PASSOVER BEGAN “BEFORE THE BEGINNING”
A Passover pattern runs through scripture touching down in “before the beginning” and continuing to “after the end”. The first Passover occurred before creation:
- “The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Revelation 13:8
- (The Lamb is the foundation stone for the creation of the world.)
- (“I Peter 2:6 Behold, I lay in Zion – A chief cornerstone, elect, precious, and he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame.” )
- I Peter 1:19-20 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world,
The Passover is a vow made by God to mankind even before man was created. God, who lives in the presence eternally, made a covenant with man who had not yet been created to save him from his death from sin.
- Psalm 102:18 This will be written for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.
There is only one possible “antitoxin” to sin: Passover.
To describe the making of this Pact from a metaphoric point of view, the following is taken from “One Angel’s Opinion” by Barbara Grover
- “In the days of old, before the beginning, God met in the holy of holies to make a pact. This pact was written by the Holy Spirit, (a burning torch of flames) for it is He who will engrave it on the hearts of men. It was signed in blood by the Son of God, destined to become the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, and authorized by the Father (a smoking oven) the divine Judge who upholds the laws and ordinances of heaven. This Pact became God’s covenant with man whom He had not yet created.
The Son of God spoke saying “With a song of thanksgiving I will sacrifice myself. What I have vowed I will make good.”
Thunder and Lightning shook the heavens as the Father and the Spirit witness the Son morph into a Lamb. Lightning struck the Lamb splitting it violently in half, covering it in blood, and laid out. The Father and the Spirit walk between the pieces of the splayed Lamb to seal the Pact all had agreed to – a covenant of death never to be broken.
The blood of the Lamb ran down into a basin, pooling up and hardening, forming a cornerstone upon which the laws and ordinances of heaven will be laid; stones of fire to become the foundations of the heavens and the earth.
The Pact was then sealed with seven seals, such that none of God’s creation could open it; not even Lucifer who came to walk upon the stones of fire.”
I. ABRAHAM’S PASSOVER
Passover means “To cut a covenant” which includes the shedding of blood as God revealed to Abraham in a nightmare:
- Genesis 15:9 So He (God) said to him (Abraham), “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” 10 Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds in two.
Genesis 15:12 Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him.
Genesis 15:17 And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven (The Father) and a burning torch (The Spirit) that passed between those pieces. 18 On the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram.
Pausing for a moment, and backing up to Genesis 14 we discover Abraham was in the “Valley of Shaveh” (Jerusalem) where he is met by Melchizedek, the king of “Salem” (Jerusalem) who offered Abraham bread and wine.
- Gen 14:18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High. 19 And he blessed him and said:
“Blessed be Abram of God Most High,
Possessor of heaven and earth;
20 And blessed be God Most High,
Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”
And he (Abraham) gave him a tithe (tenth) of all.
- King Melchizedek had no father, no mother, no genealogy, neither beginning or ending of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually. To Abraham He brought out bread and wine. The same serving as the last supper:
- John 6:54 Jesus speaking “Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
- Hebrews 7:28 For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath (covenant: Passover), which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever.
- Hebrews 7:17 For He testifies: “You (the Son) are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.”
Jerusalem is the place where Abraham offered up Isaac. The first earthly Passover which, as it turns out sets the pattern for those that follow: The Exodus for the Hebrews to go to “the Promised Land (Jerusalem)” and the Crucifixion (Jerusalem).
In 1876 BC God appears and speaks to Abraham.
Genesis 22:2 Then He (God) said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah (Jerusalem), and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
- The criteria:
- Go now
- Take your only son of promise whom you love
- Go to Mt. Moriah in Jerusalem
- Offer him as a burnt offering
- Abraham and Isaac traveled three days to Mount Moriah, Abraham told two young men with them to wait and that they would return. Abraham must have believed that God would resurrect his son from the dead. Instead, God used a substitute, He provided a ram (male sheep) with its horns caught in the thorns (like Jesus’ crown of thorns). Both Isaac (Abraham’s son) and Jesus (God’s Son) were laid on wood; but only Isaac was spared.
Passover is a promise (a covenant/oath/vow), an event (a death), a place (the promised land), and a time (In the middle of a week).
The Passover promise is the promise of salvation and eternal life. The event is the shedding of innocent blood. The place has an eye toward Jerusalem, and the timing is always in the middle of a week (a “seven”).
II. THE EXODUS PASSOVER:
On Nisan 14 a lamb was slaughtered and its blood put on the lintel and the doorposts.
In the middle of the night the Angel of Death went through Egypt and killed all the firstborn males including the Pharaoh’s firstborn son who was the prince destined to rule Egypt after his father. Those households whose doors were covered in blood were spared.
The only firstborn son of the Pharaoh, the prince of Egypt was killed on the very same day Jesus would be killed (years later), God’s only firstborn Son, both killed on Passover Nisan 14.
Moses led the captives out of Egypt even as Jesus released the captives in Sheol when He led captivity captive turning the tables on Satan.
III. THE MIMIC PASSOVER:
In the latter days, during the tribulation, there will be a false “passover”, not of the innocent, but of the guilty. The Antichrist will be assassinated after desecrating the Holy of Holies. There will be a false passover with a false resurrection for a false messiah in the middle of Daniel’s 70th “week”.
- A resurrection of technology using: cloning, AI, robotics, brain chips, and a server.
IV. JONAH: A PASSOVER “TYPE”
- Compare Jonah with Jesus’ Passover.
BACK TO THE BEGINNING: THE PASSOVER IS THE GOSPEL
The “allusion” to Passover is the gospel established – even before God created the heavens and the earth.
I Corinthians 15:1 I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, 2 by which also you are saved,…3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins (on Passover) according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,
Hebrews 1:10 “You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
Hebrews 2:14 That through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Hebrews 3:18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest (the promised land, Jerusalem), but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Hebrews 4:3 The works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; 5 and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.”
Hebrews 12:2 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven.
Romans 3:25 Whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed.
John 5:24 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed (over) from death into life.
For a similar topic see Topic: Jesus in the Middle
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