Open with me now to Isaiah 53. Isaiah 53, verse 7 says, He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

I have something tonight that I want to show you. that doesn't necessarily follow an outline or a story. It's something I believe will be a great blessing to it. I believe you'll really, a blessing to you. I believe you'll enjoy seeing this. I very much enjoyed seeing this. I was so thankful to get to see this.

I'm gonna show you a comparison between what was prophesied and how it was fulfilled. That's what we're gonna do tonight. I'm literally just gonna show you this is what was prophesied in the Old Testament and this is how it was fulfilled in the New Testament. I feel like this would be something good to look at while observing the Lord's table. But even though we're not going to do that tonight, we're going to do this in remembrance of him.

Isaiah 53 7 says he was oppressed and he was afflicted. Yet he opened not his mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep before her shearers is dumb. So he opened not his mouth. That is kind of our springboard scripture to set off into this glorious comparison.

Now, again, this is going to be a little bit different. So turn with me to Exodus 12. Exodus chapter 12. Here in Exodus, the Lord gave Moses the precise instructions on how the Passover, the Passover lamb, how this ordinance, this feast was to be carried out.

And he said in verse 14, Exodus 12 verse 14, This day shall be unto you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever. Verse 26 says, and it shall come to pass when your children shall say unto you, what mean ye by this service? that you shall say it is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses and the people bowed the head and worshiped.

Our Lord gave this ceremonial feast to show the salvation that he would bring to his people. The details of this ordinance that we're about to look at, these are an illustration of how salvation would come to God's people. This whole ordinance prophesied what it would take for God to be satisfied that a sin that had been paid to the point that he would spare the house from destruction and move on to the next house to be judged. He said, if this takes place, if I see this happen, I'll be satisfied and I'll pass over you. If this happens, I'll pass over you.

Now let's see what he said had to happen. in order for him to be satisfied that judgment was fulfilled and his people would be spared from the destruction to come. All right, Exodus 12, verse one. And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, this month shall be unto you the beginning of months it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, in the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house. And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls. Every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats. And you shall keep it up until the 14th day of the same month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take up the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses wherein they shall eat it.

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire and unleavened bread and with bitter herbs, They shall eat it, eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire, his head with his legs and with the pertinence thereof. And you shall let nothing of it remain until the morning. And that which remaineth of it until the morning, you shall burn with fire.

And thus shall you eat it with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it in haste, it is the Lord's Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and against all the gods of Egypt, I will execute judgment, I am the Lord. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are, And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt."

God said, that is what has to happen for me to be satisfied. And that did happen, but only in type and picture until Christ came. That did happen. But it was only type and picture until Christ came. It was not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could put away sin. So a body was prepared for Christ. In the volume of the book, it was written of him. He delighted to fulfill everything that God required. And in him, God said, I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied. All that has been required is accomplished. The prophecy picture and type is fulfilled and it's finished in the death of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary. That's what God said.

Now we're going to spend the rest of our time flipping back and forth. Seeing that that's so. Proving that that's so. We're gonna spend the rest of our time seeing how Christ fulfilled everything that God required. And I got to thinking about it this afternoon. Some of you may wanna partner up on this, okay? Some of you may wanna stay in Exodus 12, and the person next to you can flip in the news. You know, one of you stay in the Old Testament, and one of you stay in the New Testament. Because we're gonna go back and forth and back and forth and back and forth. And it may, I don't know, it may help you, it may not. But we're gonna see how Christ fulfilled what God required.

Okay, here we go. Exodus 12, verse three. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb." All right, now either hold your place, put a marker there, do whatever you want to do, but turn to John chapter 1. John chapter 1, verse 29. The next day, John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

That was the announcement. There he is. Behold. There he is. There is the lamb. Thousands of years. Thousands of years. Behold. There he is. We're going to say that one day in his return. Right now, I'm getting sidetracked, and I'm going to try to not do that because I'm going to be on a tight time limit here. But we're going to say that there he is. Behold. All right. Back to the point. There he is. There's the lamb. Go back to Exodus 12. Verse 3 says, Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house. A lamb for a house. One lamb for a whole house. Verse four, if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house get under the same roof, get in the same house. Take it according to the number of the souls. Every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. One lamb for one house.

Hold your place and go to Ephesians 2. Ephesians 2 verse 13. But now in Christ Jesus, you who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace who hath made both one and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us, having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances, For to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace, and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby, and came and preached peace to you which were afar off and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one spirit unto the Father.

Now therefore, You are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God. and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

One for the whole house. One for the household. Look at Ephesians 3 verse 14. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. One lamb for one family. One household, God's house, the whole family. One lamb is what they need. One lamb for all of them.

Go back to Exodus 12. Verse 5 says, your lamb shall be without blemish a male of the first year. You shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats. A male without blemish.

Go with me to Luke chapter 1. Luke 1 verse 26. And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David and the virgin's name was Mary. And the angel came in unto her and said, Thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women. And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. And the angel said unto her, fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with God. And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son. and shall call his name Jesus. He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David, and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

Look at Luke 2 verse 1. And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria. and all went to be taxed, everyone into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child,

And so it was that while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn. A firstborn male.

Turn over to John 19. Verse one, then Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged him, and the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe and said, hail, king of the Jews, and they smote him with their hands.

Pilate therefore went forth again and said unto them, behold, I bring him forth to you that you may know that I find no fault in him. Then came Jesus forth wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, and Pilate said unto them, Behold the man.

When the chief priests, therefore, and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him and crucify him, for I find no fault in him. A male without blemish.

Go back to Exodus 12. Verse 3 says, Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb. In the tenth day. Look at verse 6. And you shall keep it up until the 14th day of the same month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening."

It must be observed for four days. It must arrive on the 10th day and be killed on the 14th day, four days. Turn over to Matthew 21. Matthew 21 verse 1. And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the Mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway you shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her.

Loose them, and bring them unto me. And if any man say ought unto you, you shall say, The Lord hath need of them, and straightway he will send them. All this was done that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy king cometh unto thee, meek and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

And the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them and brought the ass and the colt and put on them their clothes and they set him thereon. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way. Others cut down branches from the trees and strawed them in the way.

And the multitudes that went before and that followed cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. And when he was coming to Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? And the multitude said, This is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.

That was day one. He rode into Jerusalem as it was prophesied. That was day one. Verse 17. And he left them and went out of the city into Bethany and he lodged there. Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. That started day two.

Now turn to Matthew 26. All those pages you're turning is one day. All that happened in one day. Matthew 26 verse one, it came to pass when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples, you know that after two days is the feast of the Passover and the son of man is betrayed to be crucified. He said on day two, In two more days, the Son of Man is gonna be crucified. Look at verse 17, chapter 26, verse 17. Now the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus saying unto him, where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the Passover? That starts day three. Look at chapter 27, verse one. When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. That starts day four. Look at verse 50. Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. Four days.

Go back to Exodus 12. Verse 6 says, And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. It must be killed in the evening. The margin for in the evening, the center margin says between the two evenings. The ninth hour was the beginning, the first, the beginning, it was 3 p.m. And the 12th hour was 6 p.m., that ended the day. The day started at 6 a.m., and then 9 a.m. would have been the third hour, noon would have been the sixth hour, 3 p.m. the ninth hour.

So between the two evenings, 3 and 6 p.m., okay, mark 15. Verse 25, and it was the third hour and they crucified him. Nine o'clock in the morning, that's when they crucified him. Verse 33, and when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. From 12 noon to 3 p.m., there was darkness over all the land.

Verse 34, and at the ninth hour, 3 p.m., the first evening, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani, which is being interpreted, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias and one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar and put it on a reed and gave him to drink saying, let alone let us see whether Elias will come and take him down.

And Jesus cried with a loud voice and gave up the ghost and the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. Killed by the sins of the whole assembly of his congregation, all of his elect people in the evening when he died.

Go back to Exodus 12. Verse 7. And they shall take up the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses wherein they shall eat it." In order for God to be satisfied, he said the blood must be on the door. Hold your place here and go to John 10. Verse seven, then said Jesus unto them again, verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture.

Back to Exodus 12. Verse 8, and they shall eat the flesh in that night. roast with fire and unleavened bread and with bitter herbs shall they eat it. Eat not of it raw nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire his head with his legs and with the pertinence thereof. It must be roast with fire, has to be roast with fire. Burned with fire and eaten.

Now I'm gonna, for the sake of time, I'll just tell you that Hebrews 12 verse 29 says God is a consuming fire. Turn to Revelation 1. Verse 13. This is describing Christ. In the midst of the seven candlesticks, one like unto the son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and gird about the paps with a golden girdle, his head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire, and his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace. That's the furnace of God's wrath. and his voice as the sound of many waters. Roast with fire.

And let me just tell you this one again because I, let me just tell you this one. John 6 verse 53, that's where he said, my flesh is meat indeed. John 6, hold on, well you can find it as fast as I can I guess. This is where he said, except you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life and I'll raise him up at the last day. My flesh is meat indeed, my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him.

When he instituted his table, he said, take, eat, this is my body broken for you. He took the cup and he said, this is my blood, drink ye all of it.

Exodus 12, go back to Exodus 12. Verse eight, and they shall eat the flesh in that night. roast with fire and unleavened bread and with bitter herbs, they shall eat it, eat not of it raw nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire his head with his legs and with the pertinence thereof, and you shall let nothing of it remain until the morning, and that which remaineth of it until the morning, you shall burn with fire in that night. Do not let that body remain until the morning.

Turn to John 19. Verse 31. The Jews, therefore, because it was the preparation that the body should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, for that Sabbath day was a high day, they besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.

Look at verse 38. And after this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore and took the body of Jesus. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pound weight. Then took they the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the spices as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden and in the garden a new sepulcher wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews preparation day. For the sepulcher was nigh at hand. In that night. Not left till the morning.

All right. Just stay here, I'll go to Exodus for you. This is Exodus 12 verse 46, skipping down in Exodus a little bit, this is what it says. In one house shall it be eaten, thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house, neither shall you break a bone thereof. Do not break one of its bones.

All right, John 19 verse 31 says, the Jews therefore, because it was the preparation that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, for that Sabbath day was an high day, besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. Then came the soldiers and break the legs of the first and of the other, which was crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already, they break not his legs. But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came thereout blood and water. And he that saw it bear record, and his record is true. And he knoweth that he sayeth true that you might believe. For these things were done that the scripture should be fulfilled. A bone of him shall not be broken. And again, another scripture sayeth they shall look on him whom they pierced.

Not one bone broken. He said his people were bone of his bones. And he keepeth all his bones.

All right, Exodus 12 verse 11. And thus shall you eat it with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover.

For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, against all the gods of Egypt. I will execute judgment. I am the Lord.

And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt.

When I see the blood, your justice will be satisfied. Your redemption will be complete. You will be saved to live forever.

Turn to Hebrews 9, and you can stop holding Exodus 12. Hebrews 9 verse 11, but Christ being come and high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle. Not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building, neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

I was gonna read 14 verses of chapter 10, I'm not going to, but you can, you know it. It was not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to put away sin, so he came. By one sacrifice, he obtained eternal redemption.

Everything prophesied, everything fulfilled. Jesus Christ accomplished it all. And for all of eternity, he will receive all the glory for everything he did to fulfill Everything that was required for us, everything.

And I was going to close with the rest of Revelation 5. I'm not going to do that either. But it says, worthy is the Lamb. I heard everybody and everything saying, worthy is the Lamb.

Thank God for the Lamb. All glory be to Him. Amen.