The Body of the Lamb Must be Eaten

1. The lamb had to be eaten in the same night because it was not possible to preserve any portion of the lamb

   1. Leftovers are not permitted. Why? The upper echelons of society have no need to keep leftovers. They know they will have food tomorrow.
   2. Persons suffering crucifixion were know to linger on the cross 18 to 72 hours.
   3. Yeshua suffered and died on the same day.

2. It was roasted with fire.
   1. The lamb was roasted on a spit.
   2. Yeshua endured the fire and torture of crucifixion

3. It was to be eaten with unleavened bread. Throughout scripture leaven is depicted as a type of sin.
   1. Unleavened bread is the bread of haste. There was no time to let the bread rise before consumption.
   2. There was not sin found in Yeshua.

5. Raw meat was not eaten as it could possibly still contain liquid blood. Boiled meat is the meat of slaves.
   1. Roasted meat is a thing for royalty. It is only fitting that the remembrance we have of how Eloheim redeemed us from slavery should be eaten in the way that the free and the distinguished eat their meat.
   2. Salvation is not in the perfect life of Yeshua, but rather in His sacrificial death.
   3. The Lamb was to be totally consumed.

6. One of the reasons behind the mitzvot of the Korban Pesach — the paschal lamb — was that the Egyptians and Jews worshipped the ram god Khnemu.  When the Jews were commanded, four days before leaving Egypt, to take the animal, tie it to a bed post, and declare to the Egyptians that they were going to slaughter it and eat it on the eve of the Exodus, it was to prove to them (and themselves) beyond a shadow of doubt that their deities were worthless!! THE JEWS DEVOURED THEIR GOD … with complete impunity.

7. The lamb was to be totally consumed.