{"id":3532,"date":"2021-03-15T16:28:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T21:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/?p=3532"},"modified":"2021-03-20T02:42:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T07:42:44","slug":"the-very-first-passover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/the-very-first-passover\/","title":{"rendered":"The Very First Passover…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Passover is the archetypal picture of the redemption of God. Its theme goes back to the very beginning, to the orchard of Eden itself, when Adam and Eve disobeyed God and ate from the forbidden tree. Because of their transgression, our original ancestors incurred the plague of death and were exiled from the Divine Presence, though God graciously promised to heal them through the coming Seed of the woman \u2013 the Savior who would crush the head of the serpent and break the fangs of his venomous sting (Gen. 3:15). Soon after making this great promise, God clothed our primordial parents with the skin of a sacrificed lamb (Gen. 3:21), linking their coming deliverance with the \u201cLamb of God slain from the foundation of the world\u201d (1 Pet. 1:18-20). The very first “Passover” was in the garden. The story extends to the world to come, too, where in the redeemed paradise of God we will celebrate the victory of the Lamb who was slain for our redemption (Rev. 5:12-13, Rev. 19:7).<\/p>\n

The great story of our redemption is revealed on two levels in Scripture – one that concerns the paradise of Eden (the universal level), and the other that concerns the paradise of Israel (the particular level). Therefore Yeshua is both rightly called the \u201cLamb of God who takes away the sins of the world\u201d (John 1:29) and \u201cthe Messiah our Passover Lamb who has been sacrificed for us\u201d (1 Cor. 5:7). Likewise he is both called the \u201cSeed of the woman,\u201d and \u201cthe Son of David\u201d; the \u201cSecond Adam,\u201d and the \u201cKing of the Jews,\u201d and so on. The story of Israel\u2019s redemption in Egypt therefore serves as an allegory of both the universal salvation promised in Eden (i.e., the lamb slain from the foundation of the world) as well as the revelation of the sacrificial ministry of Yeshua as Israel\u2019s promised Messiah. Yeshua is both the Savior of the world as well as Israel\u2019s true King and Deliverer.<\/p>\n

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