Êxodo 12

Êxodo 12

Calvin says Moses "acquiesced in the bare word of God where the thing itself was not apparent." Faith trusts in God’s sacrifice for deliverance from His judgment All people face the threat of God’s impending judgment. God has appointed a way of deliverance from His judgment through the blood of a substitute. God’s way of deliverance must be applied by faith in order to be effective. - Steven Cole And you shall eat it in haste - It is to be eaten in haste and indicates a state of watchfulness and readiness as necessary, as it was at this first Passover. On this night this was not a celebratory feast as it would later become. Currid adds in haste "in the original Hebrew does not only mean ‘quickly’, but it bears a great sense of alarm/trepidation/danger." The same verb haste in Dt 16:3 means in essence to leave Egypt the same way, in haste! Do not delay! Isaiah used the same word haste to prophesy a future time in which the children of Israel would depart from Assyria and return to Jerusalem, but not in haste (Isa. 52:12). This second Exodus would not be an escape, but rather a triumph of Yahweh's sovereignty. In the context in Isaiah 52:13 (commentary) we read a Messianic prophecy "Behold, My servant will prosper, He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted." Victor Hamilton remarks "Interestingly, it was very advantageous for the Israelites to leave Egypt on the night of a full moon." (Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament) THOUGHT - Beloved, if you've not been covered by the blood of the Passover Lamb (1Pe 1:18, 19+; 1Cor 5:7 - see related study of Jehovah Roi - The LORD My Shepherd), you too will experience the tragic consequences of having chosen to reject of God's truth regarding redemption from bondage to Satan, Sin and eternal death (separation from God's glorious presence - cp Mt 25:41, 2Th 1:6, 7, 8, 9, 10) Haste (02649)(chippazon from chaphaz = to hurry away, flee, trembling in alarm) is a masculine noun that means a hurried departure, haste, a hurried flight. Three uses in OT - Ex 12:11, Dt 16:3 = "you came out of the land of Egypt in haste" , Isa 52:12 Bruckner - The people were not to be indifferent to the suffering outside the walls of their homes, even the suffering of their enslavers (Prov. 24:17). They should eat with the haste of alarm, since their deliverance was purchased at such a cost of human and animal life. it is the LORD'S Passover - It is the Passover Jehovah provides and Jehovah carries out and thus in that sense it all belongs to Him and all those who partake of it belong to Him. Passover is pesach/pesah, which in itself refers primarily to the victim and secondarily to the feast in which the victim was the central feature. Hobbs adds it is the LORD’s passover "means “a passover victim for the Lord.” On the other hand, it may refer to the passover victim supplied “by the Lord,” that is, by His grace so His people could be spared the death of the firstborn." David Guzik on it is the LORD's passover - The Passover was the Lord’s in the sense that He provided it: (1) As a rescue, to deliver Israel from the plague of the firstborn. (2) As an institution, to remember God’s rescue and deliverance for Israel through every generation. (3) As a powerful drama, acting out the perfect sacrifice and rescue Jesus would later provide. Alan