I find this time of the Passover to be really, really interesting with Christ’s fulfillment of everything in Exodus.  One interesting point that I have never heard from preaching or in a book, is about the law that said everyone had to pick out their Passover lamb on 14 Nissan:

Exo 12:3  Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month they shall take to them each man a lamb for a father's house, a lamb for a house.

Then the scripture that is rarely looked at is the first part of verse 6:

Exo 12:6  And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month. And the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

I believe that since the people had been told to “keep” their lamb from 10 Nissan until the 14^th of Nissan, that they actually kept them with their families – almost like a pet.  I believe this to be a type of how Christ was “kept” among them, or lived with them for the 3 years of His public ministry.  It is really special that in the year that Christ died on Calvary, the 10^th of Nissan was Palm Sunday – the day that Christ rode the donkey into Jerusalem while the entire nation “picked out their lamb”.  Then just as it says, the whole congregation of Israel killed Him for their Passover sacrifice.

The real exciting part of this week is that God’s chosen people were taken out of Egypt on the 15^th of Nissan, or the day after the Angel of death killed all of Egypt’s first born.  Wouldn’t it be a cool thing if this was also a foreshadowing of His taking His “chosen people” (the bride) out of Egypt (a type of the world) on 15^th of Nissan this year, and into the “Promised Land”?

I’ll be looking up on the 15^th of Nissan – Thursday, April 9, 2009.

God Bless all the Doves,

Bruce Wigton