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“Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the Lord in Jerusalem…and there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet” (2 Chronicles 35:1, 18).
In the eighteenth year of his reign Josiah kept a passover, and it must have been a wonderful time. It was such a happy time that the Spirit of God says there was no passover like it since the days of Samuel, who lived almost 500 years before!
As Christians we no longer keep the passover. It has been replaced by the remembrance of the Lord. We read in 1 Corinthians 5:7, “Even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.” Just as the children of Israel were to remember when they were delivered from death in their homes in Egypt, so the Lord wants us to remember what He did for us on Calvary’s cross. He says to each of us, “This do in remembrance of Me.”
When Josiah kept this passover, his country, Israel was not behaving well. They had failed greatly in following the Lord, but God still valued those who kept that passover, and today He values those who remember His Son in death. The church today is not in a very good state either, but the Lord Jesus appreciates those who remember Him in the way in which He has asked us.
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