Commencement of Passion

The time of Passion is commencing. The Passion is the suffering and death of Christ. Since Genesis 3 this world has become the place of suffering, but in the Passion the center place of suffering is directed to Christ—He suffered— the just for the unjust. He placed Himself under the inflexible justice of His Father. The place was taken willingly, and the place was fulfilled completely. Dear reader, you and I need part and lot in it.

The text words reveal someone looking, “And when I see.” The one who is looking is God Himself. He is the God of Israel. The eyes of the Lord are not to be understood literally but figuratively. The Lord is looking for satisfaction. He is looking for His honor. He is looking for the token of blood. This token was instituted by God Himself and was explained by Moses to Israel to be the only way of deliverance out of Egypt. He is looking for the blood of substantiation, the blood of the Passover Lamb.

This God is still looking. He is looking at our life. He is looking for His image. Dear reader, He has a right to it. He created you and me in His image. That image consists of knowledge, holiness, and righteousness. The image of God is not just a minor thing; it is something which reveals our relationship to the Lord. In our Fall this image was broken, and that clearly shows our relationship with Him is broken. We need deliverance; we need satisfaction for our guilt.

Israel is in bondage. Their fathers—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob have passed away already. Joseph’s bones are still with them but not his presence and favor. The new pharaoh has placed them under deadly rules and regulations. Truly, for them it is beyond anything they expected or hoped for, and with it all…God looking! How can they ever serve God in this land with these limitations to their liberty, let alone being led out of Egypt into the promised land. Everything is cut off and impossible for their deliv erance and satisfaction.

The Lord is looking for blood. That blood had much meaning. The Lord instructed Moses to tell the people the only way of escape. The angel of death is coming, and it will make no distinction. All of Egypt and all of Israel lay under the condemnation of death, but the blood will be the deliverance. It is not the blood of Israel or of Egypt; it is the blood of an innocent young lamb without blemish— the passover lamb. This lamb has been in the homes of the Jews for some days. Oh, the attachment they have received to him, but the knife had to be brought. Father had to slay the lamb. The blood had to flow for deliverance. “When I see the blood, I will pass over.”

Dear reader, image bearer of the most high God, you need this, too. God is looking. God is looking for the blood of His Son. Passion is a deeper leading in the life of grace. Many people begin by saying something of the cross, but clearly it begins somewhere else. It begins by God looking! Oh, that uncovering by the Holy Spirit that God requires perfect restoration to His image. Everything from man will fail the required satisfaction. He reveals to His people a way. They begin to love Him who is, for them, the Way. Christ is that Way, and He came to associate with His people. How precious it is to have received saving interactions with the gift of the Father. How precious it is when faith may receive to see Him and to embrace Him, but God is looking for the perfect satisfaction. The text is clear; only when the blood is there will He pass over.

The Father’s inflexible justice is revealed as a sword in Zechariah 13. This sword is the instrument for opening the passageway for the source of liberty. The sword must strike.

The young children and young people in Israel have seen their father take the lamb and slay the lamb. Oh, no doubt some of those children have pulled on their dad’s arm and pleaded for the life of that lamb, but then the words were heard, “When I see the blood, then I will pass over.” Passion is a further leading for which God’s people need to receive a lesson of the inflexible justice of God. The justice of God will be adored by God’s people on Golgotha. Christ on the cross has no value if the justice of God is not known.

Dear reader, the satisfaction of God’s justice lies behind the sword of His justice that has to slay. His sword of justice has penetrated the perfect sin offering for satisfaction. In this history the knife was laid down and the blood was caught in a bowl. The blood was the life of the lamb. Oh, the blood! That blood applied is liberty. That blood is satisfaction. That blood is the foundation for God to pass over.

Dear reader, that blood is from Christ. With that blood I read, “I will pass over.” Notice the passiveness in this great fact. It is a matter between the Father and the Son. Church of God, in those two Persons lies your solution. In the stillness of eternity, the Father was looking and the Son was willing. Between the Father and the Son lies “I will pass over.” The Holy Spirit will give the application of what was solved. It is the Spirit who will lead His people into the liberty because of the blood.

Dear reader, God is looking, but I also say this; God is speaking, “when I see the blood, I will pass over.” His image needs perfect restoration; only in God lies the solution. He hears His prisoners in Egypt. He hears their groaning under sin. Keep groaning, prisoner; the text has partakers because He was moved. Keep begging, beggar, for your deliverance. The text reveals that beggars are delivered for Christ’s sake. Not a hoof is left behind!

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