The Types of Redemption
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But when God says, “Get ready to go,” I don’t care if no one has left the house in 430 years, you
go on and get ready. I don’t care if no one has been out of town in 430 years, you go ahead and
put on your traveling boots, put on your clothes, gird up your loins, pack your stuff and put it
right next to the door, and eat quick. Isn’t that what He said? Eat in a hurry.
Is this a type of redemption? Absolutely. You applied the blood to the doorway, and when the
destroyer came through killing all the firstborn of men and beasts, the Lord said, “When I see
that blood, I will not allow the destroyer to come into you,” and he would pass over that house.
That house was exempt. It got passed over.
The wages of sin is death. All men have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and the
wages of that is not just physical death but eternal death. Why aren’t we going to hell? Why
aren’t we paying the price for all of our mistakes? We’ve been exempted. We’ve been passed
over where judgment is concerned. Why? Because of the blood of the Lamb that has bought us
and paid for us, the destroyer cannot come into our houses to consume us and destroy us.
Was this a type of
the
spotless Lamb? Yes.
Someone might say, “Well, I don’t see healing in there.” I’m about to tell you about it. Psalm
105 describes this very night when they came out.
You have to remember who these people are and what they’ve been doing. They have not been
serving God in Egypt. They’ve been worshipping false gods and have not been treated well,
especially in recent times. You remember they were required to produce their quota of bricks and
weren’t given the materials to make them, so they were working night and day. When they
weren’t making bricks, they were roaming the countryside scrapping the straw together. And
then, because of what was going on, they were being beaten. They were treated like livestock;
they were slaves, and so were their fathers, and their fathers before them, and their fathers before
them, for centuries. (Exodus 5:7-14)
When you’re treated like that, you don’t have a decent place to live. Your food is substandard,
you’re overworked, and you’re malnourished. You’re going to have sick people—people who
are beaten, with broken ribs and broken limbs. There will be people with eyes, ears, and noses
that are broken and damaged, and they didn’t receive proper medical care. They’ve been worked
out in the field until they drop, from heatstroke. There had to be a lot of broken, sick, diseased,
weak, damaged people; that’s what slavery does to people.
But when they came out that night, Psalm 105:36-37 says, “He smote also all the firstborn in
their land, the chief of all their strength. He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and
there was not one feeble person among their tribes.”
There were 603,550 foot soldiers, not counting the older people, the women, or the children, so
they probably had 2-3 million people. Are you’re going to tell me that among 2-3 million people,
you couldn’t find one weak or feeble person—out of a group of people who have grown up in
slavery, slept in the cold, worked in extreme heat, and been beaten, overworked, and underfed? It
doesn’t even make sense. There had to be many of them who were weak, broken, and diseased,
