​12 ​“On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. ​13 ​The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, ​and when I see the blood, I will pass over you​. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.

1. Lamb with no blemish
2. blood on the door.
3. Follow special instructions while God ​passover​ed

■ What happened if the people didn’t follow instructions?

ANTI-TYPE

● John 1:29 - John envisioned Jesus as our passover lamb

● 1 Cor 5:6-8 - Christ = passover lamb, says Paul.

● Rev 5:1-6 - Jesus = lion from Judah & slain lamb

● Gen 49:8-10 - One of descendants will be reign over people & Judah is compared to lion

● Rev 5:9-10 = His blood purchases all men

Old Testament Passover​, each Israelite had to participate and the blood of the lamb saved them. The Passover was part of the covenant. It was added before the law.

New Testament Passover​, each one of us must participate and Jesus blood saves us.

● Exodus 12:14-20 - Passover Feast

14 ​“This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance. ​15 ​For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. ​16 On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do. ​17 ​“Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. ​18 ​In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. 19 ​For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel. ​20 ​Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.”

■ What is the difference between the Passover and Passover feast?

■ Did Jesus leave us with anything similar to the Passover feast?

(Lord’s Supper)

Passover Lamb

• Male First Year
• Set Aside for Exam No Blemish
• Killed at twilight (3pm) No Broken Bones

Jesus = Lamb of God

• First born of God
• Put on display for all to see No Blemish
• Died at 3pm
• No broken bones.

● Isaiah 42:6

“I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you​ ​to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles,

■ Jesus is our covenant.

It does matter how good you were/are, unless you obeyed you suffered loss.

● Passover punishment - Physical Death

● New Covenant Punishment = Spiritual Death

God Must See Blood

● Hebrews 10:22

22 ​let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.

■ How can we put the blood if Jesus upon the doorpost of our hearts? (1 Peter 3:22)