PASSOVER

• What  is “PASSOVER”?
• Passover is one of the most important Jewish religious holiday,  when  the escape of the Jews from Egypt is remembered.  (Hebrew: Pesach/Greek: Paskha) It marks the beginning of Israel’s history as a free nation; it celebrates the great deliverance from slavery, when God set His people free and took them out of Egypt.
• Exodus 12:3-14:
•  ³ 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 members 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… it is the LORD’s Passover.
• ¹² “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people 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.
• ¹⁴ “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD—a lasting ordinance.

• Exodus 12.3-14, 21-27



 

What is “EASTER”?

• Easter is a Christian holiday in March or April when Christians remember the death of Christ and His return to life (resurrection). Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.
• “Easter” has a pagan origin. The English word “easter” comes from the Anglo-saxon “Eastre” or “Estera”, a Teutonic goddess (the goddess of fertility) to whom sacrifice was offered in April.  The true “Passover” has nothing to do with “easter”, rabbits, eggs, chocolate eggs...
• God wants us to celebrate the Passover, from generation to generation, always remembering the true meaning: we were slaves in “Egypt”, slaves of sin, but Jesus, the Lamb of God, was sacrificed for us. He paid the price. Now, we are free... Let’s celebrate!!!
• John 1.29 (The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”),  35-36 (The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”)
• I Peter 1.18-20 (For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. ²⁰ He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. )

Pr. Silvana´s Preaching, on Saturday, 31st