Exodus 11

v1-3: Whatever judgments that sinners experience in this world, “there is still one more reserved for them in the other world,” and His judgment “will completely humble those who nothing else would humble.”

v4-10: If only people knew “what a difference God makes, and will make for all eternity, between those who serve him and those who do not serve him.” If people truly grasped this, they would see how serious it is to be indifferent to the gospel.

Exodus 12

v1-20: In the Passover, Christ is clearly displayed. He is the Lamb of God, without blemish, who was set apart to be the Saviour, and offered up in His prime. He was killed and roasted with fire, “showing the intensely painful sufferings of the Lord Jesus, even to death, death on the cross” with “the wrath of God… like fire.” The sprinkling of Christ’s blood shows “the application of the benefits of Christ’s death to our souls.” As the Passover lamb’s blood was sprinkled on the doorposts, so we are to give an “open profession… of faith in Christ and obedience to him,” and as all of the lamb was to be eaten, so “those who by faith feed on Christ must feed on a whole Christ.”

v21-28: The yearly celebration of the Passover was for the purpose of “looking backward as a memorial, that they might remember in it what great things God has done for them and their ancestors.” It was also for looking forward “as a sure sign of the great sacrifice of the Lamb of God in the fulness of time.”

v29-36: God “will never lower his standards” so “it would be better if people acknowledged God’s terms to begin with.”

v37-42: It was a mixed multitude of people who left Egypt. The multitude is a reminder that God has been keeping the promise He made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The mixed nature of group was because there were both Israelites and Egyptians in it, but also “there were… those among the Israelites who were not Israelites.” In the church today, there are both Jews and Gentiles, and sadly hypocrites too.

v43-51: “The New Testament Passover, the Lord’s Supper, ought not to be neglected by any who are capable of celebrating it.”