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What Does It Take for Death to Pass Over Us?

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 What Does It Take for Death to Pass Over Us?Exodus 12:1–20 (ESV)The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbour shall take according to the number of persons, according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roast it, its head with its legs and its inner parts. And you shall let none of it remain until the morning, anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. In this manner you shall eat it, with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover.For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments. I am the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord, throughout your generations, as a statute for ever, you shall keep it as a feast. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days, but what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you.And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute for ever. In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty first day of the month at evening. For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. You shall eat nothing leavened, in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.”There are moments in life where you sense that everything is coming to a point, where all the slow movements of God suddenly gather into a single, decisive act. That is what is happening in this chapter. The plagues have been building, Pharaoh has been resisting, and now the Lord announces a night that will divide life into “before” and “after”.Before anything else, God resets Israel’s calendar. This month will be the beginning. In other words, salvation is not simply an event, it is the start of a new story. God makes a fresh beginning for His people long before they step out of Egypt.Then He gives instructions for a lamb. It must be spotless, young, without blemish. It must be killed at twilight. Its blood must be painted on the doorposts. And everyone in the household must stay inside, sheltered under that blood. This is not symbolic, it is life or death. Judgment will sweep through Egypt, and every home will face it. The only difference will be whether the blood is on the door.It is sobering to realise that Israel is not spared because of their goodness, their morality or their spiritual maturity. They are spared because they trust God’s provision. They are protected because they hide under the blood of another.This is the point that confronts us. We are not saved because of our record or because we are better than others. We are saved because God provides a substitute, and we trust Him enough to shelter beneath His mercy.The meal itself reinforces the urgency. They eat with sandals on their feet and staffs in their hands. They eat in haste, ready to walk out of slavery the moment the Lord opens the way. Salvation demands readiness. When God rescues, He expects His people to move.Then there is the command to remove all leaven. Leaven in Scripture often symbolises the quiet spread of sin. Removing it is a picture of cleansing the home, cleansing the heart, ...
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