Yeshua: The Passover Lamb
Yeshua: The Passover Lamb
The Blood of The Lord Jesus Christ was ‘shed’ on the Cross of Calvary for the entire human race.
“The blood on your doorposts will serve as a sign, marking the houses where you are staying. When I see the blood, I will pass over you. This plague of death will not touch you when I strike the land of Egypt”. Exodus 12:13
When God created the world, and sin increased upon the face of the earth. According to the Old Testament law, there were sacrifices of animals made. God only accepted the sacrifice of the animals that were blemishless, without stain, without wrinkle, without defect.
This practice was used as a way of showing God that the person was truly repenting. For example when a person sinned, they would slaughter a blemishless animal and dedicate it at the altar of the Lord and their sins were forgiven.
The Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves, and since they had no fear of God in their hearts, God sent plagues and deadly diseases upon those people (upon the Egyptians who had enslaved the Israelites). God sent many many warnings for Pharaoh (the ruler of the Egyptians) through His servants Moses and Aaron.
But since they were wicked, they tortured and harassed the Israelites and did not listen to any warnings. They went against the ways of the Lord in every possible way.
God became really angry at them. But to the broken hearted, meek, suffering Israelites God promised that when His plague would pass over the land, the houses that will have the blood of the sacrificial animal applied on their door posts, God’s wrath will spare them and no harm will come upon them and their families.
They were asked to slaughter a young lamb or a goat and its blood was not to be spilled on the ground since it was the holy blood. They were asked to apply the blood of the lamb on the doorposts with a bunch of hyssop (hyssop was a weed, kind of a wild herbal shrub). People were asked to stay indoors till God’s wrath passes by. {Gives me chills.}
The Lord was going to strike the wicked Egyptians but all the people who loved and feared God were told that, when God sees the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe, the Lord will pass over their homes and will not permit the death angel to enter their houses. God kept His promise to the people who listened and obeyed.
But when the Lord sent His wrath upon the Egyptians, there was not a single house where someone had not died.
(Reference: Exodus 12)
Fast forward 2000 years, Yeshua came!
God sent His son,
they called Him Jesus.
He came to love, heal and forgive.
He lived and died,
to buy my(our) pardon.
An empty grave is there to prove,
my Savior lives.
Because He lives,
I can face tomorrow.
Because He lives,
all fear is gone.
Because I know,
He holds the future.
And (our) life is worth the living,
just because He lives.
We can face uncertain days,
because He lives.
And then one day I’ll cross that river,
I’ll fight life’s final war with pain,
And then as death gives way to vict’ry,
I’ll see the lights of glory and I’ll know He lives.
(Song Composers: Bill and Gloria Gaither)
The above song is the story of why Jesus came into this world and by trusting in Him what do we get. Eternal life! Salvation! A union with Him forever, where there is no sickness, no death. Only Love. God’s love. So beautiful.
He was despised and rejected—
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.
Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins!
But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.
He was oppressed and treated harshly,
yet he never said a word.
He was led like a lamb to the slaughter.
And as a sheep is silent before the shearers,
he did not open his mouth.
Unjustly condemned,
he was led away.
No one cared that he died without descendants, that his life was cut short in midstream.
But he was struck down for the rebellion of my people.
He had done no wrong and had never deceived anyone.
But he was buried like a criminal; he was put in a rich man’s grave.
But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him
and cause him grief.
Yet when his life is made an offering for sin,
He will have many descendants.
(Isaiah 53:3-10)
So if the lamb was not to be sacrificed, it would have been you and me, to satisfy God’s wrath because of our sins, mistakes, unforgiveness, bitterness, jealousy, improper ways of living, robbing, cheating, etc etc. Somebody had to pay the price. Somebody had to satisfy the wrath and anger of the Holy, Reverent One who hates every sin. The One who longs with Godly jealousy, longs to make us His own, to win us back to Him, but we want to keep giving ourselves more and more to the world by taking pleasures in the idle talks, gossips, immorality and we keep grieving the pure and innocent heart of God. His love is burning with passion for us. He had to redeem our souls, He had to find a way. He thought of a way and sacrificed His beloved precious only Son. And on that Friday, the divine exchange took place!
For God so loved the WORLD, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
Since Yeshua became our sacrificial lamb, He shed His Most Holy Blood on the Cross of Calvary for you and for me, no more animal sacrifices were needed. Today our tongue can be used as the hyssop that as we speak, we apply the Blood of Jesus upon our lives, we shall live.
We don’t have to live in fear, as long as we have Him near!
On the third day, as He predicted He rose up from the grave and lives forevermore! Because He lives, so shall we live!
“Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, along with everyone in your household”. Acts 16:31
God bless you!
Vini Pandya
Author: I Touched The Hem Of His Garment
