Jesus is preparing to be sacrificed as the only perfect Passover Lamb who saves the world while the Jews in Jerusalem are preparing for the Festival of the Unleavened Bread when they will sacrifice lambs.
Luke 22:7-8
7 Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.8 Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover.”
Luke 22:19-22
19 And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
20 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you. 21 But the hand of him who is going to betray me is with mine on the table. 22 The Son of Man will go as it has been decreed. But woe to that man who betrays him!”
Jesus is the BETTER unleavened bread.
Jesus' body is the bread that when eaten and embraced satisfies the whole person from the spiritual hunger of being out of communion with God and the starvation of being out of fellowship with Jesus.
Jesus is the BETTER Passover.
Jesus' death saves all people from the power of bondage to sin, not only the Israelites from suffering in slavery under Pharaoh.
Jesus is the BETTER Passover Lamb.
Jesus is the final and perfect Passover Lamb, whose death does away with the Temple sacrificial system that required regular killing of cattle as a means of paying for sin.
May we rest in the fact that Jesus is the only perfect unleavened bread, the perfect Passover and the perfect Passover Lamb.
May we not seek to find satisfaction and redemption in anything or anyone else.
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