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The Prophecy of The Lamb
Exo 12:12-13
(12) For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.
(13) The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
Exo 12:21-23
(21) Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb.
(22) Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
(23) For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
Isa 53:1-10
(1) Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
(2) For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.
(3) He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
(4) Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
(5) But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.
(6) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned--every one--to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
(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.
(8) By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
(9) And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
(10) Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Intro thoughts: The Lamb Revealed, The Lamb Provided- and today The Lamb Prophesied
The continuity of scripture and the analogy of faith-the scarlet ribbon that runs through scripture.
EOLS: Jesus was prophesied in the Passover and the prophets as the coming, final lamb sacrifice for mankind.
The accounting department of a large insurance company was working on year-end reports when the computers went down. An emergency call was put in to the systems analyst. Troubleshooting company-wide, the man didn’t appear until three hours later. Yet even then several clerks cheered, "He’s here! Our savior." Without a word, the systems analyst turned to leave. Panicked, the accounting manager cried, "Where are you going?" "I’m leaving," the analyst said with a half-smile. "I remember what they did to the last savior." (Bible.org illustrations database)
The First Passover:
The Blood shall be a sign for you:
The Lamb: Roasted over a fire, served with bitter herbs and unleavened bread-
A simple meal, a simple act of faith-because God said it, I will do it. The act itself is submission.
The simple act of faith in appropriating blood in obedience to God’s command caused judgment to pass by their house, and blessing to come.
The Passover Lamb is another development, a beautiful segment in the development of the picture of Messiah, the Lamb of God.
The Prophecy of Isaiah 53:
As a lamb to the slaughter, as a sheep before His shearers is dumb:
His innocence, His humility-his refusal to defend himself.
Think with me how it confirms His Deity-God does not argue with humans or try to prove himself
It pleased the Lord to bruise Him-
It was all a part of God’s eternal plan, nothing was surprise or plan B.
Psalm 22:12-18
(12) Many bulls encompass me; strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
(13) they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.
(14) I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;
(15) my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.
(16) For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet--
(17) I can count all my bones-- they stare and gloat over me;
(18) they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.
His wounds, bruises, stripes, the “chastisement of his peace” (mental affliction and torture)-become our salvation and healing.
How Does It Relate To Us Today, to our daily life-
Heb 9:11-14
(11) But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)
(12) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
(13) For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,
(14) how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Christ’s sacrifice is better, perfect, one time and for eternity. He was the fulfillment of the Lamb, the Blood and the Sacrifice. The “Paschal Lamb” –without spot or blemish Jesus is the fulfillment of the “Guilt Offering” the blood of Christ purges our conscience to enable us to serve Him.
Accepting his sacrifice in our own lives, for our own lives will purge us of guilt and give us a new start, without the baggage of the past.
Eph 2:14-18
(14) For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
(15) by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
(16) and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
(17) And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.
(18) For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
Peace with God, reconciliation with God and with our fellow man, a new creation in Christ, access to the Father by the Spirit
