June 17 2025

Tuesday June 17

Luke 22:7-16

“The Day…” and “The Hour Had Come”

7 Then came the Day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover must be killed. 8 And He sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat." 9 So they said to Him, "Where do You want us to prepare?" 10 And He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him into the house which he enters. 11 Then you shall say to the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?" '12 Then he will show you a large, furnished upper room; there make ready." 13 So they went and found it just as He had said to them, and they prepared the Passover. 14 When the hour had come, He sat down, and the twelve apostles with Him. 15 Then He said to them, "With fervent desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; 16 for I say to you, I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God."

Welcome to Pastor's Chat. Today, we're looking at Luke chapter 22. This chapter describes the events that took place on Thursday of Passion Week. Remember, on Thursday evening, when the sun went down, it was actually the beginning of the Jewish day, Friday. This is the day the Passover lamb would be killed.

Two things stand out in this passage to me that I've noticed over the years, and has caught my attention. I'd love to share it with you today. In verse 7, it says, "Then came the day of unleavened bread when the Passover must be killed." Now, remember, from the beginning of time, Jesus Christ is the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8). God's plan was that one day His Son would take our place on an old rugged cross in Jerusalem.

Years ago, I had my attention drawn to the passage in Job 1 that tells us it happened on a day when Satan appeared before God and accused the brethren. God said, "What about my servant Job?" Satan got God’s permission to take Job’s wealth and to cause his ten children to be killed in a wind storm (Job 1:6-22). In Job 2, it begins again, "Now there was a day” when Satan got permission to take away Job's health. Job went on to say, "Naked I came into the world, and naked I'll leave the world. Though the Lord slay me, yet will I trust Him." My friend, this all happened on a day.

Everything happens on a day. It happened on a day when you were born. You were born in a week, but it happened on a day. It happened on a day when we trust Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior. The day Luke 22:7 is speaking of, is a day that all eternity looks forward to and looks back to—the day when the Passover, Jesus Christ, the precious Son of God, the Lamb of God, would die on a cross, being crucified for our sins.

Also interesting, in Luke 22:14, it says, "When the hour had come." Not only was it a day, Friday, when Jesus would be killed as our Passover Lamb and crucified on a cross, laying down His life voluntarily for you and me, but there was the hour when this would take place—an exact time that God had planned from eternity past.

Did you ever notice how John points out that up to this hour, Jesus could not be harmed or killed. It says in John 7:30, "No one laid a hand on Him because His hour had not yet come." In John 8:20, again, it says they did not lay a hand on Him; they would have liked to stone Him in that chapter, but “His hour had not come”. Buy then, in John 12:28, just as Jesus goes into the upper room with His disciples, the Scripture says, "The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified." Jesus knew when that hour had come.

Here in Luke 22:14, when the hour had come, He sat down with the twelve apostles and said to them, "With fervent desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I say to you, I'll no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." Jesus knew when His hour had come. In John chapters 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, it describes what happened in that hour in the upper room with His disciples and the hour that He would go to that cross and die in our place for our sins. In John 17:1, in His High Priestly prayer, Jesus said, "Father, the hour has come." Oh, my friend, Jesus knew the exact time that He would die and be glorified for our sins in our place.

Today, you can trust Jesus to take away your sins. Today is the day of salvation. “Behold, now is the accepted time” (2 Corinthians 6:1-2), the hour for you and me to make that decision to live our lives for Jesus Christ. I trust you'll do that today. Everything happens in a day and in an hour.

I love these Scriptures: “The day of Passover came, the hour had come”, and Jesus gave His life and was glorified!

God bless!