Beholding our Passover Lamb
The people were in bondage. Their oppressors were harsh taskmasters, cruel in their demands. Men and women and children cried out to the LORD in their distress. And God heard their prayers and answered. Pharoah would not relinquish his grip on the people easily, so God made life hard on him. Plagues were sent. They bugged the Egyptians, literally. They sequentially demonstrated that the pantheon of Egyptian gods was no match for the I AM. Still, pharoah's heart was hard. And the Scriptures tell us that God had made it that way (Exodus 11:10) for His own purposes. God was showing the people of Israel His deliverance from bondage in their day, but also picturing future deliverance from their sin. "Passover"...
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