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SEVEN BLESSINGS

OF THE PASSOVER

Refuge Productions, Inc.
340 W 45th Street
Munster, Indiana 46321

2008 Refuge Productions, Inc.

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any otherexcept for brief quotations in printed reviews, without prior permission of the publisher.

All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the King James Version.

Scripture quotations marked (NKJV) are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked (NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked (GW) are taken from Gods Word, a copyrighted work of Gods Word to the Nations. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by Gods Word to the Nations. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-48356-378-7

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

Introduction

WHAT IS PASSOVER?

Where did it come from?

Why is it important to Christians?

More to the point, what does an ancient Hebrew feast called Passover have to do with Christian believers nearly thirty-five hundred years after the feast began?

Here is a brief history, leading to the reason why I feel God told me to write a book with the specific title Seven Blessings of Passover:

The events that led to the Passover were probably the most dramatic in all the Old Testament. The children of Israel were living in slavery in Egypt. Pharaoh was a severe taskmaster, and the Israelites seemed to have no hope of getting out. It was during that time that God spoke to Moses from a burning bush in the desert. Dry and without sap, the bush should have burned up quickly, but that didnt happen. Moses turned to observe this remarkable sight, and out of the bush God spoke to him: And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed (Exodus 3:2).

God designed seven feasts for the Israelites (Leviticus 23). These feasts were Gods own holy days, and there were specific instructions given for their observance. The Hebrew word translated feasts means appointed times. God Himself orchestrated the sequence and time of each of these feasts.

Three times a year the Israelites were to appear together before the Lord. The word of God strictly instructed them that they must not appear before Him without an offering. Deuteronomy 16:16 states, And they shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed (NKJV).

The first feast of the Lord is Passover. It is the foundational feast. While the Jewish people have celebrated the Passover annually since the time of Moses, in reality, there was only one Passover. It occurred sometime around 1446 BC in Egypt. It was at that time of the Exodus that a lamb was sacrificed and the blood was applied to each door post and gate. When this was done in faith and obedience to Gods command, that home was passed over, and the life of the firstborn was spared. All succeeding observances over the centuries have been memorials of that one and only first Passover.

God is a covenant-keeping God. What His mouth speaks, His right arm of power causes to be performed. Thus, the Israelites, as unattractive and undesirable as they may have appeared at that time, were still His people. He saw their plight, He observed their many afflictions, and He decided it was time for them to leave after more than four hundred years in Egypt.

It would be almost impossible to overstate the exodus from Egypt. Even Hollywood, with all its hype and special effects, did not exaggerate the reality of this miraculous event. God had hardened Pharaohs heart so he wouldnt let the children of Israel leave his country. Plague after plague came upon the Egyptians without his giving in and letting them go. Finally, Moses announced that the firstborn of each home in Egypt would be taken by the death angel where there was no blood on the doorpost. At this terrible event, Pharaoh decided the children of Israel could leave. All those slaves with their possessions walked past the Pyramids and the Great Sphinx to freedom.

God established the Passover as a feast to be kept forever: It is the LORDs Passoverso this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance (Exodus 12:11, 14, NKJV). This feast was established for the Israelites in the time of their flight from Egypt, but it also was consecrated as an appointed holy time each year throughout both the Old and the New Testaments. I will explain more about this in chapter 2.

In AD 325, the Roman emperor Constantine stopped the Passover as a church practice. Since that time, the holy convocations (the feasts) have not been observed by Christians.

Lost through the centuries since AD 325 is the fact that God promised seven major blessings to those who observe His feasts. Specifically, those obedient in the Passover Feast were promised seven blessings-seven specific, supernatural blessings.

However, for nearly seventeen centuries, these powerful truths have been mostly ignored and even rejected by Christians. That must change! The time for change is now. There is too much at stake.

For years God has been stirring me to write this book, to tell people how their lives would change dramatically when they restored the Passover offering. Increasingly, I have been reminded that God sets schedules and time boundaries, especially for His feasts and blessings. He is poised to pour out these blessings upon your life. As you read this book you will learn how to unleash these Passover blessings in your life today.

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