Four Days of the Hidden Lamb

Four Days of the Hidden Lamb

Sh’mot 12:6
⁶It shall be your for examination until the fourteenth day of this month; the entire congregation of the assembly of Israel shall slaughter it in the afternoon.

Eloheim commanded Israel to take a lamb on the 10^th day of Abib and set it aside until the 14^th day of Abib. Let's put this into perspective. Traditionally, Yeshua was crucified on Good Friday. The Gospels give us all the information we need to determine precisely when all the events of Passover week took place. You must remember that the "sign" that Yeshua promised was the "Sign of Yonah".

Mattit'yahu 12:39-40
³⁹But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Yonah. ⁴⁰For as Yonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

OK. Now, remember when Eloheim created everything in six days? How did He define a day? B’reshit 1:3 defines the day as being comprised of an evening and a morning or more precisely from sunset to sunset. Using the Gospel accounts for our basis based on the Gospel accounts, let's see what actually transpired.

Thursday Abib 8 Evening

Yeshua arrives in Bethany at the house of Simon the Leper — Yochanan 12:1

Friday Abib 9 Yeshua eats the evening meal and is anointed by Mary — Yochanan 12:2

Saturday Abib 10 1^st Day of the Lamb
Sabbath Begins — Sh’mot 12:1
Passover Lamb taken aside for 4 days — Sh’mot 12:3
Lamb for a Family

Yeshua enters Jerusalem on the foal of a donkey as Messiah King Yochanan 12:12-15 Z’kharyah 9:9
Yeshua heals the blind and lame. Mattit'yahu 21:14
Yeshua and his disciples enter the Temple and return to Bethany. Mark 11:11

Sunday Abib 11 2^nd Day of the Lamb

Yeshua curses the fig tree. Mark 11:12-14
Yeshua is presented as Messiah Priest. Mark 11:12-19; Yesha’yahu 56:7
Yeshua taught in parables and rebuked the religious leaders Mattit'yahu 21:28-24:5.
Yehudah of Keriot (Judas Iscariot) conspires with religious leaders to betray him
Mattit'yahu 26:14-16

Monday Abib 12 3^rd Day of the Lamb
Yeshua and his disciples left Jerusalem at evening.      Mark 11:19
The disciples notice that the cursed fig tree had withered.    Mark 11:20
Yeshua returned to Jerusalem, his authority was questioned.     Mark 11: 27-33
Yeshua taught at the Temple and the Mount of Olives  Mark 12-13

Yeshua talks about the end times.    Mattit'yahu 24, Mark 13, Mattit'yahu 26:2
Yeshua tells the parable of the 10 virgins and their oil.  Mattit'yahu 25:1-13; 26:2
Yeshua says that whoever feeds, clothes, or visits the least, visited Him. Mattit'yahu 25:24-26:2 tells the parable of the talents    Mattit'yahu 25:14-29
Yeshua is presented as Messiah Prophet. Mark 11:20-14:2
Yeshua predicted that in two days he would be handed over to be crucified. Mattit'yahu 26:1-2

Tuesday Abib 13 4^th Day of the Lamb

All leaven must be put away by this evening    Sh’mot 12:15
Satan enters Judas Iscariot.   Ur 22:3
Yeshua sends two disciples, from Bethany, to Jerusalem to prepare for Pesach. Mark 14:1-16

Wednesday
Passover
Preparation Day Abib 14 Chametz is removed from the house this night in preparation for Passover.
Yeshua has Pesach seder with disciples — Yochanan 13:1
Yeshua predicts His betrayal — Yochanan 12:21
Judas leaves to betray Yeshua — Yochanan 13:30 (Chametz among disciples is removed)
Yeshua goes to Gethsemane — Yochanan 18:1
Yeshua goes before Annas — Yochanan 18:13
Yeshua goes before Caiaphas — Yochanan 18:24
Yeshua in the Hall of Judgment before Pilate — Yochanan 18:28
Barabbas released — Yochanan 18:40

Fast-day of the first-born.     Soferim 21
6 am — Yeshua declared King of the Jews by Pilate — Yochanan 19:14

9 am — Yeshua crucified — Mark 15:25
First Daily Sacrifice — Sh’mot 29:39

12 pm — Darkness over the earth until the 9th hour — Mark 15:33
Second Daily Sacrifice — Sh’mot 29:39
(3 pm sacrifice moved to 12 pm because of the Pesach-offering)

3 pm — Yeshua Dies — Yochanan 15:34
Passover sacrifices begin in the Temple — Sh’mot 12:1-6
Curtain of the Temple torn from top to bottom — Mattit'yahu 27:51
Holy dead are raised to life — Mattit'yahu 27:52-53
Bodies removed from the cross in preparation for the High Sabbath — Yochanan 19:31
Yeshua laid to rest in the tomb — Yochanan 19:32

The tragic thing was that the children would play with the lamb for four days.

If you have ever been around a lamb, you can't help but like them. When you see them, they bounce around and are very entertaining. Everyone chuckles and laughs. The children are there and they play with the lamb for four days.

Then dad says, “It's time to have the Pesach sacrifice.”

Can you imagine the conversations that went on between the fathers and the children. “You're going to do what, dad? You're going to kill it? You're going to roast it … we're going to eat it?”

Can you believe the consternation that would go on in the home that night? They would weep. Mothers would be trying to comfort children. Children would be trying to figure out whether they liked their dad any more or not. Fathers were have to obey Adonai and give an example even though it is hard we must do this because our life depends on it. Even though we don't understand. They would weep for the lamb.

It's the same thing concerning the Messiah. It doesn't make sense that the Lamb of God should die. Why that way? He didn't do anything. He's innocent. Can't we figure out another way for this substitution business to work. NO. This is way so that we will understand that sin has a price. IT'S LIFE. But God has a plan for life and it costs something. And the children would see. And the children would ask “Why? Why this way? Why do you have to kill the lamb father? He didn't do anything to deserve death. ”.

The sacrifice must be pure and innocent. It didn't deserve this. A lot of people do not understand that when the altar service was operating in the permanent temple, that the scene would go something like this:

You would go in with your sacrifice and the priest would assist you.

The sacrifice would be inspected and the priest would approve it.

You would explain to the priest for what the sacrifice was being offered. Whether it was a Todah-Offering, Chatat-Offering, whole Olah-Offering or whatever.

The priest would hand you the knife. You would put your hand on the head of the sacrifice (put you sin on the head of the sacrifice) and say to Eloheim “Eloheim I put my sin upon this.”

Then you would have to slit the throat of the animal. It was usually at this point you would have broken down. Weeping you would repent of your sin. “O Eloheim. I am the one who deserves death here. I am the one who deserves to die. This animal is innocent. He doesn't deserve this.”

Then you would have to slit its throat and take its life.

Then they would spread it out and place it upon the altar and the aroma would go up before HASHEM. You would have a sense that Eloheim had accepted your sacrifice and had forgiven you.

Then the experience would turn to joy. You would take some of the sacrifice back to your home and have a feast and invite all of his friends, his neighbors and his family. “Come in and eat the feast of HASHEM with me. HASHEM has forgiven me.”

You would give a testimony to your community and they would be invited to come in and eat the feast with you unless it was a full Olah-Offering which would remain on the altar.

Scripture shows that “A day for HASHEM is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day.” ^{Mizmor 90:4, B’reshit 2:17, 2 Kefa 3:8}

When Adam sinned, Eloheim set His Lamb — Yeshua Ha'Mashiach — aside for death. Yeshua Ha'Mashiach was foreordained to die. From Adam to Messiah we have four days of HASHEM, or four thousand years: that is, four days in HASHEM time. The scripture speaks of the Lamb of Eloheim being set aside to die for man.

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