How are Purim and Passover related?

I just read a fantastic article and want to share it with you here. This is timely, because the Jewish holiday of Purim will be celebrated this Sunday, March 16. What a revelation to find out that in the story of Queen Esther when wicked Haman and King Ahasuerus threw the dice ("purim") to set a date for the destruction of the Jews, the time they sat down to do this, Nisan 13, was the day before Passover! Therefore, the Jews' neighbors all over the Persian kingdom received the king's edict the next day, Nisan 14, at the very time the Jews were beginning the Feast of Passover, a celebration of their deliverance from Egypt! Now they needed a new deliverance from Haman's wicked plot to annihilate them on Adar 13, eleven months later! Their celebration of Passover must have been quite dismal indeed! Read this insightful article and see how this relates to the death, burial and resurrection of Yeshua!
http://janediffenderfer.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/purim-and-the-passover-deliverance-part-1/