During a cruel and bloody war a commander took an oath in the presence of his troops that he would slaughter the entire population of a certain town, and in due course the bloodhounds of war were let loose on the defenseless people.
Now it so happened that a fugitive, seeking for a shelter, saw a sight which was the means of saving both his own life and the lives of others. He spied a number of soldiers as they broke into a house, the inmates of which they put to the sword. But on leaving it, they fastened up the place again and one of them, dipping a cloth into a pool of blood, splashed it on the door, as token to any who might follow of what had taken place inside.
Quick as his feet could carry him, the poor fugitive sped away to a large house in the center of the town where a number of his friends were concealed and breathlessly told them what he had seen. At once it flashed upon them how to act. A goat was in the yard. Immediately it was killed and its blood sprinkled on the door. Scarcely could they close the door again when a band of soldiers rushed into the street and began to slay right and left. But when they came to the blood-marked door they made no attempt to enter! The sword―so they thought―had already entered therein and performed its work. Thus, while the many around were slain, all within the blood-sprinkled door were saved.
Yes, "Christ our Passover" is indeed "sacrificed for us" (1 Cor. 5:77Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: (1 Corinthians 5:7)), and every true believer in Him knows that what has stayed the sword of divine judgment is His sheltering blood.
Reader, hast thou believed God's Word about the blood? Hast thou dipped the hyssop of thy faith in the blood? Hast thou sprinkled thy heart's door with the blood?