The Prophetic Secret in the Passover

What if I told you that Passover is deeply connected to Yeshua and that it holds profound meaning for believers today? I want to start it in John's gospel and John the Baptist comes in and he introduces Yeshua as the lamb of God. The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and he said, "Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world." John is introducing us to Yeshua as the lamb of God and the lamb of God was actually prophesied by Abraham when he was taking Isaac to be offered as a sacrifice. Listen to what Abraham said because Abraham was actually speaking prophecy when he answered Isaac. But Isaac spoke to Abraham, his father, and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I am, my son." Then he said, "Look, the fire and the wood, but where's the lamb for a burnt offering?" And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering." Abraham tells Isaac, "God will provide for himself a lamb." Now, this is prophetic because Yeshua is a lamb that God will provide. This is what John was referring to when he said, "Behold the lamb of God." Paul refers to Yeshua as the lamb of God in 1 Corinthians chapter 5. And Paul concludes that because Yeshua is our Passover, that we should therefore keep the feast. Therefore purge out the leaven that you may be a new lump since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Many Christians say that because Christ is our Passover, we no longer need to keep the feast. But according to the Bible, because Christ is our Passover, therefore we should keep the feast. So, what many Christians believe and teach is contrary to what scripture actually says. Paul is saying, "Because Christ is our Passover, therefore let us keep the feast." You see how what most churches teach is contrary to scripture? I would argue that Passover is one of the most Christian things we can do because Yeshua said to do this in remembrance of him, and he was speaking about Passover. The Gospels clearly tell us that the Last Supper was a Passover meal. Then came the day of unleavened bread when the Passover must be killed. This is important for context. The 14th day of the first month is the day that the lamb is supposed to be killed. So it says, "Then the day arrives when the lamb was supposed to be killed." And he sent Peter and John saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us that we may eat." So he tells them he's going to eat Passover with them and he wants them to go prepare. So they said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare?" And he said to them, "Behold, when you have entered the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him into the house which he enters. Then you shall say to the master of the house, 'The teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"' So Yeshua is planning to eat Passover with his disciples in that guest room. Then he will show you a large furnished upper room. There make ready." So they went and found it just as he had said, and they prepared the Passover. When the hour had come, he sat down and the 12 apostles with him. When what hour had come? When it was time to eat Passover, he sat down with them. Then he said to them, "With fervent desire, I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer." So he's telling them I'm about to suffer, but I've been looking forward to eating this Passover with you first. And there's a lot of people who want to argue and say that he wasn't eating Passover with his disciples. But we see it was the day when the Passover lamb was supposed to be killed. He said to make the place ready so I can eat Passover with my disciples. Then he sat down and he said, "I've been looking forward to eating this Passover with you before I suffer." So he's telling us he's going to eat Passover before he suffers. "For I say to you, I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." And so he's also telling us he's going to eat it again in the future. He's prophetically showing us that he's going to eat it again. He's not doing away with it. So this is the context of the Last Supper. Now, we get into the elements. Then he took the cup and gave thanks and said, "Take this and divide it among yourselves, for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine in until the kingdom of God comes." And he took bread and he gave thanks and broke it and gave it to them saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me." And so, he's sitting at Passover and he takes the unleavened bread, the Passover bread, and he breaks it and he gives it to them and he says, "This is my body." Matzah, unleavened bread, it is pierced. There's little holes all over it. Think about a saltine cracker. It has little puncture wounds, little holes poked in it. That's to keep it from rising. It's also striped and when they bake it, there's also dark spots and it kind of looks like bruises. So, let's look at Isaiah 53 real quick. But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement for our peace was upon him and by his stripes we are healed. So, he was wounded for our transgressions. That's the piercings. We know his body was pierced. pierced through the hands and the feet and they also pierced him in the side with a spear. Okay, so he was pierced all over his body. He was bruised for our iniquities. They beat him. They bruised him. They whipped him. They punched him. And by his stripes we are healed. He was striped. He was beaten with a whip cutting deep gashes into his back as they're whipping him, striping his back with his whip. So, as we look at the unleavened bread, we're seeing these things. We're seeing the piercings. We're seeing the bruises. We're seeing the stripes. And he says, "This is my body." This prophetic picture in Isaiah is being portrayed in this matzah. So, you take this matzah, you look at it and you say, "This reminds me of what happened to Yeshua." He takes this matzah, this unleavened bread, and he says, "Do this in remembrance of me." And he tells us not to have leaven in us. And leaven represents sin and and man-made doctrine. So, he says not to have that stuff in us. But we want to have the pure doctrine of the scriptures. And so, the pure doctrine of the scriptures is what the scripture says. And the scripture tells us to keep Passover. What's man-made doctrine? The Catholic Church has a man-made doctrine, that it's the Eucharist. And the Protestant Church has a man-made doctrine called communion. But the biblical doctrine is Passover. Yeshua takes this unleavened bread, and he breaks it, and hands it, and he says, "Do this in remembrance of me." Likewise, he also took the cup after supper saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is shed for you." The cup of wine or grape juice, whatever you use at Passover, represents his blood. And we see throughout scripture, there's numerous places where wine is equated with blood. And Yeshua is extending the same metaphor where blood is represented by wine. And he takes this cup of wine, and he says, "Drink this in remembrance of me. This is my blood that was shed for you." And it says he was establishing the new covenant. He said, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood." This wasn't a random meal. He wasn't inventing a new ceremony called communion. He was taking a biblical ceremony called Passover, and he was giving us new meaning behind it. He was giving us new understanding of it. It wasn't a Eucharist, it wasn't communion, it was Passover. Every aspect of Passover points prophetically to Yeshua. Yeshua is the lamb. He is the actual lamb that was sacrificed for us. To get the full picture of what the new covenant entails, we need to look at what Jeremiah said about it in Jeremiah 31. "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with house of Judah." And so first off, it is the Lord who's saying this. And if you look in Hebrew, it's Yahweh. "Behold, the days are coming, says Yahweh, when I will make a new covenant with house of Israel, house of Judah. Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord." When did he lead them out of Egypt? It was at Passover. "My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them." When did they break it? They broke it when Moses was on Mount Sinai, and they created a golden calf, and they started worshiping the calf. And Moses came down the mountain, and he shattered the Ten Commandments on the ground, and that's when they broke God's covenant. It was shortly after they left Egypt. "But this is a covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God and they shall be my people. And so it is Yahweh who is making the covenant. And he says, here's the covenant. I'm going to write my law on their hearts and in their minds so that I will be their God and they will be my people. And in verse 34, no more shall every man teach his neighbor and every man his brother saying, know the Lord. For they shall all know me from least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more. So he tells us this new covenant is about forgiveness of sin. It's not setting us free from the bondage of Egypt. It's setting us free from the bondage of sin. And we see Yeshua at Passover says, this is the new covenant in my blood. This tells us Yeshua is Yahweh. What this also means is that Yeshua is the one who established the covenant in Egypt. Now consider what Yeshua said about eating his flesh and drinking his blood. Then Jesus said to them, most assuredly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. For my flesh is food indeed and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him. Jesus answered and said, did I not choose you, the 12, and one of you is a devil. He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. For it was he who would betray him, being one of the 12. You see how this is prophetically connected to the Last Supper. He's speaking about Judas betraying him. John 6 is telling us what he's talking about. He says, you must eat my flesh and drink my blood if you want to have any part with me. To celebrate Passover is to partake in the body and blood of Messiah. So he's telling us we must keep Passover if we want to have life in us. Passover is symbolic of the sacrifice of Yeshua. And Yeshua said if we don't eat his body and drink his blood, then we have no part with him. Therefore, Passover is the most Christian thing we can do. Okay? If you are a Christian, you should be keeping Passover. So, why don't more Christians celebrate Passover? The Council of Nicaea, 300 years after Yeshua's death, burial, and resurrection, the Roman Church changed how Passover was observed. And it went from celebrating Passover according to the biblical calendar to celebrating Easter according to the Greek calendar. The name Easter doesn't even come from the Bible. There's nothing in scripture that talks about hiding Easter eggs and going on Easter egg hunts. That's not scriptural. Where does a bunny come from? Easter bunny. What does that have to do with Yeshua? There's nothing biblical about it. In the Bible though, Passover is a biblical feast day commanded by God. Yeshua and his disciples celebrated Passover. Why don't Christians today celebrate Passover? I want to look at Colossians chapter 2, verse 16. So, let no one judge you in food or in drink or in regard to a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance [clears throat] is Christ. They're prophetic of the future. They're prophetic foreshadows of things to come. And the substance of those prophetic foreshadows, the substance of those feast days and Sabbaths is Yeshua. He is the meaning behind it. And so, we celebrate these things in connection to Yeshua. That's what Paul's talking about here. So many people get this flipped around and they say, "Don't let anybody judge you telling you need to keep these things." But what he's saying is don't let anybody judge you for keeping them because Yeshua is the substance of them. And so, we're not to be judged for keeping them. Why would anybody judge you for not keeping them? That doesn't make sense. He's writing to the Colossians. Colossians were in a pagan culture. It was not a Jewish culture. He was saying, "Don't let these pagans judge you for keeping these biblical feast days." The It's a pagan culture. Why would he be telling them about feast days unless he's expecting them to be doing them? So, why does Passover matter for Christians today? Some people say, "Well, Yeshua fulfilled Passover, so we don't need to celebrate anymore." But they missed the point. They missed the purpose. We're instructed in the Bible to celebrate Passover in memory of what Yeshua did for us as the Lamb of God. Yeshua, at the Last Supper, he took the bread and the wine and he says, "Do this in remembrance of me." And then we see in 1 Corinthians 5, Paul says, "Because Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us, therefore let us keep the feast." And so, we're commanded in the scriptures to celebrate Passover in remembrance of Yeshua. Passover is not about legalism. That's what so many Christians want to say is, "Oh, you're being legalistic." It's not legalism. Passover is about remembering and celebrating Yeshua as our Messiah. Passover is not a Jewish holiday. It's a powerful prophetic feast that reveals the heart of the gospel. Yeshua is our Passover lamb, and through his sacrifice, we are set free from sin and death. So, what are your thoughts? Have you ever considered observing Passover as a believer in Yeshua? Free me by unlearning the lies.