"This will be a memorial day for you; you will celebrate it as a festival to God down through the generations, a fixed festival celebration to be observed always. You will eat unraised bread (matzoth) for seven days: On the first day get rid of all yeast from your houses—anyone who eats anything with yeast from the first day to the seventh day will be cut off from Israel."
God is so hard core sometimes.
Right up until Jesus celebrated the Last Supper with the disciples in the upper room, for a thousand years, Jews observed the Passover. They still do. We as Christians celebrate the Passover every Sunday in communion.
What does communion do for us? We are forgiven of our sins. We can taste it! We are also "re-membered" as the body of Christ in this place, so that we can have the strength and unity we need to go in peace and serve the Lord out in the world.
Having faith as an Israelite must have been a lot easier than being a Lutheran. God told Moses, Moses said, "Thus says the Lord," and either the people did it or they were punished...or were even struck dead like the Egyptians.
I have been "Moses" at Faith for 5 days short of a year. While I hear from the Lord in prayer and Bible study, the system is very different here. People can choose to follow God or not. For the most part, each of us individually dtermines what that even looks like for ourselves personally. It's much more complicated.
That why we need to continue to have face-to-face discussions around how/where God is leading us. We won't ever all agree, but hopefully kneeling around the altar and accepting the sacrifice offered for us there will bring us closer to God's will and to each other, as sisters and brothers in Christ.
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