Exodus 12

The Passover is still celebrated to this day. It commemorates God’s miraculous acts and the salvation of His people. However, there was an initial requirement for the protection of their firstborn. Blood. It takes the blood of a perfect sacrifice to save them from death. It points ahead to Jesus Christ as the Passover lamb who will be sacrificed for our salvation!

1 Corinthians 5:7 (WEB) “Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.”

1 Peter 1:18-19 (WEB) “knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things like silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ”

Revelation 5:6 (WEB) “I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.”

Thought for the day: The Passover was sacred. Not only were there strict instructions regarding how to keep it, not everyone was supposed to participate. You had to be a participant in the congregation (12:48). Does this speak to our understanding of communion?

1 Corinthians 1:16-17 (WEB) “The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ? Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.”