Our Passover Lamb

I have been overwhelmingly busy in the final edit stage of my new book (Joe -- The Horse Nobody Loved) and the promotion for a different book going to Vegas for the book signing next week at the huge NAB convention (The Tower Builder). It was with a bit of shock that I started noticing signs of Easter approaching. Oh-oh...Easter candy in the stores. How did Easter creep up so suddenly upon us?

Passover (which we celebrate, just like Jesus did) is also on Easter weekend. I love the Passover ceremony and look forward to our yearly celebration...but wow.... I have a lot to do before flying to Vegas on the 10th!

However, it will be good to settle in the stillness of the Passover ceremony and remember the incomparable importance of that event. Of all the Jewish ceremonies, Passover is the most obvious symbolically of the truth of Jesus as Messiah. At the original Passover, all first born sons of the Egyptians would be killed in God's wrath against their disbelief, but if the Hebrews sacrificed a lamb and painted its blood above their doors, the Angel of Death would "pass over" and spare their children. Could it not be more obvious???? Jesus, the lamb of God, was sacrificed on our behalf, and when His blood "covers" us, the Angel of Death passes over us, and we are saved from eternal death.

I may be busy, but I am not too busy to remember and celebrate THAT.

1 Corinthians 5:7 

Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Matthew 26:26-28 

Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Exodus 23:15 

You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear before me empty-handed.

Numbers 9:14 

And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native.”