Sola Scriptura-5

Unfortunately, the Protestant Reformation was founded by men who had spent their whole lives being educated and working for the Church of Rome. Therefore, their concerns were primarily focused on indulgences and other abuses by the Church. None of them totally separated themselves from the traditions of men and doctrines of demons implanted into the Church of Rome. Today we will discover yet another idolatrous practice that has been institutionalized throughout the world, which is Easter.

Is Jesus the Easter Lamb of God or the Passover Lamb of God? The first Passover is recorded in Exodus 12 and it is included in God’s Appointed Times in DT 13 and is part of the feast of Unleavened Bread.

Deuteronomy 16:1  "Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night. 

God declared the very day to remember this inaugural event that established the Passover and prepared everyone for when Jesus would become the Lamb of God.

16:2  "You shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where the LORD chooses to establish His name. 16:3  "You shall not eat leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), so that you may remember all the days of your life the day when you came out of the land of Egypt. 

The Passover meal is prepared on the Day of Preparation and eaten after sundown, which is the beginning of the Sabbath day celebration of Unleavened Bread.

16:4  "For seven days no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory, and none of the flesh which you sacrifice on the evening of the first day shall remain overnight until morning. 

16:5  "You are not allowed to sacrifice the Passover in any of your towns which the LORD your God is giving you;  16:6  but at the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish His name, you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset, at the time that you came out of Egypt. 

16:7  "You shall cook and eat it in the place which the LORD your God chooses. In the morning you are to return to your tents. 16:8  "Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God; you shall do no work on it.

Clearly there are more than 52 Sabbaths in a year, as all of these seven appointed times begins and ends with a holy day of rest or Sabbath. As with your own birthdays, these events fall on different days of the week each year, so some will begin on the regular Sabbath.

John 1:29  The next day he (John the Baptist) *saw Jesus coming to him and *said, "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! 

So how did the Passover Lamb of God become the Easter Lamb of God? We will discuss that next Saturday/Sabbath.