What is the responsibility of the Christian when it comes to the Mosaic Law?
Is it something we should follow or not?
I pose these questions because of some Facebook posts that I’ve seen lately about following Torah or even celebrating Passover instead of Easter.
While I am not a big fan of the word Easter, I don’t feel there is a need to celebrate Passover.
Passover is a reminder of the sacrifice of a lamb and the blood placed on the door posts.
When I see the blood, I will pass over you. This plague of death will not touch you when I strike the land of Egypt. Ex 12:13
There are plenty of restrictions on keeping Passover.
The first deals with the celebration itself; “Remember, these instructions are a permanent law that you and your descendants must observe forever. When you enter the land the Lord has promised to give you, you will continue to observe this ceremony. Then your children will ask, ‘What does this ceremony mean?’ And you will reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. And though he struck the Egyptians, he spared our families.'” Ex 12:24-27
Some other things about Passover to observe; but no uncircumcised male may ever eat the Passover meal. Ex 12:48
Now there were certain men who were defiled by a human corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day. Num 9:6
In honor of the Lord your God, celebrate the Passover each year in the early spring, in the month of Abib, for that was the month in which the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night. Your Passover sacrifice may be from either the flock or the herd, and it must be sacrificed to the Lord your God at the designated place of worship—the place he chooses for his name to be honored. Eat it with bread made without yeast. For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast, as when you escaped from Egypt in such a hurry. Eat this bread—the bread of suffering—so that as long as you live you will remember the day you departed from Egypt. Let no yeast be found in any house throughout your land for those seven days. And when you sacrifice the Passover lamb on the evening of the first day, do not let any of the meat remain until the next morning.
“You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of the towns that the Lord your God is giving you. You must offer it only at the designated place of worship—the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to be honored. Sacrifice it there in the evening as the sun goes down on the anniversary of your exodus from Egypt. Roast the lamb and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses. Then you may go back to your tents the next morning. For the next six days you may not eat any bread made with yeast. On the seventh day proclaim another holy day in honor of the Lord your God, and no work may be done on that day. Deut 16:1-8
If you are going to keep Passover then you must observe it according to Torah.
However that is not going to be possible. Even the orthodox Hebrew’s cannot celebrate properly because there is no designated place to sacrifice the Passover lamb; there is no Temple.
Do I think that it is a violation for a Christian to keep or not keep Passover?
No. But I don’t believe a Christian can fulfill what God has intended for Passover either! How can we fulfill what Jesus has already done for us.
As for me and my house, we will celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, the Lamb of God.
I do this according to God’s word, which says Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us. 1 Cor 5:7
My Passover is in Jesus!