Behold, Elijah is here.
“How long will you be limping between two opinions?
If Yahweh is God, follow Him..”
But the people did not answer him a word.
1 Kings 18:21 excerpt – Legacy Standard Bible
‘What does this QUESTION of Elijah have to do with HOLY WEEK?’ you ask.
READ our QUESTION from yesterday.
Are YOU of the multitudes? OR one of His disciples?
Good Friday has a context we rarely consider: the Passover and Paschal Sacrifice of the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
QUESTIONS are important to the celebration of the Passover.
Later we will return to Elijah's QUESTION in this context.
The Passover Lamb – (Exodus) 12: שְׁמֹות
“And it will be when your children say to you, ‘What is the meaning of this new slavery to you?’ [Lit What is this service to you?]{some translations use ‘rite‘ or ‘ceremony’} that you shall say,
‘It is a Passover sacrifice to Yahweh who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but delivered our homes.’”
And the people bowed low and worshiped.
Exodus 12:26-27 LSB
NOW consider this as one of the MULTITUDES and hypocrites living the life in this world or in the time of Jesus' sacrificial days in Jerusalem. Do you WORSHIP the Pascal Lamb? (Can you make up your mind about JESUS?)
Borrowing briefly from a PRIVATE moment of Christ Jesus with the Twelve - a sorrowful scene before the night unfolded toward the Cross.
“With fervent desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; for I say to you, I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”
Gospel of Luke 22:15b – New King James Version
And this day will be a memorial for you..
12:14 וְהָיָה הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה לָכֶם לְזִכָּרוֹן וְחַגֹּתֶם אֹתוֹ חַג לַיהוָה לְדֹרֹתֵיכֶם חֻקַּת עוֹלָם תְּחָגֻּהוּ׃
On the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you..
Exodus 12:16a – NKJV regarding the required Passover Feast
מִקְרָא from H7121; something called out, i.e. a public meeting (the act, the persons, or the place); also a rehearsal:—assembly, calling, convocation, reading.
Exodus 12:21 – slaughter the Passover lamb.
וְשַׁחֲטוּ הַפָּסַח׃
Every rendering of the LORD’s command sheds additional pathos of God’s only Son sacrificed on the CROSS and commemoration of HOLY COMMUNION for Christ followers.
Roger@TalkofJesus.com
- slaughter the Passover animal.
- kill the Passover lamb.
- kill the passover. [KJV]
- slay the Passover lamb.
- slay the passover.
- kill it for Passover.
- kill the Passover animal.
- celebrate Passover.
- slaughter the Passover-sacrifice
Indeed, that is exactly what they did to JESUS by hanging a savior from SIN on the cross-beams of a tree!
(and 'lambs,' by the way, in Hebrew is pronounced, "ṣō'n."
pesaḥ :פֶּסַח
Lexicon :: Strong's H6453 - pesaḥ
- sacrifice of passover
- animal victim of the passover
- festival of the passover
a sparing immunity from penalty.. From פָּסַח (H6452)
Lexicon :: Strong's H6452 - pāsaḥ
פָּסַח pâçach, paw-sakh’; a primitive root; to hop, i.e. (figuratively) skip over (or spare); by implication, to hesitate; also (literally) to limp, to dance:—halt, become lame, leap, pass over.
Communion – a ‘difficult’ memorial
“For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed..
Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying; who can understand it?”
Gospel of John 6:55,60 NKJV
Limping toward the CROSS! – a ‘difficult’ Judgment
Returning to ELIJAH'S QUESTION to worshipers of a FALSE god of FALSE prophets:
“How long will you be limping between two opinions?
.. “O Baal, answer us.” But there was no voice and no one answered. And they limped about the altar which they had made.
1 Kings 18:21b,26b LSB
'by implication, to hesitate; also (literally) to limp.. - - - - - - - - - - HOW CAN GOD PASSOVER OUR SIN? HOW CAN THE FLESH AND BLOOD OF THE SON OF GOD BECOME OUR PASSOVER OFFERING?
Progress toward confession of Christ
An excerpt from THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS by John Bunyan ~A.D. 1675
I am in myself undone by reason of a Burden that lieth hard upon me: moreover, I am certain informed that this our City will be burned with fire from Heaven.. He was reading in his Book.. he burst out, as he had done before, crying, "What shall I do to be saved?" I looked then and saw a man named Evangelist coming to him, asked him, Wherefore dost thou cry?" [The 'man,' later named 'Christian' answers as anyone confronted by the CROSS and JUDGMENT. - RH] "Sir, I perceived by the Book in my hand [a BIBLE] that I AM CONDEMNED TO DIE AND AFTER THAT TO COME TO THE JUDGMENT.." [And here is where WE limp between the CROSS and our own worldly City of Destruction - RH] ".. AND I FIND THAT I AM NOT WILLING TO DO THE FIRST, NOR ABLE TO DO THE SECOND."
Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews,
“Behold, your King!”
– Gospel of John 19:14 LSB
“How long will you be limping between two opinions?
Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 5:7-8 NKJV
Amen
