The Precious Blood of Jesus

January 19

“Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. (4) And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb. (5) Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. (6) Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.

(7) And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two door-posts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. (8) Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. (9) Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire—its head with its legs and its entrails. (10) You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire. (11) And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD"s Passover.

(12) For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. (13) Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. (14) So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance,” Exodus 12:3-14.

There is power in the blood of Jesus. Isaiah 53:5-12 says, “But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.

8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare His generation? for He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was He stricken. 9 And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when you shalt make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. 11 He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied: by His knowledge shall my righteous Servant justify many; for He shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He has poured out His soul unto death: and He was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.”

Just as the blood of the Passover lamb covered each man’s family on the night the death angel took the firstborn of every family in Egypt, so the blood of our Passover Lamb covers us. In that covering, we find healing for all our diseases and cleansing from all out sin. The total provision for our well-being for time and for eternity is in the blood of Jesus, “the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world,” John 1:29.

These words of John the Baptist redound in our ears today and we know they will ring through the corridors of heaven for all eternity as Jesus’ praises are sung forever to the glory of God the Father (see Philippians 2:11).

Knowing that the blood of the Lamb has played such a pivotal role in the lives of believers through the eons of time, should we not allow the blood to be the covering under which we hide ourselves from the onslaught of the enemy today? Should we not recognize his resurgence, his vitriolic hatred of Christians and Jews as it is evidenced around the globe and should we not be sure that we hide ourselves in the cleft of the rock that is Jesus? (See Exodus 33:22.)

We do not hide from the enemy, quaking in fear at his ruminations, rather we focus ourselves upon the SOLUTION that has been supplied by our One True and Living God. We do not suppose ourselves capable of victory over the enemy of our souls by our own strength, for the Word tells us that our victory is “not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,” Zechariah 4:6.

That perfect victory has been extended to us in full supply by the blood of the Lamb of God. It is because of Jesus that we are able to be “more than conquerors,” Romans 8:37 and that we are “able to do all things,” Philippians 4:13. Must we not keep our focus on Jesus and allow His precious blood to cover us until the evil day is past and we reign with Him in glory! (See II Timothy 2:12.)