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Exodus chapter 12, verse 23,

for the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians,

and when He sees the blood on the lentil and on the two doorposts,

the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.

This one verse, maybe more than any other here in Exodus chapter 12,

summarizes what Passover is about, what God was instituting in this moment,

in a way that God's people would look back to really every day after this point,

that even in the church today, we look back to the blood of Christ shed on a cross for our sins

and the Lord's supper, and it all hinges on this imagery from Exodus chapter 12,

when God chose to use the Passover, this picture of taking a sacrifice,

and taking the blood of a spotless animal and putting it over the doorposts of the Israelites

to show that the penalty for sin death had been paid in this house,

in a way that would be different from the Egyptians in this story,

so that when says the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians,

when He sees the blood on the lentil and on the two doorposts,

the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses

to strike you. The whole picture is that on that night, when every Egyptian household

would experience death, death of the first born son in their household, the Lord would pass over

the houses of all who were trusting in God and His provision of a sacrifice instead of the

first born son dying. The whole picture here gets developed more and more and more throughout

the Bible in the sacrificial system in the Old Testament, how we deserve death before God.

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