The commands Moses gave about the Passover feast are full of meaning and apply to parents and children of this age. The father was to consecrate every inhabitant of his house to God. And do a work that is represented by the Passover feast. It was dangerous to leave this solemn duty to others. The father is considered the pillar of the house and must put blood on the doorpost.
God would destroy all the firstborns of Egypt because of the purity of Pharaoh’s heart. So He tells Moses to anoint all their (the Israelite’s) doorposts with lamb’s blood to be delivered from the wrath of the Angel of Death. God rescued the Israelites from Egypt because Israel was the chosen people. They are precious in God’s eyes. And they are the people after whom Jesus will return to rapture them. After 430 years of bondage, God’s people are liberated and set on the road to the promised land. The most direct route between Egypt and Canaan was through the land of the Philistines. A journey of about two weeks from along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. However, God does not lead the Israelites along this route but leads them south through Sinai.
All this was done because the Lord spoke to Moses and said to him, “In that night, I will go through the land of Egypt. And strike all the firstborn of the land of Egypt, from man to beast, and will execute judgment on all the gods of Egypt; I, the Lord. Your blood will serve as a sign on the houses where you will be. I will see the blood and pass by you. So that no plague will destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.”
What does the blood of the lamb mean in the Bible?
It all started with Passover, called Pesach. It was first celebrated the evening before the Jews left Egypt, where they had been enslaved people for 430 years. The Jews sacrifice a perfectly healthy lamb for this feast between 15.00 and 17.00. It is roasted whole and eaten with unleavened bread and bitter greens. The bitter greens symbolize the life spent by the Israelites during Egyptian captivity. For this feast, the Jews have a girdle around their middle—shoes on their feet and staff in their hand.
The blood of the lamb in the Bible symbolizes deliverance from sin. The beginning of a new covenant it is signifying the blood of Jesus. That will be shed on a cross for the forgiveness of sins.
The feast of the Passover is also the feast of unleavened bread. This is eaten for seven days. The unleavened bread symbolizes slavery, the sign of the misery the Egyptians brought as enslaved people. Suppose one could not participate in the slaughter of the Passover lamb. Also, one was obliged to perform the same ritual a month later on the same date. Anyone who refused to perform this feast was excluded from the community by stoning.
The Passover meal consisted of roast lamb, bitter herbs, and four glasses of wine. The meal was served before the second cup of wine. There followed a dialogue between father and son about the deliverance of the Jews from bondage and the glory of God for saving the Israelites through the blood of the lamb from the doorpost.
What saved the Israelites?
Passover meant a radical change of calendar. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt: This month shall be the month of the year to you. Someone mentioned in a paper that the life to be lived in that new year was marked by the Passover event, as if every Israelite had said in prayer, Lord, this year my life is a gift from your hand. But my house and I should no longer exist. And yet, through the blood of the Passover lamb that You accepted as our substitute, we stand before You today, awaiting Your blessings upon our lives. And for that matter, my life and the lives of those in my house. Belong to You. I desire to live it in a way worthy of You.
The Israelites were saved by the lamb’s blood, with which they anointed the doorpost so that the angel of death would not pass them on Passover night.
At the beginning of chapter 16 of the book of Exodus, Moses announces the final plague. And offers many details of the unfolding events. This last plague strikes at the very heart of Egypt’s religious system. At the moment when Pharaoh died.
What was the significance of the blood on the doorpost of the Israelites?
For the Jews, the meaning of Passover remained the same. Pesach is the event of Moses’ deliverance of the holy people from Egyptian bondage with Yahweh’s help. Today, the event can be described as a rebellion, revolution, and mass migration. Jews see it as divine intervention by God, the people’s patron god, a rival to Baal, Ra, and other contemporary deities. He split the Red Sea in two and carried the Jews through the desert for 40 years, feeding them with heavenly manna and sweet loaves of bread that fell from the sky.
The significance of the blood on the doorpost of the Israelites means the blood of the promised Messiah and the protection of God from the death of all the firstborns in Egypt.
But Pharaoh’s firstborn was duty-bound to fulfill embalming and burial ceremonies. Ceremonies that ceremonies signified the transformation of the dead pharaoh into Osiris. The god of the beyond. By smiting Pharaoh’s firstborn with death. God touched Egypt’s next living god and the Pharaoh’s heart to fear God.
Why did God lead the Israelites out of Egypt?
The poor Israelites were enslaved people in Egypt. Slavery is a stepping stone through which all humankind passed on to civilization. Unlike all other cultures of the time, Moses’ law required human and far superior treatment of enslaved people. The Old Testament period, but especially that of the patriarchs, was when the presence of enslaved people in the community was a social reality.
God brought the Israelites out of Egypt because they had been enslaved people there for more than 40 years, and He wanted to take them to the Promised Land.
Egypt embodied slavery, the bondage of sin, death, and alienation from God. After witnessing such a great deliverance, the Israelites had no excuse for behaving this way. After rejecting what God wanted to do for them, the Israelites decided to try to enter Canaan by their forces, and the result was chaos.
