1; The feast of the passover,
9; of weeks,
13; of tabernacles.
16; Every male must offer, as he is able, at these three
feasts.
18; Of judges and justice.
21; Groves and images are forbidden.
* the month.
Ex 12:2-20 34:18 Le 23:5 Nu 9:2-5 28:16
* the passover.
This word comes from the Hebrew verb {pasach,} to pass, to
leap or skip over. The destroying angel passed over the
houses marked with the blood of the Paschal Lamb, so the wrath
of God passes over those whose souls sprinkled with the blood
of Christ. 1Co 5:7. As the paschal lamb was killed before
Israel was delivered, so by the death of Christ, we have
redemption through his blood. It was killed before the tables
of the law were delivered to Moses, or Aaron's sacrifices were
enjoined; thus deliverance comes to men, not by the works of
the law, but by the only true passover, the Lamb of God.
Ro 3:25. Heb 9:14. It was killed the first month of the
year, which prefigured that Christ should suffer death in that
month. Joh 18:28. it was killed in the evening. Ex 12:6.
Christ suffered at that time of the day. Mt 27:46. Heb 1:2.
At even the sun sets; at Christ's passion, universal darkness
was upon the whole earth. The passover was roasted with fire,
denoting the sharp and dreadful pains that Christ should
suffer, not only from men, but God also. It was to be eaten
with bitter herbs, Ex 12:8; not only to put them in
remembrance of their bitter bondage in Egypt, but also to
testify our mortification to sin, and readiness to undergo
afflictions for Christ, Col 1:24; and likewise to teach us the
absolute necessity of true repentance in all that would
profitably feed by faith on Christ, the true paschal lamb.
* for in.
Ex 12:29-42 13:4 23:15 34:18
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