Passover Easter 2019.docx

Prequel to The LORD’s Passover: Joseph brought his father Jacob and all his brothers to Egypt. But after Joseph died a Pharaoh (king of Egypt) who did not know Joseph made the tribe of Jacob (Israel) slaves. After 400+ years, God sent Moses and his brother, Aaron, to lead the people out of Egypt. But Pharaoh would not let the people go. After 9 plagues upon Egypt (Nile into blood, frogs, gnats/lice, flies, dead livestock, boils, hail, locusts, darkness), God’s power over all the Egyptian “gods” had been demonstrated. All power was in the Lord. What judgement will it take for Pharaoh to understand who God is? This week on The LORD’s Passover: Bloody Sunday. Application →Get dressed. Eat the bread without leaven. Cover yourself in the blood. Wait for your salvation. .... And will someone finally tell Spain about the Light of the world??? Exodus 12 (CSB) Instructions for the Passover 12 The LORD said to Moses “Beginning of months” and Aaron in the land of Literally “lead month”, this did not become Egypt: 2 “This month is to be the agricultural New the beginning of months for Year, but even more important: the you; it is the first month of beginning of freedom your year. 3 Tell the whole for Israel. community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they must each select an animal of the flock according to their fathers’ families, one animal per family. 4 If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each Which American holidays are will eat. 5 You must have feasts? Which aren’t? What an unblemished animal, a is the difference? year-old male; you may take it from either the sheep or the goats. 6 You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight. 7 They must take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses where they eat them. 8 They are to eat the meat that night; they should eat it, roasted over the fire along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 9 Do not eat any of it raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over fire—its head as well as its legs and inner organs. 10 You must not leave any of it until morning; any part of it left until morning you must burn. 11 Here is how you must eat it: You must be dressed for travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in a hurry; it is the LORD’s Passover. Perfect young male, roasted A spotted goat or lamb tastes just as good as a spot-free one. Why did God demand a young, perfect male? Roasting was faster than drawing water and waiting for it to boil, then doing dishes. No cutting vegetables. Pots were packed up to go. Unleavened bread could be baked in minutes. Dressed for travel Literally “gird your loins”, this phrase is also used to become ready for battle. Why wasn’t this meal for relaxing? Were they ready to leave their lives behind? No leftovers The meat was shared in every house. Eat all of the blessing now, and God will provide for tomorrow. The Messiah would be one body given to all who believe. “I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and strike every “when I see the blood” firstborn male in the land Did God need a reminder who of Egypt, both people and was an Israelite? If not, who is the blood for? Why did Israel animals. I am the LORD; I have to do something to be will execute judgments spared this 10th plague, but not the other 9? against all the gods of Egypt. 13 The blood on the Permanent statute houses where you are Is it really celebrated forever? What faith is displayed when it staying will be a is celebrated? distinguishing mark for you; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will be among you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. 12 “This day is to be a memorial for you, and you must celebrate it as a festival to the LORD. You are to celebrate it throughout your generations as a permanent statute. 15 You must eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day you must remove yeast from your houses. Whoever eats Why is leaven removed from the what is leavened from house for a week? the first day through 14 the seventh day must be cut off from Israel. 16 You are to hold a sacred assembly on the first day and another sacred assembly on the seventh day. No work may be done on those days except for preparing what people need to eat—you may do only that. “You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread because on this very day I brought your military divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent 17 statute. 18 You are to eat unleavened bread in the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day of the month until the evening of the twenty-first day. 19 Yeast must not be found in your houses for seven days. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a resident alien or native of the land, must be cut off from the community of Israel. 20 Do not eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.” Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go, select an animal from the flock according to your families, and slaughter the Passover animal. 22 Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and brush the lintel and the two doorposts with some of the blood in the basin. None of you may go out the door of his house until morning. 23 When the LORD passes through to strike Egypt and sees the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, he will pass over the door and not let the destroyer enter your houses to Destroyer strike Not much is known about this one word. The Lord will you. strike the firstborn of Egypt. Is the destroyer the angel of 21 death (2 Kings 19:35)? Or Jesus himself (John 5:22-27)? Is Moses calling the Lord “the destroyer”? “Keep this command permanently as a statute for you and your descendants. 25 When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as he promised, you are to observe this ceremony. 26 When your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ 27 you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when Did the Israelites do this? Did they teach this to their children? he struck the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” What happened when they did? What happened when they So the people knelt low didn’t? and worshiped. 28 Then the Israelites went and did this; they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron. 24 The Exodus Now at midnight the LORD struck every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock. 30 During the night Pharaoh got up, he along with all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud 29 wailing throughout Egypt because there wasn’t a house without someone dead. 31 He summoned Moses and Aaron during the night and said, “Get out immediately from among my people, both you and the Israelites, and go, worship the LORD as you have said. 32 Take even your flocks and your herds as you asked and leave, and also bless me.” Questions for application 1. 2. 3. 4. What did the Israelites do to be saved? What/who were they saved from? What do we need to do to be saved? Is it the same thing? Some Egyptians believed and were saved (9:20), but most did not believe and suffered under the plagues. How would modern Americans react to a prophet and plagues? How would you? 5. Was the Passover a one-time event or an ongoing event? What does that teach us about our salvation? 6. Have you seen the power of God but still resist him? If so, why do you hesitate to trust him?