Sun’s Devo - Deliverance!

Read: Exodus 12:14-13:16; Matthew 20:29-21:22; Psalm 25:16-22; Proverbs 6:12-15 The regulations of the Passover were given. We can learn so much about our daily lives by looking into this feast. Passover is the festival that signifies our salvation - the day we come to the cross and acknowledge what Jesus did for us and that he is the Lord of our lives. We then become a new creature. The seven days of this feast represent the days of our lives. During those days we are constantly getting the yeast out of our lives - the sinful habits and past pitfalls. We spend our time, not in labor but in rest. The only thing we busy ourself with is preparation of food - feeding our spiritual man. We go about our daily lives living but not striving. We walk by faith filled with the Spirit of God. That is our focus and goal. It was the father of the house who went out and got the lamb just as it was our heavenly Father who provided the sacrifice of his own son. God gave Jesus freely to us out of love and Jesus laid down his life for us freely out of love. The people of Israel were to practice this every year on the 15th of Nisan as a rehearsal. One day thousands of years later it would be the grand finale and they should have recognized it. The night of the Passover, the death angel passed over the land and struck down the first born of every household who didn’t have the blood on their doorpost. One day, that same death angel will pass over the earth and everyone who isn’t born of God will be reaped for eternal judgment. The children plundered Egypt of their wealth and left Rameses and started for Succoth. Ramses means “evil is the standard-bearer”. God was taking them from that to Succoth which means “booths.” Booths were the structures that the people were to live in during the Feast of Tabernacles. It was to show that God had a place for them not on this earth - this is our temporary dwelling place. Our home is in heaven. Our bodies are our temporary temple but our real spiritual bodies are awaiting us. God told them that this feast was to be a mark on their foreheads and their hand that we are his. Satan mimics this mark with his mark in the end. He doesn’ts have an original thought! There were over one million people who left Egypt. They had been in Egypt for 430 years to the day. What an encouragement to where we are today. God is going to bring us through this and out the other side and it will be his hand of power and deliverance. In Matthew, we have the last things that Jesus did. He opened the eyes of the blind and healed the lame. He cleansed the temple and he defended the children who praised him as the Messiah. Then he cursed the fig tree because it was not ready for his coming. The fig tree was the nation of Israel. Jesus is still opening our spiritual eyes, healing our daily walk and defending those who have childlike faith and know him as their Messiah. He still curses the Jews who have rejected him but one day their eyes will be opened and he will do the same for them. Lord, we thank you that this nation is your nation called by your name and trusting in you. Thank you that our hope is not in a man but in You who alone can save us and deliver us from the evil one.