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Thoughts on Exodus 12: Passover and Death
By daniel | July 5, 2007
What really stood out to me about this chapter was the way it was tuned to its audience. If the book of Exodus is the Israelite's Revolutionary War, then this chapter is its Declaration of Independence. I've never been trained as a Jew, (though I happen to be 1/8 ethnically!) but if I read this with my imagination, here's what I pick up. Let's pretend I'm a Jew reading this several hundred years later.
We were in terrible slavery, to the point of having our babies killed at birth just because we became feared.
The God who declared us a people brought utter ruin upon our captors in order to save us, not only freeing us, but also declaring Himself as King to the rest of the world.
We are now a people.
In celebration of our identity as His people, we will celebrate the Passover, which reminds us of where we came from, and thus, again, who we now are.
The Lord's final judgement declared that He did not take lightly the slaughter of our children at the hands of our captors.
Those are my thoughts. Any others?
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