I imagine the cries that ripped through the night. At twilight, the Israelites were to slaughter the lambs whose blood painted their door frames and saves them. I wonder what sort of erie cry went up in the land? What could you hear if you stepped out into the yard as the sun began its descent? The sounds of animals being slaughtered to save us. Did they sense the death in the air all around them? Then in the night there is a second loud wailing in Egypt. An other death. But their sacrifice isn't a lamb -- it's their first born. But for all of their pain, know that God, too, understands. He will sacrifice His first born for them, all of them.
Again, God comes to Earth. He comes down for the Passover.
"When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians...." [Exodus 12:23]
The angel of death will actually take the sacrifice but it is God who comes down to Earth to make the sacrifice.
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