Breaking Bondages Through the Passover Lamb

Breaking Bondages Through the Passover Lamb​

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“Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry [of heartache and sorrow] in Egypt, for there was no house where there was not someone dead. Then he called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, “Get up, get out from among my people, both you and the Israelites; and go, serve the LORD, as you said. Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and [ask your God to] bless me also.”” (EXODUS 12:30-32 AMP)

Reading the account of the plagues of judgments done by God in Egypt, I feel really frustrated by the stubbornness of Pharaoh and his refusal to let the children of Israel go. 

I believe that there is a very important reason for God allowing Israel’s deliverance to be dragged out like this and not an immediate, decisive one. 
He is teaching us a principle of deliverance from bondage. 

Out of all the plagues that God did through Moses and Aaron in Egypt, only one of them is a picture of Jesus.

That plague is the last one, the “Death of the Firstborn” where every household of the children of Israel (in short) was instructed to roast an unblemished lamb, eat it, and paint the blood of the lamb on the doorpost and lintel of their house.

The lamb represents Jesus the “Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world”. There are many lessons about Jesus to learn from the Passover lamb: 

“Tell all the congregation of Israel, ‘On the tenth [day] of this month they are to take a lamb or young goat for themselves, according to [the size of] the household of which he is the father, a lamb or young goat for each household. ~‘Now if the household is too small for a lamb [to be consumed], let him and his next door neighbor take one according to the number of people [in the households]; according to what each man can eat, you are to divide the lamb. ~‘Your lamb or young goat shall be [perfect] without blemish or bodily defect, a 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 slaughter it at twilight. ~‘Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel [above the door] of the houses in which they eat it. ~‘They shall eat the meat that same night, roasted in fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. ~‘Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted in fire--both its head and its legs, along with its inner parts. ~‘You shall let none of the meat remain until the morning, and anything that remains left over until morning, you shall burn completely in the fire.” (EXODUS 12:3-10 AMP)

1. The lamb should be completely consumed if not the remaining meat should be burn completely in the fire. We need to consume (believe) all truths about Jesus as declared in God’s word, not just pick and choose the parts we like and think are believable. 
2. The lamb must be unblemished, male and a year old, just like how Jesus was sinless, male and a young adult (33 years old) when He died on the cross for our sins. 
3. The lamb is to be taken on the 10th day and kept till the 14th day of the month. That’s 4 days in between. Prophetically speaking, a day is as a thousand years to the Lord. So 4 days is 4000 years. According to Sir Isaac Newton and Bishop Ussher, they calculated the time between Adam’s creation till Jesus’ death to be about 4000 years! For 4000 years, the Son of God was in heaven, not living among men, and after that, He finally appeared in the likeness of sinful flesh and dwelled among them to die for their sins. 
4. In Hebrew, it literally says that lamb is to be slaughtered between the two evenings. From 12 noon to 3pm, darkness covered the land while Jesus hung on the cross, causing the first ‘evening’. The darkness left after Jesus died at 3pm. At 6pm was the second evening. Jesus died between two evenings! 
5. The blood of the lamb painted on the two doorposts and the lintel forms the Hebrew letter “Tav” which is a pictogram of a cross. The lamb which is sacrificed is represented by the first Hebrew letter “Aleph” (which is a pictogram of a sacrificial ox). Together Aleph Tav forms the meaning of “the sacrifice on the cross”, and it also means “The First and the Last”, “Alpha and Omega”, all referring to Jesus! 
6. The whole lamb must be roasted in fire, and eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. The full wrath (fire) of God for all the sins of the world fell upon Jesus at the cross. Jesus is a sinless and perfect sacrifice (unleavened bread). In the Bible leaven represents sin. Jesus bore our curses (the bitter herbs). Herbs are grown from the cursed ground.  
7. The lamb cannot be eaten raw which is to wrongly say that Jesus never received the punishment for our sins. The lamb cannot be eaten boiled in water which is to wrongly say that Jesus’ work at the cross is not a finished work, that He did not bear the full punishment for our sins and that there remains some unpunished sins. 

God passed over every household that had the blood of the Passover lamb on its doorposts and lintel:

“For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel [above the entry way] and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to slay you.” (EXODUS 12:23 AMP)

Pharaoh, which represents the devil, only let the children of Israel go after the final plague which involves the Passover lamb (Jesus). 

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