Part 73

6. The Bible puts essentially the same truth in still another form, viz., that _Jesus Christ died as our Passover sacrifice—that is, that His shed blood might serve as a ground upon which God would pass over and spare us_. We read in 1 Cor. 5:7, +"For our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ."+ Now what a passover sacrifice was and signified we learn from Ex. 12:12, 13, where our Lord told the children of Israel at the inauguration of the passover, +"For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the Gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am Jehovah, and the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall be no plague upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt."+ And again we read in the 23rd verse of the same chapter, +"For Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you."+ Paul wrote his words with all this in mind, and in saying that Christ is our Passover sacrifice beyond a question he meant that _the shed blood of Jesus Christ serves as a ground, and the only ground, upon which God passes over and spares us_.