The Essence of Passover – Part 4

The Essence of Passover 
Part 4

 Pastor Israel Shares the Deep Elements of Pesach (Passover).

Betrayal cuts deep, even more so when it is done by someone you love. However, the pain is intensely magnified when it comes from someone you trust- someone with whom you spent time cultivating a meaningful relationship and sharing the intimate details of your being. We have all experienced that pain at one time or another in our lives, but none know it as well as Yeshua.
 
SEDER ELEMENTS
The Passover seder meal is a fascinating celebration, rich in customs and symbolism. However, it has an even deeper meaning when connected to Yeshua’s last meal with His disciples. Each component of the meal is a connection between the old and the new covenant. Yeshua shared that He eagerly desired to eat his last Passover meal with them before He suffered. There were lessons to be learned through each of the elements they would need to face what was before them.
 
Each Seder meal begins with the ceremonial washing of the hands. However, Yeshua wanted his disciples to know the depth of servitude. Tying a towel around his waist, he poured water into the basin and began to wash their feet. Feet are the most unclean part of a person, yet Yeshua was willing to take it upon himself to ensure His disciples’ feet were clean. This act of love was almost too much for some of His followers to understand.

Yeshua then used the elements of the Seder meal to demonstrate the trial He was facing. As He broke the bread that represented His body, He instructed His disciples to remember Him each time they partook of this meal. He then raised the cup of wine that represented the blood He would pour out as He was nailed to the cross and with this, He announced He would be betrayed by one of those seated around the table. When questioned who would do such a thing, Yeshua dipped the bread in the paste of bitter herbs, handing it to Judas, thus revealing His betrayer.
 
BITTER TEARS
One final component of the Seder meal is salt water. Traditionally, it was to represent the bitter tears of the Hebrew slaves who were forced to labor under brutal conditions by the Egyptians. The people were to dip the bread into the salt water to remind them of God’s faithfulness to see their tears and deliver them from their bondage. In this last supper, the salt water became the tears that would soon be shed for us in the Garden as Jesus agonized over the task set before Him. As He shed His last tear on that Cross, He cried out, “It is finished,” and a new covenant was born.
 
THE NEW COVENANT
The Seder meal ends with songs of praise from Psalms 112-116. What had begun in bitterness has been reborn into joy! Through our Passover Lamb, Yeshua Hamashiach, we too, have been delivered. We are free of the bondage that once was a curse unto death. 

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