Institution of the Passover

 

Exodus 12: 43-51

 

August 29, 2024

 

Institution of the Passover

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, but every slave that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him.  No foreigner or hired worker may eat of it.  It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and you shall not break any of its bones.  All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.  If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.”

You will find that in Psalm 34:20, “He keeps all his bones;
Not one of them is broken.”  And the fulfillment is found in John 19:36, “For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: 'Not one of his bones will be broken.”

 All the people of Israel did just as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.   And on that very day, the Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.

Often Scripture foretells us about the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, the Messiah.  In Exodus 12:5a, “Your lamb shall be without blemish”, the Lamb of God would be pure without blemish.  John the Baptist, seeing Jesus come to the Jordan River, makes this statement in John 1:29, “The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, 'Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”

Both the Old and New Testaments speak of the Lamb of God.  Isaiah 53:7, “He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.”  This was a prophecy of Jesus' crucifixion. 

 

1 Peter 1:18-19, ^“knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.”

 

1 Peter 2:22, "Who committed no sin, Nor was deceit found in His mouth.”

 

Revelation 6:15-17, “And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave, and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"

 

Revelation 13:8, “All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice