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The Meaning of the Male Pascal Lamb

It is wonderful to see how the LORD has built the Scriptures with such a vast body of information, arranged in several distinct and deep layers, in such a way that they surprise and ecstatic even the most dedicated and obstinate students of His word. It is clear that the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek texts are rich in meaning, not only for the words themselves, but for what they represent so richly in their multiple meanings and symbologies, as well as for their numerical values ​​and structures that show the beauty, wisdom and majesty of the Supreme mathematician. In addition, it is also interesting how the LORD likes to play with words, making puns to hide part of his mysteries and purposes, in such a way that only with a knowledge of the original languages ​​one is able to perceive them... here is an example:

“Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month, each one shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his fathers, a lamb for each family. But if the family is too small for a lamb, then he will invite his nearest neighbor, according to the number of souls; according to what each one can eat, there you shall calculate how many are enough for the lamb. The lamb shall be without blemish, male ( זכר zakar ) a year old; you may take a lamb or a goat;” (Exodus 12:3-5)

In the passage quoted above there are several important and profound details, but in this article I will stick only to the word used to designate the flawless lamb of the Passover sacrifice by the people of Israel as being a male lamb, whose word in the original is זכר "zakar ” … the curious play on words here is that זכר zakar also means: remember, record, recall, bring to mind.

What then does this mean and what does it represent?! Well… when the Passover Lamb was killed, it implies that the “zakar” was killed… destroyed. And to kill the zakar is to end the memory, it is to destroy the memory, it is to erase the memory; no longer bringing the memories to mind. When the Messiah, the Christ, died on Passover as the Ultimate Paschal Lamb, He was also the zakar, the Lamb without blemish… the male Lamb… the zakar who bore our sins.

When Jesus died on the cross, it was the death of the zakar. When the zakar died, all memory of our guilt, of our sins and iniquities, was destroyed in the death of the zakar, and the memory of our shame is no more. That's why the prophet Jeremiah when he talks about the New Covenant promised by God, in chapter 31, he writes...

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the LORD; I will be their God, and they will be My people. They shall never teach each one his neighbor, nor each one his brother, saying, Know the LORD, for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, saith the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and their sins I will never remember ( זכר zakar ).” (Jeremiah 31:33,34)

See how things are linked?! Notice the beauty of the “play on words” used by the LORD through the Hebrew language?! God emphasizes that in the New Covenant He would forgive the iniquities and sins of the people and that He would never remember them!!! When Jesus fulfilled the New Covenant, made through His blood (see Matthew 26:26-28), He granted that forgiveness, for He was the Lamb without blemish, male … ​​the zakar ( זכר ) … the One who would carry the memory (the record) and the “burden” of all sins and iniquities with himself to death… to destruction, where those memories, those recollections, would never come back to mind… that is not to say that the LORD would have “amnesia” and “forget” effectively from sins, after all due to His attribute of Omniscience, "forgetting" is something impossible for the Almighty; what is taking place here is a matter of law… of justice… that means that these sins have lost their damning power and can no longer be used to condemn you before the Just Judge of the entire universe, since your “recording for legal purposes” it was destroyed in the death of the Lamb, and now those who are signed into the New Covenant through Christ are freed from the condemnation of sin.

Understand this, when you accept the Messiah as your Passover Lamb, when you believe in the Son of God and the work done by Him on your behalf, then you are cleansed from your sins and your iniquities and the LORD will never bring them back to life. remembrance, you are free from the condemnation and power of sin. This is why the apostle Paul and the author of Hebrews write…

“Agora, pois, já nenhuma condenação há para os que estão em Cristo Jesus. Porque a lei do Espírito da vida, em Cristo Jesus, te livrou da lei do pecado e da morte. Porquanto o que fora impossível à lei, no que estava enferma pela carne, isso fez Deus enviando o Seu próprio Filho em semelhança de carne pecaminosa e no tocante ao pecado; e, com efeito, condenou Deus, na carne, o pecado, a fim de que o preceito da lei se cumprisse em nós, que não andamos segundo a carne, mas segundo o Espírito.” (Romanos 8:1-4)

“Lançai fora o velho fermento [ a velha criatura em pecado ], para que sejais nova massa [ uma nova criatura no SENHOR, nascido do Alto ], como sois, de fato, sem fermento [ sem pecado ]. Pois também Cristo, nosso Cordeiro pascal, foi imolado. Por isso, celebremos a festa não com o velho fermento, nem com o fermento da maldade e da malícia, e sim com os asmos da sinceridade e da verdade.” (1 Coríntios 5:7,8)

“Jesus, porém, tendo oferecido, para sempre, um único sacrifício pelos pecados, assentou-se à destra de Deus, aguardando, daí em diante, até que os seus inimigos sejam postos por estrado dos seus pés. Porque, com uma única oferta, aperfeiçoou para sempre quantos estão sendo santificados. E disto nos dá testemunho também o Espírito Santo; porquanto, após ter dito: Esta é a aliança que farei com eles, depois daqueles dias, diz o Senhor: Porei no seu coração as Minhas leis e sobre a sua mente as inscreverei, acrescenta: Também de nenhum modo Me lembrarei dos seus pecados e das suas iniqüidades, para sempre. Ora, onde há remissão destes, já não há oferta pelo pecado.” (Hebreus 10:12-18)

Se você está em Cristo, você morreu com Ele e a sua vida agora está nEle ( vide Colossenses 3 ), você é Nova Criatura gerada pela Nova Aliança! Viva de acordo com essa nova natureza, busque as coisas que são do Alto e viva sem o peso dos pecados do seu “velho eu”, pois o registro, a memória deles foi destruída no Calvário através da expiação do Senhor!!! Que o SENHOR lhe abençoe e ilumine os seus caminhos!!!

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