Exodus 12:29-42 continues the story of the tenth plague — the death of the firstborn. Pharaoh has heard one last warning, Israel has been taught that it is only by the blood of an unblemished lamb that they have been set apart from the Egyptians as holy, and now we will see the first half of God’s final judgment of Egypt and her gods. The blood of the lamb without blemish points forward in the Scriptures to Jesus. Likewise, the execution of the tenth plague also points forward. It is not an accident that in the Bible midnight comes to represent a symbolic time — an unexpected hour — for the final judgment. Our passage begins, “At midnight,” and it ends speaking of a night of watching just as we are to be watching for the end of the end times. But while this is all a picture of the final judgment I want us to focus on the description of Israel at that time.
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