Your lamb shall be without blemish

Bible Reading: Exodus 10-12

Exodus 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats.

The Exodus is a picture throught the rest of scripture. God's deliverance of his people from the oppressive slavery of the world. The Exodus also initiated the Passover. A feast of the Jews that pictured the lamb slain and the passing over of the houses of the faithful by the death angel. This of course is a picture of Christ.

The lamb had to be without blemish. In other words, it had to be a healthy and completely intact animal. Here is where the picture of Christ is so vivid. The lamb was an exchange. If a family offered the lamb, God would spare their son. The Egyptians did not offer a lamb, and their sons died. God gave us his Son, our Lamb and we get to live eternally.

The Passover Lamb had to be without blemish. This is a picture of the perfect sinless character of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible says:

1 Peter 1:18-19 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

Hebrews 9:14How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Jesus is the only suitable sacrifice because he is the only man without blemish! You cannot die for anyone else's sins because you have sins of your own. But Jesus is without blemish! The Bible says:

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.

Christ, our passover is sacrificed for us! Thank God for the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world (John 1:29).

In Christ,
Rody