Title Passover Festival
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1. The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2. Let this month be the beginning of the month for you, the first month of the year.
3. Speak ye to the congregation of Israel, saying, On the tenth day of this month, your servants shall take a lamb for their household,
4. If there are too few of them for the lamb, you shall take one with the neighbors of the house according to the number, and count your lambs according to each person's food
5. Your lambs shall be male without blemish, one year old, and shall be taken from sheep or goats.
6. They kept it until the fourteenth day of the month, and at sunset the congregation of Israel killed the sheep
7. Apply the blood on the posts and lintels on the left and right of the door of the house where the sheep will be fed
8. Roast the meat that night and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herb
9. Do not eat it raw or boiled in water; eat its head, its shins, and its internal organs.
10. Do not leave it until morning, and immediately consume what remains until morning
15. I set an example that you should do as I have done to you.
16. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, and he who is sent is not greater than he who sent him.
17. Blessed are you if you know this and do it.
18. I am not referring to all of you, but because I know who my chosen ones are, but to fulfill the scriptures that say, “He who eats my bread has lifted his heels to me.”
19. From now on, before things come to pass, I am giving this name to you, so that when things come true, you may believe that I am he.
20. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I sent receives me, and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me.
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Subject : Passover Festival
Text: Exodus 12:1-10, John 13:15-20,
The Passover was the most important among the three Jewish festivals, and all Hebrew males over the age of 12 had to participate (Exodus 23:14-17). There is a record that Jesus also went up to Jerusalem to observe this feast when he was 12 (Luke 2:41-51). It is also the only record of Jesus' childhood. The Passover is the longest, prehistoric story in Hebrew history. It is based on the experience of escaping from slavery on the eve of the Exodus from the disaster that killed the firstborn in Egypt. This is the history related to today's Old Testament text (Exodus 12:1-10). The meaning of the festival was to confirm and confess the YHWH faith experienced by our ancestors, and to inherit the solidarity of the chosen people. The background was a nomadic lifestyle, but the appearance of the festival has also changed as it was influenced by various surrounding environments such as Canaanite agricultural culture. These are changes made by adapting to the environment.
In the early days, the head of a family insisted on the feast (Exodus 12:1-20). At the time of the Reformation of Josiah (B.C. 621), the Passover was made a national feast and kept in Jerusalem, and priests and the king took the lead. They ate unleavened bread for 7 days, and the meat of the sacrifice was burned before morning (Deuteronomy 16:1-8). The sprinkling of sacrificial blood on doorposts and thresholds continued. As Judaism became the state religion (500-400 B.C.), the Passover was fixed on the 14th day of the first month instead of following the fluctuating agricultural seasons. The animals to be sacrificed are not sheep, but bulls, rams, and goats (Ezekiel 45:21-25). An example of the Passover (Exodus 12:1-20) written on papyrus for Jews living in Egypt around the 5th century B.C. was found in Elephantine, Egypt.
There are famous Passovers recorded in the Bible. The first is the Egyptian Passover (Exodus 12). It begins with the thrilling experience of dividing life and death on the same day and at the same time in the same precinct (Egypt). Some houses were visited by the messengers of death, and the house was passed over after checking the doorposts and the blood of the sheep on the threshold. They became people who experienced the crossroads of life and death, blessings and curses in the field. Second, two years later, after keeping the Passover on Mount Sinai (Numbers 9:1-14), they meet the pillar of fire and the pillar of cloud (shekinah) on the tabernacle, which were signs of God's presence in Israel's wilderness life. The third is the Passover that was kept in front of Jericho under the leadership of Joshua (Joshua 5:10-12). The food (manna) in the wilderness will cease and they will eat the fruit of the land of Canaan.
These are the stories of special Passovers among the Passovers. Hezekiah's Passover (2 Chronicles 30) during the crisis of history, the Passover after the discovery of Josiah's law book (2 Chronicles 35), the Passover kept during the Babylonian captivity (Ezekiel 45:18-24), the Passover kept after returning from the Babylonian captivity (Ezekiel 6:19- 22), the Last Supper held in Mark's upper room as a ceremony of Christ and the crucifixion on Golgotha Hill (John 12:1-19:42) were all special Passovers. The Passover festivals that were observed before and after the historical turning point and important events confirmed the relationship between God and the people of Israel. He confessed his faith and consolidated his identity. It allowed me to experience the necessary faith and hope anew. It reminds us of the meaning of the festival our church is preparing for the 60th anniversary of Namsan Altar, the 60th anniversary of its foundation. We hope that all of the Namsan family will be together at the site. I want to receive the grace of God together (John 13:15-20).