The Greater Passover

The Passover was celebrated as a feast to the Lord year by year, as a permanent ordinance to commemorate God’s deliverance of His people from Egyptian bondage.

In the original Exodus, the firstborn of Egypt were struck down, whereas Israel’s firstborn were spared (passed over) if the blood of the sacrificial lamb was placed on the doorposts and on the lintel of the house (Ex. 12:7).

This ancient memorial of the Passover had greater significance than any Israelite of that day could imagine, however wonderful the Exodus events were. Redemption from Egypt was a picture of greater redemption yet to be when the blood of Christ would speak better things than the blood applied to the doors in Egypt. Christ is now our eternal Passover (1 Cor. 5:7). Our Passover is in the heavenlies; because of Him, our sins are remembered against us no more.

Taken from The Devotional Daily Bible