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A Second chance

What happens when you miss or are unable to join in during the first Passover (Pesach) and Unleavened Bread?

If you just came to the truth and realize that ALL Scripture is for today or if you’ve been walking this walk out and realize that the calendar system you are on is incorrect or any multiple reasons why you may have not been able to celebrate these holy days.  We have an example of just this happening in the Law:  

Numbers 9:6–8 (ESV)
6And there were certain men who were unclean through touching a dead body, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.
7And those men said to him, “We are unclean through touching a dead body. Why are we kept from bringing the LORD’s offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?”
8And Moses said to them, “Wait, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you.”

     Here we have an example of people who want to do the commands but because of a death were unable to be a part of Passover.  First, we must look at something that is strange here in verse 6, the phrase “why are we kept from” which is made clear in the LXX (Septuagint, the Greek translation of the OT):

Numbers 9:7 (LES2)
7And so those men said to him, “We are unclean with respect to a human soul. So shall we miss presenting our gift to the Lord at its appointed time along with the sons of Israel?”

     Here we see how they understood that they will miss out on it, not questioning why someone is stopping them because no one, not even Moses knew what to do about their situation.   Let’s keep moving to see what Father said to Moses about this:

Numbers 9:9–14 (ESV)
9The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
10“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he shall still keep the Passover to the LORD.
11In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
12They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break any of its bones; according to all the statute for the Passover they shall keep it.
13But if anyone who is clean and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, that person shall be cut off from his people because he did not bring the LORD’s offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.
14And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native.”

     Father says, in the second month of the year, we are given an opportunity to keep the Passover even if you miss it because of something that is out of your control.  Notice v.13 though, there is an exception that makes it clear that if you miss the Passover just because, in rebellion, because you just don’t care about HIS word then, there is NO second chance.

     Here we also see that even if you are not a born Israelite you still have an opportunity to get things right with Yehovah.   We have an example of this happening later on in Scripture in 2 Chronicles 30 when the Law had been lost, the people had forgot and had not been taught God’s word.   

2 Chronicles 29:6 (ESV)
(Hezekiah speaking to the Levites) For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They have forsaken him and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD and turned their backs.

Conclusion

If you missed Passover because of any reason that was out of your control, then you have an opportunity to make things right.  It isn’t about trying to gain points but because we love our God and want to do what He says, Father is so merciful as to give us a second chance…that’s grace.