“This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.
This day is to be remembered annually as a monument of their deliverance and a sign of what was to come. When we say it is perpetual, we mean perpetual until Christ's coming; the ceremonial Law was not destroyed by Him but fulfilled and made solid in Him. The exception about preparing food on the feast day shows they must not let other business violate their sacred observance.
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Beginning the year with spring, when the earth renews itself, was a fitting shadow of Christ's coming. Yet here is the deeper lesson: when our heads swim with care and our hands are full of urgent business, we must not let religion slip away or excuse ourselves from devotion. The sacred rite binds us to God even in our haste.
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Commenting on Exodus 12:1-20
This day deserves remembrance above all for Israel's deliverance from Egypt, but far more for the Messiah's redemption accomplished on that very date. The Passover feast holds firm throughout the generations until the true Passover Himself comes and is sacrificed for us.
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