The Blood of The Lamb

[Christian Saul]

Exodus 12:21-28
Old Testament.

In the book of Exodus in the Bible a story is told. A true story. A story about a man named Moses and a story about a people. A people called the Israelites. God’s people. God’s people who were broken and in bondage and who were crying for freedom. Freedom from Pharaoh and freedom from Egypt. So God sent Moses with a message for Pharaoh – “Let my people go”. But Pharaoh didn’t listen. So God sent plague after plague to help Pharaoh to listen. He still didn’t listen. So God sent a final plague which was more devastating than the other nine put together. Finally Pharaoh would listen.
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The angel of death was sent to kill every first born in Egypt. In order for the Israelites to be spared from this plague God told them to paint the blood of a perfect lamb on the doorposts of their homes. The Red Door. This would be a sign to the angel of death to pass over their homes. So long as their doorposts were painted with blood their home would be a place of refuge when the plague came. They would be safe and they would be saved.
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New Testament.

Now, skip forward a few thousand years to the story of Jesus. The story of His life. The story of His death. The story of Him conquering death. The death and the resurrection of Jesus is the completion of the Exodus story. Jesus is our perfect lamb and His blood was shed so that we all can be safe and be saved from death. He is our Red Door. In him we find salvation. We find refuge. We find hope. We find the answer.

 

[B-A-C]

While it's true, there was the passover and the blood on the door.

Lambs were also used as sin sacrifices done by priests. ( Lev 4:32; Lev 5:6; Lev 9:3; Lev 12:6; Lev 14:13; etc... (this is actually mentioned in over 50 verses).

 

[james1523]

Exodus 12:21-28
Old Testament.

In the book of Exodus in the Bible a story is told. A true story. A story about a man named Moses and a story about a people. A people called the Israelites. God’s people. God’s people who were broken and in bondage and who were crying for freedom. Freedom from Pharaoh and freedom from Egypt. So God sent Moses with a message for Pharaoh – “Let my people go”. But Pharaoh didn’t listen. So God sent plague after plague to help Pharaoh to listen. He still didn’t listen. So God sent a final plague which was more devastating than the other nine put together. Finally Pharaoh would listen.
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The angel of death was sent to kill every first born in Egypt. In order for the Israelites to be spared from this plague God told them to paint the blood of a perfect lamb on the doorposts of their homes. The Red Door. This would be a sign to the angel of death to pass over their homes. So long as their doorposts were painted with blood their home would be a place of refuge when the plague came. They would be safe and they would be saved.
*
New Testament.

Now, skip forward a few thousand years to the story of Jesus. The story of His life. The story of His death. The story of Him conquering death. The death and the resurrection of Jesus is the completion of the Exodus story. Jesus is our perfect lamb and His blood was shed so that we all can be safe and be saved from death. He is our Red Door. In him we find salvation. We find refuge. We find hope. We find the answer.

Yes amen. There was also the lamb's flesh and the unleavened bread. Christ is both of these as well. While the Angel of Death passed over, the people were feasting. To drink Christ's blood, is the application of the blood for salvation from judgement, and to eat Christ's body/flesh, is the feasting aspect of the passover.

 

[pekoe]

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. Jn.15:14

And he that keeps his commandments dwells in him, and he in him. 1 Jn.3:24

Abide and dwell mean the same thing.

He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him.

To eat Christ's flesh and drink His blood means to live by what He said.

 

[B-A-C]

A lot of interesting ideas about this. I tend to take it more at face value. I guess I'm a fundamentalist.

The bible says the price of sin is death. In other words if you ever sinned you're condemned to death.
Then comes Jesus, who of course never sinned. So of course death had no power over him.

Why does this matter? Why did Jesus have to die at all if he never sinned?

In Lev 4:32; Lev 4:35; Lev 5:6-7; Lev 9:3; Lev 12:6-8; Lev 14:13; Numb 6:14; we see examples of the sacrificial lamb for sin offering.
Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

In John 1:29; John the Baptist called Jesus the lamb of the world.

These animals couldn't be just any animal. They had to be the most perfect of animals.
They had to be without defect. ( Lev 1:3; Lev 1:10; Lev 3:1; Lev 3:6; Lev 4:3; Lev 5:15; etc... )
They could not be lame, or sick, or deformed, or even aged (old).

Originally these sacrifices were done by people. The first two sacrifices mentioned in the Bible were done by Cain and Abel. ( Gen 4:3-5; )
Many people think Abel's offering "from the flock" was likely a lamb, as he was a shepherd. ( Gen 4:2; )

Every time you committed a sin, you had to take an animal from the flock and sacrifice it. After the Israelites came out of Egypt God told Aaron to start the order of priests.
To be a priest you had to be from the tribe of Levi. The priests were the ones who took over sacrificing the animals.

In the book of Hebrews we find out that even this wasn't really a very good arrangement. First no animals truly were perfect, and second the priests themselves were
not perfect. In fact once a year they had to go to a high-priest and have their sins confessed and sacrificed for also. ( Read Hebrews chapters 7, 8 and 9 )

So we needed a new (and improved) way. Jesus was sinless, he was in the prime of his life. He was the perfect sacrifice. In fact he was the ONLY perfect person who ever lived.
When Jesus died, he took the sins of the world upon him. ( 1 Pet 2:24; Isa 53:6; ) Jesus became the scapegoat for our sins. He was punished for something he didn't do.
He didn't even have to do it, but he chose to because of his love for us.

Jesus truly was the lamb of the world. ( Rev 21:7-27; )

 

[B-A-C]

1 Pet 2:22; WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS ANY DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH;
1 Pet 2:23; and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously;
1 Pet 2:24; and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.

Isa 53:4; Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5; But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.
Isa 53:6; All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.

Rom 4:25; He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.

Rom 5:8; But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Rom 5:9; Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

2 Cor 5:21; He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Matt 26:28; for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins

Heb 9:28; so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.

1 Pet 1:19; but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.

Eph 5:2; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

Heb 9:14; how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:15; For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Heb 9:22; And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
Heb 10:12; but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD,

Eph 1:7; In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

1 Cor 1:30; But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

Rev 5:9; And they *sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

Rom 5:6; For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
Rom 5:7; For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die.
Rom 5:8; But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Rom 5:9; Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

1 Cor 15:3; For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

1 Pet 3:18; For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

Jesus was the lamb that was slain for our sins.