There is something both simple and serious about the Bible’s picture of worship. God does not tell His people to “go through the motions.” He gives feasts for a reason: to make the past unmistakably real, to train the present, and to point the future toward Christ.

In Deuteronomy 16 , Moses focuses on the Feast of Passover and how Israel is to remember God’s redemption from Egypt. But the deeper story does not stop in the Old Testament. The New Testament teaches that the Passover was always pointing toward something greater: Christ Himself . As Paul puts it, “Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us” (1 Corinthians 5:7).