Thursday, June 5, 2014
Exodus 13:3
Thursday, June 05, 2014 |
And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye
came out of Egypt.
As we
consider the passages that I will cover in this devotional I am also reminded
that our Lord was crucified on Passover and buried on Unleavened Bread, the
first two of the seven Jewish Feast Days. This devotional will give us insight
into the death and burial of Jesus Christ.
Remember,
the lamb that was to be slaughtered on Passover was to be pure, perfect without
spot. This is also the case with our “Passover”, Jesus Christ, I Corinthians 5:7.
The fact
that the Jews must shed the “blood” of the lamb and paint their “doorpost” with
this blood, Exodus 12:7, is symbolic of the “blood” that Jesus shed for us to take
away our sin and give us eternal life. The Bible says, “Without the shedding of
blood, there is no remission of sin”, Hebrews 9:22.
As we
scan the chapters of Exodus that we will cover today in this devotional, Exodus 13 to 16, I will bring to your attention some key points. Before we
leave Exodus 12 please notice the total number of Jews who would exit
the Egyptian bondage with Moses, the number was six hundred thousand men on
foot, plus the women and the children, Exodus 12:37.
When
Jacob brought his family into Egypt they were a total of seventy people. After
almost 400 years the family had grown to almost two million. All of these
people would have participated in the Passover, saving their first-born from
each family from dying, those who believed God.
The last
contest Moses had with the Pharaoh was the killing of the ”first born” if there
was no blood on the doorpost of the house, the Egyptian homes and the Jewish
homes. The night of the Passover God killed all the first born in the land of
Egypt, Exodus 13:15.
Verse 19 of the same chapter Moses takes the bones of Joseph
with him on his way to the “promised land”, there to be buried. The Lord lead
the Jewish people by a “pillar of cloud” in the daytime, and at night, a
“pillar of fire”, verse 21.
In chapter 14 we have the account of the “crossing of the Red Sea,
and the death of the Egyptians soldiers trying to overtake the Jews. The
Egyptians would meet their end in the midst of the Red Sea, verse 27.
Exodus 15 and 16 record the journey of the children of Israel in
the first year after the Exodus, and how God provided for them on the journey.
I love the story of the “manna” that God supplied for the Jews, a provision not
necessarily appreciated by the Jews.
This
record of God’s “provision” and “protection” for His chosen people is one more
evidence of how the Lord “preserves” His people for the “plan” He has for them.
He has done that for some 4,000 years and will do so until He has fulfilled the
“promises” He made to them.
God is
not finished with the Jews, and the way we can recognize where we are in God’s
timeline is to focus on the Jews, today. What happened yesterday to the Jews
only assures us that His plan for tomorrow will be fulfilled, as it was in the
past.
PRAYER THOT: Thank you Lord for your protection, provision and
plan for my life, as it has been for your chosen people over the years. Your
faithfulness to them assures me that you will be faithful to me also in the
fulfillment of promises made to me.