Newsletter                                                                      April 2025

Dear Saints,
    This month Passover will be celebrated by Jews, all over the world. The following are the events leading up to Passover. Because of a great famine, Jacob and his family went to Egypt, to buy food. Little did they know what God had prepared for them. Because of Joseph interpreting Pharoah’s dream, he was released from prison and became second in command. That is how the twelve tribes of Israel started, and they had favor with God and Pharoah. After Joseph and Pharoah died, the kings that followed, did not honor God or favor His people. For the next four hundred years, they became slaves. The last of ten plagues, was that “all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die … and all the firstborn of beasts” Exodus 11:5. This caused Pharoah to let God’s people go. Because they obeyed God’s voice concerning the blood, the plague passed over the children of Israel and they were set free from slavery.
    On the tenth day of the month, they were instructed to take “a lamb for an house” Exodus 12:3, one that was “without blemish, a male” Exodus 12:5, then on the fourteenth day, they were to “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 12:7. They were to eat it with “unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs” Exodus 12:8 and were to “eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s Passover” Exodus 12:11. God told them “when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt” Exodus 12:13. Then God established this Passover feast saying, “this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever” Exodus 12:14.
    Jesus and his disciples made preparation for the annual Passover feast, yet no one was making the connection, that Jesus was the sacrificial lamb. David spoke of his resurrection, “For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption” Psalm 16:10. And Jesus himself had told them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” John 2:19. Jesus had also used the account of Jonah saying, “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” Matthew 12:40. On this Passover night, Jesus identified Judas as the one that would betray him “He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me” Matthew 26:23. “Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Which did eat of my bread, Hath lifted up his heel against me” Psalm 41:9.
    Jesus then completed the Passover meal as he served the first communion to them, “Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins” Matthew 26:26–28. This communion that was taken 2,000 years ago, represents the fulfillment of the work of Jesus “The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise” John 5:19. Later, Paul wrote “Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead” Acts 17:31.
    Jesus, the sinless, spotless, Passover lamb, would soon be put to death. He was the “Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” John 1:29. He paid the price for our sins and “we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son” Romans 5:10–11. At His death, “the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom” Matthew 27:51. The tearing of the Heavenly Temple’s veil (which had separated the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies) opened direct access to God for all people, through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. His death and resurrection inaugurated the promise of eternal life to those that are born again John 3:3. Then those names will be “written in the Lamb’s book of life” Revelation 21:27b. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” 2 Corinthians 5:17. Judgement has been paid, HALLELUJAH!.
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Serving Our King Together,

Rev. Joseph and Eric Ross

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