THE PASSOVER MEANS "GOD'S NOT DEAD!"

Exodus 12:2  "This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. 

As the Lord was speaking to Moses about the preparations and things to anticipate regarding the final judgment on Egypt which would lead to the Exodus of the Hebrews, God says that the reckoning of time would change.  For the Hebrews, their calendar would begin in the month that this Passover took place.  That was no small thing.  Neither was it confusing to the Hebrews.  They operated on a lunar calendar, as did most peoples in that day.  The difference in calendars was where they started and ended their "years" - much like financial accounting differences between "fiscal" and "calendar" years. 

The beginning of a new year is always a significant event.  But to link the beginning of a new year to a specific significant event doubles the importantce to those who celebrate such a thing.  When that significant event was done by God and not man, the importance of the event is even greater.  Now, imagine that significant event being replicated twice, 1500 years apart, by the same God!  Before you say that's just imagination, I want to remind you that the Passover happened twice - once with literal lambs in Egypt, and once with the Lamb of God on Calvary!  The second one happened 1500 years AFTER the first, amongst the Jews as they celebrated the events of the first! 

If Passover is not an amazing thing to ponder, then the Christ of the Passover should be.  That His death, burial and resurrection all occured with precise timing to coincide with the celebration of Passover stuns me.  That Men, other than Jesus, were willing participants, even though they were unknowing participants, is evidence of the Living God's hand in the whole thing.  Jesus coudn't orchestrate this alone.  Had the Jews known it, they would have picked a different time so as not to foul their Passover by killing the man, Jesus, whom they hated, in that season.  The Romans didn't want to cause a revolt by the Jews, so they gave the Jews what they asked for - Jesus.  They didn't crucify Jesus as a way to be "in the face" of the Jews on their Passover.  And yet, all these things still happened.  Why?


Your salvation was provided for you by the Living God of Heaven whom so many have rejected, denied, or ignored.  The first month of the year (Hebrew) was marked by God, remembered by God, and blessed by God to be the time when the only sacrifice for your freedom from slavery to sin would be accomplished.  The synchronicity of timing is not lost on the believing, and should not be lost on the unbelieving - that they might be persuaded to see that God's Not Dead!  

That's Just A Thot about Jesus!