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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Exodus 12:28-39
While in each of their houses the Israelites are eating the passover under the protection of the blood of the lamb, outside in the night there reigns a scene of terror and desolation. The destroying angel passes through, striking the firstborn, and a great despairing cry fills all Egypt. It is the tenth and last plague, picture of a judgment infinitely more solemn, that which Scripture calls the second death, appointed for those who will not have put themselves under the shelter of the Lamb of God.
No difference between the captive in the prison and Pharaoh himself (v. 29). And there will be no difference either when all the dead, "both small and great", will stand before the great white throne of Revelation 20.
For the children of Israel it is now the time of their departure. They have eaten the passover in haste, with their loins girded, their shoes on their feet, their staff in hand (v. 11), thus showing that they are a separated people, strangers, ready to leave. Are not we also? Others should see by our zeal for God, our detachment from things down here, our sober way of life, in short, by our whole behaviour, that being purchased by the blood of the Lamb, we are ready from one moment to the next to set off for our eternal home.
