The Feast of Passover

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The Feast of Passover

• Presented by
• Dr. W. Terry Bailey

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The Feast of Passover

• Exodus 123-7 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 mans 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. 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.

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Seven Feasts

• There are seven major feasts that God established
  with Israel in the Old Testament.
• The first of these seven feasts was Passover.
• Passover always comes in the first month of the
  year on the religious calendar.
• This is known as Abib in Deuteronomy and later
  came to be known as Nissan after the Babylonian
  captivity

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Biblical Feasts
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Timeline

• Passover First Feast First Month
  (Abib/Nissan) 14th day.
• Unleavened Bread First Month 15th 22nd Day
• First Fruits First Month 18th day
• Pentecost 50 days after waving the sheaf of
  first fruits.

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Seven Feasts

• Although there are a total of seven feasts (the
  divine number for perfection or completeness in
  the Bible), God divided the seven festivals into
  three major festival seasons. Every male was to
  present themselves before the Lord three times in
  a year in each festival group.
• The First Group is Passover, Feast of Unleavened
  Bread and First Fruits.

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The First Festival Group

• The First festival group Pesach
• The feasts of Passover (Pesach),
• The feasts of Unleavened Bread (Hag HaMatzah),
• The feasts of First Fruits (Bikkurim)
• These fall in the month of Nisan, which is the
  first month of religious calendar in the spring
  of the year.

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The Second Festival

• The second festival
• The Feast of the Weeks
• The Feast of Weeks (Shavuot), or Pentecost, is a
  week long festival observed in the third
  religious month of Sivan.

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The Third Festival Group

• The third festival group The Feast of the
  Tabernacles.
• The feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah),
• The feasts of Atonement (Yom Kippur), and
• The feasts of Tabernacles (Sukkot)
• These fall in the seventh month of Tishrei, which
  is in the fall of the year (Exodus 2314-17
  3422-23 Deuteronomy1616-17).

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Why Three Different Groups?

• Three is the number of completeness.
• Three is the number of persons in the Trinity.
• Three is the number of perfect testimony and
  witness which is the assurance of things.

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The Seven Feasts (Festivals)

• The Seven Feasts are celebrated in two different
  seasons, which correspond to the two agricultural
  seasons.
• The four spring feasts takes us from the
  beginning to the ingathering of the barley
  harvest.
• The three fall festivals begin at the time of the
  ingathering of wheat and other crops.

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Leviticus Chapter 231-44 The Seven Feasts of
Israel Given by the LORD to Moses on Mt. Sinai

• Passover
• Unleavened Bread
• 3. First Fruits
• 4. Pentecost (Weeks)
• ----------------------------------
• 5. Trumpets
• 6. Atonement (Yom Kippur)
• 7. Tabernacles

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Why Do We Study the Feasts?

• I believe that there are three very important
  things we must understand about the Feasts of the
  Lord
• Each of the feasts of the Lord have a
• Historical Meaning
• Prophetic Meaning
• Contemporary Meaning
• They are all beautiful types of the Person and
  Work of Christ our Messiah.

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Passover Historical Purpose

• In Exodus 12 God instituted the Passover.
• This was just before He brought the 10th and
  final plague on Egypt where the death angel
  passed through Egypt killing the first born of
  both man and beast.
• The children of Israel were commanded to eat a
  lamb roasted in the fire, unleavened bread, and
  bitter herbs.
• They were to take the blood of the lamb without
  blemish and place it on the doorposts and the
  lintels of the house.
• They were to eat it in haste.

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The Passover Meal

• On the 14th of Nisan, just before sunset, the
  Passover Lamb was to be slaughtered and was
  roasted whole (no bone was to be broken) and
  eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
• The unleavened bread was made simply from flour
  and water and cooked very quickly.
• This ceremony was rich in symbolism the blood of
  the lamb symbolized the cleansing of sins bitter
  herbs, the bitterness of slavery in Egypt the
  unleavened bread, purity.

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Jesus Our Passover Lamb

• Jesus is the final Passover Lamb (1 Corinthians
  57-8).
• He entered Jerusalem on the 10th of Nisan, the
  same day when the Passover Lamb was brought into
  home.
• The night before Good Friday He was examined by
  Pilate and was found no fault, thus fulfilling
  the requirements of the Passover Lamb being a
  "male without defect.

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Our Passover Lamb

• On Good Friday, the day of the Passover
  celebration, Jesus was crucified (John 1914).
• At around 300 pm, Jesus said, "It is finished"
  and died. This was the time when the Passover
  Lamb was to be slaughtered.
• Further, when the lamb was roasted and eaten,
  none of its bones were to be broken.

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Our Passover Lamb

• This was prophesized for the Messiah, whose bones
  were not to be broken (Psalms 3420).
• It was customary for the soldiers to break the
  leg bones of the crucified 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. By
  breaking the legs, the person could no longer
  push up to breathe and death soon followed.
  However they did not break Jesus' bones since He
  was already dead.

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Contemporary Meaning

• What is the contemporary meaning for us today?
• What does Passover mean to us this year.
• It is called the first month in Exodus 121-2
  Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the
  land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be
  your beginning of months it shall be the first
  month of the year to you.
• I believe it represents a new beginning or a new
  season.
• It is a season where God begins new things in our
  lives.

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Word of the Lord

• Several weeks ago the Lord spoke to me about
  Passover.
• He simply said to me, Movement will begin at
  Passover and commence at Pentecost.
• This is a season of movement.

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Passover

• Passover represents a time of movement. In
  Exodus 1211 And thus you shall eat it with a
  belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet,
  and you staff in your hand. So you shall it in
  haste. It is the Lords Passover.
• They had to eat it in haste because they were
  about to leave at a moments notice. God was
  bringing a new day of deliverance.
• Passover represents a new beginning. It is a
  time of movement. Transition will begin at
  Passover and culminate at the season of Pentecost.