The Passover

Read Proverbs 11:1-16

Read Exodus 12

Today we hear about God's rescue of Israel through the Passover. This Passover, we know, pointed forward to Jesus Christ. Israel's history is our history. We also have rescue from the slavery of sin, death, and the devil through Jesus, the Passover Lamb. Is it coincidence that Jesus was crucified on the feast of the Passover? Is it coincidence that the lamb was supposed to be male and unblemished? Is it coincidence that the lamb's blood smeared on the door posts meant that the angel of death passed by? Is it coincidence that we who are covered with the blood of Jesus are rescued from death?

Coincidence? NO WAY! Thanks be to God for this incredible plan of salvation.

Some words of a hymn facilitate our meditation today, and also serve as our closing prayer.

Not all the blood of beasts
On Jewish altars slain
Could give the guilty conscience peace
Or wash away the stain.

But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb,
Takes all our sins away;
A sacrifice of nobler name
And richer blood than they.

My faith would lay its hand
On that dear head of Thine,
While as a penitent I stand,
And there confess my sin.

My soul looks back to see
The burden Thou didst bear
When hanging on the cursed tree;
I know my guilt was there.

Believing, we rejoice
To see the curse remove;
We bless the Lamb with cheerful voice
And sing His bleeding love.

(LSB 431, Public Domain)

Study with me tomorrow,

Pastor Jon