Easter Question: Can you add anything to how Jesus' sacrificial death mimics the passover lamb?

Well it was asked the other day how Jesus could have fulfilled the three day three night passage.If he died on friday.I think he had to have celebrated Passover when the essenes did so that he could have died at the right hour for the sacrifice.Shalom

Easter is set by the first full moon after the vernal equinox. This is the one day in the year when day and night are roughly equal!

It varies by more than a month over the years and so it simply cannot represent the date of anyone's death!!!

It is in fact a combination of several pagan festivals most notably the spring festival.

The name Easter comes from “Eastre” an Anglo-Saxon pagan goddess. Even the Chinese have the festival of Ching Ming where flowers and sweets are put on their ancestors graves!!

The egg and the rabbit are symbols of springtime and rebirth!

Fun to watch the Christians worshiping a pagan festival though - makes it just like Christmas when they do the same thing!!!

Ummm. The passover lamb, the lamb the Israelites slaughtered, grew to become into an illustration of an Egyptian god. it fairly is why the Israelites slaughtered it in the 1st place, as an illustration of their status up and freeing themselves from the slavery of the Egyptians. They slaughtered the logo of an Egyptian god, magnificent in front of the Egyptians. Then placed the blood on their doorposts to coach their allegiance to their freedom, and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. all people who got here right into a house with that blood of the Egyptian god on it, confirmed that they've been on the edge of the Israelites, and that they could stay. there have been Israelites who got here in to the properties, and there have been additionally some Egyptians who additionally got here in, and have been spared. approximately 3 out of 5 Israelites chosen to stand with the Egyptians, and did not enter the properties with the Egyptian god's blood on the doorposts. They perished. So while Christians believe that Jesus represents the passover lamb, what they're definitely believing without realising it, is they're calling Jesus an Egyptian god, the ram, the sheep god. humorous, isn't it? while somebody comes alongside and steals somebody else's holy e book without taking the actual factors for what's in it too? LOLOL! attempt to undergo in innovations that this could nicely be a JEWISH e book, and it fairly is the history OF the Jews, and it fairly is been stored sacred and precise on the grounds that that factor. you in basic terms could have one look on the lifeless Sea Scrolls to work out that not something has been replaced. it fairly is the Jews who comprehend the meanings of what's in the JEWISH Torah, not the Christians. yet hey, it fairly is especially humorous to work out Christians worshipping their pagan virgin human sacrifice, and on nicely suited of that, calling him the "lamb of the passover" which grew to become into not something greater advantageous than an Egyptian god! LOLOL

These aren't just literary allusions. The Passover Lamb prefigures and mystically participates in Christ's sacrifice. I would check out Dr. Scott Hahn's writings on Biblical types and typology. It's fascinating.

LOL. If you say that he was the Yom Kippur atonement then it was a goat...not a lamb...lol, look it up silly. Also there were two goats, one was sacrificed and the other thrown out into the wilderness off a cliff (it was the one thrown off the cliff that brought atonement).

If you say he was the pascal lamb, then that is even funnier because the pascal lamb was not a sin-bearing sacrifice, furthermore there were thousands of lambs sacrificed and eaten by groups of people, it was not done by the high priest. It was a remembrance of when G-d took us out of Egypt. LOL. Sometimes I wish Christianity made some semblance of sense, too bad it is based off of total ignorance of Torah. I love you guys...thanks for keeping me amused.

P.S. I'll pray for you...just kidding.

Yes; I can add two additional things "how Jesus' sacrificial death mimics the passover lamb?"

I can add two additional prespectives including Christian perspectives and Judaism's perspectives based on liturgies.

Two perspectives and explanations in this Answer regarding "how Jesus' sacrificial death mimics the passover lamb?"

Two Answers and explanations from Christendom's perspective.

(apologies in advance for lengthy Answer)

Two additional Answers and explanations from Judaism's perspective.

Answers and explanations in two perspectives:

1. Christendom's perspective (immediately below)

2. Judaism's perspective (just below and following)

CHRISTENDOM'S PERSPECTIVE

Jesus' sacrifice was same day as Jewish Pesach (Passover) sacrifice therefore everything symbolic of Pesach sacrifice is same for Jesus' sacrifice.

"Jesus was the lamb (Paschal lamb) because he was the sacrifice, like the lamb killed for Passover by the Jewish people" on the Jewish Passover

Also; Jesus had partaken of "Passover" Lamb sacrifice the evening of the 13th-Aviv (Old Testament month) and then was killed the 14th.

Mark 14:12-27; 15:1-25, Matthew 26:17-75 and the beginning of Chapter 27:1,15,22; Luke 22:1-20; 23:16-21; John 13:1-2.

Explanation: (Courtesy of "Little O Me")

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The passover is on the 14th of Abib [Old Testament Spring month "Aviv"] but there are some who beleive it's on the 15th. In the bible a day is counted from sunset to sunset. Read Genesis chapter 1 & Lev. chapter 23. The passover lamb was killed in the evening just after sunset at the beginning of the 14th of Abib. The next morning was still the 14th. Christ was killed on the 14th of Abib during the daytime part of it. They wanted him off of the cross after He died before sunset because a sabbath started at sunset. This sabbath started on the 15th of Abib, which wasn't the weekly sabbath but a yearly sabbath called the First Day of Unleavened Bread.

You'll find this in Lev. 23 following the passover, I don't remember the verses right now. In John 19:31 it's called a High Day, which means it's a yearly sabbath. This is how we know Christ wasn't killed on what the world calls Good Friday.

There were 2 sabbaths that week. The First Day of Unleavened Bread & the Weekly Sabbath. There are those who want to say Christ was killed on the 15th but their wrong.

Explanation: (Courtesy of "forgivebutdonotforget911")

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". . .The "script" for a Passover is rather well defined and no where in it does it say "eat this, this is my body, drink, this, this is my blood." If Jesus was an observant Jew he never would have said that. If his followers were observant Jews, at least one of them would have objected.

Since there is no question in the Christian faith that he said it, AND none of his followers objected, one is forced to draw one of two conclusions.

1. Either he never said it and someone later lied about it.

OR.

2. He did not say it at a Passover Seder and the Last Supper took place at some other time.

The Christians chose to go with #2. They denied the connection between the Last Supper and Passover. To do this, they had to "separate" the celebration of the Last Supper, Good Friday and Easter from Passover.

Instead of having Easter based upon the Jewish calendar, which would have keep it connected to Passover every year and making the connection very apparent, the Catholic Church changed the way they calculated Easter.

Easter is now calculated as the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring Equinox. (Pretty pagan sounding bringing in the sun and moon for the calculation but there you have it.). ((This year by the way is one of the earliest Easters in 100 years, it could only be ONE DAY sooner according to the way it is calculated.))

By separating Easter from Passover, the connection between the Last Supper and the Passover Seder is not very apparent and thus fewer people question what Jesus actually said at the dinner. If it was not a Passover Seder, there was no script and he could say what he wanted.

In recent times however, with people asking questions, using method #2 is kind of falling apart. Today most people know the Last Supper was a Passover Seder. So now they have to deal with #1....that someone lied about what Jesus said. So they came up with another way to deal the inconsistency.

Many churches have Easter Seders. They use the symbols of Passover but change the meanings of the symbols. They attempt to show that Jesus could have conducted a Seder without totally screwing it up. And in their Christian Seders, they can sneak in the "body and blood" without raising objections."

JUDAISM'S PERSPECTIVE

Jesus did not die at any time of the Jewish Passover.

(Lev 23:4; Num 9:3,5, Num 28:16) - "Pesach"

(Lev 23:6, Num 28:17, Num 33:3) - "Chag HaMatzoht"

Explanation: (Courtesy of "Aryeh M ")

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"Pesach" in the context of the above [Old Testament citations] is the day on which the Pascal lamb was slaughtered and its blood was sprinkled on the altar.

The lamb was not eaten until the evening, which is then the 15th day of Nisan (First Month). Technically, one may not eat leavened bread once it was time to offer the Pascal Lamb but it was not yet the time to eat Matzah. The festival day did not include the day on which the lamb was slaughtered.

The 14th day of the First Month counts as a minor holiday. This year [2008] it comes on the Sabbath, but on other years Orthodox Jews do not work during the afternoon, and most follow the custom to refrain from all work during the entire day.

From the Exodus until the destruction of the First Temple and then during the days of the Second Temple the 14th of the First Month was a joyous day. Most of the afternoon was the sacrifice of the Pascal lamb with almost the entire nation represented in the Temple (Tabernacle before the Temple was built). Psalms were sung and the Levites played their instruments.

Additional Explanation: (Courtesy of Eliezer Posner - www.chabad.org)

In Tanach, the word "Pesach" refers to the Pesach offering, whereas "Hag HaMatzot" refers to the holiday. The Pesach offering was brought on the fourteenth; the holiday of Pesach begins on the fifteenth.

The year after the Israelites left Egypt, they brought the Pesach offering in the desert (Numbers 9). Other years that the Israelites were in the desert, they were not obligated to offer the Pesach offering. This offering became a yearly obligation only once they had settled the land of Israel (see Exodus 12:25).

To read about Passover observance while the Israelites lived in Israel, see Joshua 5, I Kings 23, and II Chronicles 30 and 35

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