ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses three Joyous Festivals- Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles. These are also known as the Three Pilgrim Feasts. Like Pentecost and Tabernacles, Passover was formerly an agricultural feast. The word "Passover" really denotes the Paschal Lamb, the sacrifice of which took place on the eve of the Festival, and it is to the eve of the Festival only that in the Bible the name is given. The chief significance of the Feast of Passover is derived from the special historical event it commemorates. In the Pentateuch the command to eat the Unleavened Bread is followed by a prohibition forbidding leaven on the Passover. Passover is the commemoration of the great Deliverance-a deliverance which transformed a horde of slaves into a people. The Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being.
