Exodus 12:1-11
The Passover Lamb
1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. 4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. 5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month,when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. 7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. 8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. 9 Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs. 10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. 11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover.
John 1:29
Jesus, The Lamb of God
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
1 Corinthians 5:7
Our Passover Lamb Has Been Sacrificed
7 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch--as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
2 Corinthians 5:11-21
Sacrifice and Reconciliation
11 Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. 12 We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart. 13 If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
In the Old Testament Scriptures, a sacrificed lamb on the night of Passover saved the community of Israel...The lamb was called the Passover Lamb...It is also know as the Paschal Lamb...The blood of the sacrificed Passover Lamb would be brushed on the door posts of the Israeli people living quarters...This blood marking on the door allowed the angel of death to pass over them, while the first born of the Egyptians would die that night...The Passover Lamb would be a significant symbol for God's people throughout their history...Passover is still celebrated, and the Passover Lamb remains today, a great symbol for the nation of Israel...The people of Israel have celebrated this holiday for over thirty three hundred years...The Passover Lamb's blood freed God's people from the slavery of Pharaoh and the Egyptians...
John the Baptist was a messenger for the Messiah...He was a follower of Jesus...John the Baptist called Jesus the Lamb of God, and said this Lamb of God takes away the sins of the world...Jesus would save all people of the world, both Jew and Gentile...St. Paul wrote to the Corinthians that Jesus is our Passover Lamb and He has been sacrificed...For those who believe in Jesus, He represents the Passover Lamb...The Lamb of God and our Passover Lamb is a Servant of God and a Savior...This Lamb saves us from our sins and gives us life...God sacrificed His Son, a Sinless Lamb so that we might live...God made His Son who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God...And although we sin, He sacrificed Himself, so that we may live and be righteous with His Father...Anyone who has Jesus in their heart at the time of their death will make it to heaven and see His Father...God has reconciled our sins through His Son and His blood on the cross...Jesus death and His sacrifice makes us become righteous before His Father...
Jesus wants us to eat from the Tree of Life in Heaven...This Lamb wants us to have an Abundant Life...This Lamb wants us to see the great things there...Jesus poured out His life on the cross so that we might live and get to see His Father...