02.23.2015 Old Testament: Num 9.1–5

To read the Bible in a year, read Numbers 8–10 on February 23, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

A year had past since the children of Israel left Egypt, and on that night they celebrated the Passover. The Lord did not want them to forget their awesome deliverance. Therefore, a year later, He reminded Moses to remind Israel to keep the Passover,

Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying: “Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time. On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time. According to all its rites and ceremonies you shall keep it.” So Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover. And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, in the Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did (Numbers 9.1–5). 

If the first Passover had never happened, they still would have been living miserable lives as slaves in Egypt. Although they were not yet in the Land of Canaan, they had freedom, and that was cause for celebration.

If you have been baptized for the remission of your sins, you should never forget the date, because on that day, you began your spiritual freedom from the slavery of sin.