Many people know something of the Exodus story in the Bible – the story about how God delivered the Israelites from slavery by visiting Egypt with ten formidable plagues, the last of which was the death of the first born of all those who refused to obey the Lord’s instructions. But God told the Israelites to slay a lamb, a perfect lamb, and to put the blood on the lintel and side posts of the door to their houses. God told them that when He “saw the blood, He would pass over them” – meaning that they would be protected from the last terrible plague. Who is the Lamb? John the Baptist tells us, “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” It is the Lord Jesus Christ himself.