CRUX Daily: The Passover

Read: Exodus 12

Reflect: What was the passover and why is it important?

Request (Prayer): Thank you Lord for giving Your Son to pay for my sin.

The question for this week is, “What is Passover?” What is it exactly? Do you remember the story from Exodus 12 about the Passover and what that was a symbol of? Let me refresh you.

Before the last plague, the killing of the first born son, God had told Moses to tell the Israelites to put blood on the doorpost of every door of every Israelite in the land so that way when God came to killing the firstborn sons of Egypt, God would pass over that house because of the blood put on the doorposts, hence the name Passover.

This is symbolic in the fact that those covered in the blood were in the covenant of God. They were the set apart, God watched over them and watched over their house and passed their house and onto the next. This was the idea that this blood had set them free from being killed, and this blood of the sheep was a foreshadowing of what was to come of the innocent lamb in Jesus Christ.

What does passover mean for us today? Tradition is that this is a national Jewish holiday in Israel and is celebrated every year. What about for us who do not celebrate this as a holiday? The passover is the celebration that the believer has in Jesus Christ and the blood that He shed upon the cross. No longer are we just covered in the blood of Christ, we are washed clean and made whiter than the snow because of the blood of Christ on our behalf.

As the Israelites used sheep’s blood to post onto the doorposts, so too, the innocent lamb, Jesus, was led to the slaughter to have His blood put upon the believer. Are you washed in the blood of Jesus? Do you believe in Him? Have you accepted Him as Lord and Savior of your life? Do you believe in your heart and have you confessed with your mouth that Jesus is Lord? Let His blood wash you whiter than the snow today.