what does exodus 12 1-14 mean christians only thanks .?

Answer 1

Exodus 21: 1-14 Is a symbolism of what we must do to be saved.
It is a description of the first Passover and the slaying of the Lamb. But most importantly it signifies what we must do to have our Passover in our day to day life and ultimately for the final judgement.

I could give you a history of the days and the symbolism at the time, but I think the big thing we need to understand is that we as individuals and as a church will go through times of varying degrees of "Passovers" in our life.

Christ's was the ultimate Passover Lamb. Blood is no longer required for a sacrifice. We are to offer sacrifices of praise--
Heb 13:15. By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

Answer 2

The verses really speak for themselves. This was the first Jewish Passover. The Children of Israel were still in the land of the Egyptians and the Lord was about to liberate them under the hand of Moses. This was also the beginning of the last plague the Lord put on the Egyptians. They were told to have their clothes on, their shoes on their feet and ready to leave at a moments notice. The blood over the door post not only guaranteed their safety from the final plague (first born to die), it was also pointing to Calvary where Jesus shed His blood. When the Lord sees our sinful souls through the blood spread over the door posts of our hearts, our home in heaven is secured.
To this day true Jews still participate in the Passover. My husband and I have also participated in this ritual, and it is very interesting and moving.

Answer 3

It is a description of the Passover meal, which was to be celebrated every year in perpetuity (forever). It was the proto-type of the Eucharist. The lamb (Jesus) was slaughtered (crucified) and the flesh (Eucharist) was eaten. This delivered the people from slavery (sin). They were to eat is standing, with their loins girt, sandals on their feet, with staff in hand like those in flight. They were beginning a journey through the desert where they would fall into sin and wonder for forty day to be purged of their sin (purgatory) before entering the promised land (heaven).

This meal is celebrated in Catholic churches throughout the world every day. It has replaced the Jewish sacrifices which no longer occur because Jesus came to fulfill the law. Jesus' fulfillment of the law does not mean that we do not have to participate in this sacrifice. It means that this sacrifice is sufficient for our salvation if we partake of it, where the Old Testament sacrifices were not.

Answer 4

It is the Passover. If you read the text, it was the way God protected His people from the plague of death to the first born sons that was about to come upon the Egyptians. It is also symbolic of Christs blood, covering us and protecting us from spiritual death.

Answer 5

It's describing the Passover, if people didn't put lambs blood on their doors, they got screwed

Answer 6

No, it does not mean christains, at that time Jesus had not even been born.God was speaking to Moses and Aaron who were Jewish.

Answer 7

Absolutely not!

This is Hebrew mythology.

God is a God of infinite and unconditional love and as such he is a universal God and is completley impartial. He is God of all peoples.

Answer 8

God is telling Mosses and Aaron to tell the children of Israel what He was going to do to Pharaoh and all the first born of Egypt and that the Children of Israel were to keep the Feast of the Passover in remembrance forever as a sign of when God Freed them from the land of Egypt.

At the time of this scripture the children of Israel were still captives and if we look back in Exodus 11 we see the following:
1 The LORD said to Moses, "Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence; when he lets you go, he will drive you away completely.
2 Speak now in the hearing of the people, that they ask, every man of his neighbor and every woman of her neighbor, jewelry of silver and of gold."
3 And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants and in the sight of the people.
4 And Moses said, "Thus says the LORD: About midnight I will go forth in the midst of Egypt;
5 and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sits upon his throne, even to the first-born of the maidservant who is behind the mill; and all the first-born of the cattle.
6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever shall be again.
7 But against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, not a dog shall growl; that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.
8 And all these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down to me, saying, 'Get you out, and all the people who follow you.' And after that I will go out." And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
9 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."
10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh; and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.
(RSV)

Exodus 12: 1-14
1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 "This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
3 "Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: 'On the tenth day of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.
4 'And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man's need you shall make your count for the lamb.
5 'Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
6 'Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.
7 'And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.
8 'Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 'Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire-its head with its legs and its entrails.
10 'You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.
11 'And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD'S Passover.
12 'For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
13 'Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 'So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.

In Exodus 12: 29-36 we see where God did as He said He would do and the Children of Israel went forth out of the land of Egypt.

29 At midnight the LORD smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the first-born of the cattle.
30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where one was not dead.
31 And he summoned Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise up, go forth from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said.
32 Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!"
33 And the Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste; for they said, "We are all dead men."
34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their mantles on their shoulders.
35 The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked of the Egyptians jewelry of silver and of gold, and clothing;
36 and the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they despoiled the Egyptians.