Exodus 11:1-11
God sent ten terrible plagues on Pharaoh and the Egyptians because he would not let the people of Israel go free. The last plague was death: the judgment of sin. It fell on all the firstborn of Egypt. The prince of the royal palace, and the prisoner in the dungeon suffered alike. The children of Israel had been instructed of God to kill a little lamb and sprinkle its blood upon the doorpost and on the lintel of their houses, and God said, “When I see the blood I will pass over you.”
At midnight the destroying angel passed through the land, and smote with the sword all who were not under the shelter of the blood. So it will be when God judges the world and punishes sin. God’s judgment will come suddenly, when sinners are not expecting it (1 Thess. 5:2), and there will be no escape. Great men will cry to the rocks to hide them from “the wrath of the Lamb” (Rev. 6:15, 16). All who are not under the shelter of “the blood of the Lamb” for salvation must suffer “the wrath of the Lamb” in judgment. In the land of Egypt, “inside” all were safe; “outside” they were slain. So it will be in this world in that coming day.
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