"The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt." (v.13)
Chapter 12 is full of instruction from the LORD to Moses concerning what the people should do in order to escape the angle of death who will come over the nation of Egypt and kill the first born of every household because Pharaoh refused to let God's people go.
The chapter begins with Lord telling Moses that he is to communicate to all of the Israelites that on the tenth of this month each household is to take a one year old male lamb that is unblemished from the sheep or from the goats, and keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then this "Passover Lamb" is to be killed at twilight. Then after catching the blood in a basin, they were then to dip a hyssop branch in the blood and sprinkle some of it on the two doorposts and the overhead beam of their houses, forming a cross. Then, they were to eat the flesh of the lamb on the same night (after it is roasted with fire), and not leave any of it over until morning (vv.1-11).
The blood of a lamb would be a "sign." This sign, placed on the door in the shape of a cross, would save all inside from the "destroyer," God's angel sent to carry out His final plaque. The Angel, seeing the "sign" would then “Passover” the house, doing no harm to the occupants. This day has become a memorial to them and is celebrated throughout their generations as a permanent ordinance. And, in preparation for this day, each year the children of Israel are to (for the week before it) remove all leaven from their houses and not eat any leavened bread.
This “Passover," is a graphic picture of the work of Jesus Christ on the cross to save you and I from our sins. The result of God's Passover was that millions were delivered from slavery in Egypt. And the outcome of the cross of Christ continues to be that millions have been and are currently being saved from the slavery of sin. Hallelujah!
The Truth: “…and the blood of Jesus Christ God’s Son, cleanses us from all sin.” (1 John 1:7)
