Christians Don’t Celebrate Passover

Historically, Christians never celebrated Passover as a distinct, separate holiday. Only recently has there been uptick in Christians participating in “Seder meals” and other Jewish practices as they celebrate Passover. What gives?

[lm]

I rarely hear a take from you I completely disagree with but this is one of them. Btw, Christians celebrating Passover do not “go back, ” rather the whole event is Christ centric from liberation in Egypt as a shadow of the ultimate liberation from sin from Christ’s death and resurrection. This take is a strawman of what we are actually doing.

[theeternalsbeliever]

Polycarp observed the Passover with some of the original apostles, and he and Polycrates fought the early Catholics for yrs over the fact that the Passover must be observed while the Catholics demanded professing Christians to observe Easter instead. The Quartodeciman Controversy proves that observing the Passover is NOT a recent fad!

[elinor]

The lack of Biblical understanding from this panel is astounding. They actually tell you that it's wrong to do what God clearly states in Scripture, and they tell you to adopt man made traditions instead. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil. We have to ask, What does God want? How does He want to be loved? It's not about YOU.

[Dpharm]

“‘Now this day shall be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance.”
‭‭Exodus‬ ‭12‬:‭14‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

PERMANENT

[airikdavids]

What also troubles me in discussions like this is the double standard—no one questions whether an Irish person can become a Christian and still celebrate Irish holidays or maintain Irish identity. The same goes for any ethnicity. But when it comes to Jewish believers, it's suddenly unacceptable for them to retain any part of their heritage, as if becoming Christian requires erasing their Jewish identity. That’s not unity—that's cultural erasure. And I’m fairly certain this is exactly the kind of arrogance Paul warned against when he told Gentile believers not to boast against the root.

[socalpreston]

James the brother of Jesus celebrated Passover 25 years after the Cross.

[carriemanns]

Christ is the Passover. The entire Passover and meal is a portrait of Christ.

[airikdavids]

3:00 "thats actually quite offensive." What I find troubling is when someone confidently asserts interpretations as if they were explicitly stated in Scripture—especially when the text itself never actually says such things. It blurs the line between personal opinion and the written Word.

[heatherjaeggli]

It is not "Passover in the Jewish sense"--it is YHWH's Passover. Fear Him and obey His commands.

[JW-tgnn]

It is becoming more and more clear that these fellows do not understand scripture.

[jamesh]

1Co 5:8 Let us therefore CELEBRATE THE FESTIVAL, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

[coycowan]

I agree celebrating the passover in the same way the jews do would be bad but doing a Christian passover is not.

Growing up my family always celebrated sayder with Christian materials which constantly pointed to how Christ fulfilled all of it. It always amazed me to see how it all points to Christ.

[audiethacker]

Jesus: Celebrated Passover.

These guys: It's offensive to Jesus to celebrate Passover.

May I suggest that you should be very careful when you pretend to be more spiritual than Jesus.

And Happy Passover.

[RT-gvus]

I totally agree with this. New Testament Christians celebrate The Lord's Supper which points BACK to the atoning death of Jesus Christ, whereas Old Testament Passover feast pointed back to the deliverance of Israel from Egypt. All of what occurred in the Passover story in Exodus was a type of what was to be fulfilled in Christ. The Passover deliverance in Exodus was the shadow, but Jesus Christ was the substance. As the NT states: Christ is our Passover lamb. When we celebrate the Lord's Supper we affirm that. Paul quoted the words of Jesus in I Corinthians 11 and stated that as often we do this we do show the Lord's death until he comes.

[kostasd]

I guess I'm one of those absolutely ridiculous Christians who thinks a seder meal has meaning. Celebrated my first last year, and it was an incredible and emotional meal that brought me closer to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Highly recommend it. This channel is a joke - a bunch of self righteous Pharisees.

[GR]

Literally the entire Christian church (except English/German speaking) celebrates Passover aka Pascha, and has done so since Christ instituted the Lord's Supper in Passover. We are the only ones that use Easter which comes from an ancient germanic spring deity that was replaced by Passover, although the pagan name was never replaced.

[scottyyoch]

Pastor Joel, here's a challenge then

You say Christians may not keep Passover, because it is a shadow of things to come (namely Christ)

Yet you keep Easter, which is closely associated with firstfruits and celebrates Christ's resurrection. Is this feast also not a shadow of things to come?

Same with Pentecost, or the feast of weeks, where the spirit descends on God's people. Is that also, then, not a shadow of things to come?

How do you handle these things?

[annabelle]

what’s wrong with celebrating Passover knowing He has already come? Knowing what each item in Passover represents? Wouldn’t that make it more special?

[LondonKearns-gpvy]

Wasn't it said to be a memorial forever for God's people? Exodus 12. The early church upheld it as memorial. So, why do communion if the argument had on this video is true?

[andrewvalantine]

I tend to agree with what you are saying in this video. But, is there anything inherently wrong for a Christian to celebrate a Passover Seder, as long as they recognize what Passover points too? Namely Christ. And they are not neglecting to partake in their local church’s administering of the Lord’s Supper, and they don’t believe they are morally or spiritually superior to those that don’t practice a Passover Seder.

Thoughts?