The Passover Instituted the 1st Passover
Exodus 12:3-33
3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth of this month every man
shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.
4 And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his
house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without[a] blemish, a male [b]of the first year. You may take it
from the sheep or from the goats.
6 Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.
7 And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel
of the houses where they eat it.
8 Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and
with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire—its head with its legs
and its entrails.
10 You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you
shall burn with fire.
11 And thus you shall eat it: [c]with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your
staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover.
12 ‘For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike 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.
13 Now 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 the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn
29 And it came to pass at midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was [h]in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.
30 So Pharaoh rose in the night, he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was
a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
The Exodus
31 Then he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise, go out from among my
people, both you and the children of Israel. And go, serve the Lord as you have said.
32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also.”
33 And the Egyptians urged the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste.
For they said, “We shall all be dead.”
What I have just read to you is the 1st Passover. All others have been celebrations and remembrances
of what God did to this day.
When I see what God has done for Israel, it tells me the value he put on that Nation and this People,
sadly they rejected Jesus.
At sunset, tomorrow starts Passover 2024
What if this is the last Passover Remembrance the church will ever see?
I know the Passover is directed at the Jews. They were slaves to Egypt. Jesus became my Passover lamb on the cross.
He is the lamb who took away my sins. I was going to die; I was an Egyptian whom the death angel would have
killed. Any Gentile in Egypt would have had the judgment of God upon them.
Either have blood on your door or you leave Egypt, fleeing for your life.
Jesus is my Passover lamb, the blood of Jesus is a covenant, and the death angel will not hunt me or my house.
Are you in covenant with God? Is the blood applied to your doorpost? Is it upon the doorpost of your heart?
What does it mean to plead the blood of Jesus? It’s not the word people use. It’s what’s been applied. Something had
to die so I could live. My Jesus died for me. That’s what is implied when I plead for blood.
The blood of Jesus is a covenant, and God never breaks his covenants.
By faith, I have the blood applied to the doorpost of my heart. Listen to me, I didn’t put it there; the Holy Spirit put
it there. My faith in Jesus requires the protector’s protection.
Faith in Jesus will bring forth the blood, and the death angel will be denied. Death would love to take hold of my soul;
I cannot imagine living life knowing I’m being hunted by death. Without the blood of Jesus, the lamb of God, you are fair game.
Hebrews 9:27-28
27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him,
He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.
Is your name written in the lamb’s Book of Life. The lamb’s book of life is spoken of in Revelations 20:12?
Revelations 20:12-15
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before [c]God, and books were opened.
And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according
to their works, by the things which were written in the books.
13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them.
And they were judged, each one according to his works.
14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
There is the Book of Life. This book records all who have been given life by
Jesus, every human, and everything that has been given life.
But I ask you, has your name been written in the Lamb’s Book of Life?
If this is the case, this means Jesus died for you, and you or I should have
died and gone to hell because we were sinners. We sinned against God.
For us to live, he had to die for me. For me to have eternal life, he had to
die for me.
The night the death angel came through Egypt, he came to every house.
Four days before Passover, the lamb was brought into the house. It became
your Passover lamb. You knew it would die, and you would take its life for its blood.
On Passover at twilight, right after the sun had gone down, the lamb was killed
and the blood was placed on the door. Six hours before the death angel would walk through Egypt.
Then they would cook it and eat this lamb, leaving nothing until morning, and
anything not eaten would burn with fire.
You did not come out of that house till the sun came out.