Today is the first day of Passover, the festival established by God to be celebrated by the Jewish people each year, forever. Why? God intended that it would, in part, be a remembering. A permanent reminder to the Jewish people through all generations of God’s rescue of them from slavery in Egypt. A rescue that culminated with the saving blood of the Passover lamb. (Exodus 12:1-30)

Christian Holy Week (Passion Week) begins tomorrow with remembrance of Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem. Palm branches and donkeys. On Thursday Jesus and His disciples would eat a Passover meal in an upper room in Jerusalem. Later that night Jesus would be arrested. And on Friday Jesus became our Passover lamb. The Lamb of God shedding His blood that we would be freed from the slavery of sin, forever.

There are no coincidences in the Providence of God. Circa 33 AD, the Jewish people were gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate Passover. And at the moment of sacrifice of the symbolic Passover lamb, Jesus shed His blood for us on the Cross. Jesus, the Lamb of God, Passover fulfilled. (1 Peter 1:18-21)

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