Apply the blood to your life so you can be saved from God's judgment.
13 But the blood on your
doorposts will serve as a sign, marking the houses where you are staying.
When I see the blood, I will pass over you. This plague of death will not
touch you when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 “This is a day to
remember. Each year, from generation to generation, you must celebrate it as
a special festival to the LORD. This is a law for all time.
In the previous post we saw that Pharaoh's magicians could imitate the real deal sometimes but as God sent more and more plagues that they couldn't counterfeit they proved that Satan may come close but God's Mighty Power is not available anywhere else. God's power couild not be matched as he used it to devastate nature, command animal life and now in today's scripture we will see that he has power over death.
God has been more than fair enough in his dealings with the Egyptians, the
Bible focuses on Pharaoh but he isn't the only Egyptian to have a hard
heart toward God, most of the citizens of Egypt are guilty of treating
God's people harshly even when
Pharaoh attempted to kill all of the Hebrew babies. It is amazing that Moses was protected from death by the daughter of the man that wanted him dead and she knew that he was a Hebrew baby that should have been killed by her father's decree. (Exodus 2:6)
God always protects his own, before God judges the world he warns his chosen people that there is a way
to escape judgment, they can receive mercy if they
believe in the power of the blood to save them. But they were not allowed
to just believe, real belief requires action, if they didn't follow God's instruction then they would not be any better
off than the rest of Egypt.
Psalms 78:49-52 He loosed on them his fierce anger—all his fury, rage, and hostility. He dispatched against them a band of destroying angels. 50 He turned his anger against them; he did not spare the Egyptians’ lives but ravaged them with the plague. 51 He killed the oldest son in each Egyptian family, the flower of youth throughout the land of Egypt. 52 But he led his own people like a flock of sheep, guiding them safely through the wilderness.
God offers his chosen people protection from the
destroying angels, he didn't exempt his people from this plague like
he did some of the others, instead he told them how to avoid it through their
obedience.
God told them that the Passover lamb must be the best of the best, a young lamb without defect, this lamb became known as the symbol of the perfect lamb that would come to be the final sacrifice.
Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth.
Jesus is the only sacrifice that pleased God, unlike those lambs that died before him, he is the only one that has God's complete approval. Without his life of sinless obedience his sacrifice would have had no value at all. We need to see that not only did Jesus die for us, He also lived for us.
Most of us fail to see that we
are all slaves in a foreign country under the reign of an evil
dictator. You can come out of the kingdom of darkness and become a child of God that will not be punished with the rest of this crazy world someday.
1 Peter 1:18-19 For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And it was not paid with mere gold or silver, which lose their value. 19 It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.
The value of silver and gold will fluctuate but the commodity used to pay our ransom from slavery never changes. The blood of our Passover lamb is priceless yet it is meaningless if it isn't applied to your life by your personal faith.
Have you had your own personal Passover moment? Find out how you can have peace with God.
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