When we celebrate Palm Sunday we are celebrating a great
event. As we see Jesus ride into Jerusalem on a donkey and allow the people to
praise Him as king, there are many things we can learn. But there is one aspect
that is fascinating as it deals with Passover.
We know that Passover was only four days away which made the day of the
Triumphal Entry the tenth day of the month. We can see the significance of this
when we read Exodus 12:3, 5-6, which 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.. . ..Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male
of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: And
ye 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.
As Jesus was riding in and the people were crying
“Hosanna in the highest,” unbeknownst to them they were selecting the paschal lamb for sacrifice; the one and only
sacrifice that can take away sin and cause death to pass over us. Jesus is that
lamb
