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Our Passover
“Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover” (Exodus 12:21).
“Then came the day of unleavened bread, when
the passover must be killed” (Luke 22:7).
“For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us” (1 Corinthians 5:7).
The Passover lamb was the basis for Israel’s redemption and deliverance from the slavery and the bondage of Pharaoh and the Egyptians. If God was going to come in on their behalf for blessing it needed to be in a way that made them feel their guilt and His provision for them.
The New Testament leaves us in no doubt as to what the Passover foreshadows. In the mind and heart of God it looked forward to the time when the Lord Jesus would go to the cross and be offered up as that supreme sacrifice. The Passover lamb was but a feeble, yet precious foreshadow of this. Thus today, we are never to forget that mighty sacrifice, just as Israel was to never forget the ground of their redemption and deliverance from Egypt. The Lord says, “This do in remembrance of Me” (1 Corinthians 11:24).
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