THE REVELATION of JESUS: THE LAMB SLAIN FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD

Friends, we’ve been looking at the prophecies concerning the last days and God’s plan to use the End Times events to draw His chosen people, Israel back to Him. These prophecies are from both the Old Testament, or Jewish Tenach, AND the New Testament, which is the B'rit Hadashah or New Covenant Promised in Jeremiah 31:31

 

Jer 31:31 "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a NEW COVENANT with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah [B'rit Hadashah] Jer 31:32 "NOT according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke...

 

And we know that God WILL bring the remnant believers of Israel back to Himself, under the NEW COVENANT, which was PAID FOR by JESUS/YESHUA as the substitutionary sacrifice for the WHOLE WORLD.

 

And THIS is the PASSOVER sacrifice and RESURRECTION that WE are NOW CELEBRATING as we gentiles call Easter, for those of us who have put our TRUST IN YESHUA/ Jesus FOR OUR SALVATION.

 

There is therefore NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SIN. “It is FINISHED—PAID IN FULL” according to John 19:30.

 

This is why the temple was destroyed 40 years after Yeshua’s resurrection. To CLOSE the OLD TESTAMENT ordinances for sin, and leave ONLY ONE WAY for someone—Jew or Gentile—to be Justified in God’s eyes from our sin. ONE WAY, and that’s through the Precious Blood of His Son. Lev 17:11 says:

 

Lev 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the BLOOD that makes an ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL.

 

Jesus CAME to “Seek and to SAVE the LOST” and be sure friend, that without Him, we are LOST souls most miserable.

 

These are important things to consider, particularly TODAY, which RECALLS that SATURDAY 2,000 years ago of Introspection and GREAT DARKNESS in the PASSION account, as JESUS, the Promised MESSIAH lay DEAD in a tomb.

 

The disciples were ROCKED by JESUS’S SUDDEN ARREST, TRIAL, SCOURGING, and EXECUTION ALL HAPPENING in about 12 hours.

And so on this DARK SATURDAY, they are all confused, and in SHOCK at the betrayal of JUDAS, and the LIES of the RELIGIOUS LEADERS, the TURNING of the CROWD against JESUS at the trial, after WORSHIPING AND PRAISING Him at His Triumphal ENTRY into Jerusalem.

 

But the Bible describes what is happening on this DARK DAY of mourning, as seen in this SELECTION of verses from throughout the Bible:

 

John 14:30 "I will no longer talk MUCH with you, for the RULER of THIS WORLD is COMING, and he has NOTHING in Me.

 

John 12:27 "Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this PURPOSE I CAME TO THIS HOUR.

 

Luk 22:53 "When I was with you daily in the temple, you did not try to seize Me. But this is YOUR HOUR, AND THE POWER OF DARKNESS."

 

Mat 12:40 "For as Jonah 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.

 

Jhn 16:20 "Most assuredly, I say to you that YOU WILL WEEP AND LAMENT, but the WORLD will REJOICE; …YOU WILL BE SORROWFUL, but your sorrow will be TURNED INTO JOY.

 

Isa 14:12 "How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!

Isa 14:15-17 You shall be brought down to HELL, to the lowest depths of the PIT. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the EARTH TO TREMBLE, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a WILDERNESS, and destroyed the cities thereof; that OPENED NOT THE HOUSE OF HIS PRISONERS?

 

Psa 49:7-9 None of them can by any means REDEEM HIS BROTHER, nor give to God a RANSOM for him—For the REDEMPTION OF THEIR SOUL IS PRECIOUS, for it shall cease for ever—That he should still LIVE FOR EVER, and not see corruption.

 

Isa 52:3 For thus says the LORD: "You have SOLD YOURSELVES FOR NOTHING, And you shall be REDEEMED WITHOUT MONEY."

 

Hos 13:14 "I will RANSOM them from the power of the grave; I will REDEEM THEM FROM DEATH. …O Grave, I will be your destruction!

 

Zec 9:11 … by the BLOOD OF YOUR COVENANT I have sent FORTH YOUR PRISONERS OUT OF THE PIT wherein is no water.

Zec 9:12 Return to the stronghold, You prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

 

Mat 16:18  … upon this rock I will BUILD MY CHURCH; and the GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT.

 

1Pe 3:18-19 For Christ suffered once for sins, the JUST for the unjust, that He might BRING us to God, being put to Dea