Passover

Remember Yeshua

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Christ is Risen

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descendant of David, according to my gospel, (2 Timothy 2:8)

As often as we can and wish we should remember Yeshua.

  • Risen from the dead
  • Descendant of David
  • Paul’s headline

The Gospel is the experience of all believers. We all own the gospel.

for which I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal; but the word of God is not imprisoned. (2 Timothy 2:9)

Paul was a guy who began his career imprisoning people for believing that Jesus is God’s anointed, and the celebrated and exalted descendant of David who was promised not to be left to the decay of the grave. Now Paul is in prison for that gospel that he persecuted so vehemently, and is reminding us that the word of God – the gospel – is never imprisoned.  We may not all suffer as intensely as Paul and the early disciples did, but living the eternal life has costs attached to us. Since they persecuted Christ we also will be persecuted. But the message of Truth – Christ himself – is not held captive by anyone.

The Lord’s passion: atonement over acclaim

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The Holy One chooses the path no crowd would cheer. 
He agonizes for Atonement, not applause; 
He takes up the basin before the banner; 
He embraces the cross long before the crowd can crown Him.

Passing over blood — EXODUS — promise 

The Firstborn spared becomes the Firstborn given. 
The ancient sign becomes the living seal. 
What was painted on doorposts now pulses in a Person.

Passing over sin — EXPIATION — sacrifice 

The Lamb without blemish absorbs the blemish of all. 
Judgment passes because He does not. 
The altar of old converges with the wood of Golgotha.

Passing over death — EXALTATION — Lion‑Lamb 

The grave yields; the throne receives. 
The slain One stands; the humble One reigns. 
Passover becomes not merely an event, but a Presence — 
a Person who leads, shelters, and transforms.

This year, like every other, there is no competition between Good Friday and Passover. Passover takes ownership of the sacred appointment, the 14th day of Nissan, the full moon of the first month, and there is no repeat of the atoning sacrifice.

Here, at the intersection of Exodus and Calvary, 
we behold the One who fulfills the feast by becoming it. 
The Passover is no longer only remembered — 
it is revealed, embodied, enthroned.

The cross, and it alone, draws us into that holy crossing: 
from shadow to substance, from sign to Saviour, 
from the lamb on the table to the Lamb on the throne.

The ninth hour of Pesach 2022

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Scripture records that the Lord Christ breathed his last at around the ninth hour of Passover.  This year, in the Eastern Time zone, the moon hits full at 1455, 2:55pm.  Amazing coincidence?  Not if one believes that there are sacred seasons throughout the year.  The whole day is sacred.  The full moon of Nisan, falling on the fourteenth day, has always been a significant season.  The moon is full then it isn’t.  Some time during this day, millions will remember that the price for human redemption was paid in full.

There was no other way to conceive of the Lamb of God laying down his life and taking up again without an eternal “mark this date”.  Before he  created the world God had marked the calendar of His Son’s amazing act of saving love.

“Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years;” [season <- moed, and for seasons ולמועדים ulĕmoedim]

Genesis 1:14, NASB 

Seasons are appointed times, marked by both the sun and the moon, and Moses announces a set of them which we have come to know as festivals in Leviticus 23.  Again this year, Good Friday is over when Passover actually begins.  It is another example of how tradition poses as biblical fact. Please take a moment to recall and give a loud hosannah with reference to the Son of David, whether or not the bread and wine of the covenant are present.