World Mission Society Church of God- In this age, only God the Father Christ Ahnsahnghong and God the Mother (Heavenly Mother) can give us salvation.
Today there is increasing tension in the whole world because of the news about disasters that are occurring in all parts of the earth. Continuous disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, abnormal weather phenomena, in addition to wars and conflicts?the Bible already warned of these disasters thousands of years ago. It is not too much to say that those disasters are pouring out all at once in this age?the age of the Holy Spirit which we are now living in.
The reason why God has restored the Passover in this age is to protect His people from disasters. At the time of the Exodus 3,500 years ago, God let the Israelites know about the Passover above all things. It was because a terrible disaster would come upon all the land of Egypt. Whenever a disaster was going to occur, God prepared in advance for His people to celebrate the Passover so that they would receive the sign of being God''s people and escape the disaster.
The Passover contains the promise of salvation
This happened when Joshua sent two spies to Jericho before he conquered it. The two spies were pursued by the soldiers and they entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab who feared God. She hid them even at the risk of her life. When the spies were about to return safely to Joshua, they made a promise to Rahab; they promised that if Rahab brought her family and relatives into her house and tied a scarlet cord in the window, the Israelite army would not destroy anyone in her house when they attacked the city of Jericho. Afterwards, when the city of Jericho was conquered, all the people who had fled into the house of Rahab were able to preserve their lives (Jos 2:1-21; 6:20-25).
Just as the scarlet cord became a sign to save Rahab and her family, the Passover is a sign of God''s promise to protect His people from disasters.
Heb 11:28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.
Those who do not keep God''s commands insist that the Passover is merely a ceremony and rite, and that it has nothing to do with faith, quoting a verse from the Bible:
"The righteous will live by faith" (Ro 1:17). However, by faith God kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood. The Passover is not just a ritual ceremony, but it is a ceremony established by faith and a feast of God which only those who have faith can keep.
Let''s take a look at the scene when God established the Passover in Exodus, and find out what promise the Passover contains.
Ex 12:5-14 "The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. . . . This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD''s Passover. On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn?both men and animals?and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt. This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD?a lasting ordinance."
It is God who established the Passover and told His people to celebrate it. So, the people of Israel who feared God and had faith in Him obeyed His word and kept the Passover. As a result, they were saved from the plagues and became emancipated from Egypt, the land of slavery. However, the Egyptians who had no faith and did not celebrate the Passover failed to escape the plague and lost all their firstborn; there was not a single house where someone had not died (Ex 12:29-51).
this year i kept the Passover and got the promise. so i give thanks to God.
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