The Unblemished Passover Lamb
The spotless year-old male lamb brought inside the Israelite home on the tenth of Nisan, examined for four days, and slain at twilight so its blood on the wooden doorposts spared the firstborn from judgment.
Selected on the tenth day of the first month and kept inside the family home until the fourteenth day so every household could verify it was without blemish, the Passover lamb was slain at twilight with not a single bone broken (Exodus 12:3–6, 46). Its blood painted on the wooden doorframe shielded the household from the Destroyer while its roasted flesh strengthened them for the march out of bondage — fulfilled when 'Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed' (1 Corinthians 5:7; John 19:36).
The Painted Door — The First Passover in Egypt, The Hyssop Branch & The Blood-Stained Wooden Threshold
Israelite families strike the blood of a spotless lamb onto their wooden doorposts with a hyssop branch so the Destroyer passes over.
