The Lamb of God

Isaiah 40:3  A voice cries out, “In the wilderness clear a way for the Lord; construct in the desert a road for our God.

Exodus 12:1-6  1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 “This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel, ‘In the tenth day of this month they each must take a lamb for themselves according to their families – a lamb for each household

Exodus 12:1-6  4 If any... 5 Your lamb must be perfect, a male, one year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6 You must care for it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community of Israel will kill it around sundown.

Original Palm Sunday  The 14 th would have been Thu, because Fri was Passover  The lamb is killed on the evening of the 14 th Thur night and eaten that night (the 15 th )  Count back to the 10 th day, that would then have been Sunday

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Exodus 12:12-15  12 I will pass through the land of Egypt in the same night, and I will attack all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. 13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, so that when I see the blood I will pass over you, and this plague will not fall on you to destroy you when I attack the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:12-15  14 This day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a festival to the Lord – you will celebrate it perpetually as a lasting ordinance. 15 For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. Surely on the first day you must put away yeast from your houses because anyone who eats bread made with yeast from the first day to the seventh day will be cut off from Israel.

Zechariah 9:9-10  9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Look! Your king is coming to you: he is legitimate and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey – on a young donkey, the foal of a female donkey. 10 I will remove the chariot from Ephraim and the warhorse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be removed. Then he will announce peace to the nations. His dominion will be from sea to sea and from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.

From the East  Joshua 3:1, (the ark entered the promised land from the east when crossing the Jordan)  Ezekiel 10:4, 18-19; 11:22-24 (when God’s glory leaves the temple, it goes east, i.e. east gate and Mt to the east)

From the East  Ezekiel 43:1-5 (when God’s glory returns to the temple it comes from the east)  Isaiah 40:3 (the wilderness and desert were to the east of Jerusalem)