We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty." (1 Corinthians 5:7-8). Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? All rights reserved. The Appointment of the Passover; the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. A great cry in Egypt: Israel cried to God for deliverance (Exodus 2:23), and they cried to Pharaoh from relief (Exodus 5:15). That is the death that has been sentenced upon man. Thus Moses was learned, as we are told, in all the learning of the Egyptians. Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. Now that's interesting to me that God said that it happened on the very same day. [ See verse text ] These words reveal how God's plan continues to move forward regardless of human efforts to stop it. Does not scripture mean that there is? Exodus 12:1 So their being cut off brought salvation to the Gentiles, but God is going to restore them again. And when He does it's gonna be life for the world, the kingdom age being brought in. In Numbers 19:18 hyssop was used to apply the purification water. For an account of a Seder observance held in Dallas on April 2, 1988, see Robert Andrew Barlow, "The Passover Seder," Exegesis and Exposition 3:1 (Fall 1988):63-68. In Numbers, on the contrary, Moses was told to take the rod ( i.e. Is this the man once so ready to smite Rahab and deliver Israel? The parallel place also, Numbers 33:4, is rather against Houbigant's interpretation: For the Egyptians buried all their first-born, which the Lord had smitten among them: upon their gods also [ ubeloheyhem] the Lord executed judgments. Look at authority in the world, or at that which pertains to man, or at the resources of nature: a man brings the vouchers of One who was sovereign over every domain. beast H929 gods H430 Egypt H4714 execute H6213 (H8799) judgment H8 "And the Lord said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon The following cookies are also needed - You can choose if you want to allow them: You can read about our cookies and privacy settings in detail on our Privacy Policy Page. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website. The blood, thus sprinkled, was a means of the preservation of the Israelites from the destroying angel, who had nothing to do where the blood was. The Bible says, "Woe unto him who strives with his Maker"( Isaiah 45:9 ). Is Christ divided? So it is with all other truths; and amongst the rest with this, that God, instead of waiting to have us in heaven, and taking up His abode in our midst there, makes us to be His habitation while we are here a proof of His love and of the perfectness of Christ's redemption incomparably greater than waiting till we are actually changed and taken to heaven, because here He deigns to dwell with us spite of all we are. It's yeast. i. God, in short, states things exactly as they are. When the signs were wrought at first, the people and Moses asked leave of absence for three days only. Jehovah however meets all at first with quietness, and at the same time breathes comfort into the ear of His anxious and hesitating servant. A mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and herdsa great deal of livestock. God is always creating questions, deliberately, setting things up to create questions in the mind of a child to give you the opportunity to teach. Another fact is mentioned before we close the chapter, and one of deep and grave practical instruction. They weren't sure that it was going to work. translation gods is far pref Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. We come to greater precision here. (1.) CONCLUSION: Deliverance for the believer is based entirely upon the They're not really totally God's people; they're mixed. Both were granted together in the second month of the first year after the exodus. Dreadful work was to be made this night in Egypt; all the first-born both of man and beast were to be slain, and judgment executed upon the gods of Egypt. And remember that this is not a mere exceptional fact. And when I say 777, the first digit (7 in this case) refers to the owner's permission. The gospel of John, for instance, discloses the end from the beginning; but that is because here we have Jesus known as the One who is before the beginning. They didn't sit at the table like we sit at the table to eat, but they would just sort of lie around on pillows on the floor, very casual when they ate.You so often, you know, you see the picture of Jesus at the Last Supper and the nice table and everything. But even apart from this, as cows, sheep, goats, cats, dogs, jackals, crocodiles, hippopotami, apes, ibises, frogs, &c, were sacred, either throughout Egypt or in parts of it, a general destruction of all firstborn animals would have been felt as a blow dealt to the gods almost equally. their images of gold and silver, or of whatever they were made And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go. So the inauguration of this Passover feast.The Lord said in verse sixteen. the contemplation of the judgments of Jehovah in dealing with Pharaoh "A building of God not made with hands." 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. 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. Never do we meet with language like this in the New Testament. Take your flocks, take your children, just go. But God was working not only for a design according to His own heart, but so that the manner in which that design was to be accomplished should bring Him glory. Verse Exodus 12:12. [Note: Gispen, p. But if you wanted to proselytize into their faith, and into their nation, these are the things that were required. You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.. (vs.1-28) But more than that, it endangered Moses; for God had the controversy with him not with his wife. You say, "But I can't understand it.". Because his power is so limited, his authority is so limited, he only works within the limits that God describes and defines for him. According to the Book of Exodus, God commands Moses to tell the Israelites to mark a lamb's blood above their doors in order that the Angel of Death will pass over them (i.e., that they will not be touched by the tenth plague, death of the firstborn ). plague. And this is the more striking, because God emp 12._For I will pass through the land. "They came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.". And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; and you shall keep it a feast by the ordinance for ever. What name does He take then? And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forever. Hence, when He calls Moses to draw near, He first of all proclaims Himself the God of his fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he proved them." When God lays light burdens upon men and they refuse to bear them, God dramatically multiplies and increases the burdens. The type or principle of this we have here for the first time when Moses says "this day" and speaks about the salvation of Jehovah; and again, later on in the chapter, "Jehovah saved Israel." Additionally, an intellectual agreement with what God said about the blood was not enough; they actually had to do what God said must be done with the blood. We are bound ever to refuse the thought that the record of facts in scripture implies that they are according to the full mind of God. Finally, Pharaoh knew that the LORD God was greater than all the Egyptian gods and was greater than Pharaoh himself who was thought to be a god. Is it not I, the Lord? In smiting the firstborn of all living beings, man and beast, God struck down the objects of Egyptian worship (compare Exodus 12:5). i. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. But we are now in the place where all this is put in fact to the test; and the only power to sweeten what is bitter is by bringing in Christ. There is no other way. This then is brought before us here with the utmost possible care; as the Spirit of God gives immense scope to the allusions elsewhere. God therefore affirms, that he would not only conquer the nation itself, but its very gods. The two things are therefore as clear as they are also harmonious. 193-4), "In the back settlements, where the inhabitants applied themselves solely to agriculture, and luxury was not known, they were supposed to double their number in fifteen years. (7.) A big group either way you look at it. ( Romans 9:21 ). (Exodus 15:1-27). 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. But now He goes farther, showing Himself the unchangeable and eternal God, the God who was indeed as a governor true to the promise He had made of old. If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their . ix.) of his mighty power in the following event: and will smite all They break it, even as He was in the grave for three days. Egyptians and all others might know that he was Jehovah alone, (Exodus 4:1-31) The attention of Moses is drawn to what was in his hand a rod which, when cast on the ground, became a serpent. But Moses said to the Lord, "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue." Then the Lord said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? A gladiola bulb remains a gladiola then it's a flower, but there's a vast difference between the bulb and the flower. It's for the body of Christ; it's for the family of God. 153. 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. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all of his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead. Which must be understood consistent with his omnipresence, and I am the Lord; (iStock/Washington Post Illustration) Article. Exodus 28:12, NLT: Fasten the two stones on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod as a reminder that Aaron represents the people of Israel. Perhaps Isaiah alludes to this passage when he says, Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt; and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, (Isaiah 19:1;). So today God has declared that the only hope of life, the only hope of salvation is through the blood of Jesus Christ. Dare I challenge God? The bitter herbs-perhaps endive, chicory, and or other herbs native to Egypt-would later recall to the Israelites who ate them the bitter experiences of life in Egypt. The time was not yet come evidently for the deliverance of such a people. Through the Scriptures, hyssop was often used to apply blood for the cleansing of sin. c. When He sees the blood the LORD will pass over: The LORD looked for blood. i. (5.) For if the cutting off of Israel brought salvation to the Gentiles, what will it be when they are restored; but the kingdom, the kingdom age, the entering into the kingdom age. I don't want to be that. 29 The first borne are slaine. I believe that if it weren't for God's protecting hand, Satan would've already wiped all of us out. Christ is our Passover,1 Corinthians 5:7. The Gentile will unfeignedly rejoice for all the goodness Jehovah will have done to Israel, delivering them from the hand of all enemies from first to last. The rabbins say that "when Israel came out of Egypt, the holy blessed God threw down all the images of their abominations, and they were broken to pieces." The Israelite's own proud spirit was ready to insinuate pride in others. In the latter case, naturally, it was more connected with His own person as known in the Godhead. 2. rather to be understood literally of the idols of the Egyptians, Note, When our heads are fullest of care, and our hands of business, yet we must not forget our religion, nor suffer ourselves to be indisposed for acts of devotion. The truth is that He speaks of good men and bad men; that He mentions not only what was excellent in the good, but such distressing and shameful things as draw out His own chastening it may be for a long while to come. The death of all the firstborn beasts would have been felt by the Egyptians as a heavy judgment upon their gods. What a state! It is precious blood, and must be precious to us. Then (Exodus 6:14-27) the genealogy is given, which calls for no remark, save only to notice how grace cannot but assert itself. The judgment of God fell upon the palace as upon the hovel or the kennel. I will pass through - A word wholly distinct from that which means pass over. The passing through was in judgment, the passing over in mercy. The communion service is not for the public, the general public. He is thus more incredulous than the magicians who said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God" not a mere combination of unusual circumstances with a natural phenomenon. Leprosy is the type of it in its defilement. [God had prophesied this to Abraham back in Genesis that they would be in the land for four hundred years.] "And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua; for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven." Let us remember this. This feast now carries you back to the cross of Jesus Christ. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance. There is nothing therefore that can hinder a soul from being the object of the most real love to God except the persistent rejection of Himself. And in the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you. After the first Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread was a testimony throughout your generations. Article Images Copyright 2022 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. When I see the blood, I will pass over you: For Israel to be spared the judgment on the firstborn, they had to apply to blood just as God said they should. I don't argue with God nor with the Word of God, nor do I seek to strive with God. And thus fittingly He, as Jehovah their God, pledges before them His own unchangeable character to accomplish His promises. To be remembered, and that very deservedly, for the destruction of the firstborn of the Egyptians, and for the deliverance of the children of Israel out of Egypt, and as memorable a day it is, and much more so, for the redemption of the spiritual Israel by the . What does Exodus 12:11-12 mean? (6.) Now no stranger is to eat of the Passover. This unique, emphatic promise from the gods that something so natural would happen that the eldest son would take his fathers place as Pharaoh was perhaps because Thutmose IV was not his fathers firstborn son, and the firstborn was struck dead at the first Passover. They were not to apply the blood to the other member of the doorframe, the threshold, because someone might tread on it. The absurd commentary of some of the Rabbins (317) is tame and far-fetched, that the idols should be cast down, because by the single miracle of their redemption, all superstitions were magnificently overturned, and whatsoever men believed about idols was condemned as folly and delusion. All attempts to explain elep (thousand) as clan or tribe in this context fail to meet the test of inconsistency in other contexts. (Kaiser). It was impossible for the Spirit, on the one hand, to blame the love that prompted the hand of Moses; it was impossible, on the other, to vindicate the act. It is commoner than people imagine. I am not aware of anything of the sort. But for all that He does not assert it. There was nothing incredible to his mind in the rate of increase assigned to Israel in Goshen, supporting it by a reference to Dr. "Short's New Observations on Bills of Mortality, p. 259, 8vo. The sprinkling of the blood on the sides and top of the doorway into the house was a sign (Exodus 12:7; cf. In one house it shall be eaten: Passover was commemorated on a family level. Its easy to imagine the celebrations (and tension) at Succoth that night. You couldnt be part of Gods people and not share in Passover. Again, after that plague of blood bad run its course in vain for seven days, that of frogs rose up from the streams, rivers, and ponds, and the land was covered with these actively disgusting objects, as the waters had shocked and sickened them before. It's the beginning of life; it's the beginning of counting. While no uncircumcised male could participate, resident aliens were welcome at the feast once they were circumcised. fathers house. The designation naturally imports family in CONTENTS: Deliverance for Israel through the Passover. The simplicity and solemnity of the meal no doubt kept them from any feelings of self-glory (12:1-14). There will be a vast difference between this old, ugly bulb and the blossomed flower in the kingdom of God. Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. It is a night to be much observed unto the Lord for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: it is the night of the Lord to be observed of all of the children of Israel in their generations. And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, you will eat the unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening. The lamb was to be slain on the evening of the fourteenth day, the blood applied to the door posts. Hence it will be found that in the doctrine of the New Testament there is never the allowance of such a thought as that salvation is only the beginning of the blessing. 61-64. The question is, "Are these physical attributes or not?" Hence we find here that God permits the full power of the enemy to be arrayed against Israel. Even so, By the time they reached Canaan they were certainly a sizable horde (to use the historians term), to judge from the archaeological impact on Canaanite civilization. (Cole), ii. Had Moses only spoken with the rod of the priesthood in his hand, the sign of grace which brought forth fruit out of death, all had been according to God's mind and the provision of His mercy to bring a weak and faulty people through the wilderness. How many sorrows are thus escaped! [ 13] And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. Behold, the hour of visitation! " This is a war which must be without intermission maintained by His people; but it is Jehovah's war. So there had to be that obedience of faith, putting the blood on the doorposts; but as Moses said, so it was. God appointed that on the night wherein they were to go out of Egypt they should, in each of their families, kill a lamb, or that two or three families, if they were small, should join for a lamb. [Interesting, no matter how pagan a person is, they sure appreciate prayer when they're in trouble.] But both accounts concur in representing it as "air-manna," not as the exudation from a tree, which is medicine, not food. 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. So will it be for earthly people, when gathered back to God's land here below. They are made to feel the necessity of dependence on the one who is not in the fight, but outside it, and above it all. Therefore, they believed that the second born son needed special protection from the gods and the inscription sought to provide that. I look forward to being with the Lord, being in that new form, that new body, the body that pleases God. Sunday morning we have more of a mixed multitude. Salvation means known conscious deliverance. Also see the Appendix of these notes for a chart of the Hebrew calendar. You do move. Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt." The quails are brought by a wind from the sea, and the eating of them produces a plague among the people. to that of deliverance in His dealings with Israel. GODS, or princes. 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). For instance, take the Nile: we know the boastfulness of Egypt in that river which they supposed to be the great earthly emblem of God. man and beast were this night to be slain, and judgment to be executed 4. The period immediately succeeding war was likely to be a period of very rapid increase." Now, without doubt, there was much of the gospel in this ordinance; it is often referred to in the New Testament, and, in it, to us is the gospel preached, and not to them only, who could not stedfastly look to the end of these things,Hebrews 4:2; 2 Corinthians 3:13. It was to spoil their oppressors by divine authority, and no question whatever of deceit or dishonesty. However, in whatever house there was not the blood there over the doorposts, and on the side posts of the house, the firstborn in that house would be slain. The wrath of God is as fire, and Christ was made a curse for us. Abide in Me"( John 15:4 , John 15:7 ). Elsewhere we see Christ, not humbled, but heavenly and in heaven the food for the people viewed as in heavenly places. Having received Christ Jesus the Lord, (1.) So the purpose of the feast was a memorial, a reminder of what God had done, but also it was to create a question in the mind of the children. Who am I to argue with God over what's fair, or what's right, or what's wrong? Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also. And the Egyptians urged the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste. You've passed from death unto life. 102.]. The one will find the amplest confirmation of Exodus 16:1-36 and Numbers 11:1-35 as distinct accounts illustrating sovereign grace and creature-responsibility; the other can hardly avoid seeing a further and independent proof of his ruinous unbelief. For this reason, the animal was not to be cut up or boiled, but roasted whole over an open fire, and the bread was to be baked without yeast (leaven) to save time waiting for it to rise. There, in his retirement, he receives from Jethro his daughter a stranger given him to wife, who bears him a son, the name of whom tells whither his heart turns. In fact it is one of the blessed features of the word of God that we can never assume to possess an exhaustive view of scripture. a. It must be so because of their rejection and scorn of Christ, whereas the whole secret of entering into the mind of God is that we know and have believed His Son that we have received Him as indeed the Saviour of the world, as was confessed by the Samaritans when they heard Him themselves. 13 And the blood shall be to you for a token 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 the land of Egypt. We may say then, as a prophet did later, that they groaned; but they did not groan to God. (Isaias xiv. The one represents Moses as asking for a temporary release of the people (Exodus 5:3, etc); the other for their entire deliverance (Exodus 6:11; Exodus 7:2; Exodus 9:35; Exodus 11:10).". It is all a vain thing to deny that which is right according to the order of nature. Accordingly mark how Jehovah deals in His own wisdom. (Chap. Against all the gods of Egypt - Compare the margin reference. Firstborn and the Exodus The paschal lamb was killed, not to be looked upon only, but to be fed upon; so we must by faith make Christ ours, as we do that which we eat, and we must receive spiritual strength and nourishment from him, as from our food, and have delight and satisfaction in him, as we have in eating and drinking when we are hungry or thirsty: see John 6:53-55. Some of their sacred animals were regarded as actual incarnations of deity; and if any of these perished, as is likely, the threat would have been executed to the letter. "I have been a stranger in a strange land," is the word of comment that is made upon him. The Authorised Version gives the sense. Thus did all the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. There is one admission ticket for native Israelites and resident aliens alike. Thus a few of those points are merely touched without entering into details; for it is evident that this would keep us longer than is suitable in what I propose for the present. In Numbers we read where, "The mixed multitude began to lust after the things of Egypt, began to complain unto Moses"( Numbers 11:4 ). We've become so formalized that we don't really know how to. They too would be the chosen vessel of His power in their weakness, and this for ever in His mercy. Roasting enabled the host to place the lamb on the table undivided and unchanged in its essential structure and appearance (Exodus 12:9). In Leviticus 14:6, the ceremony for the cleansing of a leper used hyssop to apply blood. Here Moses was but the type, and consequently there is feebleness. It was not enough that the blood of the lamb was shed, but it must be sprinkled, denoting the application of the merits of Christ's death to our souls; we must receive the atonement,Romans 5:11. We are planted in dishonor; we are raised in glory. The tenor of Dr. D.'s statement is the more remarkable, because the reference to Succoth occurs in a distinct clause that follows where is only Elohim, after which we have Jehovah once more as before. The controversy was with their opposition to the true God, as well as with their oppression of His people. 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. How good the Lord that speaks to us about the things not of grace only but of nature! You say, "Chuck that's too narrow. I WILL PASS THROUGH - A word wholly distinct from that which means In the land of Egypt] These words suggest that what follows was The Jews called their first month Abib (Exodus 12:2). Whenever God is doing a marvelous work and gathering His people together, and there comes a real excitement over the things of God, a genuine revival of the Spirit; there are always just a certain number who just come along for the ride, who have not made a true commitment of their own lives. It reminds one of that which the Gospels tell us. This is remarkably evinced in the character now given them, as well as their preciousness with God. If the firstborn of an animal could not be sacrificed, it must like man's firstborn be redeemed. decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows And then Moses speaks, and says, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, Jehovah hath not appeared unto thee.". The sacred bulls, frogs, cows, serpents, beetles, whatever, all died in sufficient numbers to remove the whole animal kingdom from any further consideration as being "gods." However "at twilight" literally means "between the two evenings." It was before the seventh month, Hence, whether on a great scale or in individual dealings of God, nothing can be more certain than that there is such an action on His part. If it is a great thing to enjoy the profit of good company, there is no company or converse like that of God. Thus, it had to be a step of faith on their part. Exodus 12:15. The ground of their security was propitiation. Why are roses red? 1. There were all kinds of animal "deities" in Egypt, and when these alleged "gods" were unable to protect either themselves or their offspring from death, the status of their "godhead" perished! He said, "I knew a man in Christ about fourteen years, or a little over fourteen years ago, and whether in the body or out of the body I really don't know, but I know I was caught up to the third heaven, and there I heard things that it would be a crime if I tried to describe them in human language. Oh no they're not. But there is more than this. This Moses in measure understood; for faith always sees it, and holds to it just so far as it is faith. However, God says the blood of the sacrifice He provided is enough (cf. Is there no such thing then as hardening? 1. O. T. i. The men might be "girt" or "in regular order" without all being armed, and very far indeed from being all "warriors". Christ will be sweet to us if sin be bitter. Amalek has to be fought. _ 1. Praepar. In the latter part of the chapter there is another topic. obediently so that the Lord will pass over them during the tenth Nevertheless it remains true, that although the victory is assured, the fight must be maintained to the very last.
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