A Lamb Pete Kersker - Dec 15, 2025 Jesus showed up because he was needed by ever person, everywhere, throughout all time. Jesus showed up because he was promised through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel). The LORD communicated more about Jesus before he showed up. So Moses said, "This is what the LORD says: 'About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well. There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt--worse than there has ever been or ever will be again. But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any person or animal.' Then you will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel (Exodus 11:4-7 NIV). Five hundred years after Abraham, the LORD worked through Moses to set the Israelites free from slavery in Egypt. God set them free in a way that showed everyone that the Egyptian gods were not gods at all. Ten plagues showed everyone that the Egyptian gods were not actually in control of anything at all. The final plague, death of the firstborn son of each household, showed that the LORD is the giver of life. Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. 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 (Exodus 12:3,7,13 NIV). The angel of death passed over the Israelite households with the blood of a lamb on their doorpost. Every year after this, the Israelites celebrate Passover to remember this day. Jesus is later described as the pure spotless lamb, whose blood causes the angel of death to pass over us as well. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth (Isaiah 53:7 NIV). Did you know that Jesus was described as the Passover lamb? Have you thanked the LORD for giving us a way to be passed over?