OT Passover
This is the moment that God becomes God to the Hebrew
people. It happens when they have been
living in slavery and God brings them out of that life and leads them to the Promised
Land. Most people come to God at a moment of crisis.
Review the story: Abraham is called by God to leave
the land of Ur and settle the land of Canaan. Abraham has a son, Isaac who has
a son Jacob who has 12 sons, one whose name is Joseph, Jacob’s favored son who
the 11 others seek to kill but instead send him into slavery in Egypt. By the power of God, Joseph interprets a
dream for the king of Egypt – the Pharaoh that there will be 7 years of
bountiful crop followed by 7 years of famine.
Pharaoh raises Joseph to 2nd in command in all of Egypt. In Caanan, there was no fore warning of the
famine and Jacob sends his sons to Egypt for food, Joseph reveals himself to
and forgives his brothers and Jacob and all their family move to Egypt.
After several years, the Pharaoh’s forgot about
Joseph, the Hebrew people began to multiply and prosper so Pharaoh turned them
all into slaves of Egypt making bricks and after 350 years ordered all Hebrew
male babies born were to be killed. The
parents of Moses did not turn him over but put him in a basket and set him in
the Nile River where Pharaoh’s daughter would find him and raise him as her
own. 40 years pass and Moses runs from
his Egyptian life and 40 years after that, God calls to him from a burning bush
to set all the Hebrew people free from Egyptian slavery and take them back to
the land of Canaan – the Promised Land. Through Moses, God sends 9 plagues on
Egypt. Now pick up the story in the
bible:
Ex 11:4-8 So Moses said, "This is what the Lord
says: 'About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from
the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of
the slave girl, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as
well. There will be loud wailing
throughout Egypt — worse than there has ever been or ever will be again. But among the Israelites not a dog will bark
at any man or animal.' Then you will know that the Lord makes a distinction
between Egypt and Israel. All these
officials of yours will come to me, bowing down before me and saying, 'Go, you
and all the people who follow you!' After that I will leave."
Ex 12:3, 5-13 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. 5 The animals you choose
must be year-old males without defect. 6 Take care of them until
the fourteenth day of the
month, when all the people 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. 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 — both men 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.
Ex 12:17-20
"Celebrate
the Feast 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. 20 Eat
nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened
bread."
Ex 12:31-34
During the
night Pharaoh
summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Up!
Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have
requested. Take your flocks and herds,
as you have said, and go. And also bless me." The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and
leave the country. "For otherwise,"
they said, "we will all die!"
So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on
their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing.
Ex 12:46 Further instructions
on the lamb:
It must be
eaten inside one house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not
break any of the bones. The whole
community of Israel must celebrate it.
PASSOVER in the NT
NT Communion (Judas
dipped his bread in the sauce)
This is the moment that God becomes God to the
Christian people. It happens when they
have been living in slavery and God brings them out of that life and leads them
to the Promised Land.
Matt 26:1
When Jesus had
finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples, "As you know,
the Passover is two days away — and the Son of Man will be handed over
to be crucified."
Luke 22:14-20
When the hour
came, Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table. And he said to them, "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you
before I suffer. For I tell you, I will
not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God." After taking the cup, he gave thanks and
said, "Take this and divide it among you. For I tell you I will not drink again of the
fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes." And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it,
and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body
given for you; do this in remembrance of me." In the same way, after the supper he took the
cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my
blood, which is poured out for you.”
1 Corinthians 5:7
Get rid of the
old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast — as you really are. For
Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
INSTITUTING THE
LORD’S SUPPER
1 Corinthians
11:23-29
For I received
from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was
betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said,
"This is my body, which is for you; do this in
remembrance of me." In the
same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, "This
cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in
remembrance of me." For
whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death
until he comes. Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks
the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the
body and blood of the Lord. A man ought
to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without
recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself.
Notice the theme
of BREAD carried from Passover/Exodus to Communion
After the feeding of
the 5000 the next day they tracked Jesus down on the other side of the lake and
Jesus was upset that they wanted more miracles like that and he tried telling
them that the real miracle was that God had given them bread from heaven –
speaking about himself. Finally, he
tells them straight.
John 6:48-59
“I am the bread of life.
Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from
heaven, which a man may eat and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this
bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the
life of the world." Then the
Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How
can this man give us his flesh to eat?" Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of
Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has
eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is
real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and
drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.
Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so
the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven.
Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live
forever."
Acts 2:42-43
They devoted
themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking
of bread and to prayer.
COMMUNITY
1 Cor 10:16-17
Is not the cup
of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of
Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of
Christ? Because there is one loaf, we,
who are many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.
Let’s review:
Take the spotless
Passover lamb, kill it without breaking its bones, eat it, and take the blood
and cover the entrance to your home so that when God comes to bring death to
the first born in all the land, he will pass over you.
Take the spotless Passover lamb - Jesus, kill him
without breaking his bones, eat his flesh, and take the blood and cover the
entrance to your home – your heart - so that when God comes to bring death in
all the world, he will pass over you.
Hebrews 10:19-22
Therefore,
brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by
the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain,
that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 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.
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