The Passover Lamb

When God directed the procedures for the first and successive Passover celebrations, He was pretty specific (as usual). In retrospect, it is obvious that the perfect lamb symbolized Christ. Exodus 12:46 contains instructions that the lamb was not to have any his bones broken. This is reiterated in Numbers 9:12. While a curious instruction, it was important to God. We see it again, prophetically, in Psalm 34:20. God also required the sign of the covenant, circumcision, in order to participate in the Passover celebration and to claim the redemption the blood of the lamb provides (Exodus 12:48). The symbolism is finally made complete in John 19:36. The Perfect Lamb was sacrificed so death would pass over those sealed with the sign of the covenant...and not one of his bones was broken.