DID YOU KNOW: In Exodus 12:3, God commanded Israel, “On the tenth day of this month, each one shall take for himself a lamb… a lamb for a house.” This instruction established a holy day, the Tenth of Nisan.

Passover itself would be celebrated on the fifteenth of Nisan, but the Tenth of Nisan was the day the lamb was chosen and brought into the home. From that day forward, the lamb lived with the family that would later offer it as a sacrifice. It was a day of identification, the lamb becoming one with the house. The Tenth of Nisan was, in essence, the Day of the Lamb.

You know this day by another name: Palm Sunday.

It was the day Jesus Christ rode on a donkey from the Mount of Olives into Jerusalem, welcomed by crowds waving palm branches and crying out “Hosanna!”

As the people of Jerusalem were bringing their Passover lambs into their homes, God was bringing His Lamb into His House.

The celebration, the palms, the procession was not random. It was the fulfillment of an ancient command. On the very day the lamb was to be brought home, the Lamb of God entered the city, identified with the people, and came to the Temple. And just as the lambs chosen on the Tenth of Nisan would be sacrificed on Passover to cover the sins of each household, so the Lamb of God would be sacrificed on Passover to take away the sins of the world once and for all.

The Lamb had to come to the House of God so that the blessing of salvation could go out to every house on earth.

And the revelation does not stop there.

Salvation is not only about believing the Lamb exists, but also about bringing the Lamb home. Into the place where life is actually lived. Into every room. Every closet. Every hidden space. Only when the Lamb is welcomed fully inside can the fullness of salvation be experienced.

TODAY:
Bring home the Lamb of God. Invite Him into every room, every closet, every dark space, and every crevice of your life and let His saving work be complete in you.