A Picture Of Christ
Exodus 12
We all have monumental moments in our lives. My wedding day and the birth of my kids would be some of the most important ones. And of course, a monumental moment was the day I asked Jesus to be my Lord and Savior at the end of my junior year of high school.
One of the most monumental moments in Jewish history was the event that took place in Exodus 12. It’s the miraculous escape from Egypt known as The Passover. So important was this event that God made it an annual religious festival for the Jewish people.
The Passover wasn’t just significant for Old Testament saints. New Testament authors mention it close to thirty times. While the escape from slavery to the Promise Land was an important historical (and spiritual) event for the Jewish people, it ultimately pointed to the most monumental moments in human history: The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The events in Exodus 12 were a clear foreshadowing of the coming Messiah. In v. 5, God instructed that the lamb was to be “without blemish.” 1 Peter 1:19 tells us that we were ransomed from our sins “with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish.”
In v. 7, God tells the people to spread the blood of the lamb “on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses.” Just the like the blood spread on the top and sides of the wooden posts, so Jesus’ blood was shed at the top (from His head) and sides (from His hands) of the wooden cross.
God tells the people in v. 13 that He “will pass over” them because of the blood. The lamb’s blood protected the people for death. Romans 6:23a says, “For the wages of sin is death.” Death is humanity’s punishment for sin. But blessed be the blood of Jesus! When we repent of sin and place our faith in Christ, His blood causes God to pass over us and instead of death, we receive life eternal. This is the Great Exchange!
The Jewish people were set free from the bondage of slavery. Because of the Lamb’s death and triumph over the grave, we’ve been set free from the bondage of sin. Paul put it this way in Romans 6:22, “But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.”
Oh, the power of the Passover Lamb. Freed from slavery, empowered for sanctification, eternity secured. The hymn writer Lewis Jones had it right, “Would you be free from the burden of sin? There's pow'r in the blood, pow'r in the blood; Would you o'er evil a victory win? There's wonderful pow'r in the blood.”
Exodus 12
We all have monumental moments in our lives. My wedding day and the birth of my kids would be some of the most important ones. And of course, a monumental moment was the day I asked Jesus to be my Lord and Savior at the end of my junior year of high school.
One of the most monumental moments in Jewish history was the event that took place in Exodus 12. It’s the miraculous escape from Egypt known as The Passover. So important was this event that God made it an annual religious festival for the Jewish people.
The Passover wasn’t just significant for Old Testament saints. New Testament authors mention it close to thirty times. While the escape from slavery to the Promise Land was an important historical (and spiritual) event for the Jewish people, it ultimately pointed to the most monumental moments in human history: The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The events in Exodus 12 were a clear foreshadowing of the coming Messiah. In v. 5, God instructed that the lamb was to be “without blemish.” 1 Peter 1:19 tells us that we were ransomed from our sins “with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish.”
In v. 7, God tells the people to spread the blood of the lamb “on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses.” Just the like the blood spread on the top and sides of the wooden posts, so Jesus’ blood was shed at the top (from His head) and sides (from His hands) of the wooden cross.
God tells the people in v. 13 that He “will pass over” them because of the blood. The lamb’s blood protected the people for death. Romans 6:23a says, “For the wages of sin is death.” Death is humanity’s punishment for sin. But blessed be the blood of Jesus! When we repent of sin and place our faith in Christ, His blood causes God to pass over us and instead of death, we receive life eternal. This is the Great Exchange!
The Jewish people were set free from the bondage of slavery. Because of the Lamb’s death and triumph over the grave, we’ve been set free from the bondage of sin. Paul put it this way in Romans 6:22, “But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.”
Oh, the power of the Passover Lamb. Freed from slavery, empowered for sanctification, eternity secured. The hymn writer Lewis Jones had it right, “Would you be free from the burden of sin? There's pow'r in the blood, pow'r in the blood; Would you o'er evil a victory win? There's wonderful pow'r in the blood.”
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