May 3, 2021 Exodus 12:13 Now the 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 the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. As a child I used to think that by saying, […]
May 2, 2021 Exodus 12:11 And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. The particular instructions given here –- to observe this ceremony with staff in hand, etc. -– seem to apply only to […]
May 1, 2021 Exodus 12:7-8 And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire. So much of the ancient Passover is seen in the crucifixion of the Messiah which is why I highly […]
APRIL 30, 2021 Exodus 12:6 Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. The text says that they were to slaughter the animal on the 14th day of the month of Aviv “at twilight” or “at evening.” […]
APRIL 29, 2021 Exodus 12:6 Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. The Hebrew word that is translated as “keep” is shamar which in reality means, “to guard.” The idea is that the people were to […]
APRIL 28, 2021 Exodus 12:6 Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. For four days, the people of Israel were to sequester this particular lamb, the one they intended to slaughter as the Passover sacrifice, and […]
APRIL 27, 2021 Exodus 12:4-5 And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. Passover is regarded […]
APRIL 26, 2021 Exodus 12:3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: “On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.” The Hebrew word that is translated here as “congregation” is adat and is the very first time this Hebrew […]
APRIL 25, 2021 Exodus 12:1-2 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.” In the midst of everything else that was going on at the time, God interjected into the process a reset as it were in […]
APRIL 24, 2021 Exodus 11:7-8 But against none of the children of Israel shall a dog move its tongue, against man or beast, that you may know that the Lord does make a difference between the Egyptians and Israel. And all these your servants shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, “Get out, and all the […]
