Blood in the Old Testament
The Passover Blood
When I See the Blood
Description
The Passover is the foundational blood narrative of the Old Testament. The lamb was slain, and its blood applied to the doorposts. When the destroyer saw the blood, he passed over that house. The blood was not merely a sign but a propitiation—it satisfied the demands of divine justice. God said, 'When I see the blood, I will pass over you.' The blood alone averted judgment. Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us, and His blood applied to our hearts causes God's wrath to pass over us.
Key Verses
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 the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold... But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.