Exodus 12:12-29
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. Vs 12
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. Vs 13
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. Vs 14
Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. Vs 15
And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you. Vs 16
And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. Vs 17
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even. Vs 18
Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land. Vs 19
Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread. Vs 20
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. Vs 21
And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. Vs 22
For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. Vs 23
And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. Vs 24
And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. Vs 25
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? Vs 26
That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped. Vs 27
And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. Vs 28
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. Vs 29
On that fateful Passover night, the instruction to the Hebrews was to put the blood of the sacrificed lamb on the beam of the doorway. They would enter through the bloodstained doorway and stay inside their houses so that the Angel of death would pass over.
And when they once more passed through that doorway, It would be for the last time. It would be to leave the land of bondage, to leave old lives, to leave old taskmasters to enter a new life, a new identity, a new realm and ultimately a new land.
Centuries later, the blood of Jesus (the sacrificed blood of the Lamb of God) marked the beam on the cross. As the blood of the lamb, during the Passover night, transformed the doorway into a portal by which they would leave the old life to enter a new, so the cross became the doorway for every sinner to become a child of God.
The cross was not just an execution slab.
It was a doorway to becoming a new creation man, a doorway to walk out of sin into godliness, a doorway to walk out of darkness into light, a doorway to walk out death into life, a doorway to walk out of lies into truth.
John 10:9
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. Vs 9
So the only way to truly know, is to enter in. Come in today and right now for He is ever ready to open the door and receive you in for He is the way, the truth and the life.
You can't know the right way except and only if you know Him. For He is the beginning and the end. He was and He is still in existence. He knows the best way for you.
If you want to know the truth, meet with Him and He will show you the truth. He started the world, so only Him can tell you the truth about the world and the truth on how to live in this world.
You want to have eternal life, life that can never be eaten by the cancer worm, meet with Him. A life that is worthy of emulation, a life in abundance.
Knock and He shall open for you to come in.
Please pray this prayer with me.
"My God and my Lord, I acknowledge the precious sacrifice on the cross. By the blood of Jesus, I enter through it in repentance."
NOTE:
On the old rugged cross, God's dearest and best was slain for a world of lost sinners. This is the gospel - the good news. Keep share it.
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