When God told Moses that He would destroy the first born in the land of Egypt, but Israel would be spared, He did not explain initially how His salvation would be wrought. The Jews must have assumed that God would simply make an ethnic division and judge only Egyptians but not Jews.
It was only after God commanded that each family sacrifice a lamb, and eat it, and take shelter in their homes after marking their doors with the blood of that lamb, that He revealed the means by which He would spare Israel.
The sacrifice of the substitute lamb would intervene between God's Judgment and His people. Because judgment was intercepted by the sacrifice and exhausted upon the lamb, it could not apply to the blood-marked people.
Our Lord Jesus made solemn promises to His people to rescue us from eternal judgment if we trusted in Him. But only at the end, when He ordained the Lord's Supper, did He reveal that the means of that salvation would be the very same as was seen in the Passover: He would be our substitute in the judgment, so that His blood would set us free from it.
For all who trust in Jesus, God's wrath has been intercepted in the body of the Savior on the Cross, and God passes us over in the judgment of the world for sin.
No wonder Christ is our Passover sacrificed for us!
For Israel, each family had to find a perfect lamb and sacrifice it in the place of the first-born.
But Christ is better than the Passover lamb, for God provided Him for us when we could never find an acceptable offering for sin.
One lamb - the Lamb of God - is sufficient for all His people and for all time! He has saved us by one sacrifice of Himself for our sin forever!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
