It was a shadow of the reconciliation that was to come. Holy Spirit later revealed to Paul though not at this Passover meal with Jesus that the great heritage and meaning of the feasts that the Church was to embrace held transforming power. This power would grow their faith and knit together the Body of Christ. Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.
For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. The unleavened bread of the Passover meal and communion is a representation of the sinless body of Christ.
In scripture, leaven is symbolic of sin. However, we can recognize when it is there and willfully turn it over to Him. Taking part in communion reflects the remembrance of freedom given by God during the Egyptian exodus. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.
And we see it again nearly years later as Christ becomes that Passover Lamb so that we can walk in eternal freedom. Just as the Israelites were instructed by God to clean out all the leaven from their homes, this is something we can meditate on today. Customarily, after the leaven is cleared, the Passover ceremony begins with the lighting of the candles. Today, Holy Spirit is the lamp unto our feet and the light unto our path see Psalm We can light the Passover candles understanding that Holy Spirit guides, counsels, and protects us.
Ask Holy Spirit to give you a fresh look at this ancient observance —to reveal to you the parallels between the Passover meal and communion. In later years, the observation of the Passover would involve the priesthood cf. The head of every household is commanded to take a male lamb that is one year old and without any blemishes.
This substitutionary lamb must be a symbol of perfection. As such, it foreshadows the true Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, who was uniquely without blemish cf. At twilight, the lamb for each household is to be killed.
The Lord then reveals what the Israelites are to do with the slain lambs and why they are to do it. Each head of a household is to take the blood of the lamb and put it on the doorposts and lintel of his house. God explains that the blood will be a sign.
When He sees the blood on the door, He will pass over that house, and the firstborn in it will be spared from the coming judgment that is to fall on Egypt. In such meals, the body of the sacrificial victim is offered to believers to eat after the sacrifice is made Lev. In Exodus —20, God reveals the way future generations of Israelites are to observe the Passover. The exodus from Egypt is to be commemorated in the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread, which will be commenced with the Passover observance.
The Passover, therefore, is to be observed throughout their generations. Moses instructs the people to mark the doors using hyssop, a plant that will later be used in connection with various purification rituals cf. Although some scholars have denied that the Passover is a sacrifice, Moses specifically refers to it as such in Exodus Although no specific sin is mentioned, the blood of the lamb turns away the wrath of God. Here again the Passover foreshadows the redemptive work of Christ 1 Cor.
The tenth and final plague comes on Egypt just as God warned through Moses and Aaron, and the firstborn throughout the land are struck dead. Only those covered by the blood of the lamb are spared. He asked them to wait till he visited 10 plagues on Egypt. The Pharaoh banished Israelites from Egypt. Experts in biblical studies claim the Last Supper to be the Passover, while many do not believe in drawing parallels between the Last Supper and the Passover.
Let us take a closer look though we may never be able to get to the truth as we can only speculate. The Last Supper, which is a very important event in the life of Jesus, and perhaps the whole of Christianity , relates to the first day of the unleavened bread, which is indeed the Passover day.
The Gospel of Mark tells us that Jesus prepared the supper that he had with 12 of his disciples. Jesus sacrificed the Passover lamb in the morning, and he and his disciples gathered to have a meal soon thereafter. This suggests that it certainly would have been a Passover meal.
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