The Passover Door
“And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.”
Exodus 12:7 · KJV
“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 12:13 · KJV
“Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.”
Hebrews 11:28 · KJV
The lamb was slain for the whole house. The blood still had to go on the door. “When I see the blood, I will pass over you” (Exod 12:13): not when the lamb dies, when the blood is where God said to put it. Paul says the lamb was Christ (1 Cor 5:7), and the hyssop on the step is the part that was theirs. Hebrews files the whole night under faith: “Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood” (Heb 11:28), blood and believing as one act.
The door was not only for Jews, and the chapter says so with two Hebrew words. Verse 43: “there shall no stranger eat thereof,” ben-nekar, the foreigner who stays outside. Verse 48: “when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD... he shall be as one that is born in the land,” ger, the outsider who comes in. One door, shut on the man who will not enter and opened to the man who will, on the same terms as a son of Abraham: “one law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger” (12:49). A mixed multitude walked out that night (12:38). The first Passover already had Gentiles at the table.
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