It is from this that we are ever reminded that our greatest callings is to be a blessing to others and to proclaim the eternal blessings of our God in Messiah Yeshua our Passover Lamb! In reading this, you might be asking me,“ How in fact do the promises and callings of the Abrahamic covenant apply to, or be seen in the context of our annual celebration?” Furthermore, you may reason saying,“ Aren’ t these two separate things where Moses is simply chronicling Adonai’ s promises to Abram and his seed, while Passover stands as a marker of our deliverance from Egypt?” To these friends, the answer is clear, when we remember that“ blessing” and“ the calling to be a blessing” is embedded in every Jewish holy day, celebration and even our weekly remembrance of creation on Shabbat! It is in blessing and blessing alone that God has chosen a people as His very own, and has called us to be agents of those blessings who do not know. Through every celebration we proclaim God’ s goodness, faithfulness and His calling that we reflect. illuminate hope and blessing. Our calling as both recipients and ambassadors of blessing is best seen in the Passover Seder itself, within the“ Four Questions” where we read:
From our Haggadah we see that it was the blessings of God which delivered our ancestors from Egypt, as so we are commanded from God in His Torah to recount our deliverance from bondage, as being brought from slavery to freedom and from death to life in His great and everlasting love! As we celebrate Pesach, we not only experience blessing, but also extend blessing to the world as a reminder of God’ s unfailing love for all of creation. Most notably however, the word Egypt in the Hebrew( mitzra’ im) can literally be translated“ to strangle,” and so, it is sin which strangles our lives and keeps us from fellowship with Avienu, our loving, Heavenly Father. Through Messiah, all of us( both Jews and Gentiles alike) are brought close, redeemed and given eternal hope and blessings. Where sin once strangled us and separated us from God, now through Yeshua our slain and risen Passover Lamb, we have the promise of eternal life- This is the greatest of all blessings!
“ We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD our God brought us out with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. And if the Holy One, blessed be He, had not brought our fathers out from Egypt – then we and our children and children’ s children would still be slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt.”
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