Title: Passover, Easter, and the God Who Is ✝️🌅🍷
By Eric Lawrence Frazier, MBA
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Like millions of Christians around the world, we’ll be going to church on Easter Sunday. ⛪ The pews will be packed, the music will rise 🎶, and the sermon will likely speak of the empty tomb and the risen Savior. ✝️ After church, there’ll be dinner—roast, macaroni and cheese, sweet potato pie 🥘—and somewhere out back, the kids will be hunting for Easter eggs with jelly beans and chocolate bunnies in pastel baskets. 🍬🐰
My wife, Ruby, is already searching for her Easter Sunday outfit. 👗 The girls and grandkids will be decked out in color—peach, lavender, mint green, white shoes and bows to match. 🎀 Me? I’ll be in jeans and a shirt. 👖👕 I’m past all the pageantry. But I’ll enjoy the time with family. I always do. 👨👩👧👦 And in the midst of it all, I’ll take the opportunity to share with them what matters most—not the eggs, not the outfits, not even the Sunday service itself. 🕊️
What matters is our relationship with Christ. ✝️ Not just what we do for Him on special days—but who He is to us every day. 💖
And that brings me to Passover. 🌅
What Is Passover? 🍷🕯️
Many people, including some in my own family, don’t understand what Easter or Passover means—not theologically, not historically, and not personally. ❓ And you know what? I’m okay with that. Because understanding doesn’t begin with religion. It begins with faith. 🙏 Not faith in a thing, but in someone. 💫
That said, let me explain what Passover is. It’s one of the oldest traditions in Judaism, dating back to the time of Moses. 📜 It commemorates the night God instructed the Israelites to mark their doors with lamb’s blood so the angel of death would “pass over” their homes. 🐑🚪 It was a moment of divine separation—judgment for some, salvation for others. ⚖️ It marked their exodus from slavery in Egypt, their birth as a nation, and the beginning of their journey toward the Promised Land. 🌍🏞️
For observant Jews, Passover is a time of remembering, storytelling, and sacred meals—the Seder. 🕯️🍽️ For Messianic Jews and Christians, Passover carries a deeper layer: it points to Jesus, the Lamb of God, whose blood was shed not on a doorpost, but on a cross. ✝️ So that death would pass over us, too. 💉➡️💫
Why Is It Important to Messianic Jews and Christians? ✡️✝️
For Messianic Jews—those who believe Jesus (Yeshua) is the promised Messiah—Passover is both a celebration of physical deliverance and a proclamation of spiritual redemption. 🔔 They see Christ in the unleavened bread, the bitter herbs, the wine, and the lamb. 🍞🍷 The Exodus wasn’t just history—it was prophecy. 📖 A shadow of what was to come. 🌒➡️🌞
For Christians, Passover is the foundation of Easter. The Last Supper was a Passover meal. 🥖🍷 Jesus didn’t abolish the feast—He fulfilled it. ✅ “This is my body… this is my blood,” He said. He became the ultimate sacrifice—the perfect lamb. 🕊️💝
And yet, as I’ve grown in my walk with God, I’ve realized something: 🌱
Traditions Are Beautiful—but Not Foundational 🌸🕊️
To me, Passover is a time of remembrance. 🕯️ So is Easter. So is Christmas. 🎄 These are opportunities to reflect on the faithfulness of God and the sacrifices made on our behalf. ✨ But my salvation isn’t dependent on ceremonies. 🚫🎭 My relationship with God isn’t tied to calendars. 📅 If it were, I’d only feel close to Him a few times a year. 📉
The truth is, our faith can’t be sustained by tradition. 🧱 Our worship, our prayers, our sacrifices—no matter how sincere—aren’t what save us. 🙅♂️ The Bible says our righteousness is like filthy rags. 🧻 We can’t buy our way into grace with tithes, or earn it with Sunday attendance. 💰🏃 God already made the ultimate sacrifice: He took on flesh, revealed Himself to the world in Jesus Christ, and laid down His life to give us eternal life with Him. 🕊️✨
That’s not just history. That’s reality. 🔥
We Are Not Plugged In—We Are Designed 🧬💡
You don’t need Passover to know God is real. You just need to look in the mirror. 🪞
We are not machines needing a spiritual power cord. ⚡ We’ve been divinely designed with gifts and abilities that are otherworldly. Think about the human brain—billions of neurons firing in harmony. The nervous system—faster than fiber optics. The heart beats over 100,000 times a day. ❤️🕰️ The lungs transform invisible air into energy. 🌬️🔥 Our skin—regenerating itself constantly. And yet, we’re mostly water and air. That’s not a glitch. That’s glory. ✨
Even in our sleep, the body works miracles: healing cells, strengthening memory, restoring organs. 🌙🛌 All without conscious effort. That didn’t evolve by accident. That didn’t emerge from chaos. That came from the Creator. 🛠️ The Alpha and the Omega. Elohim. 🔠💫
The Universe Tells the Same Story 🌌🌍
Step outside and listen. The stars don’t need batteries. The sun doesn’t require a power grid. ☀️ The Earth spins perfectly, creating night and day. 🌞🌚 Rain falls, crops grow, birds migrate, oceans rise and fall—all in order. 🌧️🌾🕊️🌊 All in balance. ⚖️
The laws of physics are so precise that if gravity shifted by a fraction, life would end. 🎯⚠️ Yet we live. Not because of randomness, but because of reason. Divine reason. 🔍🕊️
You don’t need a ritual to know that God is real. The evidence is everywhere. 👁️🌿📖
So Why Do We Still Celebrate? 🎉🥂
I still observe Easter. 🕊️ I still reflect on Passover. 🍷 But not out of obligation—out of appreciation. 🙏 These aren’t my access points to God; they’re reminders of what I already know: that I’m His, and He is mine. 💞
I’m not saved by Passover or the resurrection ceremony. I’m saved by the resurrected Christ. ✝️🔥
I’m not kept by tradition. I’m kept by grace. 🎁
And so I’ll sit at Easter dinner in my jeans. 👖 I’ll watch my grandkids run through the grass in search of colored eggs. 🐣🥚 But I’ll also remind them—gently, lovingly—that there’s more. 💬❤️ There’s a God who made them, who loves them, who walked this earth, died for them, and lives for them still. 🕊️💞
That’s what I believe. That’s what I’ll share. Because this is the story that never grows old—even if the traditions do. 📖✨
Happy Passover. 🌅 Happy Resurrection. ✝️
More than anything, may you know the God who is. Not just in tradition. Not just in the ceremony. But in every breath you take. 🕊️💖
