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Pesach, pronounced pay-sakh, is the Hebrew word for Passover. Pasch is the Christian spelling of pay-sakh. Pesach is the Jewish feast celebrated annually at God’s command to commemorate the Israelite exodus from Egypt to the promised land of Canaan. God’s deliverance was only for those who Ex 12:3 sacrificed an unblemished lamb or kid, bones unbroken.
Ex 12:6 “The whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs in the evening. They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat them. They shall eat the flesh that night.” Ex 12:12 “I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you, upon the houses where I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall fall upon you to destroy you.”
The Israelite pasch foreshadowed the Christian pasch, when the sacrifice of the Lamb of God redeemed us for the second exodus, from slavery to sin on earth to the promised kingdom of heaven.
When John the Baptist saw Jesus in the crowd he replied to Isaac, Jn 1:29 “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” Mk 14:12 “On the first day of unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the passover lamb, his disciples said to him, ’Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the passover?’” Rv 5:6 “I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain.” Rv 17:14 “The Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings.”
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