Choosing the Lamb!

Just when the God of Israel was about to redeem His people from bondage, He commanded them through Moses saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month (the first month in the calendar that the Lord Himself instituted, now known as the Jewish calendar), each man is to take a lamb for his family, one per household…’ [Exo. 12:3]. He also commanded that they were to keep this lamb ‘until the fourteenth day of the month’ when all Israel will slaughter their lambs at dusk [Exo. 12:6]. This is the Passover which the One who knows the future commanded should be remembered and celebrated as a festival to the Lord from generation to generation as a perpetual regulation [Exo. 12:14].

Several thousand years later, on precisely the tenth day of the first month (which, this year, falls on 10 April), the Lord's Anointed One, Yeshua the Messiah, entered Jerusalem riding on a colt before all Israel. The people lay branches on the road and spread their cloaks before Him, crying 'Hoshiana! Blessed is He who comes in the name of Adonai.' The translation of the Hebrew word, 'Hoshiana', is 'Save us' or 'Rescue us'.

Orchestrated by the Father, Israel on precisely the tenth day of the first month, selected the lamb that would be the Passover lamb - the Lamb of God who would take away their sins, and not only theirs, but the sins of the whole world too.

From tomorrow evening (10 April 2022) until dusk on 11 April, is the tenth day of the first month in the biblical calendar. Just as Israel was commanded to prepare for the Passover by removing all leaven from their homes. May, we, even those who were once Gentiles but now have been made a part of Israel through the mercy and kindness of the Father, prepare for the Passover (which is from the evening of 14 April to dusk on 15 April) by removing all leaven from our homes and our lives. 

This Pesach, let us remember the great privilege we have been granted by the Passover Lamb. For through Yeshua, all who have believed in Him and have passed over from death to life, YHWH, El Elyon, who is also Elohe T'seva'ot, says to such, 'I will be your God and you will be My people.' 

Separate yourselves as a people whose lives, through obedience to His word, will magnify His Name and proclaim His excellencies. For to such He says, 'If you will pay careful attention to what I say and keep My covenant, then you will be My own treasure from among all the peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you will be a kingdom of cohanim for Me, a nation set apart' [Exo. 19: 5,6]. 

Shalom!