The Firstborn Slain

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Exodus 11:1-11
God sent ten terrible plagues on Pharaoh and the Egyptians because he would not let the people of Israel go free. The last plague was death: the judgment of sin. It fell on all the firstborn of Egypt. The prince of the royal palace, and the prisoner in the dungeon suffered alike. The children of Israel had been instructed of God to kill a little lamb and sprinkle its blood upon the doorpost and on the lintel of their houses, and God said, “When I see the blood I will pass over you.”
At midnight the destroying angel passed through the land, and smote with the sword all who were not under the shelter of the blood. So it will be when God judges the world and punishes sin. God’s judgment will come suddenly, when sinners are not expecting it (1 Thess. 5:22For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. (1 Thessalonians 5:2)), and there will be no escape. Great men will cry to the rocks to hide them from “the wrath of the Lamb” (Rev. 6:15, 1615And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: (Revelation 6:15‑16)). All who are not under the shelter of “the blood of the Lamb” for salvation must suffer “the wrath of the Lamb” in judgment. In the land of Egypt, “inside” all were safe; “outside” they were slain. So it will be in this world in that coming day.
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