The Passover Lamb
Certain words come immediately to mind as the Feast of Passover approaches. Cleaning, matzoh, and family are three of them. Cleaning begins by ridding the home of all bread products and foods containing leaven and usually ends by scouring the place from top to bottom. Matzoh is the flat, brown-striped, unleavened cracker that starts to taste like cardboard soon into the eight days of the observancGet More Articles—Subscribe Today!
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I was hoping to leave a comment. I was wondering why the rabbi says that Christian views is that the spotless lamb is a offer for atonement for sins. That’s not what I have been taught as a Christian. I’ve been taught that the beginning of blood sacrifice and faith that redemption through it began with that spotless lamb. (In the case of Exodus the redemption in regard to being freed from bondage of Egypt). In that way is the spotless lamb and Jesus connected. Not that Exodus states the lamb was for atonement for sin.
I’m not sure I’ve grasped your comment rightly. If not, pls bear with me. It brought to mind several places in the Bible where Egypt symbolizes sin. Ezekiel 23:27 and Rev 11:8 are among them. In that context, the Passover lamb prefigures Christ, the ultimate sinless sacrifice, Who frees us from bondage to sin when we believe.