CHAPTER ONE:THE PASSOVER LAMB……………………5CHAPTER TWO:THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB……………..25CHAPTER THREE:THE RESURRECTED CHRIST……………36CHAPTER FOUR:THE GLORIFIED CHRIST………….47LIST OF OTHER BOOKS BYREV. FESTUS ASO. EKENYERE…58INTRODUCTIONFor over four hundred years the children of Israel suffered untold hardshipin the land of Egypt. Their Egyptian bondage however was not a surprise to the Godof their fathers. Many years before, God said to Abram, “Know of a surety that thyseed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; andthey shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shallserve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. Andthou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. Butin the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquities of theAmorites is not yet full.” – Genesis 15:13-16.They forgot that God was interested in them and had not abandoned them inthe hands of their cruel taskmasters. Sometimes you feel that way, don’t you?Especially when it seems as though the heavens and earth are upon you. When allhope has gone, you get so discouraged and lost in thought. Listen! God knows whatyou are passing through. The torment was so severe as they were subjected to aforced-labour. But the amazing thing was that their affliction never hinderedtheir growth. The more they were afflicted, the more they multiplied. I want youto understand that the affliction of today cannot hinder your growth of tomorrow.God is over it all!The growth of the Israelites was amazing to the Egyptian leadership so,“Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, every son that is born ye shall cast intothe river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.” – Exodus 1:22. Little didPharaoh know that he was making way for the independence of Israel as a people.It was during this harsh decree that the boy Moses was born and hidden forthree months after which he was displayed on the river Nile, at the bath place ofPharaoh’s daughter. When she came to take her birth, she saw the boy in bulrushesdaubed with slime and pitch and she took him home and nursed him to maturity. SeeExodus 2:1-10. So Moses was learned in all the wisdom of Egypt – Acts 7:22.At the appointed time, God took the same Moses to Middian and for the samenumber of years he spent in Pharaoh’s palace, he was taught the faith of hisfathers by the Priest of Middian – Jethro. It was from Middian God sent him backto Egypt to deliver his brethren from bondage.God used Moses and his brother Aaron to plague Egypt, judging the gods ofthe land in every occasion. Finally as Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, God decidedto deliver His people with a strong arm by killing all the first-born of Egyptwhether man or animal. The angel of death was sent to pass through the land ofEgypt and kill all the first born there-in but the houses of the Israelites wherethere was the mark of the blood of the lamb, the angel of death “pass over”. Thusthe children of Israel left Egypt in haste and were free from bondage.The celebration of the pass over feast became an ordinance in Israel, whichmust be observed every year pointing to the fact that man shall be totally setfree from sin and satanic bondage one day. The pass over lamb was the type andshadow of Jesus Christ – the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world –John 1:19,36. As the blood of the pass over lamb protected the Israelites from thewrath of God, so is the blood of the Lamb of God to every soul that trusts in Him.But how does Jesus Christ fit the description of the pass over lamb? How
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