Christ Is Our Passover

Christ is our Passover, and that is why the Christian is in a continual feast. God has willed that on two occasions we remember that if we are enjoying heaven and eternal life, it is because of the sacrifice of Christ, through baptism and the celebration of the Passover. The departure of the people of Israel represents not only the liberation of a people, but being redeemed to belong to God. God brought His people to Egypt and in His sovereignty allowed them to be slaves for 450 years, so that they would be a typology of the true spiritual Israel. They, as the type, lived it in the natural, so that now I, as the antitype, may understand the spiritual. God used Israel to reveal all things to us. The law, the sanctuary, the rites, and the ceremonies were only representing something that we can now understand in the New Testament, and the scales fall from our eyes. Sadly, Israel could not understand that Christ is our Passover, Christ is our Exodus, Christ is our liberation, Christ is our departure.
In the Passover we eat the body of Christ, and we must constantly partake of Him, since we share in His justification, so that we may live the experience of Christ in the process of sanctification. The word Passover is the Hebrew term pecach (peh'-sakh), which comes from the verb “I will pass over,” which means to pass over, to pass across, to pass above, to dance, to leap, to preserve, to show mercy. We can say that the Passover is God leaping, passing over, God putting on a blindfold so as not to look and to pass over. But what makes God pass over? The blood of the slain Lamb. The Exodus was a duel between God and Pharaoh over the firstborn, over the lineage, because he would not let the Lord’s firstborn go to hold a feast to Him in the wilderness. The LORD said to Pharaoh: “Israel is my son, my firstborn. I have told you, Let my son go, that he may serve me. But you have refused to let him go; behold