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RUSSELL SANDERS
12-14-2021
THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB – LESSON 7
THE PASSOVER LAMB
We have studied the sacrificial lambs under the Mosaic Law. We have seen God provide a lamb (ram) as a substitute sacrifice for Isaac. Just as the lamb was provided to set Isaac free, so also was the Lamb of God provided to set us free on Mount Moriah (calvary). Likewise, the Passover lamb set Israel free.
Isaac was born of the sin nature of Adam. Israel was in slavery to Egypt which represents bondage (slavery) to sin. Jesus died to free us from the bondage of sin. It is all linked in scripture.
God sent Moses to Egypt to lead them out of slavery and into God’s promised land. Their last day in slavery came with instructions that foreshadowed Messiah leading us out of slavery to sin. It involved the blood of a lamb for each household.
The day before they were set free, they were to kill a lamb and roast it over a fire. They were to catch the blood and hold it out. When they put the lamb on the spit to roast, they were to spread its legs out. This is like Jesus’ arms spread out on the cross.
They were to “paint” the door lintel and door posts with the blood. This applied the blood to the entire household. This foreshadowed Jesus’ blood being applied to our house (heart).
After sundown, they were to have a special meal. They were to eat the body (flesh) of the lamb. They were to have unleavened bread. No leaven could be in the house. Leven represented a type of sin. At “the midnight” hour the household was saved, while other households without the blood of the lamb were struck by death of their first born. God would pass over the houses with the blood and there would be no death.
Likewise, at “the midnight” of one’s life, those having the blood of the lamb applied to their sin are saved while those without the blood of the lamb (Jesus) die in their sin.
That night the Israelites were set free from bondage. Every year thereafter they were to celebrate the “Passover.” The Israelites had no idea that this foreshadowed the Messiah whose blood frees us from the bondage of sin. We can look back and see how it applies to us today.
At the “last supper” Jesus had them take the cup which represented his blood applied to set them free from the bondage of sin. The bread represented his flesh just as the Israelites ate the flesh of the Passover lamb.
In John 6:48-58 Jesus told the Jews and his followers that He is the bread of life and that they must eat of his flesh and drink of His blood. They did not understand it in the context of Passover. It was so hard for them to receive it that John 6:66 says, “From that time many of his disciples (followers) went back and walked with Him no more.”
When we take holy communion, we are symbolically eating his flesh (the bread) and drinking His blood (the new wine, grape juice).
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