What a blessed season we have recently completed, as many of us stopped to remember God's undying love and faithfulness in our Passover and Resurrection Sunday celebrations. However, we must never forget that Passover is meant not only to show God's power and rulership on this earth, but also His faithfulness in keeping His promises. He told Abraham, "I will make a great nation of you, and I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing ( Genesis12:2 )." And God multiplied Abraham's children through Isaac, Jacob and the twelve sons of Jacob into a numerous nation in the land Egypt: the nation of Israel. But before all this He showed Abraham the future concerning Israel and the Egyptian captivity, their deliverance and conquest of the land of Canaan (Genesis 15:12-21). He continued to fulfill His promises on that faithful night when Moses and the children of Israel sat and broke bread together as the angel of the Lord Passed Over them and brought judgment to the Egyptians for their sins ( Read Exodus 12:25-27 ). God repaid the Egyptians for their murders of the Hebrew male infants, which was a wicked attempt at genocide against the people. But He shows kindness to the innocent and oppressed by breaking the chains of the oppressor and setting the captives free. We should always remember the goodness, love and mercy of God, which is the essence of the Passover service and this time of worship; for it demonstrates the faithfulness of God.
The love and faithfulness of God did not stop in Egypt, nor upon the conquest of Canaan, but hidden in the blessings of Abraham was an even greater promise. The promise of the Messiah; the hope of all nations. He is the promise child that would be birth from the nation of Israel, in whom all the nations of the earth would be blessed ( Read Genesis 22:18, Galatians 3:8, 13-14 ). Thousands of years after that Passover night the angel of God appeared unto Mary and announced the birth of our Lord Jesus, whom she would carry in her womb and bring forth into the world (Luke 1:28-33). God reminded the people of this promise not only through Abraham but through his prophets also, that they and we may believe when it came to pass (Deuteronomy 18:15-19, Isaiah 7:14, Psalm 14:7, Isaiah 49:5-6 ). And it is this Jesus, who came into the world by divine intervention that has become a light and a path that leads men from the bondage of sin unto the Father of all creation and unto the promise land of the kingdom of God. God sealed this promise by revealing his power and infinite love for humanity (his creation) by raising Jesus back to life forever more on that faithful Sunday morning, when Satan thought he had won after crucifying him on the cross. God also ordained witnesses, the Apostles and disciples of Christ, to tell the world what they had seen and know: that Jesus is not dead;he is alive, sitting on the right hand of the Father till that faithful day when he returns. And, need I go on more about the love of God, for He not only gave us a living savior, but He also gave us His very own Spirit ( the Holy Spirit) to be our guide and comforter throughout the ages till he sends Jesus Christ to gather up His faithful children for to carry them home to Zion.
I pray that this holiday season was not just another event and ceremony for any of you, but that you saw it as an opportunity to continue or to begin again to draw closer to God by reading His word, by believing the Truth, and by the Love of the Brotherhood of the faithful. I pray for the day that God would make us all one in our Lord Jesus Christ, as he has promised.
Shalam,
May the light of Christ forever shine before you and may you have the faith to Abide
Zarach
Matt 26:26-30
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