Exodus 12:21-27; “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. 22 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. 23 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. 24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. 25 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. 26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? 27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.”
1 Corinthians 5;7; “Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.”
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Christ is our Passover … Just as God passed over the homes of the Israelites, He’ll repeat that action in the future for those who call Him Lord. Knowing He paid for our sin means we make a determination to live in Him and allow His Spirit to supernaturally change us from who we once were. We were calloused, we were ugly, and in desperate need of God who operates outside of ourselves to intervene on our behalf. The beauty is how He operates inside the believer and purposes him/her as a new creature who again, loves to adore Him.
For the Mormon there’s no tie, if you will, to the Passover because of the lies and ineffective teachings they’re fed week in and week out. Their apostle Bruce McConkie wrote that only apostates still recognize the Passover. Just as God has had mercy upon us, let’s have mercy upon the Mormons who buy into the infantile, sacrilegious words of their leaders. Let’s pray, witness and plead with God to save them, just as He did us.
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Mormon Doctrine, p 556; “It was during the week of this feast, some 1500 years after the exodus, that our Lord was crucified. Just before his betrayal he had partaken of the feast with his disciples…Keeping of the passover, with its sacrifices and unleavened bread, ended (except among apostate peoples) with the sacrifice of “Christ our passover.” The saints were to keep the feast only in a spiritual sense, as Paul said: “Let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” (1 Cor. 5:6-8.)” – Bruce McConkie
There are several things I’d like to point out:
What Smith and the LDS has done is just a ” Pick and Choose”.
Pick this and leave that out. Christ is in the Passover. HE
IS THE PASCAL LAMB. They cannot relate the Passover with the
Last Supper. Since the entire Bible is about Christ, the Old
Testament is interwoven with the New Testament. Only serious
research of the Bible alone, will show that, with the help of
the Holy Spirit.
Many people live their lives this way with their own
religion. Even some Christians will “Pick and Choose”. Did
God say to do that in the Bible?
Now look at the Ten Commandments, for an example.
Did God give them as a “Chinese Menu Plan”?
Did he say;
“You can pick and of these that you think you’d like to do.
Pick one from Column A and 2 from Column B” ?
NO! God gave the 10 Commandments in its entirety to be
followed in its entirety. The same way with the Bible. Let
the Bible interpert itself from other passages. You will see
that is the only way to understand that we cannot “Pick and
Choose” to follow or believe in.
AMEN! Preach it sister! 🙂