God told the Israelites to put an innocent lamb’s blood on their doorposts to avoid physical death when the angel of death passed over, and there will be a second “pass over” when Christ returns for His church and believers. This time, God tells Jews and Gentiles alike to put an innocent lamb’s blood on their doorposts, the doorposts of their hearts to avoid spiritual death. The innocent lamb’s blood is the blood of Jesus, the blameless Lamb of God. When the angel of death passes over, if Jesus’ blood is missing, spiritual death will occur. Those who’ve rejected Christ will suffer eternal punishment for their sins and eternal separation from God. God chose Israel as his people, but throughout the Bible they rejected God despite all He did for them. Even though they are God’s chosen nation, unless they accept Christ, just like Gentiles, they are not God’s children.
God gave us all a free will. We can reject His plan, we can reject His Son, and we can curse Him and have idols in place of Him, or we can get with God’s program. He didn’t make us robots. He allows each and every one of us to choose because He desires us to come freely. In order to realize one’s need for salvation, the Bible says we must humble ourselves and come to God in childlike faith leaving our self-righteousness, education, religion, self-sufficiency, good works, self-worthiness, and anything else on our resume and check it at the door realizing we are spiritually bankrupt due to sin.
Read the following Bible passage speaking about the Jews’ rejection of Jesus:
2 Cor. 3:12-16, “Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away. But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.”
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