Think on
this…as you consider Passover beginning tomorrow…as you prepare your heart for
Good Friday.
Sound the alarm in Jerusalem! Raise the
battle cry on my holy mountain! Let everyone tremble in fear because the day of
the LORD is upon us. It is a day of darkness and gloom, a day of thick clouds
and deep blackness. Suddenly, like dawn spreading across the mountains, a great
and mighty army appears. Nothing like it has been seen before or will ever be
seen again. Joel 2:1-2
Passover begins tomorrow. Can you imagine
how the Israelites felt on that first Passover when the Lord God declared that
the first born would die…if they didn’t follow directions and prepare. They
were quietly huddled there in their homes…preparing their Passover meal after
they had put the blood of their sacrificial lamb on the lintel and doorpost of
their home.
Moses had announced to Pharaoh, "This
is what the LORD says: At midnight tonight I will pass through the heart of
Egypt. All the firstborn sons will die in every family in Egypt, from the
oldest son of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, to the oldest son of his lowliest
servant girl who grinds the flour. Even the firstborn of all the livestock will
die. Then a loud wail will rise throughout the land of Egypt, a wail like no
one has heard before or will ever hear again. But among the Israelites it will
be so peaceful that not even a dog will bark. Then you will know that the LORD
makes a distinction between the Egyptians and the Israelites.” Exodus
11:4-7
Take special care of this chosen animal
until the evening of the fourteenth day of this first month. Then the whole
assembly of the community of Israel must slaughter their lamb or young goat at
twilight. They are to take some of the blood and smear it on the sides and top
of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the animal. That same night they
must roast the meat over a fire and eat it along with bitter salad greens and
bread made without yeast. Exodus 12:6-8
Sound
the alarm in Jerusalem! Let everyone
tremble in fear because the day of the LORD is upon us.
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| Jesus....Our Passover Lamb |
Just like at the first Passover. The alarm
has been sounded. Jesus’ blood was shed for you. He is the Passover Lamb. Put
the blood of Jesus on the doorposts of your heart, so that the angel of death
will Passover you. Sound the alarm for those around you…for everyone you know
and love…and for all the lost in this world. God gave His Son for us. God so
loved the world (John 3:16) that He let His Son be the sacrifice…the death for
our sins. Will you mourn His death…or rejoice in His resurrection?
Prayer
~ Lord Jesus, It is beyond my comprehension that You were actually willing to
go to the cross and die for me…to die INSTEAD of me. Thank You seems hardly
enough, but Thank You! I humbly bow before You now…and always. Forever.
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