Why Passover and Not Yom Kippur or Sukkot?
Although we see
Messiah’s atoning death typified in every offering on the Brazen Altar of
Sacrifice, we know He was sacrificed on Passover; but why Passover instead of
Yom Kippur? Why Passover and not Sukkot when the Sacrifice were made with 70
Bulls on behalf of the 70 Nations? Also, why a human sacrifice, seeing as ADONAI
abhors such a sacrifice?
The simple answer
is that Yom Kippur is only for the National Atonement of Israel, the
descendants of the 12 sons of Jacob and the 70 Bulls sacrificed at Sukkot is
only for the Nations, whereas Passover, all the world is included because not
only Israel received their deliverance and freedom, but so did the 70 Nations,
for they, in the guise of the “mixed multitude” that left with and Israel
received the Torah with them at Mount Sinai. This typifies our outer physical
and spiritual freedom to worship ADONAI, but Messiah’s Passover Sacrifice gives
us our inner spiritual freedom from the effects of the Fall of Mankind from sin
which all plays a role in the ultimate redemption and restoration of all
things.
