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The Passover is in the denotation of a passing over (Exo. 12):
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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.
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Today we have this feast, which is the redeeming God Himself, and we are enjoying Him for rest and for joy.
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In the Passover, Christ is not only the Passover lamb but also the entire Passover (1 Cor. 5:7b):
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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 (vv. 7-8).
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To be our Passover, He was sacrificed on the cross that we might be redeemed and reconciled to God.
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Based upon Christ's redemption, we may enjoy Him as a feast before God:
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In this feast no leaven is allowed to be present (v. 7a).
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Sin and the redeeming Christ cannot go together.
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The Feast of the Passover is a sign of God's full redemption, and this full redemption is the bringing of God's chosen people into the full enjoyment of Himself.
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The Lord's table, which also is a feast, replaces and continues the Feast of the Passover (Luke 22:7-20):
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Today in the church life we are attending the New Testament feast, but this feast will not be fulfilled completely until the feast in the coming kingdom (vv. 16, 18).
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The Feast of the Passover is one feast in three stages: the Feast of the Passover, the feast at the Lord's table, and the feast in the kingdom.
Morning Nourishment
1 Cor. 5:7-8 Purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened; for our Passover, Christ, also has been sacrificed. So then let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.The Passover is in the denotation of a passing 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 a feast, which is the redeeming God Himself, and we are enjoying Him for rest and for joy. (Life-study of Leviticus, p. 468)
Today's Reading
As our Passover, Christ is the reality of the lamb, the unleavened bread, and the bitter herbs. Christ as the Feast of the Passover has saved us from God's death-judgment. We have been saved from God's judgment by enjoying Christ as such a feast.The passover portrayed in Exodus 12 is an all-inclusive type of Christ as our redemption to begin our experience of God's salvation. The entire Passover is a type of Christ (1 Cor. 5:7). Christ is not only the Passover lamb (John 1:29) but also every aspect of the Passover. In order to be our Passover, He was sacrificed on the cross that we might be redeemed and reconciled to God. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3142-3143)
To say [in 1 Corinthians 5:7] that Christ is our Passover indicates that the apostle considers the believers God's chosen people, who have had their Passover, as typified by the one in Exodus 12. In this Passover Christ is not only the Lamb, but also the entire Passover....Thus, we may enjoy Him as a feast before God. In this feast no leaven is allowed to be present. Sin and the redeeming Christ cannot go together. (Life-study of 1 Corinthians, p. 322)
In Luke 22:16 the Lord said, "For I tell you that I shall by no means eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." The pronoun "it" refers to the Passover in verse 15, which will be fully fulfilled in the coming kingdom of God, when the Savior will feast with the overcoming saints (v. 30; 13:28-29).
God has a complete plan to redeem His people into His jubilee. The Feast of the Passover is a sign of God's full redemption, and this full redemption is the bringing of God's chosen people into the full enjoyment of Himself. This enjoyment is a matter of the jubilee covered in the Gospel of Luke as the fulfillment of the prophecy in Isaiah and the type in Leviticus 25. The jubilee is actually the enjoyment of God through His redemption. The feast signifying the jubilee was first the Feast of the Passover in the Old Testament and then the Lord's table in the New Testament.
The Feast of the Passover was not completely fulfilled in the Old Testament. The Lord's table, which also is a feast, replaces and continues the Feast of the Passover. But not even this New Testament feast has been completely fulfilled; it will be fulfilled completely in the coming kingdom.
If we read the Bible carefully, we shall see that a feast is spoken of both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. This feast began in Exodus 12, and it continued for more than fifteen centuries until the night in which the Lord Jesus replaced it with His table. Today in the church life God's people are attending this New Testament feast. However, this feast will not be fulfilled completely until the feast in the coming kingdom. This means that the feast in the kingdom will be the fulfillment of both the Feast of the Passover and the feast of the Lord's table.
Seemingly there are three feasts: the Feast of the Passover, the feast of the Lord's table, and the feast in the kingdom. Actually, these are not three feasts. On the contrary, this is one feast in three stages. God has established one feast through His redemption for our full enjoyment of the jubilee in three stages, and these stages are the Old Testament stage, the New Testament stage, and the kingdom stage. (Life-study of Luke, pp. 424-425)
Further Reading: Life-study of Luke, msg. 49