Passover discussion - 2025

Exo 12:11 ‘Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is the LORD’S Passover.
Exo 12:16-17 ‘And on the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you. 17‘You shall also 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 permanent ordinance.
1 Cor. 5:7-8 Clean out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. 8Let us therefore celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Cor 10:16 Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ?
1 Cor 11:20-21 Therefore when you meet together, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper, 21for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and another is drunk.
The Feast of the First Fruits points to the resurrection of Yeshua Messiah. The first day of the week after the day of Passover, a portion of the first harvest is to be offered to Elohim. This feast speaks of new life and it is celebrated on the first day of the week. Paul tells us that the Feast of the First Fruits speaks of the resurrection of Messiah
1 Cor 11:23-25
1 Cor 15:20-23
On Elohim's calendar, this Feast falls exactly on the day of the resurrection of Messiah. It is the first day after the Sabbath following Passover. On the other hand, Easter (celebrating the fertility goddess "Ishtar,") follows an equation that usually intentionally misses the day after Sabbath following Passover.
Luke 22:9 –13
That is why Yeshua reminded us that Passover is a remembrance of Him.
Luke 22:15-19
Deut 16:1-2 “Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night. 2“And you
Matt 26:18-19 And He said, “Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand; I am to keep the Passover at your house with My disciples.”’” 19And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them; and they prepared the Passover.
Yeshua gave the New Covenant at His last Passover Feast.
Matt. 26:26-28
We know that the New Covenant will not be totally consummated until He returns. At that time, we will be made whole and will be totally spotless and blameless before Him. Then we will feast with Him again.
Matt. 26:29
Just like the Mosaic covenant, it will be on the mountain and we will feast with Him.
Isaiah 25:6-8
Lev 23:5 ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the LORD’S Passover.
The timing of the Feast Days in Scripture are governed by the new moons, which mark the beginning of each month. There is controversy as to when the year starts in Scripture, but the preponderance of the evidence tells us it is governed by the first new moon after the spring equinox.
Lev 23:8 ‘But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.’”
Leaven speaks of sin. Leaven is to be out of the house and lives of His people during that feast.

Elohim told the people to keep the Passover at its appointed time. Passover was to be celebrated because Elohim delivered the people from Egypt.
Ex. 12:6-14 ‘…; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance.
Paul told the people to celebrate the Passover. He then referred the "Lord's Passover"
1 Cor. 11:20 Therefore when you meet together, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper,
Yeshua said that the celebration of Passover is a remembrance of Him.
1 Cor.11:23-25 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24and when He had given thanks, He broke it, and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 25In the same way He took the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
We are also told that the Passover is a memorial (remembrance)
Ex. 12:14 ‘Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance.