Exodus 12:1-51.
This chapter in Exodus is a
foundational chapter in Scripture. It sets the scene for the coming of Christ
and clearly points us to the work that He will do. These are just some of the
truths about the life, ministry and work of Christ that this chapter prepares and
points us to:
Christ is the true Passover Lamb.
Exodus 12:5
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it
from the sheep or from the goats,
Exodus 12:21
Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go
and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover
lamb.
Not one of Christ’s bones were
broken.
Exodus 12:46
It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh
outside the house, and you shall not break any of its bones.
Christ’s sacrifice turns aside the
wrath and judgement of God from us.
Exodus 12:23
For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees
the blood on the lintel 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.
Christ’s blood shed for us, sets us
free from the consequences of God’s judgement.
Exodus 12:13
The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. 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.
Christ through His work on the cross,
leads us out of slavery and the kingdom of evil, into freedom and life in His
Promised Kingdom.
Exo 12:41
At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the LORD
went out from the land of Egypt.
Christ redeems people from every
nation.
Exo 12:38
A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both
flocks and herds.
For those who reject and refuse
Christ, there will be weeping and wailing as they endure God’s judgement.
Exo 12:30
And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the
Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where
someone was not dead.
The Exodus event is the great
salvation event of the Old Testament, which prepares us for the greater and
ultimate salvation work of Christ. Therefore the Exodus event will be a
dominant theme in the remainder of the Old Testament, there will be constant
reference to it, Psalm and songs will be written about it and there will be the
call upon every generation of Israel from that time forward to remember,
celebrate and thank God for it. The Exodus event also reminds us of the truth
that God’s plan of salvation was not a last minute emergency plan. God
carefully, wisely, lovingly and perfectly planned it out before the world even
came to be, and He has carried it out in absolute perfection, for His glory and
for our eternal good.
For us as believers, the Exodus event
helps to teach us that in a similar way the salvation work of Christ should be
the dominant theme of our lives, we should constantly be speaking of it,
remembering, celebrating and thanking God for it. We should also heed the
warning of Israel’s failing, they failed to teach the next generation of God’s
great work on their behalf, and they failed to pass their faith on. Exodus 12:25-27 And when you come to the land that the LORD
will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service. (26)
And when your children say to you, 'What do you mean by this
service?' (27) you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of the
LORD's Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in
Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.'"
Let us not fail in this regard for we have the
greatest message of salvation to pass on to those around us and to the next
generation. It is the true message of how God planned and worked out our
salvation, before time began and then unfolded, revealed and fulfilled in
accordance to His sovereign purposes. It is a salvation that we know the joy,
freedom, hope and reality of, and salvation that is available to all who would
believe.
Redeeming Father, we thank You for the ways in which You carried out,
unfolded and accomplished Your plan of salvation. We thank You that the Exodus
event was a key moment in this plan, that prepared and pointed us so clearly to
the coming work of Christ. We thank You for these many pictures and signs that
You gave to us, and we thank You most of all that all these pictures and signs
have been brought to their ultimate fulfilment in Christ. We pray that You
would help us to keep Christ as the dominant theme of our lives, passing on the
true message of salvation to the next generation. Amen
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