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Knowing the origin of something is oftentimes important for understanding. While God instituted the Passover through the Jews, it is important that we view the Passover not through the Jews but through Jesus. The problem with the way many Jewish people celebrate the Passover and the other Holy feasts is that they never get to Jesus. Jesus is the fulfillment of each of the Holy feasts. It is important to note at this point that there are two types of Jews when it comes to spirituality. We have the Orthodox Jews who still reject Jesus as the Son of God and we have the Messianic Jews who do in fact believe in Jesus. While the Old Testament gives us a picture of these Holy Feasts, it is through the New Testament that these feasts evolve or are otherwise fulfilled. The Orthodox Jews stop at the Old Testament in their celebration while the Messianic Jews and Christians who celebrate these Holy feasts, continue to celebrate the evolution of the Passover as reflected in the New Testament through the death, burial and resurrection of Christ.

For instance the Passover was initially instituted in Exodus 12 as a week long celebration to commemorate the miraculous signs and wonders that God worked through Moses, to deliver the Israelites from the bo***ge of slavery in Egypt. For the working of the most symbolic miracle, the Israelites were instructed to kill an unblemished lamb and wipe the blood of the lamb across their doorpost. They were then told that when the plague of death came through, it would PASS OVER every household on which the blood was pasted and it did. Jesus would later become that unblemished lamb according to 1 Peter 1:19, whose precious blood was shed on the cross, to deliver us from death and bo***ge. Here you can see the difference in the way the Orthodox Jews celebrate the Passover and the way Christians celebrate the Passover. Jesus is the reason for the Passover and without the shedding of his blood there would be no deliverance from death and bo***ge. Happy Passover!

Jesus spoke the words below a few days before his crucifixion. He understood that his death was necessary and he began preparing his disciples for his death through the very words below. The wheat explained in his parable could not produce more wheat unless it was broken off or otherwise died, and the seed is buried into the ground. In the same way, Jesus would die and be buried into the ground but like a seed, his burial would produce more life. April 22-April 30, 2024 is the official week of the Passover which includes the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, but because we are on the Gregorian calendar instead of the Hebrew calendar, the dates do not coincide this year. However, on Sunday the western world celebrates anyway as the day he was resurrected from the dead based on their calendar. But because Jesus died and rose according to the Hebrew calendar, then that calendar determines the official passover celebration. We celebrate the resurrection anyways because there’s no harm in celebrating the resurrection twice as long as we show up for the appointed time in April and celebrate that also.