Part 2 Jesus the Passover Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world
Some scriptures to show that Jesus is the Passover Lamb of God.
Some scriptures to show that Jesus is the Passover Lamb of God.
1 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John 11:47-52
47 Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
49 And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
51 And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
52 And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
Luke 22:15, 19-20
15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
1 Corinthians 5:7-8
8 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:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
The Importance of Atonement and the cross in light of the passages on Atonement from the Old Testament –Leviticus 16 & 17
The Life is in the Blood Or the parallel between the cross and Christ our Passover and the Day of Atonement
⦁ When Jesus hung on the cross He took away our sins and became a sin offering, a sin carrier He was both a scapegoat that took away confessed sins and He became a sacrifice of atonement to atone for Israel’s sins as a nation.
As well as being a Passover Lamb for individuals sins of everyone in the world for both Jew and Gentile alike.
⦁ His blood sprinkled the nations. God saw to it that both the Jews and the Gentiles had a hand in His sacrifice. All mankind is guilty of sin; He bore this upon Himself upon the tree.
⦁ He had authority to give life to whom He willed. He had authority to lay down His life and to take it up again. John 1:12, John 10:17-18
John 10:17-18
17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
⦁ The work on the cross was the hardest work for both Father and Son this is the hardest work that they did together.
⦁ When the Israelites offered up animal sacrifices they were instructed not to eat the blood of the animal. This command from God of not eating blood with the sacrifice as the life is in the blood of the animal, its soul/ life is in the blood.
⦁ This is looking forward to the time when Jesus would offer up His Spirit (soul) life which was in His blood being poured out as atonement for our sins. Leviticus 16 is a long chapter but please read it as it gives an insight on what happens on the Day of Atonement.
Leviticus 17:10-14
10 Any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who dwell temporarily among them who eats any kind of blood, against that person I will set My face and I will cut him off from among his people [that he may not be included in the atonement made for them].
11 For the life (the animal soul) is in the blood, and I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life [which it represents].
12 Therefore I have said to the Israelites, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who dwells temporarily among you eat blood.
13 And any of the Israelites or of the strangers who sojourn among them who takes in hunting any clean beast or bird shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust.
14 As for the life of all flesh, the blood of it represents the life of it; therefore I said to the Israelites, You shall partake of the blood of no kind of flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats of it shall be cut off.
⦁ Father redeemed Israel from Egypt; He even gave men as a ransom in her place to redeem her from captivity to Babylon. Isaiah 43:1-4.
Isaiah 43:3-4
3 For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt [to the Babylonians] for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba [a province of Ethiopia] in exchange [for your release].
4 Because you are precious in My sight and honored, and because I love you, I will give men in return for you and peoples in exchange for your life.
⦁ Yet Jesus took the burning wrath of God in place of Israel as a nation for whom the stroke was due. The atonement for the nation’s sins and the chastisement for our wellbeing shalom was put upon Him for all mankind. Isaiah 53:3-5
Isaiah 53: 8
8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away; and as for His generation, who among them considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living [stricken to His death] for the transgression of my [Isaiah's] people, to whom the stroke was due?
⦁ God corrected Him with the rod of men and the stripes of the son of men, in 2 Samuel 7:14.
God speaking to David speaks about how Solomon will be like a son to Him and how He would correct Him with the rod of men and the stripes of the sons of men.
I also think this verse could be referring to Jesus when He was whipped before He went to the cross and Isaiah 53 talks about the stripes that wounded Him for our healing.
2 Samuel 7:14
14 I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. When he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the sons of men.
Luke 23:16
16 I will therefore chastise Him and deliver Him amended (reformed, taught His lesson) and release Him.
⦁ Not that Jesus committed iniquity He was beginning to take the sins of man during that period leading up to the crucifixion. He became our sin offering and He was being punished for our iniquity by Father with the stripes of the sons of men, He was being chastened with the rod of men.
⦁ He was punished for our sake; He was roasted with the fire of judgment the wrath of God against sin.
Father couldn’t look upon His Son as His Son had become fully sin on that cross.
He was marred beyond recognition His physical body became so marred from the beatings and the striking of His face His beard was pulled out.
His face must have been a mess from the physical beatings that He suffered at the hands of the High Priests and the temple guards before He came to Pilate and the beatings He suffered both from the Roman guard with Pilate and Herod. Matthew 27:27-31, Luke 23:7-11,
⦁ Then when He came to the cross the sin of human kind was put upon Him as it is put upon the scapegoat before it is sent away into the wilderness.
The goat for atonement is sacrificed for the house of Israel’s sins. He was carrying both Israel’s sins as a nation as well as all of humankind individually for every man and woman born and yet to be born both Jew and Gentile.
⦁ He was the ransom promised to Eve for the sin that was committed going back to the garden. Only His blood could atone for sin as it is eternal. He took on the burden of sin on the tree; He became a curse for us. For the law states cursed are every one that is hung on a tree.
⦁ The Jewish leaders hated Jesus that much they wanted Him to be crucified upon a cross a tree for they knew that everyone who hangs upon a tree will be cursed by God and they wanted Jesus to be cursed by God to be a curse Isaiah 53:4 smitten by God. Several times in the scriptures it states that they plotted together on how to destroy Him.
⦁ They could have just taken Him out and stoned Him like they did with Stephen in Acts but they wanted to hand Him over to the Romans to Pontius Pilate.
To put Him to death on a cross so that their hands will be free of His blood but to have His blood on the Romans and to have Him made a curse so that they will be free of Him that is what they thought.
They stirred the crowd up so much they ended up cursing themselves with His sinless blood by saying His blood be upon us and our children before He went to the cross.
⦁ In spite of what they did to Him, Jesus forgave them also of this sin by cursing themselves with His blood for when He was being nailed to the cross He said Father forgive them for they know not what they do. This refers to all who have sinned / will sin against Him both Jew and Gentile Luke 23:33-34. We are to witness to the Jews as well as to the nations Romans 1:16.
⦁ They didn’t realize that the verse in Deuteronomy about cursed is every man that hangs on a tree was referring to the future coming of their Messiah as the suffering servant.
Who would become a curse for us all that we might be set free from the curse of sin which leads to death not just physical death but spiritual death which is separation from God.
Galatians 3:15
15 Christ purchased our freedom [redeeming us] from the curse (doom) of the Law [and its condemnation] by [Himself] becoming a curse for us, for it is written [in the Scriptures], Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified);
Deuteronomy 21:22-23
22 And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death and [afterward] you hang him on a tree,
23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day, for a hanged man is accursed by God. Thus you shall not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.
Matthew 27:22-25
22 Pilate said to them, Then what shall I do with Jesus Who is called Christ?
23 They all replied, Let Him be crucified! And he said, Why? What has He done that is evil? But they shouted all the louder, Let Him be crucified!
24 So when Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but rather that a riot was about to break out, he took water and washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, saying, I am not guilty of nor responsible for this righteous Man’s blood; see to it yourselves.
25 And all the people answered, Let His blood be on us and on our children!
Isaiah 50:7
7 I gave My back to the smiters and My cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I hid not My face from shame and spitting.
Matthew 26:67
67 Then they spat in His face and struck Him with their fists; and some slapped Him in the face,
Luke 23:11,
11 And Herod, with his soldiers, treated Him with contempt and scoffed at and ridiculed Him; then, dressing Him up in bright and gorgeous apparel, he sent Him back to Pilate.
Isaiah 52:14
14 [For many the Servant of God became an object of horror; many were astonished at Him.] His face and His whole appearance were marred more than any man's, and His form beyond that of the sons of men--but just as many were astonished at Him,
⦁ God’s eyes are so pure and holy He cannot look upon sin, so He turned His back on His only dear Son, He separated Himself from His Son because of sin.
⦁ That is why Jesus cried out to Father why had He forsaken Him, He who had never been without the presence and love of His Father who had been with Him all this time right up until He became the sin offering. Mark 15:34.
⦁ We can never comprehend this nor fully understand what happened at the cross and may never will or at least we won’t fully understand this until we see Him face to face and then we will know.
Habakkuk 1:13a
13a You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look [inactively] upon injustice.
Psalm 22:1
1 MY GOD, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
Matthew 27:46
46 And about the ninth hour (three o'clock) Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?--that is, My God, My God, why have You abandoned Me [leaving Me helpless, forsaking and failing Me in My need]?
⦁ And for impact we can slot in here Isaiah 53 where He was stricken, smitten and afflicted by God we considered Him being rejected by God but it was necessary for our spiritual wellbeing for Him to go through this punishment for us.
Isaiah 53: 3-5, 8
3 He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows and pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness; and like One from Whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or have any esteem for Him.
4 Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy].
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
⦁ As I mentioned above Jesus who never knew separation from His Father was willing to go to the cross for our sake and suffer the consequences of sin separation from God when He became sin a sin offering. 2 Corinthians 5:21
⦁ This is the scapegoat part of His sacrifice as the scapegoat was taken out into the wilderness into a place of separation from the camp of the Israelites or later nation of Israel Jesus too experienced the wilderness of being separated from His Father, Leviticus 16:21-22.
His God because of sin and He experienced the separation from God’s presence that sin brings this separation that leads to death. By going into the wilderness of separation Jesus bore away our sins as our sin bearer.
⦁ Jesus also died outside the camp of the Israelites He died outside the walls of Jerusalem.
Leviticus 16:28 Hebrews 13:11-14.
⦁ The cross was the hardest work that both the Father and Son had ever done. It was harder than creation or even redeeming the Israelites from Egypt or ransoming them from captivity from Babylon.
⦁ For Father it was hard for Him to punish His beloved Son by judging Him and pouring out His wrath upon His beloved Son, He did not even spare Him for our sakes. That He was put to grief and made sick that both you Father and He Jesus made His life an offering for sin. This was really a hard work the work of redemption of all mankind a high price to pay the death of His own dearly beloved Son. Isaiah 53:10.
⦁ It was hard for Father to pour out His judgment and because He is holy He cannot look upon sin and to have to turn His back on His dearly beloved Son to hear Him cry out my God my God why have you forsaken me must have torn at His heart but He must pour out His wrath upon Him for our sake to redeem mankind from sin.
⦁ That He Jesus tasted death, He experienced the spiritual horror of separation from God to know what it would be like for the spirits of men and women to go through eternity to be cut off from a loving, just, forgiving God and not to see His face or have fellowship with Him.
Jesus endured all of this for our sakes He took our place on the cross so that we could go free and be clothed with His righteousness and can spend eternity with both Jesus and His Father. Hebrews chapters 2-4, 2 Corinthians 5:17-21
⦁ He fulfilled the promise to Eve that a redeemer would be born of her seed to bruise the head of satan and the promise He gave to Abraham that He will provide a lamb an offering through his seed that will come through the descendants of Abraham the Hebrew people. Genesis 3:15, Genesis 22:2.7.11-13, Acts 3:25-26.
⦁ It was hard for Jesus as the Son not so much to take the wrath poured out by His Father upon sin that He being the sin offering but to have His Father turn away from Him and reject Him because He cannot look upon sin and to be forsaken for the first and only time in His life by His Father from whom He had never been separated.
⦁ It tore His heart out too in fact He died of a broken heart (John 19:34) but still He went through the punishment for our sins.
⦁ In John 19:34 the apostle John is the only one who recounts how a Roman soldier pierced the side of Jesus to make sure He was indeed dead and from His side came both blood and water, medical science in our days have attested that this result of blood and water coming from His side would have been from a broken heart.
⦁ Zechariah talks about the Jews looking upon One whom they have pierced and a fountain being opened in Jerusalem for them by which they will be cleansed. This fountain in His side is the fountain that Zechariah speaks of and He was pierced for them in the House of His friends Zechariah 13:1, 6.
⦁ Also in 1 John 5:6-9 The scripture talks about the three witnesses on the earth the Spirit the water and the blood and this could mean the witness from the water of baptism as well as possibly the water and blood that came out from His pierced side from a broken heart at His death.
John 19:34
34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came (flowed) out.
Zechariah 9:9 & 11
9 Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O Daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you; He is [uncompromisingly] just and having salvation [triumphant and victorious], patient, meek, lowly, and riding on a donkey, upon a colt, the foal of a donkey.
11 As for you also, because of and for the sake of the [covenant of the Lord with His people, which was sealed with sprinkled] covenant blood, I have released and sent forth your imprisoned people out of the waterless pit.
Zechariah 12:10
10 And I will pour out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace or unmerited favor and supplication. And they shall look [earnestly] upon Me Whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him as one who is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Zechariah 13:1, 6
1 IN THAT day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem [to cleanse them from] sin and uncleanness.
6 And one shall say unto him,
What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
⦁ He was taunted at to come down from the cross by the bystanders but He didn’t give in to their taunts but carried out the judgment to the bitter end.
He drank this cup of punishment to its bitterest dregs; this cup is the third cup of the Passover seder meal, it is the cup of redemption. He drained it dry for our sakes and Israel’s/ Jerusalem’s sake.
⦁ In the garden before He came to the cross He begged His Father to take away the cup of judgment if it was possible but each time He also prayed not His will but Father’s be done.
He saw the task for which He was born to the bitter end. What a Savior, What a God, truly He is worthy of our love, adoration and praise Mark 14:32-36, 39-42, Luke 22:39-46.
Yes Jesus was born to die this was the sole reason He came to earth in the body prepared for Him. It was to be a body of sacrifice. This is so that He could bleed, as i wrote above the life is in the blood. It is only through the pouring out of blood in sacrifice can sins be forgiven. So God the Son had to come to earth in a human body to do just this to become a divine sacrifice for all of humanity.
He was given myrrh at His birth and this spice is in anointing oil and it is used for burial as well.
You can read about the gifts given to Him at His birth by the wise men and their significance.
Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh: The Gifts of the Wise Men (Magi)
http://www.revelation.co/2013/12/15/gold-frankincense-and-myrrh-the-gifts-of-the-wise-men-magi/
Matthew 26:38-39,42,4438 Then He said to them, My soul is very sad and deeply grieved, so that I am almost dying of sorrow. Stay here and keep awake and keep watch with Me.
39 And going a little farther, He threw Himself upon the ground on His face and prayed saying, My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from Me; nevertheless, not what I will [not what I desire], but as You will and desire
42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
44 So, leaving them again, He went away and prayed for the third time, using the same words.
⦁ I am sure when He returned to heaven He and the Father must have held each other for a very long time and were so glad to be reunited with each other. The angels would have rejoiced too, to see the Son of Righteousness return to His rightful place in heaven and to be exalted to the highest place of honor in heaven to be seated at Father’s right hand.
⦁ Getting back to the cross when Jesus was hanging on the cross before He died He said it is finished. He trusted Himself entirely to His Father even though He felt forsaken because Father turned away from Him, when He died He said Father into your hands I commit my Spirit. He trusted His Father even to the very end believing that His sacrifice would be found acceptable to His God and that He would be raised up on the third day.
John 19:28-30
28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished (ended), said in fulfillment of the Scripture, I thirst.
29 A vessel (jar) full of sour wine (vinegar) was placed there, so they put a sponge soaked in the sour wine on [a stalk, reed of] hyssop, and held it to [His] mouth.
30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, It is finished! And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
Psalm 22:31
31 They shall come and shall declare His righteousness to a people yet to be born--that He has done it [that it is finished)
Luke 23:44-46
44 It was now about the sixth hour (midday), and darkness enveloped the whole land and earth until the ninth hour (about three o'clock in the afternoon),
45 While the sun's light faded or was darkened; and the curtain [of the Holy of Holies] of the temple was torn in two.
46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit! And with these words, He expired.
⦁ By saying it is finished He had accomplished the work of cleansing freeing us from sin and the law’s righteous demands were met. To show that this was the case that the heavenly holy of holies was opened through the veil of His flesh and we can now have access to the heavenly throne of Grace the sacrifice was accepted by Father the veil in the Holy of Holies in the temple in Jerusalem was torn from top to bottom.
⦁ Now all may enter into God’s presence not just those who were of the tribe of Levites and of the family of priests and not just the priests but only the High Priest could enter once a year to make atonement for sin. Hebrews 3:11-14, Hebrews 10:5-9, 20
Hebrews 5:20
20 By this fresh (new) and living way which He initiated and dedicated and opened for us through the separating curtain (veil of the Holy of Holies), that is, through His flesh,
⦁ The Veil of the Holy of Holies was torn in the Temple from top to bottom. Mark 15:37-39, Matthew 27:50-53.
Luke 23:45
45 While the sun's light faded or was darkened; and the curtain [of the Holy of Holies] of the temple was torn in two.
Jesus is our Passover for through His blood as believers in Christ we are cleansed from sin. We are now hidden in Christ away from God's wrath against sin.
When Jesus comes again He will call us to Himself and our bodies will be changed from the mortal to the immortal and God's wrath will pass over us for we will become as Christ is at His appearing.
References: Colossians 3:1-4, Ephesians 2:1-10, Matthew 24:29-31, Romans 8:9-26, 1 Corinthians 15:50-58, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17, 2 Thessalonians 1:5-12,
1 John 3:2-3, Revelation 1:5-7, Hebrews 9:28
Next blog post we will continue on with part 3.
Part 3 Where was Jesus crucified?
Part 3a Jerusalem as God’s capital city and her cleansing by water and blood.
Part 3b Who Owns the Temple Mount the Real Owner is God through the Tribe of Judah.
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