Nisan 14 – When He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts…

Nisan 14, 5785; from sunset April 11, 2025, to sunset April 12, 2025

(The fourteenth day of the first month)

This is the name “Mosheh” (מֺשֶׁה – Moses) as seen in the Dead Sea Scrolls, written over two thousand years ago.

As a part of His commandment to observe Passover, every year our Father wanted His children to remember the bitterness of slavery, the plagues that He unleashed upon the Egyptians, and the sweet deliverance from the destroyer that was available for all who chose their perfect, unblemished Passover lamb and placed its blood upon their lintel and doorposts. He stressed the importance of passing that story on to our children, from generation to generation to generation. The Bible is full of stories of those who kept this commandment and tell the story year after year. We, too, can add our names to the list of those named in the Bible and the countless unnamed others who, over thousands of years, have remembered the sacrifice of the Passover Lamb.

As has been the case over the past week, today we’ll have multiple posts. We’ll start off with the portions of the books of Moses related to Passover. Then, we’ll continue following Jesus’ fulfillment of the Passover in minute detail. And, finally, we’ll bring in the accounts of others whose Passover stories were recorded in the Bible.

Part of the Passover Seder is to remember the plagues which God inflicted upon the people of Egypt.

1. Nile turned to blood	4. Flies	7. Hail
2. Frogs	5. Death of Livestock	8. Locusts
3. Gnats	6. Boils	9. Darkness

Tomorrow night is the anniversary of the tenth and final plague…the death of the first born…and the night of the Passover. Many first-born Jewish males commemorate today with a fast, followed by the celebration of the Seder meal in the evening.

Keep the Passover

Exodus 12:1-5 contains the commandment to select a lamb for Passover. We pick up with God’s commandments from that point…

Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. – Exodus 12:6-7

“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, and so until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; for if any one eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.”

Then Moses called all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Select lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood which is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. For the LORD will pass through to slay the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to slay you. You shall observe this rite as an ordinance for you and for your sons for ever. And when you come to the land which the LORD will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service. And when your children say to you, `What do you mean by this service?’ you shall say, `It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he slew the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.

Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. – Exodus 12:18-28 (RSV)

Keep the Appointed Time

This day is listed among the Feasts of the LORD as found in Leviticus Chapter 23:

In the fourteenth day of the first month at evening is the Lord’s Passover. – Leviticus 23:5

Keep the Passover in its Season

And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt, saying, Let the people of Israel also keep the Passover at its appointed season. In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening you shall keep it in its appointed season; according to all its rites, and according to all its ceremonies, shall you keep it. And Moses spoke to the people of Israel, that they should keep the Passover. And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at evening in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did the people of Israel. – Numbers 9:1-5

The LORD said to Moses, “Command the people of Israel, and say to them, `My offering, my food for my offerings by fire, my pleasing odor, you shall take heed to offer to me in its due season…’” – Numbers 28:1-2

…And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of the Lord. – Numbers 28:16

Keep it in the Place the LORD Chooses to put His Name

Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night. Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, from the flock and the herd, in the place where the LORD chooses to put His name. – Deuteronomy 6:1-2 (NKJ)

Remove Leaven

In Exodus 12, God gives a specific commandment to remove all leaven from our homes. All leavened items in our dwelling places should be removed today. Most observant homes will have this completed before noon; you should do your best have it done before sunset. Leaven does not just exist in bread items; a complete listing of food-types may be found by conducting a simple internet search.

If you have never participated in a Passover Seder, we hope you’ll consider doing so in the future. If you recognize Jesus as the Messiah, you can keep it in honor of Him and His sacrifice as our Passover Lamb.

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