A Lamb for a House

A Lamb for a House

Sh’mot 12:3-4
³Speak to the entire assembly of Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth of this month they shall take for themselves — each man — a lamb or kid for the household. ⁴But if the household will be too small for a lamb or kid, then he and his neighbor who is near his house shall take according to the number of people; everyone according to what he eats shall be counted for the lamb or kid.

Eloheim, through a beautiful series of word pictures, paints for the world what will be the crowning achievement of history.

Sh’mot 12:3 shows how the lamb was brought into the house and made a part of the family for a period of four days beginning on the 10th day of the first month. Mattit’yahu records the entering in of Yeshua into the household of Yisra'el:

Mattit'yahu 21:1-10
¹And when they came near Jerusalem, and came to Beit Pag, at the Mount of Olives, then Yeshua sent two talmidim, ²and said to them, “Go to the enclosure which is before you, and right away you will find there an ass tied, and a foal by her side; loose and bring [them] to me. ³And if any man say anything to you, you will say that, ‘my Master has need of them,’ and immediately he will let them go.”^{4And
this was to establish what was spoken by the prophet, who said,

⁵“Say to the
daughter of Zion,

‘Behold your
King comes to you...

poor, and riding upon an ass,

even upon a foal, the
offspring of an ass.” ^{Z’kharyah 9:9}

^{6And the talmidim went, and did as
Yeshua commanded them ⁷and
brought the ass, and the foal, and they put upon them their garments,
and mounted him thereon. ⁸And a
great crowd spread their garments in the way, and others cut down leafy
branches of trees, and carpeted the way. ⁹And
the multitude that went before him, and behind him, cried, saying:

“Hosanna to the Son of David!

‘Blessed is he that
comes in the Name of
HASHEM!’^{Mizmor 118:26}Hosanna in the highest!”}}
10And when he had come to Jerusalem, the whole city was seething, saying, “Who is this?” ¹¹And the people said, “This is Yeshua, the prophet from Nazeret of Galil.”

See also Mark 11:1-11; Ur 19:35-44; Yochanan 12:12-18

Sh’mot 12:4 indicates that it was intended for you invite others to come and partake of the lamb. A lamb was sufficient that you had to invite someone. Enough people were required so that none of the sacrifice was left over until morning. It was to be totally consumed.

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