Passover Tidbit No. 20

  All of Him

One of the instructions YHVH gave regarding the Pesach Seder is found in verse 10 of chapter 12 in the Book of Shemoth’ (the Exodus). “And they (those celebrating the Seder) shall let nothing of it (the sacrificial lamb) remain until the morning” …  Looking back, we easily see that the sacrificial lamb of Pesach is a picture, a rehearsal (milk-raw’- convocation a rehearsal) of a coming event. That event is of course, the sacrifice Y’shua made by covering His people by spilling His blood on the cross on that same day 1500 years later.  

This idea that nothing is to be left is pretty simple, the sacrifice has to be fully consumed, internalized, fully believed, and taken completely to heart.  To be covered and protected by the blood of the sacrifice you must actually believe the event was for your protection and salvation.  If you just said you understood and believed that the death angel was coming, those words do not protect you.   You must believe and act on that belief, i.e. you stayed in the house covered by the blood until the light came verse 22 … “and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning”. You were not safe from the destruction of the death angel even if you painted the blood on the door post, if you went outside anyway. 

Had a person who dutifully covered the lintel and door posts with blood, then ignored or disobeyed YHVH’s instruction not to go outside, perhaps choose to go for a walk to stretch their legs that night, or check out what was going on, they were no longer protected by the promise.  A person who did not use the blood but did stay inside was not any more protected.  All of the instructions must be fulfilled to be saved.  This is the very picture the Pesach Seder is telling us.  We can not pick and choose which parts we believe or do.

If we only take the parts of Y’shua we like to heart, if we only do part of what He asks, and believe He will let us slide on the stuff we don’t like or don’t want to do, we may risk destruction at worst, and at best we do dishonor to His sacrifice.  This is not legalism, or working for our salvation, it is instead honoring and believing the Words of YHVH.  To paraphrase James “we are not saved because we obey, we obey because we are saved”.

The Seder requires that we celebrate with specific foods, the bitter herbs, the Charoset, the mats-zah’, the wine and of course the lamb.  All have specific meanings, and all are a part of the celebration.  Rejecting any of these things is rejecting all of them, and they are dishonoring the sacrifice Y’shua would make on this day 1500 years in the future. Opting to celebrate a pagan fertility feast with bunnies and eggs instead of His required celebration, is worldly in a way difficult to understand. 

As for me and my house we believe YHVH for everything and the idea of having a feast and fun time while celebrating the most important event in the history of history hardly seems like a difficult decision.