The Passover-act

6. The Passover-Act

Two kingdoms intermingled with each other, were to separate that night, and that so thoroughly, that the division should be complete in every respect, hence, the Passover-act. The Egyptian power, which had absorbed the whole people belonging to Jehovah, for no less a price than a corpse in each and every family of the kingdom would they let the slaves, upon whom they wholly depended, go away. That was to them the same as if the working classes of to-day should leave the Christian nations.

God knew how mighty the Egyptian clutches were about his people and hence he used corresponding effective means. He sent an angel to slay the first-born of men and cattle in every family. The Israelite's, dwelling right among the Egyptians, were thus in danger of receiving a similar blow, and in order to avoid that, they had the blood-sign on the door posts. All of this constitutes fundamental arrangements which unfold similarly at the end of the week of the new covenant.