Joel M Bradshaw

 13The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.–Exodus 12

Obviously the Passover would be a sign to the Egyptians in a way that the other 9 plagues had been. Yahweh alone is sovereignly God and His commands are to be taken seriously. Sinful rejection of God is always ultimately punishable by death (Romans 6:23).

How was the blood of the Passover a sign for the Hebrew people? I invite you to also ponder a famous theological connection from the Apostle Paul. I underlined the famous part.

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Corinthians 5:6-8)

1. Salvation is always God’s way and according to God’s terms.
2. An innocent substitute had to die in order for one to be saved.
3. God saw the blood and accepted that sacrificial death in the place of the condemned.
4. The blood was linked to a full death of the substitute (a fully consumed meal).
5. That blood would always be remembered with humility and gratefulness (this should be your attitude during the Lord’s Supper at church).–JMB