Our Passover Seder

In the Bible God tells us about a time when the Israelites were slaves in Egypt.

I would hate to be a slave, how about you? Would you hate to be a slave?

Our very smart God had a plan.

God told Pharaoh to let His people, the Israelites, go so that they could worship Him but  Pharaoh WOULD NOT let God's people go to worship.

God sent one last plague on Egypt .. the death of the first born child.

Wow.

That would be very horrible.

On the night of the last plague, God told the Israelites to cover their door posts with the blood of the lamb.

When the angel of death came through the town to deliver the last plague, the plague of death, the angel passed over the houses that were covered with the blood of the lamb.

The people were saved. No Israelite children died that night because their home was covered by the blood of the lamb.

As the angel of death traveled through the town sadly, many, many Egyptian children died because their homes were not covered by the blood of the lamb.

But for the people of God, the angel of death passed over their homes and that is where we get the word Passover from.

We celebrate Passover today so we can remember that it is the blood of the lamb 

that saves us too.

Jesus is our sacrifice lamb, His blood which was given for us tells the angel of death to Passover our souls and that we are to live with Jesus.

That is our good news. We get to have eternal life because Jesus saves us.

Here are some pictures from our Passover Seder dinner. 

We had this dinner to remember what the Bible tells us.

Mary explains ..

Uncle Benj and Papa studied the Passover script to learn what they were to say.

 It had interesting words in it like .. God

         אֱלֹהִ֑ים   

Elisa made our dinner table very pretty for our special dinner. 

Even the candles were pretty. 

...And GOD said, Let there be light: and there was light". (Genesis 1:3

This is Ben, he is making our matzo bread.

 

Matzo bread, ready for the Passover dinner

In Exodus 12:20, we read, "...Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread"

The grass fed lamb that was for our Passover meal. 

Ben is fixing the Sader plate. He was garnishing it with parsley and then he put the horseradish,  lamb bone, the charoset, the egg and the matzo bread. 

The toothpick is the lamb bone cause I had bought boneless lamb.

Here I am putting the potatoes in the china bowl. 

There weren't any more pictures during the dinner because we wanted to concentrate on God's Word. But afterward when we were done .. here is what is left of the sweet muscadine grape wine

Our LORD Y'shua (Jesus) in Luke 22:17, "...took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves;".

It was a very special evening. Papa did a GREAT job leading us. 

I was interested in the Seder dinner because Jews have been having this very same 

dinner for 100's of years.

When Jesus was alive here on Earth, He and His family had a Passover dinner too. 

Blessed art Thou, O Eternal, our GOD, King of the universe, have compassion on Israel Thy People, upon Jerusalem Thy City, on Zion Thy Holy Place.

"Even so, come LORD Y'shua (Jesus)".