Watch the Video Rumble Youtube
The crucifixion of Christ was more than a Roman execution it was a sacrifice. The sacrifice of Christ is central to Christianity. Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God which takes away the sins of the world [1] and is the Passover.
7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed. [2]
The Lord Jesus is the Pachal Lamb. Pascha is the Greek word for Passover which is tied directly to the Easter season. Paschal means Passover. The Lord Jesus is the Passover Lamb. The Church also calls Easter, Pascha. The Lord Jesus was sacrificed for us and our sins.
We have to know a little about the Jewish Passover to grasp the depth of this statement. Let’s briefly read about the Passover from the Book of Exodus. First, it is important to understand the typology of the Exodus.
Israel = God’s Chosen People
Egypt = the World and Sin
Pharoah = the Devil
Moses = Jesus Christ
Understanding those basic symbols, let’s set up the story of the Exodus. The Children of Israel were slaves in Egypt. God calls Moses to represent Himself to Pharoah and to intercede on behalf of Israel for their deliverance from slavery. Of course, Pharoah does not want to let the slaves go free.
The Lord Jesus teaches us that sin holds us in slavery. When we sin, we become slaves to sin. We all are sinners and without Christ are slaves to sin.
34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. [3]
God begins to bring plagues to Egypt in judgment. Pharoah hardens his heart and will not let Israel go. This is symbolic of the devil that does not want to let us go free. Slavery to sin holds us in slavery to the Devil.
After the plagues and the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart, God promises to bring one final plague. This plague would finally convince Pharoah that the Lord is truly God and that he would acquiesce and let Israel go. The last plague would bring death to all the firstborn of Egypt even in Pharoah’s household. This is the build up to the Passover that will continue in the following passage from Exodus.
1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 “This month shall be for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. 3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they shall take every man a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household; 4 and if the household is too small for a lamb, then a man and his neighbor next to his house shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old; you shall take it from the sheep or from the goats; 6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs in the evening. 7 Then they shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat them. 8 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled with water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. 10 And you shall let none of it remain until the morning, anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 11 In this manner you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. 13 The blood shall be a sign for you, upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall fall upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. [4]
Israel was instructed to sacrifice a lamb per household; they were to take the blood of the lamb and place it on the doorposts of their houses. They were then to eat the lamb that night and were not to leave any meat leftover for the morning. With placing the blood on the doorposts of their houses, the death angel would pass over their household. The lamb would take the death for the family.
Passover literally comes from the action of the death angel that passed over Isreal that night as Egypt was judged. This was a horrible night, yet Israel was saved because of the Passover Lamb. This final plague would finally allow Israel to be set free from slavery.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Passover Lamb. He took death so that we could receive life. He became the sacrifice for our sins.
21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
The Lord Jesus became the sin offering so that we might become the righteousness of God. The lamb that was sacrificed that night in Egypt was symbolic of the real Lamb of God, Jesus Christ.
There was more to the sacrifice, though, Israel was to eat the sacrificed lamb. This ties directly into the sacrament of the Eucharist. The Church calls the Eucharist, the Sacrament, because everything stems from it. On the night of Jesus’s betrayal He established the Eucharist.
26 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” 27 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you; 28 for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. [5]
He commanded the apostles to eat His flesh. He preached earlier along these lines in John chapter 6.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.” [6]
The Lord Jesus took our death and by eating His flesh under the species of bread, we receive His life. When we participate in the Eucharist which is also called Communion, we remember His Sacrifice. We remember the Passover and it becomes new to us again.
The crucifixion was more than an execution; it was and is a sacrifice and the Jewish Passover was a feast that the Lord established pointing to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for the sins of the world. Through His death we receive life and deliverance from death!
Live repentance. Be zealous. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen
Date example: June 10th, 2025, Tuesday Tenth Week of Ordinary Time
[1] John 1:29
Be Zealous 
Leave a comment