Passover Celebration
You are invited to our celebration of Pesach on Friday, April 22nd, 2016 at 6:30pm. Purchase tickets here.
Passover (Hebrew: Pesach) commemorates the story of the Exodus, in which the ancient Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt. Passover begins on the 15th day of the first month (Nisan) of the Biblical calendar..
Pesach (Passover) literally means "to pass over" something and refers to God's promise to pass over every household that had the blood of the sacrificial lamb on its doorpost on the night that He sent the Angel of Death to take the first born boy of every household in Egypt. (Exodus 12:13) He then delivered the Israelites from slavery in Egypt altogether through the obedience of Moses.
Pesach is followed by Chag HaMatzah (the Feast of Unleavened Bread), which lasts for seven days as seen in Leviticus 23:5-8. Based on Exodus 12, we remove all leavening from our houses in remembrance of the fact that the Israelites had to move quickly during their escape and didn't have time to wait for bread to rise.
We also have a traditional seder meal during which we eat certain symbolic foods in a specific order, as "seder" means "order." The Passover story is one of redemption and extremely meaningful from a Messianic perspective as we remove leaven (sin) from our homes and put our hope in Yeshua the Messiah, the sacrificial lamb who became our Pesach and has delivered us.
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