The Jewish feast of Passover, the first in a bundle of 3 spring feasts, will commence this Saturday evening at sundown. God declared the month of Nisan as the first month, then designated the 15th day of the month as Passover. On the lunar-based Hebrew calendar, that is sundown on April 12 this year.

God’s calendar for the Jewish people was implemented as God brought the Israelites out of Egyptian captivity. He gave instructions to take the sacrificial blood of a lamb and put it on the doorpost as a sign for the angel of death to “pass over” that place. (See Exodus 12.)

God made a promise to preserve the Jewish people and He kept it. Scripture is filled with other promises of God, assuring His uniquely called people that He will remain faithful to them. Those promises are eternal, so remain to this day. In light of current events, let’s focus on this passage of promise to the Jewish people.

124 “If it had not been the Lord who was on our side,”
Let Israel now say—
² “If it had not been the Lord who was on our side,
When men rose up against us,
³ Then they would have swallowed us alive,
When their wrath was kindled against us;
⁴ Then the waters would have overwhelmed us,
The stream would have gone over our soul;
⁵ Then the swollen waters
Would have gone over our soul.”

⁶ Blessed be the Lord,
Who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
⁷ Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers;
The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
⁸ Our help is in the name of the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.

~Psalm 124

This Passover, may the Jewish people turn to the Creator of heaven and earth, and who has sheltered them against all harm. Let’s pray to that end.