Exodus 10
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Exodus 12 The Passover
#The Passover (12:1-51)
The major festival associated with the Exodus does not celebrate political independence, but deliverance from death. Israel's main enemy was not bondage to Egypt but bondage to death, as it is for all people. The most fundamental problem facing humans is not political, but spiritual. Of course, only the death of the firstborn was prevented in Egypt. So was death really conquered? Furthermore, why did the Passover require that the Israelites apply blood to their doorposts? They were not required to perform such a ritual to escape harm in any of the other plagues.
These questions highlight the significance of Jesus' death and resurrection as associated with the Passover season. Death is the effect of sin (1 Cor 15:56). Passover shows that we can be delivered from death only by means of a sacrifice that takes our place. The Passover lamb took the place of the firstborn son of every family of Israel (12:12-13, 23; 13:2, 11-16). The Passover symbolizes the reality that would come later in Jesus Christ, who gave his life as "a ransom for many" (Matt 20:28; Mark 10:45) and became "the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29). Jesus says to his disciples, "this is my blood, which confirms the covenant.… It is poured out as a sacrifice to forgive the sins of many" (Matt 26:28). He brings to reality the truths that were first symbolized in the Passover celebration: Through his sacrifice, sin and death were fully and finally defeated (see also Isa 25:7-8).
Num 9:1-14; 28:16-25
Deut 16:1-7
Matt 26:17-30
Luke 22:15-20
1 Cor 5:6-8
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