FBT Daily Devotional: Exodus 12

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This is the day. This is the day. This is the set time in which we get to discuss, read about everything that God had told, spoken since Abraham, when he first told Abraham how the generations would be. This is the moment that Joseph, when the family came down from Canaan, and we are looking at them beginning to become in families, just a family, multiple families, 70 people, but they expand to a nation. This is the moment that Joseph told his brothers, told the people he was about to die, look, when this when we when it's time to go. I know it's nice here, I know it's comfortable here. I know, you know, during this moment, we needed to make this adjustment to survive because there was a lack there, it's abundance here. But there is a time. When we there is a set time. When we leave, take my bones with you. This is the moment that the culmination of faith over 430 years passed down. They were like, hey, this is the day. And now we see. Like Michael said last night, his was 11, mine was 51. I should have timed that better. It's all good though. Um, and what do we see is we see preparation. We see how serious God is that this moment does not get lost in history. We see, if you start off at the top, uh, it's interesting because what we would call Palm Sunday, when we see Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem, they begin to look toward this is this a week before Passover, it would be their Palm Sunday. But it's different though. We are celebrating, heard Miss Yvonne said earlier, Hosanna, Hosanna, and the highest, which means save us, save us, save us. And we see this where, as opposed to them lifting up their king, it's more no, you prepare, you look forward to this day. So they start out a week before, actually, more like 10 days before. They have specific instructions go out, find a lamb. Could be a sheep, it could be a goat, go out and find it. For four days, you protect this one. A year old male without spot or blemish. And you take it and you protect it. And as you protect it, you go a week between day 14 and day 21 of this month. So now it's a week of what's called the feast of unleavened bread. Do not cook with any yeast. Moving for this is what they do now. Do not cook with any yeast because I need you prepared to go. Always be mindful, always be watchful because you are moving so fast you won't have time to have your bread rise. And God was so serious about this. He said, Moving forward, don't forget this moment. And anybody who is found with yeast in their home is found of breaking the covenant. So he separated him and his household separated for eternity for generations to come, separated from the company of the people. Why? Because you were borners, and you were made, you had to pay attention because you never know the day and the hour. So you were on guard, on a high alert. So they had flat, unleavened bread. They had to eat it. And then he gave them instructions on this day of how to eat the meat. You have to take the lamb, get it proportional to the size of your family. There'll be no leftovers when you ate this particular lamb. He told them how to cook it, how to prepare it. He told them to literally get your house in order because it's going to happen. When it happens, it's going to happen fast. So those that were in faith, they did as instructed. For seven days, there was no yeast found in their home. For seven days, they prepared the lamb to get ready for one cataclysmic moment to where they would take hyssop, cut open a lamb, drain out the blood, take the blood, put it over the doorpost of your home. This and of itself was an act of faith. Because even though, in the time, in the context of time, whatever Moses told the people to do, you gotta know that there was some naysayers at the time. Why gotta do all that? Why gotta cook this this way? I don't like my meat well done. I like my meat medium, I like my meat rare, reggie. I don't want to do all that. Like, no, no, no. Do it this way. I don't want to eat this part, you know. I don't eat that, no, no. Eat this, do it this way. Why? Because on this night, the angel of death will be released. And when the angel of death is released, he's looking for one thing. Is your house covered by the blood? That's it. Is your house covered by the blood? The sacrifice itself had to be an acceptable lamb. And if that land was not acceptable, then it didn't meet the specifications, meaning that though you went through the motions, because that land was unacceptable, it could not be used as to preserve or as ultimate a scapegoat for your sins. So already saying right now, they were doing an early type of shadow of what Jesus did for us on Calvary's tree. Jesus Himself is our Passover lamb. And so when we stand before God, he's looking for the blood. Are you covered by the blood? In context, what happened is on that fateful night, the angel actually did come. God stood on business, and it came through the land of Egypt and the land of Goshen, looking for one thing: the blood. Simply the blood. Those houses that had the blood on the on the doorposts, the oldest was spared. And we're talking the oldest child, even the livestock, the animals lost their oldest child. And as the oldest son, I'm glad that my parents would have had the blood over their doorpost. Think about this quite often. So that night, like Michael said, he lay it last night. There was a wail, a cry. Like no one had ever heard up to that point. Like no one has ever heard Sistine from Egypt. There was a wail, a cry. And ultimately, Pharaoh had reached his breaking point. He summoned Moses in, probably holding his oldest child, his dead body, ears ringing from grief, looking disheveled, because I don't think he was in his most regal moment. Told him, Leave. You and your people, take your livestock, take your possessions, and go. And so they did. They left with a lot more going out than they did coming in. This is the story of the Passover. And to this day, the Egyptians, not Egyptians, the Jewish brother believers celebrated. We have Resurrection Sunday Easter to commemorate Jesus being our Passover lamb. And by putting faith in him, according to Romans 10, 8, 9, and 10, he we say, Jesus is Lord. I believe he rose from the dead, and we are saved. God passes over us. Not because of what we've done. We do our best to follow the instruction, like they did back in the day, because of what his son has done for us. Never forget, it's not about what you've done, it's about what his son has done for us. So he is our Passover Lamb. So we give glory and honor to God for being faithful to his word, literally down through the years. At least 430, but we know it's more years. And for the people, for the elders, for teaching the younger generations what to look for. So when the moment came, they knew we will be delivered, we will set, we be set free, and we will return to our own land one day. And with that, I will pause.