Exodus 12:12-14 'A Day to Remember...'
In American History...!
*Dec. 7th, 1941 - Pearl Harbor bombed...
*June 6th, 1944 - Invasion of Normandy (Code named "Neptune") ...Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword - landing areas where American, British, and Canadian troops stormed ashore as the liberation of France continued.
*Sept. 2nd, 1945 - Formal surrender of our enemy and signing ceremony aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
The above events happened prior to my birth so I only know of them through information passed down to me and the study of history as it relates to World War II. I am sure our elders, parents, grandparents and friends who lived at that time remember in vivid detail the reports of these events that occurred.
*October 4, 1957 - The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I and the Space Race was on....I was ten years old at the time and this didn't interest me much.
*November 22nd, 1963 - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. I remember exactly where I was that day - walking between my second and third period class at Ceres Union High School in Ceres, CA when the announcement came over the intercom system that our president had been shot and killed...silence and disbelief hovered over the campus...then we were sent home to be with our families.
*June 12th, 1987 - President Ronald Reagan makes this profound statement in a speech at the Berlin Wall,
"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
*Sept. 11th, 2001 - AMERICA attacked!...the World Trade Center in NYC, the Pentagon in Washington, DC were targeted by terrorists with three hijacked passenger planes; a fourth, thought to be on a course to destroy the Capital in Washington, DC crashed in Pennsylvania after the terrorists were taken out by brave passengers who knew they were going to die...
Days that will always be remembered...!
In your personal life...*the first date...*graduation from high school, college and the University...*proposing to your sweetheart and her acceptance...*the wedding...*the honeymoon...*the birth of your children...*grandchildren...*great grandchildren...days that Elder Paul Price from Napa, CA refers to as 'Red Letter Days.' These are days that stand out from other days; important, significant, memorable, meaningful and unforgettable - days where memories were made and moments that will always be treasured...red letter days.
Days you will never forget...!
In your spiritual life...you remember the day when you first felt the *presence of God, the *conviction after an annointed message by a God-called servant, your first trip to a *pentecostal altar, weeping as you *repented of your sins, rejoicing as the servant of God *baptized you in the wonderful name of Jesus and then experiencing the glorious infilling of the Spirit of God; i.e. receiving the *gift of the Holy Ghost! This could have all happened the same day, and I am sure it did for many of you, or perhaps over a period of several days, weeks, or months. However it happened for you it was a red letter day or more than one red letter day in your life.
A Day or Days that left you rejoicing...you could now sing "...I've been changed, I've been new born...all my life has been rearranged." Oh, what a Day!
It is "A Day to Remember," a "Day to Never Forget," and "A Memorial."
Pharoah rejected God's demands, given to him by Moses, to let His children go...to leave Egypt after He heard their cry for deliverance. A rod turned into a snake, the snake back into a rod; the plagues; all the water in Egypt turned into blood, frogs, lice, flies, murrain, boils, hail, locusts, and darkness; after all these plagues and the misery suffered by the Egpytians he still refused to allow the Children of Israel to go. The Lord said to Moses, Exodus 11:1 "Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether."
Exodus 12:12-14
(12) For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
(13) And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
(14) And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
The Lord passed through the land of Egypt at midnight and smote all the first born...only the Children of Israel with the blood upon their door posts were spared. After this night they were allowed to leave Egypt.
The Lord commanded "...this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
Every year, the PASSOVER was observed in remembrance of the blood on their door posts and the first born in their homes being spared, their deliverance from bondage, and the journey out of the land of Egypt. A Day to REMEMBER and one to never Forget!
I trust we will always REMEMBER the day of our deliverance from sin; the journey from sinfulness to salvation, from desperation and depravation to deliverance and being set free, from an ungodly life to a life of holiness and virtue, and carnal thinking to having the mind of Christ.
It's the blood of a spotless lamb...the lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world!
The Greatest DAY in the history of the world...the day JESUS Christ was crucified! A Day to REMEMBER and one to never Forget!
The DAY God expressed His love to man!
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