The Reset

Exodus 12:1 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.

This month shall be your beginning of months: The coming deliverance from Egypt was such a significant act that God told the children of Israel to remake their calendar. The new year would now start with the month of their redemption from Egypt. It was a dramatic way of saying that everything was (about) to change.

• “God is (ever) the God of new beginnings in the history of failure. The ultimate statement is found in the Apocalypse in the words: ‘Behold, I make all things new.'” (Morgan)

Every man shall take for himself a lamb: On the tenth of this first month, each family – or household – was to take a lamb, and the lamb was to live with the family for the four days until Passover.

• By the time it was sacrificed on the fourteenth it was both cherished and mourned.

Exodus 12:7,8 And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

The only part of this sacrifice given to God was the blood; the rest was eaten by each family or discarded.

See (1 Corinthians 5:7); (John 1:29);(John 19:14). We see Jesus in the Passover.