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The Feast of Passover - Introduction |
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Establishing the Feast
God establishes Passover observance as an appointed time, a special time to be celebrated after Israel is delivered out of Egypt. For us today, this would be AFTER we are delivered from the power of sin. First deliverance, then remembrance. He tells them, that this is to be observed every year in its season, beginning on the 14th day on the month of Aviv "forever" (which includes now).
I am trying to emphasize at the beginning of this teaching the difference between the actual delivering from Egypt (sin) and the day of remembrance, the Feast (appointed time) that we observe. Remember, that it is the Lord who has given us the Feast of Passover, and it is a powerful Sabbath season to keep, but keeping the Passover is NOT the Deliverance itself. Being "born again" comes as an historical event in our lives and the Feast comes every year and reminds us, refreshes us, cleans out all the cobwebs and confusion that may have entered our hearts since the last season of Passover.
Hebrews 12:1
let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us, Amplified Bible
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