Passover

Joshua 5:10 - While the people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal, they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho.

Exodus 12:5-7,11 - Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it...In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover.

Numbers 14:34 - According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’

Application:

• ·         Passover means that the Lord would pass over and not destroy the occupants of houses that were under the sign of the blood.
• ·         Similarly, Jesus was like a lamb without blemish or defect.
• ·         Blood symbolizes a sacrifice offered as a substitute, one life laid down for another.
• ·         Significantly, Israel’s refusal to carry out the Lord’s commission to conquer His land is the climactic act of rebellion for which God condemns Israel to die in the desert.

All Scripture verses taken from ESV