A lamb is being prepared for sacrifice
In the beginning of Exodus 12, God instructed the Israelites to pick and literally isolate the lamb that was to be slain four days before its actual sacrifice: "On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb… Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month."
On the 10th of Nisan (the Jewish month), the Passover lamb was selected and preparations for its ritual slaughter have begun. Yeshua had to enter Jerusalem on that very day, the 10th of Nisan, to make final arrangements for His death on the 14th of Nisan – the day of Passover Sacrifice.
The lamb slain in Egypt brought salvation to everyone whose doorposts were stained with its blood. In the same manner, salvation has come to all those whose hearts were marked with the shed blood of the Jewish Christ. In the words of St. Augustine, “In the Old the New concealed, in the New the Old revealed”. Take Jewish Background of the New Testament course and place the New Testament in its proper Jewish cultural context!
