What guaranteed that the angel of death would pass over an Israelite home at the first Passover?
At the first Passover, the blood applied to the door of the Israelite home guaranteed the angel would pass over. Their safety rested not on personal deserving but on the blood, applied through faith, which God required for remission and protection.
Les explains that many Jews were under the safety of the blood. They did not deserve to be, but the blood guaranteed their safety. It was through their exercise of faith, yet it was the blood applied to the door that guaranteed the angel would pass over. Les stresses that you cannot escape the blood in Scripture. From the very onset of the human experience, God demanded a blood sacrifice for remission of sin, because He put the life of living things in the blood. It is His prescription that without the shedding of blood there can be no forgiveness, and we cannot bypass it.
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Was it faith or the blood that protected the Israelite homes from the destroying angel at Passover?
On Passover, the blood applied to the door guaranteed that the angel would pass over and protect the people inside; the safety of these Jews did not depend on whether they deserved it, but it happened through their exercise of faith and the blood on the door.