The Story of Moses

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“FOR I WILL pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land... And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you.” Wonderful promise! The responsibility of the children of Israel was to apply the blood, for they were sinners just like the Egyptians. But God did not say, “When I see your good deeds,” or “When I see your good intentions,” but, “When I see the blood, I will pass over you.”
There were two conditions to the feast which we have not yet considered. The roast lamb was to be eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Naturally they would shun these two things, yet when we consider their typical meaning we can understand how needful they were, if the fullness of all that the sacrifice spoke of was to be entered into.
Throughout Scripture leaven is a type of evil, which when allowed to work influences all that it touches. Even a small amount contaminates all. “Know ye not that a little lean leaveneth the whole lump?” 1 Corinthians 5:66Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? (1 Corinthians 5:6). The eating of the unleavened bread then would speak of separation from all that is evil. In fact, a child of God cannot enjoy true communion with his Saviour as long as he is allowing unjudged evil in his life.
Although a Christian is saved by grace and is entirely secure through trusting in the blood of Christ, he is also called to practical holiness, according to the divine nature of his new life in Christ. “Be ye holy; for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:1616Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. (1 Peter 1:16). “Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God.” Romans 12:11I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. (Romans 12:1). May we who are the Lord’s redeemed people now enter more fully into the need, as well as the blessing, of such practical holiness, that our communion with Him might not be broken, even by a little “leaven,” or evil, which is often treated so lightly.
Eating the bitter herbs would speak of our having a deep sense of what our sins cost our blessed Saviour. Such sober reflections as seeing and eating the bitter herbs would cause a child of God to put away the evil, no matter what the cost or how bitter the experience, “Forasmuch then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin.” 1 Peter 4:11Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; (1 Peter 4:1). Here the believer is seen eating “the bier herbs,” (suffering in the flesh) with the happy result in that self-judgment he “has ceased from sin.”
They were to eat it in haste as those who were not indulging in Egypt’s pleasures, but were expecting to leave Egypt at any moment. They were not to be time wasters. “Life at best is very brief.” How easy it is to waste our time until we find that the best of our life is gone —spent for self when it might have been spent for the Lord. “The time is short.” 1 Corinthians 7:2929But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; (1 Corinthians 7:29). The Lord is coming.
“A little while,"—He’ll come again;
Let us the precious hours redeem.
Our only grief to give Him pain
Our joy to serve and follow Him.
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