"OUR PASSOVER"
The Israelites experienced a literal, life saving, "passover". Will we also be able to experience a time when a judgment of a literal death will pass over us?
1Co 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
We will experience a passover, for Christ is "our passover", but what is that passover referring to?
When is that passover experienced? Is that passover referring to being exempt from a certain "death"?
(1Co 9:27) But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
At this time in Paul’s life, he had not considered himself exempt from being rejected. What is the fate of those who are rejected?
Heb 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
One must have been baptized and received the Spirit of God in order to fall away. With this in mind we may again ask, at what point may we receive "our passover"?
Rev 2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
Isn’t it true that the churches of God represent the first fruit? Don’t the first fruit become "spirit beings" that cannot sin, a long time before the time of the second death? Why does our Savior give this distinct promise to the first fruit?
Why in all of the New Testament, after our Savior’s last passover, is the word "passover" never again mentioned, in any New Testament context, except in 1Cor 5:7?
I have refrained from answering these questions or giving my thoughts concerning them. I thought it would be good to just "think on these things".