Day 7 | The Passover Lamb

“The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect”

If you’ve been in church any length of time, you’ve no doubt heard of the Passover. But I’m curious—did you (like me) miss the significance of the lamb? The setting of the Passover is during Moses’ attempt to free the Israelites from slavery. God, through Moses, exacted plagues on Egypt to gain the Jews’ freedom, and the last plague, the death of all the firstborns, would grant it. This is where God’s plan would involve a lamb, but not just any lamb.

God instructs Israel to select a perfect lamb and sacrifice it to Him, instructing them to paint its blood on the door posts of their homes. Each household that obeyed God would have the angel of death “pass-over” their house, sparing them from the plague. The light bulb came on when I made the connection to my Passover Lamb, His blood, and the wooden cross.The Jesus we celebrate at Christmas is the same Jesus, the Lamb of God, we celebrate at Easter. The Lamb who was foreshadowed in God’s plan for Israel would also bring freedom to you and me today when we obey God’s plan. Jesus died, was sacrificed, and His blood was painted on wooden posts to be our Passover Lamb. We who believe this and figuratively paint Jesus’ blood on the door posts of our hearts will escape spiritual death when the next Passover feast is celebrated in heaven.