Spring is full of great occasions! After celebrating Mother's day, we celebrate Passover, the beginning of Harvest-Resurrection, and the Pentecost-Harvest. All these festivals take place during the beautiful season of spring.
Moses and every Hebrew house celebrated the Passover for the first time on the eve of their Exodus from Egypt on the fourteenth of Aviv. When the blood of the Passover lamb was found sprinkled on the door posts and the upper thresholds, the destroyer passed through Egypt without touching the Israelites. Not one person in their households was harmed.
That was the symbol, and we as believers in Jesus now have the reality. "Holy days or the New Moon Festival or the Sabbath . . . are only a shadow of things in the future; the reality is Christ." (Colossians 2:16-17) Because Jesus offered himself as a sacrifice in our place, whoever approaches the blood of Jesus Christ with pure faith will be saved from eternal punishment and enjoy eternal life with God.
On the day after the feast, people observe the feast of the unleavened bread, which lasts for seven days. Leaven represents sin, and those redeemed by the blood of the son of God should should live righteously for the Lord, with pure thoughts, in purity and faithfulness. Only in this way can we celebrate Christ in purity and joy.
People in old times had to bring a sheaf of the first grain they harvested to the priest and wave it before the Lord. The priest waved the sheaf on the day following the Sabbath. Christ was raised from the dead after the Sabbath at the dawn of Sunday, the first day of the week. He was the first to die and rise to live forever and ever.
As the firstfruits from the dead, he is the head of a new creation. He was raised with a glorified body, and his resurrection guarantees the resurrection of those who belong to him (1 Corinthians 15:20, 23).
One of the beauties of spring in our land is the blossoming of the almond trees, looking like brides in their wedding dresses. Just as Aaron's dry and lifeless staff blossomed with flowers and produced almonds, so too will our dead bones will be clothed with flesh and will come alive by the word of God and the power of his mighty resurrection.
- 11 APRIL -