Passover

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Passover

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Life at the Chernobyl Zoo


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Orson F. Whitney

• "Do I err, then, in believing that the
  universe is built upon symbols, to the end that
  it may bear record of its all-wise Architect and
  Builder?
• God teaches with symbols it is his favorite
  method of teaching

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Bruce R. McConkie

• 4 Keys for understanding symbols

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1- Look beyond the symbol for its intended
meaning

• In looking at the symbol especially in the Old
  Testament, however, one must not become so bound
  up in ones own culture that one misses the
  imagery behind the symbol.

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2 Do the scriptures themselves give the
interpretation of the symbol?

• Are there examples of the Lord or his prophets
  providing the symbols- then giving us the
  interpretation?

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3 Look for the Savior in the symbols and imagery
of the scriptures

• Nephi
• Behold, my soul delighteth in proving unto my
  people the truth of the coming of Christ for,
  for this end hath the law of Moses been given
  and all things which have been given of God from
  the beginning of the world are the typifying of
  him (2 Nephi 114)

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4 Before one can fully understand what a symbol
is meant to convey, one must understand the
spiritual truths being conveyed.

• Question
• Why is this especially true of the Temple and its
  symbolism?

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Exodus 1

• 7 And the children of Israel were fruitful,
  and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and
  waxed exceeding mighty and the land was
  filled with them.
• 8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt,
  which knew not Joseph.
• 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the
  people of the children of Israel are more and
  mightier than we
• 10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them
  lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that,
  when there falleth out any war, they join also
  unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so
  get them up out of the land.
• 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters
  to afflict them with their burdens
• 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more
  they multiplied and grew.
• 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard
  bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all
  manner of service in the field

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Question

• When the children of the Lord are in bondage, how
  does he deliver them?

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Exodus 3
1835 Description of the First Vision I called on
the Lord in mighty prayer. A pillar of fire
appeared above my head which presently rested
down upon me, and filled me with unspeakable joy.
A personage appeared in the midst of this pillar
of flame, which was spread all around and yet
nothing consumed

• Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his
  father-in-law, the priest of Midian and came to
  the mountain of God even to Horeb.
• And again, the presence of the Lord appeared unto
  him, in a flame of fire in the midst of a bush
  and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with
  fire, and the bush was not consumed

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Plagues on Egypt

• Issue of Blood
• Frogs
• Lice
• Swarms
• Blight

• Boils
• Hail
• Locusts
• Darkness
• Death of the first born (Passover)

By the way, is the Lord using any modern plagues
to get the people out of bondage?
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Passover

• Unblemished Lamb
• Completely eaten
• Blood on the doorposts
• Unleavened Bread eaten with bitter herbs
• Meal eaten quickly with shoes on

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Passover

• What were the children of Israel to learn from
  Passover?

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The Lesson?

• Exodus 12
• 24 And ye shall observe this thing for an
  ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever.
• 26 And it shall come to pass, when your children
  shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
• 27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the
  Lord's passover, who passed over the houses of
  the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote
  the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.
• And the people bowed the head and worshiped.

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Quote from the Haggadah,The Passover literugy

• In every generation, each person should feel as
  though she or he were redeemed from Egypt, as it
  is said You shall tell your children on that day
  saying, It is because of what the Lord did for
  me when I went free out of Egypt. For the Holy
  One redeemed not only our ancestors He redeemed
  us with them.

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Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

• every ordinance of the gospel focuses in
  one way or another on the atonement of the
  Lord Jesus Christ, and surely that is why the
  sacrament with all its symbolism and imagery
  comes to us more readily and more repeatedly than
  any other in our life.
• It comes in what has been called by Joseph
  Fielding Smith the most sacred, the most
  holy, of all the meetings of the
  Church
• Perhaps we do not always attach the kind of
  meaning to our weekly sacramental service.
  How sacred and how holy is it? Do
  we see it as our passover,
  remembrance of our safety
  and deliverance and redemption?

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Finally
Passover
Sacrament
Anticipates
Remembers