This is the Day

Monday, April 7, was the night/day when Yeshua rode into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, the night/day when He arrived at the Temple, coming home to His Father’s house, preparing to become God’s sacrificial lamb five days later, His blood poured out upon the ground as He bled upon the cross.

It was also the night/day when each Israelite family would go to the Temple to buy a perfect, unblemished lamb, the night/day when they would take it into their homes as a pet, protecting it until it become their Passover sacrifice five days later, its blood painted upon the doorposts and the lintils of their house, its blood dripping upon the ground.

That moment, when they would be purchasing their lambs, was the exact moment when Yeshua strode into the Temple, kicking out all the money lenders, setting all the sacrificial animals free, taking His place, in His Father’s Home, as the only true unblemished Lamb of God, the only One who could take away the sins of the world.

His non-understanding “followers” would revolt, horrified that He had stopped them from offering their sacrifices, destroying their ability to celebrate Passover that year. The “unblemished” lambs they were preparing to purchase were now running free all over the city, getting dirty, their hooves marked by the Jerusalem stones, their pure white coats grey with dirt, blemished. Frightened and confused, they would now prepare to sacrifice Yeshua to Rome.

My friends, that night/day started Monday. Let us ponder deeply Yeshua’s gift during these next five days as He strengthens Himself to become God‘s sacrificial lamb, preparing Himself to rise and live again, to bring us all into eternal life.

Monday night, according to most people’s beliefs, began the 10th of Nisan, the time capsule of Passover, when we remember and prepare ourselves to re-enact our deliverance from Egypt, and our greater deliverance from sin through Yeshua’s gift to us.

May your time of Passover preparation be especially strong this year, fulfilled, and fulfilling Christ’s desires for you as He thought about you upon the cross and during His resurrection. May His passion for you fill your heart, mind, soul and spirit, reminding you of who you are in Him. May these coming days of preparation be times of great satisfaction, and times of great soul-searching, as we come closer and closer into the reality of communion, with Yeshua’s body and blood dwelling within us. He asks us to pick up our crosses and carry them. That means we too are unblemished lambs of God in Him.

Shalom to you all.

(We will be celebrating Passover in South Carolina on April 12)