In the Times we live, individuals and nations alike have been forced to put SECURITY on the front burner. What with terrorism, kidnapping, murders, epidemics of sometimes, continental proportions, accidents, wars, genocides, chemical warfare, etc.!
Fear has gripped the 21st-century humanity. However, God has always made provision to keep His people safe no matter the threat.
In my Book ‘PASSOVER’, I reveal the Divine Safety Provision for God’s children in all ages. God has provided for our health, healing, and safety from every plague and every danger.
It is my pleasure to present you this all-conquering weapon for the saint as I run a serial on my most engaging book, ‘PASSOVER.’ May every evil Passover you and your loved ones, in Jesus Name. Amen.
INTRODUCTION
Return! Church Return!
“Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them. Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever. And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.” Exodus 12:21- 25.
From about the late 1900s till date, less and less is being heard, being taught, preached or said about the Passover. The reasons are multiple. For one, we are too engrossed in the celebration of our “Pentecostal” fad.
For another, the Church has become too civilized to emphasis a primitive bloody Gospel. The dynamics of Church administration is teaching that the Christian doctrine must be presented in a manner consistent with the diversity of traditions and cultures of the various cultural, social and academic values, worldwide. After all, didn’t our Lord Jesus command to ‘go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature’ Mark 16:15? Consequently, since there are different backgrounds of these creatures, we are now magnifying the simplicity that is the Gospel to accommodate their various pleasures. Paul the Apostle seems to have given us much justification when he said in 1Corinth. 9.20-23 that he had become all things to all men that he might, by all means, save some.
Therefore, we don’t want to scare away people from the faith with too much talk of Passover which translates into too much talk of blood. There are too many civilized people in the Pews now. No need to frighten them away with a bloody Gospel. No need to repulse all those high-class intellectuals and exact-cultured-special-breeds who after all pay the largest tithes and preside over multimillion Dollar projects, with too much talk on something as nauseous as blood. What with all those minutely manicured and pedicured high society looks.
Furthermore, there is too much computer age faith now to bother with blood. Sufficient is the mention of Passover once every year during the Easter celebration.
Like Israel of old, we have failed to understand that there could not possibly be any Pentecost without the Passover. Israel came out of Egypt through a mighty demonstration of God’s power manifested through the several plagues that culminated in the death of the Egyptian firstborn of both man and beast. Israel as a nation had been introduced to the efficacy of the Passover. They had witnessed firsthand, blood’s power to protect. However, either due to ignorance or lack of time, they did not seem to find anything to celebrate until the pursuing Pharaoh overtook them encamping beside Pihahiroth – Exodus.14:9. It was not until the Pharaoh and his army was overthrown in the Red Sea and Israel was once more preserved that even Moses remembered to lead a song of worship.
Perhaps, we could excuse Israel for lack of either the time or knowledge. Yet the same cannot be said of the Church today. We have both time and sufficient Biblical precedence. We can’t plead ignorance. Paul the Apostle wrote in the book of Colossians: “Giving thanks unto the father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear son: in whom we have redemption through his blood; even the forgiveness of sins.” Colossians. 1:12-14.
Of course, before we became qualified to partake of the blessings of the saints, we were first delivered from the servitude of the kingdom of darkness (the devil’s kingdom). We enjoyed redemption through His Blood.
This is the greatest miracle we should celebrate. Breakthrough and all other blessings must be appreciated and God praised for. Nevertheless, we must not put the cart before the horse.
How sad that many of God’s children are not celebrating the miracle of Passover today? Rather, we only bring thanksgiving when a new car is bought or some other promotion gained. Say, where would Israel be singing worship in Exodus Chapter 15 had there been no Passover in Chapter 12? Child of God, what would your joy over the new house, job, marriage, breakthrough, ministerial success amount to had there been no Passover?
Passover is the message of the Gospel. It is the reason for the Gospel. It is the power of the Gospel. Passover is the Gospel. All reasons for which Passover has been relegated to the background fall pitiably upon their faces if Passover is removed.