- Numbers 9:2
“Let the people of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.
Numbers 9:3
On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it.” - Numbers 9:7
And those men said to him, “We are unclean through touching a dead body. Why are we kept from bringing the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?” - Numbers 9:13
But if anyone who is clean and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, that person shall be cut off from his people because he did not bring the Lord’s offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.
Easter is over and now is the appointed time for the Passover. It cannot be any clearer in this calendar year that the two events are not connected. They each have different appointed times.
I am not Jewish and I do not understand the statues and rules that must be kept. Even if I did understand them, I would not keep them. Because I am not Jewish I do not understand two of the above passages. What offenses disqualify a Jew from celebrating Passover? Secondly why were those on a journey given a pass on not keeping Passover?
But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.
We who are in Christ are members of one body. He was a Jew and only from the sense that we are adopted is there a need to understand what it means to be Jewish. That only holds meaning in the life Jesus lived and since we follow Jesus who was perfect in performance, how any other Jew might keep their appointed times is meaningless. What Jesus asks of us is all that matters.
Since the point of the Jewish Passover was death passing over because of the blood of the lamb, then in Christ we have already received the only Passover Lamb that matters.
Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.”
This is the whole purpose behind Passover, to never see death.
I know what it means to keep my word but what does it mean to keep His?