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Jesus Christ's Inauguration as High Priest

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  Most of us are probably aware that Jesus Christ is our High Priest, something which the Book of Hebrews calls Him at least 11 times. We’re also probably aware that we, God’s people, are spiritual priests in training under Jesus Christ. Our destiny, should we be blessed to be in the First Resurrection, is to “be priests of God and of Christ” (Rev. 20:6). We “are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ” (1 Pet. 2:5). But most of us have probably never considered how Jesus Christ became High Priest, or what it meant for Him to be appointed as such. Most churches today teach nothing about the Messiah’s appointment as our High Priest. The reason why will become apparent by the end of this article. Nevertheless, God’s Word does tell us that Jesus Christ had to be appointed as our High Priest, and it tells us when, how, and what that meant for us. This wasn’t something that just happened ; He didn’t ju...
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HE Is the Lord's Passover!

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  In Exodus 12, the Passover Chapter, we find this command that God told Israel: “And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD's Passover” (Ex. 12:11). “It is the Lord’s Passover.” What is the Lord’s Passover? Is it a ceremony? A meal? A lamb? A sacrifice? This simple, two-letter word holds a fascinating depth of meaning! A prophecy, even. What Is the Lord’s Passover? The context shows that it’s a lamb, for God’s entire instructions in this chapter, right up to this verse, have been about selecting, killing, preparing, and eating a lamb. The passage begins with God telling Moses, 3 "Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: 'On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. 4 'And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take ...
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Eyewitnesses to History: When Were the Passover Lambs Killed?

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  Recently, we published a blog post entitled “‘Historical Context’ and the Word of God,” showing that we don’t have to rely on history books or reconstructions of ancient history to understand the Word of God. The Word of God is sufficient to teach us what God requires. When it comes to Passover, the same holds true. We don’t need to rely on history books to know what day or what time of day God commanded for the Passover lambs to be killed; the Word of God is sufficient to teach us what God requires. God commanded the Israelites to kill the Passover lambs on the 14th day of the first month (Ex. 12:6; Lev. 23:5; etc.). This month was first called Abib (Ex. 13:4; 34:18; Deut. 16:1), and later came to be called Nisan (Est. 3:7), as it still is to this day. But what time of day on the 14th? God told the Israelites to kill the lambs “between the two evenings,” or bayn ha-arbayim in Hebrew. Simply by examining how God’s Word uses this phrase, we can see that it applies to the latter ...
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