From the Global Front in Israel

March 28 – April 3, 2026

Missiles, Passover and the Mountains of Moab

From my bedroom window, the mountains of Moab in Jordan - at a 17x zoom

This view always reminds me of Moses. Someplace on that mountain range God let him see the Promised Land, but did not let him enter it. Someday, though, someday soon, from the mountains of Moab, he will join us, passing over the river that separates us all. Together, he, and we, will enter in.

This is a sobering week. As missiles continue raining down on Israel, the country celebrates its 3,338th Passover. In preparation, and in between trips to the bomb shelter, observant Jews have meticulously cleaned their homes, a painstaking, in-depth scrubbing to get rid of any trace of chametz, anything made with yeast.

This is exactly what God told them to do before the first Passover, the day his angel of death passed over the homes of all Jews in Egypt who had cleansed their homes, sacrificed an unblemished lamb and painted its blood on their door posts and lintels.

Why? Because chametz represented sin in their lives. It was to be scrubbed away from the home. Its complete removal, though, could only occur by an Agent outside themselves. Ultimate removal required the sacrificial blood of an innocent lamb.

The apostle Paul draws a direct connection between Passover and all disciples of Yeshua. Believers in Corinth had fallen prey to a kind of tolerance for sin that implicitly endorsed it, even boasting about it.

Your boasting is no good. Don’t you know that a little chametz leavens the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old chametz, so you may be a new batch, just as you are unleavened—for Messiah, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast not with old chametz, the chametz of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread—the matzah of sincerity and truth.

As Gentiles grafted into God’s redemptive covenant with His uniquely chosen human family, we too have a responsibility to cleanse our lives of the chametz that corrupts the home of our hearts, the innermost place where no one less than God’s Spirit has come to dwell.