Beauty in the Exodus - Introduction Part 2

In my research for some of the upcoming pages on the Tabernacle, I found a section in one of my books on Christ in the Passover as we were discussing yesterday. The book is called, “Seeing Christ in the Tabernacle,” by Ervin N. Hersberger.

From his writing, we may add the following pictures of Christ to the Passover:

·        God specified the hour they were to kill the lamb. It was to be between the hours of 3:00 and 6:00 in the afternoon. This would put it at the same time of day when our Lord breathed His last on the cross.

·        “For the blood to be shed and displayed in the vessel was not enough, it had to be applied…The Blood of Christ, shed for all men, avails nothing except for believers who appropriate its cleansing power by faith.” (page 85)

·        The Israelites were instructed to prepare the lamb without adding water to it. This is most interesting:

“The lamb of course typified Christ, and with the cookware of that day the flesh could not be cooked without adding water. Christ shall not be watered down, nothing added to Him, and nothing taken away. The head, legs and purtenance were not to be eaten, but the lamb was to be roasted whole, emphasizing that Christ is to be appropriated in His entirety: nothing added nor removed.” (page 85)

·        Finally, they were not leave any part of the lamb until morning.  To which Hersberger responds thus:

“All that was not eaten was to be burned before morning. Typifying Christ, the lamb was holy. ‘Give not that which is holy unto the dogs’ (Mt. 7:6). ‘Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy one to see corruption’ (Ps 16:106). Those verses tell us why everything that was not eaten should be burned. Nothing should be left for the dogs, nor permitted to decay.  The body of Christ saw no corruption in the grave.” (Page 85)

Do you see how dazzlingly beautiful He is? In one single act, the initiation of the Passover, He gave us so many powerful analogies of the Christ, His Beloved Son. It is like holding a gem in your hand. You turn it over and around and hold it up to the light at different angles to see the magnificent facets all shimmering distinctly yet unified in one jewel.

Isn’t He AWEsome!? Simply breath-taking! Divine!