Christ in the Passover

As Passover is coming up, Messianic congregations and ministries are hosting Christ in the Passover presentations. At these presentations, the Messianics try to show how Jesus is an intimate part of the Passover Seder, the traditional meal/service to commemorate the holiday of Passover. So, the Messianics will say that the three matzohs stand for the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The breaking of the middle matzoh stands for the death of Jesus.

There is one extremely large problem with the Messianic presentations, namely, it ignores the derivation of the Seder. The Passover Seder along with of it's customs, comes mostly from the tractate of the Mishnah and Talmud that covers Passover known as Pesachim. The Seder customs were written by rabbis in these Jewish books. None of these rabbis believed in Jesus. Some of these rabbis lived prior to Jesus' birth, again showing that there is no way to connect their writings to Jesus. Other customs came within the last few hundred years, again by rabbis who did not believe that Jesus was the Messiah. By trying to present the Passover Seder as relating to Jesus, the Messianic movement is changing the real Jewish Seder and inventing meanings for customs that never were intended by their orignators. Therefore, the Messianic presentation of Passover is a false presentation of the Passover Seder.