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[buckerss]

Hi all. Just been thinking.........being as Jesus was the Passover lamb who takes away the sin of the world, why was the sin offering under the law not a lamb? I know Im probably overlooking the obvious, but can someone please point out the obvious to me!

[Richie]

Because the offeings under the law could not take away sin - Hebrews 10.

[Mark Taunton]

Just a point of detail. In Lev 4:32, the sin offering for one of the common people could be a lamb. But it had to be female if so. So it's not like the passover lamb, which was male.

[Mark Taunton]

Richie, on Oct 15 2009, 11:42 PM, said:

Because the offeings under the law could not take away sin - Hebrews 10.

The offerings under the law could not take away sin, but in certain respects they typified Jesus, the one to come, who would. So Buckerss has a good question.

Edited by Mark Taunton, 16 October 2009 - 04:38 AM.

[jon]

That is the point. There was no male lamb sin offering. Almost anything else, from a bullock to a bowl of cereal could be offered as a sin offering, and the one exception was a male lamb.

Hence the startling significance of John the Baptist's cry "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!"

[Jeremy]

jon, on Oct 16 2009, 06:20 AM, said:

That is the point. There was no male lamb sin offering. Almost anything else, from a bullock to a bowl of cereal could be offered as a sin offering, and the one exception was a male lamb.

Hence the startling significance of John the Baptist's cry "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!"

Good observation.

[Richie]

Mark Taunton, on Oct 15 2009, 09:37 PM, said:

Richie, on Oct 15 2009, 11:42 PM, said:

Because the offeings under the law could not take away sin - Hebrews 10.

The offerings under the law could not take away sin, but in certain respects they typified Jesus, the one to come, who would. So Buckerss has a good question.

See what Jon said. There's as much contrast between the Law and Christ as there are types.