Plagues, plagues, plagues. The Pharaoh of Egypt refused to let the Israelites go when God sent Moses to take them out of Egypt in order to bring them to the Promised Land. Pharaoh's stubbornness resulted in God sending many devastating plagues to Egypt.
With each plague Pharaoh became more determined to keep the Israelites as slaves of Egypt in direct defiance of God. Not only did Pharaoh not believe God but neither did the Israelites. They did not listen to Moses when he told them God was going to bring them out of Egypt. They didn't listen because of anguish of spirit and the cruel bondage they were under (Ex. 6:9). If it would have been up to them, they would have remained in Egypt. But it wasn't up to them to do the work, Moses did all the work for them. They just needed to learn to listen and follow what Moses told them to do. Moses was their deliverer from Egypt.
The last plague God sent was the death of the firstborn of all Egypt, from the people to the animals. This is the plague which caused the Isrealites to finally listen to what Moses was saying. They had been preserved in all of the other plagues but this one required them to do something in order to be preserved.
They were given specific instruction as to what to do in order to escape the last plague of death to the firstborn. They had to take a Lamb and kill it then put the blood on the doorpost of their houses. If they did this the Lord, when He came to kill the firstborn, would see the blood on the doorpost and pass over that house with His judgment.
All the Lord did was to look to see if the blood from the Lamb was on the doorpost or not. He did not look inside the house and say, "Oh, that one is a sinner. Or, that one is good." No, He only looked to see if the blood was on the doorpost. If the blood was there He passed over that house in His judgment of death.
Moses was symbolic of Jesus Christ, our deliverer.
The Blood of the Lamb during the Exodus was symbolic of the Lamb of God who took away the sin of the world (John 1:29).
If we have the blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ, on the doorpost of our heart it is the same for us as it was for the Israelites. Death passes over us and we are not destroyed. Being passed over does not happen to us depending on whether or not we have good or bad behavior, but because of the Blood of Christ on the doorpost of our hearts. Same as those who applied the blood of the lamb on their doorposts during the Exodus.
If we believe Christ in that He died for all of our sins on the cross then His blood has been applied to the doorpost of our hearts. When God looks at us in judgment He passes over us because He sees the Blood of His Precious Son has been place on our hearts.
(John 3:18 KJV) He that believeth on him is not condemned (judged with death): but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
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