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Jesus is the Lamb (part 2):

Last week I felt I had sent you a lot of meat to digest, so this week I want to take the easy way out and just supplement with a couple of points I had originally missed. After all that, it should have been obvious that Jesus is the ultimate Lamb, but just in case, here is some more evidences of Christ being who the Old Testament always pointed to.

  1. Not one of the lamb's bones was to be broken (Num9:12, Ex12:46-). If any of the bones of the O/T lamb were broken during the sacrificial process, the sacrifice was rendered useless. Again, it seems a silly thing for God to point out and worry about since the animal is being killed anyway, that is until we skip forward some 2000 years later to the time while Christ is on the cross, fulfilling all the other requirements of a sacrificial death. John 19:33-34 tells us that not one of Christ's bones was broken, even though it was Roman custom for that to happen during crucifixion.

  2. a) The lamb was chosen on the 10th day of the 1st month, and lived among them until the 14th day of that same month (Ex 12:3 and 6). If you were to do a detailed timeline, you would see that the time Christ was killed was on the very same day as the Passover feast. In and of itself that is another example of fulfillment of the O/T, but digging even deeper we can see that when He rode in to Jerusalem it was the 10th day of the 1st month. (I have a timeline here, if you want to see it, le me know and I'll send it)

    b) This same period (mentioned in 2a), was often referred to as the time of examination. In O/T days, the lamb was chosen and then it lived with the family that it was chosen for. They were to actually have it live in the home with them so that they would not take a chance of letting the lamb become blemished, but also so that they would develop a bond with it. Sounds sick to me, let's get to know this thing as a pet, and them kill it and eat it, but God yet again had an ultimate purpose for doing this. It was another way for Him to foreshadow to His people the hurt that He would suffer while His Son died for them, but on a much greater scale.

    Going with this theme of examination, Jesus was tested extensively by the religious people of his day, during this same week. (Luke 20:2, 20 and 26, Matt 21:23, 22:15 and 35. There is more than enough you could read any where in the gospels).

  3. In Ex12:6, and Lev 23:5, it says that the sacrifice must take place at twilight and that none of it shall remain until morning. Jesus fulfills this requirement too. In Mark 15:42-43, a man called Joseph of Arimathea took the body of Christ to bury it in a tomb because it was getting late.

  4. 2) The killing of the lamb was to be a very public event (Exodus 12:6) as was Christ's crucifixion (as any cursory reading of the New Testament clearly reveals). 4) The Passover Lamb was to be eaten (Exodus 12:8). Jesus, speaking figuratively, says that He too must be "eaten" (that is, be depended upon to give and sustain life) - see John 6:32-35, Luke 22:19-20).

When it is all said and done though, we must remember that Jesus no longer rests there. He rose from that tomb and is alive today with outstretched arms accepting all those who come to Him. That is the focus we must never lose.

Grace and peace,

Arron.