The Lamb King

Chapter 7 The Passover (1446 BC)

Israel experienced 80 additional years of slavery before God used Moses to deliver the Israelites’ from Pharaoh’s control. This would be through a series of signs and wonders that God would perform. Moses came to Pharaoh and demanded that he let the Israelite people go free. Pharaoh would not release his power over the nation. But God responded to the cries of His oppressed peo- ple and demonstrated His unmatched power over Pharaoh and his servants through a series of miracles and plagues. There was one last plague that began God’s final miracle of deliverance. God instructed the Israelites to kill an innocent lamb and paint the blood of the lamb over the doorframes of their homes. God then sent an angel of death to pass through the land and kill the firstborn of all in Egypt. But when the angel saw the blood of the lamb covering any home's entrance, he “passed over” the home because the sacrificed lamb had died in place of the child. Many years later —Jesus’ innocent blood would be shed, not to cover, but to cleanse humankind from their sins —sins that held all captive and destined for eternal death.

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