“You are my God, and I will praise you; you are my God, and I will exalt you.
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.”
Psalm 118:28-29

Passover is one of the three religious feasts that the Jews were instructed to observe. The occasion remembers God rescuing His people from Egyptian slavery with the tenth and final plague sent by God through Moses to provoke Pharoah. Recorded in Exodus 12:29-30 – “Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well. There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt—worse than there has ever been or ever will be again.” This dire prophecy was fulfilled, “for there was not a house without someone dead.”
But in His mercy for the Israelites, God saved the Jews when they were instructed to “put some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs” (12:7). In so doing, the angel of death “passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians” (12:27). So, for generations thereafter, the Israelites were told to commemorate this event through the Festival of Unleavened Bread (aka Passover), when they are to choose an unblemished year-old sheep or goat for sacrifice. They are also to eat unleavened breads with their sandals on because the Israelites had no time to wait for the dough to rise while getting away from Egypt.
Though God elected to save the Israelites on that day, their sin did not make them any less worthy of death than the Egyptians’ sons. But because of a spotless lamb who died in their place and the sacrificial blood covering their door, the Jews were spared. Praised the Lord! Five days from now two thousand years ago, God provided the perfect lamb, His Son Jesus, who would die on the cross. His blood is the sacrifice that covers our sins and spares us from death.
For generations, the Jews have celebrated Passover. At the end of Passover, they would sing Psalms 113-118. It would end with a declaration of God being their God, whose love endures forever. Today is Palm Sunday. It starts the week that leads to the passion of Jesus Christ, His suffering, death, and resurrection. We have even greater reasons to remember this week. Let us join the billions of Christians around the world in remembering the true meaning of Passover that is fulfilled on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Paise the Lord, for His love endures forever!