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By i24NEWS English
"Now the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of
Egypt, ‘This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the
first month of the year to you. Speak to
all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth of this month they are
each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their fathers' households,
a lamb for each household.' ...
“’Now if the household is too small for a lamb, then he
and his neighbour nearest to his house are to take one according to the number
of persons in them; according to what each man should eat, you are to divide
the lamb.
“’Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you
may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the
whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight. Moreover, they shall take some of the blood
and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they
eat it.
“’They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with
fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with
water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its
entrails. And you shall not leave any of
it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn
with fire.
“’Now you shall eat it in this manner with your loins girded,
your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in
haste – it is the Lord’s Passover. For
I will go through the land of Egypt on that night and will strike down all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of
Egypt I will execute judgments – I am the Lord.
“’The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where
you live; 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. And when your children say to you, 'What does
this rite mean to you?' you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to the Lord
who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians
but spared our homes.'' Exodus 12:1-3,
26-27a
Preparing for holidays is always a busy time and so it would
have been for all the Israelites and Jesus’ disciples who lived and/ or
travelled to Jerusalem for the strict preparations. It took days, cleaning and selecting the specific
foods and the lamb, the cooking, the setting of the table, etc.
The people -- including the disciples -- were so busy setting
things up, they had no time to imagine how the Scriptures regarding the details
of the meal and the traditions that accompanied it, were far more meaningful
than they ever expected. When you read Exodus
or just the passage above, you can see how carefully this time of preparation was,
how many details had to be followed.
However, from THIS Passover, the Law relinquished its power
to the blood of God’s perfect Lamb, sacrificed for any who would admit their
helplessness to sin and believe in Him.
Only in this way would each of us have the hope and promise of a future.
Take care with love, especially His, Darlene (who still
prays for you daily)
PS: Find my statement
of faith: https://especiallyhislove.blogspot.com
(where you will also find a series of
beginner Bible studies to share). You can easily find the WeakDay Devotion
online by doing a Google search for ‘WeakDay Devotion’. (Also, there is an android ‘Google
Blogger’ app you can download to read them on your phone. Not sure about Apple.). For the books, go to Amazon
books.
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