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“It is the Lord’s passover…and when I see the blood, I will pass over you” (Exodus 12:11,13).
The Lord instituted the Passover about 3,500 years ago, when He told the children of Israel to kill a lamb, and to put the blood on the side posts and on the upper door posts of their houses. Why was this necessary? Why could not the Lord simply have brought judgment down on the Egyptians, and left the Israelites alone?
It was because the Israelites had hearts that were just as sinful as those of the Egyptians. The Egyptians were sinners, but so were the Israelites, even though they were God’s chosen people. God could not righteously judge the Egyptians and let the Israelites go free. God could pass over the Israelites only because of the blood on the door, which spoke of the blood of Christ.
You and I do not keep the Passover, for the Lord Jesus was the true Passover. He has shed His blood on Calvary’s cross, and now His blood is before God, and it cleanses us from all sin. Just as it was God’s view of the blood that counted at the time of the Passover, so today it is the value God puts on the blood of Christ that is important.
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