FBkids: God Ordains the Passover

Lesson 20

Hello everyone! We are back this week to learn about the final plague that God sent to Egypt. Last week we talked about the first nine. Today we are going to hear about the worst one of all.

God’s purpose in the first half of Exodus was to display His power and deliver His people. But after the nine powerful plagues, Israel was still enslaved by Egypt. So, God sent a tenth and final plague, the most powerful, to deliver His people.

God announced the death of every firstborn male in all of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, to the firstborn of the slave, even the firstborn of the livestock. Unlike the previous plagues, God Himself would go through Egypt to accomplish this judgment on all the gods of Egypt.

In order to spare the children of Israel from the final plague, God gave the Passover sacrifice. Each family chose a one year old, unblemished lamb and kept it with them for 4 days. The sacrificed the lamb without breaking any of its bones and used hyssop to brush it’s blood on the sides and tops of their doorways. Then they stayed in their homes until morning.

They roasted them lamb, ate it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, and burnt any leftovers. When eating, they were ready to leave at a moment’s notice.

When the Lord passed through Egypt, He saw the blood on the doorposts and passed over those houses. He did not allow the destroyer to enter their houses.

Obviously, this brought great sadness to Egypt. The Bible says loud wailing filled the land because every house was affected. In their agony, Pharaoh and the Egyptians urged the Israelites to leave immediately.

As Israel departed, God led them with His own presence, appearing in a pillar of cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.

God delivered His people and established the Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the consecration of the firstborn as reminders of His power to deliver.

Many years later, Jesus would share his last supper with His disciples on the night of Passover. During this celebration, Jesus identified the unleavened bread and the cup of wine with His own body and blood. In doing so, Jesus declared that deliverance from sin and from God’s wrath comes only through His blood. Those who come to Jesus are protected by His blood just as the Israelites who stayed inside were protected by the blood of the Passover lamb.

When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the door frame and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.

Exodus 12:23

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