Just Because: The Story of Salvation for Children by Steve Copland

Author:Steve Copland [Copland, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Children's Books, Religions, Christianity, Inspirational, Children's eBooks, Early Readers
Amazon: B00EFKOXLI
Publisher: Steve Copland via Smashwords
Published: 2013-08-08T16:00:00+00:00

come into his head, and Satan was whispering in his

ear, “Don’t worry, Pharaoh. You’re the most powerful

god yourself. Nobody is going to die.”

Pharaoh liked what he heard, and his heart became

very hard and cold. He refused to obey the Lord, and

so the sword-angel set out from God’s kingdom on

his way to Egypt. He would arrive on the fourteenth

day, and everything would happen as Moses said,

Just Because the Lord was using the stubborn heart

of this evil man to teach you and me about a special

child who was to come.

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Over the next few days Moses told the people of

Israel to do exactly as he said. By this time they

were no longer angry with Moses because they had

seen the amazing things the Lord had done through

Moses and Aaron. The Lord gave them some very

strange instructions on how to save their oldest chil-

dren from being killed when the sword-angel passed

over the houses in Egypt. These instructions were

like a secret map for finding treasure; they were

clues to finding the greatest treasure anyone can find.

Whoever can understand the clues can find the trea-

sure and live in paradise forever.

He told them to get a lamb for each family, a

lamb that was perfect in every way. The lamb must

be chosen four days before the fourteenth day, which

as you remember was the day the sword-angel would

visit Egypt. Then on the fourteenth day of the month

they must kill the lamb in the late afternoon and place

some of the lamb’s blood on the top and sides of their

front door frame. Then they must attach the lamb to

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a piece of wood to cook it, and they must not break

any of the lamb’s bones. They also had to remove

bread with yeast stuff in it because this was a way

to teach them about sin in their lives. In those days

when bread had this yeast and it was left uncooked it

turned black all the way through. People who don’t

let the Lord take the sin out of their lives end up with

sin all the way through, but more about that later.

The Israelites thought these instructions were

very strange. They didn’t understand the meaning of

these things, and neither did old Satan, but the Lord

was pointing to the future when He would come

to earth to die on a cross to pay for all the evil and

sins of people in the world. Jesus would come into

Jerusalem four days before He died, He would be

killed in the late afternoon, He would be attached to

a piece of wood, and none of His bones would be

broken. The blood the Israelites placed on their door

frames was in the shape of a cross, and Jesus would

die on a cross. Jesus would also be called the Lamb

of God, a lamb perfect in every way.

All the Israelites who believed the blood of the

lamb would save them and who acted in faith and

placed the blood on their doorposts would be saved

from death. In the same way, when we believe Jesus

died for our sins and believe in faith that He was

raised from the dead, we are also saved from death.

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