Victory By the Blood of the Lamb
Delivered By the BLOOD
“And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness” (2 Sam 6:17).
Thirty-five hundred years ago, God brought plagues upon Egypt because of Pharaoh’s refusal to release the children of Israel from bondage. Pharaoh was so stubborn that it took the death of all the firstborn in Egypt to force him to release the children of Israel from bondage.
The night that the firstborn of the Egyptian families died was a night of terror to all those who ignored the instructions of God. God provided a way of escape through the blood of the Passover lamb for those who would obey:
He commanded them to sprinkle the blood of the lamb upon the doorposts of their houses. To all those who trusted in God and obeyed His instruction, the night was one of hope for deliverance from slavery to freedom.
“And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house” (Exo 12:2-3).
The instruction given by God for the Passover night is clear and simple. The entire instruction is recorded in the first twenty-four verses of the twelfth chapter of Exodus. Each family must select a lamb. It must be a lamb without blemish, a male of the first year. And like the ram on Mount Moriah, this lamb must be killed. They must then take the blood of the lamb and sprinkle it on the lintel and on the two side posts of their door. Every member of the family must stay inside the house and not go outside the door until the morning.
By substitution, the lamb that was slain took the place of their firstborn sons, just as the ram had taken the place of Isaac their grandfather on Mount Moriah. All these sacrifices are patterns or portraits of the true Lamb of God, the One John saw when he was baptizing by the river Jordan and said, “Behold the Lamb of God, that took away the sins of the world.”
This is the only Lamb without blemish: the Lamb slain from the foundation of the earth. Redemption from Egyptian bondage was wrought on that night when the lamb was slain, a figure of the day when the Lamb of God was slain on Calvary’s tree. Apostle Peter wrote: “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” (1Pe 1:18-19).
“For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, 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” (Exo 12:23).
On that notable Passover night, the God of Israel broke the Egyptian yoke from the necks of His people. The Passover lamb took the place of the firstborn in every Jewish home. They were protected by the blood of the lamb. “When I see the blood, I will pass over you,” the Lord told the children of Israel. They were to eat the lamb with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, with their loins girded and their shoes on their feet, ready to depart from Egypt. The eating of unleavened bread was to continue for seven days as they escaped from Pharaoh’s slavery. God instructed Israel to have a yearly convocation commemorating this landmark event in their history as a nation. It is also a symbol typifying the great work of redemption that our Lord Jesus performed on the cross.
The Passover is when our freedom from slavery to sin (typified by Israel’s enslavement by Pharaoh) was won by the death of Jesus Christ, the Passover Lamb of God.
Why did the firstborn of Israel not die along with those of the people of Egypt?
They did not die because they accepted the way of salvation that God opened for them through the blood of a lamb. The truth of the matter is that we all deserve God’s judgment. However, God, in His mercy, has told us that if we accept the sacrifice of the Lamb of God and apply His blood to our lives, we will be safe.
But the Lamb must die, because the wages of sin is death. God is righteous and cannot simply overlook our sins. The Lamb is our Substitute and was sacrificed in our place, as Abraham sacrificed the ram instead of his son.
Dear friends, what we need to realize today is that, before God, all of Adam’s descendants are like the firstborn sons of the people of Egypt and Israel. God’s holy law condemns every one of us to die and face God’s righteous judgment. But the lambs which the Israelites sacrificed to escape the plague of death symbolized the Redeemer who had to come and pour out his blood to pay the debt for the whole world.
Our Redeemer, the Lamb of God, “died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous to bring us to God.” (1 Pet. 3:18). Blessed be God: there is redemption in the blood of the lamb.
- Redemption implies restoration to initial estate
- Implies the devil has to release all the things he took from
man during the fall
- Implies the redeemed can begin to enjoy what belongs to
him before the fall
- Victory through the Blood. “And they overcame him
[Satan] by the Blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony” (Rev 12:11).
There is power in the Blood of Jesus.
His Blood has mighty power of protection for us the redeemed of the Lord. The Blood of the Lamb has mighty redemptive power to set the captive free.
He Has Broken the Gates of Brass
God has delivered us from the dominion of darkness. This was accomplished during Christ’s work of redemption when He disarmed, spoilt, and neutralized the powers of the rulers of darkness and set humanity free. “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it” (Col 2:15).
He rendered the enemy powerless inside their own kingdom, made a public display of them, led captivity captives and released us into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.
If you have received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, you’ve been delivered from the lordship and dominion of the evil one. Neither sin nor Satan can lord it over you any longer unless you let them. You are a partaker of the kingdom of light and you possess the inheritance of the saints. You have a new spirit in you, the old is gone, and all is become new. A miraculous work of new creation has been performed in you. You are a totally new being.
Now that you have been delivered, you must begin to walk in newness of life. Don’t let the enemy through subtlety deceive you into looking back and subjecting yourself to the old bondage again. You have been delivered from the dominion of darkness.
Though we are wrestling against spiritual rulers of the darkness of this world, we are not actually fighting with them per sec, our Lord Jesus Christ already fought them and won. So in our wrestling against them, we are the predetermined conquerors. God has already declared us “more than conquerors” through the blood of Jesus Christ and by the power of His love. The enemies we are fighting are those same ones that Christ disarmed during His work of redemption—they are the same principalities and powers that He spoilt, neutralized, or rendered powerless. He disarmed, made a public display of them, led captivity captives, and released us into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.