Exodus 12:21-27
“Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.”
This is such a glorious scripture passage as it points us forward to Christ, the ultimate Passover lamb. There was nothing magical about the blood of the lamb that was smeared over the doorposts in Egypt. It was not the actual blood that delivered them, nor was it the sacrifice of the lamb that delivered them. Rather the Jews were delivered from the wrath of God because of their faith in God and in the word of God. The book of Hebrews makes clear that “it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins” (10:4). Instead, all the sacrifices in the Old Testament, including the Passover event, were designed to point us forward toward our need for a genuine Savior, someone who could truly deliver us from the wrath of God. That genuine savior is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29). And today, just as in the Old Testament, we are delivered from God's wrath by placing our faith in God and in the Word of God, and by believing that Jesus—the true Lamb of God—really did atone for our sins. See you Sunday!
Blessings,
Hexon