From the beginning

Foretold

Jesus said Moses wrote about Him. It is not a secret code. It is a lot of page: a line, the numbers He counted, the signs He named, and the days He appointed.

Walk it the way the text walks. The Hebrew is still on the page. When a preacher stretched a name, or forced a number, we say so.

The line

It runs from a garden to a town, in the order the text already walks.

01Seed02Names03Nations04Priest05Ram06Joseph07Scepter08I AM09Lamb10Bread11Rock12Curtain13Goat14Serpent15Prophet16Redeemer17House18Pierced19Stone20Immanuel21Branch22Egypt23Bethlehem24Donkey25Silver26Covenant

The numbers

It counts a week, a wait, and a people, then fourteen generations, ten words, a third day, seventy, and a tally.

SevenFortyTwelveFourteenThird dayTen wordsSeventy447

The signs

He named them Himself: a fish, a star, a prophet, a rest, and a bow.

JonahStarElijahSabbathBow

The days

These are appointed times: first fruit, fifty days, booths, and a year of release.

01First fruit02Weeks03Booths04Jubilee

The line · 09 of 26 · Exodus 12

Blood on the door

The lamb has no fault. Its blood is on the wood. Death walks past the house that stands under it.

The text
The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you.

The word

פֶּסַח

Passover, a passing over, the lamb of the night (pesach)

Walk this word

What happens

  1. 01Death is coming

    Exodus 12:12

    God will walk through Egypt in the night and take every firstborn. Pharaoh still refuses to send the people out. This is the last blow.

  2. 02A lamb with no fault

    Exodus 12:5

    Each household takes a lamb. It must be whole — no break, no disease. They keep it four days, then kill it at twilight.

  3. 03Blood on the door

    Exodus 12:7

    They paint the blood on the two doorposts and on the beam above. They stay inside. They do not argue with the destroyer. They take shelter.

  4. 04He walks past

    Exodus 12:13

    When I see the blood, I will pass over you. The house that stands under it lives. In the morning a people walks out free.

  5. 05Our Passover has been killed

    1 Corinthians 5:7

    Paul does not say the cross reminds him of a festival. He says the festival has a name now. Paul calls Him Christ, our Passover lamb.

Death is coming for

Every firstborn son in Egypt, unless a house stands under blood

Taken instead

The lamb has no fault, and its blood is on the door.

Read it this way

Israel walks out of slavery because a lamb died first, and a house stood under its blood. They did not argue with the destroyer. They took shelter.

Pesach (פֶּסַח) is the passing-over. A whole, unblemished lamb, kept four days, killed at twilight, eaten in haste, blood on the two posts and the beam above. John sees Jesus and says, Look, the Lamb of God. Paul says Christ, our Passover lamb, has been killed. The door and the cross are the same kind of shelter.

Then it is named

The other room. Same line. A Person with a name.

John 1:291 Corinthians 5:7

Some sayPassover is only Jewish history. The cross is a later religion.

When John points at Jesus and says “Look, the Lamb of God,” he is reading Exodus as if it came true in a Person.

Open Exodus 12

The copies sometimes differ — that is Witness. Words you already say out loud sit in Words with weight. Foretold is what the page already says. It is not a decoder ring.