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What set the children of Israel FREE from slavery?

"For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.  I gave Egypt for your ransom . . . And I have loved you.  Therefore I will give men for you, and people for your life." (Isaiah 43:3-4, NKJV throughout).

The blood over the doorposts kept the firstborn of Israel from becoming part of the ransom. A ransom is a price paid to set the captured free. It should be obvious that the lambs Israel killed for the Passover were not the ransom. Pharaoh could have said, "So you killed some lambs! Now get back to making bricks!"

The ransom to get Israel out of Egypt was the death of the firstborn of Egypt. The lamb’s blood was a token (Exodus 12:13) so the firstborn of Israel would not die. The blood was not to save all Israel from death. The ransom was to allow Israel to go free!

Was Jesus PASSED OVER?

"And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave — just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a RANSOM for many.” (Matthew 20:27-28; see also Mark 10:45; 1Timothy 2:6; Isaiah 35:10)

Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us (1Corinthians 5:7). He was not passed over like the children of Israel. His life was the ransom paid in order to free the entire world from the enslavement of sin. Believers partake of wine during the Christian Passover service so that they will be "passed over" and brought back from the dead just before the millennium reign of Christ on earth.

Why were the remains of the Passover lamb BURNED?

The bodily remains of the Passover lambs in Egypt were burned, not buried, as a type of Jesus' complete and whole sacrifice. What was being buried in Egypt as millions of Israelite slaves left the country?

"These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron . . . They departed from Rameses in the first month . . . with boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians.  FOR THE EGYPTIANS WERE BURYING ALL THEIR FIRSTBORN, whom the Lord had killed among them.  Also on their gods the Lord had executed judgments." (Numbers 33:1-4)

The ransom that was paid to free Israel was buried AT THE SAME TIME as Jesus, who died 1,500 years later as the firstborn TRUE ransom, was being put in the tomb. The firstborn of Egypt was a major type or foreshadow of Christ. The tokens in Egypt were the blood of the lambs and the unleavened bread. The tokens used by the New Testament church during the yearly observance of the Christian Passover are the same as ancient Israel's, except they symbolize something different. The wine taken at Passover represents the blood of Jesus poured out for the forgiveness of sins and to make the New Covenant possible. The unleavened bread eaten during Passover represents Jesus' broken body, which he willingly offered for the forgiveness of sins (Matthew 26:26; Mark 14:22; Luke 22:19; 1Corinthians 11:23-24).

The firstborn of Egypt, slain after midnight on the night Passover was eaten, was Israel’s ransom (the type). Christ’s crucifixion was the ransom antitype occurring after midnight, which was also after the disciples had eaten the Passover.