Exodus 12:8, 11 "That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, (God has given His people instructions for preparing and eating the Passover meal, a meal meant to sustain them in their soon and hurried departure out of slavery from Egypt and, though they didn't know it at the time, to picture the later reality of Jesus' sacrificial death. Each portion of the meal could be prepared quickly, signifying the immediate and quick departure from the life of bondage upon which they would soon embark. After the lamb's blood had been applied to the doorposts of the house, the lamb was hung suspended on a wooden spit that roughly formed a cross. The quickly roasted lamb shows the consuming fire of God that was later poured out on Christ Who hung suspended on a wooden cross.) along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast." (The bitter greens would represent the hardships of their enslavement and remind them of what they were being delivered from. Including bread without yeast in the Passover meal would also provide for quick preparation so it could be cooked and eaten quickly. With yeast later representing sin that, when present, permeates the whole loaf, the bread without yeast would come to signify the sinless Bread of Life Himself. Consuming the bread would be a picture of the bread later eaten at the Last Supper that Jesus said was a symbol of His broken Body. The picture of the Passover meal shows us in symbolic terms the truths of Christ willingly hanging on a cross because of our sin, because we have put Him there. It shows us Christ sacrificially bearing the fire of God's wrath for us. It shows us the bitterness of our life of bondage to sin It shows us the picture of the immediate departure from sin's bondage available to us. It points to the Christ, our sinless sacrifice, Who invites us to immerse ourselves in His new life for us today.)
