A Christian Observer (April 2025): Egypt Is Symbolic of Sin

FROM the Editor: Passover 2025 falls on April 12. The Passover Lamb in ancient Israel is killed between the two evenings ('evening' means getting to be even—the first evening is at noon at 12 pm when the sun begins to go down; the second evening is around 6pm or at twilight when the sun’s orb touches the horizon). Between the two evenings is 3 pm. Because Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of our Passover sacrifice enabling us to be likewise spared from death because of sin, we commemorate His death on this day and on this hour. The institution of the Passover sacrifice coincides with the killing of the firstborn of the Egyptians as the last of the ten plagues, finally culminating with the Israelites’ exodus out of Egypt.

We thus commemorate the death of Jesus Christ by eating the symbolic Passover Meal on the night of April 12 which because of sunset to sunset reckoning, is Biblically considered already part of the next day. This is also known as the Night To Be Much Observed.

The 400 years of Israelites’ bondage in Egypt becomes symbolic of humanity’s bondage to sin. In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah are used to symbolize licentiousness, such as bestiality. Because the Book of Revelation is in symbolic language, Jerusalem is called in the end time to be Sodom and Egypt. Revelation 11:8, "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified". And whose dead bodies are these? Revelation chapter 11 is about the Two Witnesses.

Jerusalem is the major focal point of end time prophetic events. The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is not the end in itself. While His death spared us of the death penalty we incur for sinning because without the remission of blood there is no forgiveness of sin and we all have sinned and incurred the death penalty, we need to strive to overcome sin by coming out of our own Egypt. The ancient Israelites didn’t remain in Egypt after the Passover sacrifice was killed and the firstborn of the Egyptians were slain. The exodus out of Egypt began the very next day.

We equally keep and observe this as the first of the seven days of eating unleavened bread only. This is also symbolic. We avoid eating bread with leaven for the next seven days because leaven puffs up and would also be symbolic of sin. God’s people also meet for holy convocation on the first and last day.

It is fallaciously incomplete and deceiving to promote that we just accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior and that through faith, we are already saved. These preachers use these verses out of context and they don’t define faith in terms of how the Bible itself defines faith. They further claim we no longer need the law because Jesus Christ crucified it with Him in the cross. These are wolves in sheep clothing.

Just think about a convicted criminal who transgressed the law but was given a pardon and released from prison. He doesn't have the liberty to transgress the law again. No orderly society survives without laws. - R.B. Carating

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