Have you ever thought: "What did that Last Passover Supper mean to the Lord Jesus Christ?"
Here are three Scriptures which I hope will enlarge your understanding of the Lord Jesus Christ and His once-and-for-all Sacrifice for us all...
“take ye every man a lamb … a lamb for an house” – His Sacrifice to free His people.
“the sign of the prophet Jonah” – His Death and Descension into Hell.
“the lifter up of Mine head” – His Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven, after that time.
Exodus 12: 2 – 3 “This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house.”
This was the occasion of the time called the Passover which was instituted that day by the LORD as He prepared His people to be delivered from slavery in Egypt… He passed over every house which displayed the blood of the lamb upon the door. No one was killed in that house.
This was what the Lord Jesus – that same LORD who spoke to Moses, now in a human Body – directed Peter and John to prepare the upper room for the twelve disciples to celebrate the Passover. Judas left before the Lord interrupted the ancient Feast and said, ‘All that has gone now. Now you celebrate Me, in remembering My Death and Resurrection, and coming again.’ (My interpretation of the Gospel records!)
When the Lord Jesus said, “This is My Body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of Me” [Luke 22:19] He ceased the ancient tradition, and fulfilled in Himself the Scripture “every man a lamb … a lamb for an house.”
He came to give His Life a ransom and shed His Blood for the sins of the whole world – past, present and future lives. What a Saviour!!
When His Sacrifice was complete; God was satisfied that His sufferings and His obedience and His Offering completely atoned for all time the sins of the world, He cried out …
John 19:30 “It is finished and He bowed His head and gave up the ghost”.
Later the next day, when the two thieves were also dead, His Body was taken down from the Cross, prepared for burial in the manner of the Jews, and laid in a tomb belonging to the rich man Joseph of Arimathaea, a member of the Jewish Counsel.
But His soul had already gone down into Hell...
Psalm 69:1 – 2 “Save Me, O God; For the waters are come in unto My soul. 2. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing [it is a bottomless pit – spherical, no bottom]: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow Me.”
Jonah 1:17 “Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.”
Chapter 2 reveals the terrible experience of Jonah in those depths – a foreshadowing of Christ going down into Hell.
Matthew 12:39 – 40 “… and there shall no sign be given … but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” [Hell is in the centre / heart of the earth]
But then, our wonderful Treasure of God’s Word has also said...
Psalm 116:10 “For Thou wilt not leave My soul in hell; neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption.”
This Scripture was quoted by Peter on the Day of Pentecost (AD33) showing that it did not refer to David, as his sepulchre still contains the bones of David! No, Peter said, this refers to the resurrection of Christ whom they had crucified.
Psalm 3:3 “But Thou, O LORD, art a shield for Me: My glory, and the Lifter up of Mine head.”
The Lord Jesus, our Passover Lamb, gave God in Heaven all the praise and honour for raising Him from the dead! When He died, it says, “He bowed His head, and gave up the ghost”. He died at the time of the evening sacrifice was offered in the Temple at Jerusalem...
Three nights and three days later – the first day of the week which we call Sunday – the Lord Jesus Christ was raised again from the dead. He came out of that terrible dungeon of Hell and back into His wounded Body – just to proclaim that we are now able to be children of the True and Living God !
Hallelujah !
John 20:17 “...but go to My brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father, and your Father; and to My God, and your God.”
He proclaimed to Mary Magdelene, “Go tell My brethren...” No longer the son of Mary, part of an earthly family, but the Firstborn of God’s New Family; a Family free from sin !
Hallelujah !
“...and say, I go to My Father and your Father...” joined together with the Firstborn in one victorious, holy family of God !
Hallelujah !!
“...and My God and your God” - brought together under one New Creation, under one Authority of the True and Living God, the Lord God Almighty, who “liveth for ever and ever” [Revelation 4]
Hallelujah !!!
May this True and Living God to whom we have been given free access by the poured out Blood of The Lamb, fill your hearts this Easter as never before.
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