The Lord’s Table Replaces and Continues the Feast of the Passover: Christ is our Passover

The feast of the Passover in the Old Testament is replaced and continued by the Lord’s Table in the New Testament and will be fulfilled in the feast in the kingdom age. Christ is our Passover, and He was crucified for us to be redeemed and have God’s judgement pass over us.

In Leviticus we see that God ordained seven yearly feasts, and the first feast is the feast of the Passover, which is in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month. This was the beginning of the year and we as believers in Christ should have such a new beginning again and again.

We need to daily have a new beginning with the Lord, starting in the morning, and we need to never allow the freshness of this new beginning to fade away.

Our entire Christian life needs to be a feast, and we need to simply come to the Lord to eat Him, enjoy Him, and feast on Him both personally and especially together with all the saints corporately.

Why would we not rejoice and enjoy the Lord, when He has died for us and He paid the price for us to be brought back to God, back to our rightful possession, and thus we are the people of God?

Christ is the reality of the feast of the Passover, for in His perfect redemption through His death judicially and in His complete salvation by His life organically He has carried out the feast of the Passover, and we can just take Him, partake of Him, and enjoy Him with all the saints.

May we stay in the house – as the people of Israel did when they ate the Passover – by remaining in the church life and enjoying the Lord with all the saints, feasting on the Lord together as our Passover.

The feast of the Passover in the Old Testament was fulfilled by the Lord Jesus, and He replaced it with Himself as the feast in the New Testament.

Today at the Lord’s Table we need to remember the Lord by partaking of Him as the bread and wine, the loaf and the cup, and we are thus feasting on the Lord with all the saints.

And we need to realise that this feasting on the Lord at His table is a continuation of the feast of the Passover, and the full fulfilment of this feast will be in the kingdom age, where we feast with the Lord anew.

May we be saved dally from being morose or sad Christians and may we feast on the Lord, our real Passover, so that we may enter into God’s full salvation and be His people even as He is our God.

Christ is our Passover – He was Sacrificed on the Cross, God Passed us Over, and we can enjoy Christ as our Feast

The Passover is in the denotation of a passing over; if we read Exo. 12 we see that the children of Israel had to slaughter the lamb, sprinkle its blood on the door posts, and stay in the house, where they had to eat the lamb with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

When the angel of death would see the blood, he would pass over, and thus God’s judgment would pass over. This signifies that the judging God has passed over us, the sinners who are in our sins, so that we may enjoy Him as our feast.

Today we have this feast, which is the redeeming God Himself, and we are enjoying Christ for rest and for joy. We are so grateful that, no matter what our situation and our condition was, when we apply the blood of Christ, God’s judgment passed over us!

Especially at the Lord’s table we need to have such a sense of gratitude and thanksgiving to the Lord, thanking Him that He has passed over our sins, our transgressions, and all our unworthiness.

Because of the Lord’s sprinkled blood, we are thankful to God for the Passover – Christ is our Passover, and we are no longer subject to God’s judgment! Praise the Lord, we have been set free, and we can enjoy Christ as the Lamb of God in the house, the church life!

In the Passover, Christ is not only the Passover lamb – He is the entire Passover (see 1 Cor. 5:7).

We are enjoying not only His blood shed on the cross for our judicial redemption and His meat given for our organic salvation but also the entire Christ – He is the reality of the lamb, the unleavened bread, and the bitter herbs.

In His perfect redemption through His death judicially and in His complete salvation by His life organically for the carrying out of God’s eternal economy, Christ is the Feast of the Passover (1 Cor. 5:7-8).

For Him to be our Passover, Christ was sacrificed on the cross so that we might be redeemed and reconciled to God. Now based on Christ’s redemption, we may enjoy Christ as a feast before God, and in this feast there’s no leaven (nothing sinful).

Christ is our Passover – He has been crucified, sacrificed, and He has become our feast.

The feast of the Passover is a sign of God’s full redemption in the Old Testament; this full redemption was accomplished by Christ in the New Testament, and through this redemption God brings His chosen people into the full enjoyment of Himself.

Christ is our Passover, and when we enjoy Him as our Passover, eating Him and drinking Him, feasting on Him with all the saints, we are brought into the full enjoyment of Himself.

When we enjoy Christ as our Passover, He is happy, we are satisfied, and God is at peace; the whole atmosphere is full of peace and joy.

Hallelujah, Christ is our Passover! Because of Christ, who was crucified and shed His blood, God’s judgment has passed over us, and we are no longer in fear of God’s judgment! Thank You Lord Jesus for shedding Your blood; we apply Your blood, we confess our sins, and we remain in You and in the church life, enjoying You with all the saints. Hallelujah, because of Christ, our Passover, we can now enter into the full enjoyment of Christ! We are redeemed and reconciled to God, and we can enjoy Christ as a feast with the saints before God!

The Lord’s Table Replaces and Continues the Feast of the Passover, and it Consummates in the Feast in the Kingdom

The Passover is a great thing – it is as great as God’s creation. We enjoy and admire the marvelous and great creation of God, but we also need to realize that the Passover is as great as God’s creation, for God has passed over all our sins, and we are ushered into Christ to enjoy Christ with all that He is and has accomplished!

From Exodus 12 to Luke 22, for over 1500 years, the people of Israel have kept the feast of the Passover. Then the Lord came and, on the eve of His crucifixion, He ate the last Passover feast with His disciples, and He initiated the Lord’s table.

The Lord’s table – which is also a feast – replaces and continues the Feast of the Passover (see Luke 22:7-20). After the Lord and His disciples partook of the feast of the Passover, He established the Lord’s table, which has to be kept in remembrance of Him.

Today in the church life we are attending the New Testament feast – the Lord’s table; we enjoy Christ as our real Passover week by week!

God’s complete plan is to redeem His people and bring them into His jubilee, and the Feast of the Passover is a sign of God’s full redemption.

God’s full redemption is to bring His chosen people into the full enjoyment of Himself; this enjoyment is a matter of the jubilee as seen in the gospel of Luke as the fulfillment, and in Isaiah and Lev. 25 in prophecy.

The jubilee is actually the enjoyment of God through His redemption.

This jubilee was enjoyed in type in the Old Testament as the feast of the Passover, then in the New Testament age we enjoy the Lord’s table, and the fulfillment of this will be in the kingdom age when we will feast with the Lord.

The Lord’s table replaces and continues the Feast of the Passover, but the complete fulfillment of this feast will be in the coming kingdom.

The feast in the kingdom will be the fulfillment of both the Feast of the Passover and the feast of the Lord’s table.

Praise the Lord, Christ is our Passover, and today we can enjoy the continuation of the feast of the Passover by enjoying Christ at the Lord’s table! We should not miss, neglect, or despise the Lord’s table, for here we come to feast with God and with man.

The Lord has to recover our Lord’s Table meeting more, so that we don’t just come together to break the bread and drink the cup, but we would have a sensation of feasting and worshipping God.

We feast with God, we worship God, and we feast with the saints; this is a holy convocation, a time to be in God’s presence, feasting and enjoying Him.

The Lord’s table is not the time to sing our favorite songs but a time to worship God in spirit and in truthfulness together with God’s people. At the end of the Lord’s table we should have the feeling that we are satisfied and God is satisfied.

This feast is a continuation of the feast of the Passover, and we are looking forward to the feast in the kingdom age.

Thank You Lord Jesus for the feast we enjoy at Your table every Lord’s day. Upgrade our enjoyment and appreciation of the feast at the Lord’s table, which is the continuation and replacement of the Feast of the Passover. Amen, Lord Jesus, fill us with gratefulness and appreciation for Your death on the cross for judgment of God to pass over us. May our Lord’s table be full of feasting with the Lord and with all the saints in God’s presence, a holy convocation to God for His satisfaction and joy!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by James Lee for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Luke, msg. 49 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-Study of Leviticus (2), week 8, The Feasts (1) – The Sabbath, the Feast of the Passover, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
• Hymns on this topic:
  # Christ our Redeemer died on the cross, / Died for the sinner, paid all his due; / Sprinkle your soul with the blood of the Lamb, / “And I will pass, will pass over you.” (Hymns #1005)
  # How wonderful redemption is, / My gracious Lord, in Thee! / Not seen, nor heard, nor e’er conceived / What Thou hast done for me! / Thou art divine, mysterious, / Beyond my grandest phrase! / Redemption is so marvellous, / Beyond all pow’r to praise! (Hymns #116)
  # By the death of Thy redemption, / That Thy life Thou may impart, / E’en Thyself to us Thou gavest / That we share in all Thou art. / By the bread and wine partaking, / We Thy death display and prove; / Eating, drinking of Thyself, Lord, / We remember Thee with love. / Lo, the holy table! / With the sacred symbols; / Its significance in figure / Is unsearchable! (Hymns #221)