Blemish-free

Shared from a Facebook post by John Ross….

You’ve gone to church your whole life….

You’ve never missed an Easter service….

But, did you know….

Every year at Passover, a lamb was selected and brought into the family's home. Most Christians know that. Here is what most Christians have never been told.

The lamb was not slaughtered immediately. It was brought in on the 10th day of Nisan and it stayed with the family for four full days.

It lived in the house. It ate from their hands. The children played with it. They gave it a name. They fell in love with it.

For four days, that lamb became part of the family.

Then on the 14th of Nisan, the father took the lamb his children had been holding and sleeping beside for four days, and slaughtered it.

The blood was painted on the doorposts. The family ate the lamb together that night. And death passed over every house covered by the blood of the lamb they had loved.

That was the Passover. And it happened every single year for 1,500 years.

Now here is what makes that devastating.

Jesus entered Jerusalem on the 10th of Nisan.

The exact day the Passover lamb was selected.

He rode in while crowds waved palm branches and shouted Hosanna. Selected publicly, the same day every family in Israel was selecting their lamb privately.

Then for four days He was examined.

The Pharisees tested Him. The Sadducees tested Him. The Herodians tested Him. Pilate examined Him. Herod examined Him.

Every single one reached the same conclusion.

"I find no fault in this man."

No blemish.

For 1,500 years, every Passover lamb had to be inspected for four days and found without blemish before it could be sacrificed. Jesus was inspected for four days and found without fault.

Then on the 14th of Nisan, at the exact hour the Passover lambs were being slaughtered in the Temple, Jesus was nailed to a cross.

The lambs were slaughtered at three in the afternoon. Jesus died at three in the afternoon.

While the priests were killing the Passover lambs and painting their blood on the altar, the actual Passover Lamb was dying on a hill outside the city walls with His blood running down the wood of a cross.

And most Christians who have celebrated Easter their entire lives have no idea that every detail was following a script rehearsed for fifteen centuries.

But here is the part most people have never heard.

Not a single bone of the Passover lamb was allowed to be broken. That was the law. Exodus 12:46.

When the Roman soldiers came to break the legs of the men on the crosses, they broke the legs of the criminal on the left. They broke the legs of the criminal on the right.

When they came to Jesus, He was already dead.

They did not break His bones.

John recorded it and wrote: "These things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: Not one of His bones will be broken."

A law about a lamb, given to Moses in the desert 1,500 years earlier, was fulfilled in the body of a man hanging between two thieves on a Roman cross.

Most Christians have read the crucifixion dozens of times without understanding they were watching the Passover unfold in real time.