After the pale rays of the setting sun vanished from the
land of Goshen in Egypt, the Jewish households killed their Passover Lambs in
twilight. It was a few centuries ago, on the 14th day of Nisan that year in the
Jewish calendar. The selected lambs were one year old male without blemish. The
blood of the slaughtered lambs was to be sprinkled on the doorposts of their
houses and the meat roasted and eaten without breaking any of its bones (Exodus
12:46). The LORD would pass through the land that night and slay all the
first-born of the Egyptian households. When the LORD sees the blood on the door
posts of the houses of the children of Israel, He will pass over them and all
the inmates of those houses would be spared from death.
And the children of Israel observed the commandment of the
Lord and stayed indoors on that dreadful night. The LORD smote all the
firstborn in the Egyptian homes including Pharaoh that sat on the throne. And
there was a great cry in the land of Egypt that night, for there was not a
single house where there was no death. That event marked the redemption of the
Hebrews from Egyptian bondage and death. The slain lambs were the prototype of
Jesus Christ, who came on this earth about sixteen hundred years later.
Exactly on the 14th day of Nisan, at the age of Thirty
Three, the Lord Jesus Christ, our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed on the
cross (1 Corinthians 5:7). He shed His precious blood for the remission of your
sins and my sins – to save you and me from the slavery of sin, Satan and death.
John the Baptist introduced this Lamb of God (John 1:29). Apostle Peter, refers
the precious blood of Christ, “as of a lamb without blemish and without spot”
(1 Peter 1:19). Apostle John speaks about a Lamb seen in heaven as if it had
been slain (Revelation 5:6). The blood of this Lamb is to be applied and
appropriated by the sinner - you and I to escape from the soon coming
judgement.
When our Lord was on the earth, His life was under intense
scrutiny by the Pharisees, Sadducees, the scribes, and the religious leaders,
but none could find any sin or blemish in His life (2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 John
3:5; 1 Peter 1:18-19, John 19:4). He committed no sin, nor was any deceit found
in His mouth (1 Peter 2:22). The Father was well pleased in the spotless life
of His beloved Son. As prophesied, “a bone of him was not broken” (John 19:36).
He thus fulfilled all the criteria of the Passover Lamb, who is ordained of God
to deliver you and I from eternal death! You and I rightfully deserve to be
cast into the hell fire for our sins. But God in His grace and mercy sent His
beloved Son, Lord Jesus Christ into this world in order that we shall receive
the remission of our sins by His shed blood on the cross.
Dear reader, if you have not yet received the Lord Jesus Christ as your Passover Lamb and applied and appropriated His precious blood into your heart by faith, you may do so right now; lest you enter eternal death – everlasting torments in the fiery furnace of hail shall pass over from your life and you shall receive life everlasting. Are you washed by the precious blood of the Passover Lamb?
- by Kumar N.
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