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Easter references in Come Follow Me, The Gospels
http://www.outofthedust.org/193-2/
GOD’S COVENANT
“You see, once we make a covenant with God, we have left neutral ground forever. God will not abandon His relationship with those who have forged such a bond with Him. In fact, all those who have made a covenant with God have access to a special kind of love and mercy. In Hebrew this covenantal love is called hesed.
This loyal love means that God will always keep working with His covenant people. It means that when they stray, He will do whatever it takes to bring them back. It might be that they respond easily to His pleadings to return. In other circumstances, He may have to bring them back the hard way. Regardless, God will loyally and lovingly extend merciful chances to those for whom He has hesed. On a personal level, there can be no more comforting doctrine. Once we have made a covenant with God, our relationship with Him changes and becomes much closer, much more tightly knit. Further, we can rest sure in the knowledge that He will never tire in His efforts to help us, and we will never exhaust His patience and mercy with us. He will work with us forever, and His mercy for us will never end.”
Muhlestein, Kerry. God Will Prevail: Ancient Covenants, Modern Blessings, and the Gathering of Israel (p. 14). Covenant Communications, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
EXODUS 6:3
“I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but my name Lord I did not make myself fully known to them.”
NIV Exodus 6:3
“Although Genesis makes it clear that the patriarchs were not totally ignorant of the name Yahweh (the Lord), they did not understand its full implications as the name of the One who would redeem his people. That fact could be comprehended only by the Israelites who were to experience the exodus, and by their descendants.”
NIV Footnote for Exodus 6:3
SIGNS AND WONDERS
“It is true that the signs and wonders that Jehovah will do through Moses are intended to have Pharaoh let the Israelites go. But the target audience really isn't Pharaoh or the Egyptian Nobles in Pharaoh's court. The target audience for all of these signs and wonders is Israel itself. That's who Jehovah really has in mind. Yes, he's going to use these signs and wonders to make Pharaoh let the Israelites go. But the real intended audience, the audience that Jehovah is most interested in is Israel itself.”
Andrew Skinner, Follow Him Podcast
THE LORD’S PASSOVER
1. On the tenth day choose a year-old, male lamb for the family (or one lamb for the family and the neighbor family). It may be a goat or a sheep
2. Take special care of the lamb until day fourteen.
3. At twilight slaughter the lamb and place some of the blood on the sides andthe top of the doorframe of the house where the lamb will be eaten.
4. The meat is to be roasted whole over the fire with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.
5. The entire lamb must be eaten and if it is not it must be burned.
6. Eat it in clothing that will allow departure in haste.
7. In that night, the destruction will pass by the house with blood on thendoorposts. It will act as a protection to Israelites.
THE LORD’S PASSOVER
“We look at verses six and seven where it's required of the Israelites to put blood on the doorposts as a sign of their commitment to the covenant, and also a signal that the destroyer will pass by them and that their firstborn children will not be affected. And so we ask a couple of questions, why this action? To identify the participant as a follower of the true and living God. Why the blood? Well, because as we learn later on in Leviticus chapter 17, blood is the symbol of redemption.
Leviticus 17 verse 11. 'For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.’ And so by putting blood on the two side posts and the lintel, the crossbar of the entrance, we are signifying that we are fully engaged in the idea of redemption by the shedding of blood. For the next 1300 years, the shedding of the blood will be by animals that represent or point to the ultimate and great and last sacrifice, namely the lamb of God.
The point here is that the atonement comes from the shedding of blood. It did anciently. And then the very person for whom all of these elements of the Passover are pointing to comes and he makes the great and last sacrifice and no longer then is the shedding of blood required but something even harder for us, and that's a broken heart and a contrite spirit.”
Andrew Skinner, Follow Him Podcast
THE ATONING “PASSOVER”
“The hours that lay immediately ahead would change the meaning of all human history. It would be the crowning moment of eternity, the most miraculous of all the miracles. It would be the supreme contribution to a plan designed from before the foundation of the world for the happiness of every man, woman, and child who would ever live in it. The hour of atoning sacrifice had come. God’s own Son, his Only Begotten Son in the flesh, was about to become the Savior of the world.
The setting was Jerusalem. The season was that of the Passover, a celebration rich in symbolism for what was about to come. Long ago the troubled and enslaved Israelites had been ‘passed over,’ spared, finally made free by the blood of a lamb sprinkled on the lintel and doorposts of their Egyptian homes. That, in turn, had been only a symbolic reiteration of what Adam and all succeeding prophets were taught from the beginning—that the pure and unblemished lambs offered from the firstlings of Israel’s flocks were a similitude, a token, a prefiguration of the great and last sacrifice of Christ which was to come.
Now, after all those years and all those prophecies and all those symbolic offerings, the type and shadow was to become reality. On this night when Jesus’ mortal ministry was concluding, the declaration made by John the Baptist when that ministry had begun now meant more than ever—‘Behold the Lamb of God.’”
Jeffrey R. Holland, https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1995/10/this-do-in-remembrance-of-me?lang=eng
THE ATONING “PASSOVER”
“The Savior’s physical suffering guarantees that through his mercy and grace every member of the human family shall be freed from the bonds of death and be resurrected triumphantly from the grave.
Jeffrey R. Holland, https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1995/10/this-do-in-remembrance-of-me?lang=eng
THE PASSOVER
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