PASSOVER

"The Passover was to be both commemorative and typical, not only pointing back to the deliverance from Egypt, but forward to the greater deliverance which Christ was to accomplish in freeing His people from the bondage of sin."

Type
  • Lev. 23:5. There was only one day in the year upon which the Passover could be kept.
  • Ex. 12:27. It commemorated the passing over, or shielding, of God’s people when the "first-born" of Egypt was slain.
  • 1 Cor. 5:7. It typified the death of Christ.
  • Ex. 12:3-6. Lamb selected the tenth day and kept apart from the flock.
  • Ex. 12:6, margin. Lambs slain between the "two evenings," or the middle of the afternoon.
  • Ex. 12:22. Blood on sides and top of the doorframe.
  • Ex. 12:8, 9. The lamb roasted.
  • Ex. 12:8-10. Eaten that night. If any remained until morning, it was burned.
  • Ex. 12:11. Ready for marching while eating.
  • Ex. 12:8. Unleavened bread and bitter herbs eaten with the flesh.
  • Ex. 12:29. While they were eating the destroying angel passed over.
  • Ex. 12:4. Neighboring families were gathered together at this feast.
  • Ex. 12:48, 49. Strangers that complied with the requirements could eat it.
  • Ex. 12:26, 27. The children were taught the meaning of the Passover.

Antitype
  • 1 Cor. 5:7. Christ is our "Passover Lamb."
  • John 11:47-54. The 10th day of the first month, (31 A.D.) the council set Him apart for death.
  • John 18:28. Friday morning Jews had not eaten the Passover.
  • John 19:14. Christ was crucified at the time of "the preparation of the Passover."
  • Matt. 27:46-50. Christ died between the evenings, about three o’clock, at the time the Passover lambs were being slain.
  • John 19:31. The day following the crucifixion was an "high day"; that is, the yearly Passover Sabbath, and also the Sabbath of the Lord, the seventh day of the week.
  • Luke 23:54-56; Lev. 23:5-7. While Christ, the true Passover, rested in the tomb from His finished earthly work on the Passover Sabbath, the 15th day of the first month, His followers were resting according to the commandment, upon the same day, the creation Sabbath. The day from that time was doubly blessed.
  • 1 Cor. 15:20. Christ, the "first-fruits of them that slept."
  • Matt. 27:52, 53. "Many bodies of the saints which slept arose" and followed Christ from the tomb.
  • Rom. 8:29. He was the "first-born among many brethren."
  • Eph. 4:7, 8, margin. When He ascended to heaven He took His company with Him as a sample of the final great harvest.
  • Lev. 25:10, 11, margin. In the type the priest waved a "handful," or sheaf, of the heads of the ripened grain before the Lord on the 16th day of the first month.
  • John 20:16, 17. In the early morning of that memorable 16th day of the first month, the Saviour had not ascended.
  • Matt. 28:9. A little later in the same day He permitted them to touch and worship Him; for He had ascended to the Father and His sacrifice had been accepted.
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