A Lamb for a House - The First Passover

A Lamb for a House

In Exodus 12 we can read the story of the first Passover.  The Children of Israel were instructed to kill a Lamb, place its blood on the door post and enter the House to eat the Lamb.  This was a new beginning for Israel.  Israel was coming out of Egyptian bondage.  The bitter years of slavery and bondage were over.

 

That night death passed through Egypt taking the life of the firstborn.  Those in Goshen with the blood on their door post, who had eaten the Lamb were not touched by this plague.  Instead they had received the death of the Lamb, which represented the death of God’s firstborn Son, which would take place on Calvary many years ahead.  

 

Everything we read in scripture is a picture of Christ.  It is given for our admonition and participating in Him.  When I see this picture, I see THE DOOR.  Jesus said that He is THE DOOR that we enter and find life.  In our entrance is the fulfillment of the picture, we enter into His death.  The Apostle writes that we are baptized into His death.  In Romans Chapter 6, Paul sets forth the reality that we have been crucified with Christ. 

 

Our eating of the Lamb brings us face to face with His crucifixion.  We come face to face with our death with Him.  When He died all died with Him.  This is a glorious death.  The result of His death frees us from the bondages of Adam.  We are freed through participation in His death from the conscience of sins, the power of sin, and even death itself.  In Hebrews 2, it is written that Jesus destroyed Him that had the power of death that is the devil and delivered us who were subject to the bondage of the fear of death. 

 

This door painted with the Blood of the LAMB is glorious.  His death speaks volumes.  The children of Israel entered the Door to eat the lamb of their salvation, which served as the type and shadow of our reality.  We enter the DOOR to eat our LAMB that produces LIFE.  This was the picture in Israel.  In the evening they entered in to eat lamb, to come out in the newness of the new day.  In that new day they were no longer slaves to Egypt but a free men.  We in reality are no longer slaves to the Old Man, but through the DOOR of salvation, we enter into death to the Old man, and come forth in the Newness of His Life.

 

In Romans 6, Paul writes that we are raised together with Him in the likeness of His resurrection.  We not only go into His death, but we come forth in His Life.  He is the New Day to us.  We come forth into a Life we have never had before, His Life.  This is our salvation.  His death produces death in us to the old man, the bondages of sin and the death in the old man.  His Life produces a new way of living. Christ is in us.  God’s glory is set forth to be revealed. 

 

I see this picture in the Israelites going in to eat the Lamb, to come out of that House in the newness of life.  This is what Jesus meant, you shall go in and out and find pasture.  We enter into the DOOR, the old man is crucified, we come out of the DOOR in the newness of His life.  We do not come out of Him.  He is our place of origin.  We come forth in Him.  Glory to God.