Moses' Faith and the Passover

Hebrews 11:28‑29  •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 9
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Answer: Moses not only kept1 but instituted the passover according to Jehovah’s word: it was the sole occasion when the sprinkling of the blood took place. And this was really if secretly the basis of Israel’s deliverance that followed through the Red Sea as by dry land. But it would be too much to assume that any as yet understood the antitype in Christ’s blood, death, and resurrection for those that believe. Yet the people as well as Moses did believe that God would according to His word screen and deliver, however sadly the mass fell in the wilderness by unbelief. It may be noticed that the last word of ver. 28 prepares the way for the general form of ver. 29. The experiment made by the Egyptians was wholly their own doing without reference to God’s word, and so without faith; just as men perish now, even in Christendom.
 
1. The perfect of abiding result is used here as in vers. 8,17, whereas the aorist is elsewhere, expressive of the fact simply.