The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Numbers 28:16-17,
"On the fourteenth day of the first month the Lord's Passover is to be held. On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a festival; for seven days eat bread made without yeast."
The celebration of the Passover is a remembrance of the Lord's rescue of Israel from her enslavement in Egypt. In a night of horror, the Lord brought the culmination of a series of plagues on Egypt by sending his angel to kill all the firstborn males in Egypt. The firstborn males of Israel would be spared if the doors to their homes had the blood of a lamb applied to the top and sides. This final plague would result in Pharaoh providing the Israelites their freedom.
"Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning. When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down." Exodus 12:21-23.
The blood of the lamb spared God's people from death.
In 1 Corinthians 5:7, Paul calls Jesus Christ our Passover lamb. He frees us from our enslavement to sin. The blood he shed protects us from God's eternal judgment when we embrace him in faith.
The writer of Hebrews tells us, "But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation. He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!" Hebrews 9:11-14.
"On the fourteenth day of the first month the Lord's Passover is to be held. On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a festival; for seven days eat bread made without yeast."
The celebration of the Passover is a remembrance of the Lord's rescue of Israel from her enslavement in Egypt. In a night of horror, the Lord brought the culmination of a series of plagues on Egypt by sending his angel to kill all the firstborn males in Egypt. The firstborn males of Israel would be spared if the doors to their homes had the blood of a lamb applied to the top and sides. This final plague would result in Pharaoh providing the Israelites their freedom.
"Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning. When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down." Exodus 12:21-23.
The blood of the lamb spared God's people from death.
In 1 Corinthians 5:7, Paul calls Jesus Christ our Passover lamb. He frees us from our enslavement to sin. The blood he shed protects us from God's eternal judgment when we embrace him in faith.
The writer of Hebrews tells us, "But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation. He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!" Hebrews 9:11-14.
Jesus Christ is our Passover lamb and God provided us a picture of this all the way back in Moses' day when he instituted the celebration of Passover!
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