The Passover

(INTRO) Explore God’s Providential Interaction in Israel’s History

God has been consistently providing deliverance and keeping His promises:

God placing Joseph in Egypt, then giving him His very presence that caused Joseph to have favor with the Egyptians.

God giving Abram and Sarai their son Isaac in their old age

God testing Abraham’s faith, and providing a sacrifice for he and his son on Mt. Moriah

God supernaturally providing a wife for Isaac and Jacob - within the covenant.

Providing material blessings (flocks of sheep that supported them as their family grew)

Moving the Israelites to Egypt, giving them great land, and allowing them to multiply into an “exceedingly strong” people.

The call of Moses to accomplish the Lord’s deliverance of His people from Egypt!

God has been working - and still is working - in the midst of Israelite slavery.

The 10 Plagues

God is accomplishing His deliverance through Judgement

In the process of God’s deliverance of the Israelites - God sovereignly demonstrates that He alone is God

God intentionally made each plague represent an Egyptian God

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Water Turned to Blood

Frogs

Gnats

Flies

Egyptian Livestock Die

Boils

Hail

Locusts

Darkness

The Tenth Plague

1 The Lord said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you out of here. 2 Now announce to the people that both men and women should ask their neighbors for silver and gold items.” 3 The Lord gave the people favor with the Egyptians. In addition, Moses himself was very highly regarded in the land of Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and the people.

Preparation for Passover

5 and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of the Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the millstones; all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

5 and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of the Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the millstones; all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

6 ‘Moreover, there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been before and such as shall never be again.

4 So Moses said, “This is what the Lord says: About midnight I will go throughout Egypt, 5 and every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is at the grindstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock. 6 Then there will be a great cry of anguish through all the land of Egypt such as never was before or ever will be again. 7 But against all the Israelites, whether people or animals, not even a dog will snarl, so that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.

7 ‘But against any of the sons of Israel a dog will not even bark, whether against man or beast, that you may understand how the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.’

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), .Preparation for Passover

God declares that He will create a distinction between the people of Israel and Egypt, by putting all of the Egyptian Firstborn to death.

However, there was a way for the Israelites first born’s to be “passed over”

God gave Moses and Aaron instructions for the Passover.

Take a spotless lamb, one for each household, and each kill it on the fourteenth day at midnight as a nation.

Take the blood of the lamb and place it on the door posts of the house

Eat the remainder of the lamb by roasting it, and eat it with haste

Implies that the Israelites must be ready to go on their journey from the land of Egypt at any time in the night.

The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a distinguishing mark for you; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will be among you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. (12:13)

Moses and Aaron gathered the elders of Israel and gave them the Passover instructions

They communicated the importance of this ritual to the Israelite people:

“This shall be a memorial day”

“A statute forever”

An opportunity for worship!

Significance of this in the life of Jews - Celebrated from this day until now - Over 3000 years.

For 21st century Jew’s, the Passover celebration is one of the most important holidays of the year.

IT HAPPENED

Exodus 12:29-32

29 Now at midnight the Lord struck every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock. 30 During the night Pharaoh got up, he along with all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt because there wasn’t a house without someone dead. 31 He summoned Moses and Aaron during the night and said, “Get out immediately from among my people, both you and the Israelites, and go, worship the Lord as you have said. 32 Take even your flocks and your herds as you asked and leave, and also bless me.”

The Exodus

The Egyptians sent the Israelites out with haste (v. 33)

They recieved silver, gold, and jewelry from the Egyptians, therefore plundering them.

Fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham () that his people would be sojourners in a land that was not theirs, and be their servants and encounter affliction for 400 years; but that God would bring judgement on the nation and they shall come out with great possessions.

What can we learn from this passage?

God kept His promise to Abraham and his descendants!

Regardless of the circumstances, God was going to keep his promise to make Israel a mighty nation, lead them to the promise land, and bless all the nations through their offspring

God called Moses (last week) and revealed Himself to the Israelites/Egyptians as the one true God

God heard the cry of His people - and brought deliverance

God accomplished deliverance through judgement

God’s deliverance was accomplished through judgement.

God delivered Israel from Egyptian slavery by

God was

This morning, we must understand that this passage has a greater fulfillment. God, as he was orchestrating these events more than a thousand years before He sent His Son, knew that there would be reason for a greater Passover celebration to come.

God’s deliverance was accomplished through judgement.

Because....

Realities:

A GreaterJudgement is Coming

Paul write in 2, “the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.”

Peter wrote in , “the Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.”

John write in , “Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done…and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.”

There will be a time, unknown to man, when God will judge the sins of the world!

A Greater Deliverance is Coming

John also wrote in , “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” 5 And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.”

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Jesus is the key to experiencing deliverance

3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

5 And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things n

Just like God heard the cry of His people in Egypt, He hears our cry’s and has promised that there will be a glorious deliverance to come.

A Greater Lamb has Come

Just as the Israelites needed the blood of a lamb in order to prevent God’s judgement on their households, we need the blood of Jesus to prevent the coming judgement.

You and I are

John the Baptist knew that Jesus was the greater lamb, when he say him he announced - “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.”

- “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son so that whoever believed in him would have everlasting life and not perish. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”

You and I can experience the Greater deliverance because Jesus is the Greater Lamb.

You and I can experience the Greater deliverance because Jesus is the Greater Lamb.

John the Baptist knew that Jesus was the greater lamb, when he say him he announced - “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.”

Just like the Israelites needed the blood of the lamb, we need the blood of the Lamb.

Their first born’s would have died if they did not place the lamb’s blood on their door posts

You and I, without the blood of Christ (Greater Lamb), will experience an eternal hell.

The Lamb of God will result in the passing over of God’s judgement.

Good News of the Gospel of Christ

Good News of the Gospel of Christ

- “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son so that whoever believed in him would have everlasting life and not perish. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”

All of us can be delivered from our sin by the blood of the Lamb of God - Jesus.

God’s deliverance was accomplished through judgement.

God delivered the Israelites by bringing judgement on the nation of Egypt

Pharaoh and the nation of Egypt refused to worship the one true God, instead they worshiped other gods

The Exodus from Egypt occured because of God’s judgement of the Egyptians

Application

Trust the fact that God kept His promise to the Israelites, and He will keep the promises found in His Word to us!

Trust that God hears our cry’s - He knows our pain. That is why He sent His Son

Trust that God hears our cries – He knows our pain. This is why He sent His Son!

Recognize the coming judgement – do you have the blood of the Lamb?

- Acknowledge the coming judgement – do you have the blood of the Lamb?

Acknowledge the coming judgement – do you have the blood of the Lamb?

Long for the coming glorious deliverance, working hard so that many others will be there with us!

Long for the glorious deliverance that is coming, and work hard so that many others will be there with us!