John 19:29 points out when Jesus was offered sour wine to drink on the cross, the sponge soaked with it was put on a bunch of hyssop. Thus all the children of Israel did: Israel kept the commandments of God that Moses delivered. God therefore affirms, that he would not only conquer the nation itself, but its very gods. Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. Leprosy is the type of it in its defilement. ii. see Numbers 33:4 and there are some traces of this in Heathen writers; Artapanus e says, that by an earthquake most of the temples in Egypt fell; and Justin f reports, that Moses, being the leader of the exile Israelites, stole away the sacred things of the Egyptians, i.e. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. This would have strengthened the impression of the substitute nature of the lamb. We are planted in dishonor; we are raised in glory. I'll not die, but I will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, into the glorious likeness of Jesus Christ. (2.) Its remarkable evidence that God often fulfills promises on anniversaries of prior or prophesied events. A mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and herdsa great deal of livestock. Whatever may be the refreshment by the way, the Lord sets forth in a full and distinct manner the need of absolute dependence on Christ in another form for support all the wilderness through. Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. CHAPTER XII. While no uncircumcised male could participate, resident aliens were welcome at the feast once they were circumcised. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. And this blood shall be to you for a sign upon the houses where ye are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite . This is that night of the LORD, a solemn observance for all the children of Israel throughout their generations. REDEMPTION BY BLOOD, THE PASSOVER AND THE LAW OF THE FIRSTBORN We owe everything to Christ. So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations. But it brings into your life that element of decomposition, the breaking down, filling the whole life. Exodus 12:12, ESV: For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and . Is it not probable then that the writer in Exodus puts two different facts together which were separate in time; viz., the sending of quails and manna? (2.) A token by which when God sees the blood there on the doorposts, He would pass over that house and the firstborn would not die. And this is the more striking, because God employed the same inspired writer to give us both, as well as others. After that, they used only the civil calendar. And He shall be fling over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Jehovah, and His name one. * It is a matter, perhaps, too well known to need many words, that every woman was simply to ask of her neighbour, etc., vessels of silver and of gold, with raiment, which were to be put on Israel's sons and daughters. This looked forward to Jesus, the ultimate Passover Lamb, who had not one bone broken even in His crucifixion (Psalm 22:17 and John 19:31-36). He cannot understand how a person can be both a freeman and a bondman. The Lord Jesus Christ died during this time (i.e., about 3:00 p.m., Matthew 27:45-50; Mark 15:34-37; Luke 23:44-46; 1 Corinthians 5:7). obediently so that the Lord will pass over them during the tenth i. Nederlandstalige Bijbelstudies door Stan Marinussen, Copyright - Enduring Word       |      . The LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt: When Israel left Egypt, it was a nation born in a day. "Therefore the name of it was called Marah. For [The Lord said] I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all of the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord ( Exodus 12:12 ). Inspirational Bible Verses and Scripture Quotes, California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Therefore, they believed that the second born son needed special protection from the gods and the inscription sought to provide that. I, Jehovah. A gladiola bulb remains a gladiola then it's a flower, but there's a vast difference between the bulb and the flower. He did indeed accomplish it, but at all cost to Himself. This is remarkably evinced in the character now given them, as well as their preciousness with God. i. (2.) For the next week the people would have no time to bake their bread leavened. On the other hand it is well known what all these ancient nations thought of the light of the sun, and how preternatural darkness (with light for Israel in Goshen) must have struck them. Bishop Colenso (part 1, chap. (1 Corinthians 5:7-8). And how till redemption could sin be gone for God to have a holy resting-place in the midst of men? The psalmist sets forth at full length the distinction which pseudo-criticism would destroy; and this too in such a way as to prove that they are but cases out of many facts which fall under the principles already indicated. This was the first announcement that was meant to act on the soul of Moses, and of course in due time on Israel. The fact is here named that they hid him; and when they could no longer do so, or it may be, when they had no longer faith to proceed as before, they committed him to an ark of bulrushes in the river, when the daughter of Pharaoh takes up the child and adopts him as her own. And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. The Egyptians even minimized the individual differences between the Pharaohs. Pits were a common prison. Jehovah shall reign for ever and ever."*. hence the earth is supposed to have been created in September; but _Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute Judgment._ Again Paul writes to the Corinthians, "We know that when this earthly tent is dissolved, this body that we then have a building of God, not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Hence man gives himself up to unbelief, and then God may either at that or a later time, according to His own wisdom, seal up a person in a judicial hardness which is a distinct positive act on God's part. (vs.1-28) i. They think something more has to supplement His work (i.e., human good works). PREPARATIONS FOR THE SPECIAL MEAL VE FOR I WILL PASS THROUGH. If it is a great thing to enjoy the profit of good company, there is no company or converse like that of God. And as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you show the Lord's death, not the death of the lamb in Egypt, but the death of the Lamb of God. The simplicity and solemnity of the meal no doubt kept them from any feelings of self-glory (12:1-14). What's a first-class seat these days? - The Washington Post Sunday morning we have more of a mixed multitude. gods, and when, in Joshua 22:22, the people exclai EXODUSNOTE ON EXODUS 12:1 The people of Israel are called to act The controversy was with their opposition to the true God, as well as with their oppression of His people. If we had not the two facts, resembling each other on the surface but contrasted in principle, neither the believer could have had so profound a lesson, nor the rationalist have so fully displayed to his shame his ignorance of God. After the Babylonian captivity they renamed it Nisan (Nehemiah 2:1; Esther 3:7). Observe, as to the hardening of Pharaoh's heart, that this was in no-wise the case before the pronounced infidelity of Pharaoh. If you follow His instructions, you'll be saved. It was an extremely casual kind of eating habits that they had. Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. It was to be a lamb; and Christ is the Lamb of God (John 1:29), often in the Revelation called the Lamb, meek and innocent as a lamb, dumb before the shearers, before the butchers. If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here: We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgmentsI am the Lord . These two truths combine in the Christian; but there is this difference between them that the world also is "bought," and every man in it; whereas it would be false to say that every man in the world is "redeemed." He knows it is God; he has the consciousness that he is doing wrong in refusing it; yet he does refuse because he does not like and dare not trust God, whose word interferes with everything that he likes. [Note: Frankfort, p. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. God is saying that to us tonight, as far as death is concerned and life is concerned. It had significance to the Jews. There may be, I grant you, the mingling of that which is of nature along with faith; and from this it appears to me that Moses was far from being exempt, either in his first appearance as one engaged for God with His people here below, or afterwards when God summoned him to accomplish the great work of which he had a certain anticipation, no doubt vague and dark, in his soul. beast; Such was exactly the state of things in the land of Egypt. _The first month of the year._ This is called Abib, (Exodus 4:22) Heads of houses did fall afterwards at the Red Sea with Pharaoh's host; but the ten plagues were in the way of preparatory chastenings, not the figure of so wide and indiscriminate a judgment. * They belonged to God henceforth after a special sort as the consequence of deliverance from Egypt. All the firstborn in the land of Egypt: This plague was directed against two significant Egyptian gods. This may help our appreciation of the word of God in all such cases. It is so precisely with the term "Jehovah." Just so is it in the New Testament. of his mighty power in the following event: and will smite all THE *PASSOVER VERSES 1-28 a. Pharaoh only came to this knowledge through being broken. The Passover instituted and the feast of EXODUS 12:1 P. RULES FOR THE PASSOVER (first set). But the rod of God smites the rock, and the people drink of the waters it gave out. Why are roses red? We've become so formalized that we don't really know how to. In other words, it was four hundred and thirty years to a day. The rod is the symbol of authority; it may also represent chastening. We must not assume in such points that we have ascertained the whole of the truth, even though we may have got some true elements. But there was more; and hence a far more personal test. And this is the more striking, because God emp 12._For I will pass through the land. Firstborn and the Exodus It was apart from all common food. What an absurd inference it would be that the term "Father" had never been known before? No foreigner shall eat it: To share in the Passover, one had to make themselves part of the people of Israel. At the same time it is never God who makes man an unbeliever. Verse Exodus 12:12. In the same way Jesus gave the new Passover, saying that His work on the cross was not only for that generation, but should be remembered and applied to all generations (Luke 22:14-20). Exodus 12:1 There is a back-way to hell, but no back-way to heaven; no, the only way to this is a high-way, Isaiah 35:8. In fact, he goes on to say that. THE PASSOVER FEAST Thus the Passover has, above all, a fundamental and a permanent character beyond all other feasts. Take your flocks, take your children, just go. . This was the sharper a blow as immediately before Pharaoh went back even from his promise of three days' absence, Moses had pleaded the inexpediency of their sacrificing the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes. Part of Exodus 16:1-36 is Elohistic; Numbers 11:1-35 is Jehovistic.". . But we may ask, Did not these judgments fall equally on all the families of Egypt, though multitudes of them had no particular part either in the evil counsel against the Israelites or in their oppression? He was a stone that was set of not of you builders, neither is there salvation in any other for there is no other name given among men whereby we must be saved"( Acts 4:9-10 ). 102f. Let them know that God would work according to what belongs exclusively to Him. Paul said, "Remember you're just like a bit of clay in the potter's hands, and what right has the clay to say to the potter, hey, why are you making me this kind of a pitcher?" 11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's passover. This then is brought before us here with the utmost possible care; as the Spirit of God gives immense scope to the allusions elsewhere. written independently of the foregoing narrative, and EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION Henceforth, for Israel, there was to be a new beginning of the year. It's brought out.What a day it's going to be when Israel discovers the bread of life, Jesus Christ. The sea was before them; they were hemmed in on every side, with Pharaoh and his host behind them: how was it possible to conceive a door of deliverance there? . Exodus 12:11-12 - Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse So with the Lord there was to pass with Him this destroyer. It's all wood, hay, and stubble of no count. "The reference to the Passover month as the lead month, the first of the years months is best understood as a double entendre. For we must ever remember that He who showed Himself then as Jehovah was, no doubt, the One whom we know as the Son of God. It is clear that God must be the best judge. He did not say when they saw it. ", For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer ( Exodus 12:23 ). struggle against the power of evil is another matter. In the face of this, when enslaved to him, redemption was the putting forth of God's own power in Christ in a way suitable to His majesty and holiness, in which not a single claim was left unsettled, not a single requisite was not answered, not a single sin of man but was judged, yet all and every quality in God was honoured, and we are brought out triumphant and free. Somebody has to use glasses to read; you'll never recognize them. No longer does this feast carry you clear back to Egypt. It doesn't really make sense from an intellectual standpoint. It was the unworthy dealing of his brethren which broke up all hope for the present. The count of six hundred thousand men makes for a total population of perhaps two million that left Egypt for the Promised Land. All of the glory and all of the accomplishments that he had experienced in his ambitions and in his life, up to Christ, he counted that but loss. We should date our birthdays not from the cradle, but from the Cross. But even Gesenius and Knobel take the word otherwise, and so do Onkelos and Aben Ezra, as Dr. McCaul has shown. Moses then bends to the blast. It is mere folly to suppose there was any, the smallest, infringement of what was right and becoming. If Egypt refused to release Gods firstborn, then God required the firstborn of Egypt as a penalty and judgment. This is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations." I'm the Passover Lamb. For example, God may want a man to give up friends that bring a bad influence and the man finds that his friends leave him first. Thus Moses was learned, as we are told, in all the learning of the Egyptians. Next the difference of description is not only not inconsistent, but most natural in the circumstances respectively. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD's Passover. Undoubtedly hardening there is. Is it not humbling? It is commonly known that what is translated "whales" inGenesis 1:21; Genesis 1:21 means the huge creatures of the deep; so that it is not quite correct to restrain it to a "serpent" here, as it is certainly erroneous to call it "whales" there.