During the Passover, wherever the Blood of the Lamb had been applied, the people and animals were safe. No death came to those who had prepared the sacrifice of a perfect lamb, and had painted that blood over their doorposts. The death angel had to pass them by. The same still goes today, except that we can use the Blood of Jesus by faith over our families, dwellings, and animals. Only Blood can cover sins, only blood can allow us…..
We often gloss-over the Pass-over story. It is one of the most powerful pictures of what Jesus’ Blood accomplished for us that we find in the Bible. What happened during the Pass-over? The death angel passed-over the Jewish believers, (anyone who would obey and believe, that splashing the blood of a perfect lamb over the doorposts of their home would protect them from what was coming). It worked! The firstborn of every family and animal in Egypt and Goshen died…..