Passover. It's all about Jesus
Let’s go back, about 2000 years ago, to where Jesus and his disciples are reclining around a table in an upper room, in Jerusalem, to have the Passover meal. It is one of the seven feasts that God commanded the Israelites to keep. A feast to commemorate the night in which the Lord “passed over” the homes who had the blood of a lamb on their door frames. Death entered into the homes that did not have the blood of the lamb. (Lev. 23:4-6, Ex. 12:1-15) Jesus knows, as He is sitting there, that He is that Lamb. God’s Lamb. (John 1:29) He takes the bread in his hands, a matzah, unleavened bread. Leaven represents sin. Matzah is without leaven. Without sin. (Luke 12:1, 1 Cor. 5:7-8) He breaks the bread and passes it on to his disciples: “This is My body, which is for you.” The body without sin. The bread of life. Broken to give life. (John 6:32, 35, 48) Then He picks up the last cup of the Passover Seder, called the Cup of Redemption. “This cup,” He says, “is...