We started this book with a thread — a promise buried inside a curse, spoken in a garden before the man and the woman had even left it.
A descendant of the woman would crush the serpent’s head.
That thread ran through Abraham — “in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.” Through Judah — “the scepter shall not depart.” Through David — “I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.” Through Bethlehem — too small to be counted, but chosen anyway. Through Isaiah — “like a lamb that is led to slaughter.”
And through Moses. On a night in Egypt, God gave His people a lamb. He told them when to select it. He told them how long to keep it. He told them when to kill it. He told them where to put the blood. And He told them that when He saw the blood, death would pass over.
That was the blueprint.
We have now walked through the week when the blueprint became reality.
The Lamb entered Jerusalem on the day the Passover lamb was to be selected. He was questioned and examined by every authority in Israel during the days the lamb was to be kept. No one found fault. He was killed on the afternoon of the day the lamb was to be killed — and His blood was poured out so that death would pass over those who are covered by it.
Three days and three nights He lay in the tomb. Just as He said. Just as Jonah. And on the other side of those three days, the stone was moved, the tomb was empty, and the silence was over.
The seed crushed the serpent’s head.
The thread that began in a garden reached its purpose in an empty tomb.
But the empty tomb is not just the end of a pattern. It is the beginning of something new.
When Jesus breathed His last on that cross, the veil of the temple — the barrier between God and man — was torn in two from top to bottom (Matthew 27:51). The writer of Hebrews tells us what that means: we now have “confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh” (Hebrews 10:19–20). The distance is gone. The way is open.
And because He rose, something else is true. He is “the first fruits of those who are asleep” (1 Corinthians 15:20). His resurrection is not just proof that He was who He said He was — it is the promise that death does not have the final word for anyone who belongs to Him. “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive” (1 Corinthians 15:22). That is the hope — not a wish, but a certainty grounded in an empty tomb.
The blood has been applied. The veil has been torn. The Lamb is alive. And the door that He opened will never close.
Peter told the crowd in Jerusalem what to do with that open door: “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins” (Acts 2:38). Three thousand walked through it that day (Acts 2:41). The invitation has been standing ever since.
This book has been about a week — one week, traced day by day from the text. But the week points beyond itself. It points to a Lamb whose blood still speaks, a tomb that is still empty, and a door that is still open.
What you do with that is between you and God.
We have tried, throughout this book, to let the text speak for itself. Where it is explicit, we have said so. Where our conclusions required inference, we have identified them as inference. Where we do not know, we have said we do not know.
We have not asked you to take our word for anything. Every passage is cited. Every step of reasoning is shown. You can open your Bible and check every claim we have made. We would not want it any other way.
What we have asked is that you be willing to follow the text — even when it leads somewhere different from what you were taught. Not because tradition is bad, but because the text has the authority. When the two disagree, the text wins. It always wins.
The tradition is old. But the text is older.
And the God who designed the Passover in Egypt, who wrote the pattern into the Law, who sent prophets to describe the suffering servant centuries before He arrived, who brought His Son into the world at the appointed time, and who raised Him from the dead on the appointed day — that God does not do things approximately.
He does them precisely.
Down to the day. Down to the hour.
All Scripture quotations are from the New American Standard Bible (NASB).
No commentaries, no scholars, no denominational positions were consulted in the preparation of this study. The text was the only source.
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