How Jesus Changed Passover For Me

This week Jewish families around the world are preparing for Passover. From Israel to Ethiopia, the USA to the U.K., Jewish families are cleaning intensely, removing every single speck of chametz (leaven).

Bread crumbs are swept and vacuumed up from every nook and cranny. Cars are meticulously and professionaly cleaned. Kitchens are cleaned, sanitized with boiling water, and cleaned again. Oven ranges and stoves are covered with aluminum foil.

Sinks are scoured. Many even place temporary inserts inside of their sinks after cleaning them to create an additional barrier from possible hidden leaven.

Of course, every single food with leaven is removed. Even foods with wheat that has come into contact with water for an extended amount of time are removed in the off chance that fermentation may have occurred creating leaven.

Foods like rice, beans, and corn are also removed and not eaten in many communities, not because they contain leaven, but because they expand when they're cooked as if they did. Every precaution is made to observe the feast completely.

But for those who believe and know that Yeshua is the Messiah, things are a bit different.

The holy day is no longer about being afraid of having a speck of chametz in one's home that will cause God to be angry with you or cut you off as in the days of the first covenant:

"Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel." Exodus 12:15

Rather, Yeshua has fulfilled this feast by becoming the final Passover Lamb whose blood paid for our transgressions and restored us to God by confession and faith in Him.

Observing a completed feast, a fulfilled feast, means it is one that is not rooted in stress and worry about being cut off. Our salvation and acceptance by God is no longer rooted in the law, but in the Messiah who paid it all.

Yeshua means salvation in Hebrew. He is the One who was prophesied about in Isaiah 53.

"But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed." Isaiah 53:5

Isaiah said, "The punishment for our peace was upon Him."

We no longer have to keep the feasts in fear that not doing so means we lose our way to God because Yeshua isn't looking for a house free from leaven. Like the children of Israel who put the blood of the Passover lamb on their doorposts, He is looking for the blood.

Only His blood, or believing the shedding His blood was the final sacrifice is what saves.

"If you confess with your mouth the Messiah Yeshua and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9

God is no longer checking to see if one has disposed of their bread and removed every final crumb. When you stand before Him one day, He will look only for the blood on the doorpost of your heart.

"I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." Yochanan (John) 10:9-10

Put your faith in Yeshua today. Repent of your sins and ask Him for forgiveness. Declare that you believe God raised Him from the dead and that He is Lord.

Passover is a beautiful holy day. But when viewed through the lens of the truth of what Yeshua did for us, it is infinitely more amazing.

Chag Passover Sameach. When you sit at your seder this week and remember how God delivered the children of Israel from Egypt, give thanks to Him for loving you and the world so much that He gave His only Son. That whosoever believes in Him will not perish, but have everlasting life (Yochanan/John 3:16).

Thank Yeshua for being the Lamb of God who was slain and rose again.

Thank You, Yeshua, for what You have done for us. Thank you for forgiveness and bringing us into the eternal family of God.

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