The Angel of Death and The Moral Compass.
- I. M. Koen
- Aug 23
- 6 min read
One simple question was the difference between life and death.
(If you don’t believe the Hebrew scriptures, this article might not be for you. Move along, my agnostic friends — nothing to see here.)
But if you are coming to the understanding that the story of the Exodus from Egypt is the entire Book of Revelation, here is a concept that will eliminate your fears and set you free.
First, a refresher of the story.
The Hebrew people were slaves in Egypt for 430 years. God fulfilled His promise to deliver them by sending ten plagues that specifically targeted different Egyptian gods. Each plague intensified in scope as they worked themselves up the Egyptian god chain of command. The tenth was targeting Pharaoh himself, a man who called himself “god in flesh” and the mediator between Ra and men.
God gave Moses instructions on how to keep His people safe and secure. They must be followed to the letter. Any deviation might result in death. And the challenge was that Moses had to relay these specific instructions to over 600,000 men and their families. Here’s what the Bible says:
Exodus 12: 21–23 NLT “Then Moses called all the elders of Israel together and said to them, “Go, pick out a lamb or young goat for each of your families, and slaughter the Passover animal. 22 Drain the blood into a basin. Then take a bundle of hyssop branches and dip it into the blood. Brush the hyssop across the top and sides of the doorframes of your houses. And no one may go out through the door until morning. 23 For the Lord will pass through the land to strike down the Egyptians. But when he sees the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe, the Lord will pass over your home. He will not permit his death angel to enter your house and strike you down.
”28–30 “So the people of Israel did just as the Lord had commanded through Moses and Aaron. 29 And that night at midnight, the Lord struck down all the firstborn sons in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn son of the prisoner in the dungeon. Even the firstborn of their livestock were killed. 30 Pharaoh and all his officials and all the people of Egypt woke up during the night, and loud wailing was heard throughout the land of Egypt. There was not a single house where someone had not died.
What if a Hebrew didn’t obey?
What if he thought, ”This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. We’re not doing this. Let me deconstruct what Moses is saying for a year or two”? Or better yet, “I’m not ruining my house with lamb’s blood. We just bought this place, and I still owe money on it. We just painted this facade. My wife will kill me.” In my humble opinion, that man would have lost a firstborn. Scripture is clear from Genesis to Revelation about the priority God places on obedience.
God often asks us to do peculiar things to differentiate us from the rest of the world and reveal Himself as sovereign.
But here is the good news of the Death Angel’s visit:
What “moral conditions” were placed on the people to be saved? What if the person inside that house was having an affair with the person down the street? What if the mother was abusive and the father a drunk? What if their hygiene was horrible, their language was coarse, and they were as dumb as a brick? It didn’t matter. The blood of the sacrificed lamb would save them.
What if they weren’t even Hebrew? They were Egyptians who were tired of getting pounded by boils, hail, darkness, and frogs? It didn’t matter. If they placed the blood on their doorpost, their whole household was spared. That was the deal God made.
What if they were unsure of Moses? All they knew was he was once a big shot who killed a guy, spent 40 years as a stinky shepherd in Midian, and now came back as a self-appointed spokesman for yet another God. He and Pharaoh have been duking it out for the past months. And some crazy stuff has been happening. It didn’t matter. The blood on the door saved them.
It didn’t matter if they had their act together or not. The death angel had one, and only one screening process: did they have the blood of the sacrificial lamb on their door? Period!
There would be plenty of time in the future for them to be refined and work out some of their problems. But for now, death passed over because a lamb gave its life for them.
The Exodus Story Is a Preparation For the End of This Age.
We MUST understand the Exodus to become plague-proof for the end of this age. They are the same story, only 4,000 years apart.
• God’s people will be oppressed and persecuted. The Antichrist will make war with the saints and overcome them. Just as the cries of the Hebrews were heard for 430 years, God will listen to the prayers of His people and bring deliverance. (Rev 13:7)
• There is a man who claims to be God himself at the throne. Pharaoh, meet “the little horn”. (2 Thes 2:4, Daniel 8:11)
• He will be surrounded by magicians (false prophets) who will do mighty wonders. (Rev 13: 11–17)
• God’s people will see some crazy stuff. And most of it is not good. Jesus called it birth pains. (Mat 24:8) But like David wrote in Psalm 91: 7–8
“A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. Only with your eyes shall you look, and see the reward of the wicked.”
• God’s people have a promise of deliverance. He will NEVER leave us or forsake us. We are His precious possession, His children, and His inheritance.
• ZERO plagues affect God’s chosen people because they are shielded, protected, and kept by the One True God. There is nothing to fear from the events mentioned in Revelation. One hundred-pound hailstones? No problem. They’ll miss you. We won’t even smell like smoke when the fiery trial is over.
• God takes His people from a place of oppression to a promised land. There will be a thousand years of peace after the purge of rebellion and evil.
• There will be many last-minute converts. “A rabble of non-Israelites went with them,” (Exodus 12:38).
• The kingdom of the “oppressor” will be wholly and utterly wrecked because of their disobedience and refusal to repent. If you have read about the “bowls of wrath” and become freaked out, remember who the target of each bowl is: the throne and kingdom of the antichrist. Those who took “the mark of the beast”. Those who curse God. Christians won’t be here for that anyway.
• God will provide. (loaves, manna, fish, oil, clothes not wearing out, meal, water from a rock, cloud/fire, calm the storm, etc.) Do you think our God will be “out-miracled” by the false prophet? (Rev 13) Nope! Where sin does ABOUND, grace does much more ABOUND. (Rom 5:20)
• Just before deliverance, everyone will have to choose to believe or not. EVERYONE MUST BATTLE FEAR AND CONQUER IT!
Here’s how to be plague-proof:
Exodus 15:26 NLT “He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his sight, obeying his commands and keeping all his decrees, then I will not make you suffer any of the diseases I sent on the Egyptians; for I am the Lord who heals you.”
Our part: Listen, do the next right thing, obey what he tells us, and keep the decrees. (statutes…rules)
God’s part: Keep us safe and secure under the shadow of His wings.
Suppose you are not where you want to be spiritually. Good. Keep working on yourself. But each of us must stay under the blood of the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world.
Is there blood on your door?
Thank you for reading this far. Ruth 2:12 to you and yours. We got this! Fasten your seat belts. This world is about to get interesting. This scripture is for you:
Then those who feared the Lord spoke with each other, and the Lord listened to what they said. In his presence, a scroll of remembrance was written to record the names of those who feared him and always thought about the honor of his name. “They will be my people,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “On the day when I act in judgment, they will be my own special treasure. I will spare them as a father spares an obedient child. Then you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.” Malachi 3:16-18
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