Christ, The Prophet: The Lamb

Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.

Exodus 12: 5,6

As we continue our meditations upon the ways in which Christ is the Prophet like Moses, we come to consider the Passover Lamb. Recall, we said that the prophet is one who receives the Word from God and then delivers it to the people. So, with regard to the Paschal lamb, Moses received instructions as to what the people of Israel were to do to escape the wrath and judgment of God which He would bring upon Egypt on the night of the Passover. Moses faithfully relayed that message to them. The heart of message was life by the sacrifice of the lamb and by the application of his blood. Christ is the Prophet like Moses, in that He likewise points to the sacrifice of Himself and the application of His Blood as that which secures life, in the face of certain death. He declared, ‘the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.’ The message of John the Baptist was, ‘Behold the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the world.’ The vision of Christ in heaven which John had was first of ‘a Lamb as though it had been slain,’ and then later, ‘a Lamb standing on Mount Zion.’ From the ancient message of Moses when he instituted the Passover, to the last writer of God’s revelation, the common theme is, ‘Christ, Our Passover is sacrificed for us.’ As the Catechism asserts, ‘Christ executes the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by His Word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.’

Our Gracious and Loving Christ,
we rejoice that You are the Lamb of God,
Who takes a way the sin of the world.
We praise You, that every message which You deliver unto us,
points us to Your Own Great Self.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning