“The Lord is God, and he has made his light to shine upon us. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords, up to the horns of the altar!”
Psalm 118:27
Psalm 118 is rich in prophetic implications. Verse 22 says, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.” A cornerstone of a building is placed before anything else, and is the thing around which the whole structure is built. Jesus is the Cornerstone of the symbolic building that is his Church. We are the “living stones,” as Peter says, who are “being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood” (1 Pet. 2:5).
In Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, before the tide of public opinion turned against him, the people cried out in adoration, “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord” (Psalm 118:26). The Psalm then goes on to say that God has “made his light to shine upon us.”
The light had come, but a sacrifice was still required, a “festal sacrifice” as talked about in verse 27. The sacrifice that was to be “bound and brought to the altar” was Jesus. He is the Passover Lamb, the perfect sacrifice.
The Light of the World.
The Spotless Lamb.
Bound and offered for you.
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