Should Christian keep the Passover Feast? A prophetic look into this Feast of the Lord.

1. PART 2 0F 4, SPRING FEASTS

2. THE FEASTS OF THE LORD
PROPHETIC SYMBOLISM FOR ISRAEL,
FOR THE CHURCH, AND
FOR INDIVIDUALS

4. GOD’S MONTH.

5. GOD’S MONTH IS FROM
NEW MOON TO NEW MOON.
 The Jewish calendar is based on three
astronomical phenomena:
 The rotation of the Earth about its axis; a
day.
 The revolution of the moon about the Earth;
a month.
 The revolution of the Earth about the sun; a
year.
 The moon revolves around the Earth in
about 29½ days.
 The Earth revolves around the sun in about
365¼ days, that is, about 12.4 lunar months.

9. Exodus 12:2-5 (NKJV)
2 “This month shall be your beginning of
months; it shall be the first month of the year
to you. 3 Speak to all the congregation of
Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth of this month
every man shall take for himself a lamb,
according to the house of his father, a lamb
for a household. 4 And if the household is too
small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor
next to his house take it according to the
number of the persons; according to each
man’s need you shall make your count for the
lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a
male of the first year. You may take it from the
sheep or from the goats.
Exodus 12:2-5 (NKJV)
2 “This month shall be your beginning of
months; it shall be the first month of the year
to you. 3 Speak to all the congregation of
Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth of this month
every man shall take for himself a lamb,
according to the house of his father, a lamb
for a household. 4 And if the household is too
small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor
next to his house take it according to the
number of the persons; according to each
man’s need you shall make your count for the
lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a
male of the first year. You may take it from the
sheep or from the goats.

10. LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH

11. EXODUS 12:6-7 (NKJV)
 6 Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth
day of the same month. Then the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel
shall kill it at twilight. 7 And they shall
take some of the blood and put it on the
two doorposts and on the lintel of the
houses where they eat it.

13. EXODUS 12:8-9 (NKJV)
8 Then they shall eat the flesh on
that night; roasted in fire, with
unleavened bread and with bitter
herbs they shall eat it. 9 Do not eat
it raw, nor boiled at all with water,
but roasted in fire—its head with
its legs and its entrails.

14. EXODUS 12:10 (NKJV)
 10 You shall let none of it remain until
morning, and what remains of it until
morning you shall burn with fire.

15. EXODUS 12:11 (NKJV)
 11 And thus you shall eat it:
 with a belt on your waist,
 your sandals on your feet,
 and your staff in your hand.
 So you shall eat it in haste.
 It is the LORD’s Passover.

16. EXODUS 12:12 (NKJV)
 12 ‘For I will pass through the land of
Egypt on that night,
 and will strike all the firstborn in the land
of Egypt, both man and beast;
 and against all the gods of Egypt I will
execute judgment:
 I am the LORD.

17. EXODUS 12:13 (NKJV)
 13 Now the blood shall be a sign for you
on the houses where you are. And when I
see the blood, I will pass over you; and
the plague shall not be on you to
destroy you when I strike the land of
Egypt.

19. EXODUS 12:14 (NKJV)
 14 ‘So this day shall be to you a memorial;
and you shall keep it as a feast to
the LORD throughout your generations.
You shall keep it as a feast by an
everlasting ordinance.

22. REVIEWING THE PASSOVER
 Celebrated by Jews for thousands of years.
Remembering How God redeemed the
Jewish nation from slavery in Egypt.
 Ordered from God to the Jews while they
were still in Egypt.
 The first celebration centered around the
Passover lamb, which was sacrificed and its
blood put over the doorposts in obedience
to God’s command. The Lord passed over
the houses of the Jews during the last
plague released over the Egyptians: The
killing of every firstborn.

23. REVIEWING THE PASSOVER
 To a large degree, the Passover lamb has
been eliminated from the Passover
festival (with the only remnant being the
roasted lamb shank bone).
 The New Testament says that Jesus is our
sacrificial Lamb.

24. REVIEWING THE PASSOVER
 The Passover lamb was to be a "male
without defect,” That description fits to
Jesus.
 When the lamb was roasted and eaten,
none of its bones were to be broken.
 This fact was also prophesized for the
Messiah, whose bones were not to be
broken.

25. REVIEWING THE PASSOVER
 During crucifixion Romans would break
the leg bones of the person after a few
hours in order to hasten their death. The
only way a person could breathe when
hanging on a cross was to push up with
his legs, which was very exhausting. By
breaking the legs, death followed soon by
asphyxiation. However, in the case of
Jesus, they broke the legs of the other
two men, but did not break His, since He
was already dead.

26. SYMBOLISM OF PASSOVER
Much is lost to us because we are unaware
of the customs of the time.
Jesus came into the city of Jerusalem five
days before the lamb was killed in the
temple as the Passover sacrifice for the
sins of the people of Israel.
Five days before the lamb was to be
sacrificed, it was chosen. Therefore, Jesus
entered Jerusalem on lamb selection day as
the lamb of God.

27. SYMBOLISM OF PASSOVER
The people did not understand the
significance of this, since they greeted Him
with palm branches
They hailed Him as King, shouting
"Hosanna," which means "save us." They
were not looking for a spiritual Savior, but a
political savior.
Palm branches were a symbol of freedom
and defiance, since Simon Maccabeus had
entered Jerusalem with that symbolism.

28. SYMBOLISM OF PASSOVER
Jesus was crucified on the day of the Passover
celebration and the day that the Passover lamb
was to be sacrificed.
For 1,200 years, the priest would blow the
shophar at 3:00 p.m. - the moment the lamb was
sacrificed, and all the people would pause to
contemplate the sacrifice for sins on behalf of the
people of Israel.
At 3:00, when Jesus was being crucified, He said,
"It is finished“, at the moment that the Passover
lamb was sacrificed and the shophar was blown
from the Temple.

29. SYMBOLISM OF PASSOVER
The sacrifice of the lamb of God was fulfilled
at the hour that the symbolic animal sacrifice
usually took place. At the same time, the veil
of the Temple (a three-inch thick, several story
high cloth that demarked the Holy of Holies)
tore from top to bottom representing a
removal of the separation between God and
man.
Fifty days later, on the anniversary of the
giving of the law (Pentecost), God left the
earthly temple to inhabit those who call on the
name of Jesus through His Holy Spirit

33. EXODUS 12:15-16 (NKJV)
 15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened
bread. On the first day you shall remove
leaven from your houses. For whoever eats
leavened bread from the first day until the
seventh day, that person shall be cut off
from Israel.16 On the first day there shall be a
holy convocation, and on the seventh day
there shall be a holy convocation for you. No
manner of work shall be done on them;
but that which everyone must eat—that only
may be prepared by you.

36. 1 CORINTHIANS 5:8 (NKJV)
 7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that
you may be a new lump, since you truly
are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our
Passover, was sacrificed for us.

37. 1 CORINTHIANS 5:8 (NKJV)
 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with
old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice
and wickedness, but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

39. WAVING THE SHEAF OF FIRSTFRUITS

40. LEVITICUS 23:9-11 (NKJV)
 The Feast of Firstfruits
 9 And the LORD spoke to Moses,
saying, 10 “Speak to the children of Israel,
and say to them: ‘When you come into the
land which I give to you, and reap its
harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the
first fruits of your harvest to the priest. 11 He
shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be
accepted on your behalf; on the day after the
Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

41. FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK
 The day after the Sabbath is the first Day of
the week.
 The first day of the week for us is Sunday.
 Our Lord Jesus is the “First Fruits”
 He was resurrected on the first day of the
week, wich is a Sunday.
 We celebrate Sunday as the Day of the Lord.

43. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:20-23 NKJV)
 The Last Enemy Destroyed
 20 But now Christ is risen from the
dead, and has become the firstfruits of those
who have fallen asleep. 21 For since by
man came death, by Man also came the
resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam
all die, even so in Christ all shall be made
alive. 23 But each one in his own order:
Christ the first fruits, afterward those who
are Christ’s at His coming.

45. PASSOVER.
 Feast of freedom and salvation both in the
Old and New Testaments.
 The Blood of the lamb delivers from
Slavery: The Jew from Egypt’s slavery
and Christians from sin’s slavery.
 In Egypt the blood of the lamb over the
lintel and the posts of the house door.
 Christians mark their hearts with the
blood of Christ

46. UNLEAVENED BREAD
 Leaven or yeast in the bible signifies sin or evil
ways.
 Eaten 7 days of unleavened bread signifies a
holy walk, following the Lord.
 Unleavened bread points out to the Body of the
Lord
 Jesus is the Bread of Life.
 Born in Bethlehem which means “House of
Bread”
 Matzah is striped and pierced, pointing out to
Jesus; by His stripes we were healed, He was

47. FIRST FRUITS
 Thanksgiving to god for the harvest.
 First day after Sabbath Week of Passover
Feast
 Resurrection of the Lord, Resurrection of
the church
 First Day of the week The Lord
resurrected.
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48. NEXT WEEK
 Next week we will focus in the Feast of
Summer:
 Feast of Weeks.
 Known by Christians as Pentecost
 This is the 4th feast of the Lord.