Passover Promise

Written By Patricia Bootsma

Published on: 01/04/2025

This month of April includes Passover celebrations from sundown Saturday, April 12, until sundown Sunday, April 20. The first Passover was instituted as outlined in Exodus 12 while the Hebrew people were enslaved in Egypt. To be spared from the tenth and final plague (the death of the firstborn), the Lord instructed His people to select and ultimately sacrifice an unblemished lamb, spread its blood on the two doorposts and the lintel of their houses, and then eat the meat in a specified manner. Exodus 12:13 describes how God would protect His people: “The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.”