Today is Nisan 10, the day God told Israel to pick a spotless lamb, examine it for three days, then sacrifice it on the 14th. They were to apply its blood to the doorposts of their houses in Egypt, exempting them from the midnight Judgment that would fall… “In the tenth day of this month, everyone shall take to themselves a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb per house: and if the household is too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of souls…” (Exodus 12:3,4).
We know Jesus is the fulfillment of the Passover Lamb (1 Corinthians 5:7), but the Bible gives us this beautiful insight in a conversation between the Father and the Son… “It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give You to be a Light to the Nations, that You may be My Salvation to the ends of the earth” (Isaiah 49:6). And this is why John the Baptist introduced Jesus with the shout: “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”
Israel was a household too small for such a Spotless Lamb. Twelve Jewish Apostles were sent into all the world with the news: “For God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). What good neighbors!
How thankful we ought to be! People world-wide have welcomed this Lamb, applied His precious, redeeming blood to their hearts, and now await an Exodus that will shake the world. Have you?
Hallelujah! What a Lamb!
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