CHRIST: THE PASOVER LAMB IN EXODUS

CHRIST: THE PASOVER LAMB IN EXODUS

→Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the Passover.
→And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
→For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.(Exodus 12:21-23KJV).

As we follow through on this intellectual cum spiritual journey of discovering of who, really, this Jesus is, we are now in the book of Exodus where we see Him as the Passover Lamb. Now, let us look at this Lamb of sacrifice:

1. THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB FOR A NATION:
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the Passover. (Exo.12:21).

Here we are looking at the looming judgement of God upon the entire land of Egypt. There was an urgent need for atonement, nay, appeasement or assuaging of God’s wrath, hence, the need for the offering of an innocent animal as a substitution for the wages of death that the people needed to pay for their sins.

Meanwhile, this lamb that each family in Israel offered for their redemption from God’s judgement was exclusively for and limited to the nation of Israel. It did not have a universal effect or validity. It only had limited jurisdiction unlike the next Lamb we are going to consider who incidentally, we are about celebrating his birth this yuletide season. That lamb is a typological lamb that points to the Lamb of God that will die for all peoples and nations.

2. THE SUBSTITUTIONARY LAMB FOR ALL NATIONS:
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. (John 1:29).

Did you know this popular Christmas carol, ‘Joy to the world, the Lord is come’? Of course he is the Lord and King but was once a lowly substitutionary Lamb for all nations. He died an extremely gruesome and grueling death at the cross of Calvary in order to redeem mankind from the slave market of sin and iniquity.

3. THE SCRIPTURAL LIGHT FOR A NEW NATURE:
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:13,14)

What most people are ignorant of is the very indisputable and incontrovertible fact that the substitutionary death of Christ was not only to give us forgiveness of sins, but also to give us a brand new life. That is what the scriptural light reveals as new creation or new nature. And, it becomes ours when we drop our lifestyle of sin through repentance and sincerely embrace it by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ who was the substitutionary Lamb for all our sins. Why not do that straight off, friend.

Source: Chidiebere Dennis Owah