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Today we see Jesus as the Passover Lamb.

The story of Israel moving out of slavery in Egypt and into God’s family is marked by three pivotal moments of blood. Each of them transfers people into God’s covenant, making them the people God will use to cover a world of death in life. In Exodus 4, Moses’ family is circumcised, showing that they belong to God’s household and will share in his covenant promises to bring life and victory over evil. In Exodus 12, the Passover lamb’s blood is spread on the doorframes of God’s people, marking their homes as God’s own family and bringing them into the realm of life. And at Sinai, the covenant is sealed with blood as the people are sprinkled and welcomed fully into the covenant family of God.

Covenants are established by blood. It marks who belongs to God. When the firstborn sons of Egypt die on Passover night, God is cutting off the line of Pharaoh, the serpent-like ruler who is bringing death and evil into his good world. Anyone aligned with Pharaoh and his rebellion is handed over to the death they bring. But those marked by the blood of the lamb are rescued from the family of Egypt and joined to God’s family. They are freed to live as his people, under his rule, on their way to his mountain where his presence will dwell with them. Through this rescued family, God will rescue the world.

Every year the Israelites were to eat the same meal they ate on Passover night. This celebration reminded them that God rescued them from the family of death in Egypt and brought them into his family of life.

This story reaches its climax in Jesus. On the night before his death, he took the same Passover meal and redefined it around himself: “This is my body… this is my blood of the covenant” (Matthew 26:26–28). Jesus is the true Passover Lamb. His blood marks us as God’s people, sets us free from slavery to sin and death, and brings us into the family of God. Just as Israel left Egypt to become God’s covenant people at Sinai, so we are brought out of the dominion of darkness and formed into the new covenant family of Jesus, the Church.

Through the Passover Lamb, God makes a new covenant with us. His covenant is that we are his people and he is our God. We rescued from the family of death and brought into his family of life.