“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” (Exodus 12:13 NLT).
The Lord instructed Moses to have each household choose a male lamb without blemish to sacrifice and to spread its blood on their doorposts, so that the angel of death would pass over them. For the angel of death would strike down every firstborn in every house in Egypt that did not have the blood of the lamb on its doorposts. This was the tenth plague on Egypt. After this, the Pharoah would let the people of Israel go.
From that day forward the people of Israel were to keep “The Passover” as an on-going remembrance of how God delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt. The Passover clearly prepared them for its fulfillment in Christ, who is the Lamb of God without blemish and whose blood was shed, so that we might be delivered from sin’s slavery and from death unto eternal life. The Passover meal pointed forward to Christ in preparation, just as the Lord’s Supper now points back to Him in remembrance.
Jesus is our Passover Lamb. We are saved by His blood. I am reminded of that wonderful hymn by Robert Lowry:
What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
O precious is the flow
That makes me white as snow;
No other fount I know;
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
PRAYER: Dear Father, thank You for the Lamb, whose coming was so certain that Your Word says He was “slain from the foundation of the world,” so that we might have our names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. We have received Jesus as Lord and Savior and His blood is spread upon our hearts. We are Your children and You are our Father. Thank You for such a wonderful salvation. In Jesus’ name, amen.