Passover: What is it? Why do we still do it?

For me Passover is a time of reflection, The Scriptures tell us in

1 Corinthians 11:17-31 how to approach Passover.

We are reminded to examine ourselves in vs. 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.

It's an inventory check, a time to check for areas of leaven and unforgiveness in our hearts and allow the Ruach (Holy Spirit) to come and give us a full examination and check-up.

Psa 139:23 Search me, O Ěl, and know my heart; Try me, and know my thoughts;

Psa 139:24 And see if an idolatrous way is in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.

It's a time where we break up the areas that have become hardened in our hearts, lest we have our heart harden like Pharaoh.

Hos 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap according to kindness, break up your tillable ground, it is time to seek יהוה, till He comes and rains1 righteousness on you.

Break up the fallow (tillable) ground, it is time to seek Yahuah.

1Co 11:23 For I received from the Master that which I also delivered to you: that the Master יהושע in the night in which He was delivered up took bread,

1Co 11:24 and having given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat, this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

1Co 11:25 In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the renewed covenant in My blood. As often as you drink it, do this in remembrance of Me.”

1Co 11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the death of the Master until He comes.

1Co 11:27 So that whoever should eat this bread or drink this cup of the Master unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Master.

1Co 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.

Mat 26:26 And as they were eating, יהושע took bread, and having blessed, broke and gave it to the taught ones and said, “Take, eat, this is My body.”

Mat 26:27 And taking the cup, and giving thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you.

Mat 26:28 “For this is My blood, that of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Mat 26:29 “But I say to you, I shall certainly not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on till that day when I drink it anew with you in the reign of My Father.”

Exo 12:13 ‘And the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I shall pass over you, and let the plague not come on you to destroy you when I smite the land of Mitsrayim.

Exo 12:14 ‘And this day shall become to you a remembrance. And you shall observe it as a festival to יהוה throughout your generations – observe it as a festival, an everlasting law.

Exo 12:15 ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. Indeed on the first day you cause leaven to cease from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that being shall be cut off from Yisra’ĕl.

Exo 12:16 ‘And on the first day is a set-apart gathering, and on the seventh day you have a set-apart gathering. No work at all is done on them, only that which is eaten by every being, that alone is prepared by you.

Exo 12:17 ‘And you shall guard the Festival of Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I brought your divisions out of the land of Mitsrayim. And you shall guard this day throughout your generations, an everlasting law.

Exo 12:18 ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.