seekeroftruth
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Exodus 12:14 “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance. 15 For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.
Why should Passover be observed annually? Because God said so.
This is from Bible-commentaries.com.
God puts the events of that night in an historic perspective. The difference between time and eternity, between finite man and the infinite God, becomes obvious here. Not only would no man be able to see over the limitations of the hour, but although the Israelites surely must have sensed that something great was happening to them, they would have been unable to evaluate it in the light of history, even less in the light of eternity. God did this for them. He told them that what they were doing that night and in the week following would be celebrated throughout the centuries. Generations to come would commemorate this particular event.
