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First Passover
It had been forty years since Moses had circumcised the Hebrew.
As they prepare to go into the promised land God tells Joshua that they need to have a ceremony to reestablish his covenant with the people.
9 And the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.”
And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Jos 5:9.
Verse 9 God tells Joshua that on this day he has rolled away the reproach of Egypt.
What is meant here is that Egypt no longer has a hold on them.
They were slaves, just as we are slaves to sin.
Joshua makes a monument of stone for that place called Gilgal.
The root of the word Gilgal is (Galal) which is to roll.
The noun Gilgal (Wheel) is to roll the wheel or stone.
The symbolism that we find here is parallel to Jesus rising from the tomb.
God rolled the stone away releasing his son from the tomb.
The stone was rolled away.
Now we know that the people of God, while in Egypt were told to paint the doorposts in their homes with the blood of the lamb.
This was called the Pascal lamb.
While in Canaan the people kept the passover.
First Passover in Canaan
10 While the people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal, they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Jos 5:10.
Is it enough to just remember the passover?
For the people who came out of Egypt, perhaps.
It is a little bit like someone who suffers war.
They will never forget the hardships of the war.
For the children of the soldiers who fought, the stories may be enough, but for the next generation the memory fades.
In this passage Joshua is told to circumcise the people, at least they have just come out of circumcision.
The healing has just taken place and they encamped at the place known as Gilgal.
I feel that we are a generation with a fading memory.
Society is living life as though we are not a part of the Exodus.
We cannot be a part of selective events of the Bible.
If you are adopted by God you are a child of the whole story not only the parts you want to remember.
There were likely people eating Manna that had no real understanding as to why they were getting it.
This is what we today cal entitled people.
The pain in the flesh of being circumcised represented the pain of the life of a slave.
It also reminded the people who they now belonged to.
Today we hardly do anything to remember the Passover.
We go through the season of Lent without sacrificing anything.
We are entitled Christians.
11 And the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.
12 And the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land.
And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Jos 5:11–12.
It is said that the Hebrew people who left Egypt and only had one opportunity to celebrate the passover and that was when they camped at Sinai.
For the young people they would not have remembered or might not have ever celebrated the feast.
The older people would most likely been quite young when the last Passover was celebrated.
Notice here that the entitlement ends in a way.
Joshua leads God’d people into the promised land and the fruit of that promise becomes their entitlement.
After this first passover God takes away the Manna.
When we take Communion we remember what Jesus did for us, but how do we truly understand if we have never seen the pain He endured for us.
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