Here we are, a thousand years before Christ, and God is laying out the plan. There is a pattern to salvation, and there are echoes throughout the pages of the Old Testament. The groundwork was set here in Exodus 12, when a lamb is sacrificed and the blood is on the doorpost as a sign that God is at work in that house. I love how any household that is too small is combined with another -- we see community being formed through the death of the lamb. Three thousand years later, we marvel at what God has done, what God is doing, in providing salvation through the death of a lamb. God has been at work, and God remains at work through God's beloved church, and so we continue to gather for a feast. This is what Jesus was thinking about during the night of his arrest -- this meal, this plan, this path to salvation.
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