Beloved radio, friends, we greet you in the ever-precious and worthy name of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. We welcome you once again to the study of God's precious word and the closing study of the great plagues that were visited upon the land of Egypt in the days of Moses, as recorded in the book of Exodus. Our closing plague is found in the twelfth chapter of the book of Exodus, and we have read the story concerning the final judgment of the living God in heaven above upon the land of Egypt, the realm of Pharaoh, and the Egyptians. That plague is rightly called the death of the firstborn. And we have noted as we have read from Exodus chapter eleven and verse five, that the best that Egypt could ever produce in all their nation, and that was the firstborn of their land, was worthy of divine judgment and death. We noted also from Romans chapter six and verse twenty three, a New Testament parallel that reminds us that the best that man can ever produce in the whole world can but be worthy of death alone. And the result of God's final judgment upon Egypt, the great death that came into every family and into every home within the land of Egypt, other than the land of Goshen, brought the great sorrow and wailing, as you may read of it, in the twelfth chapter of the book of the Exodus, when God's judgment came upon them. May I read the thirtieth verse of the twelfth chapter in the book of Exodus, that we might recognize the result of God's final judgment upon the land of Egypt, for their gods which they worship, as well as their tyranny and their oppression upon the children of Israel. The result was unequal lamentation. Listen to the words, Pharaoh rose up in the night, He and all his servants, and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead. Beloved, visualize the terror and the tragedy that filled the land of Egypt, from Pharaoh upon his throne, down to the humble and the most lowliest in the land. God's divine judgment swept over and upon and within the household of all the Egyptians. There must have been unequal lamentation. The land from one end to the other was filled with lamentation because of this great judgment. Not one house was spared in every home. The angel of death came that night, and what tragic and terrible mourning must have resulted. No family was spared, and God's conclusive judgment we know brought ultimately the liberation of that people. Now may I parallel that unequal lamentation with New Testament truth that we should also remember. For we have been seeking to bring the parallel of these lessons in relation to the world in which you and I are living in. We have spoken very faithfully. that there is a universal condemnation and a universal sentence of death upon the world, because all is sin, and we have come short of the glory of God. And in Romans six twenty-three we have noted that the wages, the inevitable penalty, the inevitable results of sin is death. My beloved, I want you to think with me, think carefully, think thoroughly. The whole world is under the condemnation of God. Well, as the Apostle written in Romans chapter three, that the whole world is guilty before him, and we'll all condemn. Now, may I speak faithfully to remind you what will be the result? When God's final judgment is thus climaxed at the end of the age, we read in Mark chapter thirteen and verse forty-two, as well as in Mark nine and verse forty-four, that in that coming day of judgment his final judgment upon the world will bring wailing and gnashing of teeth. Who can measure the eternal wailing? Who could measure, who could ever define the eternal character of that judgment in its effect upon the souls that will be visited with eternal death and banishment from a holy God? And we also read that in that place of banishment, their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. For in that eternal banishment that God has provided, because of his righteous, holy being, for sin, and those who will not and do not, and refuse to repent of their sins, and turned to God in repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus? There will be no cessation in that place. For I am a firm believer that the Word of God declares, that there will be constant and eternal judgment meted out upon the perishing in that day. Oh, beloved, let us realize what will be the final result of God's judgment upon the world? when in the unsaved realm of the dead, the wailing, the gnashing of teeth, where the worm never dies, where the fire of torment is never quenched. Beloved, I want to be very realistic, for I am speaking faithfully the truth of the word of God. For God's last judgment and plague in the land of Egypt is such a picture of his universal judgment to come upon all the world. And then may I also be very faithful to remind you that God's last judgment and plague, as you read of it in the book of Exodus, was upon all the land of Egypt. And we are reminded that even the land or the people of Israel were included under that divine sentence. May I say again and repeat it from the word of God? In the eleventh chapter of Exodus in verse five, listen to these words. All the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die. Now God's judgment included even the people of Israel. For they lived in the land of Egypt. True, we know from the scripture, they dwelt in a part of Egypt that was called the land of Goshen. but they too came under the divine sentence of universal death, so that the firstborn in all the land was under the divine sentence of judgment, and it included even the people of Israel. Now again we wish to repeat, as we have previously stated in the preceding message of this week, not one of us can be excluded from being under this judgment by nature. For we are all condemned. In Romans chapter three and verse nineteen we have these words. All the world is guilty before God. Please may I repeat, I do not want any of my listeners to think that I have been accepted. That is that I have been set aside from this divine judgment, I have not. I too have sinned, and in like manner we can say all have sinned and come short of the glory of God according to Romans chapter three and verse twenty three. The universal penalty for sin does not overlook one living person. Beloved, this is the truth of God. But in the story of the book of Exodus, we have a great deliverance that illustrates the deliverance that God has provided for men and women, boys and girls, through His Son, if they will accept it. And may I again quote the premise that we have built this series of messages upon, from the book of Galatians chapter one and verses three and four. our Lord Jesus Christ gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil world, according to the will of God our Father. Now as God provided a deliverance for his people Israel, which we have read in our preceding message in Exodus twelve, from verse one through thirteen, that deliverance was the slaying of a Passover lamb and the application of the blood of that lamb upon the doorposts of the children of Israel in the houses in which they lived in the land of Goshen. The Passover lamb was their deliverance from the judgment of death that came over the land of Egypt. For over the land of Egypt, the angel of death came that night. His wings traveled even over the places, the houses, the homes, where the children of Israel lived, as well as over the homes of all the Egyptians. But there was a great difference for the people of Israel. They were shouted by the blood of that Passover lamb. Now, may I point out the precious meaning of that expression, the Passover. It is a Hebrew word and used only in connection with the Passover in the nation of Israel. And here is one exception that we would like to point out from Isaiah chapter thirty-one and verse five, for I want you to see the meaning of the word Passover. God said, through Isaiah his servant, As birds with outstretched wings, so will Jehovah of host cover Jerusalem. Covering, he will also deliver. Passing over, he will rescue him. May I point out the meaning of this word implies? God has wings, wings of eternal protection, that he desired his people to come under. whereby he would rescue them from the destruction that was coming upon them. My beloved me, I say that God desires you, as well as me, to come under the wings of his eternal redemption that is provided in Christ, so that you and I may be, as the psalmist has written indeed, he shall cover thee with his feathers and under his wings, Shall thou trust? My radio friend, God wants you and he wants me to be under those wings. Thank God I am. But may I ask of you? For we shall see as we progress in this lesson that Passover lamb is the emblem of that redemption that Christ has provided for you and me to shelter under. Oh, Father, bless thy truth and riveted home, in the power of the Spirit, to every heart in Jesus' name. Amen.