Is it your neighbor? Are you sure he’s not it? He’s very weird. Is he hunched-back? Does his face feature ape-like characteristics? Has he a tail down to the floor? Are his lips puckered like a fish? “That’s him, I swear!” you say. Does he wear a suit jacket, shirt, tie, vest, but wears briefs and has fins?
Maybe!
BUT NO!
During God’s instituted celebration of the Passover of Israel’s deliverance from Egyptian bondage under Pharoah, He reminds them a lamb is partly represented in the picture. Every year, they commemorate this great event featuring both God’s miraculous deliverance, as well as His promise to them of the coming sacrificial lamb. In the Passover meal, they have a lamb’s shank-bone, reminding them of His promise.
A mystery lies before them year after year; awaiting the promise and revelation of the pure and spotless lamb of God. Can you imagine how glorious that day will be when God’s mysterious lamb is revealed? Their suffering will be over! God’s promises, fulfilled! However, in their God-bestowed temporary blindness, they have missed it.
Why is there a mystery between God’s lamb shank in the Passover and Jesus? How can there be any connection? It’s ludicrous. Is there really a missing link between the two? There is!
John the Baptist, who prepared the way for Jesus, quoted the Prophet of old, Isaiah, (Isaiah 40:3-5), when upon seeing Him, proclaimed, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world” (Luke 3:4-6). There was an important reason for John making that statement. He was pointing out that the long-held mystery, was at last, revealed from above! God was in their midst! Jesus was the sinless (Hebrews 4:15) and spotless Lamb required in Exodus 12.
Jesus is the missing link! No, not the hairy, ape-like half-human creature Evolutionists wants you to think of. He’s the missing part in the Passover meal. The Lamb of God fulfills the lamb’s shank-bone on the plate. He delivers mankind from the slavery of sin when we apply His blood to the doorposts of our heart. His wrath passes over us.
Just like Satan’s deceptive ploys of prompting kids to seek hidden Easter eggs, versus the risen Christ, He’s got people seeking a missing link; an ape-man, a half-and-half creature that proves God had nothing to do with the creation of man, much less with the resurrection of Christ on Easter morning.
The Missing Link lived amongst us, rules over our lives, and will soon return for a second time for His body of believers, and for the first time for the unbelieving Jew. But to their dismay, just as happened to many of those religious leaders that crucified Jesus, they’ll realize He’s the Messiah, the same man from 2000 years ago!
“And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends” (Zechariah 13:6)
“And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for his firstborn” (Zechariah 12:10).
Accept the Missing Link into your life today and be complete!
God Bless!
Sam
*Inspired by article: Messiah: The Missing Link at Passover Mitch Glaser, The Chosen People magazine, April 1998, page 2