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The Lamb Of God
Your boasting is not good. Don^t you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 5:6 to 8
The New International Version, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House) 1984.
Verse 7 above clearly states that Christ is our Passover Lamb. He was prophesied to have been sacrificed thousands of years beforehand, probably since the first sacrificial lamb to provide skins for Adam and Eve. Christ died in mid afternoon on the fourteenth of the first month.
Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month.
1 Chronicles 35:1
The New International Version, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House) 1984.
Notice that in the old testament the lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth, probably in mid afternoon coinciding with the time of Christ^s death.
5 ^Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6 ^And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight. 7 ^Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 ^And they shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Exodus 12:5 to 8
The New American Standard Bible, (La Habra, California: The Lockman Foundation) 1977.
Notice above that the lamb is slain on the fourteenth and is to be eaten with unleavened bread. There is much debate as to the meaning of twilight.
14 Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance.
15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. 16 And on the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you. 17 You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent ordinance. 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty~first day of the month at evening. 19 Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land. 20 You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread. Exodus 12:14 to 20
The New American Standard Bible, (La Habra, California: The Lockman Foundation) 1977.
Again above notice that unleavened bread is to be eaten for seven days, from the end of the fourteenth to the end of the twenty first. Therefore the Passover Lamb is eaten with unleavened bread on the end of the fourteenth not the beginning lest there be eight days of unleavened bread and two definitions for the evening, one at the beginning of the day and one at the end of the day. We traditionally observe the fifteenth and the twenty first days of the first month as Holy days and I believe that is correct. The fifteenth through to and including the twenty first makes seven days of unleavened bread, which is correct. This makes the Feast last until the evening of the twenty first day, the end of the day, and therefore includes the twenty first day. There is only one definition for the evening, it is at the end of the day.
In the New Testament when Jesus ate the Last Supper with his apostles he took bread (artos) which was for all we know, leavened bread, ordinary bread. Nowhere is it mentioned that He ate unleavened bread at the Last Supper. See Matthew 26:26, Mark 14:22, Luke 22:19 and 1 Corinthians 11:23. In all these passages the word for bread is artos, ordinary bread. Therefore Jesus did not eat the Passover that night. The Feast of Unleavened Bread began the following night. That day, the fourteenth of the first month, Jesus became our Passover sacrifice, the Lamb of God.
2007 Jacques Gauvin
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