passover presented by joel t. champion, ph.d. associate professor (retired) colorado christian...

PassoverPresented by

Joel T. Champion, Ph.D.Associate Professor (Retired)Colorado Christian University

Currently serving as a Bible Teacher atGrace Evangelical Free Church of Longmont

Always Remember!

Acts 17:11

To paraphrase:

Don’t believe anything Joel Champion tells you without searching the Scriptures daily yourself to discover the Truth about the issues in question!

My Challenge to You Today

• Be prepared to challenge some of your firmly-held, traditional beliefs and biblical assumptions with an open mind!

Four Levels of Interpretation

• Local

• Applying to all churches

• Homiletic

• Prophetic

Passover:One of The Spring Feasts

John 13:1 “Now before the Feast of Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart this world to the Father….”

Bible Scholar’s Quiz

True/False Question: Passover is a one-day feast celebrated on the night before Jesus’ crucifixion with lots of food and drink.

Answer: False Why?


T/F Question: The Passover season actually includes at least three feasts and probably four (if you believe several trusted commentators).

Answer: True


Question: How many Feasts of Israel are there?

Answer: 9


Question: How many Feasts of Moses did God decree in the Torah?

Answer: 7


T/F Question: The best way to discover the sequence of days and times of the events in Jesus’ final week is to carefully study and harmonize the information found in the four Gospels.

Answer: False Why?


• Question: When did Jesus’ “hour” begin?

• Answer: At Triumphal Entry! On what day of the month was that? How do we know that?


• Question: How long was “His hour”?

• Answer: Not 60 mins. Not even one day or week. It started with His Triumphal Entry and continued until after His Resurrection and perhaps until Pentecost. (Acts 2)


• Question: The people were singing what song during Jesus’ Triumphal Entry?

• Answer: Psalm 118:24, “The is the day that the LORD has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”

Whose Feasts are they?

Feasts of the LORD (YHWH)

How Many?How many Feasts of Israel are there?• Nine

– Feast of Passover– Feast of Unleavened Bread– Feast of First Fruits– Feast of Pentecost (Weeks)– Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah)– Feast of Yom Kippur– Feast of Tabernacles (Booths)– Feast of Purim– Feast of Chanukah (Dedication or Lights)

How Many?How many Feasts of Moses are there?• Seven…in the Torah!

– Feast of Passover– Feast of Unleavened Bread– Feast of First Fruits– Feast of Pentecost (Weeks)– Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah)– Feast of Yom Kippur– Feast of Tabernacles (Booths)

“Mandatory” Feasts?

• Passover– The first of the three Spring Feasts– The Spring Feasts taken together

(Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits)

• Feast of Pentecost (Weeks)• Feast of Tabernacles (Booths)

– The third or last of the Fall Feasts

What are Feasts?• Not necessarily to do with food, but

rather they are festivals that are both memorials and prophesies that all point to Jesus.

• They are predetermined times or “appointed times” …appointed by the LORD (YHWH).

Spring Feasts

• Dress rehearsals for (or prophesies of ) His First Coming to the very day!

• God predetermined the divinely appointed day, the when, the how, and even the music (Psalm) that would be sung at his Son’s Triumphal Entry.

The History (and Prophetic Allusions) of the Passover

Ex 12:1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, … 3 Tell all the people of Israel that on the tenth day of this month, every man shall take a lamb …for the household.

The History of Passover

Ex 12:5 “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or the goats, 6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.


Ex 12:7 “Then they shall take some of its blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. ….


Ex 12:11 “…. It is the LORD’s PASSOVER. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the first born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I execute judgments: I am the LORD.


Ex 12:17 “And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations, as a statute forever.


Ex 12:13 “The blood shall be the sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. 14 This shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, as a statute forever you shall keep it as a feast.


Ex 12:15 “Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day your shall remove the leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. ….

The Spring Feasts• Lev 23:5,6: In the fourteenth

day of the first month (Nisan) is the LORD’s Passover.

And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

Spring Feast Prophesies

• Passover– Jesus celebrated the Seder dinner– Jesus washed the disciples feet– Jesus endured six illegal trials– Jesus was crucified and died

• Feast of Unleavened Bread– 14th of Nisan– Jesus was buried

• Feast of First Fruits – 17th of Nisan– Jesus rose (resurrected)

• [Feast of Pentecost 50 days after Passover]

Passover Feasts (Season)

His “hour” began with His Triumphal Entry and included in His final week, His Seder dinner, His 6 trials, His crucifixion and death, His burial, His resurrection, and perhaps His Ascension and the day of Pentecost.

Passover Feasts

Did you have fun?

Did I challenge some of your previous assumptions and traditions? Food for thought?

Did you learn anything new or controversial?

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