NKJV 365 / The Greater Passover

NKJV 365 Day Reading Plan

Day 80 of 365 The Greater Passover The Passover was celebrated as a feast to the Lord year by year, as a permanent ordinance to commemorate God's deliverance of His people from Egyptian bondage. In the original Exodus the firstborn of Egypt were struck down, whereas Israel's firstborn were spared (passed over) if the blood of the sacrificial lamb was placed on the doorposts and on the lintel of the house (Ex. 12:7). This ancient memorial of the Passover had greater significance than any Israelite of that day could imaging, however wonderful the Exodus events were. Redemption from Egypt was a picture of greater redemption yet to be, when the blood of Christ would speak better things than the blood applied to the doors in Egypt. Christ is now our eternal Passover (1 Cor. 5:7). Our Passover is in the heavenlies; because of Him our sins are remembered against us no more. Taken from The Devotional Daily Bible Numbers 9:1-5 NASB 1 Thus the L ord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 "Now, let the sons of Israel observe the Passover at its appointed time. 3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall observe it at its appointed time; you shall observe it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances." 4So Moses told the sons of Israel to observe the Passover. 5 They observed the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the L ord had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did.