The Passion: Behold the Lamb — Jesus, Our Passover

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Exodus 12:5–7 
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.”

When God delivered the children of Israel from Egypt, He gave them a very specific instruction: take a lamb, a spotless lamb, a lamb without blemish, and slaughter it. Take its blood and put it on the doorposts of your house. That blood was the sign. That blood was the covering. That blood was the protection. And when the angel of death passed through the land, every house that had the blood of the lamb on its doorposts was passed over. Glory to God! That is the Passover. That is where it all began. And that lamb, that Passover lamb, was pointing to someone. It was pointing to Jesus Christ.

αμνός  amnos  Lamb  –  a lamb, used of Christ as the Lamb of God, the sacrificial offering

Now think about this: hundreds of years before Jesus walked the streets of Jerusalem, God had already set the pattern. God had already set the type. God had already shown Israel, and through Israel, the whole world, what He was going to do. He was going to provide a Lamb. His own Lamb. The Lamb of God. And in John chapter 1, verse 29, when John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him, he declared, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world!” How incredible is that? John saw Jesus and recognized Him for who He truly was — the fulfillment of every Passover lamb that had ever been slain. Every lamb that was slaughtered in Egypt was pointing to this moment. Every drop of blood on every doorpost was a prophetic shadow of the blood of Jesus Christ.

 Jesus was crucified during the feast of the Passover. He was not crucified at a random time. God orchestrated the timing of the crucifixion of His Son to coincide with the very feast that prophesied His death! The Passover lamb had to be without blemish — and Jesus was sinless. The Passover lamb had to be slain at a specific time — and Jesus was crucified at the appointed hour. The Passover lamb’s blood had to be applied — and the blood of Jesus was shed for the remission of the sins of the whole world. Hallelujah!

πάσχα  pascha  Passover  –  the paschal sacrifice, the paschal feast, the Passover meal and celebration

This is not a coincidence. There are no coincidences here, this is God’s divine plan unfolding with precision. The Apostle Paul puts it so beautifully in 1 Corinthians 5:7 when he says, “For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.” Jesus Christ is our Passover Lamb. He is the Lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world. He is the Lamb whose blood speaks better things. And just as the blood on the doorposts saved every household in Egypt from the angel of death, so the blood of Jesus Christ has saved us from eternal death, from the curse of sin, from every work of the enemy.

αίμα  haima  blood  –  blood, the blood of sacrificial victims, the atoning blood of Christ

So when Pilate had Jesus standing before him on the day of the preparation of the Passover and said, “Behold the man,” he didn’t even realize what he was doing. He was presenting the Passover Lamb to the people. God’s Passover Lamb was standing right there. And the people cried, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” And in so doing, the Passover Lamb was slain. The prophecy was fulfilled. The blood was shed. And because of that blood, because of the sacrifice of the Lamb of God, you and I are free. We are passed over from death to life! Haha! That is the power of the Passover Lamb. That is the power of the blood of Jesus Christ.

Pray The Word
Heavenly Father, I thank You for Jesus Christ, my Passover Lamb, who was slain for me. I thank You that His blood was shed so that death would pass over me and so that I could walk in the fullness of life. I declare that the blood of the Lamb of God covers me, protects me, and has delivered me from every curse and every work of the enemy, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Speak The Word
Jesus Christ is my Passover Lamb! His blood is on the doorpost of my life! I am covered, I am protected, and I am delivered by the blood of the Lamb of God. Death has no power over me. The curse has no hold on me. I have passed from death to life because of the sacrifice of my Passover Lamb, Jesus Christ, in the name of Jesus Christ!