Christ Our Passover

It is important to understand that the original “Passover” was the beginning of the deliverance and not the end. After the Passover, the Lord drowned Pharoah and his armies in the Red Sea as he pursued the tribes of Israel who had passed through the Red Sea on dry land. Next for the Tribes of Israel was inheriting the promise land and all that pertained to resting therein, but they didn’t complete the process because of carnality and unbelief.

Christ, our Passover Lamb, has shed His blood for us to deliver us from the reaping of the spirit of death, and defeated Satan by crushing the power of His lies and accusations through the power of truth and atonement. This deliverance is only experienced by those who pass through the blood of the new covenant in abandon to this world without looking back. Those who look back become bitter and are unable to inherit the promise that follows.

⁶ Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? ⁷ Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: ⁸ Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

(1 Corinthians 5:6-8)

As we remember the new covenant, we not only need to be mindful of the precious blood of the Lamb shed for our atonement but we must also remember that the deliverance was so that our Father could have His peculiar treasure. His peculiar treasure is a new generation consisting of a holy kingdom of priest. So we have to press into sanctification and holiness through mortifying the flesh in obedience to the Spirit. We have to purge ourselves of the old man with his affections and put in the new man after Christ.

⁵⁵ But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. ⁵⁶ Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.

(Numbers 33:55-56)

Yehoshua is causing us to inhabit the promised land of peace and rest through exposing the elements of wickedness and empowering us to cast them down for the liberation of our soul. Just as the children of Israel were charged to do. As the Lord identifies the elements that must be destroyed, we are to utterly destroy and denounce them. If we fail to follow this mandate from our Savior, then sin will continue to be a prick in our eyes, and be thorns in our sides, and the judgement of the angels that first rebelled will become our judgement as well.

⁴¹Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, “Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:”

(Matthew 25:41)

Be not deceived by the false teachings of those who love this world and the things of it. As priest of YAHWEH we have no inheritance here. The Lord Himself is our inheritance and His dwelling place is our resting place. Be radical about this, despising the shame and embracing the rejection, knowing your Savior was despised and rejected the same way. The Father knows what you need for this sanctifying journey and He will be your sufficiency.

1Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. ² Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. ³ And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

(1 John 3:1-3)

³⁵ Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. ³⁶ For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

³⁷ “For yet a little while,
And He who is coming will come and will not tarry.
³⁸ Now the just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.”

³⁹ But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

(Hebrews 10:35-39)