According
to the writer of Hebrews, Moses “by faith” “forsook
Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king”
because “he endured, as seeing him who is invisible”.
In chapter eleven and verse twenty-seven of Hebrews, the
writer shares how Moses “kept
the passover”“by faith”
where we read:
Through
faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood,
lest he
that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
The
verse begins, “Through faith he kept the passover, and
the sprinkling of blood,”. The
writer began with the words, “Through faith”
which means “by the conviction of the truth of anything and belief
with the predominate idea of trust (or confidence) whether in God or
in Christ which springs from trust in the same” “he
kept” or “Moses made ready,
prepared and produced” “the passover”
which refers to “the paschal lamb, i.e. the lamb the Israelites
were accustomed to slay and eat on the fourteenth day of the month of
Nisan (the first month of their year) in memory of the day on which
their fathers, preparing to depart from Egypt, were bidden by God to
slay and eat a lamb, and to sprinkle their door posts with its blood,
that the destroying angel, seeing the blood, might pass over their
dwellings;” “and the sprinkling” or
“the pouring out or effusion” “of blood”
which means “by means of bloodshed”. Moses, “by
faith”, prepared the
“passover” and
spreading of “blood” before the children of Israel left Egypt.
The
verse continues, “lest he that destroyed the firstborn
should touch them.”. The
writer added the word, “lest” or
“in order or so” “he that destroyed”
which means “the one who would kill, spoil or slay” “the
firstborn” or “the
first-begotten” “should touch them”
which means “would touch, handle, do violence to and injure the
firstborn”. Moses prepared the “passover”
and “blood sprinkling”
to keep the “destroying angel” from killing the “firstborn”
of Israel. (See Exodus 12)
When
we consider these words in Hebrews, we understand that it was an act
of “faith” by Moses to prepare the “passover”
meal and to “sprinkle blood” upon the doorposts and the
lintels of the people of Israel which would save their firstborns
from the death angel. Moses believed God's word concerning this final
plague upon Egypt, and he instructed the Israelites to prepare the
“passover” meal and strike their doors. All who did were
saved, and all who did not, were not saved. The same is true for
belief and trust in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. Even as the
blood had to be “sprinkled” upon the doorposts and lintels
of the Israelites' homes, so must the “blood” of Jesus be
“sprinkled” upon us to save us from “eternal death”.
God desires to keep us, preserve us and allow us to live with Him
eternally, and those who apply the blood of Christ “by faith”
shall be saved, and those who do not, shall not be saved. Let all
who read understand and believe.
Next
time the writer shares how “by
faith”
Moses “passed through the
Red Sea”,
so read ahead, and we shall join together then.
Until tomorrow…there is more…
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