The Passover

Festival

EXODUS 12: 1 - 14

The Seven (7) OT Feasts/Festivals

•Spring Feasts:

Passover (Pesach)

Unleavened Bread

First Fruits

Feasts of Weeks or

Pentecost (Shavuot)

•Fall Feasts:

Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah)

Day of Atonement (Yom

Kippur)

Feasts of Tabernacles (Sukkot)

Memorials established for us to pause, stop, and ponder...

Etc...

Lev. 23: 4 & 5, “These are the Lord’s appointed festivals, the

sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.

The Lord’s Passover begins at twilight on the 14th day of the first

month.”

*The Passover and the Feast of the Unleavened Bread overlaps.

Lev. 23: 6, “On the 15th day of that month (the first month) the

Lord’s festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven (7) days

you must eat bread made without yeast...”

*Today we will look at the Passover only...

Miscellaneous Information about the Passover:

1. Exodus 12: 48 and Numbers 9: 14 instructs non-Jewish

(foreigners) were invited to participate in the Passover

celebrations

2. II Chronicles 35: 1 –18: From Samuel (between 1100 –1001

bc) to King Josiah (640 - 609 bc) the Passover was barely

practiced (roughly 640 years)...Remember, Babylon

destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem in 586 bc)

3. Ezekiel 45: 21 Prophecies Israel and the Passover will be

restored.

The Origin of the Passover Feast: Exodus 12

•v2 The Lord establishes the Jewish calendar, Nisan is the first month

of their calendar.

•Passover is to be in the month of Nisan on the 14th day

•Each family is to select a male spotless lamb on the 10th of Nisan,

take care of it until the 14th then kill it at twilight

(sunset –around 6pm)

•Some of the lamb’s blood is to be placed on the door

•V8 That night they are to eat the roasted lamb along with bitter

herbs (symbolic of their 400+ years of bitter suffering) and

bread without yeast (no time to wait for yeast to rise)

Yeast does not mean ‘sin’ – Jesus used yeast as a symbol of

growth

•V11 Eat it with your cloak (coat) tucked into your belt (the men

tucked their cloaks in their belts only when they are ready to

run), sandals on, and staff in hand, eat in haste (a hurry);

because it is the Lord’s Passover.

V12 On the same night, I

will (not a Death Angel –

but God Himself) will pass

through Egypt and strike

every 1st born of both

people and animal and I will

bring judgement on all of

the gods of Egypt. I Am the

Lord!

•V13 The blood will be a sign

for you on the houses where

you are, and when I see the

blood, I will passover you...

No destruction will touch you

when I strike Egypt.

•V14 This is a day you are to

commemorate; for

generations to come you

shall celebrate it as a festival

to the Lord; a lasting

ordinance.

1Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of

the Lord been revealed?

2He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry

ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him nothing in his

appearance that we should desire him.

3He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and

familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was

despised, and we held him in low esteem.

4Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him

punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.

5But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our

iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his

wounds we are healed.

6We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own

way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53: 1 –6)

Jesus is our Passover Lamb

I Corinthians 5: 7, “...For Christ, our

Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed!”

Hebrews 9: 12, “He did not enter by

means of goats and calves; but He

entered the Most Holy place once and

for all by His own blood, thus obtaining

eternal redemption.”

•Jesus provided the blood

of deliverance

•Jesus was/is a sinless

sacrifice

•Jesus delivers us from our

bondage