Redemption from death forms a central thread within the broader New Testament teaching that redemption unfolds in past, present, and future stages, paralleling the pattern established at Israel's Passover in Egypt, where God's deliverance from Pharaoh marked only the beginning of a relationship requiring ongoing faithfulness. Galatians 3:13 establishes that Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, and while the law itself is not a curse, breaking it brings a curse whose overarching consequence is death. This redemption from the law's penalty, accomplished through Christ's perfect life and sacrifice, corresponds to justification in the past. Beyond this initial rescue from the death penalty, an ongoing redemption occurs as Christ, in His role as High Priest, continually redeems those who remain in Him from sin and its power, as described in Ephesians 1:7. This present-tense redemption depends on abiding in Christ, keeping His words, and upholding the law rather than practicing lawlessness, for Christ does not know those who persist in willful sin. Titus 2:14 clarifies that God's deepest interest is redeeming His people not merely from the law's curse but from lawless deeds themselves, rescuing them from sin's ongoing power, which is the deeper cause of death. Crucially, redemption from the death penalty does not itself grant immortal life, since flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, nor can corruption inherit incorruption. Without a complete transformation of nature, entering God's Kingdom would result in immediate defilement. This necessity points to the future and final aspect of redemption: the redemption of the body described in Romans 8:23, when corruptible bodies sown in weakness are raised in incorruption and death is swallowed up in victory. Ephesians 4:30 calls this the "day of redemption," the moment believers are sealed by the Holy Spirit until they are changed into incorruptible spirit, and Ephesians 1:13-14 describes the Spirit as a down payment on this inheritance, though it can be grieved or quenched through willfulness, as seen in Saul's forfeiture of the Spirit. Luke 21:25-28, set within the Olivet Prophecy, ties this final redemption to Christ's return, when mortal bodies will be transformed to be conformed to His glorious body and mortality will be swallowed up by life. At that moment, believers will be redeemed from every oppressive power, including ill health, the first death, and the second death, as well as the corruption within that Christ continues to address in the present. This trajectory explains why Jesus, at His final Passover, declared He would not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God, and why Paul instructed believers to proclaim the Lord's death until He comes. Passover thus commemorates both what Christ's death has already accomplished and what it sets in motion, culminating in the final redemption from death itself and the sharing of a future Passover with God in His completed Kingdom.