Our Seder (Passover)

Last night at 8:20 PM, Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread began.

We, as a family, started celebrating the Feasts about four years ago, and the Seder (Passover supper) is definitely my favorite of all.  It's even better than the mandatory rest days which are the first and eighth days of Unleavened Bread!  The symbolism in the Seder meal so beautifully and poignantly points to Christ, it's just awesome how God worked it all in!

We do not have lamb at our Seder, the spot is there for it on the plate, but there is no lamb.  In fact there is no meat in our meal at all.  Jesus was our lamb - once for all.  Never again will we need to sacrifice a lamb for Passover.  Instead of a lamb's blood on our door frame, we have different names of Jesus in red on a white banner with "Lamb of God" in big letters across the top.

I have never experienced such a beautiful, awesome communion as at the Seder.  You understand so completely what Jesus was doing with the bread and the wine when you partake at the same meal through which He instituted it.  Did you know that there are four cups of wine passed during the meal?  The cup of Sanctification, the cup of Judgement, the cup of Redemption, and the cup of Blessing.  The last cup, which Jesus passed, the "new testament in My blood", was the cup of Blessing.  WOW!  What an loving God we serve!

We light candelabra all over the house to remind us that Jesus is the light of the world.  Or, more specifically, to quote from the Haggadah:

Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu Melech ha-olam ashernatanlanuetmitzvotav v'kidshanu b'Yeishua Mishicheinu or ha-olam.  Anachnu madlikot neirot shel Pesach l'zecher g'ulateinu miavdut.

Blessed are you O LORD our God, King of the universe, Who gave us His commandments and sanctified us by Yeshua our Messiah, the light of the world.  We kindle the lights of Passover for a remembrance of our redemption from bondage. 

It's a wonderful time to spend with family and friends remembering the awesome sacrifice that Yeshua paid for us on the cross.  And it's pretty cool when it lines up with Good Friday. 

Next year in Jerusalem!

One of the candelabra we lit burned the candles down into beautiful lace frames. 

You can see a little better here how the wax burned away in chunks leaving lacey vines behind.

In His grace,

Laurel