Exodus 11-12

“Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb ...put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe” (12:21-22). The first Passover meal was a radical act of faith. Enslaved and vulnerable, each Israelite family sacrificed, roasted, and ate a lamb together, trusting the Lord to protect them from “the destroyer” and to release them from their Egyptian oppressors (12:23). Moses could not free them and they could not free themselves; only God could do it.

“What does this ceremony mean to you?” (12:26). The blood of the Passover lamb pointed toward God’s great future rescue. Jesus’ sacrifice broke the chains of sin and death and freed us to live as God’s children.