ok, i hope this doesn’t sound like crazy talk… but something struck me the other day that seemed either potentially significant or at least interestingly coincidental. we all know the story of passover, a few millenia ago the angel of death was let loose over egypt with a mandate to kill all of the first born children. but god said to moses(who in turn told the jews)that putting the blood of a sacrificial lamb above your door would spare your family a visit from the angel of death.
thus ‘passover’, as in ‘the angel of death will pass over your house if you’re marked with the blood of a lamb’. then a couple of thousand years later christ was born and it was said that he was the ‘lamb of god’ or ‘the paschal lamb'(the sacrificial passover lamb), and that to be marked with his blood would be a guarantee of salvation.
in fact, it is widely believed that christ was crucified on passover. and there is an oft referred to image in the bible of ‘the lamb lying down with the lion’ as an image of peace.
ok, i’m starting to get to the point…baghdad is the city near to where the tigris and euphrates rivers meet. and we all know that this is where civilization began, thousands and thousands of years ago, right?
so i read in the news that lions were starving in an abandoned zoo in baghdad, and that the lions were saved on good friday (the day that commemorates the crucifiction of christ), which is also the day of(or after?) passover, by having live lambs thrown into the lion cages.
so doesn’t it seem potentiall significant that in baghdad, the oldest city in the world, lambs were fed to lions on good friday and passover?
well, it seems interesting to me.
moby