2nd Chronicles 29-33

Numbers 14:8 - Hebrews 11:16

King of Judah

The
LORD's Passover

What is Passover?

In the story of king Hezekiah, we read about the LORD's Passover and
how Hezekiah kept it more greatly than anyone else! 

    Every year around March/April on our calendar we see Passover written on our calendars, but is that important for us today?


  To understand everything we need to look back at the book of Exodus in the Bible.  Here we read that the people whom God made a promise to were slaves in the land of Egypt.  God had said that He would free them and so He told a man named Moses to listen and obey what He said. 
  Moses was a Hebrew but was raised as a prince of Egypt.  When he learned who he really was he ran away to start a new life.  However, God wanted Moses to go back to Egypt and free His people.  Moses trusted God and went back.
  God did what He said He would do and freed His people from slavery.  He did this by bringing ten plagues upon the land of Egypt.  The last plague was the worst.  Every firstborn male in Egypt would die, from the animals to the people.  God told Moses to have the people take lambs and kill them and take the blood of the lamb and put it on the doorposts of their homes.  When God would see the blood He did not kill anyone in that house.  And so the blood protected them from God's wrath.
The very next morning Moses led the people out of Egypt and they followed the LORD where He wanted them to go.

The apostle Paul calls Jesus our Passover: 
     "For 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."
                              1 Corinthians 5:7

       Paul also said in his letter to the Romans that God has
"passed over" us when He looks at the blood of His Son Jesus Christ, if we've put our faith and trust in Him to save us from our sins!

Is Passover for us today? - Absolutely!  If we remember the Lamb of God who died for our sins and has washed us clean so that we can be with Him forever.