Passover 2024/5784
The evening of 22nd April 2024 marks a deeply significant day for Israel and the Jewish people as the night of Passover. Scripture speaks much of this night and holds great significance for Christians too.
Exodus 12: 14 – 15
And this day shall be to you for a memorial. You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations, keep it as an ordinance forever.
15 [In celebration of the Passover in future years] seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away leaven [symbolic of corruption] out of your houses; for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
For seven days the Jewish people will observe the ordinance of the Passover in remembering their deliverance from bondage in Egypt. On this night according to Exodus 12 they sacrificed the symbolic lamb and the blood from the lamb was put on the door posts and lintel as God slew all firstborns in Egypt as a final plague against Egypt and pharaoh.
The weight behind this cannot be underestimated and it then explains why God would ask the Jewish people to keep it as an ordinance forever. In the same manner the fulfilment of the law through Yeshua who was crucified at about the time when Israel was commemorating Passover as recorded in the four gospels.
This year 2024, Passover commemoration happens exactly 200 days since the events of October 7th 2023 that saw over 1,200 Israeli’s murdered by hamas terrorists in their homes and over 133 people still held in captivity by hamas. As Israelis and Jewish people all over the world sit around a table for the Passover meal otherwise known as the seder, there are families who will sit without loved ones who were either murdered gruesomely or still held captive by hamas.
We continue to pray for peace to find a place in both Israel and among the Palestinian people. We pray for great comfort for those who have lost their loved ones and those waiting for their loved ones in captivity.
Chag Pesach Sameach to all who observe. Am Israel Chai.
