Exodus - an Authentic Record of Events

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Part 19  Exodus - an Authentic Record of Events

More divine predictions in the exodus concern the way of life in Christ, which can be seen in features of the Passover feast.

1. The Days of Unleavened Bread - under the Law of Moses

“The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt...‘Tell the whole community of Israel...This day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.

'Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel’ ” - Exodus 12:14

“You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out [Septuagint Greek, exodos] of Egypt; none shall appear before Me empty)” - Exodus 23:15. The fulfillment is spoken of in the section below.

2. The Days Of Unleavened Bread- under Christ

1 Corinthians 5:6 “Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” There is another significant fulfillment of the Passover in how it was to be kept -

3. Remaining In The House - in Egypt

“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. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning,”

“For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you....” - Exodus 12:22.-23.

4. Remaining In The House - of faith

“Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

“For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries....Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward” - Hebrews 10:24.

Next time, God willing, we will look at some features of Israel’s travels away from Egypt which are also parables of the realities which came into being with the coming of Jesus Christ.