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A Glorious Easter Message - The Lamb of God

As we commemorate the Christian celebration of the Lord’s Resurrection this 2008 Easter season Satan has launched one of his greatest attacks on the church concerning the message of the Cross of Christ. Apostasy very seldom gets into the blood stream of the church from the outside; that’s why Satan fights his best war on the INSIDE to woo the church away from its real source of power - the BLOOD OF JESUS and the power in what He accomplished for us at the Cross. Passover is a prophetic type of this great victory we have been given THROUGH CHRIST - the PASSOVER LAMB, sacrificed for US - over sin, the flesh, the world - AND SATAN. The blood of the Lamb of Deliverance is our only defense against the enemy of our soul. That is why he constantly seeks to move our faith to something other than that which will destroy his power in our lives!It was the Passover sacrifice that delivered Israel from the power of Pharaoh so that her people would never again serve Egypt. It is the CROSS, of which the Passover was a prophetic type, that delivers us from the power of Satan and slavery to the corruption of the world. Never forget that. It was not the miracles that got Pharaoh to loose his grip on the children of Israel - but the BLOOD! Realizing this today, Satan rages war against those who turn to the cross just as Pharaoh did against Israel when he saw he was losing his power over them. Like the Passover did in type, the cross brings judgment upon the evil of the world, but delivers those who embrace it from the world. The sacrifice of the Lamb has always been the main point of conflict in eternity and it will always be the point of conflict in future events yet to take place upon planet Earth and in heaven. But the LAMB of GOD is the LAMB OF DELIVERANCE AND HE HAS PREVAILED AND WILL PREVAIL FOR ALL ETERNITY! The Lamb of God has come to TAKE AWAY the SIN OF THE WORLD. Christ took away the penalty of death over us through His great sacrifice and broke the power of sin by conquering every foe of darkness that would seek to bring the child of God into bondage.

Col. 2:13-14
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; [14] Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

The feast of Passover is the celebration and retelling of the great story of how God redeemed the Jewish nation from enslavement in Egypt, a type of the believer’s redemption from sin through Christ and Him crucified, was given to the Jews while they were still in Egypt.

The first Passover in Egypt centered around the Passover lamb, which was sacrificed and its blood put over the doorposts as a sign of faith and protection from that which the Lord would do in the killing of the firstborn of all who. The great promise of Exodus 12:10 - “when I see the Blood, I will pass over you,” is the hallmark promise of what this writer believes to be Israel’s greatest feast on her calendar - the beginning of months, the Feast of Passover. When we came to Christ, who brought us out of Egypt through His precious blood, we experienced a “first of months,” or beginning spiritually as we became new creatures in Christ Jesus!

Exodus 12:1-3
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, [2] 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:2 Cor. 5:17-21
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. [18] And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation

Exodus 12:13-14
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. [14] And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

The blood on the door posts was to be a token to all Israel that God would pass over those who placed their faith in the slain Lamb from which the blood came. It was a powerful prophetic eternal picture of the coming Crucifixion years into the future when Heaven’s glorious Lamb shed His blood for the sins of all mankind. Holy Spirit through Paul declares that Jesus Christ is our sacrificial Lamb.

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