Protection under the Blood

Exodus 12:1-14 With our modern electronic devices, we can keep watch constantly all over the world. The nations of the world have their satellites in low-earth orbit by which they scan the earth’s surface constantly. Video and facial recognition technology can track us almost anywhere we go. We know more fully the meaning of the saying, “you can run, but you can’t hide.” We sometimes wonder, with modern electronic devices and all the progress in communication of the last several decades, how can there be any place of safety? It seems as though an ever-watchful eye is over us constantly. I am glad to say that God watches over us but with a quite different intention. God watches over us in love when we turn our hearts to Him. STUDY QUESTIONS While there are various means of protection, this Scripture in Exodus 12:1-14, sets forth PROTECTION UNDER THE BLOOD. This protection is vital to your eternal well-being. 1. And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,  2. This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.  3. 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:  4. And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.  5. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:  6. And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.  7. And they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.  8. And they shall eat the flesh that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.  9. Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.  10. And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remains of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.  11. And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’S Passover.  12. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.  13. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. 14. And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.