Friday, December 16, 2005
The New Year
After Christmas, the excitement of New Year's Day builds. After Purim, the same excitement probably builds for the Jew. For the Jew, entering the new year should bring back God's great deliverance for his people from Egypt. However, today many Jews cannot see the rich significance of this wonderful holiday. If Moses and Aaron would have only known what was going to happen 1400+ years later!
"The LORD [YHWH] said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 'This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month [Abib or Nisan] every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household. ... Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep it until the fourteenth of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. Then they shall take the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD's Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, as a statue forever, you shall keep it as a feast.'" (Exodus 12:1-3, 5-14 ESV)
"... Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect ..." (1 Peter 1:19)
"... not one of his bones will be broken ..." (initially, Exodus 12:46 repeated John 19:36)
What a glorious way to begin the New Year!
"The LORD [YHWH] said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 'This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month [Abib or Nisan] every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household. ... Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep it until the fourteenth of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. Then they shall take the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD's Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, as a statue forever, you shall keep it as a feast.'" (Exodus 12:1-3, 5-14 ESV)
"... Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect ..." (1 Peter 1:19)
"... not one of his bones will be broken ..." (initially, Exodus 12:46 repeated John 19:36)
What a glorious way to begin the New Year!
# posted by Wesley Son of Cornelius @ 2:35 PM 
