Appreciating the Power & Greatness of Passover, Part 1

Posted on Feb 3, 2025 in A Word of Resurrection |

Today, we examine the power and the greatness of Passover. We want to begin with the history, the origin as God gave it to Moses for the children of Israel. Exodus chapter 12:
 

Exodus 12:1-2 (KJV):

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

 

If you look at the terrain, Beloved, you know that the time to consider Passover in your life will be in your seasons of testings and difficulties. Passover was given in Egypt, not in the Promise Land. Passover was given at a time when God had started His process of deliverance. Passover, Beloved, was given. And God said, “If you practice this, the moment you do this,” He says, “Your year will begin.” It will be the beginning of months. 

 

And we are in the New Testament where Jesus has died. And every Sunday at our church we receive the Lord’s Supper. We observe this. And the moment we can enter into the reality, the understanding, the power of it, that is when our lives begin. That is when our year begins. So I encourage all of you spiritual leaders and people of God alike that you consider the Lord’s Supper every New Year’s Eve to start a new year.

 
“This month,” the Lord said unto the Nation, “Shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.” The first month of the year to you. That’s really when your year begins; when by covenant, through the blood of Jesus, you can leave the previous year with all its troubles and errors and problems, and you by covenant enter into a new year. Otherwise, things repeat because most of what links our years and causes this season of trouble and pain are violations of spiritual laws. And many times there are demons or spirits attached to these things. And we must break free by the covenant of the blood of Jesus. I’m just using the natural before we get into the spiritual. 
 

Exodus 12:3-4 (KJV):

3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
 
Here you see that the next thing that God says this Passover, this sacrificing of the lamb is for every house. Every house, not every individual. Every house. And if the house is too small to eat a whole lamb, then they need to join to other houses. Don’t you see, Beloved, God’s intention is that we all serve God in the house. Many of you raise your children and you give them the latitude to either choose or not to choose. No. It’s you and your house serving the Lord. It’s everybody under this covenant. Because the moment you allow anyone under the umbrella God has given you to have this personal discretion, they become fresh meat to the devil, as you will find in this story. Because any house that was not covered by this blood from the Passover lamb will become a house of judgment. And the first-born died, as we will see as we read along. But verse 5 says:
 

Exodus 12:5 (KJV):

Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
 
Without blemish. Beloved, He’s telling us the prescriptions God gave that were all fulfilled in Jesus Christ – a Lamb without blemish. You cannot come into covenant with God half-stepping. You must bring your best. You must give all that you have. God must have preeminence. God must have first place. You see? Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats.
 

Exodus 12:6-7 (KJV):

6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. 7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
 

You see? God says kill the lamb of the Passover after you have settled the family sizes that will accommodate the consumption of the lamb. You kill the lamb in that evening. And then you take the blood and strike it on the posts and the lintels of the house. You are sealing the house, the people in the house, the family with the blood. You see? That’s the greatness of Passover because the blood coursing in our veins came from the breathe of God. And so, life is in the blood. And when blood is shed, even though the blood of animals could not remove sins, but it was giving testimony to the real blood that is to come, which is the blood of the Jesus. And they were asked to put it on the door posts. And today we have to put it on the gates of our lives to keep us from whatever is capable of entering in and spoiling us. Remember that. 

 
It says, “And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.”
 

Exodus 12:8-10 (KJV):

8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. 10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
 
Beloved, you have received the Lord Jesus as your personal Savior, but do you have appreciation for Passover, His blood shed for you? Have you entered the reality of that power in the blood? Have you received it? Are you covenant-minded? Are you free from curses in your mind? Has Passover changed you? Has your year begun? Let’s consider these things in the next post, so we see what God intended in the way He asked them to suit up to eat this Passover. God bless you. 
 
– Apostle Chika
 
 

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