With this you acknowledge that the Passover Lamb was interecessory. And it is a fact that the Lamb offered as a guilt offering was also intercessory.
He interceded for us through His shed blood. And the blood of the Passover Lamb was on the doorpost & lintel as intercession.
Those who feast on the sacrifice participate in the sacrifice. They are feasting on the intercession & they proclaim HIS DEATH until he comes.
These are basic things.
Even in communion, the great thanksgiving is for the intercession. It is not something that can be easily missed.
Xzins: With this you acknowledge that the Passover Lamb was interecessory. And it is a fact that the Lamb offered as a guilt offering was also intercessory.
The blood of the lamb was not intercessory. It was a marker for those households that were to be spared the divine wrath that broke Pharaoh's resistance and allowed Hebrews to leave.
There is nothing in the story of Exodus to show that the blood of the lamb was intercessory. It was an element of rich Jewish imagination and colorful folklore that God somehow "needed" markers in order to know which household to spare.
God knows what we think, what we feel, and doesn't need visible markers. But, assuming this is what God wanted, the death of the lamb provided the blood that gave God the marker which saved Hebrew households. In that sense it was as "salvific" and "intercessory" as a bar-coded sticker on your car will let you through a toll booth.
He interceded for us through His shed blood. And the blood of the Passover Lamb was on the doorpost & lintel as intercession
Yes Jesus did intercede on our behalf, but dying on the cross: His death in exchange for everyone else's life. He paid the ransom. The price was His life. He said in effect "let them go, you can have me." This is not even close to the Passover lamb's issue.
The lamb did not assume the sins (there is no such concept as "escapelamb"), nor did it die because of Israel's sin, nor did its death serve as a substitute for Pharaoh's detention of the Hebrews. The lamb was not offered in exchange for the Hebrews' freedom, the way Christ offered His life in exchange for ours. There is simply no comparison to the Passover lamb and its blood, physically or symbolically, even spiritually.
The similarity rests in the end result, which was God's deliverance from captivity (in the Hebrew case physically, and in Christ's case of death holding us captive).
Those who feast on the sacrifice participate in the sacrifice. They are feasting on the intercession & they proclaim HIS DEATH until he comes
No, those who receive the Eucharistic Gifts do so that they may live. The Eucharist is manna that came from heaven (cf St. John 6:51). It's all about life.
We do proclaim His death along with His Resurrection: death to life. He is the God of the living (cf Mat 22:32).