We all know that Easter is now celebrated as the day that Jesus was brought back to us from the dead.
We also all know that it comes after Passover.
What I don’t understand is why everyone celebrates Easter but not Passover?
No no no, I understand why people celebrate the rising of Christ.
What I don’t understand is why so many people don’t celebrate Passover?
OK, so if we read the Bible, as I know each and everyone of you do daily … we see that this is a big deal to Jesus.
Not just because he knew it marked the coming of his own death, but because it is a major day of recognition in the faith.
I am not even going to get into the whole bunny and egg portion of what the holiday has become.
(Cough cough Pagan Pagan Pagan cough cough)

The Holiday goes way back though.
Way back to the Old Testament when God forewarned the people to mark there doors with the blood of a lamb, or the passed over and the firstborn of the house would be slain.
So ever since then the Jewish, and even the Catholics who do almost everything else wrong, have celebrated this day.
More then a few other Christian faiths do as well mind you but as a whole most do not.
I mean of all of the things out there, Passover is the only holiday that Jehovah’s Witnesses celebrate
Again I ask why don’t more faiths though?
Jesus himself celebrated the holiday, so isn’t that proof enough that it needs to be recognized?
Then again, he said and did a lot of things that none of us follow didn’t he?
But then again, Passover is a big part of the Bible!
This is the part where we find out that Jesus is willing to do what is needed for us.
The suffering, pain, torture and the humiliation he went through, but for some reason we don’t want to think about all of that do we?
Why is it that we only want to think about the good parts of the Good Book?
There is dark and bad in it as well.
We all know about the flood, the plagues, the demise of cities, the fall of civilizations and of course the demons and fallen angels who walk the earth tempting us to go back with them into Hell, right?
But why is it in most modern Christian faiths the darker sides are never really talked about?   

So that’s my 2 pence on the matter.
(Hehe 2 pence … never mind …)
Next year when you look down at the calendar and see Passover begins remember why it is such a powerful holiday and why it is still celebrated.
What it originally meant, and what it meant to Jesus.
Maybe even celebrate it yourself?
I mean, most everyone celebrates Christmas and it isn’t in the Bible … so why not celebrate one that is in the Bible?