Don't Pass On The Passover Series

C. Blood APPLIED to doorframes (7)

(photo of applied blood)

Noticed the responsibility the Hebrews or believing Egyptians must take; they must each put blood on their doorposts….

1. The Hebrews were not delivered just because they were Hebrews

2. The Eyptian firstborn sons were not killed just because they were Egyptians

3. The applied blood was the line of dileneation

4. Pictures salvation in NT: blood available to all, but only those who apply it by faith are saved (delivered); nationality not an issue…

5. Pastor Shawn Drake points out, "This was what the people had to do. Notice they were not asked their opinion. God told them how it had to be." (sermoncentral)

D. Lamb roasted and eaten with BITTER herbs and matzoh (8)

(show bitter herbs photo) --probably endive, chicory, horehound & bitter lettuce

(show flat bread photo)

• Bitter herbs reminded them of the years they were enslaved in Egypt

• At Golgotha, Christ was repulsed at drinking the bitter cup of God’s wrath…

• According to 12:46, "Do not break any of the bones." Symbolic of Christ’s death…

E. All of it eaten or BURNED (9-10)

F. Eat it in HASTE (11)

G. Later Judaism had to answer many questions: what was the difference between the original Passover in Egypt and the Passover they were to celebrate every Spring?

The Aramaic Targum of Jonathan, a first century paraphrase, expansion, and interpretaion of the Torah, adds many details that help us see the ancient Jewish understanding of these matters at the time of Jesus; here are a few of the additions:

In the tenth of this month, whose time is appointed for this time (occasion), and not for (coming) generations, they shall take to them a lamb for the house of a family, and, if many in number, they shall take a lamb for a house: but if the men of the house are fewer than ten in number, in proportion to a sufficient number to eat the lamb, he and his neighbour who is nearest to his house shall take according to the number of souls: each man according to the sufficiency of his eating shall be counted for the lamb…

…And you shall eat the flesh on that night, the fifteenth of Nisan, until the dividing of the night roasted with fire, without leaven, with horehound and lettuce shall you eat it. Eat not of it while living, neither boiled in wine, or oil, or other fluids, neither boiled in water, but roasted with fire, with its head, and its feet, and its inwards. Nor shall any be left of it till the morning; but what may remain of it in the morning you shall cover over, and in the daylight of the sixteenth day burn with fire; for you may not burn the residue of a holy oblation on the feast day. And according to this manner you shall eat it, this time, but not in (other) generations: your loins shall be girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staves in your hands; and you shall eat in the fear of the majesty of the Lord of the world; because mercy hath been shown to you from before the Lord. And I will be revealed in the land of Mizraim in the majesty of My glory this night, and with Me ninety thousand myriads of destroying angels; and I will slay all the firstborn in the land of Mizraim, of man and of beast, and against all the idols of the Mizraee I will execute four judgments: the molten idols shall be melted, the idols of stone be broken, the idols of clay shall he shattered, and the idols of wood be made dust, that the Mizraee may know that I am the Lord.