Our Passover Lamb

Despite growing secularism within the Jewish community today, most American Jews will still make the time to attend a Passover Seder. They are drawn by the food, being with friends and family, the story, and the points of remembrance found within the Seder.

The New Testament records that Messiah Yeshua used Seder elements as tokens of remembrance of his sacrificial death to bring redemption from sin: the broken matzah a reminder of his body and the Third Cup of the Seder, which traditionally reminds us of the blood of the Passover Lamb, as a reminder of his blood which ratified the New Covenant. Jeremiah 31:31-34 speaks of the spiritual renewal of Israel that would come about through the New Covenant that G-d would establish to bring about complete forgiveness of sin.

Yeshua said that his death ratified this New Covenant first for Israel,

and then through Israel for all the people of the World.

Forgiveness of sins and a relationship with G-d are found today for anyone who will repent of their sin and by faith alone personally believe in Messiah Yeshua’s sacrificial death for them.

At Passover, all of us as Jews will take a piece of matzah in remembrance of a lamb. But for us as Messianic Jews we take this piece of matzah in remembrance not just of the Passover Lamb from Egypt, but we take this matzah in remembrance of our ultimate Passover Lamb, Messiah Yeshua, who died as our sacrifice so that we could have forgiveness for our sins and a relationship with G-d. Chag Pesach Sameach! Happy Passover!

Forward for Messiah,

Kirk Gliebe

Rabbi & Director