Witness Packet
Exodus 12:13
The blood on the houses where you are staying will distinguish them; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12 — The Passover Lamb
What it means
On the night of the final plague in Egypt, God instructs each Israelite household to slaughter an unblemished, year-old lamb, to apply its blood to the doorframes, and to eat it in haste, ready to leave their slavery. Where the blood is seen, the LORD passes over that house and the firstborn is spared; where it is absent, judgment falls. The lamb dies in the place of the firstborn, so that the people are redeemed not by their own merit but by a substitute's blood, and this night becomes the Passover, the founding feast of Israel that they are commanded to keep as a perpetual memorial of their deliverance. The pattern is unmistakable: a spotless life is given, blood is shed and applied by faith, and the wrath that justly falls is turned away. It teaches that God redeems His people out of bondage at the cost of a substitute, on the ground of blood that He Himself appoints.
How it points to Jesus
Christ is our Passover lamb, the Lamb of God without blemish whose shed blood, applied by faith, shelters us from judgment and brings us out of bondage to sin into God's redeemed people.
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