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This Saturday evening marks Passover… which is the 14th day of the Biblical New Year. I’ve said before that this is by far my most favorite Holy Day, but this year I feel is particularly significant. For those who may wish to observe Passover this year, but find themselves lacking in resources – I posted a Messianic Haggadah last year that walks you through the process of retelling the story and thanking God for His providence.
This year, I feel the question rising among the body; “Does God still listen? Does He hear the cry of His people? Can God still split the sea and walk His people through on dry ground?”
The answer to these questions, regardless of what they might individually be, is an emphatic YES! He’s God. He can and will do whatever He pleases, and I am ever faithful that He is still about to move. When He does, His prophets – those who have truly spoken the declarations of the King – will be vindicated.
It has occurred to me recently that immediately prior to the final plague… or judgement on Pharaoh and all of Egypt, prior to the death of the first-born, was the plague of darkness. This darkness was thick, pervasive and throughout all the land except in Goshen, where God’s people dwelled. It was a foreshadowing of things to come and, within a short span, the redemption of Israel by the hand of the Almighty himself would be made manifest.
Personally, I see a corollary. Currently, I see my own land as being covered under a thick blanket of darkness, symbolically speaking. It is a darkness that seems intent upon spreading itself and its influence even farther and wider… but I also sense that the Lord is about to do something. Though I don’t know what, I do know that he has heard the cry of His people, and ever true to His character, He will respond.
I pray this season finds you looking forward with hope, trusting that the ever faithful God of the Universe is at work today, just as He was then… the truth is that He always has been. It is, after all, known as the “Feast of Freedom”!
In any event, I want to be among the first to wish you “Chag Pesach Semeach” – Joyous Passover Festival! Let us enter into this wonderful season with a heart of gratitude for the sacrifice and the provision He’s so generously offered to us to be reconciled and counted among His children!
שלום עליכם – Shalom Aleichem – Peace Be Upon You
שלום עליכם – Shalom Aleichem – Peace Be Upon You