Parashat 15 Portion 53 Shemot/Exodus 12:13-28 Yer 46:13-28 Col 1:13-14

Exo 12:13  ‘And the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I shall pass over you, and let the plague not come on you to destroy you when I smite the land of Mitsrayim.

Concordant or literal version – “Then the blood will become a sign for you on the houses where you are. When I see `the blood I will pass over on you. And there shall not come to be a stroke on you to cause ruin when I smite− in the land of Egypt”

This final plague was a once off experience for the nation of Yisrael. The first Passover, blood was placed on the doorposts of their homes. When this appointment was kept subsequently, one did not place blood on the door posts of your house any longer.

   Today we know that the Passover has been given its fullest meaning by the shedding of the blood of our Messiah - Yahshua.

   Christianity has personalized the significance of this event. We see however the original pattern was for our households.

     For us to enter into a fuller revelation and understanding of our deliverance through the blood of Messiah we need to see its original context. This command to put blood on the doorposts was given to the children of Yisrael and all those who wanted to be “grafted” into Yisrael.

We cannot separate our redemption from the house of Yisrael.

We definitely cannot associate our redemption with easter bunnies and hot cross buns. If we do we may very well lose our protection when the angel of death “hovers over” our households.

Joh 6:53  יהושע therefore said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Aḏam and drink His blood, you possess no life in yourselves.

Joh 6:54  “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood possesses everlasting life, and I shall raise him up in the last day.

Joh 6:55  “For My flesh is truly food, and My blood is truly drink.

Joh 6:56  “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood stays in Me, and I in him.

Yahshua was referring to Passover kept the way the Torah teaches and realizing that this huge redemptive event was a directly associated with himself as being our Passover lamb. Failure to do so would have severe consequences – see Shemot/Exodus 12:43-51

1Co 5:7  Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, so that you are a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Messiah our Passover was offered for us.

1Co 5:8  So then let us observe the festival, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil (depravity)and wickedness,(plotting iniquity) but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

In the book of Hebrews we are warned of our failure to recognize the seriousness of YHVH’s blood covenant.

Heb 10:28  Anyone who has disregarded the Torah of Mosheh dies without compassion on the witness of two or three witnesses.

Heb 10:29  How much worse punishment do you think shall he deserve who has trampled the Son of Elohim underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was set apart as common, and insulted the Spirit of favour?

The book of Hebrews was written to Jewish believers who had received Yahshua as the promised Messiah. The book of Hebrews was not written to Church Christians, who believe they have replaced Israel and the Jews and who believe that the Torah has been done away with or adjusted for a new dispensation of believers.

The Greek word translated “disregarded” G114 atheteō means to set aside, that is, (by implication) to disesteem, neutralize or violate: - cast off, despise, disannul, frustrate, bring to nought, reject. This word IS NOT WRITTEN IN THE PAST TENSE BUT WRITTEN IN THE PRESENT ONGOING TENSE.

Now a far more serious situation can and has faced some believers of the way the truth and the life. We must take careful note that vs 28 and 29 is written to believers in Yahshua.

A Christian author makes the following statements concerning those who deny Yahshua:

“But, when we cast off our profession, we declare before all, that we consider the blood of Christ as having no virtue at all as an atonement for sin, and as being, in fact, of no more efficacy than the blood of bulls and goats, or even of a malefactor, justly put to death.

 But, when we renounce the truth we have received, we insult that Divine Agent, as having borne witness to a falsehood: and we ascribe all His miracles either to Satanic agency, or to some mysterious imposture. We even laugh also at the impressions which He has made upon our minds, and deride all his merciful suggestions as fanaticism and delusion.

A person who has never received the knowledge of the truth, cannot commit this sin (they haven’t received Yahshua as the promised Messiah yet), or any sin of equal malignity. It is the resisting of light that has been imparted (when you first see that Yahshua is the Promised Messiah and accepted Yahshua as the Mediator between man and Elohim), and the acting contrary to it to such an extent as to call it darkness; this it is which makes the guilt so great, that, humanly speaking, it can never be forgiven. Were it indeed is repented of, and were mercy sought through the blood of Jesus, even this sin, great as it is, might be forgiven: but the commission of it implies such desperate wickedness and obduracy, that it never can, without a miracle of mercy, be repented of.

The real issue in security is not struggling believers, but the multitude of modern western church members who have no evidence of faith in their lives. Easy believism, coupled with an overemphasis on security, has filled  churches with baby Christians at best and lost people in Christian clothing at worst! Discipleship and the call for radical holiness are missing in a materialistic, capitalistic, decadent, modern western culture. Salvation has been turned into a product (a ticket to heaven at the end of a self-centered life or a fire insurance policy against ongoing sin) instead of a daily, growing, personal relationship with God. The goal of Christianity is not only heaven when we die (product), but Christlikeness now!! God wants to restore His image in mankind so that He can reach fallen humanity with His free offer of salvation in Christ. We are saved to serve! Security is a by-product of a life of service and discipleship – end quotes.

The Hebrew word “pasach” Strongs 6452 is translated as “pass over” in English. This Hebrew word comes from a root which can mean “to be lame” or to “limp.” According to some commentaries this word “pasach” can also mean to “hover or wobble.”

The use of the word “pasach” in Yesh 31:5 gives every indication that the base meaning is to “hover over or protect.”

Isa 31:5  “Like hovering birds, so does יהוה of hosts protect Yerushalayim – protecting and delivering, passing over and rescuing.”

Salvation was meant to be for those in households - Act 16:31  And they said, “Believe on the Master יהושע Messiah, and you shall be saved, you and your household.”

Exo 12:14  ‘And this day shall become to you a remembrance. And you shall observe it as a festival to יהוה throughout your generations – observe it as a festival, an everlasting law.

Exo 12:15  ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. Indeed on the first day you cause leaven to cease from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that being shall be cut off from Yisra’ĕl.

Exo 12:16  ‘And on the first day is a set-apart gathering, and on the seventh day you have a set-apart gathering. No work at all is done on them, only that which is eaten by every being, that alone is prepared by you.

Exo 12:17  ‘And you shall guard the Festival of Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I brought your divisions out of the land of Mitsrayim. And you shall guard this day throughout your generations, an everlasting law.

Exo 12:18  ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.

Exo 12:19  ‘For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, that same being shall be cut off from the congregation of Yisra’ĕl, whether sojourner or native of the land.

Exo 12:20  ‘Do not eat that which is leavened – in all your dwellings you are to eat unleavened bread.’ ”

Exo 12:21  And Mosheh called for all the elders of Yisra’ĕl and said to them, “Go out and take lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

Exo 12:22  “And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin, and you, none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning.

Exo 12:23  “And יהוה shall pass on to smite the Mitsrites, and shall see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and יהוה shall pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you.

Exo 12:24  “And you shall guard this word as a law for you and your sons, forever.

Exo 12:25  “And it shall be, when you come to the land which יהוה gives you, as He promised, that you shall guard this service.

Exo 12:26  “And it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’

Exo 12:27  then you shall say, ‘It is the Passover slaughtering of יהוה, who passed over the houses of the children of Yisra’ĕl in Mitsrayim when He smote the Mitsrites and delivered our households.’ ” And the people bowed their heads and did obeisance.

Exo 12:28  And the children of Yisra’ĕl went away and did so – as יהוה had commanded Mosheh and Aharon, so they did.

Midrash:

Jer 46:17  “There they cried, ‘Pharaoh, sovereign of Mitsrayim, is but a noise. He has let the appointed time pass by!’

Jer 46:27  “But as for you, do not fear, O My servant Yaʽaqoḇ, and do not be discouraged, O Yisra’ĕl! For look, I am saving you from afar, and your descendants from the land of their captivity. And Yaʽaqoḇ shall return, and shall have rest and be at ease, with no one disturbing.

Jer 46:28  “Do not fear, O Yaʽaqoḇ My servant,” declares יהוה, “for I am with you. Though I make a complete end of all the gentiles to which I have driven you, yet I do not make a complete end of you¹. But I shall reprove you in right-ruling, and by no means leave you unpunished.” Footnote: ¹See 46:28, Isa. 34:2, Isa. 45:17, Dan. 2:44, Amos 9:8, Hag. 2:22.

Derek Prince along with some brethren published a prophecy about the spiritual condition of the church and its leaders during the last days.

Prince said that a deep repentance would come and many believers including many pastors and leaders who thought they were “saved” will realize that they were in fact not saved.