The Passover was first kept in Egypt and then celebrated in the wilderness and Canaan. In considering these three places the Passover was celebrated, let us notice some thoughts that we may apply to our remembrance of the Lord in death. In one sense, we keep this loving remembrance of Him in the world, of which Egypt is the type, and in so doing we eat, as it were, of the roast lamb; that is, we feed on Christ as the One whose precious blood sheltered us from the just judgment of God and who underwent the fire of His judgment.
We also keep it in the wilderness, for that is what the world has become to those who are redeemed to God. In the wilderness the Israelites also ate the manna, which prefigured Christ as the bread come down from heaven. Even so we sometimes combine in our remembrance of Him the thoughts of His coming down as the true Manna with thoughts of His death as the Lamb of God.
In another sense, we remember Him as the risen and glorified Christ who was once in death. Of this the children of Israel’s keeping the Passover in Canaan and eating the “old corn of the land” give us a picture. In doing this, we are, in spirit, in heavenly places, of which Canaan is a type.
Adapted from P. Wilson