April 12, 2022

Yeshua (Jesus) is our Passover Lamb [1 Cor 5:7]

This week we come to the memorial season of the culmination of the story of redemption. It is the spring season when Yeshua was crucified… causing much desperation and sorrow among His followers. On the other hand, the evil forces of satanic powers were just getting started with their celebration for having overcome the Son of God; and the wicked and corrupt religious leaders were patting themselves on each other’s backs for cunningly disposing of their nemesis and escaping the piercing eyes of the living, walking truth, that frustrated their plans and exposed their hypocrisy. And finally, now they were feeling relief… Not to be! Three days later, to the ecstatic joy and thankfulness of His followers, the resurrected and triumphant Christ walked out of the tomb, having overcome death, hell and the grave. He is Risen, He is Risen indeed!

As Paul the Apostle notes in the scripture above (1 Cor 5:7), this season is an annual reminder of the amazing grace and love of the Heavenly Father in providing us a means of redemption and reconciliation to a Holy God… That being our action of “purging” out the “old leaven” (the sins that easily beset us, Heb 12:1 KJV). I hope you will take some time this week to refresh your remembrance of the divine provision so graciously given us by Yahweh… and give thanks to Him for the Lamb slain before the foundation of the World (Rev 13:8)… with you and I in mind.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

“For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” (Jn 3:16-17 KJV)

Truly, this is the main, central emphasis, of the meaning of the “gospel.” As such, nearly everything else in the Bible, reflectively, may be seen as a commentary on these two profound verses… and what they mean to everyone who believes in the resurrected Christ.

Regarding the Apostle Paul using, “old leaven,” in his message to the Corinthians, the Bible has a teaching of the meaning of “leaven” in conjunction with the Passover (Blood of the Lamb) and the Exodus of the Children of Israel… and the commandment to eat “unleavened bread,” where it all began. There is more on this beautiful story at this Link if you want to read it.

Shalom… John