Happy Passover! I want to share some, just not ideas, but some important biblical prophecies
that show us how Jesus fulfilled the Passover dinner. It's an important week for the Jewish
people and it's their time of year where they sit down as a family and they systematically
go through and remember the supernatural deliverance that they experienced as a people. And what's
exciting is when we can go into all of these Old Testament Bible prophecies and then we
can look at how Jesus fulfilled them in the new. This is from a website called Jews for
Jesus and I want to give them credit for this study and I'm going to link that down below
so that if you really want to go more in depth you can look at it. But today with Restoring
Word we're just going to look in a nutshell how Jesus fulfilled the Passover. Now he didn't
just fulfill the Passover, right? He filled dozens and dozens of prophecies but this Passover
dinner is very significant and so I just kind of want to break them down one by one.
First off, the importance of the concept of the Passover lamb. Now I don't know about
you but when I was a little girl I grew up watching the Ten Commandments with Charlton
Heston. We watched it every Easter and it just kind of became a family tradition. And
I remember in the scene where they were preparing to leave and God told them that they were
to prepare a lamb quickly and go and it was going to sustain them as they went through
the desert. This reference actually to the Passover lamb comes from Exodus 12 starting
in verse 1 and it goes all the way down through 51 but I'm not going to read all that. I'm
just going to talk about the reference here. The animals you choose must be one-year-old
males without any defect and you must take them from the sheep and the goats, take care
of them until the 14th day of the month when all the members of the community of Israel
must slaughter them at twilight. Then they are to take some of the blood and they're
put it on the sides of the doorposts of the house where they eat the lambs. Now this was
very significant, okay? And you say, well, how was that fulfilled? Well, you know in
1 Peter 1 verses 18 and 19, you know that you were redeemed but with the precious blood
like that of a lamb without defect or without spot, the blood of the Messiah. Now remember
they're going to eat this Passover lamb, right? But they're going to take the blood of the
lamb, they're going to put it over the door and then when the death angel comes through,
that death angel is going to recognize this is the house of the Jewish people and the
death angel will pass. And it was devastating because it was like the final thing they were
saying to Pharaoh, you've got to let us go. You see the blood of Jesus is powerful and
when we pray in the name of Jesus and we pray and we use the blood of Jesus covers us. What
does that mean? That means because of who redeemed us and paid the price for us, there's
spiritual authority in what Jesus did. He is our Passover lamb. There's also another
reference to it but this is in Jeremiah 31.31 and it also talked about it again in Luke
22.10 and I'm going to give you more references to that later. All right, second main reason
we know. David described Yeshua or Jesus' death in detail 1,000 years before it happened. I mean
in what other religion did you have someone in the Old Testament prophesy and then it was fulfilled
in the new? This is interesting here, okay? It was prophesied in Psalms 22.2 then again it goes
through 8 and 9 and then a little bit further in verses 15 through 19. This is Psalm 22.
Pointed my heart is like wax melting within my innards.
They pierce my hands and feet.
I can count all my bones.
They stare and they gape at me and they divide my clothes among them
and cast lots for my garment.
That is verbatim.
What happened to Jesus in Matthew 27.
Okay,
in Matthew 27.
That's exactly what Jesus said on the cross.
They he felt and looked abandoned.
He didn't understand fully, you know, you knew he was going to the son of
God and he knew he was dying for the sins of the world.
But on the other hand there, you know, you had to be
horrible knowing that you were enduring this and yet because he loves
us, so he was willing to do that for you and for me.
When they nailed his his hands to the cross.
It was fulfillment when they gambled gambled for his garments.
It was fulfillment and you see my God my God.
Why have you forsaken me in Matthew 27?
See God is the Alpha the Omega.
He is the beginning in the end.
The New Testament is fulfillment of the old and and and he's still, you
know, we're still looking forward to how he's going to fulfill the new.
All right reason number three.
And this comes out of Isaiah 53 and I would say out of all of the Old
Testament chapters.
This is one that really resonates with me.
I read a book called understanding Jewish objections to Jesus by Michael
L.
Brown and Michael Brown is one of my my kind of go-to scholars and he
really broke this down in Isaiah 53 here.
And I think this is the chapter that a lot of Jewish people kind of
go.
That's pretty convincing.
Let me share it with you, but he was wounded because of our crimes.
This is out of the CJB version.
Okay, Isaiah 53 starting in verse 5.
He was wounded because of our crimes crushed because of our sins the
disciplining that makes us whole fell on him.
And by his bruises, we are healed.
We all like sheep went astray.
We turned each one to his own way and yet Adonai laid on him the guilt
of all of us.
Though mistreated he was submissive.
He did not open his mouth, you know, so many times even through the whole
study of the Passover week.
He did not respond.
He didn't answer back.
Like a lamb to be led to slaughtered like sheep silent before its shears.
He did not open his mouth.
Now that was we see that fulfilled in Matthew 27 starting in verse 12 and
while he was accused by the ruling Kohanim the elders.
He did not answer when Pilate said to him.
Don't you hear how many things they testify against you Yeshua didn't
answer.
Do you know it's also interesting?
When Jesus died on the cross the temple veil that separated the Holy of
Holies from there's an outer court inner court Holy of Holies when that
veil was rent in two and symbolically what that meant is now Jesus has
died on the cross and we now because of the blood of Jesus and what he
did on the cross.
We now have access because of what he did for us.
That and Mark 1538 the curtain of the temple was torn into from top to
bottom and when the centurion who stood there in front of Jesus saw how
he died.
He said surely this man is the son of God.
You see it when you go and you see Old Testament prophet hundreds and
hundreds and hundreds of years ago, and then you learn how he fulfilled
it in the new but specifically how he fulfilled it during Passover week.
Who else could do that?
I mean really who else could who else could specifically do that except
for the Messiah?
Fourth reason Messiah would come riding on a donkey.
Now.
This is Zechariah 9 9.
Okay, and I think if you're familiar with with this week, which is, you
know, the Palm Sunday, you probably heard the scripture this week rejoice
greatly o daughter of Zion shout aloud o daughter of Jerusalem behold
your king is coming to you righteous and having a salvation.
He is humble mounted on a donkey on a colt on a full of a donkey that
is.
So interesting that Zechariah, another prophet,
would prophesy how the Messiah would come into Jerusalem.
Do you know that when the British leader
came into Jerusalem, I believe it was like in the 30s,
he was so concerned about that,
that there was a specific way
on how he would enter into Jerusalem.
He didn't wanna say, you know, I'm a Messiah.
He was just saying, we're coming in
and we're taking possession of Jerusalem.
Allenby, and I'm just doing that off the top of my head.
When Allenby came into Jerusalem,
he would not come in on a donkey.
Why?
Because these scriptures are significant.
Jesus did that.
He is the Messiah.
He came in on that donkey.
They were waving those palm branches,
saying, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
And guess what?
They also did that when they brought
the Ark of the Covenant to the Temple Mount.
Yup.
They weren't just, you know, saying something random.
It was purposeful.
And when the people were doing that
and they were laying their garments before Jesus,
they were saying who he was.
And they were saying that he is Messiah.
He is the Holy One.
And you know, the religious who couldn't see who Jesus was,
they didn't get it.
They didn't understand it.
You know, Jesus hadn't died on the cross yet.
Not fully understanding what he's doing.
We see it now.
Because we can go back and refer to the prophet Zechariah.
All right.
Now, this last one is kind of a humdinger.
It's a good one.
And that the Messiah would be resurrected.
Think about that.
What other spiritual leader that you know of was resurrected?
I mean, guys, it all comes down to the resurrection
and eternal life.
Because that's what we get because of Jesus.
Because of Jesus, we know eternally
we will always be in heaven.
This one is actually from Psalm 16, starting in verse two.
For you will not abandon my soul, Sheol.
You will not allow your Holy One to undergo decay.
This is from Psalm 16, 10.
And the reference here, this is actually,
the reference is in the New Testament, Acts 2, 29,
starting in verse 31 and 32.
You can be sure that the patriarch David
wasn't referring to himself.
For he died and was buried.
And his tomb is still here among us.
David was looking to the future.
And speaking of the Messiah's resurrection,
he is saying that God would not leave him among the dead
or allow his body to rot in the grave.
For God raised Jesus from the dead.
And we are all witnesses of this.
Jesus did not see decay.
Yes, he died, he descended, and then he rose again.
And when he rose again,
he rose as a confirmation of who he was.
And think about it.
One of the most interesting studies in the Bible
isn't just the fact that he rose from the dead,
but there were people who saw him.
They saw his resurrected body.
And it was such an earth-shaking experience for these men
that they obeyed the Great Commission,
and they went into all the world,
and they preached the gospel,
and the world would never, ever be the same.
You know, Jesus is still confirming that he is alive today
and how he does that, I believe, and what I've seen,
is that when you see the power of God in someone's life,
and you see them that they're whole,
and you see them that they're healed,
and you see them that they're delivered,
and you see the power of God operating in their life,
then you know God's real.
It's not some sort of mind game or mental ascent thing.
It's the power of God fully in manifestation
to restore your broken life.
Last week, we talked about restoring a vehicle.
You know, God takes things that are broken,
and bruised, and crushed, and he makes them new again.
And the only reason why we are able
to be restored spiritually,
and then that affects our bodies, it affects our mind,
it affects our spirit, when he did all of that,
he did that for us so that we could have abundant life
in the here and now.
We can be free from bondage.
We can be free from addiction.
We can be free from sin.
Jesus is real, and his spirit is real,
and his power can operate.
in your life. Lord I just pray for every listener right now within the sound of my voice
and God I ask as I speak these words to my listeners today that they would experience
the reality of tangible reality of Jesus. Holy Spirit come to each listener now and fulfill
every need. God help them know you and experience freedom and restoration in you
because of the blood of Jesus in the name of Jesus. Thank you for listening today.
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