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Three Passovers
Only those reading mindlessly will pass over the comparisons between Moses and Joshua; and between the Exodus from the Slave Land and the Entrance to the Promise Land. Both servants being told to remove their sandals due to being on holy ground is just one (Exodus 3:5; Joshua 5:15). Crossing the Red Sea and the Jordan river, with both waters being parted, is another.
One not so obvious, at least not to me, is between Exodus 12:13,22 and Joshua 2:18-19:
THE FINAL PLAGUE ON EGYPT
Exodus 12:13,22 (CSB) 13) “The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a distinguishing mark for you; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will be among you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. 22) “Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and brush the lintel and the two doorposts with some of the blood in the basin. None of you may go out the door of his house until morning.
THE FIRST CITY TO FALL IN CANAAN
Joshua 2:18-29 (CSB) 18) “unless, when we enter the land, you tie this scarlet cord to the window through which you let us down. Bring your father, mother, brothers, and all your father’s family into your house. 19) “If anyone goes out the doors of your house, his death will be his own fault, and we will be innocent. But if anyone with you in the house should be harmed, his death will be our fault.
The obvious connection is the need to stay inside, to not go outside the doors of the house, or else suffer death. This led me to the less obvious connection, the color. The scarlet thread is the color of blood (oft seen in the Tabernacle). Instead of blood on the doorposts saving those families, Rahab had scarlet on her window saving her family. Rahab’s family had their own “Passover”!
This type of “pattern theology” continues today. “The scarlet thread of redemption” is a common idea ultimately leading to the cross wherein we come into the holy presence of God and must dispense of our earthly walk (i.e., sandals).
When we are covered by Jesus’s blood in baptism, and stay inside the “Door” who is Jesus, we too have our own “Passover” (1 Corinthians 5). May we teach this to our families and have them saved too.
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