Every year at Passover the Jews celebrate how God brought them out of the land of Egypt where they were slaves for four hundred years.
We remember the account of the Passover from Exodus chapter 12. The Israelites were told to slay a lamb and put the blood of the lamb on their doorposts. The blood of their lamb protected them from the angel of death. Exodus 12:23 – “When I see the blood, I will pass over you and will not allow the destroyer to slay you.”
In the Five Books of Moses by Everett Fox, that same verse reads like this – “YHWH will proceed to deal blows to Egypt and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two posts, YHWH will pass over the entrance and will not give the bringer-of-ruin (leave) to come into your house to deal-the -blow.”
Every year at Passover the Jews celebrate what God did to bring them safely out of bondage from the land of Egypt.
In the New Testament Jesus is called our Passover Lamb. I Corinthians 5:7b says, “…for Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed.” Now we no longer sacrifice the blood of lambs, goats, oxen and so on because Jesus has become the Passover Lamb for Christians under the New Covenant.
Because Jesus is our sacrificial Lamb of God and because he shed His blood at Calvary, we can apply his blood to our homes, to ourselves, to our family members, our pets, our property, our finances, and so on. He is our blood of protection and deliverance today.
Revelation 12:11 says, “They (the saints) overcame him (the devil) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.” So, we can defeat the attacks of the devil in our lives by speaking the Blood of Jesus aloud and also by our words testifying to the power of the Blood of Jesus in our lives. If we say, “The Blood of Jesus has delivered me from this evil thing,” then the Blood will take care of it.
Speak “the Blood of Jesus” every chance you get during the day. Plead “the Blood of Jesus” every chance you get both during the day and at night.
There’s a reference in Isaiah 43:26 about “pleading the blood.” It says, “Put Me in remembrance [remind Me of your merits]: let us plead and argue together. Set forth your case, that you may be justified.” So, when we “plead the blood,” we are reminding God that we are covered in the Blood of Jesus. We are reminding God of the power in speaking the Blood over our lives. We are setting forth our case for deliverance and healing.
By the words coming out of our mouths, Jesus’ Blood gives us deliverance from our bondages today just as the blood of lambs in Exodus gave the Israelites deliverance from their slavery in Egypt.
Mary
