Don't PassOver the Passover - Bob Ellsworth - March 1975

Bob Ellsworth

PASSOVER. It's a strange word. It sounds strange. It sounds archaic. And it sounds Jewish. It belongs in an unfamiliar class of words - words foreign to most of our ears: Chanukah - Rosh Hashanah - Yom Kippur - Bar Mitzvah - Unleavened Bread. To most of us, it's merely a strange custom held over from "B.C." A little-understood rite that has its roots in the escape of an ancient race of people from bondage in a land called Egypt. A custom perpetuated by bearded rabbis - curiously and secretly observed by the faithful of Judaism, whether yesteryear in the ghettos of medieval Europe or today in the Jewish suburbs of New York and Chicago. Yes, a curious custom. And certainly to the average professing Christian of today this ancient practice - the Passover - bears little more relevance to his religious life than does the Chinese New Year. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library