EXODUS CHAPTER 12 - 12:11
12:11 - The Passover, type of Christ our Redeemer ( EXODUS 12:1__28; JOHN 1:29; 1 CORINTHIANS 5:6__7 ).
( 1 ). - The lamb must be without blemish, and to test this it was kept up four days ( EXODUS 12:5__6 ). So our Lord's public life, under hostile scrutiny, was the testing which proved His holiness ( LUKE 11:53__54; JOHN 8:46 ).
( 2 ). - The Lamb thus tested must be slain ( EXODUS 12:6; JOHN 12:24 ).
( 3 ). - The blood must be applied ( EXODUS 12:7 ). This answers to appropriation by personal faith, and refutes universalism ( JOHN 3:36 ).
( 4 ). - The blood applied of itself, without anything in addition, constituted a perfect protection from judgment ( EXODUS 12:13; 1 JOHN 1:7 ).
( 5 ). - The feast typified Christ the bread of life, answering to the memorial supper ( MATTHEW 26:26__28; 1 CORINTHIANS 11:23__26 ). To observe the feast was a duty and privilege, but not a condition of safety. As a matter of fact, the bread was not eaten by the Israrlites on the night in which, nevertheless, they were preserved from the judgment upon the firstborn ( EXODUS 12:34__39 ).
CHAPTER 8
8:25 - The compromises proposed by Pharaoh are those urged upon Christians to day. The first says in effect: "Be a Christian if you will, but not a nattow one__stay in Egypt." Invariably it ends in world-conformity, world-pleasing and seeking the world's money for God ( PSALM 50:9__17 ). 2 CORINTHIANS 6:14__18; GALATIANS 1:4.
EXODUS CHAPTER 7
7:12 - Exodus 4:2. As Moses rod was the rod of power, the rod of the King ( DEUTERONOMY 33:4__5 ), so Aaron's was the rod of life, the rod of the Priests. As here the serpents, symbols of Satan, who had the power of death ( REVELATION 12:9, HEBREWS 2:14 ), are swallowed up, so in resurrection death will be "swallowed up in victory" ( 1 CORINTHIANS 15:54 ).
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