Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Be Gone and Bless Me

Let's search Exodus 12:21-36.

Moses delivered the message from the Lord to the elders of Israel concerning the instructions for the passover and explained, "For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood [of the lamb] upon the [upper door posts], and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not [allow] the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you" (Exodus 12:21,23).

In following Moses' words from God, the children of Israel would not suffer from the death of their firstborn. The elders were also told that the instructions were an ordinance to them and their sons to be observed forever. They were to take the observance into the promised land of the Lord (Exodus 12:24,25). A day would come when their children would ask, "What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped. And the children of Israel went away, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they" (Exodus 12:26,27,28).

God followed through with what He said He would do:

"And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle" (Exodus 12:29).

"And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all 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. And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as ye have said. Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also. And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men." (Exodus 12:30-33).

"And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians" (Exodus 12:34-36).

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