The Passover

The Glorious Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ is a blessed occasion for joyous celebration and jubilation in remembrance of Him, the First Fruit of the PERFECT RESURRECTION. This Resurrection historically and for the ages to come earmarks the passing over of our Lord Jesus Christ's physical body into His new spiritual one. It is this transition that announces Christ's eternal immortality without ever having to be subjected to death again; for death has been humbly trampled over, through the Lord's Crucifixion and heroically conquered by His Glorious Resurrection.

"Pascha" originally describing the Jewish Passover, presently refers to the Glorious Feast of the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Our precious Lord is the Lamb of God Whose sacrifice delivers the faithful from condemnation and death, just as the sacrifice of the Passover lamb had delivered the ancient Jews from slavery and death in Egypt (Exodus 12:12). St. Paul specifically instructs us, "therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" (I Corinthians 5:7-8).
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