For
centuries Egypt enslaved the children of Israel. God sent Moses to Pharaoh with
the message, “Let My people
Go.”
The
ruler, considered a god in his own right, hardened his heart, disdaining the
God of low-born slaves. After devastating the Egyptians with plagues, the
“slave God,” as Pharaoh might have called Him, prepared to strike down all the
firstborn in their land, the best of all their strength. The Egyptian oppression cost every firstborn male his life.
God
ordered His people to kill a lamb: an unblemished male, and smear the
blood around the door-frames of their houses. For I will pass through the
land and strike all the firstborn in Egypt. Now the blood shall be a sign on
your houses. When I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall
not destroy you when I strike Egypt.
The
blood on the doorpost said, “The wrath of God already visited this house. Death
was here. Pass over this house.” This blood on the doorpost of the world means
that pardon is free to any and all who choose to accept it. This Blood of The
Lamb marks our offenders. Seeing only the precious blood of our Savior, we stop
looking for any lower justice. We pass over that blood-marked person by
imitating our Father.
From How Shall We Then Forgive; Chapter Eighteen:
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