More than a pinky- promise
Who would have ever have thought DOORS could be an inexaustable subject? This year as I continue sharing with you 7 different doors of the Bible, I'm finding that each one has me leaning into what I will learn and share with you. If you didn't read my blog on the Ark Door, here is the link: https://www.opendooraccess.com/blog/arkdoor
Jesus is the Door, the doorway, and the hinges that hold the Door.
He's everything that we need!
As we dive into the Passover Door, I'm eager to share with you what the night held when the God came through Egypt for the first born of every household. I have a first born child and you may, too, but, even if you don't you wouldn't be able to read this account and not be pulled into the seriousness of what was about to happen in Egypt. For the full account of Israel’s deliverance please read Exodus 1-15. It’s a story well worth reading, especially in the Easter Season.
In the Bible we find in the book of Exodus that the children of Israel were crying out to God to be delivered from slavery in Egypt. God sent them a man named Moses to be the deliverer from their bondage. Moses went to Pharoah, the leader in Egypt, and asked him many times to let God's people go. Over and over Pharoah said, "No", and God would send a plague after each denial, to help change his mind. Infestations of flies, frogs, locust and the Nile River turning to blood, were just a few. The one that rises to the top of all of these plagues was the one that would bring death to the firstborn of every home in Egypt.
Since the Israelites were also in Egypt, God gave specific instruction to them of how they would not be touched by this final plague.
Exodus 12:13 NLT
.... the blood on your doorposts will serve as a sign, marking the houses where you are staying. When I see the blood, I will pass over you. This plague of death will not touch you when I strike the land of Egypt.
There were very specific instructions given to them, from what kind of lamb was to be used, how they were to apply the blood, and also what was to be eaten of the lamb that night, for the upcoming journey out of Egypt.
These Scriptures show us the True Lamb -
John 1:29
The Lamb of God
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
Revelation 5:6
And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
We all have a physical heart or we wouldn't be on this earth. Did you know that we all have a spiritual heart that has a place for the blood of The Lamb. The door or entry of our heart requires that we simply ask, and can receive Jesus and then spend time in getting to know Jesus as we journey forward.
Matthew 7:8
For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Have you every made a pinky promise with someone, by hooking your pinky fingers together and swearing to each other about something? or how bout this one, did you ever spit on your hand and your friend spit in theirs and then you shook hands to seal a deal or a promise between the two of you? That one is just plain yuck! but pretty sure we've all done it or knew someone who did.
God’s promise to us is so much better than any promise we could make. Just like the people putting the blood on their door post, we can receive Jesus’ sacrifice and feast on Him through His word for our continued journey of faith here on Earth. He promises that He will never leave us or abandon us on the journey.
Would you open your heart and invite Him in?
Easter is so much more than a church service and dinner with friends and family -
It was! and continues to be The Only Door for us to walk through.