After exploring the background of Pesach, the prophetic fulfillment of this holy day is clear. It can best be summed up by the word “redemption.” Rabbi Saul of Tarsus (the apostle Paul) states this theme beautifully and succinctly in his letter to the Corinthian believers. They were told to deal with moral problems within their members. To make his point, Paul draws upon the well-understood analogy of Pesach:

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know the saying, “It takes only a little chametz to leaven a whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old chametz, so that you can be a new batch of dough, because in reality you are unleavened. For our Pesach lamb, the Messiah, has been sacrificed. So let us celebrate the seder, not with leftover chametz, the chametz of wickedness and evil, but with the matzah of purity and truth (I Corinthians 5:6–8).