Most people are familiar with Passover, either as a Jewish Feast or when Jesus was crucified.

BUT DEEP STUDY REVEALS SURPRISES …

If people were asked, “When was the first Passover?” they would probably reply, “Exodus”, when the Hebrews left Egypt. It was called Passover because the Hebrews were instructed to paint their door lintels with the blood of a slain lamb so that when the Angel of Death killed all the firstborn of Egypt, it would see the blood on the Jewish lintels and “Pass Over” that dwelling, leaving the Hebrews safe. The Angel of Death came in the middle of the night (Nisan 15th), and the Pharaoh lost his firstborn, the one to inherit the throne. Consequently, the Pharaoh finally allowed the Hebrew captives to leave Egypt, after having dammed them up, then expelled them from Egypt before changing his mind and being drowned in God’s dammed-up walls of water in the Red Sea.

• Nisan was the first month on the Jewish calendar.

• Exodus 11:² “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.

• Exodus 11:4-5,7 “Thus says the Lord: ‘About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt; and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the animals.
  ⁷ And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat…

God set up this day as a day to remember, and it became a Spring Feast called Passover.

• Exodus 12:6
  Now you shall keep it (the male lamb/goat in its first year without spot or blemish) until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight (Nisan 15th).
  
• Exodus 12:17
  So you shall observe Unleavened Bread (Passover), for ON THIS SAME DAY – I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance.

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HOW IS PASSOVER RELATED TO THE “FATHER OF FAITH”, ABRAHAM, THE FATHER OF ALL BELIEVERS, JEW AND GENTILE?

• Exodus 12:40
  Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
• Exodus 12:41
  And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years—ON THAT VERY SAME DAY —it came to pass that all the armies of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.

WAIT! What occurred ON THE SAME DAY (PASSOVER) 430 years before Moses and the Hebrews left Egypt, called “The Exodus”?

• Galatians 3:⁶ Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ. ¹⁷ And this I say, that the law (same year as the Exodus), which was four hundred and thirty years later (Moses received the law during the Exodus from Egypt), cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect. ¹⁸ For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

WAIT! Abraham didn’t offer Isaac up in Egypt (Exodus 12:40); BUT, the Greek Septuagint explains – the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt AND CANAAN was four hundred and thirty years.

Four hundred and thirty years earlier, BEFORE the Exodus, ON THE SAME DAY as Passover, Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice.

(Where the temple is today, on the same day of the week.)

So far, we can document four scriptural Passovers:

1) Abraham offered Isaac, his only son of promise, as a sacrifice where God told him to; on Mount Moriah. We know Mt. Moriah is the current temple mount in Jerusalem. What’s more, a ram (male sheep) with its horns (its power) caught in the thorns was given by God as a substitute for Isaac, just as it is for man today.

2) The Exodus, 430 years later on the same day the Hebrews are expelled from Egypt, on Passover.

3) The Passover Feast God gave to Moses to be celebrated in every generation.

4) Jesus, God’s Firstborn and only Son of Promise to the world and to the Jewish throne during the prophetical millennium, was killed on Passover (On the same day the historical Pharaoh’s Firstborn son was killed, his son of promise to the throne, when all the firstborn in Egypt were killed and when the Hebrews were expelled from Egypt – on Passover).

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TYPES OF PASSOVER: 1

• Revelation 13:8
  All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation (creation) of the world.

The animal slain in Genesis was an animal God slew for its skin to act as a covering for Adam and Eve’s sin instead of a fig leaf. It’s interesting that the Fig Tree in scripture represents the Jewish nation Israel which again suggests Jerusalem.

• Genesis 3:²¹ Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.

Compare with:

• Romans 3:24-25 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,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.
  
• Romans 4:7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are covered.
  
• Ephesians 1:7 In Him (Jesus) we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.
  
• Colossians 1:14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
  
• I John 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
  
• Revelation 1:5 and from Jesus Christ … who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood.
  
• I Peter 4:8 “love will cover a multitude of sins.”

[I can’t help but notice that the Tree of Life is in Genesis, the first book of the bible, and the Book of Life is in Revelation the last book of the bible, both of which are metaphors for Jesus. Books are made from pulp fibers, taken from the wood of trees. When Jesus was crucified, the Book of Life hung on the Tree of Life]

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TYPES OF PASSOVER: 2

Jonah was told to go to Ninevah to tell the city to repent or it would be destroyed in 40 days, but Jonah took a ship to run away instead. Here are some comparisons with Passover:

Water is symbolic of “A Sea of People”.
The Sea (of people) was “Storming” like the day Jesus was crucified.
Jonah sacrificed himself to save the people in the ship. (Boats full of people are symbolic of the world).

In the water his head was wrapped around by a type of (sea) weed, thorns are a weed. Jesus’ head was wrapped in the weeds of thorns.

• Jonah 2:3 For You cast me into the deep (symbolic of the grave), Into the heart of the seas, And the floods surrounded me; All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.

A sea monster swallowed Jonah. A sea monster is called a Leviathan. Satan also is called Leviathan. In Job 41 he is the king over the children of pride, he causes the waters (the sea of people) to boil.

• Isaiah 27:1 – Israel Will Be Restored – In that day the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong, Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan that twisted serpent; And He will slay the reptile that is in the sea.
• Revelation 20:2 He laid hold of the dragon (of the sea), that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;

On the third day, the Sea Monster puked up Jonah on the shore of a gentile city. On the third day, the grave (heart of the earth) puked up Jesus. Both were “resurrected” and gentiles repented.

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Did You Know?

The Literal meaning of Hebrew is “To Pass Over”.

For those who believe all scripture, who take to heart the sacrifice of Jesus’ blood to cover our sins such that we live to serve him, we also “Pass Over” from death to Life.