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The Passover
Exodus 12
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In our last story, we read of the plagues God sent upon the land of Egypt, but Pharaoh would not let the people go. But God knew that after the final plague, Pharaoh would let the people go.
And so Moses told the Israelites that each house was to take one perfect lamb, which was under a year old. And the lamb was to live in the house with the people for 4 days, from the tenth to the fourteenth day, and at the end of the fourteenth day they were to kill the lamb in the evening.
And they were to take the blood of the lamb and put it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the house, and they were to roast the lamb and eat it, and nothing was to remain. And that night the LORD would pass through the land, and all the people who were the first ones born in their family, would die, but the blood of the lamb was to be a sign, and whenever God saw the blood on the doorposts, he would pass over the house, and no one in that house would die. And this day was to be called the passover, and was to be celebrated each year.
And so the people of Israel did as the LORD had commanded, and at midnight on the chosen day, all the people born first in the land who were not protected by the blood of the lamb died, including Pharaoh's first born child.
And so on that day Pharaoh agreed to let the people of Israel go with their flocks, and with jewels and clothing that the people of Egypt gave to them, and there were 600,000 men, not counting women and children.
And so after 430 years, the time had come for the Israelites to leave the land of Egypt, and God brought them out of the land.
The blood of the lamb which protected the people of Israel is a perfect picture of the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for us. What a wonderful thing it is that the Lord Jesus did for us because he loves us.
Memory verse: Exodus 12:13 "...when I see the blood, I will pass over you."
Questions:
1. What was the LORD going to do to the people of Egypt?
2. What instructions did the LORD give about the lamb the people chose?
3. What were they supposed to do when the lamb was killed?
4. What happened when the LORD came through the land?
Answers:
1. He was going to cause the first born person in each family to die.
2. There was to be one for every house, it was to be perfect, it was to be less
than a year old, and it was to live with them in the house for 14 days.
3. They were to put its blood on the sides and top of the door of the
house. They were to roast it and eat it.
4. When He saw the blood on the door posts, no one in that house died, but
all the people who were born first who were not protected by the blood of the
lamb died.
Vicki C. Gross/Sept'02