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. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt. The mechanism of Passover is stated plainly: the blood is the sign, and when God sees the blood, He passes over. The protection is not based on the righteousness of those inside the house, not on their worthiness, not on their prayers — it is based on the blood on the door. Romans 5:9 says we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! The transfer of Passover's logic to the crucifixion is not metaphorical but typological: the blood of the lamb on the doorpost that causes death to pass over is the pattern of which Christ's blood is the fulfillment.

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