The Pattern of Blood-bought Salvation

UV 2826/10000 The Pattern of Blood-bought Salvation
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, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12 v 13

This promise given to the Jewish slaves in Egypt before the angel of death visited the land of Egypt is relevant to the believers of Jesus to this day. The cross mark of sheep’s blood put across the threshold of the houses of the Hebrew slaves was the sign of salvation for the latter even as the houses of the Egyptians were visited with the death of the first born son of each house. The way to claim an ancient promise of the Lord is to first hear it, then believe it, receive it with thanksgiving and live in faith and free from fear as if the promise is already fulfilled. The sign of the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God protects us and preserves us from every plague, every evil that is visited on our lands. When the angel of retribution passes over our houses, he will pass over our houses as he sees the sign of the cross upon our hearts, our lives, our families and our houses and even our livestock or pets. Our faith in the redeeming power of the blood of Jesus is the token of the covenant with our God and our Lord.
The blood of sheep that marked the lintels and doorposts of the Hebrew homes were mere tokens of faith. But the blood of Jesus was nor a mere token but an outpouring of the very love of the Lord. It is our blood armour. It secures our salvation and makes it a fait accompli. The Lord needs to see that we have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus. A precious payment has been made for the sins and shortcomings of all mankind and it cannot go vain. This “Passover” not only protects us from the destructive wrath of God but makes us inheritors of every grace our race needs. It is reckoned as if we have wholeheartedly obeyed all the commands and precepts of the Lord. We are protected not just from the ten plagues that affected Egypt triggered by Moses but all the curses of disobedience listed in Deuteronomy chapter 28.

Faith is a reflection of the perfect love of God for it is the process through which all our fears are cast out. The Lord tests our response between the moment we believe in His promise of salvation and it becomes a “fait” or an action or a result or a fact and experience. When disease afflicts the land, we will be free from it. When disaster strikes, whether man-made or natural, we will be saved. When famine strikes the land, we will be provided what we need even as the house of Jacob was provided grain to sustain them in the land of Egypt. When darkness prevails in the land, the light of Jesus and the hope He gives will be available in our homes. We are marked or chosen for salvation by the blood of the Lamb.
Prateep V Philip