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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.
The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.
Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind
you; hide yourselves for a little while until His wrath has passed by. See, the
Lord is coming out of His dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their
sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed on it; the earth will conceal its
slain no longer.
Isaiah 26:20-21
This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, “This month is to be for you
the first month, the first month of your year. 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. If any household is too small for a whole lamb,
they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the
number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in
accordance with what each person will eat. The animals you choose must be
year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the
goats. Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the
members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. Then they
are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the
doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. That same night they are to
eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without
yeast. Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a
fire—with the head, legs and internal organs. Do not leave any of it till
morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. This is how you are to
eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and
your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover.”
“On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every
firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods
of Egypt. I am the Lord. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where
you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague
will touch you when I strike Egypt.” Exodus 12:1-13
It was the genesis of
what would be known and commemorated as the Passover, the day when God came to
bring death and destruction to the firstborn of Egypt but spared or passed over
the people of Israel who had been protected and covered by the blood of the
sacrificed lamb which had been painted on the doorframes of their houses as God
directed.
Fast forward to our
scriptures today and the closing words of the 26th chapter of Isaiah. We have
been covering this chapter for days now and so you should remember that the
setting of the song we have studied from is at the time when Jesus returns to
bring judgment on the earth and to rescue His disciples and followers, the
righteous of the earth, in order to start fresh and anew in the New Jerusalem,
the new holy city within the new earth and heaven that would replace the old
(Revelation 21). We know the old earth and world will be destroyed as well as
all those upon it who failed to place their belief, hope, and trust in Jesus as
Savior. And as we read these two finishing verses again, we see where that day
of Jesus’ return will be the final Passover. Look again at these words:
Go, my people,
enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little
while until His wrath has passed by. See, the Lord is coming out of His
dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will
disclose the blood shed on it; the earth will conceal its slain no longer. vv.
20-21
The day that Jesus
returns is going to be the best day ever for those who believed in Him for it
will be the day that will mark their entry into eternity, free from all the
ills and evils this current world possesses. For everyone else, it will be the
worst day ever, the day of fiery destruction as they are cast into the lake of
fire along with Satan (Revelation 20:15).
While that wrath is
unleashed, there is specific guidance given to the righteous. They are to enter
their rooms and shut the doors until Christ’s wrath passes by. There was no
need for the blood of the lamb to be shed and placed on the doorframes because
the people were covered by the shed blood of Jesus, the unblemished Lamb of God,
who was sacrificed for the sins of all mankind on Calvary’s cross. This willing
sacrifice by Jesus paid the penalty for those who chose to place their belief
in Him, justifying them as blameless before God the Father and saving them from
death and destruction. They would not receive the punishment suffered by the
wicked but would rather be passed over as Christ brought judgment on those who
chose sin over righteousness.
What will be your fate on
that judgment day when Jesus returns?
Will you be utterly
destroyed or will you be passed over and delivered into eternal life?
The answer simply depends
on whether or not you believe Jesus is your Savior. My prayer is that you will
place your faith and hope in Him today if you haven’t done so already.
Amen.
In Christ,
Mark
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