Carrying over from yesterday, my question is – Why can’t we infuse these two Christian and Jewish holidays Passover and Easter??? They obviously are related and belong together.
If you haven’t read Tuesday or Wednesday’s blogs, I encourage you hop on over to them and read them to fill in the blanks as to what I’m writing about this week.
Since the Last Supper was clearly a Passover Seder, and the Bible states that Jesus was our Passover lamb, sacrificed once for all and Resurrection Sunday (Easter) observes the rising of Jesus from the dead, then why can’t we celebrate both? It would be a beautiful blending of the old and the new covenants, and I believe would help gentile believers understand why Jesus died for us.
Bottom line is this – as gentiles we miss the mark on much of our faith. We haven’t been taught about the animal sacrifices to cleanse the old testament believers of sin – the Jews understood their sin better than us and had to see animals die in their place to be forgiven of God. So we may not ‘get’ why Jesus was the Passover Lamb – when we understand the first Passover, where the Israelites had to put the actual blood on their door posts and stay inside when the angel of death passed through, we can grasp how important Jesus’ blood sacrifice is to believers. That this is very important to God.
I feel, and it’s only my opinion, but since this is my blog I’m going to put it out there, that by ignoring the feasts and festivals and appointed times of the Old Testament, the ones that God Himself gave to Moses, that we have done our Savior a disservice. In those sacred holy days that God so clearly laid out, is the story of redemption, God’s never ending faithfulness and His work in progress for the world. The Passover has been completed by Jesus dying on the cross and us claiming His blood has saved us. The day of Pentecost has come when the Holy Spirit blew into town (yes I had to go there, too!) – what do the other festivals in the Old Testament hold for us? To me it’s wonderment and awe as I see my God working to bring the world to Himself. God does nothing without purpose. He obviously has lessons and purpose in those appointed times. It may behoove us to get to know them instead of pretending the old testament didn’t exist.
I’m one to believe that if the whole world is ‘doing it’ then it’s not ordained by God. Can it be that since the whole world is ignoring these important days the old testament talks about, that we are missing a blessing from Him? I know that Easter and Christmas have become so over commercialized that they hold no sacred value and honestly I cringe as I see them becoming even more kid oriented and retail laden.
As for me and my house, we are digging deeper into the why of our faith and looking to the Bible for answers. We will observe both Passover to celebrate Jesus’ sacrifice and Easter as the blessed day of the year that Jesus rose beating the devil once and for all, bringing salvation to all who come to Him.
Tomorrow I will talk more about Passover and what else it means… I hope these posts have intrigued you to look into your own Bible and find out a bit more about your Faith and the One who willingly became your Passover lamb….
