PerryDox – BeJustAChristian

Imagine an event so monumental, that it redefines time. The power performing the event transcends human experience causing even time itself to be rearranged. That, my friend, is the power of “The Exodus.” More accurately, that is the power of the Power leading “The Exodus.”

How did the expulsion of the Israelites from Egypt altar time? God instructed the Israelites,

Exodus 12:2 HCSB  “This month is to be the beginning of months for you; it is the first month of your year.

What was the seventh month now became the first month. Time became redefined. A new calendar came into existence. The Passover marked the changing of time. The reason is that never before had something like “The Exodus” occurred.

Deuteronomy 4:32-35 HCSB  (32) “Indeed, ask about the earlier days that preceded you, from the day God created man on the earth and from one end of the heavens to the other: Has anything like this great event ever happened, or has anything like it been heard of? (33) Has a people ever heard God’s voice speaking from the fire as you have, and lived? (34) Or has a god ever attempted to go and take a nation as his own out of another nation, by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? (35) You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

God extricating the Israelites indicated not only a change in time, but also a measurement for all of Israel’s events evidence by God’s power (Micah 7.17).

Micah 7:15 HCSB  I will show them wondrous deeds as in the days of your exodus from the land of Egypt.

J Sidlow Baxter said,

“Supremely, the Exodus was an expression of the Divine power. It was as such that it made its outstanding impact on the Hebrew mind. It became for ever (sic.) afterwards, to Israel, the standard of God’s power to deliver His people. Scores of times it is thus referred to in the Old Testament, Micah 7.15 being representative….” Note the “as in the days of exodus” “indicating the unit of measurement.” (J. Sidlow Baxter, Explore the Book, Exodus (1), p.80)

And by redefining time, the Passover became a time honoring event and a time honored event still celebrated today.

• The Passover was a time of family worship (Ex.12.3)
• The Passover was a time of “otherness” (Ex.12.11)
• The Passover was a time of victorious judgment (Ex.12.12)
• The Passover was a time of grace (Ex.12.13)
• The Passover was a time of memorial (Ex.12.14)
• The Passover was a time of celebration (Ex.12.14)
• The Passover was a time of separation (Ex.12.15)
• The Passover was a time of rest (Ex.12.16)
• The Passover was a time of thankfulness (Ex.12.17)
• The Passover was a time of permanent observance (Ex.12.17,24)
• The Passover was a time of teaching (Ex.12.26)
• The Passover was a time of worship (Ex.12.28)

Jesus Christ, the Passover Lamb of God came and again redefined time. The first day of the week became the day of new creation, recreating again a new heaven and a new earth, recreating “the light of the world.” “In the beginning God created” became “In the beginning was the Word.” In Genesis 1, “God said.” In Christ God said through The Word.

Jesus Christ, our Passover redefines time for us. It is a time of restoration (Acts 3). It is a time of regeneration (Titus 5). It is a time a repentance for a new beginning (Acts 2). Every Sunday time as redefined is changed for and by Jesus. In his supper we worship as a family, part of a departing and coming world, victorious with Christ, experiencing grace, in memory of Jesus, celebrating spiritual freedom, separated from the world, resting from our sins and works, thankful to God, continually observing in the Kingdom, teaching through the emblems, and worshipping God.

Imagining an event so monumental that it changes time itself is not imaginary. It is reality. It is our reality.

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