Passover and Passion Week often fall at the same time of year, on the same week even. The reason for this is Jesus our Lord died and rose during The Passover Feast. To commemorate the two overlapping as they do, I wish to compare Moses and Christ our Lord. To demonstrate what The Passover and The Passion mean for us saints.
Moses ate bread of haste and commeorated they’re being set free from the bondage of literal slavery. Thousands of years later Christ created a new Passover, Passion Week in which he set us free from our bondage to sin and eternal insecurity. Moses was a babe who on the Nile River of Egypf fled the edict of Pharoah that all Hebrew man child should die, Jesus as a babe fled the edict of Herod The Great that every child in Bethelhem be killed and ended up in Egypt. Moses was a foreshadowing of Christ, and his task was to fail, because freedom from worldy bondage avails nothing if you are not free of sin’s power and the fear of death, which only Christ who is the Lord God made flesh could do, “Yes, by God’s grace, Jesus tasted death for everyone. God, for whom and through whom everything was made, chose to bring many children into glory. And it was only right that he should make Jesus, through his suffering, a perfect leader, fit to bring them into their salvation. Because God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and blood—the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death. Only in this way could he set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.” (Hebrews 2:9-10, 14-15)
The Passover had lambs blood on the doorposts to keep the Plague of death at bay (Exodus 12:13-28), at the Passion Jesus Christ, The Lamb of God’s blood marks us so that The Second Death of hellfire passes us over. At the Red Sea the Hebrews escaped Pharaoh’s armies, at The Jordan River is the Baptism in Water where we confess Jesus as Lord and the chariots of the Second Death and Satan can no longer can destroy us. Moses had to give up the kingdom of Egypt and the wealth of the world, Christ gave up his divine prividges (Philippians 2:4-11) and rejected Satan’s similiar offers of wealth and power (Matthew 4:1-11).
Moses failed, Christ prevail. Moses was but a man, Christ was the God Man. Moses admistered the old covenant that purified the outside but could not guarantee eternal life, Jesus purified the inside, and guarantees eternal life (heaven, living forever in paradise). Moses sinned, not obeying God at the Waters of Stife (Numbers 20), Jesus who is God obeyed God The Father and never sinned (1 Peter 2:22, Hebrew 4:15, 2 Corinthians 5:21). Moses wrote five books of the Bible, Jesus wrote them all (John 1:3, Colossians 1:16-18), and made a New and Everlasting Covenant contained in The New Testament. Moses married a woman named Sephora, Jesus married all [spiritually] who believe in Him and calls us all the Bride of Christ. Moses died (Deuteronomy 34), Jesus died and rose from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:3-8). Moses lifted up a serpent on a wooden rod to save the Israelites from death (Numbers 26::1-9), Christ lifted himself up on a cross to save all people from eternal death (John 19 and John 20).
Moses served God faithfully, save for his disobedience, Jesus served God the Father and never was disobedient. The Old Covenant could never save us, it never was meant to, if anything is exposes just how frail people are and that we need The New Covenant of God’s Grace in the God Man Jesus Christ! Amen.
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