What is the difference between Passover and Yom Kippur?
Passover and Atonement, or Yom Kippur, are two totally different Feast Days. Passover is in the Spring of the year, associated with the Spring Equinox, and centers on the blood of the Passover lamb, causing the death angel to pass over. Yom Kippur, called Atonement, is in the Fall. Christ is our Passover.
Les explains that Passover and Atonement are two totally different Feast Days, not the same observance. Passover comes in the Spring of the year, associated with the Spring Equinox, and Atonement, or Yom Kippur as it is called today, comes in the Fall of the year. In the context of the final plague, God had poured out plagues on Egypt, with a division so Israel no longer experienced them; the worst was the death of the firstborn. Every house in Egypt would lose the firstborn, even livestock. Israel had an out, but it depended on their faith: if they put the blood of the Passover lamb on the doorposts and stayed within the safety of their home, the death angel would pass over. This is the beginning of what Jews still celebrate today in the Spring as Passover. Les notes that Christ is our Passover, and he plans to draw out the noon-to-3 afternoon period as an analogy of His work of Atonement another time; for now he focuses on the Passover aspect, the protection given by the blood of the Lamb.