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HE Is the Lord's Passover!

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  In Exodus 12, the Passover Chapter, we find this command that God told Israel: “And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD's Passover” (Ex. 12:11). “It is the Lord’s Passover.” What is the Lord’s Passover? Is it a ceremony? A meal? A lamb? A sacrifice? This simple, two-letter word holds a fascinating depth of meaning! A prophecy, even. What Is the Lord’s Passover? The context shows that it’s a lamb, for God’s entire instructions in this chapter, right up to this verse, have been about selecting, killing, preparing, and eating a lamb. The passage begins with God telling Moses, 3 "Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: 'On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. 4 'And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take ...