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A Last Passover Celebration
by Sue Griffiths
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SCRIPTURE: ‘You’ve no idea how much I have looked forward to eating this Passover meal with you before I enter my time of suffering. It’s the last one I’ll eat until we all eat it together in the kingdom of God.’ – Luke 22:14-16, MSG
Can’t you just hear Jesus’ longing to have His chosen friends around Him at this last Passover meal? He wants their presence, their physical support, their love close around Him. He knows that in less than twenty-four hours from now He will be dead. But He also is desperate that they grasp the significance of what is about to happen.
Passover is all about remembering the escape of the entire Hebrew people from Egypt – where they had been for about four hundred years. Every single Hebrew who took part in that first Passover night had been born a slave.
They had seen God doing miracles through Moses to win them release: the Red Sea turned to blood, there was the plague of the locusts, the flies, the frogs, the death of the livestock, and now the death of every single firstborn of every family is about to happen. Moses warns the people that the Angel of Death is about to sweep through the entire land of Egypt that night, with no respect for anyone great or small.
This will be a night of sheer terror. Each one of them knew that this was no idle threat. It was terrifying. And real. But God had provided just one way of escape: the blood of a lamb painted over the door lintel of every Hebrew house and the family huddled inside was the only protection from this fearsome Angel of Death. They had to trust, literally, for their lives to the blood over their door.
And now, at Jesus’ last Passover, He desperately wants His disciples to grasp the significance of what is about to happen: Jesus, Himself, is to be the new Passover lamb. All that happened before has just been a picture of what He is about to do – not just for the Hebrew people, but for the world. Jesus rose again and broke the power of death. In Him, we find life, eternal life. As we shelter in His sacrifice, the authority of that Angel of Death is ended over each one of us. Jesus is our promise of eternal life, with Him.
On this last Passover evening, Jesus knows what is coming. He wants his closest friends near him. But He also looks forward confidently for that day when they all – and we – will celebrate His Passover triumph with Him in His Kingdom.
PRAYER: Thank You, Jesus, for becoming that precious life-giving protection over me as I choose to trust my life into Your hands. In You I am brought into eternal life and can know You, day by day, as my Saviour and my Lord. You are my Deliverer. Amen.
Sue Griffiths found deep inner healing through the teaching and ministry at Ellel ministries and is now part of the associate ministry team at Ellel Grange. Previously, Sue was a specialist in English Literature and a vicars wife. Her passion is to see others coming into freedom in Christ in their personal lives. Sues an outdoors person, loves gardening, walking, and many creative things. She and Richard, her husband, now live in Northumberland and enjoy a great family of 3 grown up kids and some grandkids.
