Exodus 12:1-13 NIV
“The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs. Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover. “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.”
Exodus 12:23 NIV
“When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.”
- The Certainty of
“On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord.”
Exodus 12:12 NIV
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…”
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
2. The That Makes the Difference
“And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses.”
Exodus 12:7 NIV
- The perfect Lamb is Jesus.
- “For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.” (1 Corinthians 5:7)
- Applying the blood today means:
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Exodus 12:12–13 “For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night… Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you.”
“When He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.”
3. From to
”And it came to pass at midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt…”
Exodus 12:29 NIV
In Exodus 12:29 Midnight represents:
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“Then he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, ‘Rise, go out from among my people… and go, serve the Lord.’”
Exodus 12:31 NIV
“And it came to pass at the end of the 430 years… on that very same day—it came to pass that all the armies of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.”
Exodus 12:41 NIV
In Exodus 12:31 Midnight became:
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Some people are protected by the blood — but still living like prisoners.
Deliverance is not just something God does you. It’s something He calls you to walk .