Second Passover remains one of just a few Hebrew appointed feasts which has not been fulfilled.  Many Christians today, however, fail to even understand the significance of First Passover since it has been obscured in the New Testament by the non-Biblical word “Easter.”  Jesus fulfilled the types of Passover by becoming the atonement for sin at his crucifixion, that day which fulfilled First Passover.  The other holy days not yet fulfilled include the fall feast days of Trumpets, Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles.  The types and shadows of Scripture teach that the fulfillment of these feasts will bring to us our new tabernacles, our glorified, eternal bodies.  But, what does Second Passover symbolize, and which comes first in fulfillment, the fall feasts or Second Passover?

As we study the New Testament and the types God established in Scripture, we further understand that Jesus did not actually eat the Biblical Passover dinner with his disciples.  He could not have, for he himself fulfilled Passover at the exact time on the 14th day of the first month when the Israelites would normally have been killing their Passover lambs.  He died “between the two evenings” on Nisan 14, that is, between noon and sunset (the Bible tells us he died precisely at 3:00 P.M.).  Since Jesus fulfilled the Passover lamb at the exact  time that Israel normally sacrificed their lamb, his dinner with the disciples the night before could not have been the actual Passover meal.  This means that Jesus did not partake of a Passover meal the year he died.  And neither did the Pharisees who took Jesus’ body to his tomb that day.  Why not?  Because they were defiled by touching the dead body of Jesus.

Moses instructs people in this situation as follows:

And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel. And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day: And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel? And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD. The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. (Numbers 9:5-11)

So, how will Second Passover be fulfilled?  Will it be fulfilled before or after God’s overcomers receive their glorified bodies?  These are two questions I will attempt to answer in the next few days, for this year’s second Passover is right around the corner, on Wednesday, April 28.  Many expect God to move in mighty ways in 2010. Will second Passover be fulfilled this year or in a year soon to come?

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