04/02/2024
1 Corinthians 5:7 says, "...For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us."
Pascua, חַג פסח, Passover, Pàques, Pasqua, Wielkanoc.
Páscoa,
Пасха
Paskha
Великдень
Velykdenʹ
Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion, as recounted in the New Testament of the Bible. It is the most important celebration for all of humanity.
But where does Easter come from? For the Jews in the Old Covenant, the main figure is God, who teaches Moses and his people about Passover. Pesach is the Jewish festival that commemorates the liberation of the Hebrew people from slavery in Egypt, which we can find in the book of Exodus in the Bible.
The Lord explained the Feast of Unleavened Bread, or Passover, which would become a memorial of Israel's liberation from slavery in Egypt by the Lord. The Passover ordinance would help the Israelites to anticipate the coming of the Messiah and the liberation of God's children from spiritual death.
The Passover that Jesus the Messiah celebrated and commanded us to celebrate is a commemoration of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the beginning of the new covenant or testament.
In Jesus' Passover, as a Jew himself, the salvation of all humanity is celebrated.
(Matthew 26:26-29; Mark 14:22-25; Luke 22:14-20) The disciples received the teaching of the Passover from Jesus himself, the night before he was handed over at the Jewish festival of Pesach, before being betrayed, handed over, judged, and crucified.
But the Jewish apostle Saul of Tarsus (Paul) also received the teaching of the Passover from the risen Jesus himself in 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, saying: "For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread; and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, 'This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.' In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.' For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes."
It is not the same, a Passover of the old covenant as the new one. The Jewish apostle Saul of Tarsus in 1 Corinthians 5:7 says, "...For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us."
John the Baptist in John 1:29 says, "The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, 'Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!' And in John 1:35-36 he says, "The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, 'Look, the Lamb of God!'"
God paid a terrible price for the sins of the whole world. Only the blood of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, because he had the life of God, can pay for sins and give resurrection to Jesus.
Easter is a memorial of that great sacrifice and of that terrible crucifixion, and his resurrection. This is the meaning of Easter.
🥰 Abraham Moyano
