Old Testament Events
The Passover Lamb
Christ Our Passover
Description
The Passover lamb is one of the most explicit types of Christ. In Egypt, the lamb without blemish was slain, its blood applied to the doorposts, and the destroyer passed over those households. Israel was to eat the lamb with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, ready for departure. Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. His blood, applied by faith, causes God's judgment to pass over the believer. Not a bone of the Passover lamb was broken; neither were Christ's bones broken on the cross.
Key Verses
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses.
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold... But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.