In my thinking, I believe that the Passover was considered not only an act of faith and obedience, but also as a sacrifice as well.
Everyone was instructed to eat roasted lamb, unleavened bread, and bitter herbs. The meat was not to be prepared any other way than roasted and it was to include the legs, heart, liver, and head. They were only to eat this meat for one day, not the next. If they had left any over, they were to burn it. They were not to use yeast in the bread, or even have yeast in their households. This would be mentioned many times through chapters twelve and thirteen. The people were to wear their traveling clothes while eating their feast and were to be prepared for the journey. They were to be wearing their walking shoes and were to have their walking sticks with them. .
In verse eleven, god gives a name to the event, saying, "This observance shall be called the Lord's Passover (12:11)." He goes on to explain the reasoning for giving it this name and also explains the events that will transpire following the feast. He says, "For I will pass through the land of Egypt tonight and kill all the oldest sons and firstborn male animals in all the land of Egypt, and execute judgment upon all the gods of Egypt for I am Jehovah.".
This name "Jehovah" appears several more times through out the chapter and in chapter eleven. Earlier in Exodus we are presented with this term and there are implications of its meaning. God is speaking to Moses and He says, " Tell them [the people of Israel], "Jehovah, the God of your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has sent me to you." This is my eternal name to be used through out generations (Exodus 3:15)." He tells Moses and the people that He is the same God that was Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and He will be with the generations to come. This suggests that He is an unchanging, eternal God and He will always be with His people. I also believe that he chose the names Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob so that they would remember the covenant He made to Him and also knew He is a covenant-keeping God.
The Passover was in the time of Moses and Pharaoh and Aaron. ... Moses told the elders of Egypt this and that they will go to a ceremony and when their children ask them what the ceremony is all about they will tell them that it is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians. ...
The Passover meal itself was and still is, for orthodox Jews, a remembering of the Passover meal which the Israelites ate on the last night before release from slavery in Egypt, 1500 years earlier. ... The Passover Seder is celebrated on the first and second nights of the eight-day holiday. ... In my opinion, the last supper was extremely similar to the Passover meal. As in question one I have outlined what is exactly involved in the Passover meal. ... When Jesus said, "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer," It proves as evidence that the meal Jesus and his di...
The story of Passover is in the Bible in the book of Exodus. ... Jews all over the world celebrate Passover with a ceremony called a sedar. ... All who are needy - let them come and celebrate Passover with us. ... LEADER: In the traditional story of Passover Moses begs Pharaoh for freedom for the slaves. ... ENJOY OUR MEAL AFTER THE MEAL LEADER: We have eaten our Passover meal as free people. ...
In the Gospel passage Mark 14:21 (from the Passover Meal) Jesus is explaining that he will die as prophesised by the "Old Testament", " the Son of Man will die as the Scriptures say he will- Jesus died at the time of the Passover Festival. This is why many Christians argue that he sacrificed himself for them, because at a Passover Festival they would keep the covenant by worshipping God- and especially by the animal sacrifices. ...
On Passover Eve Sholem goes on a journey and falls asleep in a train station that is filthy and dirty and has a horrendous dream. He dreams that he has paid a porter he knows to wake him up when his train comes so that he can make it home in time to spend Passover with his wife and children. ... Because Sholem has this awkward dream that he is a Gentile, he does not make it home for Passover in time and is stuck having Seder with a family that he does know. ... He causes his character to become a Gentile in his dreams and as a result misses the Passover, a holy event. Incidentally one can m...
Deuteronomy is the only book to describe the national Passover sacrifice in a national shrine. ... (Finkelstein & Silberman, 2002 p.280) Lastly, Josiah hosted the Passover celebration; memorializing God's will in liberating Israel from slavery in Egypt. YHWH had instructed his people to commemorate Passover annually; however this had not been obeyed. ... The whole of Judah arrived and many people from Israel- those who had not been expelled in the Assyrian Captivity, making this the most complete Passover festivity since the time of the prophet Samuel, 400 years prior. ... J...
History On the night of Holy Thursday the meal was different from the other times because it was the Jewish Passover. ... One of the greatest symbols of the Passover Meal is bread because it sustains life. ...