Christ in the Spring feasts

by Ps Wilson

Big idea:
The feast of Passover and unleavened bread reveal God's plan of redemption that was fulfilled in Christ

God already instructed Israel to observe 4 major Jewish festivals to point to the coming of His son Jesus, to put in motion a salvation plan with details that no one knew until Christ came to fulfil one by one

Four festivals and spiritual significance

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1. helping you understand the content (invite your friends after understanding the spiritual significance of the four feasts)
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1. The Feast of Passover
2. The Feast of Unleavened bread
3. The Feast of First fruits

1. The Feast of Passover

Exodus 12:2-6
“This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb[a] for his family, one for each household. 4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. 5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.


Without the lamb, there was no Passover, why a one year old unblemished lamb?
Because this age is fully grown as adult, prime age and of value. Killing this lamb must be 14th day of nissan

"Nissan" was part of the religious calender, typically falls within march and April period

Exodus 12:7-8
Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. 8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.


Exodus 12:12-13
“On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.


The lamb's blood must be applied to house door frame, main door.

The blood prevent Israel from the wrath of God that come upon Egypt. It is to be observed until today.

- to Remember YahWeh power
- to Remember a Nation of slaves were set free to become people of God

1 Peter 2:22-24
“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.”[a] 23 When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. 24 “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”


1st Signpost : The requirement for an unblemished one-year-old male lamb
2nd Signpost : The blood of the Lamb
3rd Signpost : The timing of Passover

Lamb must be slaughtered

Ephesians 2:12-14
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,


Jesus must be sinless and unblemished and he must also died and his blood shed for redemption of Christianity

Why must Christ shed his blood for us?
Sin of humanity separate us from the holy God. For us to be reconcile with God, a blood sacrifice must be made to cover our sins. Blood signify life, only blood can made atonement. Our lord Jesus paid the sins for us with his blood.

Thus remove the wall of hostility between us and God

John 19:14-16
It was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about noon. “Here is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews. 15 But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!” “Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered. 16 Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. The Crucifixion of Jesus So the soldiers took charge of Jesus.


Our lord died on the preparation day of the Passover which was also the day that Israel is to prepare the lamb to die. It is not coincidence but pin point accuracy.

# The Spiritual significance of the Feast of Passover lies in Jesus Christ being the perfect lamb of God, who died to atone for the sins of humanity.

What's the implications for today believers?
Israel has to prepare lambs during Passover. The lambs could not remove sin issue permanently, that's why year after year the act must be repeated. Until Christ came once and for all.

I'm cleaned and forgiven in Christ

2. Feast of the unleavened bread

Exodus 12:15-20
For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do. 17 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. 18 In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. 19 For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel. 20 Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.”


Immediately after day of Passover, the feasts of unleavened bread starts for seven days

Unleavened bread is bread without yeast
- Means no contamination

1 Corinthians 5:6-8
Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.


Leavened associated with sin
Leavened associated with Pure and sinlessness

# The spiritual significance of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread lies in Christ being buried as a sinless man, and whose body did not experience decay

Isaiah 53:9
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.


Signify Christ was buried with wicked and buried in a rich man tomb

Body did not undergo decay

Acts 2:29-31
“Fellow Israelites, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. 30 But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne. 31 Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was not abandoned to the realm of the dead, nor did his body see decay.


God already gave details of Christ death more than 1000 years ago before he came as a man

While Israel were still slaves in Egypt, God already instituted the feasts

John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.


God has done his part, it is up to us to do our part